Adam > Recent Status Updates

I got a bit screwed with the Spotify audiobook time limit, since my library doesn't offer the bougie Graphic Audio version. I'm already lucky enough to have access to any audiobook, so I should be grateful, lol.
Anyway, I'm still tapped in. If I can help it I'll try to keep with Graphic Audio when I can but I may just swap over to the standard audiobook for the time being.

The forgery magic system is interesting...

Having a full cast for an audiobook, along with sound effects, is great. It also feels really special as a distinct in between of regular novels and film.

Holy holy holy. They got back together, but there were way too many creative differences. But then there was the Azerbaijan declaration of war against Armenia and their propaganda so the band submitted to Daron’s micromanagement just to get the songs out to protest.

Turkey really has some convincing parallels to Israel. Except unlike Israel America eventually acknowledged their genocide against the Armenians…

So, so interesting. This guy really is doing every single medium in genre he can get his hands on, he worked on all of the music for a theatrical performance of the story of Prometheus, another solo album which wasn’t as commercially successful but he didn’t seem bothered by that, an acoustic Armenian album with his dad which by the way is so beautiful and perfect given the story.

OK wow, Serge describes his solo endeavors after system of a down as very liberating and successful, as well as allowing him to truly spread his wings across genres in mediums when he took work in music scoring and alongside his own debut album elect the dead, his work in basic orchestration of his own songs when working with a Philharmonic Orchestra. Really interesting.

Wowowow. Serj was feeling more and more distant from the rock star culture of SOAD and wanted to be more of an artist, which makes sense ofc with his context, but after enduring 80 concerts for the mesmerize tour, he’d absentmindedly said “sure, we’ll talk about it later” in email when asked if he’d want to do more shows in 2006.

Chavo threatens lawsuit, serj forced to perform for hypno concerts. Betrayal

Serj experiments with other artists and makes more freeform music and is clearly more invested in poetry and political activism then Daron or the rest of the system of a down band for that matter.

Alongside a break up and disagreements over the creative vision of system of a down, serj says he wanted to “just take a short break.”

Chop Suey was named that because the original song name was Suicide, but unacceptable single title, and the song was chopped up into many edits of itself over time…

After the release of Toxicity, SOAD’s popularity surged and they became mainstream, with of course Choo Suey, Toxicity, and Aerials floating around on radio stations everywhere.

With the Iraq War, Serj was invested in political messaging.

There were a couple funny bits about Serj experimenting with drugs, one where he saw blood on his hands while at a concert and showed it to Daron, who said “you’re good bro you’re just tripping” but later said he also saw it bc he was high too so he was kinda saying that for Serj.

The other i can’t recall since it got more introspective right after that. Serj meditates and visits Armenia in like 1999…

The band had to play as opener for slayer, which apparently was as rough as one who knows the reputation of slayer fans would imagine. It sounds like, by the way Serj orders the story, opening for big concerts was the next step as an official band.

Okay, I backtracked a bit when going book to audiobook (since I didn’t use page match), but that’s honestly a good thing for refreshment’s sake.

Rick Ruben signed on SOAD back in the day when their most popular song was WAR from their Soil days, they’re officially a “professional band” now. Their popularity from their grungy angsty party-time Soil days provides momentum for a fanbase.

1.5x speed audiobook, read by yours truly, don't fail me now!

Them finding the food storage bunker was cathartic after how shit everything has been in this story leading up to it, so far.

Also, I’m a big fan of those exchanges between the father and son that go like:

“hey dad, when something happens, does this other thing also happen?”
“Yes.”
“And when this other thing happens, too?”
“Yes.”
“Then that means this thing?”
“Yes.”
“Okay.”

This really is like Fallout except with more character development and an actual nuclear winter. Everything is brutal and “shrouded in ash.” Everything about this world screams “bleak desolation.”

Endlessly dreary, lol.

Brother…

The audacity of these bitches, lol.

Imagine your little shitty sorceress Illuminati agrees to force the marriage and impregnation of a girl who’s like 16 and has been raped like 5 times and tortured for years. And given how much of Ciri’s struggle we’ve seen, it’s just so ridiculous.

Fuck these bitches bro. Except Triss, you’re alright.

DIKJSTRA

Oh, okay…

Holy smokes I’ve been completely wrong numbers in here for my updates wow, i’m on part two of the audiobook I found on YouTube.

I neglected to divide by two my progress in the second part, so I’ve been reporting totally off ( neglected to consider my progress through the second part as half of the book) 😭 .

Anyway, the three finally reunited (with much sacrifice)!!!

Wow the action is really heated, like Baptism of fire level. Unlike BoF though it’s a huge pace changer here.