Snowblind

Thursday Feb. 25th. It's snowing so I decided to go out for a run with a black metal sound track. Something in the genre just speaks to winter. It's probably just the influence of the environment that surrounds all of those Norweigen bands. It is so desolate and desperate sounding and made a perfect soundtrack for a snow driven sprint. I started with a short Cult of Luna song (5:45) because I didn't have the patience to find a slow bm track. I covered 3.2 miles in 33 minutes.

Cult of Luna- White Cell. This band kills most other bands in the Neurisis genre. They are just crushingly heavy.

Caina- Requim for Shattered Timbers. The guitars in the beginning sound like they are sampled straight from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and then it gets fast and the Pink Floyd comes back. Pretty interesting but definately doesn't do much as a running song.

Darkthrone- Graven Takeheimens Saler. "Transilvanian Hunger" is far and away my favorite BM record. It's cold, raw and has this incredible sense of urgency that makes it very reminicent of a hardcore record. For whatever reason it always brings to mind Black Flag. Great song for winter.

Enslaved- Svarte Vidder. This is off the record "Frost". Could anything be more fitting for freezing your ass off?

Immortal- Grim and Frostbitten Kingdom. Yes, something is more fitting. I need to get some corpse paint for my next race.

Tombs- Filled with Secrets. Is it obvious that I like this band yet?

This post was written while listening to 1349.





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Oh, Yeah!

I registered for the Broad Street Run today. It is a 10 mile run on May 2nd and it takes place right here in Philly. I feel that once I spend money and can see a goal it kicks me in the ass so I train harder. Fingers crossed.

Winter Lull

Feb 21st 2010. I lost my mother, Teresa Manee on January 29th of this year and I've had a really hard time getting up the motivation to do anything, let alone push myself to be better. This weekend I did my best to change that so i ran yesterday and again today and I'm feeling pretty good .Luckily, I do have AMAZING friends whom have been immensely supportive and all around awesome. Coming up sometime soon I will be organizing a race in honor of my mom and to raise money for the disease she had, Primary Pulmonary Hypertension. For more info or to help go here: http://www.phassociation.org/Page.aspx?pid=197. Thanks.

Sat Feb 20th. 2.17 miles in 23:51. Here is my mix:

Converge- My Great Devastator

Deadguy- Human Pig

Rorschach- Checkmate

Faith No More- Malpractice

Botch-Vietnam

His Hero is Gone- Monuments to Thieves

Agoraphobic Nosebleed- Mantis; Center of the Hive and Glass Tornado

Sun Feb 21st. 2.29 miles in 23:47. I listened to Electric Wizard's Dopethrone. Solid record.