My day

Ok, now that I have that out of my system.

Today started out rough. I woke up over an hour late for work. I hit red lights on the way in that I never hit. And my lighter suddenly decided to stop working. Today should have been terrible, but it wasn't. Instead it started to shape up like an ok Monday. Not great, but workable.

Then I got home.

I was walking up the steps to the apartment and thought to myself how I was waiting for the Eclipse order. I had a sudden surge of "may be its here." Then a quick realization that I just ordered the thing late Friday night/early Saturday morning, and it didn't go out until Saturday. Eclipse is in Arizona, how the hell could my order be here already?

I got to the last set of stairs and turned the corner. As I climbed the last batch I saw the boxes. Yes, there wasn't one, but two boxes. "Holy shit, the order's here already, cool! But, what's the second box? The order wasn't that big that he needed to use a second box." Then I glanced at the return address. Sonore Records. Shit, I'd forgotten about this order. Holy hell, I not only had the Eclipse order, but the Sonore order as well. The Sonore order included a Ruins CD and the Japanese Independant Music CD/Book. The book I've been waiting for. An A-Z encyclopedia of the Japanese Indie scene. YEAH!!!

So I lined up the CDs on the dining room table and thought about which to listen to first. May be Scorece or Sunburn Hand of The Man. I've never heard these guys before. But wait, I probably should listen to those disks when I've got time to really focus on them and take them in. I should probably start with something I know. A band I've heard before. That leaves Acid Mother Temple and Ruins. Hmm... I don't think I'm in the right mind set for Ruins. Let's go with the AMT.

And so I slipped it in. I decided to listen to the opening bit for a minute before going to check email and the like. After a few minutes, I sat down on the couch. An hour later I got up, speechless, typed out the below message and email of confusion and went for some dinner. Air, may be air will help clear my head. That deffinetly helped, and the below review was written. As I said in the comments. A bit oover the top, but I was going for that. And it's not bad for being the first real review I've written in a long time.

I have 8 more CDs to listen to over this week. Sometimes you just have to look around and think to yourself, "life is good."

Expect more reviews this week.

Posted by Matt at September 15, 2003 09:31 PM