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DeadDiscoDildo 08.08.2009 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss
Math. Everyone tells me, "but you're supposed to be good at math since you're a musician," but there isn't really much math involved in music beyond counting.


Yeah, tell me about it. Fuck those ignorant cunts.

You feel music. To me, if anything, music is more like a science than math. Like creating formulas for songstyles and mixing this potion with that potion to get that reaction.,..

terriblecanyons 08.08.2009 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
 




Suchfriends, I...































I think I love you

DeadDiscoDildo 08.08.2009 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by FreshChops
I highly disagree with this. This and that theory that if it isn't classical of Jazz, it isn't music.

All that drives my is pitch, chords, melodies, frequencies and all that sh!t when playing music..... the timing / the math part just happens and falls in place to the melody. There is math involved, but math doesn't give music it's character, it's only a component of it. So, to say music is math, well......


Yes! To me it all should either start with the vocal melody, or a real catchy guitar melody and make the vocals abrasive.

After that, the drums should highlight the melody and the bass should be harmony. then add guitar noise (that's my writing style I mean, I didn't mean that's how it should always be)

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 08.08.2009 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by terriblecanyons
Suchfriends, I...































I think I love you


I've been hearing that a lot lately. its a lot more refreshing than all those death threats I used to receive ;)

artsygrrl 08.08.2009 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
answering all these questions. you and kegmama just forward all these to my press agent, I'll have her fax you out the responses by thursday next week.

hey, great. We'll be watching for them. FYI, if you want to lie we don't care.
Karlie and I are not that picky. Besides, who the fuck would know? haha


 

pbradley 08.08.2009 11:46 PM

names/faces
foreign languages
finding a life supporting career

sonicpixie 08.30.2009 01:10 PM

i suck at common sense
ive been told its like living with rain man as i only seem to have numbers in my head :(
also i really do hope he meant rain woman or thats even more offensive

jennthebenn 08.30.2009 01:11 PM

I suck at not only common sense, but also temper control.

I suck at drawing. I suck at trying to write a short story.

sonicpixie 08.30.2009 01:17 PM

writing a short story is hard... it requires focus of which i have none i get distracted far too easily. i bet you could write a short story if it didnt have to have a beginning a middle or and end??? or at drawing if you didnt have to explain what it was supposed to be?

notyourfiend 08.30.2009 01:32 PM

heavy lifting.
fixing cars and bikes.
playing guitar.

demonrail666 08.30.2009 01:38 PM

pole vaulting

Seandi 08.30.2009 01:51 PM

hot knives

TheFoxBen 09.02.2009 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Nefeli
speaking in front of a bunch of people.=my head gets bigger ready to explode [...]


Oh yeah, like in SCANNERS. HAVE YOU SEEN THAT MOVIE ?

Satan 09.02.2009 05:28 AM

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Originally Posted by jennthebenn
temper control


i suck worse at this than i do at anything in the whole world

terriblecanyons 09.02.2009 05:43 AM

I suck at pretending I care.

Death & the Maiden 09.02.2009 06:20 AM

Showing emotions. As in, being excited for other people, being sympathetic. I just can't do it.
Following through with my goals - genuinely putting effort in at school is the main one.
Choosing a career path - musician, music teacher, private music teacher, session musician. I also can't decide what to do about university.

phoenix 09.02.2009 06:40 AM

staying motivated

gmku 09.02.2009 07:16 AM

!@#$% so far has the best reply.

I would join him in this (not literally). Which is just to say that I suck at this as well when given the opportunity.

Savage Clone 09.02.2009 07:54 AM

Math
Fingerstyle guitar
Keeping my mouth shut
Managing finances

jennthebenn 09.02.2009 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by sonicpixie
writing a short story is hard... it requires focus of which i have none i get distracted far too easily. i bet you could write a short story if it didnt have to have a beginning a middle or and end??? or at drawing if you didnt have to explain what it was supposed to be?


Nicely compressed short stories that progress from A to B are just beyond me.
If I break out of that mindset that they HAVE to conform to that standard,
then I could probably write some that I was happy with.

Satan 09.02.2009 08:23 AM

playing guitar or bass without a pick

static-harmony 09.02.2009 11:50 AM

Math
School
Not good at hiding my emotions.

!@#$%! 09.02.2009 11:54 AM

pity parties

gmku 09.03.2009 07:54 AM

If you're getting paid for work, it's hardly a waste. It's keeping you alive. Unfortunately for 90 percent of the world's population, this is reality.

