Well, I've seem to run out of things to write about so I thought I'd change subjects and talk about the music I both listen to and play. I pretty much like everything except country, can't stand it. But I listen to a lot of rock, hard rock, clas-sical, opera, international, odd local stuff, and other random music in general, lol. So, here's a break down of my top five.
Listening To
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife ~ I first heard this band with the song O Valencia! I really liked it and bought the cd just for that (I don't download music, I like having a cd collection, there's just something about actually having the disc in hand) and ended up liking all the other stuff a lot more :P And the blog title is the song I've been listening to the most from them.
Keane - Under the Iron Sea ~ One of my favorite groups! I absolutely love Crystal Ball and Nothing In My Way. I love how they use a piano in replace of a guitar too, that's an awesome sound.
Fireflight - Healing of Harms ~ Sort of an odd soft hard rock band, lol. The lead singer is also a girl, so it gives them a different sound. One of the few albums I can listen to all the way through without skipping a song.
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory ~ I have the Minutes to Midnight album but I don't really care for it too much. I really loved the last two albums but M2M seems to be missing something. So, I'm back to My December and High Voltage, lol.
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists ~ A friend of mine got me hooked on this band. I really like Decadence and Avarice.
As for other random stuff I'm listening to - Modest Mouse, Muse, Rush, Shadow of the Colossus Soundtrack, Modest Moussorgsky, Giovanni Gabrieli, 30 Seconds to Mars, Ace of Base, Fate/Stay Night Soundtrack, Regina Spektor, Beck, Manowar, Killswitch Engage, The Shins, Foo Fighters, Artic Monkey, Fall Out Boy, and some other random stuff, lol.
Playing
Unfortunately, it's the holiday season which means I get to play a lot of Christmas music. I used to like Christmas music but since I get asked to play the same exact songs every single year for like the past 17, it gets a little annoying after a while. Though I still like to play Carol of the Bells because I have an awesome arrangement of that song that I did myself. So it makes it a lot more fun to play (P.S. I've played the piano since I was 3 if you didn't know :P) plus it's a minor song which I enjoy those.
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata ~ I started playing this again. I first performed this when I was 10 and haven't played it since, but I found the music for it while I was looking for my Christmas stuff and decided to start playing it again. It's a really long song and it's really tiring to play as well but it sounds so cool.
Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ~ Another cool dark sounding piece of music. I sort of re-arranged this a bit though to make it a tad shorter, lol.
Kabalevsky - I've been playing a lot of his stuff, too many to name. I find his stuff really fun to play, even the simplier songs are actually really fun. Plus he's one of my 3 favorites.
Bartok - Another all time favorite. I've been playing a lot of his dances which have a really unique sound to them. Plus, they are short which is nice, I hate playing a song that lasts like 20 minutes, lol.
Satie - My all time favorite composer. An odd thing is, he died on July 1 1925, I was born on July 1 . . . weird. But he's a very, very, very odd person with some really odd music. I even wrote a couple of papers on him.
The only other stuff I've been playing is mine, lol. I don't really compose music, I just randomly play whatever I feel like right there and then :P But yeah, that's what I've been listening to and playing lately. What about you?