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On 2/28/2023 at 6:11 PM, DurhamGirl said:

Losing his hair must have been incredibly traumatic after having long red locks adding to his attractiveness.  

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Seriously, if I ever had hair that amazingly beautiful I would be grieving it for the rest of my life. Thankfully my hair sucks. 

35 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

No reason? Are you the arbiter of whether other people have reasons for doing something? What if they collect merch? What if it gives them joy? Who are you to shit on people for what they choose to do with their money?

Gatekeeping criticism of a crappy capitalistic enterprise is one of the weirder things I've read on this forum already. I don't get the emotional fragility and butthurt over opinions that don't affect you, but okay. 

6 hours ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

Imagine using you kids to sell useless merch

https://www.youngroadie.com

 

 

$50 for a bandana when you can get one for $1.25 at the dollar store. And you can make a tie-dye shirt for less than $35. 

8 hours ago, Destiny said:

gig economy stuff like uber eats? I looked into doing Amazon flex where i deliver using my own car, but after having problems downloading the app and then researching what people had to say I figured it was a bust for me. I've found other companies that do grocery delivery and snacks/amenities but when it comes down to it I dont think its a safe bet.

Boy let me tell you that people are crazy now post pandemic. During it when i was still a captionist and the lockdowns happened world wide I got a lot of stories, info and crazies on the phone. All kinds of moronic opinions, funny/crazy stories, sob stories you name it. I can only imagine how it is in public.

I've been applying to places but haven't heard anything back yet. There was a cool little hobby store that was hiring but when I went in to ask, the owner didn't seem all there, so I'm keeping it in the ? pile for now 

Yep, these guys were saying Instacart is worth doing around here, because we live near these new HOA developments full of people who really want food delivered and tip well. I think if I lived somewhere else I wouldn't even consider it (safety issues, mostly - I've lived in an actual ghetto before and no thanks). 

I did just work on the other end of Instacart, my 6 month job was running a grocery pickup at a smaller grocery. I worked retail ages ago, and the things I experienced from customers recently were unreal, way over the top and totally irrational stuff, much worse than when I worked retail jobs in the past. I had more than one in-store customer slam their cart as hard as they could into one of my "shoppers" carts while yelling nonsense. Somebody canceled a $600 order, while screaming, because the deli was closed. One woman lost her mind because the store had stopped selling masks, yelling and swearing and knocking stuff over as she left the store. I'm a hothead myself so get it when people have reached their last nerve, but it happened every day, where it used to be only periodically with some rationale behind it, and it used to almost never be physical crap. 

I have a pretty large ? pile myself, I'm kind of burned out on types of jobs I used to do. Something different would be awesome with me. I have a background working seasonal biological field jobs, and applied to a few of those again, and they're at the top of my "want badly" pile. 

1 hour ago, ezosk said:

Yall forgot rock the rock?

I was successfully memoryholing this until now lol. 

25 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

I wish I was unemployed 

I just got a request for an interview at the lowest choice of the jobs I've applied to, and not working is not so bad all over again. 

@Destiny I'm in pretty much the same boat as you, just the circumstances of how I got there are a bit different. I did go back out among the crazies for 6 months and I swear people are more insane than they ever have been. I saved up quite a bit and quit with decent savings in November because of it being an extremely hostile workplace (screaming, crying, one coworker making physical threats about other coworkers, among other insanity), like you I wish I had an even bigger cushion, and am thinking of maybe taking a not-so-serious job for now (I have an interview for one of those seasonal tax company jobs, and 2 former clients asked my why I didn't do gig economy stuff because they were making more $ than me). I just had an interview for a serious job and the interviewer was also insane. I AM a hermit and an extremely private person, but damn, I think the pandemic broke minds. I hope 2023 finds us both more gainfully employed even if it's in the latter half. 

Just now, jamillos said:

That all you want, guys? Just CD2 + Slash? 

I mean, I wouldn't reject it, if it was given. 

On 1/25/2023 at 5:01 PM, Billy Cundy said:

rogan knows dick about music, but I don’t wanna hear Axl talk about his liberal use of the mixolydian mode or Slash’ tendency to mix minor and major pentatonics… I wanna hear about what he thinks about chimp attacks, UFOs and whether the COVID vaccine makes you gay. 

