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New Features and T-Shirt Preview	March 16, 2007, 4:14AM
by: eon
Two new features have been added to the picture galleries: Re-Upload: You will notice a 're-upload' link that appears under each of your uploaded pictures when you manage your pictures in the control panel. Using a 're-upload' link will allow you to replace a picture without losing any of the comments that have already been posted to it or any other picture information (such as it's order number and description). This would be handy, for example, if you had a new version of a picture to upload but people had already added a ton of comments to the old picture that you didn't want to lose. Picture Comment Replies: Clicking a 'reply' link under a comment on one of your pictures will let you write a note that will appear directly under the picture comment. For example: Suppose someone posts a comment on one of your pictures that says, "OMG U R SO EFFING FAT!!" You can now reply and your words will appear directly underneath their rude remark, allowing you to tell them off succinctly, "OMG I AM SO NOT FAT! I ONLY ATE 9 CHOCOLATE CREME BURRITOS AND A FEW CHEETOS THAT DAY SO STFU!!! AND MAYBE LIKE HALF A THING OF FRIES BUT THAT DOESN'T COUNT SO STFU!!!" Your answer will show up underneath their comment as "[your name] replies:" Up to this point, hitting the 'reply' link on a picture comment just sent a reply to that person's profile. Not really as useful in my opinion, since it's doubtful that anyone else would actually see what you had to say about their comment. If you do want to reply to someone's profile from their comment on one of your pictures, just click their avatar. T-Shirt Preview: I'm trying out a new place called Good Storm that does on demand t-shirt printing and delivery for a very reasonable price. Kind of like Cafe Press, except they charge in dollars and cents instead of in arms, legs and left nuts. I'm still thinking about different designs but I do have one posted up that I think looks pretty snazzy. If you're so inclined, you can check it out and tell me what you think. I am not yet recommending this product until I receive the t-shirt I ordered myself for inspection. Here it is if you'd like to take a look. Thanks, guys and gals. You make it happen.
topic: Site News
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Consumer culture is a threat to progressive change!	March 7, 2007, 9:41PM
by: SeigneurVoland666
Consumer Culture is a threat to progressive change Current mood: stressed Category: Life By Punkerslut [Author's Notes: Started on Monday, May 15, 2006. Completed on Sunday, May 28, 2006.] There is no doubt that there is a great antagonism against consumer culture on the part of all Leftists, Socialists, Libertarians, Communists, and Anarchists -- in short, every group that can be called a class of reformer or revolutionary. Our reasoning is simple: there are things in life that have more value, meaning, and purpose than the manufactured products of a lifeless and mechanized society. Those of us who are convinced of this truth thoroughly enough will do what we can to escape the tyranny that is produced in the corporate-dominated, consumer culture. Many have escaped to the bosom of nature, taking a Thoreau-like approach to the question of "how should we live life?" Some have adopted an extremely open and loving sexuality as a means achieving fulfillment in a world that's too afraid to trust good will. Others have traveled the path of the old psychedelic guru, ingesting mind-altering chemicals as though they were the nutrients necessary for a fully developed and mentally healthy psychology. We are the artists who spit on artist organizations, the writers who mastermind brilliant ways to break grammar rules, the intoxicated friend at a party who admits what everyone is too afraid to say, the bombers of dams and the conceivers of boycotts; we are everything short of a complete and total revolution. There's a rag-tag, unregimented army of rebels, who are willing to spend their lives proving that absence of consumer culture doesn't mean absence of all culture. The development of real culture is only possible when the individual challenges their environment and makes demands on themselves to find the absolute and unadulterated truth -- that is, real cultural revolution is only possible when the individual doubts what they are told. A fair definition of Consumer Culture would be: relying on the owners of industry to produce for the people the main subject of their lives, that is, producing a culture for the people that revolves around consuming the products of this economy. The difficulty that many people have with this is that the interests of the ruling class are not quite the same as those of the ruled class. Corporations, such as Starbucks, WalMart, Nike, Adidas, Macintosh, and Shell, all manufacture their products in countries that exploit the working class. Many of the workers labor twelve to sixteen hour days in dirty, unclean factories, under threat of a violent military regime or the agonizing poverty created by Capitalist, Free Trade, and embargo policies of the United States and other nations. To trust those who created such a global calamity would be a great mistake. Trusting them to create culture for us, to create something beautiful, unique, and personally challenging to fill our lives -- to trust them to complete this task is only to make ourselves the slaves to their media. What concentrated economic powers have done to satisfy their interests has already been demonstrated. To trust them to make for us the meaning of life