The pics thread

[Dak]

Or the George Costanza look. Always pulls the ladies.

 

[Srontgorrth]

I don't know if I ever posted about it, but I was thinking about cutting my hair too (and also donating it to locks of love ). Problem is, I have no idea what hairstyle I'd want it to be, besides fairly short.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Then why the shit do you listen to metal? Or do you listen to metal?

Figured I'd expand on this a little more. Metal still makes up a pretty big chunk of my music listening, but the real thing is that music overall is much less of a focus in my life since I started full time work. I listen to some ambient/trance shit during the work week just for background noise, and any kind of serious listening I do almost exclusively on weekends, especially now that I'm traveling for work and don't have shit to listen on while I'm away from home. Right now my 'serious music time' is mainly during long drives (which I do a lot of). That's just the most appropriate time to really absorb/appreciate what I'm listening to.

So because of that I've been pretty slow picking up new bands lately. In the past couple months the only metal bands I've checked out are Motley Crue, Def Leppard and Isis. Isis would be perfect for my general mood right now, but unfortunately I find most of their music really boring and poorly written.

 

[damnromulans]

Enemy242 - don't cut it super short. If you really have been growing it since 13, ten inches isn't that much. At shoulder length have it tapered so there is more volume around the crown of the head than at the bottom, elsewise you risk looking like a dork with hair all the exact same length. I think long hair really, really suits you (and is the more attractive option).

Hubster - Shit I didn't realize Gorecki died?! And yes, it is the darkest thing I have ever heard. I can't handle that kind of crushing depressive onslaught very often so I reserve listening for very special and very dark times.

 

[damnromulans]

I can't stand cookie cutter classical. There are a few tonal pieces that I do like though they are mostly Russian composers. Listen to Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. I consider it the most touching and beautiful piece ever written. It calls for a string septet. This piece was written shortly before Schoenberg developed his twelve tone system.

I watched the version on YT with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra playing it live and was moved to tears on the first listen.

As for atonal and twelve tone, here are some excellent pieces that got me into the style of music:

Anton Webern, Op. 5 movement 1
George Crumb, Black Angels-Departure (This one is especially harsh)
Akira Nishimura, Threnody for Cello
Arnold Schoenberg, Variationen fur Orchester
Olivier Messiaen, Turangalila Symphony (The guy that I play music with and I base most of our writing on his modes of limited transposition)

I checked these out on YT. Definitely, definitely uncomfortably unresolved. The Crumb will have me dreaming of horned beasts eating my face. It's hard for me to think outside the "how would it be to play this?" box personally with orchestral/string music.

 

[Hubster]

Hubster - Shit I didn't realize Gorecki died?! And yes, it is the darkest thing I have ever heard. I can't handle that kind of crushing depressive onslaught very often so I reserve listening for very special and very dark times.

It is super dark isn't it... I've cried listening to it a number of times, it's REALLY depressive and tears you right open. Too powerful, so like you, reserved for the times when it's really needed...

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Went to Belle Island in Richmond yesterday with a friend. It met the textbook definition of "a nice saturday afternoon outside".

I really wanted a better picture of the girl in the red dress sitting behind the dude on the rock, because she was fucking smoking.

The friend I went with. She's a filipino badass.

 

[Zephyrus]

She looks thrilled.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Haha, she was fine. That shot came after she noticed me trying to take a picture of her, so she ended up self-conscious when I took it. The same thing happened with me when she had tried photoing me earlier.

We spent like 11 hours together that day, at least 3 of which consisted of super-deep life-sharing conversations. It was a trip.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Busted my ass today chopping and sawing all this bullshit down today. Good workout!

Before (yeah I know, I should have taken a pic before I cut everything down)




After

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Wow, nice job blighting the landscape and stripping all the foliage of the earth! That must have taken some work indeed.

 

[The Emptier]

I can't stand cookie cutter classical. There are a few tonal pieces that I do like though they are mostly Russian composers. Listen to Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. I consider it the most touching and beautiful piece ever written. It calls for a string septet. This piece was written shortly before Schoenberg developed his twelve tone system.

As for atonal and twelve tone, here are some excellent pieces that got me into the style of music:

Anton Webern, Op. 5 movement 1
George Crumb, Black Angels-Departure (This one is especially harsh)
Akira Nishimura, Threnody for Cello
Arnold Schoenberg, Variationen fur Orchester
Olivier Messiaen, Turangalila Symphony (The guy that I play music with and I base most of our writing on his modes of limited transposition)

Beware, all twelve tone and atonal is extremely unresolved. I found it uncomfortable to listen to when I was first exposed to it. It takes a few listens to adjust to.

I would add

Krzysztof Penderecki
Pierre Boulez(more tolerable I think)
Milton Babbitt

I can't stand most cookie-cutter classical either but I love Romantic era stuff like the Franck Violin Sonata and Grieg in general. So far the "edgiest" composer I have been able to get into is Gorecki, so this will be interesting.

I will check those out, I won't have a whole lot of time to do so with a busy schedule upcoming but I promise I will eventually. When I worked in a music library, Schoenberg scores were being checked out at a fantastic rate, but only the name is familiar.

His scores are some of the most popular to analyze, when he was a live a lot of the great jazz musicians worshiped him, along with other composers, and took some of the same ideas and applied it to jazz. Miles Davis picked up every new score he could and listened to mostly classical music at home.

I'm a personal love over romantic and early 20th century composers, nothing, and I mean nothing, beats the powerful, ethereal and moving works by Wagner, Bruckner, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Mahler....etc.

It is super dark isn't it... I've cried listening to it a number of times, it's REALLY depressive and tears you right open. Too powerful, so like you, reserved for the times when it's really needed...

I didn't get the dark atmosphere from it, I picked it up like a month ago and I thought it was incredibly beautiful if anything. The first movement is divine, with the beginning plodding with the double basses slowly building into this huge string monolith.

 

[Psychonaut]

Busted my ass today chopping and sawing all this bullshit down today. Good workout!

Before (yeah I know, I should have taken a pic before I cut everything down)

Treebeard's babies you FUCK!

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

he told me it was ok. He was tired of their shit anyway

 

[Psychonaut]

He comes with fire, he comes with axes... gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning. Destroyer and usurper, curse him.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

This forum needs more LOTR references.

 

[Onder]

The friend I went with. She's a filipino badass.

What's up w/ this chick? Reveal more of her body as I suspect some fatness. Grant, I know you have the goods on picture, I know it's there somewhere.

 

[Einherjar86]

This forum needs more LOTR references.

The Sand People are easily startled but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.

 

[The Emptier]

I see what you did thar

 

[zabu of nΩd]

What's up w/ this chick? Reveal more of her body as I suspect some fatness. Grant, I know you have the goods on picture, I know it's there somewhere.

Actually I don't, we really haven't spent much time together and she's not on facebook so that's almost all I've got of her. She's not fat -- basically the same amount of pudgy that I am due to lack of exercise, but still qualifying as 'thin'.