Hot Textiles: Inspiration and Techniques with Heat Tools
June 10th, 2008
Hot Textiles: Inspiration and Techniques with Heat Tools
Customer Review: A welcome addition to any textile artist’s bookshelf.
This is a comprehensive guide to using heat to alter your textile creations. The first section deals with tools and their safe use (essential in this context!) and the rest of the book suggests wonderful projects using all kinds of material, including a lot of recycled ones. The illustrations are an inspiration in themselves, and Kim’s style is delightfully conversational as well as clear. Well worth it’s cost.
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Aenima 
With its heavy-duty distortion, weighty rhythms, and cynical lyrics, Tool is a heavy metal band for the 1990s. Rather like Metallica circa …And Justice for All, the sound is focused heavily on texture, with vocals and guitars layered one atop the other, and heart-pounding drums underlying everything. There’s not a whole lot of variety on Tool’s second full-length album–most of the songs start off fairly low-key, kicking into high gear for the chorus, and repeat–but Maynard James Keenan’s distinctive voice, the prog-rock stylings over a heavy metal base, and a supremely unhealthy dose of vitriol make this the perfect album to bang your head to. –Genevieve Williams
Customer Review: Dense obtuse prog metal with a great clean sounding singer (no evil demon grunts)
What can I say, this album is a monster. This might take a bit more effort than most music to appreciate but it repays your time ten-fold. The obvious highlights are the title track, Hooker With A Penis and Eulogy. The first one has the singer wanting LA to be destroyed by natural disasters, and has a great opening were he lists all the things LA people fret about. Also the phrase “Learn to swim” has never been loaded with so much venom. Hooker With A Penis has him lashing out at people who say they’ve sold out, and he admits that they sold out years before we’d ever heard about them. Eulogy starts with bursts scratchy electronic noise over delicate drumming. When the song explodes about a minute in, the singer starts accusing someone famous with a big mouth of being a hypocrite when it comes time to practice what they preach. The only thing that mars this 77 minute album is that there are six pieces of filler. Strangely these aren’t weak songs, but mostly short sound experiments. I’ve no idea why they didn’t just keep these in the vaults as they break up the flow of the album (which might be the point?). On my MP3 version I’ve removed all of them to create a particularly brutal 66 minute album. The follow up album Lateralus doesn’t have any songs to rival the three mentioned above, but it has more to offer as an album, and it doesn’t have ANY filler.
Customer Review: Awesome
It seems every time i buy a tool album it doesn’t instantly hit me but then, over time, you listen to the album more and more and become obsessed with it. Aenima could be tools finest. Like all Tools albums this is packed full of very serious philosiphical messages and provocative ideas- this though doesn’t mean Tool dont have a sense of humor, the song Hooker with a penis and the album art will be enough crack a smile on your face. This album is amazing, buy it. 9/10
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