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Post by Proud on Aug 4, 2016 10:33:41 GMT -5
I haven't been back to these forums in a very long time, so thought I'd stop by. I wonder when this place stopped having traffic. I remember it booming back then (but so did the Rolling Stone forums--when there were Rolling Stone forums--at one point!).
Hope you all are doing well.
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 21, 2016 15:12:38 GMT -5
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Post by Proud on Nov 16, 2016 16:28:19 GMT -5
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Post by Matheus on Mar 6, 2018 21:48:48 GMT -5
I finished the Netflix 90's nostalgia show Everything Sucks! yesterday so I spent today with Tori Amos, one of the most prominent nostalgic figures across the episodes. I began with Little Earthquakes, moved to Under the Pink and finished with Boys for Pele. Under the Pink and Boys for Pele offer so much but Little Earthquakes continues to needle the spirit, years later.
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 28, 2018 18:22:37 GMT -5
I finished the Netflix 90's nostalgia show Everything Sucks! yesterday so I spent today with Tori Amos, one of the most prominent nostalgic figures across the episodes. I began with Little Earthquakes, moved to Under the Pink and finished with Boys for Pele. Under the Pink and Boys for Pele offer so much but Little Earthquakes continues to needle the spirit, years later. 'sup Matheus, fancy bumping into you here. Ain't Netflix great? I'm a bit more than halfway through Season one of OZARK. Good show. Also saw Duncan Jones (Bowie's son, a super talented movie director in his own right) movie MUTE - on Netflix - and it's fantastic. Set in a "Bladerunner"-inspired future setting, it tells the tale of the strong, silent type, our hero named Leo (played by Alexander Skarsgård to great effect) who lost the use of his voice box in a boating accident as a young child. So he's the MUTE in the movie - - and all I got to say is, this is a very subtle film, a character study in a glitzy future where almost everyone is not-so-good or outright vile -- 'cept for our mute protagonist, who has Amish upbringing, and represents the "Old World," if you will. You just have to stick with it until the end - - the final 20 minutes get super intense and everything comes together to knock your socks off. I highly recommend it - - once the end credits roll, you should be glad you spent the hour and a half watching it. I'm sure glad I did -- and in some ways, I think it's even better than his first two movies: MOON and SOURCE CODE - which are excellent.  |
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 30, 2018 22:12:28 GMT -5
So this song just randomly shuffled up next on YT it's pretty surreal listening to this now youtu.be/7Xf-Lesrkuc |
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 30, 2018 22:16:28 GMT -5
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Post by Matheus on Jun 2, 2018 21:54:36 GMT -5
Netflix is great, indeed. The only drawback is that there's soooo much content. I have (likely) great stuff sitting in my queue that just waits until the day where I'll eventually get to it... or never. I always meant to watch Ozark but my arch nemesis at work recommended it so I went out of my way to not watch it. I may have to watch it in secret and if she ever mentions it I can pretend out of spite...
Did you watch Dark or The OA? They were all of it.
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Post by Matheus on Jun 2, 2018 22:16:16 GMT -5
My favorite music this year has involved Ariel Pink in some way. I've mostly been into hip-hop the past few years but I really got into MGMT's Little Dark Age, something I haven't experienced with a rock album in some time. Went so far as to listen to all their albums non-stop for days, continuing sporadically for weeks. Anyway, the When You Die video kept popping up on my YouTube account but I avoided it because of the title. Eventually, I made my way to it and the MGMT album. I saw Ariel Pink was involved in the When You Die track. I looked him up and remembered I gave his album a try not so long ago, listened again. The song Time To Live is top notch. Then he popped up on a SSION track. The rest of that album is great, pretty queer. Went down the rabbit hole and found this video by SOKI featuring Ariel Pink. Hysterical video and great song. He apparently has tons of music but Tidal only has his latest.
The past few weeks, been into Shame and the new CHVRCHES. Probably watched the Childish Gambino video a couple dozen times. The new Kanye was meh.
