Metal Reviews

Thanks for the article dead1. And yeah, they do seem to be vanishing in favor the great and all-powerful SOCIAL MEDIA. I'll always remember forums fondly as my chief metal and ancient history gateways though.

We need more forum hugs is what it really comes down to...

Back home in Virginia after spending spring break in Ohio. Yay. Not.

I liked forums. You get to learn about stuff that is obscure and awesome while also becoming part of a community :- (

Saw Donzonai's Francesca da Rimini at the cinema, the Victoria Symphony sightreading young local composers' works, a live swing band, a choir performing with three ballet dancers, and the graduation recital of three composition students from uvic this weekend. Music overdose.

Yeah. I love social media for how it democratically gives everyone a voice and in market terms decide whose is most valuable, but in terms of discovering metal it's not brilliant. Although having said that, we've not experimented with an MR twitter... :/

Not in the mood for trying it today, anyway. Picked up a bug (I suspect from my choice of dinner last night - really must start spraying anything from macdonalds with an antibacterial) and am holed up in bed, literally* dying.





*not literally

Blogs are great for editorial pieces, but the comment sections do not equal a forum in terms of quality or back and forth dialogue. Insofar as I "like" bands on Facebook, I comment on band posts and those threads never equal what a forum provides albeit a little more instantaneous with its content.

What I would really like is a compiling of social media posts on here. I'd much rather talk to y'all about the fact that Panopticon has a bourbon barrel snare drum then the people who liked him on facebook.

And yet social media took away what I loved most about these dinosaur forums: anonymity.

A Facebook group might be better than a page for debate, although it is hard to keep track of very long threads...

And yeah, can't help with the anonymity, NFH. Unless you sign up to FB as that? ;)

Yeah, you have a point there. If long term the MR community wanted to branch out to a Facebook group I'd certainly join.

MacDonald's huh? Still feeling (virtually) deathly ill?

Bit better, certainly made me want to go back to my veggie days of fresh vegetables...

yeah, anonymity plays a big part in keeping forums alive or at least barely alive... although oddly enough one thing that made this forum special 'back in the day' was how everyone was open about their IRL stuff.

I prefer the thematic focus of forums.

You know a heavy metal forum is about heavy metal whereas one about gardening is about gardening.

The organisational hierarchy is a lot better and it's easier to find things.

I don't like social media - Facebook seems to generate the most mindless of posts such as "I just cooked a carbonara and it was yum" or "really pissed today."

I'm sure Twitter is worse.

so i was returning home drunk the other day, putting my clothes away in the closet, minding my own business when i saw what seemed to be a spider crawling on the closet's inner wall. for once, i was glad i don't have any roommates because i swear i screamed like a little girl before i slammed the door shut.

it's been a couple of days. i've opened and closed it quickly to take out stuff that i really needed but i haven't stuck my hand in there to rummage and shake it out. sprayed the closer generously with Raid, but no corpse yet. going to spray it even more today.

i'm scared to death of spiders. i don't think it's the dreaded Brazilian Wandering Spider aka HORRIBLE DEMONSPAWN (google it, it's a goddamn monster) but better safe than sorry.

seriously considering just getting new clothes. no need to tell me about how they eat other bugs and shit, i wouldn't mind one in a bathroom corner or something, but this one could be in my clothes! WHICH IS SOMETHING THE BWS IS REALLY INTO, BY THE WAY. fucking spiders. i want to go back home.

BWS hang out in your clothes!? Fuck that shit.

Just went for a run today. Had to stop because I felt like throwing up. Came upstairs to my apt. Felt a little better. Enough to do weights. Then started feeling like throwing up once I took a break between sets. Laid in shower for about twenty minutes. Still feel like throwing up.

seriously, could this spider be any more of a douche?

of course, i don't think it's one of those, they are seldom spotted in my town. but damn.

Did an hour and a half of yoga yesterday; can't move today.

Anyone who thinks yoga is easy has never really done it.

Yea dude... I started doing one hundred push-ups and 200 sit ups daily just to tone up a few weeks ago.. Man do I feel like an out of shape slob...

wait, like, all in one go? damn.

i have to join the goddamn gym. i'll be a fat piece of shit if i keep this brazilian diet but don't make up for it with some exercise.

I could never really get in to lifting weights or anything because I hate meatheads, but I really started to get a beer gut lately so I figured I would at least start working out a little... Nothing major ... Music is definitely key in keeping up with it though..

dunno. i only tried it when i was running and it made me dislike the music, because if you time your run to end with the music, you're anxious for the music to end.

weights etc. i imagine are the same, because the same way you can equate a certain time to a distance if you know your speed, you can do the same for time and reps, or something.

so no music for me when i work out, only if it's a gym with its own music and it sucks.

I enjoy music running insofar as I can focus on the music rather than my body wanting to give out on me. But breakdowns totally mess up my rhythm in a jog because a bit of a bounce gets in my step. That has led to multiple occasions of almost dying on a treadmill.

Just shaved my head. Started off with too small of a guard on the trimmers and so now the top right corner of my forehead is shaved nearly to the skin while the rest is a tad longer. If I thought my head wouldn't break out tomorrow, I would have almost considered Walter White-ing it.