Explain to me A) why this fucking garbage is selling so much? and B)who is largly buying it?
 
I'm assuming women. Please tell me I am wrong about this.
 
what the fuck is wrong with people
 

The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueens Icedragon". The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in Twilight, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan.

Its gonna be a looooonnnng night...
 
 

Its

Hey what happened to this we used to have one? Maybe it was merged with the whats on your mind topic? Well we don't talk about international news enough maybe if we have another thread it'll influence more people to talk about the news?
 
Heres one I heard about today, I don't really watch the news so I just get what I can from here and facebook.
 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/17/145328987/hopes-are-fading-for-missing-in-italian-cruise-ship-disaster
 
An italian cruise ship captain ran his ship aground passing a 500km line that is a no shipping area trying to show off to folks on the beach (something about a horn salute). Dude ran it on a large coral reef that you could visibly see above water but expands below kind of like an iceberg. Guy is a captain he should have definitely known better. They also didn't practice their fire and emergency drills so none of the people onboard knew what the hell to do incase of such an emergency. When he ran the ship on the reef he punctured what I'm guessing is the bottom hull of the ship (aka the ship's keel) which caused it to take on alot of water losing balance and flipping over on its starboard (right) side. I heard that about six people are dead so far, they're worried about fuel spilling out into the waters which are nature reserve, and they have about two dozen people still unaccounted for.
 
What made it even worse was the captain took a lifeboat and left leaving his crew and passangers to fend for themselves, after putting them all in that position. That is like the biggest no no ever. And when confronted by the coastguard and told to return to the ship dude started bawling like a baby and making excuses and shit not to go back.
 
That is like, worst case scenario for what we'd call a damage control situation or "running aground". The only thing that could have made it worse is a fire/explosion from fuel leakage or the ship falling off the reef and sinking. So its prolly like, 7/10 bad.

For a couple different purposes. I know alot of people here aren't inclined to that sort of thing but I live in a place where you can buy one really easily and there are plenty of places to shoot it. And was wondering if there was anyone around here that knows a bit about firearms.
 
My pops owns a couple acres of land on the Blackwater River State Forest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_River_State_Forest.
 
My little brother does alot of hunting there. I'm not really into hunting but I might go with him or something sometime I dunno. Its a good place to shoot a gun anyways without having to worry about disturbing anyone else. There are some cougers(big cats I'm pretty sure they're cougers)/black bears that roam around the area pretty often too. One of the black bears started running at my cousin, his step son, and my brother a couple weeks ago but it went away so they didn't have to shoot it. But thats something to keep in mind, something big enough to take down a mid sized bear (so I prolly don't want a fucking 9mm).
 
Its also for defensive purposes, although I'm more that capable of fighting someone with my hands alot of people that would like to rob you don't do that. And I often drive through some pretty rough places around the country in a $42,000 car and look like I'm 16 and am suprised no one has tried to rob me yet. But when I was staying with some girl that lived in (I guess you could say a "rough" area where I live) some crackhead looking motherfuckers were perched down infront of my car and I'm pretty sure they were trying to figure out how to take my rims off. They ran off when I walked outside but its still something to think about. Also my brother and his GF just moved in with me and they've had problems with people they knew stealing their shit and walking into their house with guns and though they don't affiliate with those people anymore, I'm not going to put up with that kind of shit and I will put a hole in someone if I have to.
 
I know alot of people on here are (or atleast were) anti-gun/anti-violence and all that jazz but fuck it. Its too easy to get one in that state and I'm not about to sit in my house full of nice shit when I know there are a bunch of losers around that want my shit and would def take advantage of that.
 
I want to try to get a concealed carry permit just to cover my ass but I don't specifically need one because of two laws in florida:
 

Vehicle carry without a permit is allowed either in a snapped holster in plain view (firearm in its case), or when the firearm is concealed if the firearm is "securely encased". "Securely encased" means in a glove compartment, whether or not locked; snapped in a holster (if the holster has a form of retention); in a gun case, whether or not locked; in a zippered gun case; or in a closed box or container which requires a lid or cover to be opened for access.^[2] (Note: this legal condition is not the same as "encased securely.") Vehicle carry without a permit is permitted when concealed even if it is not "securely encased" if the firearm is not "readily accessible". Vehicle carry on one's person inside a vehicle without a permit is not allowed.
Without a permit, firearms in a vehicle must be securely encased, period. Securely encasing the firearm makes it not readily accessible. The holster does not need to be snapped, it can be any retention type holster, such as black hawks serpa holster. Once a firearm is securely encased, it can be stored anywhere inside the vehicle and is not limited to just the glove compartment/center console. There is also no such thing as the two step law or two step process.