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Post by Proud on Feb 29, 2020 14:34:21 GMT -5
I've been considering posting a brief memoir, so I think I'll do that now. In no particular order: ClubberLang - I thought the idea of living off of gambling was a fantasy until I got to know this guy. Give this guy a copy of Days of the New green, some Alice in Chains, a pack of playing cards, and a couple of brewskis, and you could keep him happy. Thorn - I mean, you gotta have Thorn. K to the o to the backwards R to the n(u-metal)! RocDoc - iirc, he was a staunchly religious conservative. I pissed him off once and I felt bad and apologized, to which he informed me he was extending two middle fingers my way. I still feel kinda bad, because I really got him steaming with whatever it was. that blonde-haired canadian lawyer girl - I remember she liked to talk about sex. There was a guy who used to follow her around the RS forums, and he had a lapdog personality and suggested I was intruding on his territory. Last time I talked with her she kinda abstractly/poetically told me she used to care about me once but she didn't want to talk to me anymore. I don't think I said anything particularly critical of her. I think it was just that my worldview was far different from hers (she was new-atheistic and far to the left, and I used to be nominally Christian and politically unpredictable). Erin/surfwaxamerica - We both liked Weezer a lot. I used to talk with her on AIM. She was from Seattle and considering running for VP of her high school or high school class. I remember waiting patiently for her to log back into AIM, only to learn that she had me blocked (didn't directly learn this, but other people could see her and I couldn't). I was strange back then so maybe I just weirded her out. Hurt me anyway. I waited on her return, to no avail.  I also remember that she was very Christian, so maybe I said something about her religion. *shrug* slick - If you're out there and reading this, thank you for tolerating me, even if I (understandably) creeped you out at times. I really shouldn't have recommended that you buy that Seven Mary Three CD. I talked with your brother about Linkin Park over AIM once. It was pretty funny. shin - Guy always hated me. He told me to kill myself once. I don't think we ever had a single conversation in which I got the vibe that he might have a positive thought about me. He used to ask me why I was even hanging out with the group. That hurt. :/ NdY - I don't think he actually had hard feelings about me. He just got a kick out of tossing me around like a cat with a mouse toy, I think. I was an easy target. I get it. trucy - Basically what I said about NdY. I remember I said something about kids being more intelligent than they may seem, and she joked that I was actually seven years old. I thought that was funny. Layla - What a sweet, humorous, and I'll go ahead and say it, beautiful woman. She rec'd me Mark Lanegan, and I regret not getting around to that so we could discuss music a little more. Aussie of Spanish heritage. How cool is that? PunkChick - We had some good convos. This was back in my Weezer Green Album phase. She got tired of me after awhile and it kind of hurt my feels. Such is life. Hopefully that Ramapo degree led to some nice places for her. Ah, New Jersey, New Jersey... i didn't really know him - I remember there was a guy on the old RS that everyone loved, but he committed suicide and it devastated a lot of people. Again, I didn't know him, but if there's an afterlife in which we retain our personalities and knowledge of our time on Earth and all that, I hope he's at peace. that one zany family from alabama - omgosh they were nuts. Some people speculated that they were fake accounts (kind of like that WeatheredBullets kid who held down the shift key all the time. I think someone confessed to being him. I also randomly just remembered the Cannibal Corpse kid who'd call everybody 'maggots'), but apparently they weren't. I got along with them for awhile but then I started running my mouth and I fell out of their good graces. Aw well. It was fun while it lasted. Evac - I used to keep quoting 'Time for EVACUATION!', from the Pearl Jam song he named himself after, at him. We had fun for awhile, but I took it too far. chem - He worked in a chem lab. I think. If memory serves me right. That one guy who loved Michael Jackson and defended him to the end - I don't think he ever followed us to an RS spin-off community. He was out of his mind, but a lot of fun. Another random note (not a person) - I p.o.ed some people on the old RS Pearl Jam board because I went on for pages of posts saying 'Layne Staley's heroin addiction' oslt in response to everything. He died not too long after that. That really sucked and I felt terrible, but people had no problem forgiving me for my posting antics, thankfully. I was a high school grunge kid that a lot of RS people were amused by and viewed like a little internet bro, but at some point my angst conquered me (unsurprising given my background) and I was difficult to talk to anymore. If anyone remembers me more for my misbehavior than the good times and happens to be reading this, I hope my shenanigans weren't too much of a fuss. \m/ |
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Post by Thorngrub on May 9, 2020 15:24:29 GMT -5
sup Proud. Boy have things accelerated to a crazy pitch online. FaceBook is becoming maniacal. Maybe a few of us can migrate back here and chillax. All my best,
~thoRn in yr sPine!
