Jernlov
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My parents have never lectured me on any music I listen to; not even my J-pop and other Japanese music. It always bewilders me as to why parents do this, to be honest. I'm a composer also; and if my parents started lecturing me on my tastes in music, I would simply remind them that I like to draw influence from lots of different styles of music. As for live concerts: Absolutely nothing I'm interested in here. I have no money to travel, so I'm stuck with whomever is playing at the local university.
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Yeah, that's what I thought the cause of mine was. I was wrong. My doctor linked it down to my chronic depression issues and my bad eyesight. One of my eyes is significantly worse than the other one and that causes the majority of my headaches, because obviously the image from each eye looks drastically different. Getting my eyes checked (finally) this week though, so maybe I'll be able to understand what's up.
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Kawai Kenji - Kodoku na Junrei
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^ Good [cabbage]. maudlin of the Well - Interlude 3 Downloaded lossless versions of the reissues of Bath and Leaving Your Body Map yesterday. I can't believe I was listening to those 192kbps rips of them all the time. The difference is absolutely astounding. Now to see if I can find them on CD somewhere, which will be hard due to the fact that they're both out of print.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Toccata
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It would help me immensely if I knew your tastes. So I ask: what sort of thing are you looking for? Some senseless violence, good interesting dialogue. A certain degree of graphic intensity and humor. Kind of like Melancholy but with people dieing. Come to think of it, Melancholy and FullMetal Alchemist along with some other shameful choices [which I wont mention] is all that I've watched in the anime spectrum. So I dont really, fully know. Outlandish plotlines and fantasy is a plus. But not too streched and inane that I can't follow. Thanks. I recommend Fate/stay Night. Very much so a fantasy/mythological anime with plenty of violence, but the fights aren't senseless. Also, Baccano! is definitely to your tastes.
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Yeah. I loved the ambience of Lain too. [hide=My interpretation of Lain]I feel as if Lain was much to do with the way technology is causing people to seperate from society - hence the split personality of Lain. It's as if being connected to the Wired had destroyed her completely - she became a God and ended up completely detatched from reality in her own delusional world. I felt the whole message of the series was something of a warning (as in 1998, computers were only just breaking into everyday household use) as to what the futures of technology held. As for your question: I don't think they are. They seemed so distant and plaintive (until her sister got stuck in between the Wired and human world) that I highly doubt that they were actually a real family. It has been a long while since I watched it though, so I can't really answer you for sure on that one. I'll rewatch it sometime soon and take your point into consideration whilst doing so.[/hide] Another thing I got from it was the "everything is relative" vibe. Everything was connected to something else.
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Harem anime is so bad most of the time. I would rather play the games or whatever they're based on. Been watching Fate/stay Night and all I can say is: ****ing AWESOME. I love fantasy stuff as a rule, but it's so great - way better than the game. The FSN game was pretty boring: it seemed as if the translators had a lot to prove by being overly verbose and throwing in out-of-character big words all the time. You should totally watch Monster. Yeah do this. (even though I haven't seen it yet) Also, Texhnolyze. Very much so. I'll watch both of those. :thumbup: Texhnolyze has the same artist that Lain did behind it. So does Haibane Renmei. Seriously, the guy is a genius at making emotional, thought-provoking art. It would help me immensely if I knew your tastes. So I ask: what sort of thing are you looking for?
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Fates Warning - Traveler in Time
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You should totally watch Monster. Yeah do this. (even though I haven't seen it yet) Also, Texhnolyze. Very much so.
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ohai there. ;D Hi. ;D (need I point out that I meant what I said in a completely G-rated fashion. Just sayin', most of the east Asian girls I've met have been lovely.) No offense to anyone, but I really hate stereotypes like this. Being Jewish, I've heard people tell me that they like Jewish people because they're so nice or smart. I would rather them tell me that they hate me as an individual than say they like my background as a whole. Labeling or attributing such a large group of people with such a sweeping generalization is is nothing short of a provincial worldview. And in my eyes, it is almost de-humanizing to say a whole group of people acts a certain way. No, people are dynamic, and a society will have a large spectrum of personalities. Hence why I said: "most of the east Asian girls I have met." Sorry if I offended you though. Didn't mean to. Also, being both ginger and of Irish descent, I put up with a fair amount of [generally negative] stereotyping.
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Between the Buried and Me - More of Myself to Kill
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The last two pages of this thread were insane. Heh. Anyway, people texting in public pisses me off to no goddamn end.
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ohai there. ;D Hi. ;D (need I point out that I meant what I said in a completely G-rated fashion. Just sayin', most of the east Asian girls I've met have been lovely.)
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Yeah. I really disliked the end pairing of Clannad too, so that kind of killed it for me also. At least it wasn't quite as horribly cheesy as Toradora. I mean, I liked Toradora a lot - but it was almost painfully predictable. I have only ever shed tears of happiness when watching anime, and that was with Aria.
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Church of Misery - Green River bassin'
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Technology Korean/Chinese/Japanese girls Mechanical things - bonus if I can take it apart and put it back together again I wouldn't really say I love any entertainment media such as music, TV, etc. They're more casual things I do to pass time rather than a love.
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It's 1440x900, not enough? Or what do you mean? My resolution on my screen is that, and it does fine. It's a cheap panel. My 13" laptop nearly approaches the same resolution versus a screen 4" larger. Since laptops tend to be closer to you, the higher resolution comes in handy. Color accuracy and contrast also need to be taken into account. This is coming from someone about to throw out a 1080p 21.5" (crappy TN panel, even at $180) monitor in favor of a S-IPS or H-IPS panel for better viewing angles, contrast, brightness, and color accuracy. Unfortunately these are somewhat hard to come by at a decent price, especially those with LED backlighting so at best I'll be spending $750 for a monitor at the same resolution and size as the one I currently have. I've looked at VA panels, but the refresh rate vs. color accuracy is too much; I'd rather take the refresh rate and save some cash.TN panels are quite fine for the average user. Sure, they have that annoying dithered effect and they can look washed-out, but yeah. You get what you pay for. I would love an IPS panel though. Maybe I'll see if I can get one when I have enough money to spare. Now: I would go with that Toshiba personally. A couple of my buddies have Toshibas and I have to say, I would definitely like one to replace my old eMachines one that's nearing the end of its lifespan.
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Glad to hear you liked it. Firo is a favourite of mine too. I also really liked Ladd too. Honestly, it isn't really as sad as people make it out to be. Some of it was quite hard-hitting emotions-wise, but I couldn't really relate to it. Myself;Yourself and Kanon hit home one hell of a lot harder with me.
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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V
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Well, all Lucky Star episodes are practically the same thing: One huge Haruhi advert.
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Pink Floyd - Us and Them
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It's people who take the Internet seriously that make trolling as fun as it is. I come online to chill and crack jokes about everyone and everything I don't like, and if people want to believe that I'm 100% serious all the time then I'm not going to call myself responsible if they get offended by me. Now I'm not like someone who posts "LOL [bleep]S" for the sake of it, but I have started arguments with controversial comments because I was bored and had nothing else to do with my time. It can be pretty funny to see people take a blatantly uninformed and uneducated comment and flame it and each other for pages and pages on a forum. I'm not trying to justify it, but let me put it this way: trolling is a part of the Internet whether you like it or not. Just to rehash and paraphrase what has already been said here: when people are given anonymity, they will do all sorts of things because the chance of consequence for their actions is almost nonexistent.