rexualhealing

I have raged a LOT while reading this thread.

First of all, I want to come out and say that I think King Diamond kicks ass, but that doesn't have anything to do with what all I'm going to say.

1)The Doors were NOT the end all, be all fathers of grunge. If you want to even attempt to give anyone that title give it to Flipper and Black Flag, with Black Sabbath as the crazy uncle who was a "bad influence" of sorts on both of them. Side B of Black Flag's "My War" album is the most crucial piece of proto-grunge ever and that album should be in every grunge fan's music library. Both bands were huge influences on Kurt Cobain, who for some reason is going to go down in history as the God of grunge.

2 )Dashboard Confessional and Alkaline Trio are not responsible for emo. Emo started off as a way for people involved in the Washington DC Hardcore Punk scene to kill that scene off because it was getting too violent. The whole thing apparently started as a joke, what with acoustic concerts and overly emotional songs and stuff performed by guys who used to be in bands like Minor Threat and such but people took it seriously and that led to bands like Sunny Day Real Estate. Alkaline Trio, despite displaying many emo overtones and having a lot of acoustic music, has more in common with horrorpunk and pop punk then anything else really, at least, that's what happened when Matt Skiba started doing more songs than Dan Andriano. Calling Alkaline Trio emo is like calling Rozz Williams's Christian Death emo. Well, maybe it's not as ridiculous as calling Rozz William's Christian Death emo, but still, it's kind of along the same lines. I guess it'd be more like calling the Descendents emo.

3)The Ramones popularized punk rock, but the Velvet Underground, the MC5, The Stooges, Patti Smith Group, the New York Dolls, etc, started that whole thing off. Punk was originally an umbrella term for the experimental music scene centered in New York that later morphed into the No Wave movement, but kinda got bastardized along the way to describe a genre of music that I love dearly but has little to do with what it started off as. Wheareas punk now generally means "three chords, angst,  and some adolescent-level humor" it used to be really experimental and cutting edge at one point, believe it or not.

I dunno, I feel like I'm coming off as an elitist ass so I'm going to stop. Music history's something I obsess over to a ridiculous degree and normally I have more patience when it comes to this sort of thing because I'm like a walking encyclopedia of music but there was too much ridiculousness in this thread and I have to get some of my raaaage off my chest before I go to sleep.

This movie looks kickass. Reminds me of the good old days of exploitation cinema that I wasn't alive for but relive on my DVD player and VCR a few nights a week.

Fucking fuck this would come in handy when I go adventuring in space every day.

"The real loser is someone who play 20 year old video games. Like me."

I will let this guy tell me what to liek instead of figuring it out by myself. YAY GROUPTHINK

Psiops will not be seen because Psiops literally plagerised the entire plot, and games concept from a book, Which is why they never made a sequal *psiops actually sold adequetly for a sequal to be made*
*edit screen play not book*"

I don't even want to think about how much I spend on games per year.

That being said, I rarely buy them new. I mostly game on older consoles and it's more fun for me to go browsing through second-hand gaming stores (real ones, not Gamestop) and such for things that I want rather than walking into Fry's and buying a game new.

It's all about the thrill of the hunt for me.

British candy is superior to all other candies. Jelly Babies are the best edible product mankind has ever invented.

"I've only had the wannabe Moon Pies and not the real thing. Is their a difference?"

Vinyl and vidjagames. Since this is a music related thread, I'll share highlights from my admittedly mainstream-ish vinyl collection (well, compared to black metal, anyway). Note that most of these are not repressings:

Van Halen 1 & 2
"London Calling b/w Armagedion Time" by The Clash
"Touch Me, I'm Sick b/w Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More" by Mudhoney (which is almost worn out but holy shit what a great single)
"I Against I" by the Bad Brains
"Live at Budokan" by Cheap Trick
"Unleashed in the East" by Judas Priest (also have "British Steel" but it's a repressing)
The Pretenders II
"Fly by Night" by Rush
"Raw Power" by The Stooges (repressing :/)

With the exception of a few of those albums you'd glance at that and never believe that I'm a punk and noise kid. I have a LOT more than those albums (including a lot that I only own just because they were given to me and I'd feel bad about giving them away), that was just off the top of my head. I may also be the only person who actually still owns a Virtual Boy, plus I've got a Game.com as well and shitloads of videogames.

I went through an anime on VHS phase for awhile too, but that didn't last long.