Zephyr_Nova

How did i forget The Fearless Freaks? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAgmGr9fRU

I'm shocked no one's mentioned the best documentary film of all time, Word Wars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDDa-qEnt4w Also, The Devil and Daniel Johnston. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qtFPOxDMs4 And i will add my further endorsement to the previously mentioned: White Light/Black Rain King of Kong Dig Crumb Grizzly Man Cosmos Anvil! The Story of Anvil Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Heavy Metal in Baghdad Oh, and Koyaanisqatsi is fucking incredible. It's arguably a documentary, in which case I retract what I said about Word Wars being the best doc of all time.

Book of Horizons is a fucking majestic album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAPIpLycwh8 I think I like it as much if not more than Mr. Bungle's California.

Thanks a lot for turning me on to this, fantastic musical ideas. It's rare that I hear new metal that leaves a big impression on me. These guys never cease to amaze: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkEkPI79f3k Cephalic Carnage is pushing extreme metal into some interesting directions. They're all over the map, always exciting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDc_AAnhTnY Intronaut's crazy creative, I'm very curious to hear how they evolve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZYhDtg31Wc And for some reason I'm only just now getting into Napalm Death. Inside Out Torn Apart is a fucking great album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slctqreLUkw And for anyone who wants to be assailed relentlessly, Origin's last album Antithesis is just stupid. It's one of the few albums that has left me feeling beaten up after listening to it. I have a theory that if their drummer stopped machine gunning his kicks for more than 5 seconds the whole thing would collapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVPvoEPburY --they're not a personal favorite, but possibly the most extreme sounding metal band I've heard. That's got to be worth something.

I peed in the sink twice in one day about three weeks ago, and one of those times I was high on ecstasy. I drank a girlfriend's pee and couldn't taste it above the rum I was drinking. I peed in a bottle on New Year's, kept it refrigerated for three weeks, gave it to a friend who currently keeps it in his car, front passenger side. It is full of white fuzzy floaties. Pee. It's not a fetish, it's just an easy way to be mildly controversial in the face of banality. I sometimes feed ear wax to cats because they fucking love that shit.

thanks for reminding me of bunnicula. Ha! This was my favorite book series when I was in grade 3, and I had totally forgotten about it until now.

Creepshow

"Le foto proibite di una signora per bene" has a fucking awesome soundtrack. You really can't go wrong with scores by Ennio Morricone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC3GZ6xGv-I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpwKgKnuMQY&feature=related

Time and space.

I enjoyed that, makes me want to go out and see more of the world.

