It's nice to know that Russell Crowe can, in fact, SING

[annathepiper]

I'm going to gush about having a new album from 30 Odd Foot of Grunts now. If you're not interested, under no circumstances should you --

Oh, you clicked! Well then.

Everybody in my immediate acquaintance already knows I'm a raving Russell Crowe fan. Most people in my immediate acquaintance also know I'm a fan of his band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. And y'all know I will also cheerfully admit that half of my affection of his band is strictly based on swooning over Mr. Crowe, but the other half is honest musical appreciation of his band.

I am very pleased to have had this not only upheld by the new album, but to have also been quite pleasantly stunned by some surprisingly melodic singing out of Mr. Crowe on this CD. The boy's been PRACTICING! I actually did two double-takes listening to this album when he demonstrated actual range (high notes! When did this man learn how to hit high notes? And GOOD ONES?!), and the abiilty to change keys ON PURPOSE. Wow. :)

Plus, I am charmed as hell that he put pictures of his COWS on the internal cover art. *chortle* Freggin' COWS. Only Russell Crowe would put COWS on the internal cover art of his album.

That said, I also really like the rest of the cover art and the whole "Other Ways of Speaking" theme that they did with it, with things written out in sign language symbols, Braille, and various scripts from various languages around the world for the song titles. The only thing I don't like about the cover art is the picture they used of Russell. Not one of the ones that makes me swoon. But oh well. ;) His singing actually makes up for it on this album; I'm stunned the man actually discovered another half octave of range. ;D

And, mostly for the amusement of mamishka, kathrynt, flashfire (well, he knows about this already but hey), shaylith, ssha (who also knows about this but I'm being thorough), and jessicac, there is a live take of "Folsom Prison Blues" at the very end of the album. This is the song they closed the Portland show with that we all attended, and which shocked Kathryn back into paying surprised and pleased attention. ;D That song alone is worth the price of admission; I'm happily remembering Portland all over again.

Well done, Russell! Nice to know he's been putting his time to good use being amazingly quiet over the last several months!

Comments

Color me six shades of jealous!

[shaylith.livejournal.com]

Where can *I* get a copy??? :)

~D

Re: Color me six shades of jealous!

[annathepiper]

In STORES! They're actually selling this album in actual stores. :) I got mine in the local Tower Records. It's also being sold online via Amazon.com and the Barnes and Noble web site as well; James said he got his in a local Borders. So just poke around anywhere and see if you can dig up a copy.

Tower had it filed under C for Crowe since the album's been released under the artist "Russell Crowe & 30 Odd Foot of Grunts"... but according to posts on Gruntland other places have been just sticking it under T for TOFOG. The local Tower had artist inserts for both "Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts" and "TOFOG", so it's probably anybody's guess how any given store would file it. ;) But it is, at least, in the Rock section!

Re: Color me six shades of jealous!

[shaylith.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness! Thanks for the info, Anna. ;) WHEE! *runs to find a copy of her own!*

~D

Re: Color me six shades of jealous!

[annathepiper]

You are most welcome. You must tell me your comments as soon as you can get a hold of a copy. :D

I am STILL giggling over the pictures of the cows. *LOL* Especially since James paged me on TM going "HI COW" when we started geeking about the album. I had to post up on Gruntland with assorted cow-related captions for those pictures. ;D

"HI COW!"

"Cows are my FRIENDS!"

"Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!"

"You cows can't get on this train! This is a people train! You cows have NO business on a people train! Because you're COWS."

"Moo moo, moooo. Moo moo, mooooo." (Greetings, cows of Earth! We come in peace.)

(A lot of cow mileage in Invader Zim and South Park, ain't there? ;) )

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

I was wondering when you'd write about this. ;-)

[annathepiper]

I've been too busy gushing up on Gruntland to post here yet. ;)

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

And a solid review it was.

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[annathepiper]

Why thank you. ^_^

Unrelated

[(Anonymous)]

As unrelated as this may be... I just wanted to say hi. I was doing a search today, trying to find a few lost souls from the world of Aether, perhaps in an attempt to recruit them for Eternity - Aether's Sylvan Spin-off MUSH, perhaps just because lately I've been feeling awfully nostalgic, particuarlaly tonight, but I happened across a page of Logs for a shudra lamb named Faanshi and some particular ones drew my eye, those whish included the figure of a Varati male, strong and dark, with eyes of smoldering charcoal. In a fit of being unable to sleep I read each and every one of them posted and I was nearly brought to tears. My throat even constricted when it reached its climax and I had to pause in my reading. It was a beautiful and terribly sad story. I even read past that, up til the final scene and her decision to leave. A truly brilliant character and a brilliant player.

Yes, I'm Mehul's player, and I've filled my share of other roles, a few of which are also featured in those logs... And then, also by pure chance, I happened across this web journal... don't ask me how I couldn't tell you and something just commanded me to make a post, to say hi, and to let you know you were still thought of and remembered for that immediately. It was so much fun, though every time I think about it I find myself praying for her to receive a happy ending.

Anyway... Perhaps now that I've done 'something' I'll be able to break this insomnia and catch some Z's.

Give me a mail sometime. WingNut380@aol.com.

Geridan
Mehul
Mohid
Enras
and more...

Re: Unrelated

[annathepiper]

I did just send you email, but I wanted to acknowledge this post to and go "Awww gosh". Let's see if it actually emails you. :) I'm very gratified to know my RP on Aether is so fondly remembered--it was mutual!