Well, after last week's slowdown, this week we see an absolute crawl! Other than my own updates there are precisely
two journals to tell you about tonight. Two! What are you people up to? What? Work? No, I don't think I ... (checks Wiki) ... ah yes! I remember that! I worked four years ago. What? Life? Life, life, life... no, doesn't ring a bell (checks Wiki again) ... sorry you got me there. Never had one of those!
Seriously, I know everyone is busy and has a lot to do, and of course writing your journal is never top of that ever-increasing list, but two journals updated (other than mine) is pretty disappointing. Hopefully some of you will get inspiration, time or inclination soon and we'll have a better showing next ... hold on a minute! Didn't I say that last week? Oh well, I suppose it makes it a lot easier to write this update. But I'd really rather be spending half an hour composing the post than banging it out in three minutes, as here. Well, we'll see I guess.
So then, in (chortle) alphabetical order as ever, we have
Ki, who's flying the flag in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html with a defence of the oft-maligned Dream Theater (well if they learned to spell it would be a start! Sorry American readers!
) and he's also rating his best, worst and meh albums of this year. So far.
And me? Yeah, we're around to me already. Not that I have all that much to say really, but at least I have an excuse. I'm writing Metal Month and it is going to be huge! Twenty-three days and counting! But in the meantime I've tried to keep up a few updates and in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html there's the long-awaited (by him anyway!) review of the band YorkeDaddy is in, cloudcover's new album. Highly recommended. Really. Meanwhile the first episode of "Les Revenants" (the Returned) has begun in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html and I've also managed to mini-review Blue Sky Rider's debut album in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html! Now, don't you feel ashamed you didn't update even once this week?
Always dependable, always
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html, there's a feeling of redux to
Unknown Soldier's look at both Queen and Hawkwind, and that's because they're both the second parts of articles already posted. Nice stuff!
Well it goes without saying that I won't be selecting a "Post of the week" as so little has been posted. I understand everyone has their priorities, but it has been a little disheartening to watch the journals page fill with virtually nothing but my name this week. I know Powerstars' computer is broken, and so is Vanilla's, so they're excuses you can't really deny. Not that anyone needs excuses: you update or you don't, and you do it when you like. But I would hope that there might be a little more activity next week, if only for the fact that my journals take up about eighty percent of this post, and I'm not one to get a swollen head, but give a dog a bad name, like Tiddles, all I'm sayin'...
So till next week, let's hope computers get repaired and inspiration strikes, and free time becomes a little kinder to those of you whom it's eluding at the moment.
Toodles!