I don't think racism is something irrational. IMO racism is something highly functional, just as any cognitive process that builds an ontology out of the subject's experiences. I mean, it's easier to build robots that kill everyone than robots that kill only a specific, targeted population. Eskimos or amazonians have a wide range of words for naming the colors white, or green. It's pretty much the same thing with racism. Ethiopians distinguish blacks, grays, reds, browns although for us they would all be deemed as blacks. To me racism is just another way of discriminating things from each other, alongside the creation of nicknames. I'm 1.90 high, and i've always been called the dry guy, or the asparagus. It's normal, that's why specifies me the most on the first look and I don't think it's especially meant to hurt feellings. Now you've xenophobia, which just is a kind of phobia. We've mentioned snakes and spiders but I don't think it is on the same level. Spiders and snakes ? These shits have been around for so many years and are so fucking poisonous and deathly that a fear of them must have been hard coded in our brain when we were still chipmunks. But still, racism/xenophobia is just a way for our system to identify and tag a threat so that next time you are in front of it you can avoid or act against it. If you get attacked in copenhaguen by a bunch of eskimos what would you think ? Eventhough there isn't any prejudice against eskimos to get inspiration from, you'll probably think that eskimos are fucking cunts. And it's not only related to the colour of the skin or the ethnicity, it's about anything that can be noteworthy. Chavs, for example, are discriminated on the basis of their clothing. This is also because the word has a strong meaning. I found their is this sort of dichotomy about the english language. On one side you use more swearwords than we do, on the other you have this kind of puritan self-censorship about the N and F words along with all the beeps on TV. Also there is no difference between the colloquial and the insulting nigger. In france you couldn't just call someone a nigger. It wouldn't really work. Instead you would naturally add something along the lines of 'you fucking filthy nigger'. I've heard some xenophobic stuffs in my life (he looks like a monkey), as some racist colloquial stuffs (last week i met two guys, one being italian the other one being nigerian, and they didn't have any complex about mocking the origins of each other). I think there are few genuine racists. If lube's brother had say somethin like 'Oops i used the n-word but i didn't intend it to be offensive. Did I offended you ? If so I'm very sorry etc..." the ambiance would have been better among the group. IMO racism is such a taboo that people who have truly racist thoughts don't express them. Of course you have some awkward moments when you're on a burst of enthusiasm or anger, but most of time racism relies on how the interlocutor infers what you say. Of course there are people propagating ideological speech of hatred, but as I said they tend to get pretty rare nowadays. Who dares being openly racist ? There are also ambiguous stuffs. For example if I say "most of drug dealers in france are arab", am I implying that all arabs should be treated as such, or am I just stating a bland, statistical fact ? This is complex. Also do you really believe gaarg is a racist ? I admit he got bogged down in the arguing, that's always what happens when you're arguing (unless you're on an acid trip, you can always turn your mind when at the heart of the fractal). But he still stated that it was natural to have prejudices and that he was ready to listen to the clichés of someone from a different race, which is fairly open-minded. Nothing is totally black or white. I have this japanese friend who's sometimes raving about how it would be great to restore the rising sun's glory of yore, that we should kill al the disabled people in order to save money, but this really is just a facade. He's actually one of the most concerned people about genocides, always striking me with a 'have you heard about that slaughter that happened in africa last week ?' nor has he any problem to condamn japan 'experiments' durring WW2. Fantastic post. Thorough, but concise. I think I felt the need to point that out just because the majority of this thread has become way too fucking negative.

Yeah... kind of surprised we have to point out the obvious here, but culture/social structure seems to be what influences a person's behavior rather than the skin colour they were born with.

Heheheh... oh man... that reminds me of when one of my friends freaked out while we were on shrooms, because I was clearly having a horrible trip, and he feared that it had permanently scrambled my mind. So he phoned up my parents really frantic and apologetic and told them he was worried about that. Yep. They weren't mad at all about the fact that I had done shrooms, they were just worried for my well being. But man... hold off a couple days at least until you pull the tell-my-parents-of-your-concern card. Ah well, he was actually a pretty damn good friend for it I guess. His intentions were noble. Were my parents more like the fat ass mom in the above story, I might have been a lot less happy with him, heheh. That was the second and last time I ever did shrooms. I will never do them again. Reading Neitzsche the following day was fantastic however. His work had never resonated with me so powerfully before. I think prior to that I had appreciated his poetic writing style over his actual insights. When both those aspects of his writing really hit at once, it's a truly gratifying experience. Moral of this story: I should read some more Neitzsche, ASAP. Oh yeah, and high school was the least eventful phase of my life. Almost totally unremarkable.

I was a loner "jovi" who never tried to fit in, but I was also in a band from grade 6-12. I had long hair that made me look like a girl, but i refused to cut it because too many people told me I should and I didn't want to please them. ("jovi" at my school originally just meant a guy with long hair that listened to metal, but it evolved to just mean anyone who liked music that contained a distorted guitar.) That's pretty much it. I didn't really develop as a person throughout high school, but i wrote a lot of songs... with lyrics written by someone with no life experience. My "coming of age" years have been 20-now.

I constantly play a swingy version of the acoustic riff from "The Becoming" almost every time I pick up my acoustic guitar. That and bluesy version of blackbird. A lot of NIN translates well to blues and swing/jazz. All the same. Trent loves the "tight assedness" quantized sound, not expecting him to ever make anything swingy. "Only" is maybe the closest thing that jumps to mind, but it's still very tight. Let's not forget Piggy and With Teeth. That may be it for swingy NIN.