Somebody please make this happen, I would love to hear Axl's responses to these things. Maybe ask him about flat earth and whether we really landed on the moon too. 

I love Volbeat and this live album has been fun on repeat.

2 minutes ago, Spoon87 said:

It's in the same league like the "Axl had mild cancer" thing back in the mid 2000s, just because of that weird NBA Interview.

I still prefer the rumor that that was an alien. 

1 hour ago, Karice said:

But with Flu, you aren't mandatory required to quarantine for about a week.  With Flu, you can still go out and live your life. With Covid, you have to quarantine yourself. 

Depends on how bad your flu is, influenza made me nearly bedridden for a week and exhausted all through the second week. Not much living happened. 

I liked Lux. The lyrics to Screaming Suicide made me roll my eyes, but musically I liked it.

3 hours ago, rumandraisin said:

What baffles me is our patience. Year after year we wait. 

Like SoulMonster I haven't been waiting either. I don't even expect another full length album from GN'R, I think they're done putting out actual new music as the incarnation they now are. I listen to way too much other music to spend time waiting for any artist to release anything, plus numerous years between releases can be normal in another genre I like. 

11 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

I was really into them like 10-12 years ago, saw them live a few times, but the last thing I heard from them was some re-recorded Clayman songs and they sounded like shit.

That's too bad, I used to really like them. Sounds like I'll probably be tossing them into my current reject pile. 

I'm also looking forward to some new Metallica and an album by this odd punkish band called Screaming Females. I've also hit a dry spell, it has given me time to clean out an old last.fm account and laugh at all the terrible metalcore bands I listened to and saw from 2000 to 2008 (and apparently In Flames is still a band and releasing an album soon).

The only song off the album that I really don't care for is Sorry. Chinese Democracy needed a shorter intro but I love the song. Oh My God is still a huge favor of mine, it came out at the right time when nu metal and industrial metal were actually still on the radio, and stood out in that mix. 

1 hour ago, allwaystired said:

There's also the reverse of that, which really annoys me- people trying to put massive, justifying, pseudo- intellectual readings onto things they like in order to justify their own liking of it in the current climate. 

You know what? Pretty Tied Up is about bondage, Back Off Bitch is about slagging off a woman he didn't like and the line 'turn around bitch I got a use for you' is about fucking. 

It isn't some clever, artful, subtle, subversive moral commentary, with self-knowing subtexts, by carefully dissecting gender stereotyping and social roles:  it's nasty, filthy, dangerous, obnoxious, rock n roll, and it's what people lapped up in droves. 

That's all it is. It's why people loved it. 

 

 

All this is why I still love it, even and maybe especially because of the current sociopolitical climate. 

I could almost give a class on giving few fucks, I've roamed through the past three years giving few fucks while the world around me was running around screaming like it was on fire. Not that the pandemic didn't affect me - it utterly destroyed a job I had that will never exist again and I haven't yet recovered occupationally. But I just rolled through that too, ended up devoting a year to a huge unpaid project in an interest, decluttered my entire life, and paid off a large chunk of debt with that extra unemployment. I simply switched gears for a while and rolled my eyes at everything. 

Personally I gotta hand it to Duff for the punk voice on Attitude. 

Apparently I had a great time with new music in 2022, I had a really long list going. Lots of good stuff. My top 5:

Arch Enemy - Deceivers

Spiritworld - DEATHWESTERN

AURORA - The Gods We Touch 

Venom Prison - Erebos

Goat - On Death

Silversun Pickups, Bob Moses, Lane 8, Mansionair, and Nightrage also put out full lengths that I listened to frequently. 

Not sure I believe this story at all, Axl would be somewhat recognizable even from behind by most of us fans, especially somewhere like NYC where his general attire has not fit in for a decade or two. The whole thing just seems to be a bullshit story. 

On 12/27/2022 at 10:08 PM, Caught_in_a_Coma said:

I think the accent on "don't what to do it" is a clear reference to a smart ass who said that statement to Axl like that in the past.  I'm surprised more people don't think along that line.  It make sense to me.  In my mind it's "this is how you like to act, right?" sort of line to some specific person

This makes the most sense as it is Axl using one of his sarcastic, mocking voices he has used in concerts during rants he's made about people being asses/saying dumb things to him. 

Rocking out to some Arch Enemy today.