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One of the in-flight movies during Disaster Spring '13 (also known as my trip to California) was a 3-hour documentary on Pete Seeger. Almost enough to make up for being stuck in Oakland for two days with no money.

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

This band has infected my DNA as of late.

This was fun.

The first track, in particular, brought back memories.

Firestorm!!!

Earth Crisis... they're locals from my neighborhood in Syracuse. The guy who does my tattoos went to high school with them. Apparently, they're nice guys, but I've never met them and a lot of their fans are dicks.

Ohhhh boy... Going to be stuck in Oakland for 24 hours with less than a hundred bucks to my name before getting to the seminar in LA. Not awesome.

And, just in time for the party to start again...

I'm going to be at a two-week-long seminar in California starting this coming Sunday, so there's a chance my posting will be somewhat spotty for a little while. Please GMPC as you see fit.

No Use For A Name - "Feels Like Home"
No Use For A Name - "International You Day"
No Use For A Name - "Pre-Medicated Murder"
No Use For A Name - "Dumb Reminders"
No Use For A Name - "Any Number Can Play"
No Use For A Name - "Friends of the Enemy"
No Use For A Name - "Angela"
No Use For A Name - "Let Me Down"
No Use For A Name and Karina Denike- "This Is a Rebel Song" (cover)
No Use For A Name - "Solitaire"
No Use For A Name - "Undefeated"
No Use For A Name - "Insecurity Alert"
No Use For A Name - "Nailed Shut"
Stick and Poke - "Youth Crew"
Stick and Poke - "Teeth on a String"
Stick and Poke - "Poe
Stick and Poke - "Corpse Grinding Woman"
Stick and Poke - "Set Ourselves Free"
Stick and Poke - "Thanks, Bastards"
Stick and Poke - "Sink, Florida, Sink" (cover)
Jerry Jeff Walker - "LA Freeway" (cover)
Against Me! - "Sink, Florida, Sink"
Rollins Band - "Black and White"
Gin Blossoms - "As Long As It Matters"
Gin Blossoms - "Til I Hear It From You"

Well... officially graduated Magna cum Laude with a BFA in illustration. The most useless degree ever, but at least it's over with.

This band has infected my DNA as of late.

I'm still here. Are you still on board with my new character?

Meat Puppets - "Lake Of Fire (live)"
Modest Mouse - "Doin' the Cockroach"
Modest Mouse - "Heart Cooks Brain"
Modest Mouse - "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine"
Oingo Boingo - "Weird Science"
Tony Sly - "Soulmate"
Bad Astronaut - "Needle In The Hay" (cover)
Bad Astronaut - "Go Humans"
Dead Kennedys - "Nazi Punks F$*! Off"
Joey Cape - "Violins"
Chuck Berry - "My Ding-A-Ling"
The Unband - "Geez Louise"
Black Flag - "The Bars"
Tom Gabel and Chuck Ragan - "Greenback Dollar" (cover)
Flogging Molly - "If I Ever Leave This World Alive"
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, featuring Ray Dalton - "Can't Hold Us"
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, featuring Wanz - "Thrift Shop"
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, featuring Mary Lambert - "Same Love"
The Beach Boys - "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (acapella version)"
TNX - "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?" (cover)
TNX - "Help!" (cover)
Built to Spill - "Some Things Last A Long Time" (cover)
No Use For A Name - "Invincible"
No Use For A Name - "Life Size Mirror"
No Use For A Name - "The Trumpet Player"

I'm going to be at a two-week-long seminar in California starting this coming Sunday, so there's a chance my posting will be somewhat spotty for a little while. Please GMPC as you see fit.

I'm going to be at a two-week-long seminar in California starting this coming Sunday, so there's a chance my posting will be somewhat spotty for a little while. Please GMPC as you see fit.

