Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIa: Beyond Blogosphere. (Read 220407 times)

McTaggart · « **Reply #1900 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 09:34 »

But you didn't have a very good team to watch. Better than ours, but still pretty disappointing.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1901 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 10:32 »

I can't wait for the US football season to really start again. Even if it leads to sleepless nights. Go Patriots!

I have built scaffolding today. Outside our house. The joys of home-ownership. Oh well ... the place needs to be painted. It used to belong to a DIY guy who was very, very bad at his chosen 'hobby' (so much so that we spent a year in mortal danger because of his blundering) so the paintjob is in desperate need of a touch up. But being of the ground ... yikes.

Also: To the poor fellow and his iffy heart ... get well soon.

JD · « **Reply #1902 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 20:56 »

I went to the Saanich fair today. Saw a kid with a faded 3 wolf moon shirt. Also a lady with a mullet.

Canada is awesome.

Spluff · « **Reply #1903 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 23:26 »

What's the deal with cricket anyway? The only more boring sport in existence is baseball.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1904 on:** 07 Sep 2009, 23:33 »

At least in baseball you can watch the occasional mascot brawl. Or fan take out a mascot with a *gasp* baseball bat.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #1905 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 01:36 »

Today at work was going to be a bit crazy because our directors are entertaining big multi-million dollar clients from the US for the other side of the business (which is slot machines). I was all set for another day of rushing to and fro looking after everyone until the directors came in and said:
"Oh hey, so we have a half day cruise booked on a private yacht on Sydney Harbour today. Fully catered, with lots of alcohol, it's a lovely day, beautiful scenery, the skipper's a great guy."

Big deal, we all think. Lucky you.

"But unfortunately we're running on a really tight schedule and we won't be able to leave the office today. Instead 12 of you will be going out on the yacht."

Names went in a hat.

I was picked.

Best day at work ever.

Ptommydski · « **Reply #1906 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 01:40 »

What about T-Pain?

Lunchbox · « **Reply #1907 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 01:46 »

Believe me when I say 'I'm on a boat' was paraphrased at least fifty times in the course of one long afternoon.
Then for the half hour we had left at work when we got back, we sent the video to everyone who didn't get to go and drunkenly congratulated ourselves on how awesome we were.

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #1908 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 02:43 »

Just found out one of my ex-girlfriends passed away last night. Not exactly the best thing to learn in the middle of a shift, had to lock myself in the disabled toilets for a bit. I'm not sure how to react. On one hand I grew quite distant from her in high school, on the other she's the first friend I've had pass away. The fact she was my age and I knew her quite well for a while has just really thrown me, I guess.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1909 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 05:03 »

Hey Blog Thread,

What is worse, a neckbeard or a horseshoe mustache? Don't worry, I am not growing either- the fact that I am not much of a man precludes it even if I wanted to- but I just saw a dude with a horseshoe and it set me to thinkin'.

So I have been away for a little while, it would seem. This is happening all too often lately. I am sorry Blog Thread, my job has basically caught on to the sheer amount of fuck-all I do at work and basically set things up so that doesn't happen as much

McTaggart · « **Reply #1910 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 05:17 »

Right now on TV two of the five (four actually because I've written off channel seven) free to air channels are showing shows where some cheap comedian/personality counts down the top ten or fifteen of some inane category. This is probably the cheapest TV to make and it really, really shows. It also shows how little people care about what they watch that the first one of these rated high enough for a clone of it to appear on the other channel.

I guess I could watch foxtel, but the only thing worth watching there is the rugby once every week or so. I hope they don't wonder why people pirate tv shows so much.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1911 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 05:54 »

Oh no Jens maybe she has Reefer Madness you need to do something.

Tommy, in TV's defense (I am more playing devil's advocate here than anything), it is going somewhat of a renaissance, at least in some quarters. Although the vast, vast majority of what comes out of the box is still brain-killing bullshit of the highest order I think that the best of what TV has to offer over the past few years (Deadwood, Arrested Development, Mad Men, The Wire, The Sopranos, The Shield, 30 Rock, Rome, Breaking Bad etc.) is basically better than anything the medium had before it.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1912 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 05:59 »

Hey tommy, you like music, right?

