Phwoar.  I just heard the most insane mix of Evanescence’s Hello on DI.fm Vocal Trance.  The song in itself is pretty haunt­ing, so it did lend itself to a genre which is tra­di­tion­ally heavy on high reverb times, but I was more impressed by the fact that it didn’t just SUCK.  Look at the atroc­ity which is the Radio Edit of My Immor­tal! I paid for their album, Fallen, which appar­ently enti­tles me to a free down­load of the “Band Ver­sion” (as they insist on call­ing it… I’d go for “Mass-Audiences-are-Stupid™ ver­sion”, instead — but then, I prob­a­bly don’t work in mar­ket­ing for a rea­son), which I have declined.

I’m still not over how much the radio edit of that track sucked. Bleh! Any­way. The vocal trance ver­sion of Hello was seri­ously sweet, espe­cially after you con­sider it wasn’t done in-house — that is, with­out access to orig­i­nal tracks and other such use­ful things. So yeah. That’s my ran­dom­ness for the day over ;)

What else? Oh. Saw Dawn of the Dead last night with Ben and Tori — it was kind of like 28 Days Later, only prob­a­bly pro­duced on a much higher bud­get (28 Days Later was a film grant pro­duc­tion, but it didn’t really show, aside from the fact that it was shot on dig­i­tal rather than telecine — even then, they claim it was a delib­er­ate styl­is­tic deci­sion rather than the result of any bud­get con­straints). Oh, and it was more gory and less sus­pense­ful (if that is a word — if not, it is now) than 28 Days Later… that said, it was hilar­i­ous at times, although whether this is an inher­ent attribute of the film itself, or sim­ply a by-product of the audi­ence and com­pany I saw it in is some­thing which I’ll leave for some­one else to decide!