Three Good Things

[rowyn]

1. Prog metal.
2. Having an income that exceeds my outgo.
3. Plushies. Many years ago, I bought a six-legged smiling plush crab, while out shopping with aminita. Despite being a crab missing two legs, it is a very cheerful plushie. For a long time, I had him at work, as my "If I don't have to be crabby, neither do you" reminder. Then one of Toddler Bank's directors exiled all personal items from our cubicals and offices (seriously? Seriously) and he went home. Recently I realized that this was another of the stupid rules I was following even though it no longer applied. So now Happy Crab is back on my desk at work. Smiling at me.

*smiles back*

Comments

[alinsa.livejournal.com]

Well, more "interesting stuff to see what you would like" than prog in specific, but it so happens that a huge amount of what I like is prog metal, so the sampler was weighted that way. :) Wolfstone, for example, doesn't even approximate prog (but are lovely nonetheless).

I'm quite happy you're finding things you like, too! Finding prog metal as a genre (which pretty much went Nightwish -> Rhapsody -> A ton of other stuff) was basically like completely rediscovering music, for me (and took music from a "hey, I like that band" type of thing for me, to an actual important part of me). And though the genre probably doesn't have quite that effect on you, I'm quite happy to be able to pass on the gift...

(... I really need to work on sampler #2! Muahahahaha!)

[rowyn]

Ooh yeah, I didn't mention some of the obviously-not-prog artists that I like from the sampler (David Arkenstone and Phoenyx) but missed Wolfstone. It's still *mostly* prog metal, though. :D