Outlawed Marsh

Correction

2010-05-04T09:09:00.001-07:00

So, half a year ago I promised that I was going to start writing music review again. Readers, I lied. I opted out of public review and ramblings and instead started a small group email chain with some like minded friends (Made possible through Gmail's super sleak reply all/conversation style format). Will I be starting a blog at any point that deals specificaly in music review? Likely not. Will that stop me from occasionaly rambling about music, among other things, here? Of course not! That being said, I generally keep my musing to 140 characters or less, leaving this blog as bleak as the blood donors line at the Aids testing center.

Here is whats on my mind today.

Look at this man...

Is he not beautiful? His name is Gackt, and he's driving my wife crazy. My music taste in general steers far away from whatever the current definition of pop music is. Not because I hate it, I can respect why certain musicians are more popular then others, or more accessible, and I don't begrudge anyone for doing thier job well. Pop music is like soda pop, it's sugary and easy. Some of us like things a little more complicated.

That being said, Gackt is so Pop it's like someone dropped a pallet of mentos into a swimming pool of diet coke. And I love it! Gackt was the front man for the deranged psyco goth group Malice Mizer during the 90s. He toned things down a little for his solo career, more pop hooks, but still retaining some of the gothic flare Malice Mizer was renowned for.

Lately, besides acting in a handful of movies and video games, Gackt has been making the migration over to harder louder music, abandoning the sweeping string melodies of his earlier solo work (Like Mizerable). If you have seen my ipod, you would undoubedly assume that this would be a welcome change. It isn't. Some people need to stick to what they know, Gackt is one of them.

I might also add that he creeps my wife out, as does my unhealthy obsession. But come on, he's gorgeous! Don't tell me you wouldn't jump at the opportunity to share horse back with him on a wind swept tuscan beach, gripping him tighter and neslting your nose in his hair (It smells like vanilla) as he speeds on to his ocean view villa where who even knows what will happen? (I know what will happen, ROCKBAND PJ PARTY, I'm so there).

Now I should be clear, Gackt is not something I keep on my ipod, nore do I follow his movements like a crazed fanboy. I like to check in every now and then, but only to satisfy nostalgia.

This Blog is Lazy

2009-11-23T09:36:00.000-08:00

The title of this post is an understatement. I do not blog, at all, although I would like to make it a habit. The title may as well apply to me also, change "blog" to "boy", because I am a lazy writer. I was supposed to be writing 50,000 words this month as a part of Nanowrimo, but that didn't happen. I often make reference to my days writing my own music mailing list (Ran for about half a year with twenty-some subscribers, then laziness crept in) or when I did small pieces for the now seemingly defunct Bandwagon music magazine, and I miss it a lot! I don't want to be one of those people who just talks about stuff that happened in the past, allowing it to distort itself over time into over exaggerated tall tales ("I can't say who picked up our tab that night but let's just say he could afford the scotch, and it was legendary... and it was Thom Yorke", that never happened).

So I'm going to kick up some dust and start writing music review again. My goals will be simple at first, a post a week featuring one or more CDs or singles. Thinking I might move to a new name too, and I will post the link and details later today.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is, I've done it before, I know I can do it again, and I will.

Here goes nothing!
Seann

I am an arse-pot

2009-09-21T11:41:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I said I would post pictures and talk about my/our fan expo expierence, and then I didn't and my wife did. And so I am an arse-pot. But no one reads this blog anyway so no real harm done!

Really wanted to hit Trail of Dead tomorrow but I don't see that happening. Need to start saving money rather then spending it as soon as I have it. November is an expensive month see. NaNoWriMo requires LOTS of: Coffee money, pens, notepads, and last year I practically lived in pubs and cafes (Might have started dating that month which might explain all the coffee and pubs, but you know... shut up), so if I want to make this Nanowrimo a comfortable one, have to spend carefully now.

