apricate: To bask in the sun.
After learning of the phenomenon of midnight sun, Johnson booked a trip to Greenland so he could apricate for three days straight while gorging himself on halibut and reindeer meat.
Steven Wilson – “Harmony Korine”
Cherry Five – “The Swan Is A Murderer – Part 1”
Spock’s Beard – “Thoughts (Part II)”
Andromeda – “Worst Enemy”
Damon Shulman – “Scum”
Genesis – “White Mountain”
RC2 – “Coming Down Again”
Ark – “Absolute Zero”
Martyr – “Realms of Reverie”
Saga – “Sound Advice”
Enemy of the Sun – “Feel the Beating”
horripilation: the act or process of the hair bristling on the skin, as from cold or fear; goose flesh.
Gary shivered in anticipation of his favorite meal; the mere sound of milk trickling over cornflakes was enough to cause him horripilation and send his salivary glands into overdrive.
Volume 1 of Themes for Guitar and Voice has been released.
Incrassate : to make thicker
Doris’s recipe for Thanksgiving gravy was kept secret not because it was a closely guarded family tradition, but because it used a packet of freeze-dried brine shrimp to incrassate the drippings, and she was afraid that this knowledge might cause a scene among her more gastronomically conservative in-laws.
Tiles – “Window Dressing”
Oceansize – “Amputee”
Rush – “The Twilight Zone”
Magenta – “Prekestolen”
Age of Silence – “Mr. M, Man of Muzak”
Van der Graaf Generator – “Cog (excerpt from Lemmings)”
Primer – “Persona”
Pure Reason Revolution – “Nimos & Tambos”
East of the Wall – “Clowning Acheivement”
Gentle Giant – “Black Cat”
Sieges Even – “Duende”
velleity : a mild desire, a wish or urge too mild to lead to action
After plunging both hands into the carcass of the beached whale, Doctor Floss found himself with an itchy nose, a condition that worsened as the urge to scratch blossomed from mere velleity to a maddening compulsion the longer he continued the necropsy.
While going through the final mixes for the tracks on Sub Luna, I realized there were a couple of things that were bugging me about Sub Phoebus and I’ve decided to tweak a few things. The first problem is that it wasn’t sonically different enough from Sub Luna, especially in the first minute. Also, there were a couple of drum samples that stuck out to me on repeated listens with headphones. The challenge has been to replace a weak snare but keep the same relative drum mix.
A big issue in this remix was to try and get the same sound in a different software environment. The first time around, I had dumped all the tracks from FL Studio and imported them into Cubase for EQ, effects, and mix automation. FL 8 is nearly powerful enough to be a one-stop shop, but I was having trouble finding a way to draw automation from scratch instead of just editing recorded knob turns, etc. I think I’m nearly there, but I have a couple of tweaks to do here and there before I’ll be satisfied enough to release it officially.
RPWL – “Stranger”
Confessor – “Until Tomorrow”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “For You”
Little Atlas – “Hollow”
Dream Theater – “Caught In A Web”
Id Guinness – “The One That Got Away”
Peccatum – “Veils of Blue”
Don Caballero – “Celestial Dusty Groove”
Anthony Phillips – “Souvenir of Remindum”
Opeth – “Hex Omega”
Anathema – “Unchained (Tales of the Unexpected)”