As some of you know, I'm a failing musician, and as a result, have made lots of musics. I ALSO have a youtube page where these failed musics live, 104 tracks written by, recorded, everythinged by me (ego-mania is running wild), covering a wide variety of genres. Here's a bunch of albums in reverse chronological order, please listen to what you can/want, and post any comments you have (even if it's just "lol boner").
 
BARBECUED GIBBON - KAIJU
https://youtu.be/DMhDI7Kw7Pw?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4AiONz0vEQf_L3HmhEClNMok
The second BBQGibbon album, it is noise, and beats and effects and more noise. The radioactive offspring of Autechre and Throbbing Gristle.

BARBECUED GIBBON - GOLIATH
https://youtu.be/PV__wMcvn98?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4AjXkLGqzXgUQj0prJzQ3Avw
Beats Beats Beats Beats with noise effects. Started with simply messing around until I got ideas for an album project. I like the sounds I got in the track "Martian", which is a NES sounds VST ran through so many effects that it sounds like the martian ships from the 50's War Of The Worlds theme.

MYTHOLOGY
https://youtu.be/4YB2-pkWf-8?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4AjFZthSjHstCgqGQCJXpvQZ
Works inspired by traditional Chinese music, for an abandoned and now restarted videogame project. I'm really proud of the track "The Realm Opens". Anyways this is RPGMUSIX

ORGANIC ANDROID
https://youtu.be/EyIVDIjbZac?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4Ahh1yxPcnxkQ6HtijNprqyY
Krautrock, tangerine dreamy in places. Organic Android part two is heavily inspired by the band Magma, sounds nothing like them, but inspired by them!  THIS IS AN INSTRUMENTAL CONCEPT ALBUM about a robot who wants to be treated as human, to be seen as an equal.

DISPOSABLE
https://youtu.be/KtzI_H0By4E?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4AgGt86BKvEa8XQ-F6C-vb6s
As the name suggests, disposed of music. Abandoned projects and unfinished ideas. The guitar solo halfway through "Isolation" is one of my favourites I've done, it just kinda glides along.

THE SOUND OF A THOUSAND STARS
https://youtu.be/azsbejQVzQw?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4AgEqe9kFsm1LQZftPiSmRwp
Cosmic Rock. That is all this is, with inspirations from Ash Ra Tempel, Acid Mothers Temple and the spacerock kings, Hawkwind. The opening track, "Anti-Life Syndrome", is one of my favourites that I have made, and "Into Infinity" also makes me happy.

HAMBURGER MUSIC #1
https://youtu.be/TUvkThg-9xw?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4AgkNZbL0WbMp52TtVx2I6oG
Assortment of weird/oddball/experimental/orchestrial/jazz works. Obvious influences being Zappa, Beefheart and The Residents. Not that it sounds anything like them, but they can be easily identified as a point of reference. "Throne Of The Majestic Burger" is like the wet dream of a hamburger final fanatacist.

DEER MASK REPLICA
https://youtu.be/NGCAK4-9JSk?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4Aix9ByxedMMVm2Qym4tN0F2
Yeah, I made a Christmas album, with as much festive cheer as you'd imagine. "The Town Is White With Snow" is actually quite nice I think.

ASTRAL VOYAGE
https://youtu.be/KFX7GEb7DkE?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4Ai0_nAUcZ7N2r-hBdT0mgPl
Electronic space music. Chilled. I like it, and still listen to this album. Mostly inspired by Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre

ABEINSPACE - No Escape From The Other Side Of The Sky
https://youtu.be/jaoNv-xbtj8?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4Aj_FpKreCie78OWg-EL53da
My earliest SPACEROCK musics from back in 2010, created by somebody off their face on painkillers, wine, happy pills and Acid Mothers Temple.

ABEINSPACE - M-THEORY
https://youtu.be/xKQg9vVIIpU?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4AjO_aKETjOL3FxtmBg5Iy4X
Anybody like slowed chilled out meditation-like drones that feel like you're floating endlessly, effortlessly in space? "Mantra Of The Stars" is a nice 25 minute drone. Close your eyes and listen to it in the lotus position.

MASTER BUILDER
https://youtu.be/RokIWnnGXXY?list=PLiuJ5RWqg4AirPih5hvPlbf7MvIG-FRCK
My first ever album :0 Inspired by the genius works of Daevid Allen (RIP you crazy space pixie) and his band, Gong, I imagined a scenario where the green planet, Gong, would emerge once again (the band Gong, would do this a few years later with their album 2032... copycats) and spread joy to the world. This is kinda new age/ambient electronica, and the track "Astral Embrace" I highly regard as one of my best.

