Static-X - Start a war - Released: 6/14/2005
I just bought it yesteday and have listened to it several times!
I think on a whole it's not quite as good as their previous albums, but this one has a lot more diversity. From heavier to their usual distinct "Evil Disco" (techno/metal) kind of of sound.
So, far "Just In Case" is really sticking with me, the drums are simple but cool, and it just gives me this feeling, and so I've listened to it over and over a few hundred times now..
Here's some track by track comments:
1. The Enemy - Classic Static-X, what else can I say? Great stuff.
2. I'm the One - All the things that give them their own style!
3. Start a War - Rocks, even with the "Knight Rider" sounding techno sound during the bridge! :)
4. Pieces - sweet, if you like Static-X style :)
5. Dirthouse - even groovier :) Has to be the grooviest song on the album.
6. Skinnyman - Nice opening riff and beat! - and at the end of it all!
7. Just In Case - From the opening, this song just seems to take hold, and so far stands out from the rest.
8. Set It Off - I'll do anything to get me off! --- YEAH! That rocks!
9. I Want to F******* Break It - It's probably just me, but I like culturaly mixed stuff! :)
10. Night Terrors - Why is it that radio always place the same old stuff from the same old bands, even though there's a lot of good new material! Like this song!
11. Otsego Amigo - wtf is Otsego? -- nice groove amigo! If this doesn't make you move something.. there's no hope!
12. My Damnation - Static-X just has their own style that everyone should be able to enjoy at least some of their songs!
13. Brainfog - really Techno! There's one small piece of this that sounds like music off the PC Game Command & Conquer!
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Microsoft, IBM Global Services, Texaco, Winner Communications (ESPN.com), and Bank of Oklahoma. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the past President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group, founder and past President of the
Tulsa SQL Server Group and
Tulsa Java Developers Group, past Vice-President and Director of Membership Services of the
Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group.
He has been the director/chairman of the
TulsaTechFest event since it's inception in 2006. He coordinated the first Tulsa Code Camp and then rebranded it two years in a row as
School of Dev!
He is the founder and director of
NEOTECHCouncil (NorthEast Oklahoma Technology Council).
He was a board member, Vice-President of the Speakers Bureau for
INETA NORAM from June 2007 to June 2009.
He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.
He was a Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET Developer from June 2007 - June 2009.
On June 22, 2009, he joined Microsoft as a ADC (Application Developer Consultant).