would just mean that we're subjecting ourselves to the mental shackles they so desperately wish to put on us. The message they give to you dominates conversations, thoughts, secret dreams, and painful aspirations. Social control is established in this means by Consumer Culture. One of the prime indicators of Consumer Culture is television. Mega-corporations fight with each other over the will of the people, by developing newer and more captivating advertisements, by dumbing down plot lines for television shows so they capture more viewers, special interests get their views in and the public just follows along. That is why television has become the daemon in the nightmares of every Freethinker. The History Channel, which is hosted by an American corporation, rarely displays the United States government in any negative light. The show Cops never shows a police officer failing to capture his victim. The plot lines for most sitcoms revolve around things like money, romance, popularity, and other themes that easily capture attention but always fail to plant something meaningful. Television programming has gone so far as to place advertisements as a part of the plot. Here, in the living room of every family, there rests a machine that is constantly feeding ideas to a listening audience. The plot lines, the themes, the ideals, the suggestions, hidden implications and subliminal advertising, all of it is to create a grasp of the way people think and act. By their means of massive distribution, the media has molded the opinions of billions of people. And who is it that holds the keys to this uninterrupted stream of suggestions to the public? It is anyone who has the money. That is the sole requirement that is necessary to reaching the minds of the public: who possesses the wealth. Consumer Culture will naturally incite a feeling of loathing and disgust when investigated by any independent thinker. Moreover than its innate failure to produce meaning or purpose beyond our immediate atmosphere, it is a detriment to something else: progressive change. This phrase progressive change is a very general term, meaning when society reforms, revolves, or adaptates to a new condition that is more beneficial to civilization. While every person is always in a state of perpetual evolution, sometimes steering towards good, sometimes falling towards bad, always in flux -- while we are always changing and progressing through life, the term progressive change here indicates a change in our customs, our laws, our culture, our ideals, our way of life, as it pertains to us collectively. It is a matter of interrelation. By indicating to my brothers and sisters what I believe should be the order by which we adhere to collectively, I am making a position on the matter of social progress. How can we change the ways we interact in a way that increases our benefits of working together in a mutual and cooperative environment? That is what progressive change means. Why Consumer Culture would be viewed by progressive revolutionaries as a threat is obvious. By directing the attention and the awareness of the public on a lifestyle that requires playing by the rules of the system, social and political change stagnates. The thoughts and ideas of the people in this society are focused on the issues that the corporations want them to be focused on. Profit is the sole interest of those broadcasting the message of Consumer Culture; so one can only truly expect to see a constant barrage of suggestions and implications on how to behave, what to buy, how to treat other people, who to admire, and what to believe on the matter of government, economy, society, and culture. All of these will be profit-driven. What is the message that it brings? It demands that people consume: a big car means that it's easier to sleep at night, a stylish jacket will attract the attention of the opposite sex, absolute true love is only one phone call away, you can make a million in three and a half days by following this seven-step plan, peace of mind can be obtained with four easy payments, consume, consume, consume. The immediate interest of a true consumer, then, is a self-interest that can only be satisfied by the products of this corporate mechanism. It is true that greed has become nature's way ever since the dawn of the idea of property. But our corporate system has greatly refined humanity's taste for elegance, luxury, and pleasure. In the Capitalist system, a person can get just about anything they want, so long as their pockets run deep enough. Such wonderful and pleasant schemes befall sleeping minds. The individual's interests then are focused on getting the wealth necessary to satisfy their consumption; they will be more willing to steal, to take advantage of the misfortune of others, to befriend and betray, to manipulate and deceive, to exploit the good will of another for wealth. All consumers serve this social order as employees and workers. They all trade their hours and their strength to labor in exchange for the wealth necessary to keep up their lifestyle. Consumer Culture's effect then is to create division and disorder among the public, to let their blood and drain their strength. And its secondary effect is to make it a goal for us to serve the financial dominion with our employment. Consumer Culture is bent on the competitive spirit. It asks that people throw their strength and energy against each other in order to achieve and accomplish. By seeking their satisfaction through the goods and services of their corporate overseers, the first goal will be to accumulate money to procure these substances. The impulse of