Welcome back dude! As Trollheart mentioned, there was very recently an outpouring of "We miss Bulldog" nostalgia, whether you read it or not. I hope you do stick around for a little while.

I heard the new Bowie album under circumstances that were far from perfect. I was on my way back from Download festival, which you may be able to imagine was not necessarily the perfect circumstances in which to check out a new Bowie record. It didn't matter though, I really liked it. Very impressive stuff for someone his age who has been away from the public eye for so long. I can't help but feel like it wouldn't have surprised anyone if it was a massive turd.

Well, I'd have come back here with another album review or something similar, but my music library's decided to crash on me, so I'm gonna have to muster the energy to try and fix it so I can actually, y'know, listen to music again. The files for it are all intact, and backed up on 2 hard drives, it's just getting this piece of crap to work again that's gonna take its time.

In the mean time, maybe I should read some of these other journals for a bit...

Thanks pal, it's good to see you too, and good to see you're still a mod as well, looking after this place and stuff :)

I haven't checked it out, no, but thanks for the welcome. It's nice to hear that people missed me, even if it is a tad unearned on my part :) I'll be sticking around for a little while, sure. Beyond that, can't really say, although I am getting to the point where I'm trying to think of an avatar for myself again! Time to time I've missed this though in a way, thought it was about time I dropped by again as well.

I can only imagine the sheer juxtaposition going on between Bowie and the Download lineup :D Assuming of course it's anything like the Download fest I remember from when I was a teenager. The Next Day's a very good album, I agree. I don't think it's as good as Heathen so far as his newer stuff goes (an album you should certainly check out if poss), but there are some fantastic individual tracks on the new one.

Also, you're not in the blue squad anymore, what happened there?

Well, I was gonna do another nice, long album post here, but I've been doing stuff like that all week for non-forummy reasons, so I'm a bit jaded with the process for now. Next week I guess...barring some freak accident or Yakuza debt robbing me of my fingers, in which case I guess I'll have to put a chopstick in my mouth and type up a whole review that way, but I digress...

I've had a really tiring day today, haven't really been in the mood for listening to music today, so I'm just gonna talk about a song I like that's been in my head for a minute or two and then get ready for bed. Hard night's clubbing on the morrow y'see - I need a good night's sleep if I'm gonna be totally up for it :p:

And if this sounds like something you'd rather not read about, I dunno, watch this instead I guess.

The trouble with gospel music is that I love the sound of a good choir, but simply have no idea where to find a consistent base of strong gospel songs. I might have said this before on here, but I'm a sucker for a really good vocal harmony. Dunno what it is about them, it just gets a sweet spot for me, like a good shot of blended malt on ice after a hard day's work, or a tub of ice cream after a long-arse day. And if this particular tub of ice cream I'm highlighting here had a flavour, it'd be mint choc chip, because similar to my unabashed love for mint choc chip ice cream, I have an unabashed love for this short, sweet song.

For me, the sound of a good gospel choir is a really colourful and uplifting one. I guess for me it's a kind of music that makes you feel like you're not alone, at least to me anyway.

And as for the movie this hails from, Corrina Corrina, I remember next to nothing about it except that Ray Liotta and Whoopi Goldberg make for a really odd romantic couple. I only ever watched the film because my sister liked it, and that was when I was barely 10 years old too, so asking me what I think of this film now is basically like asking me what it was like being born.

And regarding the rest of this thread, more worthwhile posts are coming up when I have a few less things to keep me busy!

You know that thing where some guy on the internet somewhere takes not one, not two, but five songs you never really liked that much and turns them into something you enjoy more than each component combined? That's what's going on here. I can't even remember how I first came across this one. I guess when you say 'mashup' to just anyone, their response will usually range from 'stop following me' to '2 Many DJs', and you'd be amazed how many more awesome mashups you can find just by browsing YouTube for about half an hour.

Take the lead vocal from one of my lesser-liked Beatles songs, a classic riff ('til as late as last year, I thought Britney Spears did the original I Love Rock 'n' Roll...come on, it was the mid-2000s, I was too busy watching the Sopranos and listening to Tony Blair bleat about WMDs to clue up on my music history), bits and pieces from a few tracks I've never really known that well, and you've three minutes very well spent by listening to this.

Also...



...or something. I dunno really, I make no guarantees :pimp:

:clap: Welcome back Bulldog!

I'm sorry if you already knew this, but the way you worded the entry made it seemed like you thought that Joan Jett originally performed "I Love Rock and Roll", when it was actually first done by The Arrows. Regardless, nice entry, that was a fun mash-up!

Cheers, it's good to check this place out after so long. So many new faces around here since I last logged in!

Good to see you're still around yourself :)
See, that's how out of touch I've been, I actually had no idea that was the case!

And yeah, the guy who did that mashup's got a really good channel if you have time to check it. DJ Lobsterdust and DJs From Mars are a couple of other favourites of mine who do this sort of thing as well.

Holy good ****ing crap Bulldog! You're back again! :clap: This is definitely going in the "Back from the dead" section on the update thread!
Welcome, welcome! :)

Cheers man, it's good to be back :) Can't promise I'll be around much, but at least I've got a metric ton of journals to catch up on while I'm here to keep me occupied!