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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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As you may remember from last week's episode entitled "smith Lives in a Vaccuum" my CDs were ummmm...confiscated by my parents because they contained the words "Queer" and "Pornographers" in the titles.......calm down, for those of you who do not know, 'Queer As Folk' soundtracks 1,2,3 and 'The Pornographers' are just a group that took their name from Jerry Falwell's statement that "Music is today's pornography". There is a Tampa group that calls themselves "F***ing My Skateboard". hahaha !! My Mama would die and prolly watch me whenever I touched my board.
Anyway....I have been 'receiving' mysterious CDs in the mail basket on my bedroom door...all Christian music groups with angels on the covers......and yesterday, I got a Billy Gilman CD. Now, I have nothing against Billy or any of that but it is not what I listen to. i wonder who is putting those CDs there?
hahaha !
So.......I have outwitted them once again  I put on the angel CDs in my big machine and then slam on my headphones and listen to my techno/dance stuff....you know the stuff I mean...that heavy heavy beat that makes you want to dance and kinda hypnotises you? I had quit using my headphones cause I think I'm going deaf but oh well...Oh, a friend downloaded all the music again for me....maybe Bill Gates is the devil??
It's funny but the church music up full volume and no one complains.......my music and I guess they're sure I'm dancin' with the devil in the pale moonlight...the Joker
Finished now !! I'd be upset if it wasn't so danged funny!!
smith J
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trevor
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Registered: November 2002
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I sort of have the same problem with the Mrs - she listens to contemporary Christian and I listen to more classic rock with lots of Dave Matthews type stuff (okay, not techno, I know) but I had her car driving home last night and popped her Mercy Me into the CD and cranked it. It was a nice change and "louder" than most of the stuff I listen to. At least my kids get a mix to choose from and will probably find something neither of the 'rents like, I suppose.
Anyway, just post your address and we'll mail your folks and let them know what a fine example of a "true christian" you are here. That is true. Heh heh.
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Location: currently So Cal
Registered: May 2002
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It's good to keep your sense of humor about it. When dealing with parents there's not much else you can do unless you just go crazy.
I had a similar thing happen when I first moved to California. For 4 years my mother sent me a letter in the mail about twice a month. It always contained job and apartment listings in Ohio where I grew up. Finally after 4 years she came to CA for avisit. After she saw I had an apartment of my own, furniture, I wasn't starving, etc. she realized I was not just on vacation, I had in fact moved to CA. The classifieds stopped being delievered. Parents, can't live with 'em, wouldn't be here if not for 'em.
Oh yeah, uh, take good care of that um, skateboard.
Think good thoughts,
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... I don't know this particular branch of musical repertoire. But the way you describe it I kinda feel I should.
So, if I wanted to try out some techno/dance stuff with "the heavy heavy beat that makes you want to dance and kinda hypnotises you" then, er, where should I start?
Is there, like, a greatest hits compilation?
I know I'm going to regret asking this.
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UGH! This is like the only thing you ever wrote I vehemently oppose!
SCOOTER??? EEEWWWW! I have never ever heard a more untalented group, they're the worst ever! They don't just scream horrid things, they're plain horrid period.
And, I think they're German actually, but I'm not totally sure.
Now, if you try to find some stuff by Biosphere instead... THAT guy is awesome. He's Norwegian and makes the most amazing ambient techno sounds I ever heard. If you like his music, you are absolved of your Scooter sins.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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You know, I'd dance with you any day of the week smith, and twice on sunday. HEY, it is sunday still where you live. LOL! (Then again, I'd dance with any of the guys here, so nobody go feel discriminated okay? )
I guess Scooter's good at making grownups annoyed (and to prove the point, I'm a grownup and they annoy me). I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for the fact that,
A: the "singer" of the group can't sing worth a damn,
B: the "singer" "sings" off-key,
C: the "singer" looks like a god-damned white supremacist nazi,
D: well, I think A, B and C is enough, really...
There's lots of techno I enjoy, I don't include Scooter into that group, and NO, they are definitely not Swedish (thank all that is holy, I'd turned green of shame if they were )...
Biosphere... Now that is a different matter entirely. You don't wanna get up with your arms in the air and shake your booty listening to this. You want to sink down in a bean-bag and contemplate, to discover your inner thoughts, to live the music and walk through the soundscape like a strange city, discovering new towering vistas around every corner.
Biosphere - Substrata is full of urban sounds which makes it lonely, cold and impersonal at times, gives rise to images of tall buildings in a Metropolis-like skyline, of cement and concrete and steel-grey clouded skies. Then warm tones comes floating through, like rays of yellow sunshine touching everything, giving it color and life.
I love it.
"a vision, fresh
and clear as a mountain stream, the mind revealing itself
to itself.
In my vision I was on the verandah of a vast estate, a
palazzo of some fantastic proportion.
There seemed to
emanate from it, a light from within this gleaming,
radiant marble.
I ha known this place. I had, in fact,
been born and raised there
this was my first return, a
reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.
He was happy and
carefree, clearly living a life of deep harmony and joy.
My vision
ended and I awoke with an overwhelming feeling of
optimism and confidence"
Have fun tonight, JJ.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Guest
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Registered: March 2012
Messages: 2344
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Thanks for the tips on new music ideas...I'm going CD shopping this week, I hope, and should be able to find the QAF soundtracks, at least.
I'll pass on the tecno, prolly...some of us are just TOO far over the hill for that...hehe
Hmmm...image of Lenny turning green with red hair...interesting image...ha!
smith...promised email on the way today!
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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And Billy G is so cute, too!
Hey, if you tell them you may be gay, will baskets full of nubile girls be supplied?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Rock on,Dude!
HEhehheee. I'm kinda in a similar fix. I like my old rock, my new rock, my Rockmonanov and all (Especially my Pink Floyd, that poem in the Poetry Corner has the same kinda beat and pregression as a song called Wearing the Inside Out, off the Division Bell CD......you know, repetative listening for inspiration.) Thing is, I live in a house full of those who listen to Country/Western music exclusively. Talk about trapped.
Anyways, smith, Keep the subtle warfare going. Sooner or later you may get your way. (_8(P)
BTW, smith, Awesome work on that little side project of yours. Simply awesome.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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smith, I'm afraid to say... 
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SMITH J! 
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