Far away in a bygone age...

Short post tonight, because there's very little to write about.

Work went okay; it was extremely quiet again and the duty manager was under pressure to hit certain targets for the day but because he's the soundest manager in the store he didn't rack the pressure onto us, making it clear what those in the upper echelons were expecting but not making it seem like a matter of life-or-death. In the end we did as well as can be expected given the small flow of customers. Of the customers I dealt with, all were friendly so there was nothing actively bad about the day at work, I just don't like having nothing to do. I ended up spending a reasonable amount of time in the stockroom with Matt discussing different metal bands and sub-genres. On a related note I heard KoЯn's new song this morning (yeah, backwards R!). I have never been a massive fan of them, quite liking some of their songs and completely hating many others. This new song marking their comeback is an atrocity. It's barely listenable, let alone 'not very good'.

After work we went to the new house briefly, to sort out more things, and after that I spent the evening writing and programming music for Milk Paton. I finished a full version of the opening music, marking the first completed track. I'm really pleased with the outcome and in my head at least it fits in quite well with the intended scene. Most importantly it gained the approval of the overlord of the film; Drew.

Song of the day is Far Away by Power Quest, an English power metal band. This band, along with a french band called Fairyland, are what got me into metal a few years ago. It's an incredible song from their first album. The intro especially is still like nothing else I've heard.