Jernlov

Pretty much why I don't communicate with my siblings. We're all on completely different wavelengths. Being the eldest of three, though, I must take charge at times. However, kids never listen. Today was a good day. I finally got my huge mass of hair cut down to something much nicer and manageable, and I've decided that I'll lose my NEET-dom this September and get my arse into college. Since I dropped out of school I'm gonna need to redo some GCSEs though, but that doesn't bother me too much. Anything to get away from my [cabbage]-hole of a school and the people in it. I've generally been feeling happier since I've been going out more, and I've undergone a number of aesthetic improvements (e.g. clothes) seeing as I really want to lose the "lonely loser" look. I must say that it's working.

Broken Social Scene - Windsurfing Nation

As of recent times, post-rock has become a favourite of mine. In layman's, post-rock is a genre of music that relies on delicately textured soundscapes and it utilises a typical crescendo/diminuendo structure, i.e. a "loud/soft" dynamic. Many people turn their noses up at the very mention of such bands as A Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, labelling the music these bands create as both "boring" and "pretentious". To be honest, they have a point in the eyes of the average listener. Post-rock is a genre that rewards patience - you don't go and listen to either of the aforementioned bands and expect instant satisfaction. It's somewhat of an acquired taste, but I daresay those who enjoy classical music will especially like post-rock, due to their underlying similarities in composition and performance. Now I've got the pretentious introduction out of the way, I'll tell you a little story about why I enjoy this type of music so much: Sometimes, life isn't easy. Sometimes, you just want to escape from reality. This has happened to me recently - lots of stuff has happened, and I've been seeking somewhat of a diversion when I'm sitting alone in my bedroom at my computer. I've been listening to post-rock on and off since I saw Sigur Rós play live in a field not far from where I live last year, but recently, the escapism factor of ethereal buildups which crash and fade into nothingness has become far more appealing to me. It just makes life seem better. It's like a huge rush when you feel the music coming all to a head, and then disappearing. As for bands I particularly enjoy, my favourite is probably Japanese group Mono. I can honestly say that they have written and performed some of the most touching, beautiful music that I've heard in my lifetime, for example: AKxm2nbcI1U 6RU_PHr0b2Q 89zzHCfZ_zs Another group I enjoy, again from the Japanese post-rock scene: Envy. wiao6fQLy4Q zNUWEG42ceg Jesu, from the UK. f49cKGoxgQM 2eZMqx6knz4 Other groups I enjoy include Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Red Sparowes, Neurosis, Isis, Cult of Luna and Yndi Halda. So there is post-rock. Enjoy, do not enjoy, love, hate, berate.

My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath

Mono - A Thousand Paper Cranes Mono create such beautiful music.

GZA / Genius - Liquid Swords Madlib - Shades of Blue Madvillain - Madvillainy DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.... Nujabes - Metaphorical Music and Modal Soul Dalek - Abandoned Language GZA and Nujabes are my favourite hip-hop artists.

Are you 12 or something? Either that, or 12 is the mental age of the average person on Tip.it. Local Bus - Chekeloppa Japanese soft-rock that needs way more recognition. I'm surprised that so little know of them. http://www.last.fm/music/Local+Bus

This is subjective and depends entirely on what sound you want. Please don't max out the bass though; this is universally bad unless you're in Kyuss or something. I used to do this (along with maxing everything else) and then wonder exactly why I had the worst tone ever. As for tapping, well, on my gear it's insanely hard. I have to almost max my amp volume and gain to get any viable sound at all out of tapping. I wish I had a better amp. (I got some Marshall transistor, and boy is it hard work to get any sort of decent tone out of it.) Thanks for that video Azvareth. I'll keep that in mind.

Boris - ????? Ugh. I don't feel very well. I'm going to bed after this album finishes.

That's probably a better way of wording it. I do think that they're a past-it band that's trying too hard to recreate former glories; and for me, that's something you shouldn't try to do. No matter how much I like/loathe a band, it's always irritating to see them burn out on a bad note of trying to recreate their brighter early days. This isn't true of all bands; for example, King Crimson has gotten more amazing as time has passed. I can't believe a band from the 1960s sounds like they do now. Maybe I was a little too hard on Metallica in what I posted. But that aside, they represent a lot of things I don't like in moden music. (I don't want to call music an 'industry'. It should not be one.)

Metallica is a business. They stopped with the metal attitude once they decided that they could become entrepreneurs. I think Lars successfully managed to alienate a number of Metallica fans with his business attitude. All bands, no matter how indie / punk they are, need to make at least something off their music. It's a sad reality, because I believe that art of all forms shouldn't be pioneered as some sort of cash-cow. Art is a form of expression at its very fundamentals - certainly no tool to use to earn money. I believe that art should be a free thing. You cannot and should not put a price on expression. Bands like Metallica make me feel sick. Why does a bunch of middle-aged crybabies get garnered with such adoration? Don't people realise that they're simply cashing in and releasing any half-arsed attempt at music just because it nets them all a cool million or so? They are a [bleep]ing PRIME example of everything wrong with music in today's world. I've got nothing against plenty of changes of direction (actually, I welcome this whole-heartedly) but when you're trying to appeal to new fanbases and you've not even mastered the said style of music, then you know that there's a big problem with the band as a musical entity versus a business. Couple this with Metallica's records being a major offender in the 'loudness war,' [ see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war ] then you know that they're not releasing stuff because they're passionate about what they create. So, to sum up: seeing as Metallica exists to leech off their fans anyway, they were not justified.

GIMP is capable. It's just a matter of finding where the bloody hell everything is. It's one of my contenders for most awkward placement of useful utilities ever. Also, anyone who pays for Photoshop is out of their [bleep]ing mind.

How long's this one gonna last? xD Hopefully a while.

I'll say this: I've been going out and doing pretty pointless stuff a heck of a lot more than I used to recently, and it has only done me good. I feel much better than I did when I was just going to school, coming home and sitting on my PC. Sure, I still sit here a lot, but part of that is due to my friends living pretty far away (we have to plan about a week ahead if we're going to just go out and do random stuff) and that I'm someone more adapted to city life living in a rural area of England; there really isn't all that much to do here if you're not involved in agriculture, heh. It's a peaceful life, though.

I've just realised that this is a [bleep]ing pointless thread. Call me slow, or whatever. Everyone has at LEAST downloaded one album, or one SONG, since they got an Internet connection. It's just that some seem to think they have something to gain by hiding it. So, simply put, nobody really cares if you've downloaded anything. It's pretty basic human nature: take what you can for free. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, but we've all downloaded music illegally at some point.

I simply use some rugged-looking backpack. I need to carry a lot of books with me, and it serves its purpose pretty well apart from causing my shoulders to ache from time-to-time.

I sure would. 4chan, MSN logs, porn folder, forum posts. Everything. We would be laughing so hard after it all.

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.