Elliott Smith - "Needle in the Hay"
Elliott Smith - "Christian Brothers"
Elliott Smith - "Clementine"
Elliott Smith - "Southern Belle"
Elliott Smith - "Single File"
Elliott Smith - "Coming Up Roses"
Elliott Smith - "Satellite"
Elliott Smith - "Alphabet Town"
Elliott Smith - "St. Ides Heaven"
Elliott Smith - "Good to Go"
Elliott Smith - "The White Lady Loves You More"
Elliott Smith - "The Biggest Lie"
Jawbreaker - "West Bay Invitational"
Jets to Brazil - "Wishlist"
Jets to Brazil - "Sweet Avenue"
Perfect Pussy - "I"
Perfect Pussy - "II"
Perfect Pussy - "III"
Perfect Pussy - "IV"
Marilyn Manson - "Lunchbox"
Dead Kennedys - "California Uber Alles"
Pantera - "This Love"
Pantera - "Walk"
Pantera - "Piss"
Woods of Ypres - "I Was Buried In Mount Pleasant Cemetery"

Dinosaur Jr. - "Forget The Swan (live)"
Charlotte Gainsbourg, featuring Beck - "Heaven Can Wait"
The Spinners - "I'll Be Around"
Dave Hause - "Melanin (7" version)"
Dave Hause - "Whistles the Wind" (cover)
Flogging Molly - "Whistles the Wind"
Rocketship - "Friendships and Love"
Queen - "Princes of the Universe"
Elliott Smith - "Coast to Coast"
Elliott Smith - "Pitseleh"
Elliott Smith - "A Fond Farewell"
Jawbreaker - "Sluttering (May 4th)"
Jawbreaker - "Want (remastered)"
Jawbreaker - "Chesterfield King"
Jawbreaker - "Friends Back East"
Jawbreaker - "Sleep"
Jawbreaker - "Do You Still Hate Me?"
Jawbreaker - "Jinx Removing"
Jawbreaker - "Boxcar"
Jawbreaker - "Kiss the Bottle"
Jawbreaker - "Sea Foam Green"
Cosmic Wail - "Foxy Lady" (cover)
Friendless Bummer - "Daze"
Mudbutt - "Road Soda"
Mudbutt - "Six Pint Mike"

Eldritch Mr. Shiny -- Welcome! here is a link to the first page of the thread with the specific rules (such as they are) for the game.

As it is, I'll post off of the last item on your list...

Magic

Olivia Newton-John

Sorry, posted in wrong thread.

Dinosaur Jr. - "Forget The Swan (live)"
Charlotte Gainsbourg, featuring Beck - "Heaven Can Wait"
The Spinners - "I'll Be Around"
Dave Hause - "Melanin (7" version)"
Dave Hause - "Whistles the Wind" (cover)
Flogging Molly - "Whistles the Wind"
Rocketship - "Friendships and Love"
Queen - "Princes of the Universe"
Elliott Smith - "Coast to Coast"
Elliott Smith - "Pitseleh"
Elliott Smith - "A Fond Farewell"
Jawbreaker - "Sluttering (May 4th)"
Jawbreaker - "Want (remastered)"
Jawbreaker - "Chesterfield King"
Jawbreaker - "Friends Back East"
Jawbreaker - "Sleep"
Jawbreaker - "Do You Still Hate Me?"
Jawbreaker - "Jinx Removing"
Jawbreaker - "Boxcar"
Jawbreaker - "Kiss the Bottle"
Jawbreaker - "Sea Foam Green"
Cosmic Wail - "Foxy Lady" (cover)
Friendless Bummer - "Daze"
Mudbutt - "Road Soda"
Mudbutt - "Six Pint Mike"

Just went to see Iron Man 3. Afterward, I was half expecting Ashton Kutcher to burst through the screen and say I'd been *punk'd*.

I wonder what it would take to get Mike Mignola to do a complete graphic novel adaptation of Lord of the Rings? If anyone could make Tom Bombadil seem badass, it would be him.

As a farewell to Syracuse University--

Fructus cariosus betas novicias creat. Go f&!$ yourself.

Yuck - "Get Away"
Yuck - "The Wall"
Yuck - "Shook Down"
Yuck - "Holing Out"
Yuck - "Suicide Policeman"
Yuck - "Georgia"
Yuck - "Suck"
Yuck - "Stutter"
Yuck - "Operation"
Yuck - "Sunday"
Yuck - "Rose Gives A Lilly"
Yuck - "Rubber"
Friendless Bummer - "A Journey Through the Blood Desert"
Friendless Bummer - "Beelzebub"
Friendless Bummer - "Daze"
Friendless Bummer - "Pity"
Friendless Bummer - "Popesmoke/Seekers"
Friendless Bummer - "The Devil Came To Town, pt. II"
Friendless Bummer - "AngelF&+&"
Tony Sly - "San Mateo Fogline"
Social Distortion - "Gimme the Sweet and Lowdown"
Dave Hause - "Resolutions (live)"
Dave Hause - "Resolutions (7" version)"
Dave Hause - "Joining the Army" (cover)
Dave Hause - "The River" (cover)

Just had to wait nine hours for a two-minute final critique. The only feedback I got was that I should keep two phones, one for business only, because apparently it's still 1985.