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #1913 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 06:13 »

It being better now only applies to US TV though (and even that requires selectively forgetting Twin Peaks, Homicide and a lot of others). Anything Dennis Potter ever made overshadows everything you mentioned by a mile (with the exception of The Wire), and the same goes for Chris Morris. And then there's Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom, Brass Eye, The Armando Iannucci Shows... The problem with TV is that you don't really select what you can access, you just get it all piped in. My bookshelves have a much higher good to shite ratio because I select what books are on there, not because books are inherently superior. I'll take The Singing Detective over The Da Vinci Code any day.

Quote from: Thomas Edison on 08 Sep 2009, 02:43

Just found out one of my ex-girlfriends passed away last night. Not exactly the best thing to learn in the middle of a shift, had to lock myself in the disabled toilets for a bit. I'm not sure how to react. On one hand I grew quite distant from her in high school, on the other she's the first friend I've had pass away. The fact she was my age and I knew her quite well for a while has just really thrown me, I guess.

It will probably take a while to get your head round, and it might even be stranger if you drifted apart. Had to go to my friend's funeral yesterday and one friend was saying it was hard to grasp for him since he moved to London a while back and so wasn't in the places he's normally see the guy, his sudden absence was distant from his daily life. Still seems a bit unreal to me, although the funeral helped it sink in.

iamiam · « **Reply #1914 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 06:43 »

Quote from: Jeans on 08 Sep 2009, 05:50

Also Mixtape Girl was super excited when I gave her the mixtape today but she seemed sort of distant again, and she kind of avoided me the rest of the day? Hell I dunno. She's acting so weird! Maybe she is smoking The Pot.

jens, it might just be in your head. or maybe she actually has a crush on you? when i like someone i can sometimes definitely come across as kind of a jerk because i get really shy and nervous around them so then i just avoid talking to them altogether. i also get scared that if i try and hang around them too much my crush will then be super obvious so i flee instead. i am sure i am not the only person in the world to get shy around a person they like so she could be the same way? as long as she is still responsive when you talk to her, and seems to enjoy your company, i wouldn't worry about it.

or again... you could just be reading too much into things and maybe she didn't actually mean to be distant at all?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1915 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 07:25 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 08 Sep 2009, 06:30

This is one of those rhetorical questions, no?

Are you going to compare music with television? There's some pretty obvious differences.

Well of course there are. I'd appreciate it if you pointed out the relevant ones, though! (no sarcasm, promise)

valley_parade · « **Reply #1916 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 07:57 »

Quote from: Hat on 06 Sep 2009, 13:29

I'm just saying because you might exclusively hang out with people who like Soccer but in Australia that's about as many people as you know all altogether and we do have two completely different games called Rugby that we're quite obsessed with so there's a need for a bit of disambiguation in the taxonomy.

You said "scored a try". I WAS CONFUSED ALRIGHT.

Johnny C · « **Reply #1917 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 10:12 »

What's the TV equivalent of Brokencyde?

ackblom12 · « **Reply #1918 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 10:28 »

My Super Sweet 16?

Christophe · « **Reply #1919 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 10:30 »

Teen Cribs.

All the voyeuristic experience of going through someone's home, none of the celebrity to care about.

Lines · « **Reply #1920 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 13:29 »

I don't know what kind of construction is going on, but it sounds like a big robot is stomping around on the golf course that's next to my house. It's this loud whirr-BAM-whirr-BAM and if this were a sci-fi movie, I'd be kind of freaked out right now!

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #1921 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 15:08 »

Maybe it is a sci-fi movie and you should be freaked out right now.

Lines · « **Reply #1922 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 15:24 »

It stopped. I'm still alive and my house is still intact, so maybe an Autobot or even bacteria saved the day.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1923 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 17:09 »

Blaggy,

I went and visited my grandparents and saw my mother for the first time in several months. The Nice One came along, not the Scary One so it was good times. We made terrible jokes. I made a Holocaust joke and told her about Attack Attack.

