straechav

Hello there, my friends list.

I notice several people have added me to their Friends list. I wouldn't have noticed, if it werent for who voressima informed me of such possiblity. Oh the horror of the thought of people actually thinking I use this LJ...

So, just to inform anyone who happens to come here; I don't use LJ for anything else but read "friends only" posts of voressima and maybe drop a comment or two there. In fact, you're much more likely to catch my attention by commenting in HER LJ than mine. But I digress.

I'm working on my website at the moment, where there will be a blog, and I'm sure to pay more attention to that one than LJ.

Now, I'm sure none of you are going to actually take listen to this but I really recommend Gojira. Now there's a death metal band of originality. I don't personally like Death Metal, but last few years have let me to start appreciate a band or two. Mokoma's latest or Total Devastation's latest, come to my mind.

Anyway, you all are now duly warned. I don't use LJ much. Live with it. :p

I'm perfectly aware that this LJ exists only to give me access to certain people's "friend's only" posts, and serves no actual function besides giving me an username for that. Still, I find that I have to write something here - to sort of appease the digital gods by fullfilling this web page's primary function.

Or something.

Anyway, lately I've been reading like madman, going through books and online fiction like a lawnmower. For the few who stumble accidentally here, I'll point out that I can read 400 page book in a day, even though I spend most of the day at work. If I have whole day, I can read a whole lot more.

So, yes. I'm fairly fast reader. Not the fastest I know, but I can still go through a lot of text in few months if I want to. For the last month, I have been doing mostly reading - so I am running a bit low on new things to read.


Hence, I stumbled upon some old RPG stuff... Eh, another one of my oddities. I like to read RPG books, especially sourcebooks. The worlds and settings and such fascinate me almost as much as good fiction.

Well, basically they're the same thing, the other one just has a plot.

But what I stumbled upon was the old Planescape stuff. I'm sure most of you have no idea what the hell I am talking about, but it is a setting for the old AD&D 2nd edition RPG game. While I give about two flips and a zip about the system (Hate it, actually. Not that I play RPGs that much, I just don't like it even in theory), I ADORE the Planescape setting.

Well, actually, I adore SIGIL. The city of doors. Now that's my kind of place. Dark, gritty, full of death, intrigue and cold hearted bastards. Sounds like my kind of town.

So, I've been reading through them and wishing I could write as well as some of the fiction writers. Sure, I can write. But hey, I have already several dozen artistic and creative endeavors and hobbies going on - so I hardly have time for writing something on top of all that.


Perhaps the best thing about Planescape is the mood. It's a weird world in the Planescape setting, and anything can be found there. It's not the usual boring Tolkienish (overrated) fantasy standard shit. It's dark, full of death, bones and amoral people who don't care about you, and only want your jink. It's the Multiverse, berk, and and a blood knows that it ain't worth any amount of jink to get in to the dark of it, or a cutter will go barmy for sure. A sodder is better off trying to kicking the Harmonium to their sodding zills, not that it's a very bright idea, either.

Not to mention the Planescape lingo...

It's one of the few things that stick to your mind when you read through the books. The writers decided to use some old slang words, and invented few themselves to richen the settings. Often this kind of things just come out stupid, but somehow it fits the quirky atmosphere of Sigil like a glove.

I'd recommend for people to read the books, but they're out of the print, and I seriously doubt anyone but me is weird enough to just read RPG books - instead of playing them.

For some reason I can't recall I decided to take some Godflesh CD's with me to the bus and listen to them today. It's been a while since I listened to them, and the "Love and Hate in Dub" just blew my mind again.

I just love the minimalist beat orientation of this band. Especially this remix album, which has just the fattest, darkest, most agressive beats ever - along with extremely menacing bass (a bonus!).

It's also fucking dark (d'oh).

There aren't many bands that can beat Godflesh when it comes to selecting "soundtrack for suicide". Groovy.



GODFLESH: Descent

no desire, no air to breathe
no desire, no need to seethe
i'm just a child
that's always been
i need to justify
just to survive
what i want
is what you get
but what i want
is not yours yet
what you want
you always get
but what you want
is not dead yet