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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: commissarklink on 03 Jan 2008, 22:36
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First post here, so I figured I'd make it kinda big.
I really like music, and I'm not picky. I used to say that I liked anything that wasn't country or rap, but Johnny Cash and Immortal Technique proved me wrong even there. Basically, anyone with even the slightest amount of musical discernment (i.e., no Soulja Boy or High School Musical) can put on their collection and I will not complain.
However, my own music collection is very defined. I've realized that while I will tolerate and appreciatea huge variety of music, my own music pretty much has to be energetic and aggressive. Just recently, I figured out why... it's because I myself am lazy and passive.
Ok, we all know Marten Reed from the comic. Imagine his personality, but even less self-confident, mixed with the flakiest stoner you've ever met. That's me (even though I don't smoke). I am utterly harmless. When I listen to music I am unconsciously fantasizing about my ideal self, who is infinitely more kickass than my real self. I draw on the energy of The Ramones, Manowar, Black Flag, Iron Maiden or Finntroll, and even though it doesn't change me to be how I want, it feels like it potentially could. To make matters worse, music that isn't aggressive or energetic enough resonates with my real personality, to the extent that Radiohead or The Shins, or even Godspeed! etc. often makes me drowsy or vaguely depressed even as I enjoy it.
On a related note, I leave you with an anecdote: Once I was going through my girlfriend's MP3s and putting them on my player sight unseen (or rather, sound unheard). Hours later, I was quite disappointed to discover that Savage Garden isn't savage at all.
Now, your turn.
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basically you arte a fuck person
nah i'm just playin dogg.
the way you just described yourself is basically how any "indie kid" between 16 and 20 would describe themself, so i wouldn't think too much about it.
also you get plus 10 cool points for slyly mentioning you have a girlfriend. is she cute? TITS OR GTFO.
sorry i'm drunk.
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Pointless, because different people like the same music.
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On a related note, I leave you with an anecdote: Once I was going through my girlfriend's MP3s and putting them on my player sight unseen (or rather, sound unheard). Hours later, I was quite disappointed to discover that Savage Garden isn't savage at all.
I promise not to laugh st you for that, wait...
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I've seen worse opening posts.
Even so, I think Pitchfork would give it a 4.2 ...
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I saw quite a cool version of this on another forum which was psychoanalysing other people in a tongue-in-cheek fashion based on favourite bands they supplied.
This way round, I think zerodrone summed it up pretty well. Then again, I'm now hearing all his posts in John Hurt's voice in my head which probably makes me biased.
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God I wish I had enough money to pay John Hurt to record the line "TITS OR GTFO".
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If he were drunk enough, maybe.
What if this thread were turned into what amok specified? I've only ever seen that on every music-related facebook group to get over-9k members.
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It's work if it made no sense.
"You listen to Coldplay? Obviously you want to fuck your mother."
Actually, I think that would simply be my stock answer. Damn you Freud.
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It's probably more effective to analyse someone based on how they listen to music. Three hundred dollar headphones, in a darkened room, from a high quality record player versus possibly mislabeled, low bitrate mp3's found on limewire through eight dollar speakers.
Actually, that also might not tell you much. The second guy might be totally obsessive about his baseball card collection. So never mind.
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the way you just described yourself is basically how any "indie kid" between 16 and 20 would describe themself, so i wouldn't think too much about it
k this is where i call your bluff
or at least your drunken nonsensical ramblings
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k this is where i call your bluff
Let's hug it out, bitch.
Indie kids are pussies. Fact.
Not that being a pussy is a bad thing. But I tried it, and found that being a superior arrogant dickweed got me knee-deep in trim, so I've been going with that.
Being a sensitive dude, all that ever got me was a bunch of "girl friends". And "girl friends" aren't as good as "girlfriends" AMIRITE?
Respect.
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You'd fit in over at Electrical Audio almost too well.
Young adults who also happen to be music hobbyists ponder how their musical tastes identify them quite a bit. I used to do it a lot more than I do now. He is okay to think of and about himself like this. Zerodrone basically identified this but he did it with what I'll generously call "drunk tact," so it's really easy to misinterpret what he said as a negative thing.
Let's not fight!
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Dogg I just watched Stardust and cried like a bitch the whole last half hour. I'm secretly a nice guy.
DON'T TELL ANYONE.
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It's probably more effective to analyse someone based on how they listen to music. Three hundred dollar headphones, in a darkened room, from a high quality record player versus possibly mislabeled, low bitrate mp3's found on limewire through eight dollar speakers.
Actually, that also might not tell you much. The second guy might be totally obsessive about his baseball card collection. So never mind.
Or the second guy doesn't have that much money and is grateful to get what he can and enjoy it for what it is.
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k this is where i call your bluff
Let's hug it out, bitch.
Indie kids are pussies. Fact.
Not that being a pussy is a bad thing. But I tried it, and found that being a superior arrogant dickweed got me knee-deep in trim, so I've been going with that.
Being a sensitive dude, all that ever got me was a bunch of "girl friends". And "girl friends" aren't as good as "girlfriends" AMIRITE?
Respect.
You can have more girl friends than girlfriends, at least without getting lynched by all of the above when they find out you have been two-timing. So, I guess if you are going to go out, you should go out in style. Twelve at once!
Oh, and I haven't ever really wondered what my musical tastes said about me, aside from wondering why it is I fall alseep so quickly to metal music, but now I am going to end up doing so. Thanks, Johnny.
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DON'T TELL ANYONE.
I will keep your secret safe.
