relationship question

[jordanmichael]

You guys are going to break my scroll wheel.

i'll break your scroll wheel...

I'm willing to bet I'm about two of you.

Still want to break my scroll wheel?

i'm willing to bet your about two of me too. i am 5'10 and weight 125. you could totally eat me.
and no, i don't.

[peacocks]

I can see how in some neighborhoods, taste in music or appearance might be a somewhat reliable indicator of character. Where I live, you can't swing a cat without hitting fifty guys who like all the cool bands and wear glasses, or whatever. It's not a really useful way to pick out the awesome ones. Seems like getting to know somebody and noting how you're treated is the way to go.

I tend to fall for people who are thoughtful and treat me really well -- even a Republican, once. Haven't found common interests, like bands, to mean much of anything -- I just go out with my pals for that. More like common attitudes? Curiosity, loyalty? Even the Republican was a really good person who wanted all the same things anybody wants for the world -- just happened to have what looked to me like utterly insane ideas about how to achieve that.

this is a good point and I don't think many saw it because of the fun embedded quote game.  here tis!

[TheNames]

So yeah. I was nasty sick for most of spring break, but i called her yesterday and we ended up going and fingerpainting in the park. it was nice.  i think i like this girl.

ed. when she was a kid she used to listen to this 8track she had of the Donna Summer album On the Radio all the time.  THAT IS SOOO MY FAVORITE DONNA SUMMER ALBUM (i know i know, it's a great hits-ish thing, but DAMN it's mixed so well)!!!

[FreddyKnuckles]

more than anything, I just wanted to say "more ass than a toilet seat"

that really is a great phrase.
"boom-shaka-laka"
i never liked it until the stephan hawking character said it on family guy.

*Remembers the good ol' days of NBA Jam on the Sega Genesis*

i miss sega genesis. does anyone know any good emulator sites i can find some games for it?

I don't really have anything to say.  I just wanted to embed the quotes further.

i can understand that.

 

Is there any limit on embedding?

i dont know!

I don't think so. It's starting to look like one of those old-school cameras, though.

what was jordanmichael saying the other day about all of his threads getting off topic?

What was he saying?

that all his threads get off topic.

this is starting to make me nauseous...

This is getting ridiculous.

I love carrying jokes past the breaking point.  Keep going!

you guys are too funny!

if you scroll the mouse ball roller thing really fast it totally blows your mind

Just jumping on the bandwagon.

welcome aboard!

Oh man, I gotta get a piece of this action.
I've actually wound up dating at least one girl who had much love for the guitar-playing thing.  Thinking about our short, doomed, me-being-too-old-for-her relationship makes me feel all meloncholy.  Like, sad-bastard Edgar Poe meloncholy, not Rawr! Wail! Billy Corgan meloncholy.

(I almost forgot to keep embedding!)

I am deeply and frequently disconcerted at my seemingly subconscious inner magnet for boys who play guitar (and, most of the time, sing).  Like, I'll meet a boy completely randomly, and after I decide that I like him and we've agreed to trade contact info and/or preliminary mixtapes, he outs with the fact that he'd be happy to put me on the list so I'll go see his band next weekend, at which point I feign slashing my wrists to whichever of my girlfriends is nearest.
People like me get called "groupies" a lot, but I'd like to see them meet someone who doesn't play an instrument when the only time they leave the house is to go to shows (or run to the liquor store.. in which case, yeah, you're probably gonna meet a fair amount of singer-songwriters there, too).  How it has been entirely impossible to find one single, cute boy who's psychotic about records but doesn't play guitar may have something to do with the fact that I am sort of deformed looking, but seriously:  chicks who are uglier than me get action ALL THE TIME.  WHAT GIVES, WORLD.  WHAT.  GIVES.

Uh, yeah.

I'm going to go home and start drinking now.  I kind of wish I had the internet at home just so I could scroll through that embedded quotes thing until I fell asleep.  Better than valerian root, that.

Oooo, I'm Andrew_TSKS, I'm too good for embedded quotes. 

Seriously, though, most guys that are into listening to music will also be into playing it, to a greater or lesser extent, steph, so you're outta luck.

You may just have to wait 10 years for all our youthful dreams of rock stardom to fail.

hahaha!  i used to tell my ex-boyfriend: "where is the great american novel?! where are the works of art?!  where is the script you've been talking about!?" -- a mixture of reverse psychology (so he would do "something") and to get on his nerves a bit. 

cough.  dieblucasdie.  cough.

huh?  I never claimed to have ambition, Freddy.  It's my mom and my girlfriend who have all my ambition for me.

I'm a sayin' that sounds a lot like you.  'cept reverse psychlogy don't seem to work.

back to the male musicians:  it's not that I (we?) actively avoid those who play guitar or are in bands.  I just am not attracted to guys on the sole condition that they play guitar and are in a band- there must be other qualities.

and steph, how do you meet these "guys in bands"? I feel I am a frequent show goer and I normally just hang in the crowd silently judging the performance and sometimes dancing and/or singing but no conversation "guys from band" is ever a consideration in my mind even if I know them personally.  here I would say "lucky you" but I'm being ms. half way intelligent feminist in this thread so it wouldn't go.

I think her point isn't that she's hooking up with band members from whatever show she went to.  She's saying that at shows, there's a good chance that a lot of guys in the audience are in bands of their own

haha

[SPACERACE]

i think almost every active member from that time period posted in that quote.

[C of heartbreak]

That is amazing.

[jebreject]

i think almost every active member from that time period posted in that quote.

except me

[FreddyKnuckles]

Except the people who scoffed at us like jeb.  YOU COULD HAVE BEEN PART OF HISTORY JEB!!1

[jebreject]

I don't scoff



















Do I?

Guys, tell me I don't scoff. Do I scoff?

[dieblucasdie]

Well, you *are* an indie kid.  So you tend to scoff.

[jebreject]

I'm so indie it hurts. Literally. These pants are suffocating my balls and this product in my hair weighs a ton. Also I cut my thin, dainty fingers on the sleeve of that new limited-run ^superscript LP.

[SPACERACE]

there's no way to win, jeb, because the harder you fight when people say you're a hipster, the hipper it gets.

[jebreject]

I'm not fightin' nothin'. I just said, I'm so hip. Look at me. I'm a hippie dippie hipster man. Woo. Look me, all made outta straw and stuff. So hip.

[SPACERACE]

it's not a strawman, jeb, because the strawman is you!

[jebreject]

I'm admitting as much. I have straw coming out my elbow joints. Comin' out my knees. Comin' out my nose and mouth and ass.

[FreddyKnuckles]

head shoulders knees and toes

KNEES AND toWS