attn: nick

[goatschool]

do you contribute anything to lyrics, greg? i should know this.

 

[Baliset]

not to motw/kayo dot lyrics. those are all byron and toby's territory and they are way better at writing them than i am.

i write lyrics to my own songs though. i am constantly trying to better my overall songwriting/lyricry skills.

 

[Baliset]

the title of this thread should be "get to know greg"

 

[goatschool]

that's right.

 

[goatschool]

i now ask for favorite book.

 

[Baliset]

Lord of the Rings is probably my favorite. i am not very well-read. but also i am a big fan of terry pratchett's Small Gods, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Good Omens by terry pratchett and neil gaiman.

i am very indecisive

 

[goatschool]

and modest. but greg i decided this weekend that i hate tolkien's books, and hate those films.

 

[Baliset]

that does not bother me. i know plenty of people who don't like the movies who love the books and i think some scholars try to explain those books as being a kind of "universally" accepted amazing piece of literature sometimes but i think that in the end it is like any other type of art in that you either like it or not.

 

[goatschool]

see i was trying to prompt a rabid defense, but that is probably more appropriate.

i did feel as though ROTK was the last straw, though. that film lacked sacrifice and tension, which all goes back to the source material, obviously. and i know how wrong-headed that may sound.

explain what this neil gayman thing is.

 

[Baliset]

neil gaiman is the guy who did that comic book the sandman. he is just really really cool and while i never read much from the sandman before i bought a graphic novel in 2002 and absolutely fell in love with it.

 

[Baliset]

its hard to get a rabid defense out of me unless you are insulting my band.

 

[Astral Poetry]

no sweat on the spelling.

my friend lali alerted me of the austin bat bridge, and i've looked into it a little since.

basically a bridge in austin w/ bats. they fly out in swarms @ night. EOM.

I've been to the bat bridge a countless number of time (my grandparents live relatively close to it). It's so awesome watching all of them pour out.

 

[goatschool]

it all goes back to the bats.

greg, do you like baseball?

 

[Baliset]

i used to. i used to be all about the yankees.

 

[ChromeLife]

i used to. i used to be all about the yankees.

Tee hee!

 

[xfer]

i'm going to butt in long enough to remind Greg to please post his track list on the mix-trade thread. i am a teacher-to-be, after all, so i am good at admonishing.

 

[Baliset]

my track-list will remain secret until such time as nick has received the mix, listened to it, and i feel it is appropriate to share.

 

[xfer]

that's acceptable. check-plus.