Research, as opposed to shopping
May. 18th, 2006 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I got an e-mail from cdjapan that promoted a new thing of theirs -- subscriptions to pop-culture Japanese magazines. Part of my recent Ranma 1/2 story involved Ranma looking through such magazines, but I hadn't named any of them because I had no idea what the equivelent to Western magazines might be. Heck, I don't even know if I could name three popular western magazines of that type.
So I checked it out for research purposes, but while I was there I briefly considered a short subscription to Kera, a magazine on gothic lolita, punk and street fashion from Harakuju. I like the loligoth look and I thought it might inspire me for clothing designs in Second Life. When I did the calculations, a six-month subscription including postage was around $75.00.
Hmmm. I don't think I'm quite that interested. They do offer 3-month subscriptions though.
I also saw that there's a new Feel So Bad cd out. It's called "Perfectness" and there was no real information on it, so it could be just another complilation or something, but I wanted to buy it. But I've spent all the money on music recently that I should spend so I resisted, for now.
Later I was doing some web research on one of my favorite bands, and this led me to the Wikipedia entries for viking metal and folk metal. There are tons more folk metal bands out there than I had ever realized -- I've only just scratched the surface. I've recently said that folk-metal is mostly European, but that's not really true, although I think it came out of the viking metal movement. I was also really excited about the Avalon cd I got a couple of weeks ago from the bargain bin at Silver Platters, because it was a metal albumn with some Eastern elements added in, such as sitar, tabla, and monk chants.
Well, I had no idea. In the Wikipedia article they talk about the band Rudra, a band from Singapore that plays "Vedic Metal". To quote directly from the Wikipedia article:
Vedic metal is a form of folk metal popularized in South Asia,South East Asia and other parts of the continent. The lyrics heavily derive from the Vedic literature and philosophy. This genre has been pioneered by Singaporean band Rudra in the late 1990s. Since then, this genre has grown in popularity. Bands like Aryadeva (Ukraine), Symmetry (Indonesia), Warriors Of Peace (India), Asura (India), Advaita (New Zealand), The Aryan March (India), Narasimha (Singapore), Kaliyuga (Malaysia), Azrael (Australia) and Blue River (Sri Lanka) have done pioneering work in the genre. Often, along with the Vedic lyrics, the music has shades of Indian Classical music. The definitive album of this genre is the Rudra album The Aryan Crusade released in 2001.
Sigh. More stuff that I'd love to listen to. Who knew? Rudra has exactly one cd available through Amazon, but I can't order it right now. I didn't even bother to check to see what Gemm.com had, I'm sure they probably offer other cds.
In other news, I had plans to write at least a new scene for my Ian St. Ritz story for writer's night, but I've been so busy with my Ranma 1/2 fanfic that I literally don't have enough hours in the day to write. :P
So I checked it out for research purposes, but while I was there I briefly considered a short subscription to Kera, a magazine on gothic lolita, punk and street fashion from Harakuju. I like the loligoth look and I thought it might inspire me for clothing designs in Second Life. When I did the calculations, a six-month subscription including postage was around $75.00.
Hmmm. I don't think I'm quite that interested. They do offer 3-month subscriptions though.
I also saw that there's a new Feel So Bad cd out. It's called "Perfectness" and there was no real information on it, so it could be just another complilation or something, but I wanted to buy it. But I've spent all the money on music recently that I should spend so I resisted, for now.
Later I was doing some web research on one of my favorite bands, and this led me to the Wikipedia entries for viking metal and folk metal. There are tons more folk metal bands out there than I had ever realized -- I've only just scratched the surface. I've recently said that folk-metal is mostly European, but that's not really true, although I think it came out of the viking metal movement. I was also really excited about the Avalon cd I got a couple of weeks ago from the bargain bin at Silver Platters, because it was a metal albumn with some Eastern elements added in, such as sitar, tabla, and monk chants.
Well, I had no idea. In the Wikipedia article they talk about the band Rudra, a band from Singapore that plays "Vedic Metal". To quote directly from the Wikipedia article:
Vedic metal is a form of folk metal popularized in South Asia,South East Asia and other parts of the continent. The lyrics heavily derive from the Vedic literature and philosophy. This genre has been pioneered by Singaporean band Rudra in the late 1990s. Since then, this genre has grown in popularity. Bands like Aryadeva (Ukraine), Symmetry (Indonesia), Warriors Of Peace (India), Asura (India), Advaita (New Zealand), The Aryan March (India), Narasimha (Singapore), Kaliyuga (Malaysia), Azrael (Australia) and Blue River (Sri Lanka) have done pioneering work in the genre. Often, along with the Vedic lyrics, the music has shades of Indian Classical music. The definitive album of this genre is the Rudra album The Aryan Crusade released in 2001.
Sigh. More stuff that I'd love to listen to. Who knew? Rudra has exactly one cd available through Amazon, but I can't order it right now. I didn't even bother to check to see what Gemm.com had, I'm sure they probably offer other cds.
In other news, I had plans to write at least a new scene for my Ian St. Ritz story for writer's night, but I've been so busy with my Ranma 1/2 fanfic that I literally don't have enough hours in the day to write. :P