 

I'm after a decent (free) video editing program with crazy effects and such. Needs to be quite good to use and reasonably powerful. But yeah, crazy effects are mostly important due to the psychedelic nature of my project. I'm making a couple of music videos so I have a youtube presense presents presence prez... account to promote my music, which will be released early next year. It's spacerock. It's trippy.
So yeah, any of you cats know a good movie editing program for me to play around with then hit me up. Cheers.

Salt World Troubadours do The Beatles(it's in the general forum so more people notice it!)
ok ok, so the new troubs album is going to be another Beatles Cover album. To help reinvigorate the community and show that we can do classic songs in our way, we've had many members join since the first one, and it's time to bring it back and show what we can do now! to do justice to the previous troubadours albums and hopefully encourage a more engaging side to the music community.
Also in memory of Steel, when we release the music, an idea would be to encourage people to donate for testicular cancer (it would be cool if on the release of each troubadours album, we also link to a selected charity, so we're getting people in our community together, and also our hard work will go into helping others)

While I can handle the getting together, keeping tabs on and doo dah, we need someone with webspace to accept track submissions (my connection is slow) and bundle it all together. And someone to do cover/back artwork/tracklist (and also a little insert for inside the theoretical CD case, like just saying who the Troubadours are, and a funny picture of Foget hanging around with Lenin or something)
Ultimately, let's keep all who are taking part involved, a team effort. Solo entries or Collabs are all good!

A possible deadline is late october, but we can decide on it's definite at a later point!

Groovy People who have signed up, and their chosen song:

Kaworu: Come Together
Ragnar: Revolution #9
Geodude: I Want You
Biggles: Yellow Submarine
aer: ???
Puppet Master ??? : Something
ATARI ??? : Strawberry Fields Forever
DDay: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
JMickle: Don't let me down (at least until he changes his mind again!)
Hemogoblin of the Andes: I'm Only Sleeping

Yo, I'm someone who always has to collect things, even as a kid I was like that. There has to be SOMETHING for me to collect. As a child it was Star Wars and Mighty Max toys, in my teens it was Transformers and GI Joe toys(which for the most part I have sold! to buy music!), as well as maiden/priest albums and countless comics. Now I've just gotten into collecting vinyl records, to go with my existing collecting of music (particularly Frank Zappa albums, I have a promo sampler of his on vinyl and around 65 albums on CD), with a CD collecting of like 450 albums or something, maybe more. I'm quite happy now with collecting music, and think I can stick to it for good. It's a total thrill to go into a charity shop or something and flick through their vinyl, knowing for £4 or something I can get a captain beefheart album. And the sound quality truely is greater. I truely love music, it's like the greatest thing ever, and the more I can get of it, the better. I don't get people who just use spotify and the like, it's inferior quality sound due to being in a lossy format, and you don't get the experience of handling something solid. I am really enjoying with Vinyl that you have to slowly take it out, you have to flip sides, it makes it something precious and very real. In the summer I'm gunna get myself a one-off 7" pressed of my own music, just for the novelty, and self-important prestige.
FUN FACT: Acid Mothers temple collect vinyl and on their current tour, they set a task of 100LPs each

So, do you dudes have any collections? what do you get? why?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ctE3S1mao&list=PL93B6C856A2DDF995&feature=plpp_play_all



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up on that youtube playlist is the full album of original material I have created during the summer. It's New Agey/Ambiant/spacey electro inspired by Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Ashra, System 7 etc etc blahblah.
Essentially it was all fruityloops and guitar pro, I wanted to cut down from the more acid rock style that I've been going down and do something clean and such. It's a 40 minute trip, or two 'sides' of three tracks each. Enjoy

Greetings Earth people, after discussion in a previous thread, I thought I might need to clear up a few questions, and just so you get a full understanding about what it is like being a Transformer. I have been a Transformer for aproximately four and a half million years, I am a Decepticon currently serving in Galvatron's army. I am what is known as a 'Sweep', Galvatron's elite hunter-killer squadren, though we have to be careful, as in his fits of mania, he is as likely to shoot us in the face as he is the Autoscum lol!

Last week, I was given a mission to hunt down the traitor known as Octane, but the crazy fool was rabbiting on about seeing the ghost of Starscream. I think he'd taken some magic energon, you know what they always say, you should never trust a Jamaicacon!

