Remember Dreamhost's Year-End Blowout Sale last December, the one I was bragging about, with the uber-cheap $0.77 pricing per month? Well, Dreamhost is reviving it again for Valentine's and President's Day (the exact same deal)! The sale, according to their home page, ends today, February 15, but they will stretch it out for several days, though in reduced discount increments — meaning you shouldn't wait to take advantage of it, if anything!

Excerpt from Dreamhost:

Sign up today for a one-year hosting plan using the promotional code "777" and you'll get a whole year of web hosting (including a domain registration) for just $9.24! That's 92% off!

Instructions for signup are provided on their home page. The deal is only available for first-time customers, and the discount is valid for one year. Don't make the same mistake of not reading my blog last December, and sign up today!

And remember, this update is provided as a courtesy. Show some appreciation! You know I have better things to do than blog about every little Web hosting sale.

In other news, the snowfall outside resembles light, feathery down. My dad is a procrastinator (keeps asserting that he'll work on his taxes, though it's been several weeks), and I'm entre la espada y la pared with this scholarship application. My dad hasn't gotten an address change from the post office yet, and I don't trust that witch to hold those envelopes for me.

This entry is about two months overdue, but I finally managed to get it all done in preparation for my next rotation of indie spotlights, which, above all, will feature beautiful, beautiful symphonic music from one, not-often-heard-from country… and whose discovery had me in an excited spasm all this afternoon. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Musically starved? Sit down, relax, follow the links, and let this rundown of the best and the brightest non-mainstream music be your guide.

And once again, my time should've been better spent by studying for a test that I am guaranteed to fail. Anyway.

Six band reviews today. Enjoy!

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"Poison is slowly seeping through my veins
Stealing the only dignity in me…"
— Epica, "Chasing the Dragon"

Funny man, that K_____ is. All this discussion of postmodernism. The golden sun-play on the walls, on the sheets, turning this hair orange-brown… saying "Hi, Sashy-sashy" and mechanically coddling before closing my eyes to the warm orangeness… of course, then opening them again to a faded and darkened halo, an hour or two after my intended deadline, dust and stale thoughts falling… and lurking and shadowy, the damned folly of investing in a silly world where nothing is real, yet where certain bipedal mammals strut in arrogance, their "morality" and "culture" and insignificant cares…

"Metal fatigue," yes. Not so surprising given their mindless loops of late. And twenty-seven pages of Toni Morrison — thus, "Toni Morrison fatigue."

Each day that kind of fantasy grows more remote, more meaningless, and each minute convinces me of this imperative, that I should sleep, I should dream, I should lose myself…

Too many people here. In the physical realm they call "reality," that is.

Well, there is none.

Except this.

The constant montage of images before my eyes, illusive, unfulfilling… and the occasional still, as of yet an unknown abyss.

To conclude, a piece called "Chasing the Dragon" by Epica.

"Chasing the Dragon" - Epica

Rest assured, the moron who mangled the most common word in the dictionary will be found and castrated.

I pray your voices will resonate.

Edit (2/10/09): House was cancelled yesterday, due to the presidential press conference. I sound like a retard.

Just tell me she's irresistible. Isn't she irresistible?

The second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles continues on Friday, February 13 at 8:00 pm on Fox. Don't miss it!