greed becomes second nature. The person is always either engaged in some manipulation of their comrades or constantly under suspicion of the intentions of their siblings. Targets of property crime generally tend not to be the most wealthy. Those who steal from their fellow humans tend to be just as poor as their victims. Consumer culture has tempted daemons, and they are coming out. This system of free enterprise only asks individuals to seek and benefit from the misfortune of others. In a negotiation, if the individual with the strongest need is usually at the whim of the other's mercy. In a situation where someone has a strong enough need, they will enter into an agreement regardless of the terms; this, in effect, creates a slavery of one in favor of the other. So it has become the will and the nature of our Capitalist society to seek the misfortune of others. To make others need you so that you can satisfy your own self-interest at their slavery. That was the original idea of Capitalism. It was practiced by the coal barons who shut down their mines just to create an artificial winter in the cities, making the price go up along with profits. It was an idea expanded upon by all of the companies that worked to dominate their industry, gnashing against each other in the competitive field of business. And in its final state, this idea produces a way of life for people where they need the corporate product to satisfy their sense of meaning. This is the way our social order has been organized since the existence of property. But only with the emergence of Consumer Culture has it become so cutthroat in its tendency. Everyone is praying for the misfortune of others, only so that the newly arising need of others would be the stepping stone to their wealth. In such a world, all men and women are constantly seeking to exploit each other, never willing to trust, totally afraid to share, and certainly terrified of the idea of putting energy, will, and strength towards a collective effort. The first effect of Consumer Culture is apparent: it creates a lust for worldly possessions that makes individuals hurt each other. Beyond this, it asks that, in order to satisfy the interest of the corporate product, we must exchange our labor and time. Our desire for the products of these corporations was manufactured by the marketing and advertising industry, feeling that it could create a sense of willingness to trust, desire, and protect the corporate world and its relationship to us -- that is, Consumer Culture. In the United States, we labor forty hours a week to earn the money necessary to satisfy these wants. A workday will consist of one to two hours preparation before work, to put on our uniform and eat. Public transit could take up to an hour to get you to where you work. Eight hours fly by. Another hour to get home. Twelve hours of the working class, blue-collar laborer are spent just for an eight hour payday. The modern inconveniences leave us with three hours to ourselves before we dive in to unconsciousness like we were dying. So much is sacrificed; we lose so much of our time, our energy and our strength in this mad rush to serve the corporate interest. Millions of people are in debt, because their working lifestyle spoiled their patience and turned them in to mindless animals seeking to cure their pain -- to cure it with the corporate product. The debt consolidation industry continues to reap its profits as payday loan stores pop up alongside funeral parlors and pawn shops in the ghettos. It has always been the intention of the lords of industry to make the people need them -- to force them into a situation where they would agree to the terms of any contract. Consumer Culture is simply the sophistication of this method. By controlling all forms of media and all information, corporations are capable of gaining more social control; and this is accomplished by making the people need the system more, by changing their attitudes. With all of our time and efforts sacrificed to this monolithic beast, we have few moments to ourselves. Those few moments are spent trying to kill the pain that came with this type of lifestyle. We don't read old books about philosophy and political theory. We don't admire the ideas of Locke, Machiavelli, and Bentham, nor do we appreciate the poetry of Shelley, the prose of Thoreau, or the written word of Paine. Consumer Culture has buried the working public and it has left them with no way to get out and no chance to plan or plot for their escape. When people are put into these type of oppressive situations, where so much must be given to live, where so many sacrifices are made to appease our constant inner turmoil, in this type of world situation, people will be bitter, cynical, and hopeless. They will turn against each other with ferocity, sometimes to seek out vengeance or mastermind an exploitation; after living in this type of conditioned society, we seek to lessen our pain by causing the same misery on others. And anyone who is capable of surviving without making the same sacrifices as us is instantly detested and hated, as though we were xenophobic to outsiders. Can you imagine trying to develop a revolutionary and progressive movement in this type of atmosphere in Consumer Culture? If you asked your coworker to unionize with you, they might tell you that they can't afford to go on strike because they're still making payments on their new car. Or they might have no idea what the principle of solidarity means, or what a true working class ethic might entail. Eleven to twelve hours of their day is spent in either preparing or going to work or actually