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Thom Yorke - And It Rained All Night

My Hatelist: #1 - Elitist musical f*cks Just shut UP. Nobody cares about your opinion. These people seem to think that everyone needs to listen to exactly the same stuff as they do to be righteous along the path, or whatever it is. To top it off, they can't seem to grasp that different things appeal to different people because they feel some sort of connection to the music that the elitist [puncture] doesn't. My hatred of these people stems from the fact that I used to be exactly what I just described. Yeah. #2 - Arrogant Metalheads These people are, on the whole, not nice to be around. Be it online or in real life, you will always have to deal with somebody who tries to force-feed you such music as Pantera, Metallica and Bullet for My Valentine. Even worse than this are the members of the 'black metal elite' - this implies that they think black metal is the only form of music known to man, and thus, they listen to it like it's some kind of religious ritual; and to them, it probably is! Both types of outward metalheadness annoy me, once again, because I used to be exactly one of these too. [bleep]ing hell. #3 - The Obnoxious Anime Fan (who isn't really a weeaboo, just loud about the fact that they like anime) Not quite so bad. The hardest part about these is avoiding them. Anime is growing in popularity, and whilst most of its fans are relatively unassuming and upstanding people in real life, there is always some 15 y/o white kid who thinks it's cool to half-cosplay in the streets and talk loudly about the latest anime episode or manga chapter. See, these are the people who give casual anime fans (such as myself) a bad rap. People wouldn't hate anime so much if the majority of its fanbase if they would just SHUT THE [bleep] UP; however, these people don't seem to understand this at all. Before you ask, no, I was not one of these. #4 - Wapanese (syn. weeaboos) This entry and #3 are pretty much interchangeable. However, the Wapanese takes its obsession with anime to new heights, and thusly becomes engrossed in Japan; feeling that it, as an entity, is somehow superior to their country of birth. These people are relatively easy to put off: just mention the increasing number of social recluses in Japan, the fact that Harajuku only exists on Sundays, the fact that pocky tastes like sh*te, the fact that America nuked the crap out of them in World War II, and their history of racism and hate crimes. #5 - The Anime Thread on This Very Forum Seriously? The [bleep]? ------------------------------------------- Rant over.

I think I watched something like that too, some time ago. And yeah, it does seem like the highly intelligent are a strange bunch of people. I know a person who's in the top 0.5% for intelligence and he has to be the single most unnerving person I've ever met. You don't even have a clue as to what he's gonna do next. That aside, he's a decent enough person; not too much of a [bleep]. As for geeks being cool: I don't really know. I do know, though, that in my school, anyone who has even average intelligence and puts it to use gets their life made hell for it. I live in a technologically backward area, so a 'geek' at my school is classed as someone who is particularly adept at any subject that involves anaysis and interpretation, logical / critical thinking, or any kind of problem-solving; and the few people who are good at these things get disrupted, called out, the like. School has always been a place, for what appears to be the majority, to look cool in front of your peers instead of actually f*cking buckling down and getting on with your work. As for weeaboos: pretty much what Zonorhc said; but they're insanely loud and obnoxious about how they love pocky, visual kei, Elegant Gothic Lolita, Dir en grey and various other terrible, terrible exports from Japan that are now becoming somewhat assimilated into western teenage culture. (Or, in the UK at least).

Your musical compatibility with Destabilise is Very High Music you have in common includes Rage Against the Machine, Between the Buried and Me, Amon Amarth, Nine Inch Nails and Jesu. Lol. The music we actually listen to most of the time is very different though, im assuming. The only two there that I don't listen to regularly are Amon Amarth and RATM. But yeah, most of the time our tastes are pretty opposite. I think a lot of people get high/very high with me because of RATM, NIN, Radiohead and the like.

Not so much a band, but I do have a solo post-rock/post-hardcore project. Basically, I rip off Radiohead, Envy and Slowdive; I write songs that gradually build up and use hardcore screams when it gets intense. I've not recorded anything yet, but I'll be sure to let you all know when I have. Oh, and I play guitar and keyboard when necessary, and I can also play trombone.

Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps

Envy - Conclusion of Existence Listening to the Envy / Jesu split EP. Beautiful.

http://www.last.fm/user/Destabilise 'Sup. I signed up again. ;D Same procedure as last time. If you get a medium or above, we can be friends.

I take it you're from the USA? From what I've heard, the radio music seems to be pretty different from what I hear where I live. All I get is harmless pop-rock (with the exception of The Script. Bloody horrible). It's fun to listen to simple music sometimes.

The irony in this is that most people who say this listen to music that is potentially radio-friendly. Not saying that you do personally; just throwing this out there. Depends on what you class as "radio-friendly", just about any song with lyrics that don't contain curse words are pretty much radio-friendly, however, they don't all get played. On the radio, its mostly repeated crap. Yeah, I listen to potentially radio-friendly music also - which is why I never say I hate everything on the radio. I enjoy a large portion of stuff on the radio when I'm in the car or just want some random background music, come to think of it. I used to be all "RADIO IS BAD" when I was going through my metalhead phase, mind.

I would! Dohoho, aren't I just so funny? Anyway, yeah, most of the artists I 'steal' from have CDs that are out of print, or extortionate import charges on their CDs. Even on eBay, some can fetch up to about £50, which is still extortionate for a CD; if it were the vinyl release of said album, I wouldn't mind at all.

God I hate mIRC scripting. Everytime I learn it I forget it in a month. This is actually how I learned how to do it, in a way. Basically, starting from scratch every couple of months and refreshing my memory. Now I've come to realise that it was the most useless thing I've ever wasted my time on.

Shugo Tokumaru - Typewriter

The irony in this is that most people who say this listen to music that is potentially radio-friendly. Not saying that you do personally; just throwing this out there.

As I said, I'm not one for fiction, but I do think "The Hobbit" is very good.

I've heard that Jesu's later albums can't really hold up to Jesu and Silver but I haven't tried them out yet. Nothing can top Silver in my book though. (And good quote in your sig. :thumbup: ) Conqueror is beautiful, especially the track "Weightless & Horizontal". It's more shoegaze and less drone than their previous work; it's like a combination of the s/t and Silver. Coaltar of the Deepers - AOA

Oh, yes.

Temporarily allowing pop-ups is probably all you need to do. (:

Today was actually pretty good. I'm recovering from my small period of illness. I took a couple of nice, long walks out in the fresh air, which is something that's becoming a regular activity for me nowadays. I'm now foruming and listening to music whilst proof-reading my technical writing and creative writing to send into school on Monday. Life is looking up!

I love to read anything that is based on solid fact. Fiction in any form is undesirable unless it's either a play, or poetry; and then, I much prefer to read a play or poem that is based on either historical fact or something that happened in the life of the playwright/author. I think I find fiction tedious because I was force-fed boring book after boring book from year 7 upward. Up until then, I had been reading various articles of non-fiction. I'm certainly not looking forward to studying 'Of Mice and Men'. However, I did find J.B. Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls' absolutely enthralling to read. I didn't get a chance to see it performed on stage, though. I guess I'm quite closeminded when it comes to literature, but I like reading non-fiction and expanding my general knowledge.

Jesu - Conqueror I need to get my hands on Jesu/Battle of Mice, Jesu/Envy and Why are We Not Perfect.

It did all that in a few minutes for me. That said, I do have a relatively powerful processor and related stuff.

I used FF on the beta... Was one of the first things I installed actually. He was talking about the download manager that MS used for the beta, heh.

Mono & World's End Girlfriend - [untitled 2]

Yeah it's what dsavi said it is. I think it feels awesome; sometimes I try to induce it on purpose, with questionable success.