Skallen's List

- 2010-01-12 Since this is the first year I'll be doing a music list for the whole year, I can't do any comparisons, so just a regular list for this time. Next year I'll do a nice moving up/down list

1	Makino Yui	1379
2	YUI	1279
3	Ayreon	967
4	Yuki Kajiura	951
5	KOTOKO	866
6	Krypteria	848
7	Metallica	847
8	Therion	708
9	the brilliant green	584
10	Delain	579
11	Dido	555
12	Symphony X	483
13	Nobuo Uematsu	457
14	Blind Guardian	441
15	m.o.v.e	342
16	Ai Otsuka	333
17	Avantasia	316
18	Iced Earth	297
19	In Flames	287
20	Opeth	278
21	Howard Shore	277
22	Samael	271
23	Tommy heavenly6	267
24	Pharaoh	254
25	Yousei Teikoku	251
26	savage genius	238
27	Genesis	230
28	Demons & Wizards	224
29	Iron Maiden	223
30	Machinae Supremacy	222
31	Virgin Steele	216
32	Initial D	213
33	Choro Club Feat. Senoo	212
34	Nightwish	210
35	Rage	210
36	Nana Kitade	204
37	Tommy february6	199
38	Allen-Lande	191
39	Johnny Cash	190
40	Masara Nishida	187
41	Stream of Passion	182
42	Frank Zappa	179
43	Michiru Oshima	178
44	Toshihiko Sahashi	176
45	Xandria	171
46	Diablo Swing Orchestra	170
47	Demians	166
48	IOSYS	152
49	Amon Amarth	144
50	the pillows	143

Phew.... Hope this comes out correctly

YUI and Yui battling it out in the top this year, pretty much alone in the top, then a sharp decline in plays down to place 15 where it flattens out more.

Genres seems to be: J-Pop, Symphonic Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Soundtrack, Heavy Metal, Gothic Metal and J-Rock (in that order).

Some clear outsiders in my charts are Dido (only non-Japanese pop), Johnny Cash (country), Frank Zappa and Genesis.

On another note, been kind of a rewatch week att Skull HQ this last few weeks, I've seen all animes in this post and the last one before

 yuimakino    lists      

Skip Beat!, Victorian Romance Emma, Victorian Romance Emma: Second Act, Toradora!

N(yui) Poll

- 2009-05-13 Not sure if anyone gets the headline joke, it's suppose to be a joke anyway...

A new poll is up, this time about some of the most used tags on my blog. Last one confirmed what I always knew, the butler did it.

And about the yui in the title, I now have two Yui's on my top 10 most played artists (overall) on last fm:

1: Yui Makino 3,456 plays

9: YUI 1,000 plays

What's the odds that two Yui's would end up on my top 10? Not sure if its a really common name in Japan or what.

Other than j-pop I mostly listen to progressive or symphonic metal these days. Been looking around on spotify and some of my new finds includes Opeth, Krypteria and Amaseffer.

Oh, and just recently installed my wacom on my new computer, so maybe I'll draw something nice 'till next time , cya.

 poll       tagging   

Not Sick and Destroyed

- 2009-05-06 This time no-one was sick! Was watching metallica at the Globen this monday, and it was great. It was a new concert instead of the one they we're suppose to do march 8, but James Hetfield was sick so that one was cancelled.

Also bought a new game last week, Left 4 Dead. Haven't played that much but the new multiplayer mode with zombies vs living is really cool, even though I mostly just died and didn't understand anything in the beginning.

And of course, lots of WoW, our guild just killed Hodir in 25 man, and we have killed yogg-saron in 10 man. Here's a pic from that kill:



Full image and more at our guild website!

 music    gaming   

Real Drive, Maria Holic, Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Left 4 Dead

Music Alphabet

- 2009-03-07 A fun idea, one artist for each letter in the alphabet. Going by my plays on last.fm it wasn't very hard to find an artist i liked for each letter. Whats the most surprising artist pick?

