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    What Releases Do you Miss the Most on Streaming Platforms

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    Rephlex was mentioned, but I'd like to specifically call out Aleksi Perälä's first three pre-Colundi albums: Project V, Boom Blaster, and Mental Union.

    And a few other things from my 2007 list (which includes The Tuss as mentioned above):

    The Landau Orchestra - Janus Plays Telephone 
    Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
    Not Breathing - The Black Old Pueblo
    The Tear Garden - The Secret Experiment 

    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    Finished watching The Serpent last week so I was in need of a new drama series to watch on the two nights each week that my girlfriend and I watch our own shows. I have a few 20-30min shows going as well, but I need that one 45-60min show as something to really sink my teeth into. So I spent 15 minutes browsing my lists on the various streaming platforms — HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon. 

    Animal Kingdom - This was in my Amazon list since a while back and I decided to try this first. Super douchey characters, bad acting, came off as a Point Break knockoff and I turned it off after 20 minutes. I love Point Break though but fuck these douchebags.  

    Kevin Can Go F**k Himself - This was a recent addition to my Amazon queue, don't recall where I heard of it but decided to give it a go. Lead actor looked familiar, then I realized she (Annie Murphy) plays Alexis Rose on Schitt's Creek. Quite a different role here. Anyway this seems interesting, mixing a sitcom style complete with laugh track with a drama outside the house. I planned to continue watching, until I realized only the first episode is "free" on Amazon Prime and I'd have to pay for the rest or watch on AMC. So I guess that's that. 

    Now I'm back to searching for something else to watch Wednesday night. Or not, actually, we're going to a show that night. So it'll be Sunday night. The browsing shall resume.

    Favorite (Electronic) Album of 1991

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    Yeah I'm with @beerwolf and @zero, was mostly listening to rock at the time. Starting to transition from metal and hard rock to more alternative, punk, and industrial. Then hip-hop, and a few more years before I got into actual electronic music. There were hints in the industrial music I listened to of course, and stuff like MC 900FT Jesus and mid-90s PWEI, but I think it was hearing Underworld's "Mmm Skyscraper I Love You" (with projected video) in a club that set me on the path. But I can't recall if that was actually 94 or slightly later. 95 is my best guess.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    16 hours ago, yekker said:

    By that time you'll be one of those old men that hangs out in the sauna.

    There better be a sauna. If not now, by then.

     

    8 hours ago, zero said:

    tf? you won't be able to use the neighborhood pool, despite being a resident of said community? kind of defeats the purpose of having a community pool then. unless I'm missing something here, that sounds w h a c k

    I agree. It's not like a master-planned or gated community, more like a micro-neighborhood although it does have specific boundaries. I'm guessing they allow membership by residents of neighboring communities or hell, anyone that applies really. That's my guess. An acquaintance lives about 5 miles away in a different neighborhood and is a member. Between the two of us, there are probably 3-4 micro-neighborhoods like mine. Not sure how else to describe them as many of us here live in such different regions. Also I just realized when I applied, I used my current, temporary address that's 10 miles away and was able to join the waitlist. So it's clearly not exclusive to the neighborhood which is kind of annoying. But not all neighborhoods have their own community pool, so it's spreading the wealth so to speak.

    Apparently they accept 40-60 new memberships per year, depends who drops out (or drops dead).

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    On 10/16/2021 at 7:31 PM, drillkicker said:

    My first therapy appointment is coming up really soon and it's been weighing on my mind.  My brain keeps telling me that he's going to break into my mind, record my thoughts, and show them to god so he can take my soul away from me but i still want to go anyway.  People keep telling me mixed things about therapy and i dont know how to interpret any of it or how to prepare.

    Also i have decided to stop listening to music.  I cant stand having music playing over and over in my mind all day and i want to be able to think my own thoughts without them being drowned out by some stupid song.  It's infuriating and i dont understand why ive been torturing myself with music for so long.

    Congrats! Good advice above from J3FF3R00.

    Regarding the music, taking a break is probably not a bad idea and I've considered it myself. As far as stopping completely/indefinitely, if that works for you then great, but maybe it's a matter of shifting to purely instrumental stuff for a while? Maybe just calm stuff, even? I'm saying this on an electronic music board so there's a chance most of what you listen to is already purely instrumental, but you never know (I'd say probably 60% of what I listen to has vocals). I understand that even instrumental music can cloud your own thoughts if it's hard not to focus on that. I can relate. But I also know that music has helped me and countless others get through things. 

    stupid first world achievements and successes

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    Y'all definitely don't want to know what my mortgage will be, without utilities. ? It's a good thing the house doesn't really need any immediate work.