Got back from that to find that I'd gotten a $35 parking ticket with no violation checked off on it. The fee I'd need to pay to challenge an invalid violation is $50. Suckered again.

Derp 6 FAWTL

Tom Waits - "Long Way Home"
Tom Waits - "Downtown Train"
Felicity Lott - "Twilight" (Edward Elgar)
Natalie Maines and Fred Norris - "Mother (live)"
Nat King Cole - "Orange Colored Sky"
High and Mighty Color - "Ichirin no Hana"
Mew - "Am I Wry? No"
Mew - "156"
Mew - "Snow Brigade"
Mew - "Symmetry"
Mew - "Behind the Drapes"
Mew - "Her Voice is Beyond Her Years"
Mew - "Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed"
Mew - "She Came Home for Christmas"
Mew - "She Spider"
Mew - "Comforting Sounds"
Mew - "She Spider (live)"
No Use For A Name - "International You Day"
No Use For A Name - "For Fiona"
No Use For A Name - "Justified Black Eye"
No Use For A Name - "Invincible"
Friendless Bummer - "Chlorine"
Friendless Bummer - "The Devil Came To Town pt. II"
Friendless Bummer - "Pope Smoke/Seekers"
Friendless Bummer - "StoneGod"

Apples For Eyes - "Sea Anemone" (cover)
Jets to Brazil - "Chinatown"
Jets to Brazil - "Sweet Avenue"
Forgetters - "Les Arrivistes"
Forgetters - "Lie Artist"
Forgetters - "Ribbonhead"
Ministry - "Jesus Built My Hotrod"
Surfer Blood - "Demon Dance"
Iggy Pop and Ke$ha - "Dirty Love"
Dropkick Murphys - "Good Rats"
Dropkick Murphys, with Bruce Springsteen - "Peg O' My Heart" (traditional)
Dropkick Murphys - "Memorial Day"
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - "Auld Lang Syne" (traditional)
Lagwagon - "Angry Days"
Lagwagon - "I Must Be Hateful"
Lagwagon - "Know It All"
Friendless Bummer - "Beelzebub"
Thin Lizzy - "Thunder and Lightning"
The Gaslight Anthem - "Blue Dahlia"
The Prodigy - "Omen (Reprise)"
Sarongs - "Pixel"
Sarongs - "Slobodan"
Sarongs - "Middle Management"
Sarongs - "The North Face"
Sarongs - "Mineral"

I screamed like a little girl. LIKE A LITTLE GIRL.

SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?

Aberzombie wrote:

Also, turns out my boy likes Willie and Waylon and the boys.

he wants to go to Luckenbach, Texas ?

You should introduce him to Jerry Jeff Walker. I was raised on the guy's cassettes.

So this exists... and it's actually pretty damn good.

Bomb the Music Industry - "Stand There Until You're Sober"
Masta Artisan - "L-literation"
Masta Artisan - "Cut Down"
Masta Artisan - "Such A Playa"
Chuck Ragan, Brian Fallon, Dan Andriano, and Dave Hause - "On The Bow"
Buzzy Girl Flynn - "South Goodman"
Social Distortion - "Prison Bound"
Modest Mouse and Johnny Marr - "Missed the Boat"
Tom Waits - "Goin' Out West"
Elliott Smith - "Because" (cover)
Elliott Smith - "Coast To Coast"
Elliott Smith - "See You In Heaven"
Gin Blossoms - "Until I Fall Away"
Sagittarius - "My World Fell Down"
Jawbreaker - "Sluttering (May 4th)"
Lamb of God - "Ruin"
Dag Nasty - "All Ages Show"
Dag Nasty - "Can I Say"
Dag Nasty - "Another Wrong"
Minor Threat - "Seeing Red"
Voxtrot - "Raised By Wolves"
Voxtrot - "The Start of Something"
Nine Inch Nails, with Marilyn Manson - "Gave Up"
Tom Verlaine - "The Hawk" (cover)
George Jones - "I'm Gonna Burn Your Playhouse Down"

Jodie Foster
was in
Taxi Driver
with
Harvey Keitel

Relationships? Oh, yeah, I read about those somewhere!