laboring. What's left over isn't spent in intensive thought on social issues or matters of political justice. The other three to four hours left over is used in a mad rush by the citizen to alleviate the pain that was built up over the day. It's the kind of pain that comes from doing thousands of mindless, repetitive tasks in a single day. The kind of misery that boils from supervisors and managers treating demanding obedience and respect constantly. It is the stress from customer service jobs and bruises that come from physical labor employment. When work ends, people run from their place of employment, seeking refuge in some escapist, fantasy-inducing activity. The next three to four hours used to help them forget what was necessary to get to this point of the day. Drug addictions become favorite pastimes in this type of environment. By teaching people to need and satisfy their needs, Corporate Culture turns people into self-destructive zombies who serve the interest of the wealthy class. Like a person inflicted with a burn wound, the employee released from his labor in capitalism seeks to relieve his pain immediately and quickly. And the only cure for the suffering caused in this life is constantly advertised, on television, radio, buses, billboards, and a million other places where billions of eyes will be watching. They cause our pains and then are quick to profit off of our headful of suffering. To so control the lives of the common people, by forcing them into eight-hour daily slavery, by dominating their media with a pro-consumption message, by manufacturing these conditions that put chains on the wrists of every person -- this is real tyranny. Capitalism can produce nothing else, and this Consumer Culture is just the most refined and sophisticated form of wage-slavery in any post-industrial part of the world. They ask us to seek satisfaction in cooperation with each other in order to secure their interests. That is the principle effect of Consumer Culture. As Libertarian-Communists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, and Revolutionary Socialists, whatever name we decide to call ourselves, we must oppose Consumer Culture, and any other chains that the oppressors attempt to put on us and our fellows. For Life, Punkerslut
topic: Life
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Articles Slump..	March 6, 2007, 8:39PM
by: Mynd-Phyx
This article is basically pulled out of my ass, but this article slump is pretty lame. There are however some rather liable points, I think. Humanity as a whole is under the impression that they are the most intelligent species on the planet. In my opinion, we may be the most intelligent but as far as wisdom goes, we're not looking so good. Animals on the other hand, seem to have the right idea. I think we can basically agree on the fact that our Earth is a self-correcting system. In fact, things don't tend to go wrong in nature on its own. One species may over take the other, but it manages to be balanced or in the end turn out to be alright for nature, and the regions environment as a whole. Humanity doesn't seem to be connected to that insurance, choosing not to be part of natures system. We as humans don't even consider ourselves anything equal to animals. In fact it'd likely be taken as an insult. Which, as a side note, I find simply arrogant. Our mind set is that anything that isn't human, or isn't domesticated [by humans obviously] is nature. Suggesting that, in the abstract, we don't even identify ourselves with nature. Which, I think is the problem. As far as I can tell, anything deeply impacting Earth was a problem started by humans. Extinction, [bare in mind species go extinct everyday, its natural] is often caused by: Human built cities, destruction of habitats, pollution, hunting, and simply disturbing of the regions environment. Human cities are: inorganic, not animal friendly [nor nature friendly], often require clear cutting, and prone to pollution. Habitats are destroyed by: clear cutting to develop farm land, dumping toxic waste into rivers, over hunting, and over all an unfriendly environment towards anything not human. Pollution is caused by: Factories, everyday litter, and common human irresponsibility. Hunting: [also something animals do obviously, but animals hunt when they need to eat.] Humans hunt, for sport, for food, and for the hide. Humans upset regions simply because we're an unpleasant species to have to live near. We are messy, we take up loads of room, we generally don't like anything that isn't human, and we are under the involuntary impression that we are above nature. Obviously human ingenuity has its ups and downs, but after only 150 years of heavy industry, it's beginning to get a little difficult to point out the ups. Humanity being just as arrogant as usual has taken steps to try and help. Good thought, but stupid tactics. We have, spent billions of dollars trying to control nature and 'fix' it. We've tried to educate people into loving nature. We've established parks to satisfy the "on-the-fence" human’s natural desire to feel as though we haven’t done anything too bad to nature. It's also served as a tactic to make people love nature. We've spent millions of dollars trying to preserve endangered species. I believe there is an obvious answer to the problem. But NOBODY wants to do it, so the idea remains relatively unspoken of. That solution is basically, desert our industries, leave our factories, and ultimately throw out everything humanity has developed. The idea is just about as radical as it could get, but I do honestly believe that it’d be the ultimate solution.
