Under your spell again
Despite my initial disappointment with the forthcoming Evanescence album — and despite my esteemed friend Logan's hatred of Amy Lee's voice — I find myself falling back in love with this band, even if it's not the same band I fell in love with back in 2003.
Here's why:
Edit:
Well looks like Wind-Up Records are real douchebags. How hard is it to understand that a freely-available video of a live performance on YouTube is promotion for the record? Just for that, I'm not buying the CD. I'll spend my cash on a T-shirt or poster or other such that goes straight to the band instead.
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Nope. I'm telling you- her voice STILL sounds like Celine Dion and Joan Jett had a love child. All the nasal whiney-ness and the attitude, rolled up in one convenient package!
Well, I wouldn't expect you to understand.
Actually, I think that I do the truly splendid Ms Jett a grave disservice by comparing her in any way to Amy Lee. So I would like to retract my previous statement. Her voice is nasal and whiney like Celine Dion's mixed with someone who thinks that they are super hardcore but who is actually a no-talent-ass-clown. Maybe Celine and Pink...
As luck would have it, I like Pink too! At least, her second album that is.
On a completely unrelated note- I just got back from my eye exam. STILL no glasses for me. When am I ever going to get to be supercool?
Ray, I remember vaguely in college when you told me how much you loved this "about to become really huge" band, called Evanescence. I remember thinking, "I bet they're amazing, Ray usually has excellent taste in music." Then in my first job out of college, working in the cubicle jungles of hell, the Eastern European-weekend-S&M-weekday-auditor who sat behind me, played that god awful "Wake Me Up Inside" single on REPEAT at just audible levels for about a month and a half. It was tourture in the highest form. I think of it as my Zoolander "Relax" song and that whenever I hear it, I must kill someone. Whenever I hear them now, I think of that time, I think of you, and I furrow my brow and frown in a overwhelming sensation of disappointment.
Tori, it's always been a tremendous source of pride that you thought I had good taste in music, so this news comes as a crushing blow. But I can't say it's unexpected. I mean, I realize how it looks to be a mega-fan of a band marketed to 13 year olds. All I can say is that what you hear on the radio and what you can buy in stores are very detached from the early, unreleased songs that made me a fan. And if you can ever dig up a track called "Forgive Me" I think you will see what I mean.
Logan, that's a bummer about the glasses, but look at it this way: a septuagenarian tour manager told me recently that if I wanted to become cool, I needed to have LASIK pronto.
that septuagenarian is full of shit. "Wake me up inside" needs to promptly be played so that Tori can kick their ass.
Ray, through this all , I must tell you that I have given you the benefit of the doubt. I still trust your musical taste, and allowed myself to assume that it was most definitely not this song that drew you into this band. However, they still made this song. Its kind of like judging Mao and not including the cultural revolution. As fewer deaths and tragedies have occured though from this song (although I do not have concrete proof of this fact), I am allowing it to slide and have chosen to ignore this blip.
Logan, I also still do not need glasses, but at my last exam the doctor said I had "really good insurance" so that she could give me some anyway. One lens has no prescription and the other one has only the slightest.
This is way early, but will you guys be around for Thanksgiving in Indy?
Tori, you are a just and benevolent muse. Your mercy in this matter will not go unrecorded.
(Yes, I will be in the Circle City for Thanksgiving... are we to assume this means you will too?)
Yes, i plan on arriving in polis of indy around 4pm the day before Thanksgiving. As I have not been home for this holiday in, wow, 5 years, am I right to assume that everyone still goes out drinking the night before? Either way I may be too jet lagged, but I will be around and really hope to see all of you.
I hope so too!
Since when is the-day-before-thanksgiving bender a tradition? Don't get me wrong, I'm completely in favor of the idea, I just never knew that it was standard procedure.
All of my friends in New York told me about this magical day. Apparently its what they all do when they go home (since their trip home is a lot shorter). It has even been christened Thanksgiving Eve I'm told. As I love Christmas Eve, more than Christmas Day itself, I have high hopes for this Thanksgiving Eve. Think about it: its an excuse to get away from your family, and the next day you can sleep in, eat, and watch TV all day . . .
Regardless, even if we can't make T-Day Eve happen, I would love to see you guys at some point over that long weekend.