Thinking of going back to my idea about a kinda space western/medieval modern/steampunk themed religious alienation in space (Who do I think I am, Fred Pohl?), but we'll see. Also, choose your own adventure project. If I can't decide what to do then I'm going to do that. Maybe write 5 different 10,000 word adventures about they will be about Vampires going back to highschool and exploring preternatural relationships with teenage humans (seems to be a hot ticket right now), release them and make tens of thousands of cents.

Whenever I think about blogging (Which is often) the posts always sound wittier and funnier in my head, far more interesting then this dribble. I hope Nanowrimo turns out better.

Well, back to work, enjoy all the awesome movies and TV shows hitting in the next 30 days, maybe I'll write again when the robin returns to make it's nest (I ain't never coming back).

Take my love, take my land...

2009-08-25T10:58:00.000-07:00

So Haley and I are watching (First time for her, probably 7th time for me) Firefly, the epically canceled Fox space opera... no, space western... no, space wild west saloon brawl gunslingin horse ridin super awesome show great job! She seems to enjoy it, especially the opening theme which she sings pretty much non stop 24/7 (last night in her sleep included). Only trouble is, Firefly is so b'dang short, and I know once she gets to the end of it she's going to want more, and my lively episode reenactments and LARP sessions will be meager in comparison to say, a second season.

Maybe I'll be inspired at fanexpo this weekend (OMFCASG!!) Updates and pictures will be posted!

PURSANG!
Seann

Back for more

2009-08-21T09:13:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I'm back, and to follow up on my last post, here is this:

Got married, that's all done and wrapped up. Hope to get all the pictures from that soon and be all like "Awww do you remember that time we got married?" to my wife long after it stops being cute!

The Dead Weather was amazing and fun, t-shirt acquired. Sonic Youth was one of the best things to happen to me since things that can be classified as "the best" started happening to me! The Yeah Yeah Yeah's hurt so good I puked my pants. All that being said I can't wait to go to a concert that's NOT at the Kool Haus, I have been there a few too many times this year.

Excited to see Shonen Knife is coming back! Bought tickets to see them two years ago but couldn't make it out that night much to my disappointment. There a lot of fun, and there isn't a lot that's survived from that era (grunge) still worth seeing (yes that includes Pearl Jam... seriously, "The Fixer" is the worst crap in life, preemptive boo on "Backspacer", one of many disappointments from one of the best bands of the 90s, but I digress, back to something awesome), not to mention the fact that their coming all the way from Japan. Seriously, too cool for kool haus, they will be playing at the Horseshoe. Also hope to grab the Horrors again and Trail Of Dead.

SHAMELESS WIFE STORE PLUG!
So my wickedly hot super awesome sexy wife is selling vintagy cool things on her new etsy store. Buy everything and make us rich! Look, her store is over here!

Other then that, working a lot. Even a weee little bit of construction work which is making me into a real man, with rough cut up hands that bleed profusely and I whine and complain about incessantly!

Hope this answers all your questionings!
"This was a dumb idea"
Seann

A long high8us

2009-06-16T13:08:00.000-07:00

Yo folks!

It's been about 9 years since I updated but here are the facts.
Met a girl
Fell in love
Got engaged
Discovered Twitter (The 140 character blog killer)

These things kinda distract you from updating blogs, and not being one who like to publicize personal events or facts about my sweet sweet super hot sexy love life (unless you follow my twitter), my blog went to the wayside.

Here are some happenings, happened and yet to happen.

Got to meet Tara MacPherson who is like the coolest person ever! She was signing for a show she was doing at Narwhal, dropping some loud heavy metal tunage as she did so from her i-phone. Got her to sign both of her books, and came within inches of buying $600 of prints.

Got to see the Kills play the night before that, the Horrors opened. It was amazing! Horrors are coming back in October, and I already have tickets to see The Dead Weather preform Kool House this July. It's going to be a "coming out of hibernation" present for Haley and I (It's about a week after we get back from our Honeymoon).

Speaking of wedding, it's coming along well. In the new apartment, painting this week, then assembly weekend, then I'll work on getting all my stuff in the new place, then parents and guests will show up, probably have at least one fight with the new landlord about the small army I'm housing upstairs, get married, go on Honeymoon, come home and kick out the loafers, not leave the house for a week and order in Chinese, pizza, and an unholy amount of alcohol!

