My old housemate had a hamsa tat on the back of her neck. So now when I see one I just associate it with banality and annoyance.
I've often thought about getting one but I think it's something best left till I'm in my thirties or whatever so I can be a bit more certain that I want a Dalek climbing up my arm.

he's 27

my dad's called Jeff. no way am i visiting a Jeff world!

I don't like the idea of a like button, if only for the fact that I know nobody would like my posts ;_;

if this place was like a hive of activity then it'd have a point to it, but for a forum with about ten active members it seems a bit kinda, blah.

 
 

The video games industry reminds me of Image Comics.

You might like the new 52s reboot of Batman comics. Bruce Wayne being put down and finally realising Gotham isnt his city nor was it ever was.

Pfft, any Batman comics post Morrison just aren't worth reading.

Woof

 

I don't like it. Change it back.

Gorilla Wangs

It's kinda hard to think of a new name for this place because it's just that. a place online to talk about pokemonand marxism. There's no distinct focus to really draw upon, and we all have different views about whatever so there's little in the way of unification that can be drawn upon. I'm not obsessed with gaming, so it's kinda odd to mention belonging to a site about video games. something bizarre like saltw is more my cup of tea. But then again it hasn't come up in offline conversation since I was like 16 anyways,so like, that makes this post kinda pointless.

i never knew you were so handsome *_*

To be honest, I haven't gotten much new music this year, been mostly getting a load of old albums(the big story of the year being the Zappa reissue series, meaning that many of his albums have now become affordable again...), though I did get a few:


Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paradiso UFO - Son Of A Bitches Brew
combining their usual sonic spacerock freakouts with free jazz stylings, AMT have come up with an exciting album creating vast audio worlds of sheer madness. It's really fun to listen to and totally out there. Their best album in quite some time!


Hawkwind - Onward
This year has been marked by the tragic death of Huw Loyd Langton earlier this month, but man, Hawkwind managed to get a good album out around spring time. It's taking their more typical sound but using a lot more modern production and stylings, so took a while to get into. It's just great that a band consisting of guys in their 50's-70's is making music more modern, fresh and exciting than the newer psychedelic bands who mostly just copy what Hawkwind did 40 years ago. It's good music, though hit and miss in parts, and lacks the continous trip feeling of earlier Hawkwind, but when it gets into the Blanga zone, it's great.


Madness - Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da
let's face it, it would be impossible to surpass 2010's The Liberty Of Norton Folgate, so what Madness have instead done is focused on what got them respected back in the eighties, a series of superbly written short length tracks about life. Now sounding closer to The Small Faces than ever, but still definative Madness, great album. Get it.

Like I said though, this year I've mainly been focusing on getting old stuff, records, tapes and whatever, and it felt like another year where most've the new bands around didn't really do anything new or interesting. Lawrence Arabia is carrying the 60's style singersongwriter mantle pretty well, and is pleasent to listen to, though top new band of the year?

perhaps Syd Arthur? They've taken the modern indie rock and just rewrote the rule book by adding heavy elements of the canterbury scene into it, just putting those soft folk/jazz dynamics into the music and breaking up the monotomy adding a laid back sophistication. It's 'prog lite', and just glides over the ears.


EDIT: Actually the biggest music story of the year was the official release of Captain Beefheart's Bat Chain Puller, after like 35 years in development hell, the Zappa family trust were finally able to release it since he died in 2010. Unfortunately, I haven't got a copy yet, which sucks.

Generally all my school memories kinda suck, no biggies stand out. I wasn't the most bullied kid there, I kept myself to myself mostly, so I didn't have super embarassing situations. It was mostly normal and just super tedious, so I hated it and just dealt with it. Looking back, I wish I'd have been more sociable and whatever, and had more courage to be myself rather than just stereotypical nerd kid. But fuck it, that was years ago now.

A: Book: Jack Kirby's Omac delux edition. LOL KAWORU PICKS A COMIC. It's prettymuch one of the most out there and bizarre things around, but it's a great example of Comics at their best, and the kind of book where you still keep discovering strange ideas and things after fifty reads. Well, either that or Timothy Leary's 'The Psychedelic Experience' which is a pretty cool spiritual primer.
Video Game: Most likely Fallout 3 or Skyrim
Movie: Batman XXX A Porn Parody for obvious reasons...
Album: Miles Davis & John Coltrane the complete columbia studio recordings (6 disk boxset) Apart from the whole length deal, it contains such beautiful music and alternate takes, plus Miles Davis in 1959 is arguably one of the most perfect sounds you can ever hear, and I just love drifting away to a dreamworld to his stuff. If a boxset is somehow classed as cheating, then the original '59 press of Kind of Blue will be my choice, it's the best sounding version(in terms of space and depth of sound, clarity and warmth) of the best sounding album around, and has such a purity in tone, and encompases so many emotions and feelings.
eerrrp need to remember, this is a salt mine, and not a music blog... ok question time:

Q.What charity do you most actively help out/support?

but you've already been an intestinal parasite in a previous life
did you enjoy it that much?

A) Hot Dogs (not with chilly or weird stuff on, just hotdog with onions, ketchup and mustard. yumm)

B)Whose your groovy hero?

though with members pooping themselves, maybe gw's always been like a retirement home????

this place is turning into a retirement home for 'net veterans

I like how the dude's knob is like the most detailed part of it, reminds me of the early michaelangelo piece where centre-canvas was a detailed depiction of a demon's gaping sphincter.