 
Which allows you to carry a gun in your car without a permit.
 

As of October 1, 2005, Florida became a "Stand-your-ground" state. The Florida law is a self-defense, self-protection law. It has four key components:
   
 

• It establishes that law-abiding residents and visitors may legally presume the threat of bodily harm or death from anyone who breaks into a residence or occupied vehicle and may use defensive force, including deadly force, against the intruder.
• In any other place where a person “has a right to be,” that person has “no duty to retreat” if attacked and may “meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
• In either case, a person using any force permitted by the law is immune from criminal prosecution or civil action and cannot be arrested unless a law enforcement agency determines there is probable cause that the force used was unlawful.
• If a civil action is brought and the court finds the defendant to be immune based on the parameters of the law, the defendant will be awarded all costs of defense.[/l][/l][/l][/l][/l][/l][/l][/l][/l][/l]

Where if you're attacked, pretty much anywhere from what I understand within reason. You've got no legal responsibility to run from said attacker if in possession of a firearm and are allowed to use lethal force, if necessary.
 
My buddy is in training to be a cop and he obsesses over guns and gun laws so I'll probably check alot of this with him before I actually get one. Like I said I'm not out to shoot anyone and its mostly just because I want to learn how to shoot well but if I'm gonna get a gun then I might as well know when and how I can use it if needed.



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So I got two songs I wrote both of them are using existing tracks by two different artists. I won't be able to actually do the vocal recording until I get back home in about a month or so but if anyones interested I'd like to have everything ready for me when I get back so I can get right on it.
 
They're kind of like blues inspired hip-hop I guess? Thats what I had in mind and thats what its gonna sound like. They're two different songs which go together and tell the internal dialogue of the self conscious beast and a comparison of sorts to the self-consciousness of the human being. Its pretty easy to understand once you read it I think. They're both tracks by existing artists that I want to modify or edit in order to put my own vocal work and lyrics into them. The first one is an actual song and the other is an instrumental track that shouldn't need anything done to it until I'm finished. You could pretty much call this a two track compilation mixtape, its pretty sweet I think.
 
The first song is gonna be "Animal" by Miike Snow. I found an "instrumental" version on youtube but its looped and off as fuck so I can't use it. What I'm gonna need is for someone to just take the track and cut out the vocals except for the repeated chorus line. I want to use that. I wrote to the tempo of the drummachine (think thats what it is) and the higher pitched keyboard which is very consistant in the whole song. So if anyone wants to do this and get creative then I would be thrilled to hear it just as long as the tempo is about the same so I don't get thrown off or have to rewrite the whole thing.
 
This is the song I'm talkin about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVWeqAPQUXc&ob=av2e

if all dogs aren't allowed into heaven
then baby, where the hell you think I'm headed?
I gotta soul only the red man knows, so
I feel a lil cold, heart beats a lil' slow
when I move I only go where I wanna go
when I think I only learn what I wanna know
take what I can, can't teach an old dog new tricks
always sniffin around tryin' to find my new fix
 
*Chorus
 
Why's this dog always playin' hide and seek?
hidin' under the bed hopin you can't see me
when I see your face, babe; I look the other way
only cus my shame, love; I try to hide the pain
only cus I care I will wimper, "go away"
its not right I know, but I dunno another way
Don't wanna draw blood or cause you heartache
So I sit under some stars waitin for day to break
 
*Chorus
 
But it never gives way and I always feel the same
Day to day, day to day, day to day
Its all the same and my minds so strained
My brain so aches and I just wanna make it go away
I just wanna make her go away
I just wanna clean that sorry stain

*As the humming starts:
 
my friends tell me its ok, I'm still young
soon I'll find another one
but I'm already goin on fourteen
to a dog thats really old
so low the soul that I keep
my tail still and my head low
So low that when they go to grope
what I could do no one knows
So low that at night when
the moons high, I cry and I cry and I cry and I cry
So low that at night when
the moons high, I cry and I cry and I cry and I cry
 
*Chorus
 
End

 I don't start until after the keyboard and the bass part hit (until the music actually kicks in). Each set of lyrics written are written before and after each chorus.
 