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Post by Thorngrub on May 14, 2020 0:25:01 GMT -5
Oh man, what about back on the old rollingstone message boards? That was crazy...just before the Great Internet Flame Wars of '98. Remember before the moderators shut down all the bands message boards, there were peeps like Wholigans VRRRROOOOOOMMMMing across the boards on his imaginary bike, he was fronting a The Who tribute band down in Florida. I used to get in so many fights with interdudes to left and right of me. I remember Lysergic Aaron was it the most caustic and outrageously sarcastic poster on the old boards. He was so outrageous that sometimes you had to wonder if it wasn't one of JACkory's online alter-egoes or something. I mean was this guy for real or what? And I can't recall if there was ever any evidence as to who Layla really was, we all so much wanted to believe in her didn't we. I'm not saying I didn't I'm just saying sometimes dreams do disappear into the wind like that. ClubberLang who's full time job was gambling, damn I miss him alright. Pissin in the Wind became my best friend over here on Castaways eventually. MirrorSideways and I flirted with my first taste of what a LDR might be like. TheLadyInTheLake & I actually did commit to a LDR when we met for the first time in Denver to see Korn. That was the beginning of a pretty intense relationship. We saw that crazy band from Bakersfield several times together over the course of a few years. There were guys like RitalinPants where we collided against each other during RS skirmishes but eventually skidded toward a twisted sort of friendship, over here. Skvorisdeadsorta went on to became an incredible electronic composer and performer who I was lucky enough to witness live here at the legendary Burt's Tiki Lounge, now several years defunct and erased from the once thriving landscape of this place. I bought his limited edition vinyl LPs including a beautiful one in die hard purple pressed in France for his album Snow Crash. It's crazy for me to think this guy Justin Sweatt is such an awesome, amazing real warm and beautiful person, I mean there's pics of him and lord shin at my house in SLC. Oh, the places we've been.
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Post by Matheus on May 19, 2020 23:30:32 GMT -5
Oh man, what about back on the old rollingstone message boards? That was crazy...just before the Great Internet Flame Wars of '98. Remember before the moderators shut down all the bands message boards, there were peeps like Wholigans VRRRROOOOOOMMMMing across the boards on his imaginary bike, he was fronting a The Who tribute band down in Florida. I used to get in so many fights with interdudes to left and right of me. I remember Lysergic Aaron was it the most caustic and outrageously sarcastic poster on the old boards. He was so outrageous that sometimes you had to wonder if it wasn't one of JACkory's online alter-egoes or something. I mean was this guy for real or what? And I can't recall if there was ever any evidence as to who Layla really was, we all so much wanted to believe in her didn't we. I'm not saying I didn't I'm just saying sometimes dreams do disappear into the wind like that. ClubberLang who's full time job was gambling, damn I miss him alright. Pissin in the Wind became my best friend over here on Castaways eventually. MirrorSideways and I flirted with my first taste of what a LDR might be like. TheLadyInTheLake & I actually did commit to a LDR when we met for the first time in Denver to see Korn. That was the beginning of a pretty intense relationship. We saw that crazy band from Bakersfield several times together over the course of a few years. There were guys like RitalinPants where we collided against each other during RS skirmishes but eventually skidded toward a twisted sort of friendship, over here. Skvorisdeadsorta went on to became an incredible electronic composer and performer who I was lucky enough to witness live here at the legendary Burt's Tiki Lounge, now several years defunct and erased from the once thriving landscape of this place. I bought his limited edition vinyl LPs including a beautiful one in die hard purple pressed in France for his album Snow Crash. It's crazy for me to think this guy Justin Sweatt is such an awesome, amazing real warm and beautiful person, I mean there's pics of him and lord shin at my house in SLC. Oh, the places we've been. You have an excellent memory. And always one of the nicest. I often spent too much time being opinionated or itching to argue about bullshit to build bonds with too many. Those I did, often left. As the introverted type oftentimes in real life, I was able to get to know people but never in a connected way where they got to know me - because I was spending too much time being opinionated or itching to argue about bullshit. I miss this place. Social media is either too visual or too connected to life to have the freedom to share too much of value. Good to see people checking in for old time's sake. |
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Post by Thorngrub on May 26, 2020 9:13:59 GMT -5
No doubt Matheus. Most of us done gone and scattered to the wind.
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Post by Thorngrub on May 26, 2020 10:09:11 GMT -5
Netflix is great, indeed. The only drawback is that there's soooo much content. I have (likely) great stuff sitting in my queue that just waits until the day where I'll eventually get to it... or never. I always meant to watch Ozark but my arch nemesis at work recommended it so I went out of my way to not watch it. I may have to watch it in secret and if she ever mentions it I can pretend out of spite... Did you watch Dark or The OA? They were all of it. ^ post from a couple years ago (catchin' up)--- Yeah, I saw the first season of DARK - I half loved it and was halfway lost watching it. I think that's why I never picked it back up- - I am going to definitely re-watch DARK, starting over from season 1 again, because there was something absolutely compelling about it. I wonder how many seasons of DARK there are now? |
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I also remember that she was very Christian, so maybe I said something about her religion. *shrug*