So yes, if you have any questions you have ever wanted to ask a Transformer, then please ask.

hey, well me and a friend are likely to be spending a bit in america helping out on an organic farm, and afterwards we kind of want to spend a week just backpacking around the area. We'll be spending a few days in Memphis, then helping out in Arkansas (Fayetteville, near Little Rock), but afterwards want to visit Dallas, New Orleans etc Where we go is kinda dictated on cheap places to stay.
So, is there anybody here around the southern states? who might be able to provide a couch(and floor) for two europeans? I'm... Kaworu, a pretentious liberal hippy douchebag, and she's this cool german girl (I have no idea why she's excited about helping out with organic farming... but blegh)
Also really, what kinda things are there to do/see in the area?

I have gotten into watching bad anime, like Ikki Tousen (lol) or the new series, Infinate Stratos (which despite having every anime cliche ever in it, is still more original than Naruto! Fuck, even a Tom Clancy novel is more original than Naruto!). I've tried watching strike witches, but to be honest that just made me want to pull out my eyes and set them on fire (it is beyond bad). Tenjou Tenge is just boring.
Highschool of the dead continues the trend of almost all zombie fiction being ultimately unlikeable (allthough Onechanbara the movie is a really B-movie style B-movie, and thus mildly entertaining)

Ikki Tousen kinda works as a distraction because its just a bunch of fast moving shapes, no real plot and one dimensional characters, so you can just zone out and see the pretty colours and hear the romance of the three kingdoms getting raped by association. Kinda same for IS, its just random colours and shapes, no real plot or characters, and you've seen everything somewhere else so you can just lie there and like pay no attention.
Rio - Rainbow Gate is kinda ok in a distractiony way, but the second episode doesnt work on the website i use, so i gave up.

So yeah, any kinda bad/simple action anime around, point em this way. No long running stuff, and no gundam (the designs are so bland, its like watching cardboard boxes) Like 13-26 episode series' or something.

So with 2010 drawing to a close, I think it's a good time to talk about what albums were released this year that we enjoyed.

First up is:

 Amorphous Androginous - A Monsterous Psychedelic Bubble exploding in your mind vol 3 The third Ear

AA have been doing this series of psychedelic compilation albums, ocasionally with tracks remixed or edited so they merge together to form a continous whole. I think this is the best one released so far, having gone through the typical psyche groups, this one is comming up with a more solid feel. it includes tracks from great bands such as Aphrodite's Child, Sun Dial and yes, Bob James. But what really perfects it is the inclusion of an AA remix of the the Yamtaka EY? remix of Gong's Master Builder, pure heaven. The icing on the cake however is the ultra-obscure track 'Now it hurts you' by Drum Circus. Drum Circus are an early version of the psychedelic supremos, Brainticket, but guesting Timothy Leary. The whole compilation is wrapped up with various segments of Leary talking. It's a proper psychedelic album.


Afrirampo - We are Uchu No Ko

Afrirampo are imo the most exciting thing to happen to music in a long time. Two Japanese women (Oni on guitar and vocals, Pika on drums and vocals), they melt seemlessly between styles. Pop rock becomes acid mothers temple, becoms almost tribal. The vocals again can be very pop-like and conventional but then turn into vicious screaming, or bird calls. Afrirampo ended earlier this year, and this is their last album, and it's a true testament to their name. Elements from throughout their time seem to all come together. Disk 2's Pika Universe is really a good example of this. I hope they come back, but Pika also works with Acid Mothers Temple, so we're not likely to miss out on her madness for much time!!

Hawkwind - Blood of the Earth

Hawkwind have always been about fifty steps ahead of the english rock scene. Their cosmic sounds, drug enduced jams and just overall astral feel, makes them seem like the audio version of a Jack Kirby comic. Here, they go back a bit to the 70's, but infuse it with modern sinsibilities which they've learned along the way. When this album rocks, it's a full rythmic machine, with tracks equal in coolness to Brainstorm or Masters of the Universe. Modern production techniques really aid this album, and there is a strong unearthly feel throughout. This album works much much better than Gong's '2032' which was released last year. Where Gong seemed to mostly abandon their cosmic jams, here they're back. It's not straight up rock, it's not abstract space freakouts, it's an older Hawkwind with a kind of musical maturity that just works.

