Recent content by Bloopy

Have you even seen the news lately? Believing oneself to be a sorcerer is an ideal way to cope! Excluding recovery from a full-on breakdown, I suspect sanity never increases for anyone. We're continually eroded to a more loony state by the sheer ridiculousness of shit. Either take things as they...

What sucks is when you get spare jewel cases and they turn out to be knock-off flimsy ones with parts that don't stay connected together as well. Then you end up with a whole lot of spare backs and a bunch of trays as it's mostly the fronts that need replacing. Alternatively you could find some...

Feel free to list some recommendations of each!

I got a bit carried away there as the other substances are probably not much better. Isopropyl alcohol will absorb more readily into the bloodstream via the skin than ethanol-based sanitizer, but then I have weaksauce skin. I've tried the likes of hand sanitizer and deodorant, only to have them...

You can use eucalyptus oil to get the sticky residue off, though the plastic may be slightly affected. Others suggest WD-40 or several other products, but eucalyptus oil has a more girly scent. If it doesn't quite get 100% perhaps you can bother handling something more toxic like isopropyl...

Anyone want a Last.fm shirt? Size L, print is only slightly worn. Just pay postage from Auckland NZ. A bit too big on me - they sent me some free stuff ages ago but didn't ask my shirt size.

RIP! Sometimes the health problems just get people, with or without the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. He would've been 44 when I saw Motörhead in 2005, and I'm 2 years from approaching that age myself. It never gets less weird pondering the numbers.

Having figured out not only fav album for each year, but also top 10-20, we also did this: Calculate how metal you are using your fav album per year. Basically, pit your fav metal album against your fav non-metal album for each year from 1970 onwards. Currently I'm at 60.7% metal, but...

Dump of some fav catchy and/or epic old single tracks I dig from female vocalists:

Pentagram - going by Wikipedia, they were inactive between 1990-1993 before they even released the great Be Forewarned. Though I prefer the 2nd half of their discography overall, with Last Rites from 2011 being my fav album of theirs - released after they'd been inactive again between 2005-2008...

Now we're talkin' (about having to travel to Straya)

I'm glad to support Last.fm financially given how many years of service it's given me. They also once gifted me a free subscription for 10+ years due to being a forum moderator on there.

Last.fm's streaming feature simply uses YouTube, so unlike Spotify it can play stuff uploaded by fans. It's free and you can basically try it without even having an account. The site is more suited to listening to mp3s on your hard drive and simply giving you statistics on what you've already...

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A GA ticket is $270 here in Auckland is too, but that currently works out to about AU$225 so I think I'm getting the better deal! Helps that I work remotely for an Australian company and get paid in dollarydoos. 😉