I think my character has one of those in Skyrim. I can't be certain, though.

How to design downtown Redmond:

Get a Pollack-sized (at least 10x15 feet) canvas and carefully stretch it to the frame and lay it on the floor. This will be the map.

Get several buckets of paint and some chimpanzees. Some dice are also handy.

Find a keg or a case of tequila. If using tequila, ensure it is in plastic containers so the chimps don't hurt themselves. Reserve some tequila.

Give booze to chimps. Give paint buckets to chimps.

Wait. Apply reserved tequila to supervisor.

Remove paint buckets and chimps.

Roll dice to determine which paint colors are one-way streets.

You've got a city! Try not to get lost.

Sounds exactly like Syracuse.

Did you show up in court to fight it, or just pay it? I'm wondering whether it will be worth it.

It would have cost me more to fight it than to pay it. And I would have lost a day of work.

The girl wants to just say as friends.

*Shrugs* Fine by me. I'll just tell my dad to f*** off the next time he starts whining about how I fail at life because I don't have a girlfriend.
Because really, do I need one? Will I die without one?

So far I have seen that I can live without one.

This all sounds... oddly familiar...

...and this is the major problem with the D20 system's skill mechanic. No matter how high a character's skills, there's always that element of failure present. Sure, it models reality, but it turns into a b*+~! and a half when the story depends on a successful skill check. At the best, it grinds the game to a halt while everyone tries to make the check, and at worst, it can completely derail the campaign (such as the apocryphal tale of the failed Track roll).

On the s&#* side: I got back to my car where it was parked at the commuter train station and it had a ticket on it for an expired registration. Apparently it expired 4/13/13. WTF? I never knew a motor vehicle registration could expire mid-month. The date is in tiny print, as opposed to the big 4/2013 across the sticker which led me to believe I had until the end of the month.

F!$@ers. Must have been a low-crime day to go from car to car checking inspections and registrations to find one that was 11 days overdue. (I assume they were checking both; my inspection is current.)

I suspect I can get the fine waived if I show up in court with evidence that I renewed my registration (which I did promptly this evening online), but what a waste of a day to have to go to court for that s+$#. Court date is June 5. Grrrrr.

Happened to me last summer. Registration was one day overdue, and it was the middle of August.

You can retry checks made to open locks.

Looks like we're not completely screwed, possibly.

I woke one morning, the sky was grey
a cold wind brought a black wall our way
And until the evening far from home
Where I carry not the fear of Davy Jones

And as the white squall raged
For tomorrow I'll pray
We will be singing on the bow of hope
That carries souls home to lovers alone

Jawbreaker - "Save Your Generation"
Jawbreaker - "Boxcar"
Jawbreaker - "Shirt"
Jawbreaker - "Friendly Fire"
Jawbreaker - "Chemistry"
Jawbreaker - "Do You Still Hate Me?"
Television and Brian Eno - "Venus (demo)"
Television and Brian Eno - "Prove It (demo)"
Television and Brian Eno - "Friction (demo)"
Television and Brian Eno - "Marquee Moon (demo)"
Television - "Call Mr. Lee"
Tom Verlaine - "Nice Actress"
Elliott Smith - "Waltz #2"
Elliott Smith - "Son of Sam (acoustic)"
Elliott Smith - "I Better Be Quiet Now"
Elliott Smith - "Half Right"
Elliott Smith - "Easy Way Out"
Elliott Smith - "Oh Well, OK"
Jets to Brazil - "Sea Anemone"
Slaid Cleaves - "One Good Year"
Russell Crowe - "One Good Year" (cover)
Buzzy Girl Flynn - "You Really Got Me" (cover)
Buzzy Girl Flynn - "Evelyn"
Buzzy Girl Flynn - "A Drive Up The Coast"
Buzzy Girl Flynn - "South Goodman"

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

I don't care what any of the hipster music snobs say, 'Dear You' is an amazing album.

I never had Dear You, so, no opinion, although I think my hetero life partner has a copy.