 
 
The second song is "Wildcat" by ratatat. I can post the lyrics here too if anyone wants to see them. Its a little faster though, sounded really good in my head but I might need to tweak it a bit when I get home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKniXABsUeE

See as I step outta sight for
I am the darkness that owns the night
no need for fright, no need to hide
I don these eyes that shine with the twilight
the cool air keeps my mind all mine
till I open my eyes, who the fuck am I?
why do my thoughts always end up so:

I, Find myself at the start again
Find myself just a cub again
Find myself starin myself down
in the puddle on the pavement that I thought was the ground
how in the hell did I end up here?
right here feelin' the thing I most feared?
scratch that, I can't care now so I'll just:
 
Must keep the cool cat attitude
do what I must, must I do what I do?
why can't I lie in the sun like they do?
chase rats, get fat, die in an old ladies lap?
livin' life like their ain't no tomorrow
livin' life lookin' foreword to tomorrow
all I'm lookin for is another reason to:

instead this one can't stop thinkin'
about the trees, the birds, and why they're leavin'
about the sun and the moon, now I barely see them
how the fog in the sky is so dark and stinky
and the men that walk upright, they look so sickly
like they did something wrong but I know it ain't that easy
its that lack of ease, it overwhelms and makes me:
 
And here you are at the beginnin'
pawprint in the mud the only thing you're leavin'
would it be any easier if you weren't still breathin'?
you know she might like it, she wouldn't feel guilty
kudos to that girl that built then broke me.
left me in a parkin' lot all bruised and bloody
if only she could hear me:

*pause and start after first reverb and once bass picks up.

But I can't stop now because I know somethin's comin'
I feel it in my fur its makin' my chin itch
itches even more when I scratch it, oh sh-
 
It always seems to stop when I check on the children
what you think I was doin? prowlin?
I watch em like they were my own
though I know their sleepin, I sing em soft songs
about love, peace, and getting along
in hopes that their futures aren't already dead and gone
 
I do this for all of you, not me
for the jaded, heartbroken, young gun down on his knees
for the broken little girl that took a shit all over me
for the confused little brother lookin up to me'
for the comrade standin' right by my side
I've lived for myself thats why I was so tired all the time, its time
you move so slow when you're all you know
the days just seem to drag, like my tail between my legs
OOOHHHH:
 
I feel like I've gotten some, newfound strength
I'm not clenchin my teeth, I'm at ease?
I'm not clawin' on shit, have I grown past that?
How can that be? Shouldn't I be real?:
 
This don't feel right
I ain't lived that long a life
why should I be so wise?
or is it just too much pride?
try to fall back to the ground
I'm a living thing not a cloud
Thats how my friend died
He got to bright then he:
 
I don't know what I'd do about that
I don't wanna die in some hospital bed
I don't wanna die infront of family and friends
I'm so sorry these words didn't come when you needed them
I lo-
 
What do I do? What can I say?
How do I love before I hit the grave?
how do I change the course on this thing?
how do I make it so my life ain't a blank space?
 
Keep on askin' myself questions no one will answer.
I'll just do what I can, I can't walk on water
but I can give my brother a bottle
and I'll teach the spoiled ones not to be so snot nosed
So next time you see me don't call me "kitty"
remember what I'm sayin', remember what you're hearin'
from the runt with the muted mouth. bet it seems pretty loud now...

Each lyric set I write ends with the cat's growl and when I'm done I might need someone to mix it so it blends into that fluidly cus it'll sound fuckin' awesome. When the guitar lines are added later on, I start singing so the words have a different pace. Its a little short in some places and long in the others so the timing isn't perfect at the beginning but I'll fix it when I can actually record shit.
 

I know alot of people on here use networking sites, IE: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and all that good shit. Well this is a place to either link or quote some of the marvelous phrases, sayings, conversations, or unintentionally brilliant gems you might come across while venturing the internet. I see a few of them every few days and just feel like I need to share them. THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY A PLACE TO JUST POKE FUN AT PEOPLE FOR BEING STUPIDER THAN YOU! No its not. But if per chance you see some dumbass post something hilarious and have a compelling need to share it then feel free to share it. If you run across a joke or even just something interesting to read, feel free to share it. I know a bunch of people follow twitter (I personally do not) but if you're favorite celebrities/famous people have something to say that you feel we need to know, share it.
 
