You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
What browser are you using? Some browsers (I know Chome does this) "helpfully" try to convert the URL into a link instead, so if that happens, click the "Show Source" button (the last one on the second row toolbar) before you paste the URL.
It’s impossible to approach Converge’s Jane Doe without baggage. It was Terrorizer’s album of the year in 2001. Decibel inducted it into the Hall of Fame and later named it album of the decade. Sputnikmusic also named it best album of the decade.
The problem with accolades is that new listeners are told what to expect before they press play. They are expecting a life-changing experience, an epiphany. It’s not much different than what new listeners of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, Pet Sounds, or Led Zeppelin II experience. There’s no chance to approach them as a neutral listener. I discovered The Who’s Tommy on my own in a neighbor’s record rack. As a result, I feel more attached to it than these other canonical albums. Long before I knew it was about a messianic blind boy, I assumed it was about Christ. As an adult, I think it’s about both – and about Pete Townshend.
It’s best to view Jane Doe with fresh eyes and think back to when it was an album, not a milestone. Minus the praise and dissection, Jane Doe is about heartbreak, a relationship collapsing. Much great art is about lost love, whether it’s poetry, painting, or music. In metal, we’ve heard from a lovestruck Satan in “NIB” (I will give you those things you thought unreal / The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal). Metallica got teary-eyed with “Nothing Else Matters”. Type O Negative’s Peter Steele vented his rage with “Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity” (His tongue down your throat, his hands down your skirt, yeah I’m a man, baby, but it still hurts).
What makes Jane Doe different is that it’s not a simple good-bye, fond memory, or “fuck you”. It’s a panoramic view of a world collapsing. Nothing on this album that indicates that frontman Jacob Bannon will move past this relationship. The music – shifting between the nearly weeping guitar of “Thaw”, the schizophrenic twists of “Fault and Fracture”, and the pop introduction of “Distance And Meaning” – is the ultimate accompaniment to personal disintegration.
What’s most telling about Jane Doe is that while the female narrator bears her share of blame (“Homewrecker” and “The Broken Vow”), she’s not the only one responsible. Broken relationships involve two people. Jane Doe airs both sides of the story, so it resonates. It remains a poignant intersection of personal upheaval, passion, and art.
You have to highlight the link and click the "remove formatting" button, it's the T with the red X next to it. It's inbetween the bullet point-maker and the highlighter.
What browser are you using? Some browsers (I know Chome does this) "helpfully" try to convert the URL into a link instead, so if that happens, click the "Show Source" button (the last one on the second row toolbar) before you paste the URL.
Aha so that's it, thanks
Yep I'm using Chrome. I moved over just recently because Opera has this new trick where it locks up the entire OS intermittently every 10-15 minutes like we're back in the Windows 3.1 days
Dear Opera Team if you ever read this, fuck you and fuck your fucking browser
Dear, I'll stay gold just to keep these pasts at bay To keep the loneliest of nights from claiming you and to keep these longest of days from waking you For I felt the greatest of winters coming and I saw you as seasons shifting from blue to grey That's where the coldest of these days await me and distance lays her heavy head beside me There I'll stay gold, forever gold
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
^That's the one I always use. It also conveniently makes it so that the pasted text doesn't have a white background that shows up in the quote box or on your own posts.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oh, and Chrome itself has a "Paste as Plain Text" option in the right-click menu, which I've found to be useful at times.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I also like how Chrome has the "Copy image URL" option. Especially useful considering how our "Insert Image" function works.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Ergh, I don't think I'm feeling too well all of a sudden. That combined with urges to make creative things without having any idea where to start is bugging me.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
I spent the entire day pouring over all the material I have that I can use to put to print and if I want to set my deadline to the end of September, I can't see putting out anything that I'd be happy with the final product
So making this an entire semester project with 2013 in mind seems to be the most realistic but for editing purposes I'll have something put to print well before that just to check the quality of the print and binding and all that other crap. I've never done this sort of thing before but I'd think that by now the presses such as Lulu have their shit figured out on their end, at least
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Yeah, Lulu. I like the whole hardcover 6x9 style offered there. Hardcover book format has always been what I've wanted to publish on, nothing paperback.
Yeah, Lulu. I like the whole hardcover 6x9 style offered there. Hardcover book format has always been what I've wanted to publish on, nothing paperback.
Ah. I only ask because a while back my dad self-published a book on blurb.com. 300 pages, full color, glossy...each of them is like $70, I think.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Well, what I'm estimating here is 250 pages so for each book I press at B+W, it's like $19 each
Color costs exponentially more. Like $70 per book. I know I have folks who won't mind dropping that and more for a copy of my stuff that's color so there's that
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QUIET RIOT
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
It cannot be simpler
It’s impossible to approach Converge’s Jane Doe without baggage. It was Terrorizer’s album of the year in 2001. Decibel inducted it into the Hall of Fame and later named it album of the decade. Sputnikmusic also named it best album of the decade.
The problem with accolades is that new listeners are told what to
expect before they press play. They are expecting a life-changing
experience, an epiphany. It’s not much different than what new listeners
of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, Pet Sounds, or Led Zeppelin II experience. There’s no chance to approach them as a neutral listener. I discovered The Who’s Tommy
on my own in a neighbor’s record rack. As a result, I feel more
attached to it than these other canonical albums. Long before I knew it
was about a messianic blind boy, I assumed it was about Christ. As an
adult, I think it’s about both – and about Pete Townshend.
It’s best to view Jane Doe with fresh eyes and think back to when it was an album, not a milestone. Minus the praise and dissection, Jane Doe
is about heartbreak, a relationship collapsing. Much great art is
about lost love, whether it’s poetry, painting, or music. In metal,
we’ve heard from a lovestruck Satan in “NIB” (I will give you those things you thought unreal / The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal).
Metallica got teary-eyed with “Nothing Else Matters”. Type O
Negative’s Peter Steele vented his rage with “Unsuccessfully Coping With
The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity” (His tongue down your throat, his hands down your skirt, yeah I’m a man, baby, but it still hurts).
What makes Jane Doe different is that it’s not a simple
good-bye, fond memory, or “fuck you”. It’s a panoramic view of a world
collapsing. Nothing on this album that indicates that frontman Jacob
Bannon will move past this relationship. The music – shifting between
the nearly weeping guitar of “Thaw”, the schizophrenic twists of “Fault
and Fracture”, and the pop introduction of “Distance And Meaning” – is
the ultimate accompaniment to personal disintegration.
What’s most telling about Jane Doe is that while the female
narrator bears her share of blame (“Homewrecker” and “The Broken Vow”),
she’s not the only one responsible. Broken relationships involve two
people. Jane Doe airs both sides of the story, so it resonates. It remains a poignant intersection of personal upheaval, passion, and art.
CF you us Opera, right?
You have to highlight the link and click the "remove formatting" button, it's the T with the red X next to it. It's inbetween the bullet point-maker and the highlighter.
Dear, I'll stay gold just to keep these pasts at bay
To keep the loneliest of nights from claiming you
and to keep these longest of days from waking you
For I felt the greatest of winters coming
and I saw you as seasons shifting from blue to grey
That's where the coldest of these days await me
and distance lays her heavy head beside me
There I'll stay gold, forever gold
My most favorite lyrics ever.
I hate that feeling.
I hope you feel better soon.
I wonder what happened to Vshao.
Although that FBI thing was really odd and kind of ominous sounding.