A - Ayreon
B - Blind Guardian
C - Choro Club
D - Dido
E - Elf
F - Frank Zappa
G - Genesis
H - Hirano Aya
I - IOSYS
J - Johann Sebastian Bach
K - KOTOKO
L - Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
M - Machinae Supremacy
N - Nightwish
O - Opeth
P - Pagan's Mind
Q - Queens of the Stone Age
R - ROUND TABLE featuring Nino
S - Symphony X
T - The Brilliant Green
U - Uriah Heep
V - Virgin Steele
W - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
X - Xandria
Y - Yui Makino
Z - ZZ Top

The list is using my brand spanking new 'music' markup tag which makes automatic links to last.fm

 music    lists   

Blue Drop, Allison to Lillia, Special A, Maria-sama ga Miteru

The Man from Earth

Small things can be good too...

- 2008-06-04 I've done some small updates I've been thinking about doing for a long time. The comments are back! Yay, now I can talk with myself both in the shoutbox and in the comments! Also removed the big box on the frontpage. It was simply too much space for a few headlines. Now you will get right on the latest blog post (hello!). I've also reworked the sidebar a bit, now a small box with recent posts are there (as a replacement for the missing headlines box above the blog), and it moves! If you haven't had time to vote in the poll (you really should) the poll goes on top, but if you already voted, the headlines goes first instead. Also changed a few things in the coding, but mostly non-visible stuff.

Now, for the second time in history, a post with an image!



Two Yui Makino albums fresh from japan!
The picture quality is not the greatest, taken with my old S700i.


It's back

      php    web    牧野由依   

True Tears, KimiKiss Pure Rouge, Shakugan no Shana II

Crossroads of Twilight

Big Buck Bunny

nothing!

Music charts and stats

- 2007-11-22 Today marks my third month using last.fm for music aggregation. And today I've also scrobbled my 10000th song! That is equivalent to around 110 songs per day. Not so surprising since I listen a lot both at work and home.

My top artists for these last three months:

	Artist	Plays
1	Makino Yui	655
2	Yuki Kajiura	465
3	the brilliant green	381
4	Tommy february6	351
5	Demons & Wizards	333
6	Tommy heavenly6	293
7	Dido	271
8	In Flames	227
9	Nightwish	216
10	Iced Earth	210

Summary: Although Yui Makino (i guess this is the correct way to write it) is dominating in the top, the brilliant green, Tommy Heavenly6 and Tommy February6 all features Tomoko Kawase, so she is at 1025 plays if they would be added together .

Mostly J-Pop and Metal, with some regular pop (dido) in between. But this top ten is just ~30% of my total plays check my last.fm page for more details.

Was thinking of throwing in a picture in a post (would be the first!) but it stills seems like a big step... A table is fine too, haven't used one of those either, so something new at least!

November is comming to an end, and that means this months highscore lists will soon be finalized and forever remembered! Hurry up and get a fat score and get your name on the list!

Working on an xmas design but right now it looks more like USA propaganda, blue, white, red and some stars...

 statistics    music   

Slayers, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Die Hard 4.0, The Return of the King

Skallen.net Version 3!

- 2007-09-17 Hi!

A new look! W00t! Been talking about it for like forever, who would have thought it was true? Tried to make it a bit "2.0-ish" and not as tight and crowded as my last design.

Here's a small changelog:

» New Design
Duh, kinda obvious right?

» New themes
Yes, the new design comes with three themes right from the start, and maybe even more later. The themes can be selected from the small colored boxes in the top right.

» Updated info
Some info updated about me and about the site.

» Games on the site
Yes, the games are finally integrated into the site, and with working highscores! Also the old game links redirects here.

» My music
A new sidebar on the blog page, where some of the music I listen to shows up.

Some more stuff to probably, but that is the major parts I think. Enjoy!


****EDIT****
The RSS-feed is dead at the moment, will fix it soon.

 music    design    skallen    upgrade    game    web   

Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho, Nodame Cantabile, Victorian Romance Emma, Victorian Romance Emma: Second Act, Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo

The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn