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I think I've actually been going to more shows as I get older, though that may be because I live in DC now. A lot easier for me to get to shows than it was in Florida.
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axelblaze posted:Apparently Bowser is heading up Nintendo of America now. We clearly live on the most evil of all possible Earths https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1098665374114082816
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Feb 21, 2019 20:56
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Some lucky/unlucky kid is now going to be able to say their uncle Bowser works at Nintendo and actually be telling the truth.
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Does the new A Star Is Born take place in Arizona? I saw two AZ flags in the trailer on a TV at a pizza place much now.
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Friends Are Evil posted:I think I've actually been going to more shows as I get older, though that may be because I live in DC now. A lot easier for me to get to shows than it was in Florida. Same, I'm in boston and live in walking distance of most of the shows I go to now although I've also become that guy who will do road trips for shows now if I really want to go to em (I went to Chicago for Jawbreaker a couple years ago, i'm going to New York for 108 this year). I moshed for the first time in years at a show in December. I would say i'm aging in reverse but my back and feet hurt all the time now.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:07
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Same, I'm in boston and live in walking distance of most of the shows I go to now although I've also become that guy who will do road trips for shows now if I really want to go to em (I went to Chicago for Jawbreaker a couple years ago, i'm going to New York for 108 this year). I moshed for the first time in years at a show in December. I would say i'm aging in reverse but my back and feet hurt all the time now. Same! I started taking the commuter train up to Baltimore for stuff recently.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:11
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I’ve definitely become more of a stand towards the back guy with shows, but next month I’m seeing The Hold Steady, and I feel like I would be doing them a disservice if I don’t get completely loaded and super into it.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:13
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Detective No. 27 posted:Does the new A Star Is Born take place in Arizona? I saw two AZ flags in the trailer on a TV at a pizza place much now. Bradley Cooper character is from Arizona, and even takes a trip there with Gaga.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Same, I'm in boston and live in walking distance of most of the shows I go to now although I've also become that guy who will do road trips for shows now if I really want to go to em (I went to Chicago for Jawbreaker a couple years ago, i'm going to New York for 108 this year). I moshed for the first time in years at a show in December. I would say i'm aging in reverse but my back and feet hurt all the time now. What did you think of the Jawbreaker show? They were one of those bands where I loved 24 Hour Revenge Therapy because an older friend gave it to me when I was like 14 and listened to it on repeat, but they broke up before I could see them live and I never really got into anything else by them. I saw them last fall in SF at the Fillmore and, well, that show was super underwhelming for me and the couple people I saw it with. It was the middle of a three show stint and they definitely went out of their way to not play hits (and a new song where Blake spent a couple minutes trying to make us realize how clever the lyrics were), and possibly the first or last show was better, but drat it was a disappointing show. My single biggest takeaway was "yep, Blake is insufferable and I completely see why they couldn't stay together." Adam was cool as ever though, although he finally sold his old video store to the local Alamo Drafthouse (he had been operating out of their lobby for the last couple of years after he lost the lease on his old shop). Gonna miss him, he used to just randomly give me old Jawbreaker stickers and stuff whenever I would go in there and browse the shop. Even at the show he stayed onstage for longer than I stuck around just handing out stuff to people in the crowd and signing all the band posters (the Fillmore gives out a free poster to everyone at the show so there were a ton of posters). Edit: they also had a standup as the first opener which was . . . odd. She was fine but you can't really get energized to a solo standup with a 15 minute set. Felt really bad for the second opener who had to come on after because the crowd was arguably even more sedate after standing around listening to a comedian for a while. Voodoofly fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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Electronico6 posted:Bradley Cooper character is from Arizona, and even takes a trip there with Gaga. Ah neat. I'll have to watch it sometime. I wonder what he does for his dialect. There's no real Arizona dialect since most people aren't Arizona natives. Good state for witness relocation.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:25
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Cooper's accent in the film is, no joke, a Sam Elliot impression.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:32
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I started doing observational drawings recently at shows so I could really up my gesture game in my regular work, so people keep coming up to me and asking about the sketchbook.
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Voodoofly posted:The older I get the more I prefer random shows because random openers are now my favorite way to find new bands. I’m at the point where I just tell everyone to meet me at the show because I want to see every second of every opener. The real problem was band shirts as I had to put a self enforced rule that I will only buy two shirts max, which usually means I don’t buy Merch from the headliner so that I can support the openers I never understood going just for the headliner, you bought the ticket, might as well enjoy the whole show. Although one of my favorite concert memories was going to Power Trip, Deafheaven, and Anthrax, but skipping out on Lamb of God as the headliner and getting home at a reasonable time. Voodoofly posted:Edit: they also had a standup as the first opener which was . . . odd. She was fine but you can't really get energized to a solo standup with a 15 minute set. Felt really bad for the second opener who had to come on after because the crowd was arguably even more sedate after standing around listening to a comedian for a while. When I saw Dan Deacon back in 2012 or so, one of his openers was a weird comedy set with a computer projection thing, and I spent the whole time just thinking "man this is weird, whatever." A couple years ago, I realized that guy was Alan Resnick doing a trial run of Live Forever As You Are Now.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:42
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I never understood going just for the headliner, you bought the ticket, might as well enjoy the whole show. Although one of my favorite concert memories was going to Power Trip, Deafheaven, and Anthrax, but skipping out on Lamb of God as the headliner and getting home at a reasonable time. I usually try to see the whole show, but I've seen some dire opening bands in my day.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I never understood going just for the headliner, you bought the ticket, might as well enjoy the whole show. Although one of my favorite concert memories was going to Power Trip, Deafheaven, and Anthrax, but skipping out on Lamb of God as the headliner and getting home at a reasonable time. Yeah, a year or two ago I went to a Menzingers show because I wanted to see Rozwell Kid and Jeff Rosenstock as the openers. We left about two songs into the Menzingers because we had a newborn and realized that, no offense to the band, we really would rather get more sleep than watch the Menzingers.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:50
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Detective No. 27 posted:I usually try to see the whole show, but I've seen some dire opening bands in my day. I’ll go see opening bands no problem but opening DJ sets are the worst and I actively try and avoid them (posted from the back of a venue while an extremely boring DJ set is happening)
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Escobarbarian posted:I’ll go see opening bands no problem but opening DJ sets are the worst and I actively try and avoid them I'm sure there are good opening djs. there must be! but i have no evidence of this
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Feb 21, 2019 21:53
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Voodoofly posted:What did you think of the Jawbreaker show? They were one of those bands where I loved 24 Hour Revenge Therapy because an older friend gave it to me when I was like 14 and listened to it on repeat, but they broke up before I could see them live and I never really got into anything else by them. So I saw them at the big comeback set at Riot Fest and for me, it really lived up to the hype. Really well put together set, they sounded great, crowd was super into it. It was also the culmination of a very fun three day weekend for me - my first time in Chicago and i had a total blast, hung out with lots of fun people, just all around had a great time so I was really primed to enjoy it, but that set felt like something special. I'm going to see them again when they come to Boston next month so we'll see how I feel about it then.
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Remember when Black Sabbath toured with an opener of Andrew W.K. playing a DJ set of party metal?
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:So I saw them at the big comeback set at Riot Fest and for me, it really lived up to the hype. Really well put together set, they sounded great, crowd was super into it. It was also the culmination of a very fun three day weekend for me - my first time in Chicago and i had a total blast, hung out with lots of fun people, just all around had a great time so I was really primed to enjoy it, but that set felt like something special. I'm going to see them again when they come to Boston next month so we'll see how I feel about it then. Godspeed - I know my friend who saw them in LA on the same tour that I saw thought they were great. I'm really thinking/hoping I just had a bad night with them. For what its worth they sounded great and were super tight when I saw them, just lacking some energy and a few too many lectures from Blake about the songs he just played for us.
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Voodoofly posted:Godspeed - I know my friend who saw them in LA on the same tour that I saw thought they were great. I'm really thinking/hoping I just had a bad night with them. For what its worth they sounded great and were super tight when I saw them, just lacking some energy and a few too many lectures from Blake about the songs he just played for us. Haha i can see that. I actually really enjoyed his stage banter when i saw him, they opened with Boxcar and Blake immediately followed it with "General strike tomorrow, gently caress this country!" which out of all the "gently caress Trump" stuff espoused that weekend at the fest was one of the few things that felt like a political statement with any weight behind it
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Haha i can see that. I actually really enjoyed his stage banter when i saw him, they opened with Boxcar and Blake immediately followed it with "General strike tomorrow, gently caress this country!" which out of all the "gently caress Trump" stuff espoused that weekend at the fest was one of the few things that felt like a political statement with any weight behind it We didn't get Boxcar that night. The only song we got from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy was Oakland Condition as the sole encore, complete with the Kerouac recordings being played over the PA.
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Welcome back, Boogey. I wanna see the cover letter of his application.
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Bowser from Sha Na Na? (I don’t know if anyone will get this reference. I saw Sha Na Na at Sun City in about 1980 when I was 5. It was awesome.)
