Semi-review (no, not Sami-review :() of the new Nightwish album. This is all stream of consciousness bullshit, typos and all, that I typed out as I was listening to it, so there are no cool pictures or classic Trexacious witticisms this time.

Mainly, this marks basically the end of an era (HAHAHA get it) where I no longer categorize Nightwish as one of my favorite bands. After listening to this album, I can't believe there was a time, albeit eight or so years ago, that NW were my very favorite band that I listened to every single day and danced…

…and a few others.

Timbre (said like tam-ber, like amber with a t) is a way to describe the sound of a… sound. Yeah, I'm not good at describing stuff. Well, an example is if a violin and a viola were playing the exact same note and the very exact same frequency. You could still distinguish which instrument was which. The violin, due to its physical characteristics, would sound brighter and more clear than a violia.

The same goes for the human voice. You can tell two singers apart by their timbre. Timbre is something you have to have some…

You've already heard by now, that Tarja wants you to smear you face with crap in order to satisfy her ever-growing hunger to make her fans do crazy things. I realized how ridiculous this contest is, so I, of course, just had to enter.

You can see in Tarja's photograph, she has that Indian powder on her face. She also appears to be wearing a white base on her face that's making the powder stick. It seems the powder was actually thrown on her as well, while the method I'll be showing is neater, but unfortunately doesn't have that "random…

Well, Paint.NET creations, because I wanted to be able to blur the background, or else they would look (even more) shitty.

Anyway, I got bored, and decided to recreate album covers in Paint(.NET). I couldn't sleep, so this is what I did instead. It took me like an hour to do all of them, and you can see near the end, the quality drops off… if that's even possible.

Anyway, for round one, I'm doing a band everyone knows and tolerates…

NIGHTWISH!

Yeah, contain your excitement.

I think the images are too big, just deal with it. I'll post a…

My Issues with the National : A glimpse into the mind of Trexacious J. Vänskä

READ THIS FIRST: The reason I first heard of The National/why I don't like them. I posted it before, but apparently no one read it.

I don't like the lyrics, I personally don't like the style they're crafted in. I don't like the subject matter of the lyrics, I find them boring and unrelateable to my life or experiences. I don't like the metaphor used, because it seems like the lyric writer writes things that make sense to only him, or something that needs deeper…

(apparently indenting no longer works for last.fm journals :( )

Yeah, I don't know if Google translated that title correctly, but this is the Legendary Trollhättan-Saga Part I. This is somewhat based on the universe Brick had created with her fairytale, but maybe a prequel or sequel or something. Anyway, without further ado, your feature presentation…

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It was a typical day in Trollhättan. The air hung heavy over the mountains with the scent of surströmming and meatballs. The guards were relaxed, for no disturbance would seem to bother them today. But little did they know, an evil force was…

Okay, there was some minor discussion in the Nightbox about why Song of Myself is the worst thing to ever occur in the world, and the poem more so. So, I decided to add my much needed (and wanted) thoughts about it, because I just love stirrin’ that pot. This is just what comes to my head when I hear the poem, so sometimes it’s humorous (because I’ve a devilish wit) and sometimes serious (because I’m also inretrospective and wise) So, I’ve copied the text from the official Nightwish website (COPYRIGHT!!1!1) and added my analysiseses below. Beware that reading this…

jerkjones trexacious Nightwish Sami Vänskä That should link everyone involved. Not linking Snyder or Zorn, for obvious reasons, aka don't wanna be banned 4eva to eternity.

This is from the logbooks of an ancient ship called the HMS Pretend You're Xyzzy. I will post card screenshots later. Here are the best parts of our chat (I removed the bots and the connect/disconnect messages and randoms and fixed my typos):

<Trexacious> http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/554439_198572533590274_193178100_n.jpg

<Snyderlicious> man

<Snyderlicious> it looks like he photoshopped his face

<Snyderlicious> but no people that's all natural

<Trexacious> Actually it's just that naturally beautiful

<Trexacious> Don't be jealous

02:54:31]…

Premiering maybe this week

The Secret of Mrs. Ladyhead

Cast: Zorn & Eva
Wanky & Matt
Snyder & Angel Knox
Oktoberfest Trexacious

Cameos: Samiface, my dog, YOU???

Intermission including "music" from normal (for her) Trexacious (really an excuse for me to jump around like a maniac and show off this new thing I bought)

With soundtrack by jerkjones

Collectible paperdolls come free at the premiere. Bringin' the paperdolls back, y'all.

It is Autumn 2012, and school is beginning again for the youngsters. Their teacher, Mrs. Ladyhead, is recovering from a lobotomy. She is confused about everything, and she has amnesia…

I'm going to show you guys a band that is totally unknown, and also they broke up, so they will probably never be known ever now. Well, we can still listen to their albums (all two of them) and be judgmentally bitchy. Anyway, this band is called Raintime and I found them by clicking through random similar artists in Spotify. They sound kind of power metal-y, but more in the Amaranthe style of who knows how to classify them. Tr00 metal fiends would probably not like them. The vocalist sounds like the guy from Dope Stars Inc. They're both Italian,…