I think I only ever had 24 Hour Revenge Therapy and some tracks on comps.

Ah, nostalgia...

One of the better tracks from 'Dear You.'

I don't care what any of the hipster music snobs say, 'Dear You' is an amazing album.

Hot Tuna - "Hesitation Blues"
Hot Tuna - "Mann's Fate"
The Outfield - "Your Love"
Rick Springfield - "Jessie's Girl"
Jawbreaker - "Equalized"
Jawbreaker - "Accident Prone"
A-Ha - "Take On Me"
ZZ Top - "Sharp Dressed Man"
Oasis - "Don't Look Back In Anger"
Roy Orbison - "You Got It"
Roy Orbison - "I Drove All Night"
Roy Orbison - "Only the Lonely"
The Wurzels - "Don't Look Back In Anger" (cover)
The Wurzels - "Chelsea Dagger" (cover)
The Ink Spots - "My Prayer"
Little Brother - "Still Lives Through"
Mike Ness - "Ball and Chain"
Sixto Rodriguez - "Forget It"
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, featuring Wanz - "Thrift Shop"
The Platters - "Only You"
The Platters - "Remember When"
The Platters - "My Prayer" (cover)
The Platters - "Enchanted"
The Platters - "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
The Vanderbuilts - "Erasing Time (live)"

I used to think the same thing, Shiny. Didn't meet the right gal until I was in my late 20s, didn't start dating her until I was nearly 30. Didn't get married to her until I was 35. And didn't become a father for the first time until I was 38.

I know that I b++!~ about this stuff a lot, but it's really become a constant nagging worry recently. I'll be 27 this year, and I worry that I'm going to turn into Kurt Cobain.

I'm the same age now as my father was when I was born. By this stage of his life, he was married, had graduated college, and had been working for a paper company for five years with over two hundred grand in the bank. Right now, I'm two weeks away from a useless BFA, with no job prospects and no future.

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Sometimes Wayfinder editing makes me very sad.

How so? At least so far, I've had a delightful time with my editing.

Moving this discussion over to PIE so I don't piss anyone off.

Also, is it just me, or is Skyrim really easy?

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Moorluck wrote:

I have now beat Skyrim so many times that when I put it in the system it begs me not to hurt it again.

Man, I wish I had that kind of time...

Wait until you get married and have kids, then when you can't go out and do anything you just won't have anything better to do. :/

I don't go out as it is. More so than ever before, recently. Sometimes Wayfinder editing makes me very sad.

At this point, the chances of me getting married and having kids are about as big as the chances of the Ottawa Senators winning the World Series. And yes, I do know that's a hockey team, thank you very much.

I have now beat Skyrim so many times that when I put it in the system it begs me not to hurt it again.

Man, I wish I had that kind of time...

Henry Cavill, the British actor playing Clark Kent/Superman in the upcoming Man of Steel film, also played Albert Mondego in the 2002 film version of Count of Monte Cristo.

And what's-his-name from that pile of s#*$ "Immortals."

Online dating, round 2. Two profiles completed. Let's see if this doesn't blow up in my face.

Brian Fallon - "Handwritten (live acoustic)"
Brian Fallon - "National Anthem (live acoustic)"
Amanda Palmer - "The Killing Type"
Roy Orbison - "Sweet Caroline" (cover)
Roy Orbison - "Only the Lonely"
Joan Jett and Laura Jane Grace - "Soulmates to Strangers (live)"
Kyle Lang - "Counting Sheep"
Tony Sly - "Not Your Savior"
The Loved Ones - "Pretty Good Year"
The Loved Ones - "Louisiana"
The Loved Ones - "Brittle Heart"
The Loved Ones - "The Bridge"
The Loved Ones - "100K"
Bouncing Souls - "Gone"
Spacemen 3 - "I Feel So Sad (reprise)"
Tom Waits - "Martha"
PSY - "Gentleman"
Modest Mouse - "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine"
Modest Mouse - "Cowboy Dan"
Minor Threat - "Seeing Red"
Black Flag - "Slip It In"
Black Flag - "Wasted"
Black Flag - "Damaged II"
Dave Hause - "Resolutions"
Cockney Rejects - "Oi Oi Oi"

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

been looking for this video for years. ...I love the howl of victory at the end!

Was that Marty Stouffer narrating?

yup.

Well that's a blast from the past.