I find it much more
satisfying to post longer writings regarding music and thought. Therefore, it
has become my goal to write longer, more thought out and interesting articles
and post them weekly on Monday mornings. This coincides with Metal Mondays at a venue here
in Seattle, and if anyone bothers to subscribe to my site it may prove to be
something to look forward to reading during the week. I certainly look forward
to meeting this ongoing goal.
For today I will just
share a little bit of what I’ve been introduced to lately, which may be of no
news to you, reader, but please listen and read anyways.
I was wandering the
pages of Facebook on Sunday afternoon when I came across one for someone who I
see weekly, someone who many of my friends know; someone I know of but have
never officially met. Maybe it’s creepy, I don’t know, who cares? I scrolled
through his page to see what kind of music he might be into that I haven’t
heard of, and of course, he had posted the entire album of a band called Thy
Infernal.
Thy Infernal - Warlords of Hell, full album
The caption he posted
with it said something along the lines of, "I hate picking a favorite band but
this album is so great, I listen to it over and over, it’s so good!" I clicked
play, and let that play while I did other important Internet stuff such as
browse captioned cat photos and debate whether or not to depart from the Facebook following
of Doge.
Each track that’s
going by I’m thinking HOLY SHIT, THIS IS GREAT! I had never heard of Thy
Infernal before and now, certainly, my life is slightly altered for the better.
This stranger, this person who doesn’t know I am exploring their
public-by-choice-Facebook-Life has brought me the joy of Thy Infernal!
Naturally, I had to
thank them.
I started writing this poor guy this utterly unnecessary message. It basically
says,
"Hi,
We’ve never met, but
I’ve seen you around at (such&such place) and we have some common friends.
I was wandering the pages of Facebook, like we do... and came across yours. I
started playing that album you posted, by Thy Infernal, since you made it
pretty clear that anyone who came across that status of yours simply HAD to
give them a listen.
And I just want to say
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS
It’s so great! Thank
you for sharing it so people like me could run across it by chance and hear
something new.
Anyways, take care,
maybe we will meet someday,
Jenny"
And I never really
expected to meet this guy, since I’ve been going to the place where I see him
for 6 months now, and in no way has there ever been an opportunity to meet him
in that time period.
The next day I met
him. I went there for a show, and my friend was talking with him, and pulled me
aside and presented me to him! Of all the times, the day after I stalker sweep
his Facebook to listen to the same music he does just out of curiosity and send
him a message saying
“Thanks for sharing
music with us strangers on the Internet!”
A silly world we live
in, indeed.
I even told him I had
done that the day before. Maybe just to see what reaction I would get from him,
maybe just to make an impression so that maybe, just maybe, he would remember
me later on.
Whatever the reason, I
am who I am, and since then a random person has contacted me in the same way. I
love it! I love all of this. I must be doing something right. Beautiful,
talented, kind-hearted metal people keep wandering into my life. This is life, I am so happy right now.
With that I
end this post and start preparing for next week’s article.
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