The Orb ft Dave Gilmour - Metallic Spheres

If you're not already excited by the combination of The Orb and Dave Gilmore, you're a major chump. The Orb are an amazing electronica/ambiant trance group, and David Gilmour is... David Gilmour! One of the smoothest sounding guitarists alive. This is a pretty solid album, very spaced out, very engrossing. It has a kinda 'oxygene' sensibility to it. But anyways, yeah, imagine a trancelike electronica soundscape, highlighted and expressed with Gilmour's guitar sliding across the top, like our guide into the world. It's dreamy, it's spacey and there is a strong echo of Hawkwind's 90's-now style throughout.

Dweezil Zappa - Return of the son of...

The first Zappa plays Zappa album was good and fun, but something about it sounded Mechanical. It didn't sound 100% right. Now, the ZPZ group have come into their own. Still playing Frank's compositions, but here they seem to really be owning the material. The Dweez has said that h feels closer to his father's work during the guitar solos, so here we have more guitar solos. And that is a very good thing! Dweezil is a phenominal guitarist! He has the technical chops of someone like Van Halen, but to play Zappa's work he's had to unlearn that, and so we have a well accomplished guitar player playing these really messy and organic extended solos which, whilst recalling his dad's, are very much his own, and are pretty damn exciting to listen to! Each disk has a 20something minute track, disk one has King Kong, with ample space for each band member to strut their stuff, and disk two has Billy the Mountain, which actually seems to be as good, if not better(REALLY???) than the original.

and Re-issue of the year goes to....

Brainticket - Celestial ocean

Brainticket are prettymuch the cream of the kautrock/psyche crop. Their debut album, Cottonwoodhill, was basically the recording of an LSD trip and is quite well known amongst psyche circles. A total headfuck. Celestial Ocean is a much more calmer experience, but in no means less trippy, just here the drugged sense is replaced by a strong awareness of the cosmos(band leader Joel Vandroogenbroeck would later release meditation CDs which are well worth listening to!). From the opening track, Celestial Ocean grabs you and takes you along for a cosmic voyage unlike all before. it starts with a repetative synth riff, distorted whispers and lyrics and sound effects come at you. Then we are treated to a delightful eastern kinda soft folkyness, it sets in and  suddenly we're warped into the era of tchnology, a 7 minute sound collage/compilation of music types that flows and calms down, leading into an amazingly melodic electronic experience, and more instrumentals and just y'know WOW. This is without a doubt one of my favourite albums. It's spacey, it's celestial and cosmic in a more composed way then Ash Ra Tempel's world. Where Ash Ra Tempel kinda blast off into uncharted cosmic territory, Brainticket here are guiding you through an experience that they are aware of, and want to educate you. This is without a doubt the best reissue of the year. If you like krautrock, spacerock, psyche or just experimental music in general, buy a copy!
 

Yeah this is basically a big post saying LOOK AT ME IM A FUCKING HIPpY!

So yeah, aparently right, there' these things called hobbies. I hear they are what we do in our free time, out of habbit or for fun or to just calm down. Most of us at some point saw gamemaking as a hobbie, but I am aware that out of the ten people who regularly post at GW, many of them may have moved on elsewhere
So let's talk about what hobbies and interests we have, whether they be new or whatever, but like ones that perhaps DONT include video games..

I am obsessed with music, like really obsessed. Mostly into the weird world of spacerock/krautrock/heavy psyche (but also obsessed with zappa, beefheart, davis, waits blah blah blah). So I collect CDs as a result of this, around 400 of em so far (includes 50 frank zappa albums  )
I am also a dedicated guitarist, I sound like shit but I am kinda working on it. I have an Ibanez Jem 555, and a Jemini distortion pedal, which I run through Guitar Rig for the amp simulation and most of the effects (though i am building a board of random effects pedals). What I love is just messing with different effects and creating new sounds. stuff like digital delay pedals are cool for creating this ambiant soundscape to jam over, or to constantly keep layering these little sounds to create a sensation.
My main guitar influences include Steve Vai, Manuel Gottsching, Syd Barrett, Steve Hillage, Zappa and Makoto Kawabata. Manuel Gottsching is becoming more and moreand influence on my playing, and my current WIP album is getting a very ash ra tempel vibe(with elements of floyd comming in), which i am enjoying as my previous albums have been more hawkwind/acid mothers temple.
I also love creating ambiant drones, mostly influenced by Daevid Allen/glissando orchestra or AMT. I think you can create any world and any vision just by playing gliss on your guitar. One of the tracks on my current project is a 10 minute gliss drone, with spacey sound effects, to create the feeling of like, walking through an abandoned space station. Music is very important to me, and can sometimes provide the only escape from my depression.


