DarthLen

I totally blame/thank my mother for my love of music in general because she introduced me to such a variety. I grew up in the 70's listening to all the greats from the 60's. Singing along with Grand Funk Railroad, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Joan Collins & Bob Dylan when I was a toddler. She took me to a Black Oak Arkansas concert when I was 8. Getting exposed to Zeppelin, Meatloaf, KISS, AC/DC, Seals & Crofts, Simon & Garfunkel, America, CCR & more as a pre-teen all helped to coalesce my love of music in general with an emphasis on rock. She also dismissively laughed when I said I'd never listen to classical music and sure enough, after seeing Star Wars/Empire, I had to have the double album and now rock & classical are my 2 fave genres... I did not enjoy her disco phase (Donna Summer, however, rocked; that live double album she did was incredible) and infatuation with the Bee Gees & Alicia Bridges; god how I hated that one song she'd repeat and dance around to... But yea, totally thank mom for my love of music; I returned favor and got her into such bands as U2, Rush, Acoustic Alchemy & Genesis later... She didn't like my hardcore selections much with bands like Metallica, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, etc... Too harsh.

Star Wars - The OT Star Trek - II, IV (& VI to a degree) Godfathers 1 & 2 Scarface Goodfellas Tron: Legacy Dogma Holy Grail Mallrats Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back Die Hards 1 & 3 Breakfast Club Clint Eastwood westerns & Dirty Harry movies w/o Sondra Locke QT movies (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, True Romance) The Player Escape from New York The Warriors Animal House Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 48 Hours Smokey & The Bandit Any Given Sunday Glory Natural Born Killers Amadeus Stripes Groundhog Day Identity Thief You Don't Mess with the Zohan The Princess Bride Blazing Saddles Willy Wonka (OGW) History of the World Part I ... These are all infinitely watchable to me for various reasons from LMAO quotefests to great soundtracks to just enjoying good characters/stories... Some good stuff out there, but I don't get the love for Wizard of Oz; can't stand little yapper dogs... :D

2112, Hemispheres, AFTK, CoS, Vapor Trails, Power Windows; they all blew me away on first listen. I grew up as a toddler+ in the 70's listening & singing along to mom's fantastic record collection; everything from Baez, Beatles, Dylan, Collins, Alice Cooper, KISS, AC/DC, Beach Boys, Seals & Kroft, America, Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad, Bowie... First song I sang along to that I remember was Closer to Home/I'm Your Captain on the radio in the extremely early 70's in So.Cal. Still a fave. By the end of the 70's she had built up a decent collection of a few hundred albums. I thank her often for my diverse love of music and was able to fully surprise her with Joan Baez & Acoustic Alchemy shows... 2nd or 3rd row for Baez on the Danger tour; seeing mom's face light up when she finally figured out that it was Baez on stage (don't ask how I got her past all the marquees) was very fulfilling.

I can always listen to the Beatles and find myself singing along happily; just not quite so much with Rush. A few too many clunkers (Rush) vs. almost everything being great (Beatles). The Beatles helped change the world of music. Rush definitely has far reaching influence, but without the Beatles influence in music, I don't think there are a lot of bands that influenced Rush. so in the end.... Beatles > Rush (to me). Music is subjective (it's creative art), so there are no wrong answers here. If I had to list my fave bands in order, it would start off with Beatles and Rush in the #1 & 2 positions... closely followed by Pink Floyd, Metallica, U2, Jimi Hendrix, Ministry, Acoustic Alchemy... Fave of the day always depends on my mood... :)

my my, aren't cliques fun?

Any message board is what you make of it. Some are heavily moderated and filled with whiney douches while others are barely moderated at all and still filled with whiney douches... *shrug*

You can rub your own belly, but I'll help you chase cats on afternoon walks. Again, the pints need to be flowing... :)

But I hardly knows ya! Buy me a pint and we'll palaver... Then we can talk about favorite segues... :D

I'm laughing at some of the comments. CP USED to be known as the biker bar of rushy message boards. CP is now more like that dive bar that once used to be mega-hip, but now its mostly the old, crabby regular drunks show up and think they own the place... My motto has always been, if there is a topic of conversation that interests you, regardless of message board, then by all means, JOIN IN THE DISCUSSION. Who knows where it will end up, but half the fun of these little online convo's is the myriad sidetrips and segues that occur in any given discussion...

Be thankful, because back then, it was really bad with people reaching out IRL to cause trouble for others based on nothing more than "I don't like them!". For those unaware of the quote, "We're so close to Anthem, we may as well be Anthem."... Let's just say the board wars of years past - aren't anymore - THANK GED! and I see no reason for them to start up again just because some people get bored...

Actually, we would laugh our collective asses off if there was video. :D

Different boards have different vibes and regulars who post. I don't see a reason one needs to slag on an other. Didn't some of you already go through this a decade+ ago? Wasn't it idiotic then? Why continue the cycle? Be the better person and hang out where you feel most comfie... If a place is better suited to your delicate sensibilities, then by all means, frequent it, but you might want to refrain from calling out others with thicker skins who seem to enjoy these tete-a-tetes... Just sayin'.

Just another baiter taking on the masters, 'round these parts, it seems. He/she/it/whatever also tries trolling CP but gets ignored a lot. For those forming opinions on a message board, about a message board you've never even been to; Grow up and try not to get yer panties all knotted up over nothing.