Don't post peoples personal shit. If that person isn't putting what they're saying out on the internet for others to read anyways, keep it to yourself. Sharing it with us is wrong.
 
I remember dada was following alot of american politicians for while IE: Sarah Palin who had some incredibly funny shit to say. And I know Hundley and Diggity have their own twitters too right? It would be really cool to link some of those more interesting pages on here so we can all have a look see and laugh our asses off.
 
 

So I love art pretty much. Or not all art. I like art that you can look at/listen to/watch and clearly see something is going on in the head of the artist. Not some picture of a fuckin vase or some ambiguous possible dude/lady. Nah, I'm talking about the tortured soul. Like; Vincent Vangogh's starry night, Picasso's "Blue Period", and The cat guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain
 
I don't really know very many others though, I've heard of a few and seen a few but I don't know very much about them. When I get home I want to order some big prints of these artists and put them up on my wall in my bedroom and maybe house. My favorite has got to be the cat man. I read about him here and that guy was amazing. Its not really the material itself that is so inspiring as why he did it. From what I've read and understand he seemed like a pretty simple dude that just loved cats and loved drawing cats. Because of his love of cats he developed schizophrenia and went batshit insane. You can see it clearly in his later work. Its so awesome. Its like even then, even though the guys mind was falling apart, he still kept drawing cats. and it looks like the cats were torturing his mind towards the end. Its just so ironic (I think I used it right this time) and twistedly beautiful how that shit happened to the poor guy.
 
lets talk about more crazy people and their art. It can be any form of art, it doesn't really matter but the artist has to be suffering from some sort of mental illness. Thats the parameters for this topic. I know you might be able to make the argument that Picasso wasn't technically insane, but during the blue period he was suffering through some serious depression which influenced his art for a prolonged period of time. So we can count stuff like that as insanity.
 
Also if anyone knows where I can order the prints online that would be helpful too because I have no idea. I want them about 2ft by 1ft maybe? or larger, I'm not picky I just don't want them too small. I don't want to buy original artwork but copies cus I do not have that kind of money (der).

Ok this is going to be the new mixtape topic I put it in media but if its not the best place then move it cus I can't. The rules are post a mixtape of whatever you want to share with us then talk about them. Usually mediafire.com is a good way to upload them for free. You can make a mixtape about anything. I don't know if we still have the old mixtape topic around here but it'd def be a good example of what to do.

This is the very first mixtape topic its from 08, theres alotta good stuff in here: http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=76844.0

This is a mixtape topic Ryan made later its got some funk stuff in it. http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=78625.0

Anyone watch this show yet? I'm on the fourth episode of the first season and I'm liking it. Its about this poor family of six kids taking care of themselves and their drunkard father in chicago. Its supposed to be a dark comedy and so far thats pretty much exactly what it is. All of the kids are fucked up in some way or another and William Macy makes a great drunken deadbeat dad.

http://youtu.be/CHstRRD_8LE

There was originally a british version of it first, which I keep seeing it being called better but I dunno I've never seen it.

Yeah apparently they closed down the highways and made some big deal because obama is coming to the beach to look at the damage done from the oil and he came in tonight or is coming in or something. He's supposed to be going around looking at stuff tomorrow I guess and I'm pretty sure it'll be directly infront of where I'm staying


what should I do

has anyone ever heard of her?

she's a new orleans musician that does a "One woman show" using multiple instruments and a loop pedal.

inspired by a one-man-puppet-show (Blair Thomas, Chicago), in which the puppeteer played multiple characters and the drums, Theresa overcame the financial impracticality of touring Europe with a band by learning to play with a loop pedal. She began by looping just her violin, voice, and guitar. But, wanting to create a richer sound live, Theresa began thinking about adding another loop pedal and more instruments. As a result, Theresa currently travels with two loop pedals, which she uses simultaneously, along with her record player, drums, dulcimer, guitar, and violin.

I love this song

Its my desktop. I stole it from some guy's flashdrive my buddy found in his laundry bag.

I think it looks like a landscape from behind a cooter. what do you think?