She may be singing, but it sounds like Trent wrote the vocal melody. I like it, but it sounds exactly like what you'd expect. He's used that chord progression/melody idea combo sooooo many times over now.

This is the first Autechre album I've heard in a long time that came as a genuine surprise, and a very effective one at that. I've felt for a long time that in terms of pushing electronic music forward there aren't really any other artists that come close, neither in complexity nor in exploring what technology can do in music. From Confield through to Untilted, they really didn't leave much room for further progression in that particular direction, and they were following a very linear course through it. So while each album succeeded in taking things a little further (or light years ahead of where anyone else was taking it), it was all a very natural development. With Quaristice it sounded like they were taking a step back and just having some fun with it... you know, they'd been so serious with it they needed to an album to just play on, an homage to everything they'd accomplished musically over the last ten years. And now that it's out of their system, they're onto a new phase. It's like the reverse aesthetic. The melodics are the foreground, the beats are being guided by them. And lo and behold it sounds nothing like anything anyone else is making at present (at least that I'm aware of). If one were to hear this without knowing it were a new Autechre album, it would not be immediately apparent it was them, and yet there's no one else who would think to make it quite like this. There's just a sonic quality to it that's so very unique to Autechre. Anyway, Autchre is so far ahead of the curve it almost makes me not want to try, at least in terms of pioneering in this vein. They know their equipment all too well and have far too much experience with it. Without a doubt one of the top 10 most important music artists of the last 20 years.

Alcohol and E are the only two drugs for me, and caffeine if we're counting that. I'm afraid anything remotely hallucinogenic or with the power to completely alter/control my thinking patterns could potentially push me past the point of no return. The last time I smoked pot really shook me up, worse than any shrooms trip. So yeah, fuck that shit. E on the other hand just seems to make me really aware of the things that matter in life. I always feel wiser and better adjusted afterward, with maybe a trace of passing sadness that's manageable enough, and well worth the benefits. I've been doing it almost once a month since the first time I did it, October 2008. I feel I should cut back, but it's just sooo fucking good. Also, it should be noted that I just happen to have found a decent source, and the couple times I've tried it from other sources it's been pretty lame and hardly euphoric. Though for me it tends to be more of a mental euphoria rather than a "every physical sensation is overwhelming me with joy" kind of thing. I'm more likely to talk about death with great interest than to want a back massage... but that's just me. And that sounds a lot more creepy than it actually is, honest!

rossz making orange things Those are the two definite stand out releases by him for me. I listened to his whole discog last month, with the exception of his last two albums and that miniCD he released. Meathole has some great moments, as do most of his albums.

Earlier today I discovered Les Claypool had released a new solo album. I bought it, but I've yet to listen to it. Tales of Wales and Woe was in my opinion up to par with anything primus did, so I've got high hopes for this one. I picked up bass guitar in grade 7 because of Primus. For about a year I was obsessed with slap/tap bass because of Les. Unfortunately I didn't keep it up, so my abilities with the slap bass are about the same as they were back then.

The aftertaste of old microwaved coffee. In about two minutes I will be consuming the real thing again.

Nope. Once I see her spinning counterclockwise, she keeps spinning that way --hair, breasts, everything. It's really strange. I can't get it to snap back to what I was originally seeing. Black magic for sure.

HOLY SHIT! It happened. She's spinning counterclockwise every time I look now. I think the voodoo theory is correct. I don't understand what the hell just happened. It defies physics.

Goddamnit that chick is spinning backwards, clockwise, and there's no other direction she could possibly be spinning unless her tits are on her back, her thumbs are where her pinkies should be, and her vagina is shaped like an ass. You people who say otherwise are filthy liars.

Pavement - Texas Never Whispers Listening for the first time. I think these guys may be very well over rated. Stopping the song now. Ween - Gabrielle