    On 10/16/2021 at 3:55 PM, Squee said:

    We're going to take a break looking at new places because this whole thing really wore us down.

    We took a 2.5-week break at the beginning of September, it was incredibly helpful to reduce stress and recalibrate.

    stupid first world achievements and successes

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    6 hours ago, Squee said:

    "Repayment freedom" is a thing in Denmark where if you pay +40% of the house up front you get access to a wide variety of different loan types that are exceptionally cheap. It also mean that you're not paying anything off of your loan, but on the other hand you can put money aside and dump that on your loan whenever you feel like it. You can get these types of loans for 10-30 years and that was what we were aiming for.

    And even though what I'm about to say sounds like a first world problem it actually turned into a first world achievement.

    My girlfriend and I actually ended up signing the papers for the house. After signing the papers you have 6 days to change your mind. If you change your mind you have  to pay 1% of what the house costs - unless your lawyer finds something iffy about the house. For every minute that went by I felt progressively worse. It was so much money and we were both slowly changing our minds. We had even contacted a different bank to find out if they could give us a better offer than our current bank and they couldn't. I didn't sleep for like 4 days and woke up feeling like shit.

    Five days after we had signed the papers our lawyer called and said, "So, listen... I've just been told that the house is actually 30-35 square meters smaller than what is listed in the papers. Also, the two rooms you two were planning on using as your studios aren't listed in the papers either so the municipality can actually demand that you tear down those rooms if they find out".
    The realtor said that it was a typo. Ha!

    And that was our ticket out of the deal. We told him "we want out" and he told the realtor. So we are no longer buying that house. Phew.

    Wow! I agree that qualifies as an achievement and not a FWP. I hate that feeling of regret after a purchase, especially something soooooo expensive. I'm really glad you had the option to think about it for 6 days and back out of the deal. The fact your lawyer found those issues was a life-saver! It would really suck to get into it knowing you weren't feeling good about it. I did that with my last house — my girlfriend and I saw a few things, and due to time constraints we agreed to buy a house that seemed to have everything we needed, but I had a feeling it was too small and would make me a little claustrophobic. I had some sleepless nights, upset stomach, etc. but we went through with it and I didn't really express my feelings. Two years later, we sold it. 1% is not a small amount of money, so I'm glad it worked out without you having to lose that. Hope you find something you really love.

    Since my last post, we ended up putting an offer on the house I mentioned, after initially saying we would pass. We ended up losing that offer, coming in 2nd out of 6 offers ($10k short). However, we saw a couple other homes later that week that we really liked, especially the 2nd. The listing appeared Thursday morning last week, I immediately contacted my agent to schedule a showing (without even asking my girlfriend since I knew she'd like it), and we were able to see it that evening. We fell in love with it immediately, it's exactly the style we were looking for (well one of them, we had a few in mind), and has a lot of tasteful updates including electric and plumbing. We put an offer together that night, to submit early in hopes the sellers would review and accept it ahead of the scheduled review date 5 days later. They accepted our offer the next day, so we are under contract and scheduled to close November 1st. The main thing I'm awaiting and nervous about now is the appraisal, which was done yesterday. We won't hear back until next week, keeping my fingers crossed that it appraises at the price we're paying otherwise we have to pay the difference...somehow. I've already paid $50k in non-refundable earnest money to the seller. So, I'm a little nervous for that, but really love the house and we're really excited to move in. If I'd change anything I'd have a slightly bigger yard and garage, but there's enough for the dog and to have a vegetable garden and flower beds. There's always compromise no matter the budget.

    stupid first world achievements and successes

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    7 hours ago, Squee said:

    Yeah, we've been in the exact same situation. Oh, and we haven't signed the papers yet because of our bank, but I'll tell that story further down.
    But yeah, we've only been really interested in two houses. One was right next to a forest, but behind that forest was the highway. I was worried that once the leaves on the trees would fall we would be living in a noisy hell hole, which would be extremely problematic for me because of my job. So yeah, we have a bunch of requirements as well - one being that we both need to be able to work from home and that I need to be able to build a studio. 

    I've been worried about the market as well. The prices are ridiculous. First time buyers have no chance of getting their hands on a house right now and from the looks of it the economy is doing too well either, so I'm worried that everything will collapse the moment we sign the papers.

