{"id":930,"date":"2004-12-17T22:37:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T03:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=930"},"modified":"2011-10-20T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T22:12:10","slug":"why-i-need-a-mac-plus-mini-botm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Why I need a Mac (plus mini-BOTM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have gone from &#8220;worse&#8221; to &#8220;as bad as it gets&#8221;. Which, on the upside, is really more inconvenience than actual bad happenings. So yes, I&#8217;ve lost all my new site files (the old articles and crap are still safe), but fortunately, a good percentage of them are still hanging out on the internet, from where I can poach them quite easily. Poach was probably a bad word for that sentence.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;ll be awhile until I&#8217;ve recoved everything and resume the few things I&#8217;ve been working on lately. But you know what won&#8217;t take a little while? The band of the month feature. I know the title is all wrong, and it&#8217;s past the halfway through December point, but I&#8217;m not just going to sit here and let it go undone. It&#8217;s gonna be half-assed though, since I&#8217;ve got very little time to be updating. I really should be tending to my site restoration and Windows-loading. But meh.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s band: Disturbed. Notice how I didn&#8217;t even bother to put in the picture. Yes, that&#8217;s how lazy this is going to be. So I quite like the band. As far as I know, they&#8217;ve got two CDs, and only one song has ever even made it close to mainstream. Of course I could be wrong, as when it comes to mainstream music, I really have no clue what&#8217;s going on. all I know is I saw the &#8220;Prayer&#8221; video on Much Music one time and that&#8217;s pretty much it. Anyway, back to what a good band Disturbed is. We all appreciate metal (or should anyhow), and Disturbed does a pretty good job on that front. At least on the first album.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Sickness<\/span> is the first of two Disturbed CDs, and probably the faoured one of fans. I&#8217;m not sure, that&#8217;s just usually the way things play out when a band makes two CDs that sound very different. So back to this. Again. It&#8217;s a great CD, which I only recently got around to purhasing.<br \/>\nIt contains many great songs like the infamous &#8220;Down with the Sickness&#8221; and &#8220;Stupify&#8221;, which was featured on one of the Big Shiny tunes CDs of yore. Back when they had good music on them. Another great song is their cover of &#8220;Shout&#8221;, aptly renamed to &#8220;Shout 2000&#8221;. You know how I said HIM&#8217;s cover of &#8220;Solitary Man&#8221; was freaking awesome back when I reviewed their greatest hits CD? Well it&#8217;s like that &#8211; only more hardcore. My personal favorite song on the CD however, it the first, &#8220;Voices&#8221;. It&#8217;s a great song to start off on, and sets stage for the rest of the songs quite well. &#8220;The Game&#8221; is also quite a noteworthy track. All in all, excellent CD.<\/p>\n<p>The newer release, titled <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Believe<\/span> is not quite as good as the first, but is also a CD worthy of my praise. The main factor in this judgement is that fact that it&#8217;s a lot slower than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Sickness<\/span>. I mean, of course, most of the stuff is pretty hard, but it&#8217;s also softer at the same time. It&#8217;s quite hard to explain. You&#8217;d have to listen for yourself to truly understand what I&#8217;m trying to get across. All in all though, it&#8217;s good CD, boasting some exellent tracks such as &#8220;Prayer&#8221;, &#8220;Liberate&#8221;, &#8220;Remember&#8221; and &#8220;Darkness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really sorry this has to be so short, but I&#8217;m really pressed for time, and I just couldn&#8217;t let it go undone any longer. It&#8217;s not like I could have extended it much more without getting really redundant and going over the same things over and over again. But I guess I&#8217;ll go out saying that Disturbed is a great band, and I&#8217;m certainly looking forward to their next release. I just really need ot get to bed now. I&#8217;ve got work early in the morning, and I&#8217;ve already stayed up far too late. I&#8217;ll fix typos some other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have gone from &#8220;worse&#8221; to &#8220;as bad as it gets&#8221;. Which, on the upside, is really more inconvenience than actual bad happenings. So yes, I&#8217;ve lost all my new site files (the old articles and crap are still safe), but fortunately, a good percentage of them are still hanging out on the internet, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I need a Mac (plus mini-BOTM)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,40,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-botm","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}