School Year Starting Logs: Train + Feast/Sorting!

[shnpc]

WHO: Everyone!
TONE: Anything!
RATING: PG through PG-13
WHEN: The day of September 2nd for the train, and at night for the feast!
WHERE: Hogwarts Express/Platform 9 3/4 and The Great Hall
WHAT: Gotta get back to Hogwarts! Back to witches and wizards and magical feasts! Students and teachers are finally heading back to school on the Hogwarts express, and with the new school year means sorting for the first years!
STATUS: Ongoing!
NOTE: There is a thread for the Train back to Hogwarts, and the Feast, with a subthread for the Sorting! First years can comment to be sorted, and everyone else can greet their new house mates/students!

Comments

[marshall_lee]

[He paused thoughtfully wondering how to put it into words exactly.]
Well...I think it's kind of an outdated term now really. It was used a lot in the 90's for bands that didn't really sound like anything else that was out at the time? That's what it always seemed like it would mean to me anyways.
When I think of alternative I think of stuff like Nirvana or Mudhoney. Personally I don't think there's really been many true alternative bands after 2001.

[moirailcompass]

[The guy really knew his stuff. Probably shouldn't be surprising what with him saying he loved music. Still, it was something Nepeta couldn't help but admire]

I see! I've heard of Nirvana but not Mudhoney. Do you know any of their songs? [She nodded at his guitar]

[marshall_lee]

[If only you knew Nepeta.]

They're a pretty old grunge band. They came out before Nirvana..

[He smiles and picks the guitar back up and begins to strum it]
I actually do...I can play "Blinding Sun"
[He settles in and begins to play and sing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-W6S9aBKnE