topic: Rants
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PLEASE HELP BRANDON LEE GET A STAR IN THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME	March 5, 2007, 3:43PM
by: drkfx08
~BRANDON LEE *THE CROW*RAPID FIRE* FANS~ HAVE YOU SIGNED *THE PETITION TO GET BRANDON A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME* NEED 5,000 SIGNATURES - IF BRANDON MEANS AS MUCH TO YOU, AS HE DOES TO ME - SIGN IT & GET THE WORD OUT *I AM A DEVOTED BRANDON LEE FAN - *BRANDON WAS A VERY SPECIAL PERSON* THANK YOU *ELAINE CLICK HERE 2 GET BRANDON A STAR! "THE CROW" "RAPID FIRE" ~"Because we do not know when we will die - we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well - Yet everything happens only a certain number of times & a very small number really - How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood - An afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? - Perhaps 4 or 5 times more - Perhaps not even that - How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? - Perhaps 20 & yet it all seems limitless"~ www.brandonleemovement.com/star.htm The Brandon Lee Movement Web site
topic: Advice
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Fear of Homosexuality or fear of a crumbling dynasty?	February 28, 2007, 1:16PM
by: Drewman
In a recent edition of the news paper in the region I live in, they printed a photo of a local musician at our music awards show, kissing his long-time, and soon to be wed, boyfriend. Now when I say kissing, I don't mean a full out, passionate kiss, but a loving and innocent peck on the lips. An article I've read, and I took no notice or offence to the picture. Alas, the next couples days were an outbreak of what looked to be homophobia, in my hometown, a fire of rage that continues today. I've asked myself the question, that has plagued, and will continue to plague the minds of those who do not see any sort of problem with homosexuality. What is the logic behind those who are anti-homosexuality? Why do they single out people who prefer the love of a man/woman? Why does marriage have to be a exclusive club for the heterosexuals who claim to be in "love"? Why should those who mistreat the confines of marriage be permitted to remarry again and again, yet those who are bound spiritually are not permitted to have that little piece of paper saying they're also legally bound to each other? I read almost once a month some celebrity couple have divorced once again, or another have married, but those who are normal people, can not marry those they love. Our governments create programs and organizations that allow teens, who are afraid to come out, to talk to someone and help them find a way, but there are still governments that will not allow gay marriage. Maybe the reason the majority of teen suicides, identified themselves as gay or lesbian, even though they have places to be accepted in, they still know they'll never be accepted in societies standards. The photograph in question (available for reference at; http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=11301&sc=89), was infact sent to the mother of the musician, written on, with words of hate and disgust, which have brought hate and disgust for the person who not only wrote them, but so bravely forgot to leave her name. Sorry, what I meant to say was cowardly, yet there has been backlash, but none as harsh as the backlash for that photograph. Childish homophobic people of my province, sent their rage in the form of emails, letters, phone calls, and vandalism, not only to the news paper, but to the parents of the musician. (http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=13414&sc=89 , what they did to the cover). The entire ordeal, shows the intolerance of humanity, instead of accepting the identities of each other, we promote hate and disapproval of certain lifestyles that shouldn't be hated. Abolish the old way of thinking and set in motion a new century of acceptance and peace. Allow someone the ability to be able to who they are, sexuality and personality wise, rather than live in fear of the homophobia that all of a sudden is all the rage.