I think they are giving out free TRF t-shirts to all. For the ladies who prefer there will be tank tops available as well..... :drool: :sarcastic: Yes yes, they will come pre-shrunk and maybe a little damp from all the moisture in the air, but please, feel free to put them on and post pics... Oh darn, mine seems to be a bit tight. pics or (t)it didn't happen... :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/DarthLen/firstpc8x6.jpg My 1st computer; a Tandy CoCo 64 hooked up to a b/w tv...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/DarthLen/1stcarona.jpg my 1st car; I forget the year, but it was a Toyota Corona... '68 maybe?

I think they are giving out free TRF t-shirts to all. For the ladies who prefer there will be tank tops available as well..... :drool: :sarcastic: Yes yes, they will come pre-shrunk and maybe a little damp from all the moisture in the air, but please, feel free to put them on and post pics...

I was lucky enough to catch him on Happy Days, Mork & Mindy and his HBO standup specials when they happened at a young age; he positively influenced me - I couldn't stop laughing. I'll always remember when I caught him on one of those early HBO specials somewhere between '80-'82 (I was 12-14yo), he had a little bit about screwing up kindergartners by teaching them about entropy... Of course, I went to the dictionary, looked up entropy, and have been losing sleep ever since... There are a few movies of his I still have yet to see: Patch Adams, One Hour Photo come to mind... his new stuff. CBS was ridiculously stupid for cancelling The Crazy Ones; I couldn't stop laughing during those shows - the entire cast played off each other so well, and the bits with Paisley & Groban... hilarious! Network execs are fools.

Yup, parenting (well) is tough. It's about sacrifice of all kinds: time, money, dreams, fantasies... Kids can suck it all up and not even know they are doing it just by merely existing. In my early 20's, I was with a girl who told me it was physically impossible for her to get pregnant due to an extreme situation (putting it mildly here). We agreed that should the impossible happen, that due to our current situation (I was just starting college, both working at McHell, barely eking by in a 500 sq. ft. apt. and my absolute certainty that I would resent the little interloper immensely as I had a lot of selfish wants to accomplish first) we would opt out ASAP. Of course, as fate (and my super sperm) would have it, in our 2nd year together she got preggofied. We followed through and terminated immediately within the first 4 weeks; a horrible procedure to be sure, but one that I still believe should be available to those who choose it. We were together another 6 years before our relationship also was terminated. Fast forward to 6 years ago, after I truly & finally DID meet my soulmate, and we have somehow been blessed and graced with the most beautiful child born out of love (I remember looking in the mirror after the night of passion, and absolutely KNOWING that we had just created life; true story); so much more than I could have possibly imagined. Every day, my single best joy is feeling the absolute love emanating from within our little angel. Watching her grow, helping her along the way, and just being there with her - we laugh a LOT. Nothing else comes close to beating the absolute joy and love I feel when both my wife and daughter are sleeping with their heads on my shoulders; It's an amazing feeling that I wish the entire world could feel somehow - I think we'd all be much better off for it.

Everybody (you know who you are) just needs to chill out with the whole "my MB is better than your MB" vibe. Maybe tact and subtlety are appreciated more here whereas blunt and in-your-face is more appreciated at places like CP or TNMS. Big whoopdeedoo. To each their own; to thine own self be true and all that rot. But lobbing textual grenades at places like CP is just begging for responses in kind or worse. Don't be foolish.

Man, we haven't had a good ruckus on CP in 4-EVER... No 2-word posts being used as argument bait, no transgressions by admins reaching out aggressively and illegally IRL, no dickhead moves like constantly posting gibberish in a conversational thread to prove a point... hee hee Yea, the pussification of CP would be all but complete if it weren't for the fact that some of us bastids just refuse to go away quietly into the night. Knobheads of the world unite! DOH!

absolutely done with this franchise; stick a fork in it. tired of reboots...

QUOTE (Ancient Ways @ Aug 10 2009, 09:07 PM) I used to see Jon hanging out at a local music shop quite a bit. Most of the places I saw them at don;t exist although I did see them at Busch Gardens for a Halloween show. There was a "moat" in front of the stage for animal shows and I remember Jon pretending to push Criss in the water (plugged into an amp and with guitar). We had a cool metal scene here back in the eighties with them, Morbid Angel, and Nasty Savage. I once saw Morbid angel play at a house party - to drink out of the keg you had to pay $5. No wristbands - they literally drew three sixes on your hand to show you paid. The bass player in my first band was in Nasty Savage for a long time as well. Lots of places to play back then like Rosie's, Rocky Point, and a place in Brandon that I can;t remember... Was able to share a brew with Jon at the Rock-It Club back in the day when I caught Savatage there during the Gutter Ballet tour. He still had "The Grit" when he was belting out my fave 'tage toon, "Hall of the Mountain King". LOVE that laugh/scream! But yea, HotMK is Savatage's 2112. These tracks: 24 Hours Ago Beyond the Doors of the Dark Legions Strange Wings Hall of the Mountain King Devastation are just awesomely powerful hard-ass rock. We must have traveled in similar circles. I've hung out at the house in Brandon that most of Nasty Savage seemed to live in; played pictionary with Richard Bateman - which was HILARIOUS! I've met various members of Morbid Angel over the years (give random computer advice to current drummer), etc... tell me - do you know the murderabilia king of Tampa?

^^--- tries to play Twister, but can never get the cow to fly through the air like she thinks it should... edited for :bam:age...