Feel grateful that you're employed.

SONIC GAIL 09.03.2009 08:00 AM

Cleaning...being sober...cutting hair....I have just discovered though that I am very good at driving my little honda through mud without getting stuck in it.

jon boy 09.03.2009 12:10 PM

i suck at having to deal with annoying people.

Zombie Robot 09.03.2009 12:35 PM

i suck at being good.
but im good at not getting caught.

Savage Clone 09.03.2009 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku
If you're getting paid for work, it's hardly a waste. It's keeping you alive. Unfortunately for 90 percent of the world's population, this is reality.

Feel grateful that you're employed.



This is the most annoying fucking simplistic response anyone can give to the kinds of feelings EVERYONE has sooner or later.

Right up there with "feel grateful you have four working limbs."

Yes, things can get worse. That doesn't exclude having shitty fucking days on occasion, or even fairly regularly.

Jesus Christ.

tw2113 09.03.2009 02:30 PM

sucking



I'm pretty awesome

starsailor 09.04.2009 06:49 AM

video games, i like them though

!@#$%! 09.04.2009 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Savage Clone
This is the most annoying fucking simplistic response anyone can give to the kinds of feelings EVERYONE has sooner or later.

Right up there with "feel grateful you have four working limbs."

Yes, things can get worse. That doesn't exclude having shitty fucking days on occasion, or even fairly regularly.

Jesus Christ.


i almost forgot, i saw this yesterday so i just came back briefly to post this:

CONTEXT, man, CONTEXT:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_277218.html

this is today's fuckign news. if i recall, gmku was jobless for a while some months ago. i had a fucking horrible november-may dry spell that made me rethink my living situation (i moved). i guess at this point i'm happy i have 4 limbs!

ok. have a good weekend.

Savage Clone 09.04.2009 01:18 PM

Valuable perspective.
I was totally under the impression that we were in the midst of the greatest economic expansion in the history of civilization, with plentiful opportunities for all. I myself turned down seventeen job offers just yesterday, and I have almost no marketable skills.

floatingslowly 09.04.2009 01:20 PM

^^^ the Johns on the corner don't count. :rolleyes:

Savage Clone 09.04.2009 01:22 PM

I'm appointment-only.
The nerve.

Glice 09.04.2009 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

CONTEXT, man, CONTEXT:


I think the thing is that very few people would disagree that, in these difficult times, having a job, of any sort, is generally beneficial. The problem (and this is definitely a problem for the left) is that being grateful for a job doesn't mean that people should put up with degrading, underpaid and unsatisfying work. Ok, there isn't that dream job for everyone, and I think it's definitely healthy for everyone to put a bit of time in in crappy jobs (I've brushed warehouses, served bars, delivered papers, whatever) but that by no means means that it is the ideal-case scenario that the majority of people hate their jobs. Having just left a job that had minimal prospects, 'fair' wage and hideous colleagues, I'm definitely all in favour of... anything other than what I was doing. My main problem with that particular job being that I know lots of fully trained IT people who'd kill for the job I was doing, and it's entirely unfair that thanks to my ability to chat shit I was given the job over umpteen more qualified people.

THE POINT is that it's always worth striving for better, because we really don't live in an ideal world. The corrolary of this being that just because there's a recession on doesn't mean that everyone should start veering further right.

Obviously, I'm not suggesting that one or two posts on the internet is immediately an admission of being neo-Schutzstaffel, but centre-right employment rhetoric is precisely the sort of thing the left needs to very explicitly shout about (which is what Drone intimated then had the 'oh, it's the internet' thing, which I can sympathise with).

Toilet & Bowels 09.04.2009 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice
The corrolary of this being that just because there's a recession on doesn't mean that everyone should start veering further right.



especially because it was those cunts who got us into this mess. never mind getting rid of their bonuses i think we should get rid of their heads, guillotine style.

artsygrrl 09.04.2009 10:05 PM

If work was enjoyable, it would be called PLAY. Those who are lucky enough to enjoy their jobs.....are truly blessed. I am one of the lucky ones, but I have had jobs that sucked day after day after fucking day with no end in sight.
...ppl who bust their ass working every day have earned the right to bitch every once in a while.

Lamont Cranston 09.04.2009 10:50 PM

Life.

automatic bzooty 09.05.2009 12:19 AM

yeah, that.

terriblecanyons 09.05.2009 12:24 AM

I suck at pretending to care.
No, really.
People think I'm really rude because I don't care.
Well, I don't care.


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