Break Of Day is one of those albums that every time I come across it I don’t real­ize who the artist is, but I always think the songs sound fan­tas­tic. Then I’ll check my iTunes and real­ize that once again, it’s a song from Break Of Day. Then I say to myself “I really have to review this album! It’s so good!”

Then another month passes, and no review has been writ­ten, at least not by my own hands. Well I’m chang­ing that today, because I ended up lis­ten­ing to the entire album from start to finish and I am not totally in love with this album.

I hap­pened to get some tick­ets to Evil Dead The Musi­cal for last Saturday…that is, the Sat­ur­day that just passed. We were off to the side, and just out­side the “splatter zone”. With a sur­pris­ingly small amount of props (though the ax, the 12 gauge, the chain­saw and the Necro­nom­i­con all make their appear­ances) and almost child­ishly sim­plis­tic sets, Evil Dead The Musi­cal blew me out of the water with wit, energy, and so much homage that it almost hurts.

I’m almost at a loss for words to describe this stage per­for­mance. Fan­tas­tic, B, Sparse, Elec­tri­fy­ing, Camp, Enter­tain­ing, Rude, and I’m sure I could think of more were I will­ing to ded­i­cate more time towards the effort. Suf­fice it to say, it’s a great night out and it’s prob­a­bly the best 40 dol­lars (for two tick­ets) that I’ve ever spent.

I’ve found myself using online music sources when I’m not around my home com­puter or too lazy to plug in my iPod. I’ve found myself going between two dif­fer­ent pro­grams: Last.fm and Deezer.com.

Both have pros and cons, and I felt that it’d make a good arti­cle to com­pare my find­ings and con­trast the two ser­vices. I’m not going to gives scores, because com­par­isons like this are sub­jec­tive. I’ll let the read­ers come to their own conclusions.

I have to start by saying that I’m not a huge Cold­play fan. Short of some of their more well-​known songs (Green Eyes, Yellow, Clocks) I’ve never been much of a fan; a fact my girl­friend has never quite under­stood why. Cold­play as a rule, have never really done it for me; their music tends to border on the hyper-​sensitive, and though I like sen­si­tive music, theirs was a brand I just couldn’t stand behind.

Then they came out with Viva la Vida.