Then when I was driving home the door to my car flew open and I managed to pull it back just before a passing car took it off. I spent the rest of the ride home holding the door shut with one hand and steering with the other. As harsh as this reality is, I'm still laughing.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #1924 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 18:17 »

So every year, my family and myself go to this church convention for 4 days and I miss two days of school because of it but I don't complain because I know it means a lot to them for me to go to it. But this year, I want to skip a single day of it. On Thursday, I have 4 tests and a small project due, the first rehearsal for our competition show and Improv Olympics that night, which I don't feel like explaining.
So I ask my mother about skipping the first day and going up on the second day with my best friend's parents and staying for the rest of the time.
BUT NO. Even after going to this thing every year for my entire life and not complaining in the slightest and never being able to get perfect attendance for the whole school year, I cannot skip a single day of it this year.
What.
The.
Fuck.
I've told her how I feel about her religion and how I don't agree with it in the slightest but still, she tries to force her views on me because, "she feels it would be the best thing for my soul."
What the fuck is a soul, anyway?

i am so god damn pissed right now. a;lsdkjfal;sdkjfao;isdfjalskdjfalskdfjalsdkfjalskfuck yooooooou.

KvP · « **Reply #1925 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 18:21 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 08 Sep 2009, 10:12

What's the TV equivalent of Brokencyde?

Yayniall · « **Reply #1926 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:01 »

Hey blog thread.
I have a new avatar.
That is all.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #1927 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:12 »

So, I'm in a piano rock band, but the other two members are undergrads, so they were away for the summer. We had our first rehearsal of the semester, and it was sweet. We've barely lost a step over the past couple of months. I've also been practicing on my own trying to get back into shape, but this is the first time I've played electric bass in months. We've got a gig on November 4th, but I really hope we can get another one before then, because I suspect we're all going to get really bored if we just practice until then.

I also find out how I did on the prelim tomorrow. I'm really nervous because I don't think I passed. We'll see.

Yayniall · « **Reply #1928 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:21 »

Does a piano rock band mean a rock band that has a piano in it or are all the instruments pianos?

WriterofAllWrongs · « **Reply #1929 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:23 »

It is right there in the post.

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 08 Sep 2009, 19:12

So, I'm in a piano rock band, but the other two members are undergrads, so they were away for the summer. We had our first rehearsal of the semester, and it was sweet. We've barely lost a step over the past couple of months. I've also been practicing on my own trying to get back into shape, but this is the first time I've played electric bass in months.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #1930 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:25 »

It is lead by a piano. I cannot play the piano despite trying to in my lessons required for undergrad. Think Ben Folds.

Yayniall · « **Reply #1931 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:30 »

A band with three pianos would be sweet though.
Especially if they each decreased in size and were stacked one upon another.

WriterofAllWrongs · « **Reply #1932 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:36 »

Oh man, Yes is the band for you. Rick Wakeman is basically the epitome of what you just said.

EDIT: I drove with no one in the car for the first time today! It was nice!

Scarychips · « **Reply #1933 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:39 »

Depeche Mode used to be like that no? Like only three synths and the guy who sings. Sorry if I'm mistaken.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #1934 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 19:39 »

John Medeski also has a pretty sweet setup.

JD · « **Reply #1935 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 20:57 »

Quote from: WriterofAllWrongs on 08 Sep 2009, 19:36

I drove with no one in the car for the first time today! It was nice!

You live an exciting life.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #1936 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 21:12 »

Who the fuck decided that it was a good idea to do a rigorous treatment of quantum electrodynamics at 9am? I'm totally riding my motorcycle to school/work (it's the same place! pretty much) to make up for the suffering. Also, I am going to try to witness a rehearsal of the chamber orchestra because I might join. I probably won't, but there's this perfect* girl who really wants me to join.

*She must secretly kill kittens, because nobody's perfect.

Alex C · « **Reply #1937 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 21:15 »

Perhaps she just has poor to middling table manners.

WriterofAllWrongs · « **Reply #1938 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 21:19 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 08 Sep 2009, 20:57

Quote from: WriterofAllWrongs on 08 Sep 2009, 19:36
I drove with no one in the car for the first time today! It was nice!

You live an exciting life.

I only got my permit three months ago, and have had to deal with my mother holding onto the car's frame and pressing an imaginary brake when I go into a turn at 10 miles per hour and her yelling at me when I try to drive in traffic. This was refreshing and assured my mother that I have the chops to drive on my own without killing anyone. So yeah, it is pretty exciting.

jerk

phooey · « **Reply #1939 on:** 08 Sep 2009, 21:29 »

Quote from: phooey on 06 Sep 2009, 11:48

Don't sweat it, she probably has caveman breath or has really bad table manners or something.

