o/' And with a smiiiiiiiile... I'll take you to the Seven Seas of Rhye o/'

Seven Seas of Rhye has HEALING POWERS!

Ahem. Anyways. I'm sorry I didn't post last night - I was just too terribly tired to. Nothing interesting happened yesterday, so it's just as well!

Of course, today was nothing special either, but oh well... I got another Dave Barry book today. Whoop! Well, I'm glad! I need something to read, and what better to read than something absurdly humorous? :)

I also got two singles, "Queen 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' (Ruined by Rick Rubin)"; and that two-track American Life single with the Calderone & Quayle Afterlife remix of Die Another Day. Here's what I have to say about these two singles:

The "Queen 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' (Ruined by Rick Rubin)" single:
I can't say I had very high hopes for this one: the longest remix is 5 mins long, and I already have it on the re-release of NOTW (News of the World). But because I thought that was a very well-done remix, I thought this single was worth getting. And I was wrong, of course. The "Ruined Instrumental" is basically just the full remix cropped for time and stripped of the vocals; "We Are The Champions", not labeled as a remix, is, in fact, a remix. And a HORRIBLE one at that. I can't really believe that anyone would want to actually release that mix. Of course, WATC shouldn't be remixed at all, because it's perfect. But if you're going to rmeix it, remix it *well*! Golly! All right, on to the next track: "Big Beat A Cappella" is a waste too, as it's just, in essence, the drum loops and scratches playing for about 2 mins. Booooring, to say the least. The "Zulu Scratch A Cappella" is the only reason I'm happy that I got the single, because it has the vocals from WWRY a cappella. Yeah, it has a few silly record scratchings, but I'm so happy to have this track. Now I can attempt a remix of WWRY! But aside from the Zulu Scratch and the 5min remix, the single is pig doots. Period. ("Ruined" should really have tipped me off, hmm?)

Madonna's American Life single:
Well, it only has two tracks on it, one of which I already have (Amercian Life radio edit). But I like remixes... a lot... so I consider this single to be worth it. The Die Another Day (Calderone & Quayle Afterlife Mix) is quite good, although I'll have to listen to it a few more times before I really like it. (My favorite remixes of DAD are "Thee RetroLectro Mix" and "Richard Humpty Vission Electrofired Mix", if'n you were wondering. ;) ) The single is also enhanced, although the special web link didn't work. Oh well. Makes me sad, but what can you do?

All right, on to happier things! Specifically, lovely icons! I made a whole bunch (that's a technical term) and can't really figure out why. I just sort of started and couldn't stop making icons tonight... must be the Queen influence... :D Anyways, as I'm a member of the queen_icons community on LJ, I thought I should start making a few more icons of the rest of the band too, and not just Freddie Mercury, even though I'm quite sure I could happily spend the rest of my days making only Mercury icons. :D So, here are a bunch of icons. Have fun!

Take 'em, use 'em, and love 'em. :D

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Oh yes, I said I'd explain that "Hmm, my teeth are in the key of G..." quote the day before. OK, here's the explanation: My mom and I were looking at Queen pics, and we came across this one that features Brian apparently chewing on a piano tuner. It just hit me really funny when my mom came up with a caption of "Hmm, my teeth are in the key of G...", cos he looks like he could really be thinking that, and the way my mom said it was funny too. I guess you had to be there. But in any case, it's funny. No really! It is!

Well, anyways. :D

Cheery bye, Scarlett




//Listening to:
Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
//Currently amused by this quote:
"bassbassbass"