Gonna meet Junko Mizuno this week with some like minded individuals (Her art is not for everyone, my parents especially, in fact I have no idea what your talking about Mom and Dad, someone just typed all this stuff on my blog). Gonna try to get a print signed, if I haven't already sold it back in the great 2008 depression that was.

Thats all to report right now, or I should say, all that I have planned for the near future. Definitely going to FanExpo this year, but weather or not I'm in costume has yet to be decided.

Remember
Stay Alert
Stay Safe
Seann

NaNoWriMo stardom

2008-11-04T19:14:00.001-08:00

Check me out, haven't even finished my book and I'm already famous!

NaNoWriMo

2008-11-04T12:25:00.000-08:00

So this November kicks off the 10th annual National Novel Writers Month, where people from all over the world (Including my entire family) try to write a novel in the ballpark of 50'000. It's day four and I'm about 3400 words behind on my word count, but this year is going to be different then the last (cleared 25'000 words)!

My book this year is called "The Ninth House", a story about an old magical music club recently purchased by a former music producer who has no patience for mystery or bad music. Looking to share the best music available with people the way it was meant to be heard, live, Darcy Pertz finds himself involved with forces as old as sound itself.

Don't be mistaken, Darcy Pertz is not the main character by any means, he is a means to an end, the most recent owner of the real star of the story, the club itself!

Chapter 1 is done and will be posted post NaNoWriMo, specifically, whenever I have time after November ends (Likely in the new year).

Watch "Once"

Listen to "Jenny Lewis" new album "Acid Tongue"

J.J Abrams makes airplanes awesome!

2008-09-08T09:51:00.000-07:00

You know who ruined airplanes for me (Besides aircanada removing life preservers to save on fuel costs)? Wes Craven, Wes Craven made airplanes lame and not fun to be on or even think about it the context of awesome. Second on the list of things that made airplanes less awesome is terrorism, and the belief that terrorism means hijacking a plane and crashing it into something... come to think of it airplanes ruined terrorism too, WAY TO GO YOU PREFERRED FORM OF SPEEDY INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL!

But all distasteful 9/11 jokes aside, J.J Abrams managed to take airplanes out of their slump and revisit airplanes ass-kickatude that has not been visited since... well, Airplane! Lost started out on an airplane and it was awesome, it split in half in the air and crashed and a guy got sucked into the engine and everything! In fact I couldn't get into the rest of the show because it had already topped itself in the first ten minutes of the first episode! I don't remember anything awesome happening with airplanes in Cloverfield, but J.J conceived a lot of the story when he went to Japan, a trip he took, that's right, on a flippin airplane!

So I'm picking up my order of comic books the other day and spot a prequel comic (1 of 6) for a new J.J Abrams show called Fringe. Digging on the LOST font on the first page I pick it up on a whim. Not having TV and generally avoiding anything that says "FOX" on the internet Fringe had completely slipped past me unnoticed. I picked up the pilot and it starts (everybody now) on an airplane!

Potential spoilers of retardly awesome stuff from the pilot begin after the video (I wont spoil the actual plot however):

Potential spoilers of retardly awesome stuff from the pilot begin here (I wont spoil the actual plot):

The opening scene on the airplane was awesome for the following reasons:
1: Everyone is speaking German.
2: Electrical storm
3: A guys skin starts to rot and go all zombie and he throws up on a stewardess
4: Then everyone starts going all zombie
5: The copilots jaw zombies off his face
6: Everyone dies, but the plane lands safely and on time in Boston

The rest of the show features a crazy arse scientist who makes LSD in the basement of Harvard with the purpose of mind linking humans in dreamscape, a cow named Gene, a see-through dude, and the headquarters of "Massive Dynamics" a multi trillion dollar mega corporation looking a lot like the Royal Ontario Museum... OH WAIT IT IS!