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Safety Factor posted:I like seeing my favorite bands live. The performance is an important aspect. Some bands aren't very good live, some of them are incredible and seeing them on stage makes the music take on a whole different life. I saw Perfume Genius when he toured his most recent album and the best way I could describe it was like a religious experience. I can't imagine wanting to miss something like that. CelticPredator posted:I have not, but I keep meaning too. I wanted to go to Hans Zimmer but I was working that night and couldn’t take it off. Watching a live scored silent film is probably a thing you'd enjoy. If one comes around I'd recommend that. I'd recommend it anyway, it's a really cool thing to go to. Franchescanado posted:Oh, well in that case, buy them all cinder block shoes and a trip to the nearest body of water. I always find it weird when couples can't do things separately or one of them will go without something they enjoy because the other doesn't like it. It's also really obnoxious when you try to invite the one that likes the thing. TrixRabbi posted:Getting old is underrated. Like, I'm not never gonna go to a concert again, but I'm done just going to random shows for the hell of going, I want to make sure it's a band I care about. I don't go to as many concerts as I use to but that has less to do with age and more to do with declining mental health. At this point I stick to things I absolutely must see, but even then I decide against a lot of poo poo (and usually regret it). I did just get tickets to Beck in August though and I'm very much looking forward to that. I wish he would have done a smaller venue like last time but you can't have everything. X-Ray Pecs posted:I never understood going just for the headliner, you bought the ticket, might as well enjoy the whole show. Although one of my favorite concert memories was going to Power Trip, Deafheaven, and Anthrax, but skipping out on Lamb of God as the headliner and getting home at a reasonable time. A lot of openers are either incredibly bland or outright terrible. I did see the Screaming Females open for the Dead Weather about ten years ago, so that was pretty cool. It probably depends greatly on the kind of music you're into as to whether or not the openers will be interesting. X-Ray Pecs posted:Remember when Black Sabbath toured with an opener of Andrew W.K. playing a DJ set of party metal? I was at one of those shows which was at an outdoor venue and pretty much no one was watching that. We were walking around the area away from the stage with the food vendors and stuff and occasionally you could hear him yell something to no fanfare.
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The atmosphere is way different than listening to them at home and a good crowd can be magical.
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I didn't go to see any live music until I was like 26, when I got to go see the Pixies live, and the second they started, I realized what a huge mistake it was waiting so long to finally go and see and experience poo poo like that. I've been to hundreds of shows since then, and the good experiences outweigh the bad by a wide margin.
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I saw Shonen Knife last summer and the opening band was a lovely, like, Van Halen soundalike made up of 20-somethings with a song called “gently caress the KGB.”
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therattle posted:Bowser from Sha Na Na? (I don’t know if anyone will get this reference. I saw Sha Na Na at Sun City in about 1980 when I was 5. It was awesome.) You're Wolfman Hot Dog?
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Morpheus’ battery explanation has always been horseshit. What the machines have been doing is wasting energy on keeping humanity alive & happy. I forgot to reply to this. But anyway I think you've made a compelling case here. I'm still not entirely sure if I agree but in all honesty part of that is because of a bias. I'd much rather the characters be some sort of freedom fighters rather than a cult like bunch of scam artists. I really need to watch this again sometime soon. Though in any case I think there's room for it to be seen either way but I haven't watched the movie in years.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I can tell I’m getting old because the last time my group did game night, I was really excited to play Monopoly, and it was the most excited I was about anything all week. I hate you for playing Monopoly. I hate you so much. I need you to understand that my friend playing Monopoly, as someone who sells board games, is like being kicked in the nards
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I hate you for playing Monopoly. I hate you so much. I need you to understand that my friend playing Monopoly, as someone who sells board games, is like being kicked in the nards If it's like the only board game you have it's acceptable to play monopoly
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The best life band is Æla. Also just the best band. Especially their first album.
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CPL593H posted:I forgot to reply to this. But anyway I think you've made a compelling case here. I'm still not entirely sure if I agree but in all honesty part of that is because of a bias. I'd much rather the characters be some sort of freedom fighters rather than a cult like bunch of scam artists. I really need to watch this again sometime soon. Though in any case I think there's room for it to be seen either way but I haven't watched the movie in years. They’re both. As he points out, it’s not that they know the ultimate consequence of libertarianism is a kind of soft feudalism, but that they are seduced by the promise of total personal freedom after a lifetime of very personal oppression. They’re fighting for freedom, but their understanding of what freedom means is insufficient, because it has no concept of class and caste hierarchy
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FreudianSlippers posted:The best life band is Æla. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds circa 2000 - 2003 would like a word.
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I Before E posted:If it's like the only board game you have it's acceptable to play monopoly
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Safety Factor posted:I'd rather do literally anything else than play Monopoly. Anything. Munchkin?
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Cloks posted:Munchkin?  Yes, I would rather play loving Munchkin of all things than Monopoly. And I loving hate Munchkin.
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The Binding of Isaac card game is surprisingly fun.
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I Before E posted:If it's like the only board game you have it's acceptable to play monopoly Yeah but he has access to someone who can tell him what games to get for board game night Ones that are good And not Monopoly
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Safety Factor posted:Oh no. Fluxx? Catan? Exploding Kittens? Cards Against Humanity? I can keep going.
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