I also love comics, not like GENERIC CRAP, but there are a few creators I am obsessing over. Mostly Jack Kirby and Grant Morrison. My Kirby obsession has only really developed over the past year, but reading his work is like stepping into a whole different dimension, it's like being in a child-like world but it's pure classicism. His Forth World is just a constant adventure, and OMAC was so far ahead of it's time, like it is somethign you would expect Morrison to have written (which makes sense as Grant is a Kirby obsessie). And it's really sunk in to me how much Kirby has defined 20th century culture when I can look at almost anything and see his influence in it, from video games to cartoons, even Zappa has aknowledged a love for the guy (and there are elements of his epic narrative style throughout Frank's work). A lot of people kinda dismiss Kirby these days, but they don't really get his work. When they think of him, they mostly think of the stories he did with Stan Lee, which are amazingly pretty, but lack the substance and just pure creativity of his own stuff. Morrison's work like Final Crisis is totally fucking awesome, and it's a shame DC have just ignored it, focusing on the shitty BLACKEST NIGHT/BRIGHTEST DAY crap because too many people said they didn't understand what was going on in Final Crisis. I've finally started buying The Invisibles, it so so amazing and just the density of ideas that man throws at you, you can get easily overwhelmed, but sticking with it, it's pretty fucking solid.
And MY GOD is Frank Quietly the best artist on the scene now!? The guy is sick. The Image guys have so lost their edge these days, so it's cool to see someone like Quietly just bang out constant greatness.

I ramble on a lot about things I am passionate about, i can talk for hours about hawkwind or can or something (my counsellor at uni has similar tastes, so my sessions end up just being talking about krautrock, the last session he recorded vocals for a chilled out track he's doing, where he basically talked about how can's firs vocalist was better than damo sazuki), and I and so talk for days about comics by certain creators.

ENOUGH RAMBLING (rambling man, rambling at ya) come on guys tlak about you hobbies.

Basically starting two weeks ago, my PC started being a cunt and would just randomly switch off for no apparent reason while I was playing GTA4 (I sent an email to their support, but they hate their customers and never got back in touch) then since then it has started doing it frequently during other games (only the original unreal tournament seems unaffected) also other programs that're memory intensive, such as file conversion and the like cause it to crash, now five minutes ago when typing this post it just suddenly crashed and it's getting really frustraiting and I have no clue what to do to sort it out. I mean I am guessing it's something memory related, but I know nothing of computers so I haven't a real clue.

I haven't changed any hardware or anything to have caused this!

My comp is Vist64 bit, with 4Gig of ram, a 250 gig HD blah blah, more info avaliable.

Any of you guys know anything or have any suggestions which can help me? I'd be very grateful, thanks in advance!!!!

ok so maybe I'm doing a little bit with film, and basically I have two videos consisting of like me on one side of the sofa, and me on the other side, and I need them joined so it's like two of me on the same sofa on the same movie. What (free) program can do that split/join? how hard/simple is it, can it be done other the next two days??

help a  bro out please.

tomorrow I may be getting a PSP, because I am really fucking bored. This topic is to convince me to either buy one or not, argue the best you can. Also don't say "get a DS instead" because I've had a DS since they came out in (*-*||^_^||*-*)J.a.P.a.N(*-*||^_^||*-*) and it's a piece of shit with really dull gimmicky games and lazy-ass snes ports.
Games I'm interested in are the GTA stories ones (duh), Star Wars Battlefront renegade thingy, the armoured core game and whatnot. Also eventually Dynasty Warriors strikeforce (DW games are my guilty pleasure)
how easy(without getting into any details that could hurt GW) is it to pirate games for?

But seriously why should I get one? wht's so great about it? or why does it suck?

basically I have a controller/dancemat for non-dancing purposes. Is there a way(on an XP system) I can get it so that when I stand on any of the keys on it, it's recognised by the computer as the keyboard's enter key? So I'm like stamping down to press enter?
Thanks

Probably it'd go on the arts board since this is what the question's ultimately about, but it's more technical aspect so I hope it can stay here to get more input.
ok So basically I am knowing nothing about electronics. I could make a LED circuit but that's about it. I kinda have an idea and I want to know how hard it would be to do/if you have any advice or knowledge that could help me.