topic: Life
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Update: Group Activity Logs	February 15, 2007, 10:02PM
by: eon
One problem that has emerged within our groups is the task of keeping track of who is doing what. When a group has too many people with access to it's admin features, it's sometimes hard to tell why certain posts have been deleted, why certain members were kicked out, etc.. With this addition to the 'manage members' page, group leaders (successors and higher) will be able to see an activity log showing them precisely who was responsible for doing what. I've taken some reports of groups that have been vandalized by unknown persons who managed to gain promotions to higher ranks. Hopefully this feature will act as a deterrent, or in the very least, allow group leaders to take appropriate action when this happens. The logs will store the previous 500 actions, including: broadcasts, promotion, demotion and deletion of members, approval and rejection of new applicants, updates to the group page and changes to group settings. They will also record deletion of posts when the posts are deleted by someone other than the author. As always, report any bugs and... enjoy.
topic: Site News
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Mr. Misanthrope	February 11, 2007, 1:52PM
by: Mynd-Phyx
Usually I'll play the Christianity card, but that's because it's a reasonable set of beliefs to me. I believe humanity has managed to throw out some good ideas, and a TON of really fuckin' weird ones. This is a bit of a theory I have. That it's through pure conceit, that people have the nerve to believe they go ANYWHERE after they die. It's human nature, to be conceited. It's involuntary, but it's constant. We're superior to all other species. It's nearly impossible to not feel that power. We have dominance. But that conceit, that illusion of power has lead us to think we can defy death. Our tools of self-deception list as: angel, spirits, ghosts, demons, succubae, gods, goddesses, deities, and the greatest abomination Heaven. It's not just one single, religion. It's not just the Jews. It's not just the Christians. It's everyone. There is a common belief in the afterlife. A place were people believe they'll go after they die. And it's THAT involuntary conceit that drives us to interpret our existence, via the abstract. The creation of 'real,' 'tangible' Gods. Just like the square root of a negative number is an imaginary number. We've created an answer, because we're under the illusion that we know what's going on. To me this practice is, self-righteous, self-concerned, arrogant, ignorant, and self-importance. Such conceited self-importance, doesn't impress me. How these religions are formed I couldn't even imagine trying to explain. Much of the most reliable records of history, [pre-4000 B.C.] were destroyed with the Library of Alexandria. What still exists is what we know today. Which, really isn't all that much.. I do believe in my existence, and this world, and space and the universe. I believe everything is God. God, is.. it. It just is, as we just are because we are part of it. It's doesn't create, it doesn't destroy, it doesn't reward, and it doesn't punish. It just is. I'm basically personifying it's existence, it's not alive, but it exists. The universe. A living object. It doesn't demand that we pray to it. It doesn't expect us to acknowledge it. It's not like, when we create a shoe that we expect it to recite to us our name over and over again and sing us songs. It doesn't demand religion. Now the option is always open that I'm completely wrong.. It's just another philosophy.
