Roush

I've been reading through this lately. It's been pretty accurate (published in 2017), and predicts there'll be another series of pandemics over the next 2-3 years.

On 11/5/2022 at 8:08 AM, action said:

chinese scientists are saying that strict lockdowns of entire neigbourhoods are still necessary

this policy is unchanged since the beginning of the epidemy.

but it's ok. Science says so. We are not qualified or educated enough to question this policy.

We live in an age (4th turning) where lies are plentiful, cheap, and easy to repeat. But truth? Gotta dig for that.

Also, there's the 33% rule: 33% of people are truly aware of things, 66% are not (but of the 66%, half can be awakened through sufficient evidence.) 

What I found most funny (aside from GNR's lack of new material in over a decade), is the ruling class telegraph everything they do in public beforehand (it's part of their superstitious karma, sort of a "we warned you ahead of time, so if you ignore it, that's on you, buddy".) Bill Gates, and his Zero Carbon presentation is an example of that.

8 hours ago, Powerage5 said:

Gotta disagree with your argument here that any casual fan should know Locomotive. It’s one of the deepest cuts in the bands catalogue. 
 

Let me give you some perspective. My favorite band has 16 albums. I’ll have seen them 135 times by this time next week. I’ve spent...far more money on them than I care to admit. There’s probably about 10 tracks from albums (I.e. not B-sides or anything) that they could play and I would only vaguely recognize or not be familiar with enough that I know what they are offhand. These songs are the same tier of obscurity as Locomotive. So...does that mean I’m not a real fan of this band?

Iron Maiden's never given their fans a 15 year new music drought like GN'R did though. Besides, the real GN'R fans know Locomotive, Rocket Queen and Coma are dark horse favorites. When you remove the duplicates, and cover songs from the Slash/Axl era albums, you have like what 40 original songs?

Axl should have released this album back in 2000, and passed it on like a kidney stone, and be done with it -- sink, or swim.

Then the band should've moved on to release more music. The Blues & State Of Grace would've done well as singles. I can picture The Blues playing alongside Sting, Matchbox 20, and Sheryl Crow adult contemporary stations. And State Of Grace playing on alternative metal stations (Korn, Disturbed, Marilyn Manson.) Maybe the album would've not been an Appetite for Destruction killer like Axl's eluded to wanting to do, but it wouldn't have been a critical disaster like Van Halen III either. It would've done well to hook in older fans who've moved on, and interest younger folks that don't know anything about GN'R. Come to think of it, the album was likely strategized in such a way. Axl's a meticulous bloke. No wonder the dude was so bitter, and dodgy later on. He was ready to release the damn thing 8 years before it came out. And by that time, Slash/Duff got in their rebuke (Contraband) and the world had moved on from industrial rock.

Anyway...

1. State Of Grace

2. Hard School

3. Atlas

4. Perhaps

5. Eye On You

Everything else on the CDs: There's a lot of instrumentals to go through. I can't recall them all. Zodiac, Quick Song and Oklahoma I remember being good. From what I gather, there were instrumentally superior rock songs that are better than the ones that ended up on record. 

The Chinese (Double Guitars) is excellent. As are the rest of the Freese demos. Riad sounds much tighter, bassier, and the drums are killer. The Blues, Catcher and Madagascar are superior to their 2008 counterparts. I think everything else benefitted massively from Buckethead's contributions (especially Prostitute, IRS, and TWAT.)

What I love about this song:

- The John Lennon like delivery in the first few verses

- The cynical, offbeat (for Axl) lyrics 

- The awesomely awesome guitar riff that starts before the rasp-rap begins, holy smokes.

- The huge scream.

Atlas, Perhaps and Hard School smokes half of CD. I was one of many naysayers that said CD was all the best songs.

Turns out Axl had a couple of aces up the ol' sleeve.

Fuck John Bolton, and the Neo cons.

Axl, you fucking did a killer job expanding the GNR brand with these different songs. I don't know why they weren't released sooner.

Perhaps label politics played a part? 

Would've been better to get the record outta your system in 1999 and move on with subsequent albums. Atlas is a more mature ballad, Hard School is a solid throwback, Perhaps is catchy, and Zodiac is killer. 

What the hell Geffen?

Fucking awesome, los dos

15 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

More,

- Chinese is really not as progressive/complicated/misunderstood as people claim. 

- Contraband is crap and the worst album Slash has been involved with.

- CD sounds like 20 albums weaved together into one. But not in the good way.

- Contraband is solid, but you have to have a certain taste for the mid-2000s heavy bassy production. Much better than Snakepit/solo stuff.

- 2002 band was good

- The band owe themselves and the fans new music, music videos, and to restore the band's legacy. They won't, and it's Axl's fault.

