Nighthawk

No need for quotes, that was genuine. I'll show you the scar from where I got all that sometime. It's right next to the acid burn I got working construction that by some strange twist of fate wound up looking like a pentagram.

For a while I've been trying to remember what Everclear's first hit was, and that was it, "Santa Monica". Thanks. (I didn't like it... it's just you know how sometimes you'll try to remember something and it will haunt you until you do)

So... what about Sebastian from "The Little Mermaid"? I love that cocksucker. TLM is easily my favorite of the modern era Disney films.

Pic please. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Here's the one where I supposedly look like Bam Margera: Here's a more recent one where I don't:

I prefer 'Milky Has A Cunt'. Which wasn't even what I told the guy to write, I said to say "Milky is a cunt", he took it further. That's tekcop holding the sign. I hope he's remembered as "The Guy Who Said Milky Has A Cunt."

I dunno, some guy. If I'm remembered as "That one guy", I'll be fine.

TSM is Hotel California.

S'true, nobody ever really leaves. Fuck this place, I hate it. But I just... can't... stop.

Cursed card shops?

Hey hey hey... You know, I invented "Comments which don't warrant a thread." I feel good. I remember the guy that invented "One and Only" threads. Now I'm like that guy.

Mole bites his fingernails. I can tell.

Matt Young is the fellow who skyrocketed into recognition due to his resemblance to a tv personality. See, I was already well known before the Bam Margera comparisons came into play. They no longer apply either. My hair has gotten much longer.

Blackwood does sound like a place where you would find evil goblins and cursed amulets.

(The cheese metaphor I'm about to use was stolen from Agent of Oblivion. I like it, and find it appropriate) So say cheddar cheese is pop music. It's been around for years, and everybody knows what it tastes like, and they like it. Somebody like Nancy Sinatra is cheddar cheese. But then after this has been around for a long time, the suits that are behind pop know what's good about cheddar, and they alter it, and repackage it to make it even more appealing. The Spice Girls are Velveeta. Everything that was good about pop is encapsulated in the Spice Girls. This was no accident. They know that sex appeal is a big part of pop music, so they get five of them, and each one will appeal to a different demographic. Somebody may find all of them attractive, but you have a favorite. Like, I like the tomboys, so I liked Mel C. Somebody else likes sluts, so they like Geri. Glamour girls, Victoria, and so on. They even have an ethnic one so their audience isn't racially limited. This was crafty. They charge their image up with bubblegum feminism. They already know that a guy needs no added motivation, but sometimes a girl will say "Well, this music is pretty good, but it's exploiting women." Covered. The music itself is exactly what pop should strive to be. Catchy, not overly deep, because when you think too hard, you see the shallowness of what you're listening to. They got the best producers to work with them, and not all of them were the greatest singers in the world, but you wouldn't know it to listen to their albums. They shimmer with professional sheen. The Spice Girls never had a "message" song. The closest was about loving your mother, and that's about as innocent as a message can get. It's fun, it's light, it's just about having a good time, which in turn is what pop music is about. I can't help but smile when I listen to their albums, which is as it should be. Now when Geri left, the dream was dead. They put out another album where they tried to be more serious, and you can tell when you listen to it that's just... off. There's a way in which pop is similar to punk, in that if you let it sit for too long, it will self destruct. In this case because it's promoting an ideal which isn't based in reality. A good pop act has maybe 4 good albums in them before the artist gets too caught up in trying to be a real musician, and they either have to abandon their pop sensibilities completely (Aguilera), leave music all together (Spears), or make a fool of themselves (Marky Mark). Speaking of Marky Mark, yes, I think pop is more of an attitude than a true musical genre, like punk, one which can cross over into many other musical genres. The Spice Girls were dance pop, the purest form of pop. And that's why I call them the ultimate pop act. Everything learned from pop over the years was wrapped up in one group. The only one close to them was the original Beatles. Watch Help! and the Spice World movie. They aren't all that different. The difference was the Beatles had enough talent to follow through with their attempt to be serious musicians. And some of the Spice Girls did. As an owner of their solo albums, I can tell you that Mel C and Emma have talent enough to make it on their own. The others... not so much.

In a manner of speaking, yes. The more gullible will believe that your consciousness is actually being projected across the universe or some shit, but it's really just telling your brain to dream. Like, when you dream, anything can happen, and that's what you're doing, except you're in control of it. See, my grandfather is a hypnotist, and a complete fraud (in a way). And since we're family, he'll tell me "I'm not really doing anything. If this person wants to quit smoking, they can just do it. I'm just using the power of suggestion to make them think they're hypnotized and I'm talking to their soul, but it's really just them." And anybody can do this. Meditation is just conscious relaxation, when you break it down. And in this state, someone can give you information which you accept in a different way, because your brain is working in a different way. I have astral projected. I have levitated off the bed and spoke to spirits and read books written by aliens. But I know it's only dreaming, letting my brain run free and do what it wants. The brain is a powerful thing, and can do some weird shit if you let it. One of the weirdest things I've ever experienced is being in a state of extreme meditation. And I tell my body to move, and it does, but it's not like I'm doing it. My brain is telling it to, and it does. It feels like being a puppet, with my brain as the puppeteer. It's not easy, I started with just lifting my arm up, and worked my way up to walking around. But this is all just working with what you have, no dues ex machina. Mind over matter and so forth.

The pictures slightly resemble the late EC comics and MAD magazine mogul William M. "Bill" Gaines.

As an addendum to my disgust with ketchup on eggs, I will eat them with salsa, usually in the form of a breakfast burrito.

You're right, I did kind of skip over your questioning the influence of the blues. You're sort of right, but my standards are lower. If the blues influenced, say, the Stones, then everyone influenced by the Stones would be indirectly influenced by the blues, even if they didn't directly incorporate it into their sound. Like, Eric Clapton has credited Robert Johnson for much of his inspiration. So no Robert Johnson, no Eric Clapton, no Jimmy Page, no Tony Iommi, etc. See, I think you give innovation and influence too much significance. No, Johnsosom didn't invent it. Hammurabi invented written codes of law, but our own constitution is still better. Something like... I don't know, The Love Below. Completely derivative and isn't really influencing anybody. Still a great album. I've waited for some time for the right situation to allow a Hammurabi reference.

I can induce lucid dreaming, which is basically what this is (you don't have to be asleep). I don't believe in anything metaphysical, but you can read a tutorial on how to astral project, and the techniques of meditation and self hypnosis produce similar results. Again I stress that nothing spiritual is happening, it's more akin to your brain being double jointed.

Man, Johnson invented playing your bassline on the bottom strings of your guitar. I will still say Robert Johnsosom. When you try to present rock without acknowledging Robert Johnson, you fall, cause everything rock is based on, he invented. Who invented the bassline? Robert Johnson. Who invented rundown, boogie or repeats... Robert Johnson. And yes, I'm being subjective... but who took what Robert Johnson did, and adapted it to the new generation... nobody but the new hip hop artists. I know there's a lot of room for subjective interpretatioion in your stuff, but i'm not with it. It's all just rip offs of the blues shit, and they never were able to communicate what they did with the blues stuff. Which is not the fault of the blues... they just couldn't relate anymore.

Fuck influence, because if we want to include that, it's fuckin' blues all the way. Nobody influenced anybody like Robert Johnson. I would easily hold 29 to 34 blues over your head. But I'm talking just "If I was on a desert island and I had to listen to one five year period of music." that would be it. On quality alone. Unless, of course, you want to say rap isn't music.

Pfft. That happens to me four or five times a day.

twiztedmind, I would be interested in sex with you.