So I recently just about paid off my car payments for my 2008 ford focus (I only owe about 900$ on it) and I've since been looking to put my money to something. At first I was gonna get a place to stay when I'm home but my parents talked me out of it because I'm never home and we got some extra land out in the woods so they're putting a place out there and I might live there (but if not it doesn't really matter I'm never home).

Then my brother and some other people I've talked to with the base knowledge of cars actually I have talked me into getting this:



except its gonna be a blue one and I'm going to get it tricked out before I get it via internets. Gonna trade my old car in for it and pay monthly payments on it. Its going to be pretty fucking expensive (think possibly a little over 30k) and insurance will be expensive but it will help my credit so later I can get a house and I'll have the baddest car ever.

I'm pretty sure I can have it paid off in a year and a half to two years , so I'm not too worried about the payments but that is alot of money...

yeah, I saw it on cnn a couple of hours ago. NASA cracked open that big grey bitch and got it flowin like the cooter dam. Got 25 gallons of water so far. I don't know much else other then that but I hope they got fishes too.

req, can somebody post a link to an article or somethin' for me I'll crash the whole ship if I go to the youtube.s

I think the real question here though is: DO YOU THINK WE CAN DRINK IT?!!?!?

I'm pretty sure alotta people have heard this if you keep up with indie shit but I don't at all.

Metric is some Canadian indie pop/rock/new wave band (yeah I know this sounds bad) with a female lead singer and some great vocal melodies. They released a new album titled "fantasies" recently and I haven't heard a bad song yet on it.


plus the chick in it is really really sexy and I love the way she dances in this song

WinDVD won't work, its the only blu-ray dvd media player I got on this computer. everytime I put a disk in it doesn't do anything and tells me its updating, still doesn't do anything though and just sits there until I turn it off. it says it the aacs key has expired and its got to update, but I think thats bullsh3t and its lying to me.

The Majestic Majesty and Satanic Satanists

I like them alot btw they haven't seemed to lose their edge and do some pretty cool shit, seems like they started using banjo's alot in their more recent songs.

Anyone know of some stuff in this vein? I don't know what you'd call it, psychadelic folk rock maybe? I dunno but they're really cool

So christmas is coming up.

I don't normally give a shit but its kind of important this year cus theres a possibility it might be my grandpa's last and I want to give him something to help him out, maybe get out more and keep him a little healthier and its pretty important I make it this time because if I don't it will be the fourth in a row that I've missed. Also its very early to be bringing up the whole christmas thing but since I'm shipping I won't have very long inbetween vacations to get this done.

So my grandpa has trouble getting around, something about his knees and back being messed up and he can hardly walk without holding onto something but won't use his cane because I guess he's too proud or maybe it looks dumb I don't know.

I want to have him a wooden cane made by hand. But to do this I need to find a place to get it done. And some information.

What kind of wood should I use? Would oak be sturdy enough and easy to craft something out of or is it too hard? Will I need to get his height and weight measured? Is there a kind of establishment I can go to get this done?

What I'm thinking of having done is getting the cane made with the hilt shaped like a gator head and having the legs and arms carved or burned out into the wood (theres a tool to do this can't remember what its called). Maybe have little spines put where the tail would be and possibly the back of the gator.

I'm having it done in the shape of an alligator because my granpa (we call him pop pop) really likes the Florida Gator football team (UF) and if I got something personally made for him with it I know he'd probably use it and atleast think its the best gift ever and maybe it'll make him feel better.

Also, does anyone know if the school has some kind of rally saying or something that I can put onto the cane? I was thinking if I couldn't find anything that sounded good I'd have "Swamp King" put on the shaft somewhere and maybe a big "F" put on the gator's stomach.

If I can't find a place to do it my neighbor has some equipment and he makes stuff like this but I want to be sure it'll be done professionally and look really nice so thats kind of my B plan even though I'll probably ask him because hes pretty damn good at this stuff but I don't know about canes.

I like music that either is or sounds like psychedelic blues, but I don't know very many bands out there like that.



those are the only two I can name off the top of my head

I want to get something pretty nice from my shipping money.

Something with a fairly wide screen, HD, very fast and will be able to play all the new comp games coming out for a good while at high spec. Its got to be a laptop because I'll need it to travel with. I'm willing to spend from 1000$-1500$ on a nice one but it needs to be able to play da games.\

I'm looking around new egg right now and I don't really know what I want because I don't know very much about comp specs or what the hell they're supposed to come with to be good nowadays (gettin old).