January 2012
21 posts
My Death (a conversation with my 6yr old niece)
Maisie: Owen, what will happen when you die?
Me: Everybody will cry so much that the rivers will overflow and the seas will rise up and flood the Earth and everyone will drown!
Maisie: *Eyes widen with surprise* Really?!
Me: Yes!
Alcest & Les Discrets on Spotify →
Alcest, Les Discrets and Soror Dolorosa are playing in London next month and I think I’m going to go. The music’s beautiful and I can’t get enough of it.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
– Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
2012 Resolutions
Eat more bacon.
Write to magazines, photographers, studios… anything. Don’t put it off; it’s always worth a shot!
Endeavour to return to a routine where running is an almost daily activity.
When feeling fit and well enough; go to crossfit occasionally and see if you can steadily increase the frequency with which you go.
Have more sex.
Find a new job. The aim is simply to...
Owen's Albums of 2011
I never make end-of-year lists because I don’t consider my opinion of music to be of any consequence. While that remains true I decided to put together a small list of albums I enjoyed in 2011. There are more that aren’t here, including re-recordings of Alcest and Meshuggah albums.
This year I really found myself giving new and obscure black metal a go. I also delved deeper into the...
December 2011
13 posts
The point is that faith, even moderate faith, is pernicious because it teaches...
– Richard Dawkins (via atheistsatlarge)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Meshuggah (58)
Paradise Lost (29)
Woods of Ypres (15)
Ghost (13)
Craft (8)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Death (27)
Meshuggah (16)
Sólstafir (12)
Kalmah (10)
Burzum (8)
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In 1988, psychologists Shelly Taylor and Jonathon Brown published an article...
– Very interesting article on “depressive realism”, the concept that people with mental disorders actually hold a more realistic world view than those without. (via secondlifesyndrome)
I’ve thought this for a while now. I hold up brutal realism as a virtue and look at positive yet slightly...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Swallow The Sun (14)
Putridity (13)
Gorgoroth (13)
Grave (9)
Kalmah (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Napalm Death (40)
Brutal Truth (14)
Waldgeflüster (14)
Dismember (13)
Anaal Nathrakh (12)
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November 2011
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Entombed (24)
Anaal Nathrakh (22)
Vallenfyre (20)
Woe (11)
Xasthur (9)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Anaal Nathrakh (49)
Liturgy (17)
Farsot (15)
Electric Wizard (11)
High On Fire (7)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Wolves in the Throne Room (13)
Enslaved (7)
Drudkh (5)
Agalloch (5)
Nachtmystium (4)
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October 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Kylesa (31)
Mastodon (16)
Krallice (13)
Wolves in the Throne Room (11)
1349 (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Placebo (11)
Mastodon (9)
Sleeping Peonies (8)
Orgy (8)
Baroness (7)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
Mastodon (37)
Paradise Lost (24)
Eluveitie (14)
Tegan and Sara (13)
Animals As Leaders (12)
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September 2011
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Fire Spoken by the Buffalo (10)
Paradise Lost (7)
Gorgoroth (7)
Eluveitie (5)
Dark Tranquillity (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
Fire Spoken by the Buffalo (24)
The Amenta (15)
Demonaz (10)
Collapse Under The Empire (8)
Baroness (7)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Blood Red Throne (11)
Oskoreien (6)
Nekrogoblikon (6)
Dark Tranquillity (5)
Carcass (4)
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