Friday Friday
May. 31st, 2003 01:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2Well really it's Saturday morning, but you know what I mean.
It's time once again to mention stupid insults to lefthanders that appear on my daily "Lefthander's Calendar". At least one out of every three entries in this stupid calendar is about the problems of lefthanders or how different people and societies have (or still do) look down on them. Very uplifting, knowing how much my people are reviled.
So Thursday was a list of things that were "lefty handicaps". Among these were ice cream scoops and gum wrappers.
Forgive me if I've never noticed any disadvantage I have in unwrapping a piece of gum. You know, I should have been warned about this a long time ago. I might have carelessly hurt myself while attempting to unwrap a stick of doublemint, or something.
And as for ice cream scoops, I like to use the simple kind that don't have moving parts. They work pretty well, and I can't say that I'm at any signifigant disadvantage because of being lefthanded, although you always have to be careful when the ice cream is hard because you could slip and poke your eye out.
So I ordered some weird metal last week, and two cds arrived today. One is by a band called "Battlelore". They're from Finland, but they write in English, and the entire cd is directly inspired and all about The Lord of The Rings. It has some folkish elements but is mostly heavy metal, even descending into thrash and black metal. I've never really been a fan of the growly Grover-with-a-sore-throat vocals that you get with so-called black metal, but I can stomach it for short periods of time, if the music warrants it, which most of the time it doesn't. But actually Battlelore has several vocalists, only one of which does the cookie-monster-from-hell vocal delivery. The others sing normally, and one of them is a woman with a very nice voice. So basically, the band moves from death metal to progressive or even symphonic metal, to folkish ballads, with several different vocalists... it's an approach that covers a wide spectrum, and I really liked some of it.
These guys are REALLY into Tolkien, too. The back of the insert has some of Tolkien's own words written in his Elvish language (I think), and each band member is depicted in fantasy makeup and garb, complete with weapons. A couple are elves, one is a half-orc thief, one a warrior, one a wizard. One is a green-skinned goblin, and he looks good enough to have walked right off the set of the LoTR movies.
Plus the cd cover is a fantastic painting of an orc warrior. Interesting band indeed.
The other weird cd I got is by Blind Guardian, called "Nightfall in Middle Earth". Despite the title, I don't think it's as directly about Lord of the Rings as the Battlelore, but it's all about fantasy and wars and etc. etc. I didn't like it so much, it's much more power metal of the sort that bands like Scorpion did in the eighties, which I've never really liked, but I only listened to a few songs, and I've read reviews that called it a "masterpiece", so I need to listen to the whole thing and read the lyrics before passing final judgement.
Meanwhile I'm reading another fascinating true crime book of sorts, but it's nothing like the usual story about a murderer and all the crimes he might have committed. This is a book with no loose ends. It's called "No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic INvestigators", and it's about solving crimes in general, and about a group called NecroSearch International in particular. They're a collection of the world's foremost forensic experts, and the book tells the story of how they came together and of several crime cases and how this group solved them when nobody else could.
It also had a brief history of forensic science as a first chapter. In any case, I think it's safe to say that there won't be any unsolved mysteries in this book to ponder when I'm done. ^_^
It's time once again to mention stupid insults to lefthanders that appear on my daily "Lefthander's Calendar". At least one out of every three entries in this stupid calendar is about the problems of lefthanders or how different people and societies have (or still do) look down on them. Very uplifting, knowing how much my people are reviled.
So Thursday was a list of things that were "lefty handicaps". Among these were ice cream scoops and gum wrappers.
Forgive me if I've never noticed any disadvantage I have in unwrapping a piece of gum. You know, I should have been warned about this a long time ago. I might have carelessly hurt myself while attempting to unwrap a stick of doublemint, or something.
And as for ice cream scoops, I like to use the simple kind that don't have moving parts. They work pretty well, and I can't say that I'm at any signifigant disadvantage because of being lefthanded, although you always have to be careful when the ice cream is hard because you could slip and poke your eye out.
So I ordered some weird metal last week, and two cds arrived today. One is by a band called "Battlelore". They're from Finland, but they write in English, and the entire cd is directly inspired and all about The Lord of The Rings. It has some folkish elements but is mostly heavy metal, even descending into thrash and black metal. I've never really been a fan of the growly Grover-with-a-sore-throat vocals that you get with so-called black metal, but I can stomach it for short periods of time, if the music warrants it, which most of the time it doesn't. But actually Battlelore has several vocalists, only one of which does the cookie-monster-from-hell vocal delivery. The others sing normally, and one of them is a woman with a very nice voice. So basically, the band moves from death metal to progressive or even symphonic metal, to folkish ballads, with several different vocalists... it's an approach that covers a wide spectrum, and I really liked some of it.
These guys are REALLY into Tolkien, too. The back of the insert has some of Tolkien's own words written in his Elvish language (I think), and each band member is depicted in fantasy makeup and garb, complete with weapons. A couple are elves, one is a half-orc thief, one a warrior, one a wizard. One is a green-skinned goblin, and he looks good enough to have walked right off the set of the LoTR movies.
Plus the cd cover is a fantastic painting of an orc warrior. Interesting band indeed.
The other weird cd I got is by Blind Guardian, called "Nightfall in Middle Earth". Despite the title, I don't think it's as directly about Lord of the Rings as the Battlelore, but it's all about fantasy and wars and etc. etc. I didn't like it so much, it's much more power metal of the sort that bands like Scorpion did in the eighties, which I've never really liked, but I only listened to a few songs, and I've read reviews that called it a "masterpiece", so I need to listen to the whole thing and read the lyrics before passing final judgement.
Meanwhile I'm reading another fascinating true crime book of sorts, but it's nothing like the usual story about a murderer and all the crimes he might have committed. This is a book with no loose ends. It's called "No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic INvestigators", and it's about solving crimes in general, and about a group called NecroSearch International in particular. They're a collection of the world's foremost forensic experts, and the book tells the story of how they came together and of several crime cases and how this group solved them when nobody else could.
It also had a brief history of forensic science as a first chapter. In any case, I think it's safe to say that there won't be any unsolved mysteries in this book to ponder when I'm done. ^_^