- Axl's a semi-talented fool who got lucky to be in a good band. 1993 until now is 26 years worth of supporting evidence. 

I don't know if this is unpopular but I think Axl would be happier with himself if he picked up some weights, laid off the booze and release some new tunes. 

My unpopular thoughts: Christianity is alright, feminism is an anti-woman CIA psy-op, globalism is a dumb Rockefeller stunt that's going to shit, Trump's okay with me.

The New York Stock Exchange is divorced from economic reality, and is reaching astronomical new heights through Quantitative Easing. That phrase may appear benign if not a wee bit technocratic. It was intentionally designed to appear that way. QE is a euphemism for the elite enriching themselves via federal spending.

Granted, China and Europe are also divorced from reality. The ECB recently stated (I'm paraphrasing) "deflation was not a possibility". Two months later, the statement is redacted and a new one states to expect (and I'm not kidding) periods of "negative inflation".

A whole six years?

And I'm not talking about hyperinflation yet. I'm actually talking about the deflation that comes first.

How long did it take to blow the housing bubble and then burst it? Oh yeah, seven years.

Oh, that's right, you're the "deflation causes inflation" guy....

Enough said

I honestly don't know what's going to happen with inflation in the long run.

This would have been a good place to leave it. That is, before you started rambling about "TPTB", and other abstractions, and flagrant misuse of economic terms.

In your words, explain to me the conundrum that exists between inflation, and deflation without using emoticons.

Sorry, downzy, but you don't even understand your own posts. You are clearly not versed in economics, so I'm just not gonna do this. I can't debate you because you confuse almost all the economic terms you use and contradict yourself in virtually every sentence.

Ah, deflection.

New Yorker women are horny cats

Find someone hotter, and better.

Dr Who, or whatever you're calling yourself now -- you've got forum people twice your age, and likely twice your intellectual capacity giving you advice. Really, really good advice, that some folks pay hundreds of dollars an hour for. And they're giving it to you for free. Yet it looks like you're not applying any of it.

So, my other ex (the one who took my money) messages me on fb...All lonely. We chatted. Very surreal.

It was not them you loved, so much as you loved the way these women made you feel. That is precisely what you miss. Not so much her existence, as to how she made you feel about yourself.

That, and each person brings fifty percent to the equation. If you've only dated "psycho bitches", or materialists -- you are developing a pattern you, yourself are responsible for.

This is really starting to hurt me. So I wrote her a letter:

"i dont understand any of this. you basically dump me on christmas because you love someone else. then you make it official on our anniversary. and on new years you're saying mail the stuff, which implies you never want to see me again, or have no plans of seeing me in the flesh ever again. when he was distant toward you, it hurt you and upset you, and you're doing the same thing to me. i don't even know why we had to break up, because we were happy until your emotions got confused. i understand your reasons why, and it was a fair decision in some ways, but in others, there was no real reason for it to happen. we were happy and very much in love. why you're being so cold to me now, as if i never meant anything, or like you've totally shut the door on us, or hardened your heart against me, i dont understand. i never hurt you or cheated on you or did anything bad to you. there's no reason outside of your emotional conflict why we couldnt continue and there's no reason for me to mail the stuff. you hated when he shut you out and it made you feel like trash and like you weren't good enough...how do you think i feel? like i never meant anything. and yet i'm willing if you just say the words to get back to where we were. i dont hate you. i'm not mad at you. i'll never hurt you. i just miss you. and i dont understand any of this at all.

just...you know...think on all this. I never hurt you. I never would either. I don't hate you or think you're an asshole. I just miss being able to hear your voice, miss being able to talk, miss being able to talk about anything in the world. I don't want you gone for good. I love you and if with time we can just continue...that'd make me the happiest guy in the world. I don't want to be where it's this time next year and i'm still without you. I'll never mistreat you...I'll always do my best like I was doing before Patrick came up...And before he came up you were 100% sure. You're throwing away a relationship you were really happy in...I'm willing to wait this out. We just need to talk like adults though. This is getting hurtful, and silly."

Dude.

Raw saw increased promo time for mid-carders, and great performances all around. Hopefully, this is a sign for things to come.

Men are always upset with women. Y'all are a difficult bunch.

I'm blown away by some deductions about how mancaves are apparently some weird, Freudian, overcompensatory, "freeing from the chains of emasculation" kinda thing. Things like that say more about the speaker than they do the person they're saying it to.

I don't have a mancave. Maybe one day I will. I would put a real, brick pizza oven, and House Of The Dead 3 arcade game. And beer, lots and lots of beer.

Wow, what a Raw

It took me about a minute to figure out the speaker's gender.