    But we haven't signed the papers yet. Our bank had promised us a loan with repayment freedom and then when we had been told that the current owner of the house wanted us to buy it the bank said, "oh no no no, we can't do that". Problem is that 2020 was fucking tough on my girlfriend's income due to COVID-19, so our idea of repayment freedom went out the window and our banker said that all in all it would cost us around $3200 per month. Oh, and we also had to throw in ALL of our savings and once that was done we were still $40500 short of getting the loan we wanted.
    This shocked us quite a bit, so we sat down and tried to figure out what else we could do. We're not quite sure if I our bank tried to fuck us over what, but we've come up with a whole different approach which can easily give us a loan with repayment freedom for +10 years. It requires us to sell our current house first and still throw in a bunch of money but instead of paying $3200 per month we would instead pay $1500.

    So in about an hour and a half I'll talk to realtor, tell him our situation and ask him if we can put up our house for sale now and then wait another month before taking over the new house.

    I'm shitting my pants already.

    Oof, that sounds rough. Based on the market here we knew we had to sell our house first, in order to have money in our pockets and make a competitive offer with enough cash down (20% required). My goal, until this last offer, has been to keep some savings that we can use for remodeling, landscaping, etc. that may need doing immediately, but we've reevaluated and started shopping upmarket a bit because we just can't find what we need in our initial budget. So that means, like you, throwing everything we have into it (ideally keeping $5k so we're not totally cash-less), and accepting a higher payment. But that also means we need a house that needs less work, so it kind of balances out. We don't really want to do that much work anyway. Kitchen, bath, landscaping, sure, but we're not interesting in redoing an entire house. We're both working from home as well. My girlfriend's income was also impacted by COVID, as well as a broken wrist she suffered in 2019. Hasn't been easy – she didn't make that much to begin with. 

    Do you think the sellers would be willing to wait until you sell your current house? Here that would be nearly impossible – most homes sell within a week of listing with multiple offers. If a potential buyer said they needed time to sell their home, the sellers would just accept the next offer.

    What is "repayment freedom" btw? I imagine you're in the UK, and that's not a term I'm familiar with in the US. 

     

    stupid first world achievements and successes

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    On 9/29/2021 at 12:19 AM, Squee said:

    My girlfriend and I bought a house. We just need to sign the papers and that's it. I feel like throwing up and I'm worried about one billion things.

    Congrats! My girlfriend and I are looking, too. We sold our previous place in April after just two years, just didn't see it working for us long term. Planned to enjoy the summer and start looking again in autumn, but we started looking pretty aggressively already by July. We have a pretty specific wishlist as well as discriminatory tastes, so it's been a challenge. Particularly considering how expensive this city is. In the 3 months or so, we've only put in 2 offers (and lost both clearly). Kinda glad about the first, but really disappointed in the second loss which was just last week. Not too many new & interesting things coming on the market each week so it's frustrating. Too much expensive garbage, everything appealing ends up over budget. I think that can be said at any budget unfortunately. Very tempted by another one we saw this weekend, both of us fell in love with it, but it falls short in two areas that are pretty high on our wishlist (garage/driveway space and kitchen size/functionality). Otherwise stunning.

    I was about to post this in First World Problems but since you mentioned buying a house here, only felt appropriate. 

    New Tool record end of year?

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    On 10/1/2021 at 3:45 PM, auxien said:

    i didn't see any Houston 1996 videos but i watched this one instead and goddamn did they sound amazing there. the bass and guitar at the intro both sound so big and raw together.

    i'm not sure if i caught them there on this tour or a couple years later? if it was this one then my parents let me go when i was 14 lol. i'm pretty sure it was at the International Ballroom, and i was definitely in high school.

    Maynard's definitely got that alien being thing going on here yeah. Danny sounds so tight and so loose at the same time, he's really such a great drummer but not just in the ways everyone usually talks about. he's hanging back but still pushing hard just right in that track.

    GodDAMN I wish I'd seen them here. I lived in Houston from 92-2006 and would have been 20-21 that year, no excuse as I was a huge Tool fan at the time, and since 93. I'm often mad at myself for just not going to shows very much in the mid 90s. Missed out on a lot of good stuff. I just didn't like spending the money I guess, preferred to spend it on drugs and CDs I guess. And it's not like I didn't go to shows at all, I just tended toward smaller shows I guess, many at Numbers, Fitzgerald's, etc. I did see acts like Ministry and Cypress Hill at International Ballroom though, 96 and 95 respectively. Why not Tool?!! I didn't see Tool until around 2002, after Lateralus.

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