You know, the Diamanda Galas mailing list is starting to irritate me. I'm getting that taste in my mouth like I got when I was on the Samurai History ML. (And let me tell you, I despised it there after a while. Historian-elitists using the ML as sport to make ignorant people look bad. *shudder*)

It's mostly because since Guilty Guilty Guilty came out there's been this progression of: 1) people gushing about the album being awesome, 2) people complaining about little nitpicks of the album (like the siren in "Heaven Have Mercy" and "I don't like her singing Piaf" and "why didn't she remove the crowd from the recording?"), 3) people calling the Diamanda admirerers brainless because they don't seem to have anything "critical" to say about her album/performances.

Oh god do I hate elitists in music. I REALLY DO HATE 'EM!

Why am I up?! well, at least partially because I'm waiting on email from HostForWeb, they're adding a reverse DNS record for my server's hostname, since it kept resolving (in certain apps) as 'unknown.hostforweb.net'. I am kinda DNS-dumb so I ended up asking the techs to do it for me. ^^;

Ah, and I got the email just now. Working with HFW has been painless more often than not for me, so I'm always glad to see their customer service continues to be swift.

Meanwhile I was helping my sis test her shell and FTP accounts (they work fine! woo!) and poking around at Anonymous / Scientology protest videos. It's interesting seeing how many people have gathered together at those protests, and the dedication of Anonymous to continue them. Who knows who will come out on top.

One of the videos I saw had this awesome song called "Heavyweight" by Infected Mushroom, an Israeli trance band. This song is 8 minutes of pure awesome to my ears. I want to hear more. I have my eye on their new album now. ;.;

I also recently got Diamanda's Guilty Guilty Guilty, more impressions when I'm not so sleepy / busy.

I spent last night getting the webhosting space and setting up my sekrit project. Man... it made me wish Drupal had better theming capabilities, cause wow... I am really pleased with the layout of that site. I shouldn't be waving around "loooooky i have a secret project!" when no one will even see it, but it still excites me 'cause I'm satisfied with the work, and I LOVE working on webstuff.

Speaking of not so secret projects, I am beginning to be tempted by making money through a reseller hosting account... like, not a LOT of money, but more like an experiment. I mean, nowadays reseller accounts start as low as $6/mo. I could get something pretty decent at $10/mo. All I'd really want is to see what I can do with it -- whether I can come up with a concept for low-cost (I'm talking, like, $2-3 a month) web accounts, likely paid through Paypal, that would at the *least* repay the cost of the reseller account -- and if more, it could even pay for my DR / PSU accounts, and my darksiren.net account. That would be sweet. :O

Oooh, but even BETTER news: I ordered my new computer! Finally!!

Games:
- Mana Khemia (PS2)
- Baroque (PS2)
- The World Ends With You (DS)

Music:
- Diamanda Galas, Guilty Guilty Guilty
- Portishead, Third (Ltd. Edition Boxed Set)
- Thrice, The Alchemy Index Vols I & II

Any cash I get will contribute to my computer upgrade, which *hopefully* I will be able to pay. Apparently my inlaws want to help with it, too, since they didn't know what else to give me for my birthday. Well, that works. I need all the money I can get! n.n

Also, I MAY get a Hosting Matters account as a treat to myself. Most likely the B500 package, which is $8 a month or $24 quarterly.

Details on the games/music/other stuff:

Ah, one more thing to post about.

Arthur Magazine, a free magazine you can download online, published a very interesting article/interview on Diamanda Galas.

I'll be downloading this for my own perusal, but if you're interested in Diamanda at all (heh, I wonder if anyone who reads this is) you can read it on page 34-43 of the mag, here. The link actually leads to the second part of three, for the current month's issue.

It's one of the more lengthy Diamanda articles I've ever seen, with a lot of insight into her personality, her music and even her past. Also features a nice photoshoot... makes me want to order this issue myself, if I had more money. ^^;