topic: Philosophy
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Ramblings of a Metal head	February 8, 2007, 10:31PM
by: Cro
Have you ever sat down and thought about what kind of music you listened to. Also why you listened to that style of music. We all have tastes in music on what's good and what's bad. We all have musicians and bands we love and we worship those musicians and bands accordingly. I was listening to one of the pop stations we have down here in Maine. Surprisingly this pop station played a few songs that I liked. One was by Nickelback and the other was by Evanscene. I sat there amazed. I was listening to the pop station for once in my life and I liked what I heard! I think most of our musical preference is with at birth. I mean our preference for music is mostly picked up by what our parents listen to. Also what we listen to when we are growing up. I grew up in a pretty cool household. My mother loved rock music and other styles of music. I remember being a little kid and going through some of my mother's old records that she had lying around. There would be some really cool bands in there. One of my favorite bands as a kid was Steppenwolf and some of the early Led Zepplin stuff. Around 12 or 13 I started to venture out of the musical nest. Well so to speak. Remember I'm big on stupid metaphors! I started actually going out to our local store. Which was an AMES in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. They had a decent selection of music. It wasn't the best. Trust me. I found this band called "Black Sabbath" the cover was simple the band name and the album name. I looked down at the cd I had in my hand. The case was all black. I turned it over and saw a few songs I recognized. It was only two I knew. "Iron Man" and a song called "Paranoid". I remember my mother telling me about a band with a similar name. I bought and when I got home I popped it into my pc CD player. I played it and it hit me. This was one of the best bands in the world. Mind you, when I was younger my parents had a tape that had a bunch of Metal bands on it. One of them was Black Sabbath and I think one of the songs was "Iron Man" so you could say. My parents at birth were forming one of the most dedicated metal heads on earth! But before I found out about this band Black Sabbath. I used to dabble in listening to pop music. To be honest and open. I didn't think most if at that time [1996-1998] wasn't that bad. You got some good bands and you got some bad bands. My favorite pop band at that time was Smash Mouth. To this day I still like that band! I also liked a band called the Backstreet Boys. Yes, all you metal heads who are reading this can laugh now. I don't deny that I liked them in the past. My musical choices make me who I am. The music industry is one of the biggest entertainment industries around. There is no escaping that. Also music has become a very good escape for kids that want to express themselves. Learn an instrument start singing about what you wanna sing about. That in itself is a great escape. I've also thought that we listen to the music we listen to. Because of how we feel at that moment. If we will fucking pissed off we are gonna listen to a fucking pissed off song. If we are sad we are gonna listen to a sad song. If we're happy we'll listen to a happy song. Get my drift? I don't think we could fully explain why we listen to a certain band or a certain style of music. You might come up an explanation why you listen to a certain band or a certain musician. That's primarily your opinion and pergotive. I'm sitting her in a cold and damp computer room with my CD player in the background. It's playing the best of Grim Reaper. I scroll up the page and I've looked at what I've written. I'm shaking my head with disbelief and question. I'm wondering why I even started writing this. It's because I had an idea in my head and I wanted to share it. I've asked a question that can't really be answered. I mean we do have an answer for this question. It's not an real answer. It is more of an opinion answer. I know there is someone out there that might be reading this. If I post it. Thinking to themselves. "Hey dip shit. This is an easy question I can answer it!" In my conclusion of sorts. I've finally asked a question that even I can't answer. The music we listen to and why we listen to it. It is a mystery even to me. My musical past is covered in everything. Rock, Metal, Pop. Hair Bands, Country bands, Oldie Bands, Grunge bands. I'm a lover of every kind of music. The only thing in life that I'm really passionate about. Call me what you want. Just because I don't listen to METAL all the time doesn't make me a less of a metal head than you are. I've been listening to rock and Metal for more than 10 years. In the words of Mick Jagger. "I like it, I love it, I want some more of it." I'll be a Metal head until the day I die. I'll lift those devil horns into the air with pride. Because this music is my life, my passion. And these metal heads are my brothers! raise 'em up with pride! \m/ ^^ \m/
topic: Rants
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Registration Back Up	February 2, 2007, 1:23AM
by: eon
Registration is working once again and all issues previously caused by the mail server are now resolved. It is possible that we haven't seen the end of our trouble with this, but I'll be watching things closely. Sorry for the down time today, there was lots of stuff on the server side that needed looking after. Things seem to be running smoothly at this point, but again, I'll have my eye on it. Thank you for your patience.
topic: Site News
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Registration is Down	February 1, 2007, 1:01AM
by: eon
We're having problems with our mail server and so it will not be possible to register as a new user for the time being. If you filled out a new user registration in the past 24 hours but never received the verification email, this would be why. This will also prevent Andromeda members from sending outgoing mail using their web based email accounts. I currently do not have an ETA on repair. Expect 24 hours, perhaps longer. I'll post any updates here. Sorry for the inconvenience.
topic: Site News
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