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tviyh wrote:phil, are you using that picture to contribute to the "devils horns" hand gesture conversation, or are you saying that is something you don't get? cuz i don't really get it. dude is like considered so important in the history of metal, yet he's nearly as much of an elf as geddy lee...

Geddy Lee went to my high school. Rick Emmett went to the same music college prgram as I. I've never met either.


Rush was/is great.
Triumph....meh.


(First time I've used "meh". ...even though I really don't get it.... and yeah, I get it's from LOTR, but, I still don't "get" it.)


And Dio important to metal??? Does that mean Ripper was important too?

Leaf wrote:Thanks for the thoughts... I get tired or re-reading my whining though... it kind of looks hypocrytical!

Okay, maybe you're sick of it, but there a great book that explains the mental state of depression written by a psychologist who went through it herself (though it her case it was severe manic depression). It's called An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison.

It's an interesting read even if you don't know anyone with depression. She'd go on mad spending sprees of thousands of dollars, then collapse in her bed and feel physically unable to move.

i don't get why the greatest rapper ever had to die yesterday.

the Jazz wrote:I don't get...

I'm with Jazz on this one. They're very cool Bort, but how does a robot head (for instance) communicate the idea of shock? Some of them work good though, like the wink and the evil. And I don't mind the replacement ones either (eg. love replacing idea).

Leaf wrote: (First time I've used "meh". ...even though I really don't get it.... and yeah, I get it's from LOTR, but, I still don't "get" it.)

I think it's from the Simpsons, if not life in general.

jute gyte wrote:i don't get why the greatest rapper ever had to die yesterday.

Eminem is dead?

jute gyte wrote:i don't get why the greatest rapper ever had to die yesterday.

Who's the greatest rapper ever?

Generic wrote: Who's the greatest rapper ever?

ol' dirty bastard, who died yesterday in the studio working on his new album.
EDIT: he's my vote for 'greatest rapper ever', anyway.

Whew...for a minute I thought they got Will Smith.

With regard to Dio: Ambivalence. He started doing it because his gypsy mother did it. I love Dio, as a unique and charming character.

Hey, generic, what irony?

Jute Gyte, etc. Yes. ODB. It's too bad.

Not "irony." That was a misuse on my part. No, it's just a coincidence. A notable coincidence.

Whenever I, or anyone I know, has used this symbol, it generally seems to mean "I love Rock".... rather than I love you, or "satan".

This may not be the intention, but it's how it's turned out...

I LOVE ROCK.


Say it loud.

Freebird.

Beanie Babies (So glad THAT fad seems to be in the throes of death) or rather-- the people who thought it was "cool" to brag on forking out a coupla hundred bucks for one...And WHO, praytell, could LIVE w/o the Princess Diana "tribute" beanie. I SO... don't get that.
OR ressurecting the
"Care Bears" and/or anything that rougly translates to, "Oooh this worked as a *regular* show, lets make em ALL babies and launch a marketing campaign."

People getting punched out in parking lots over "Tickle Me Elmo" (Thinking of that one cuz--Tis the Season, once again.... Oooh yeah baby-- SHOW me that Christmas Spirit.)

Cars and itty bitty pickups slung so low they scrape speed bumps
( ...cruel or not- I laughed my ass off when one of those tripped out, over modified, underhung cars took out its front accessory lights pulling into a parking lot. And all but rollin again when another one got the frame bent, driving it on home from "Bad Boyz Car Dreams" to their double wide. One of the higher speedbumps close to their driveway and --That was ALL, folks. .)

That and those HUGE fekkin "scoops" that are supposed to be "aerodynamically correct". The itty bitty tires that look like they belong on matchbox cars. The freakin HUGE appliques on the back windshields proclaiming the car modifier business that "created" the monstrosity... etc, etc, etc.

You forgot that huge, stupid exaust that does nothing but make the car sound louder. Then to be cool, the guy driving (probably named "Jaysunn" and wearing a slightly skewed baseball hat) drives around in second gear to make it really loud.
Dorks all.

True, dat. Gotta love those

Which reminds me of a conversation I overheard...

