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WCDT 8-12 August 2011 (1986-1990) aka Method's birth week
musicalsoul:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Aug 2011, 15:11 ---It's hard to know whether to address your attack on Marten and the others or your attack on Jeph. But since you obviously refuse to believe it is even possible, and have even gone so far as to criticise the beliveability of developments that haven't yet occurred, then I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
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I'm not attacking Jeph...I'm just proving a point. Marten has a much better chance of succeeding because he is the main character in a comic. If we translated Marten's situation to the real world and he was a person that you knew, the last thing you would be wondering is how his friends will take it when he's famous. As a friend you would root for him, but deep down be very skeptical that anything other than a bar gig would happen. I only challenge Jeph to make this current story arc be plausible by having Marten really work at this for an extended period of time.
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You haven't proven anything here. You've stated an opinion. Those are two separate thing. As a friend to some people with serious musical aspirations, you're right, I would root for them. But, I have never been skeptical deep down. I've always been a believer of you can do anything you want as long as you put your mind to it. Maybe Marten's character wasn't as motivated before. But I'm under the impression he's getting some development. Maybe he's going to try harder to be motivated. And who's to say Jeph won't have Marten work hard over an extended period of time to reach his goals? As far as I know, none of us are psychics. We have no way of knowing what Jeph's plans are. For all we know, his plan might be to have Marten fail with music, but find his real passion along the way. Crazier things have happened.
wrwight:
I don't understand why Hannelore is getting some rep as a bad drummer, when a) her personality would allow her to be nothing less than excellent, and b) we have evidence that she was good even when she was just starting out, and all the other times I can recall her playing being mentioned by anyone except Hannelore herself, it was always positive, or at least never negative.
musicalsoul:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 09 Aug 2011, 18:37 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Aug 2011, 18:17 ---
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 09 Aug 2011, 18:11 ---If Marten didn't care about money then great, but he's shown no signs that he wouldn't like to be better off.
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To steal your words, with the information we have, he doesn't care about money.
He does care about having a crappy job he doesn't enjoy.
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If he made a million dollars a year, he'd be singing a different tune. The job is crappy because it doesn't pay well.
I've made my point, and we agree to disagree. I had hoped Marten would follow a safer path based on what I've seen from him. I guess we'll just see how it all plays out.
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.... I have absolutely no words to describe how ridiculous a statement that is. If he made a million dollars a year, he'd be singing a different tune?
A crappy job is a crappy job regardless of how much you get paid. My older sister is an elementary school teacher. She doesn't get paid that much, but SHE LOVES HER JOB!
At one point in time she was a business major in college, obviously she changed her mind about wanting to be in business. But I imagine if she hadn't changed her major she'd be doing something businessy, getting paid twice if not three times as much as what she makes now, but she'd be miserable, because she didn't really enjoy it. Happiness is not synonymous with more money.
musicalsoul:
--- Quote from: Akima on 10 Aug 2011, 02:47 ---Tonight's strip went right over my head and into the weeds. I googled "tool video" and even watched several videos by a band called Tool. Oh well... Can't win 'em all.
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Can't tell if you're being serious or not. On the off chance that you are, Tool is a band that's known for having really difficult mathematical type of music. They're awesome. Schism is a great song.
Far_Gone:
Pretty much assumed he was talking about the video for Sober. The thought of Hannelore moving like along with her wild eyed serious look cracked me up.
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