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You can have more girl friends than girlfriends, at least without getting lynched by all of the above when they find out you have been two-timing. So, I guess if you are going to go out, you should go out in style. Twelve at once!
I swing with the monogamy thing these days (threesomes don't count as cheating) but a long time ago I did in fact have like seven girlfriends at once. It was fuckin' hard to remember which ones I had said which things to.
Oh and they were all friends with each other too.
They didn't get mad when they found out either.
I used to be a seriously evil genius.
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I saw quite a cool version of this on another forum which was psychoanalysing other people in a tongue-in-cheek fashion based on favourite bands they supplied.
This way round, I think zerodrone summed it up pretty well. Then again, I'm now hearing all his posts in John Hurt's voice in my head which probably makes me biased.
We did this here once. It was good fun.
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I used to be a seriously evil genius.
used, what happened?
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I saw quite a cool version of this on another forum which was psychoanalysing other people in a tongue-in-cheek fashion based on favourite bands they supplied.
This way round, I think zerodrone summed it up pretty well. Then again, I'm now hearing all his posts in John Hurt's voice in my head which probably makes me biased.
We did this here once. It was good fun.
You have the greatest avatar in the history of everything.
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I saw quite a cool version of this on another forum which was psychoanalysing other people in a tongue-in-cheek fashion based on favourite bands they supplied.
This way round, I think zerodrone summed it up pretty well. Then again, I'm now hearing all his posts in John Hurt's voice in my head which probably makes me biased.
We did this here once. It was good fun.
You have the greatest avatar in the history of everything.
I'm glad someone noticed. Although a fair few people now think it is actually me but nevermind.
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Peep Show is sheer unadulterated genius.
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It's a show that's maintained constant quality. Each season starts at a low level but its hilarity just increases as it goes on. The wedding episode was awesome.
Roll on season five!
(Wish I'd not bought the first three seasons on DVD before the 1-4 box set came out *sigh*)
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I actually don't think the idea is so bad here. Y'all just going about it in the wrong way. It's not about which artist you like, or which genre, but which albums by a particular artist. Their earlier agressive stuff? Or their more cynical and subtle later albums? Your answer tells us a little about you! We now know whether or not you are a teenager.
Now, on a more serious note, music is more often than not a good indicator of mood. Not personality. You might find your taste shifting ever so slightly if you're going through a rough patch or something. It's rather like how everybody listens to very sad music and cries when that guy/girl at the bar rejects their proposal to date, only the situations aren't quite so exaggerated because I'm not making them up.
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He more than makes up for it with the majority of his post as far as I'm concerned. I doubt many people will take offense at his post that are clearly not supposed to be taken seriously anyway. If anybody else does, I think it's for the best that they learn to see them for what they are, because I believe they may not be reading the content properly and seeing only what they expect to see. It doesn't really matter what a person is like on the internet, if you think they are an asshole, you'll read their post and see an asshole. This isn't fair, and I think covering up a thread is rather like admitting somebody has done something wrong, which I don't believe anybody has.
Quite often on this forum, I see fairly new people jumping on a person I actually like and calling them out for being a dick, but more often than not it's just the new person who has the wrong end of the stick, therefore they are the ones who need to learn, not the other person.
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Man I don't know what y'all are on about, everything I've said in this thread has been gold.
Too much psychoanalyzing of posts going on!
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Exactly!
People on the forums keep on replying to me like I done something, I'm completely confused. Somebody should PM me and explain why so I can maybe fix that?
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Oh I was sober for every post after the Stardust one.
I just have no shame.
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Much like the Olympics, posting on this forum is much better done when drunk.
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You can have more girl friends than girlfriends, at least without getting lynched by all of the above when they find out you have been two-timing. So, I guess if you are going to go out, you should go out in style. Twelve at once!
I swing with the monogamy thing these days (threesomes don't count as cheating) but a long time ago I did in fact have like seven girlfriends at once. It was fuckin' hard to remember which ones I had said which things to.
Oh and they were all friends with each other too.
They didn't get mad when they found out either.
I used to be a seriously evil genius.
Wow... that is horrible, but awesome at the same time. I would toast you, but I am underaged.
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Toast him anyway!
see, whoever has a problem with you doing it....doesn't have to know.
=D
not experience talking.
ok..maybe a little. =P
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I guess I have to ask ... do you get more or fewer points if you manage to have several girlfriends at a time and the DO know about each other and are perfectly fine with it?
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Depends, are you Mormon?
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I guess I have to ask ... do you get more or fewer points if you manage to have several girlfriends at a time and the DO know about each other and are perfectly fine with it?
Depends. Did you have to do smooth talking to convince them it was okay, or are they just easy like that?
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Dude.
I think it's major points.
except for certain cases
(which I won't mention here due to the chances of more than one person being offended like crazy)
but think about that action
:evil:
lol
Mormon guys have it both good and bad.
cause when their wives are PMSing...they're like ARGH
but...if one wife is like..I will NOT bang you
he can just go and have his happy time with another wife
and its not cheating and he can't get in trouble
I should become Mormon just so I can do that.
mmm
:angel:
edit right after post: I'm gonna regret saying that, I just know it.
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I'll listen to any genre, but only a small slice at what I consider the very top of each genre.
I do tend to favor the eclectic and the raw emotional and personal. You could say that means, I want things in my life to seem pure, natural, and human without being constrained by some cultural idea of normality, or that I want to define myself in terms of being different from the mean.
You could also take my obsessive need to branch out to mean I get bored easily and constantly need new forms of stimulation, and you could take my obsessive need to fill gaps in my collection as a sign I'm a closet perfectionist.