Idea1: Using a PIR(motion/security) sensor from a light to trigger buttons on a remote, so if you are far away fromlike the TV it is on channel 1, but if you walk within the sensor's range the channel changes to chanel 2, and if you leave the range it returns to channel 1.
Questions... how would I be able to set this up? Can you change the range of the sensors? remotes?? they confuse me, how could an idiot do this? Would there be much difference between a tv remote, a dvd remote and/or a digital pictureframe remote? Could it be possible to directly hook the sensor up to the digital picture frame so it changes the image when in the range?

Idea2: Basically turning the floor into big buttons to change the channel/image, so I guess it would be kinda like a dancemat, so when someone walks up to the image/whatever to take a look at the detail it suddenly changes. Again similar questions about how I'd be able to do this.

Basically I want user interaction on this where they change what they see, but I don't want them to do it consciously, like I want the viewer to be unaware and these are the two ideas I have at the moment.
So you have a portrait f george Bush and you want to go in closer to look at the detail, but when you get close it turns into a painting of a chimp. That's not my actual piece idea but an example of what I want to do.

Any help would be foget-appreciated

Yah yah I'm gunna be out of action for a couple of weeks up to a month, maybe longer. I start uni, and I just wanna not have much distraction, and GW has a habbit of taking up more time than it should, and beeing extremely annoying at the worst possible times. Lucky the modteam/admins have sorted out who will protect my precious precious forums when I am gone, so I would like to congratulate GW's newest members to the mod team, that's Velfarre the new crapshack mod and Psyburn the comics and anime guru, who will hopefully still mod it even when I return 
I might pop on irc one or twice so I can get details about the next troubadours project when stuff gets finalised., so guys relax and most importantly have a cuppa tea

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Ok so I was watching a Louie theroux thing last night from the 90's where he stayed with some "Patriots" and I found it interesting. Essentially these are people who believe that the New World order (UN) are infringing on the constitution of the united states, and so they've moved up to the mountains to live self sufficiently, avoid paying taxes, whatever in the hope that the NWO will leave them alone. A place (or places) where they can live their own lives, however when the time comes, everybody in the communes must bare arms to defend against the military. Fuck one of them had the same backstory as Cobra Commander!
This means of course that it's something of a breeding ground for right-wing crazies, racists and gun nuts. Essentially Paulsies. But there are different groups. You have the white supremists who the main group try to stay away from, the constitutional militias, the christian patriots etc. There's also the cult side such as Branch Davidian (Waco).

It's really interesting to me that people will do this, living in England there's a general attitude of not caring too much about anything, but in America there seems to be paranoid crazies who will get up and leave over just about anything big or small. I even hear that they believe guns are important to them as Tea is to us... so WHOAH!

How can anyone think a weapon is that important?

Well, there's a lot of americans here who'd possibly maybe know more about this could fill me in? Any cool documentaries to watch about these guys? Better yet anybody here who actually agrees with them in some way?

(Also I know about that Jonestown stuff, that was truely horrifying/disgusting)

ok so yeah I mainly read DC, mostly due to the obsesive fanboy nature of my brother.
so what's going on?
The travesty known as Countdown has finished finally. It was all useless, and stupid and certain aspects somewhat trivialise final crisis.
Spoiler is back from the dead in the most unconvincing retcon in DC's History
Booster Gold is the best currently running comic by DC, you should all read it.
Batman R.I.P has begun. One character is rumoured to die.
Gotham Underground's cover hinted at the return of two dead Batman characters. One I've mentioned, the other is hinted in the latest Booster Gold. He's perhaps the coolest character in the Batman mythos and I am so very fucking excited for his return.
(Superboy) Prime vs the legion of superheroes. It's handbags at dawn for the epic battle of a crybaby vs 5000 useless nobodies.
Final Crisis is comming. The final of the crisises... until 2010 or something :/

Man my brother is gunna be bankrupt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7456588.stm


Yeah in short, gay men and straight women are born with different brains to straight men and gay women. Which means that sexuality is determined at birth. It also explains why a large number of lesbians look/act like hulk hogan and why loads of gay guys like fashion and shoes(and tend to make ideal foster parents)!
So basically great it's been proven that sexuality isn't a choice, so looks like you guys'll have to find another arguement!
It's not a mental condition caused by upbringing, or a well conscidered choice to sin against god, but an actual physical thing.

what about bisexuals?

Allthough the research is swedish and they are all crazy... so it's validity is blehg.