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Boxus

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  1. i only read the first issue of the comic, so i have no expectations for the show and i think it's good entertainment. i kinda hated the first half of season 2, but the second half has been much better. the last couple episodes had great climaxes (though the builds to those climaxes and the dialogue/acting in general is still pretty poor). andrea, t-dog, and daryl should start their own shit, i like them all better than the central characters. could somebody tell me, in a spoiler tag, if rick and his wife ever die in the comics?
  2. i like that you did this with move of ten, because i've gotten a really fungal vibe from that album since the first time i heard it. it's wet and grungy and earthy but in an alien way. i just might give this combo a try some day. i haven't tripped for a couple of years, mostly cause life has not been rosy enough to properly enjoy it. but once my financial situation levels out and i stop worrying so much i hope to give it a shot again. i must admit, my favorite autehcre/tripping moments have always been with lsd. i listened to confield while tripping with my girlfriend a few years ago and drawing pictures, was intense. then we switched on mouse on mars and danced. acid is a great time (if you have good acid, controlled setting, etc etc)
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    Envane

    my favorite is laughing quarter, shit is crazy unbelievable good. when i was 16 i spent an entire winter break doing basically nothing but listening to envane and playing morrowind. so now whenever i hear goz quarter i kind of feel like i'm in vivec.
  4. totally agree with that, i fucking love overand. it's one of those songs that i can listen to any time in any mood. wheres the love for leterel? it's one of my favorites, the way the chords change up midway is really emotive, always reminds me of vose in.
  5. I agree with Kcinsu. Also: one of my favorite ways to invent melodies is by singing all the time (as much as you can get away with it). I guess this is the same as playing any instrument you're comfortable with, but when singing it seems especially easy to channel new ideas, they just slide through you.
  6. too much "how can a benevolent god exist in a world gone bad?" and not enough "oh shit you ripped his arm off"
  7. I was at a nice house with a couple friends. All of a sudden Bryan Cranston shows up with a nice big entourage of Hollywood elites. They're nice down to earth people despite the stature. We're hanging out having a good time, Bryan starts naming stuff he's been in, and tells me he wasn't completely satisfied with the way the film 'Drive' turned out. Everyone is about to leave, but I convince them to stay and suggest we go out for more beer. They all agree, but just then a big crowd shows up, people I don't know. A small group goes upstairs and comes back coked out. We decide we can't leave the house unattended while going to the liquor store, so I go around asking the shadier people to leave while Bryan Cranston (using skills he learned while filming Breaking Bad) builds a bug from scratch, so we can listen in on the house while we're out. I go looking for a place to put the bug, and the dream ends as everyone is leaving and I realize we've really been wasting a lot of time.
  8. geto boys are classic fuck the hate
  9. just dropped in to say Ferrous Bueller
  10. it isn't. writers and filmmakers should also lighten up! art isn't about professionalism, it's about having good ideas.
  11. It's exactly that seriousness that I hate. I'm with sneaksta on this, I get really turned off by musicians taking themselves too seriously. Plus it's just less creative to leave the name associated with your work uncustomized, when given the option to customize it. Adopting an artist name is an opportunity to exercise creative control over an essential aspect of your music's presentation. For artists who just use their own name, I tend to assume their music will be boring because they haven't taken any control over how it's presented, except to say "look at me! it's me! i made this!" (it's even worse if the album cover is a picture of them). I don't know if this is pretentious, but it is childish and egocentric.
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    Perlence losid 2

    bumping cause this is the fuckin song of the day for me right now i can never listen to tracks on repeat, it usually just kills it for me. but if i am in the right mood, i can listen to losid 2 over and over and just get absorbed in it. a lot of quaristice is beautiful background music for life, for watching people do things. especially losid. i can hear in it all the frantic business and repetitive nonsense of human existence, padded by a warm blanket of opiated adjacency.
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    Death Grips

    i like this man, he is crazy. the guillotine track is tight. full moon is pretty crazy, i like the raw fucked up feeling of it. but i couldn't listen to the whole track, it got a little tiresome
  14. I think you nailed it, and it really only happens on this album which is weird. Untilted and Quaristice turned me off in a few spots but for the most part they're solid albums, and other than that I love pretty much all of the rest of their catalog. Draft would be a decent album, but Surripere and the last three tracks totally have this effect on me, where they start off interesting and then the timbre or structure starts to sound like nails on a chalkboard to me. I don't think it's the complexity as I love Confield and most of their more "challenging" work, just something about these tracks make them a chore for me. If it was a shorter EP or something I think I would like it a lot better. Untilted is kind of the exact opposites, where a lot of tracks start of pretty abstract and then coalesce into their structure, which I like a lot better. Tracks like Ipacial and Augmatic Disport start off pretty fractured and then end up pretty cool. I still can't get past the beginning of Ipacial though, those high pitched buzzing noises like the ones at the end of Reniform just give me a headache. Maybe I'm getting old, lol. 6852 I love though, a nice mix of the abstract and their more traditional sound structure, and that boom bap to boot. i used to feel the same way about draft, especially P.:NTIL. the layers in that track always seemed kind of random and mismatched to me at first. but i gained a new appreciation for it and the rest of draft recently, listening to it on different systems. maybe it's just because i've heard it so much that i'm used to it now but i can hear how the melodies go together in ways i didn't really get before. if i listen to the whole mix as background music it sounds a little disjointed, but i find if i focus on one layer for a while, i can pick up on the harmonic similarities tying it to everything else in the song, even though those other layers are still doing their own thing and going off in their own directions. oh and 6852 is tight. yeah good track
  15. http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/tolkien.returnking.shtml
  16. oh sweet yeah that's the one, thanks wall bird. i had a feeling the previous article was not it, but i am still delighted at its pretension. the two work well back to back. the man seems to have some real identity issues..
  17. haha cheers! "I have learned to see inside every musicians head"
  18. Around the time Ultravisitor came out, an essay by Tom was posted on his warp page, some really pretentious philosophical banter about the role of machines in the creative process. I tried looking for this recently but it doesn't seem to be up on the warp site any more and I forget the title. Anyone remember what this was called, or have a copy or link?
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