Quote from: Alex C on 08 Sep 2009, 21:15

Perhaps she just has poor to middling table manners.

...sincerest form of flattery, etc. etc.

snalin · « **Reply #1940 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 00:50 »

Quote from: J-cob9000 on 08 Sep 2009, 18:17

Improv Olympics

AWESOME

I've started playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup again, and there's a new version, 5.1 (my old was 4.5). There's a new race and class, some extra functionalities (more stuff is clickable) and it's a lot of fun. I also learned that there's a way to play online, and tournaments and shit. Anoyone knows how that works?

SirJuggles · « **Reply #1941 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 01:43 »

Oh Snalin. Oh Snalin. School starts next week for me. Why would you tell me something like that? Why?

allison · « **Reply #1942 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 06:41 »

First day back on campus. I'm really excited to get back to school. Also, the Toronto International Film Festival is on, so I am going goddamn star spotting.

Hat · « **Reply #1943 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 06:50 »

I am currently staying awake worrying about whether or not I am a douchebag and I guess if I was a douchebag I wouldn't be worried about being a douchebag but I'm pretty sure I do some serious douchebag stuff but nobody seems to mind that much so either I have completely wack standards of douchebaggery or my friends think I am so precious that if they call me on it I will fall to pieces (to be fair this part would probably wind up being true)

I would like to see how my behaviour looks through the eyes of someone else but I don't know if that is really possible without the help of tacky magical realism plot devices.

Also new record for excessive use of the term "douchebag" on this forum? Someone check that for me (previous record holder would probably be me anyway)

Basically I may or may not have done douchbaggy things lately and it has turned me into a nervous wreck and I'm losing my shit instead of sleeping and doing the uni work I should doing because I'm ultimately pretty shit at life.

jhocking · « **Reply #1944 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 06:53 »

Stop worrying, you definitely are a douchebag.

Hat · « **Reply #1945 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 06:53 »

Do you think we can get a doctor to medically certify that so I can be objectively sure and look at the certificate when I am uncertain?

Jace · « **Reply #1946 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 06:56 »

Quote from: J-cob9000 on 08 Sep 2009, 18:17

religion

Just make a scene. Make an absolute scene and you'll never ever have to go again because you embarrassed her so bad. You might get grounded and things might be bad for a bit, but do it. Make a fuckin scene.

Reed · « **Reply #1947 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 06:57 »

So for my birthday my dad was going to buy me plane tickets to fly out to San Francisco, where I could see him and a bunch of other family I haven't seen in 2+ years, as well as buy me tickets to the Treasure Island Music Festival (Here is an abbreviated list of the performances on the day I wanted to go: Flaming Lips, Decemberists, Grizzly Bear, Walkmen, Beirut). The problem? I'm too poor to afford a fucking free vacation! So I just had to cancel this trip that I have been really excited about for the past month or so. Considering that I haven't taken a vacation in the 2.5 years I have been in grad school I think I might just crack.

Also, I'm running a total of 4 hours of sleep in 48 hours! The amount of caffeine required to keep me going through my one class and the rest of the day may or may not cause massive strain on my heart.

Hat · « **Reply #1948 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 07:01 »

Quote from: Reed on 09 Sep 2009, 06:57

Treasure Island Music Festival

Quote

Flaming Lips, Decemberists, Grizzly Bear, Walkmen, Beirut

Only one of those bands has a song about pirates that I know of

Hat · « **Reply #1949 on:** 09 Sep 2009, 07:06 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 08 Sep 2009, 08:58

With television, the viewer tends to be passive in a manner which makes it difficult to accomplish anything else whilst it's being watched. Music can serve as a background or companion to all manner of activities and so serves to be less dictatorial and invasive as a form of media.

I'd just like to point out in defence of TV that this is entirely personal opinion and not actual an objective fact since I study while watching TV all the time but cannot really do anything while listening to music except maybe cook or eat food or drive and even then I am not really listening to the music that well and I have listened to whole albums and completely forgotten what they sound like an hour later because I was surfing the web while listening to them. The idea of actually studying while listening to music is out of the question.

Another point made that television is "piped in" is becoming more and more obsolete with the rise in popularity of TV shows on DVD, Hard disk TV recorders, and on demand cable television services.

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