Purpose?

When I began this blog it was more as an experiment to see if others shared my views, and what reactions my private thoughts would produce in total strangers. As time has gone on I realise this is not a particularly efficient way of doing this. Still, writing down my thoughts seems to do me some good. So rather than writing to an unknown audience of like minded souls, this now is written to my future self, who will at some point come back to here to discover my younger self. Unless I forget, or have something better to do with my time than past self rediscovery (such as perhaps a girl-friend, hint hint God).

So...Future self. How are things going? Post your opinions on things so I can see how my opinions on my own thoughts change over time as well. The trouble with that is that unfortunately I have many opinions on things, some of which contradict each other. I have all of these opinions simultaneously, so my mood will ultimately affect the opinions I am prepared to voice.

Anyway. I was thinking, what would my future self like to know? One thing I feel defines a person is their taste in music (which is mostly untrue), so here goes.

Right now my favourite band would have to be The Peter Dolving Band. The man is a genius. I love his voice. I thought his singing on The Dead Eye (The Haunted, 2006) was special. Then I heard Mary Beats Jane (which was almost impossible to find, but some out there still have electronic copies of the album I could acquire) and fell in love with that. The Peter Dolving band is obviously much more influenced by him, and I love it. His lyrics are excellent and meaningful, and he actually believes what he sings. Really looking forward to his Bring the War Home work, due to come out soon. In fact, to even find tracks from the Peter Dolving Band I had to rely upon the generosity of an internet stranger from Sweden, who to my great surprise helped me out. I don't have complete albums, but at least I have something. If you have lost this music, future self, SHAME ON YOU! I would not be surprised if you never find this music again.

Anyway, other good bands are Machinae Supremacy (which inspired the name to this blog in case you forgot) In Flames (which I doubt you'd forget), Hardcore Superstar, Volbeat, Underschool Element, Garmana, Devil in the Kitchen, Pain, Turisas, Ensiferum, The 69 Eyes, Clutch, Fu Manchu, Disarmonia Mundi, Dope Stars Inc., Engel (with the godlike guitarist Niklas Engelin), Gardenian, THE HAUNTED (WHICH I CANT BELIEVE I LEFT TILL NOW), Mary Beats Jane (Same goes for this), Leningrad, Passenger (which was also difficult to find), Static-X, Soil, Zombie Girl. There we go. The main point of this music bit was to express my joy in finally finding The Peter Dolving Band music, and you are reading this David (and you are probably not), thank you again.