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January 20, 2008 ~ A month goes by...
It's been almost a month since DT-X came back and we finally have our first submission. It's the second one from shapeLess and I hope you like it.
However, why isn't anyone making anything new and sending it in? After the many requests to bring the site back online you'd think more artists, new and old, would be sending in new creations but that hasn't happened. I don't get it...
December 12, 2007 ~ DT-X is back... but for how long?
Here we are again, back from the brink of destruction, so we'll see how long it lasts. I don't know how many times I've had to rescue this site but this will be the last time I'm sure. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks to those who sent me emails regarding the site, I appreciate the effort and concern.
August 23, 2007 ~ I'm engaged!
I finally proposed to my girlfriend on our 9 year anniversary. The plan is to get married same time next year on our 10 year anniversary so it all worked out. We waited so long cuz we didn't want to just get married for the sake of being married. She just finished school last year and for us to have a place and be struggling would have been a bad move. The shot of us on the right is from 2000 at the House of Blues in Hollywood when we drove 25 hours from Vancouver, BC to see Dream Theater play two nights. Anyway, that's the big news!
August 19, 2007 ~ Another huge update!
More new stuff for you guys including a truckload of NEW artists:
- AndJustice4All68 - new artist
- DavzDrummer - new artist
- DreamevolutionZ - new resident artist
- DreamevolutionZ - Root of All Dream
- Justin - new artist
- Marco - you know the story
- Shapeless - new artist
- Spiderman_00 - it's been a while
July 11, 2007 ~ Pretty large update!
I've got 26 new ones for y'all... Marco has spilled onto page 9... Roberth has 3 pages now... and Ytsewolf has sent in a collection after a long hiatus... along with a few odd submissions as well.
I'll only be offering 1600x1200 and widescreens now since computers automatically resize and stretch backgrounds... there's no point to offering the other ones.
Transformers was awesome. Live Free or Die Hard was awesome. I love movies!
June 17, 2007 ~ Is it too weird?
Well, as you can see, I've launched the Systematic Chaos version of Dream Theater Xtreme. There were so many images in the booklets that I didn't know what to do with them all so I came up with this. Are the colours too intense? I hope you guys like it.
Down to business...
We have a few new ones from the old veterans of the site. Marco, Dot Burgess, and Ytsewolf. We also have two new artists who have lost their cherry. Please welcome about Sean Feely and Bobby Simons to the family.
So what about the new album? As usual, it was worth the wait. Also, as usual, I didn't pick up on it on the first listen. It always takes me multiple listens over many weeks to finally get it. Having said that... I love it (as usual). I'll never understand why so many people feel like there always has to be a "best album" or a "best song". Everything they've done is my favourite but for different reasons but so many people are narrow-minded and need to have a best/worst validation to sleep at night. It's sad.
I really like Forsaken and The Ministry of Lost Souls. I noticed that James doesn't really have any high-range passages which is odd to me since he did so well with the uber-highness of the Score material. Overall, it's my favourite album along with all the others. ;)
May 11, 2007 ~ Systematic Chaos Video Clips
Special thanks to Szabi from Trial of Tears for sending me the high-quality .wmv that I couldn't get myself. I didn't want to post the crappy YouTube version. Also, with the hopes of not pissing off RR by hosting this, PLEASE visit the official page and view the video there FIRST before you download it from here. Thanks!
Another thanks to RoadRunner Records for doing a sweet-ass job of promoting Dream Theater. We've never seen this before and I hope it results in great success for both Dream Theater and RoadRunner Records.
A final thanks again to Ed Middlebrooks of EON Digital Solutions for hosting DT-X... I'm gonna get hammered for these videos so I hope he doesn't get mad.
April 22, 2007 ~ Systematic Chaos is COMING!
It's great to see what RoadRunner Records are doing for Dream Theater these days... I'm really looking forward to the special edition of Systematic Chaos and hearing a true 5.1 mix of Dream Theater stuff. I don't think there's been this much excitement for an upcoming release. Hopefully they'll be able to tour near me this time around, I haven't seen them since 2003.
I've posted Mike Portnoy's 2007 Birthday Video (CHANGE THE FILE EXTENSION TO .mp4, this is NOT a .zip file!) as well, he's allowing us to share it this time, so check it out for some brief audio snippets of the new album!
January 11, 2007 ~ Happy New Year! Happy Birthday Brian! (my cousin)
Nothing much going on around here these days, the submissions have really tailed off. I think it's cuz colorblind is mad cuz I haven't sent him his prize from the last contest yet cuz I keep procrastinating and he's non-violently protesting by not making any more. Dude, I'm really sorry I haven't done it yet, I still have no excuse and I feel like total sh*t about it. Every day I have off I tell myself to finish it but then end up doing something else. I'm so sorry.
I have the Mike Portnoy interview that he did on Eddie Trunk on the 8th, get it here. I also have the slowed-down snippets that allow you to clearly hear that there's something fishy going on, I won't say any more, I'm sure you know already. ;) Great interview, though, what a great job Mike has for himself there and congrats on all his and the bands' success... they're only getting bigger and they surely have the dedicated Dream Theater fan community to thank.
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