Bear in mind, these were white folks, puttin on the I got rhythm gestures, while talking over the gangsta rap backbeat throbbin from their 250 watt bass-boosted car speakers. Driving something on the order of the aforementioned "modified" cars. (I think it used to be a Nissan.)
Postures slouched beneath the weight of their jangle gold chains. Gold ingots marked with troy weights hanging from some and others with names and words spelled out in chunky gold. All decked out in their best "rappa" duds. One of them had a gold front tooth (and was saving up to get others done).

(Talkin about another girl they knew)
" Yo, she think she a playa. She just a poser. Th'owin it on like she all goth punk and shit-- What UP wit dat, yo? "

"Word, homey..."

Have I mentioned this? I Just Don't Get the hype around They Might Be Giants. Now I went and saw them in 2002, I think it must've been, and they put on a rockin' live show. I really liked the show. But I am not impressed by their music.. I mean so much of it is just novelty, and I just can't get past that. I guess that sincere can be bad, too, or worse--They Might Be Giants is fun to listen to, but I'm not so hip on, say, Matchbox Twenty, to not even evoke so many cookiecutter emo bands or, worse, Papa Roach and whatever. But TMBG has so many albums, and I don't know why people (nerds especially) love them so much. JB once said, and I'm inclined to agree, that they're for folks that are too cool for Weird Al but not cool enough for Ween. Basically.

edit: Lemme point out that I don't understand adulation about TMBG. It's notable (cf. other adulations about things that I don't find adulationworthy) because they have a big ol' fanbase, and their music is largely (invariably?) novelty or not far from. Even Tori Amos fans I can understand, though I'm not personally huge on her, but TMBG? Beck's lyrics don't make any sense but I declare them better than TMBG's, pound for pound.

I only like a relatively small portion of TMBG's stuff, but what I like, I love. It <i>is</i> novelty, but it's not just that. It's good songwriting, performed with unconventional sounds. The stuff I'm referring to is from "Flood" and "NO!"--yeah that's right, the little kids' one. Those two albums are incredibly good. Some songs, admittedly, are little more than gimmick (miminum WAGE!!!), and others are just silly pop songs disguised as weird ones. But there are quite a few gems on both of those albums, and they definitely transcend the gimmicky style in which they're played.

Mogosagatai wrote:I only like a relatively small portion of TMBG's stuff, but what I like, I love. It <i>is</i> novelty, but it's not just that. It's good songwriting, performed with unconventional sounds. The stuff I'm referring to is from "Flood" and "NO!"--yeah that's right, the little kids' one. Those two albums are incredibly good. Some songs, admittedly, are little more than gimmick (miminum WAGE!!!), and others are just silly pop songs disguised as weird ones. But there are quite a few gems on both of those albums, and they definitely transcend the gimmicky style in which they're played.

Yeah, I agree, but I just get sick of what seems to be really good songwriting, etc. be wasted--and I wouldn't hesitate to say that much of it is wasted--on gimmick. I mean if Novox the Robot had a significant fanbase I'd say the same thing: I really like the music, but get rid of the fucking robot voice. Kompressor I can stand in small doses, and TMBG I can stand in much larger doses, but would it kill them to make a non-quirky record? Bleh, I guess without that they'd just be a standard traditional good band, but there's nothing wrong with that, while I can find plenty fault with the current jibe they're passing.

I would take Kompressor off that list, actually. He makes a unique sound. Doing it differently would reduce the quality of the listening experience. I also think he's playing it 'straight' - it's not a gimmick, it's the way he wants to express those songs.

I agree about Novox and have previously moaned about the praising of TMBG in this very messageboard.

j$

Leaf wrote:I second that motion. Also... what's with non-christians celebrating christmas?

we used to have a Jehova Witless working here... anti-christmas, anti-gift giving, but gladly took a christmas bonus... not a production bonus, not a tenure bonus, a christmas bonus. Now, I know that this was unpopluar with a lot of people, of whose business it really was not, but I still never got, or do get his logic on that one.

Our family is not a religious one, but I still educate my kids on two things: what Christmas was supposed to be about, and how we use it as an opportunity to celebrate family and time together, and ripping paper to see what I gave them money to buy me....

<a href="http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/200 ... cle_01.htm" target="_blank">Why Jehovah's Witnesses choose not to celebrate Christmas</a>.

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