Spoilers End

Actually the show wasn't as incredible as I imagined it would be, the acting was OK, and the concept of the show (Fringe Science) could have been executed a little more awesomely, but all and in all it's a good start and I will continue to watch.

Well if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the airport and do jump kicks and scream out stuff like "Airplane YEAH!" a lot. Rejoice all, airplanes are cool again!

Ghiberate the blames!

2008-08-01T17:15:00.000-07:00

Ok so maybe Dr Horrible was just getting to me and I needed to post something, or maybe I was bored....

DING!

P.S
The mars volta did not pay me to put this on my site, I did it for the for free!

My love for Natalie Portman and the things she does

2008-07-22T19:24:00.000-07:00

I love Portman, I voted for her in the upcoming election for queen of foreverness, and this is the campaign video I will use.

Sometimes I just feel like an angry erotic sheep in the woods

2008-07-18T16:53:00.001-07:00

Heavy Metal and the church

2008-07-18T11:17:00.000-07:00

So I'm just walkin along the interweb 'do da do da do' mindin my beez when this hit me... no it wham bam-boozled me... No, it blew up my face with tyranosaurus rage!

I heard the Papa Pope listens to it on his i-pod.

Watch me Watch Men.... I mean

2008-07-18T07:28:00.000-07:00

Ok, I know that this is rape, that the creator of Watchmen Allen Moore does not consent, and like all the movies based on his work, will likely stick closer to Hollywood traditions rather then the actual Graphic Novels Cannon. But holy arse this looks good!

View in HD here

Music as Torture

2008-07-17T12:22:00.000-07:00

Listening to: Not Mettallica or Drowning Pool

Music as torture

For shame

Thursday

2008-07-17T09:15:00.000-07:00

Listening to: Cancer Bats
Question: What in the name of Sega Genesis!?

So I bought "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury a couple days ago at BMV for $6. I read "The Homecoming" illustrated by Dave McKean and wondered why I hadn't read RB before, especially since a lot of my favorite authors cite him as being a major inspiration to their work. As I was reading "The Earth Men" chapter I realised that this was the same book my buddy Vahon was reading on one of his trips to Toronto. I'm only half way through it but it's already one of my favorite books!

Speaking of Chronicles, avoid "The Mutant Chronicles" AT ALL COST. Let me break it down for you...

The earth is divided into 3 or 4 mega corporations who are constantly warring because that's what you do in the future, have wars. A giant rock crashes into earth bent on turning all humans into mutants (I'm not kidding, that's exactly what they say in the movie). Not cool mutants like in Xmen who can do cool useful things. No, these are bald bad ass single clawed mutants with bad skin! The mutants single purpose (Besides slicing people in the face) is making more mutants by dragging them to a pit where they land on a metal plate that shaves their heads and injects the mutant gene into their arm HOLY CRAPS! The movie was shot much like Sky Captain or Immortal Ad Vitem, and it looks good, but everything is rushed and none of the story elements are developed or make any sense at all, so it kinda falls on it's.... claw. I'm pretty sure the movie was directed by an eight year old boy who was like "Oh man it would be sooo cool if these mutant claw monsters were running around killing everyone and like some cool guys and a hot Asian chick have to kill them with swords and it's the future and it looks like the 1940s *aaachoo* oh I just squirted milk out of my nose!"

In other news, I'm building a Steampunk outfit. I'm going for an Aviator look, so old army kinda look and feel with goggles and leather bald hat. For dressings I'm looking for metals, wings, maybe even a gas mask if I can find one. So far, I got the coat! The coat cost me $11, and it's amazing, thing will probably last till I'm 40. The entire outfit is going to cost something like $70 I guesstimate. Mind you if I get boots for it to it could easily double in price. As for the goggles I have found a couple tutorials online on making your own, so that's probably the route I'll take. I'm planning on attending Fan Expo like this, not entering any contests, just doing it for fun. Once this outfit is complete I'll start working on my "Pirate Gentleman" Steampunk suit. I'll post a step by step for both outfits once there done.