Space Cadet

I graduated from highschool 10 and 1/2 years ago. (Yes teens, I'm now bizarrely ancient. Deal with it. :P I still pass for 19 most of the time I've been told.) In those 10+ years, I have spent nearly 8 years in some sort of post-secondary education, bouncing from thing to thing, never really finding my niche until now. I actually finished something. I am going to get a fancy diploma to show that I finished it rather than got bored/overwhelmed and moved on. I have all my credits. I am graduating! This last semester nearly killed me. It's why I haven't been around much. But now I am D O N E. Finished. No more school. No more reports. No more killing myself over math or english homework. I never have to set foot in a school again if I don't want to. (And yet I'm already plotting how to take a recording arts elective for fun... I'm insane, aren't I? :uhoh2:) *sigh* :mellow::D :juggle: :juggle: :juggle: So hello to anyone new-ish I never really got to meet in the last year or so of madness, I haven't been around as much as I used to be. My name is Mo. You might see more of me now. I'm running the annual albums of the year poll over in the world of music forum if you want to come join in the fun. *points to link in sig* D O N E :hat2: ...No, still hasn't sunk in. I've been in school too long. I'm institutionalized. :shame: ...I have to find a job now, don't I? :uhoh: (eek!) How do I survive in the real world? :stunned: So yeah. I call for a thread graduating party. :dance: :dance: :dance:

Ok, lists updated. :sweatdrop: Please, please, please check your link to make sure it is pointing to the post you want counted. I changed some links to point to people's latest lists, but I may have missed some that people wanted updated or changed some that people wanted pointing to old lists.

I loooove it. The title track is now my go-to song when I want something completely insane to play very loudly. Good stress buster. And I love all the little new wave influences creeping in to other tracks. It's a very interesting album- I certainly haven't gotten bored of it. Or else I'm just weird. :shrug: I just wish I knew what had happened to my CD of it- I thought I lost it down behind my desk but I can't find it there. It's been missing for a couple of months now. And I'm usually really good at keeping track of all my cds, even when they end up in piles all over the place. :( Not too late, that's what extentions are for. :D But I have been horrible neglectful of just about everything in my entire life except for school I'm afraid. Time to play catch-up. :embarrassed: And to get some lists up. Yes. This is Happening seemed like an oddly quiet release to me considering how anticipated it was. But a great album though. Yet I still prefer Sound of Silver by a long shot. I haven't actually listened to the new one all that much since I got it. Not really familiar with Deerhunter. Couldn't get into them. :confused::shrug:

A proper weather bomb. It's the fourth nor'easter we've had this month, and every one of them has been worse than usual. We're used to them here in eastern Canada, but the damage this time round has been a little bit insane- lots and lots of flooding all over the place, roads and bridges washed out, and now a ton of snow before some places could even get their basements pumped out from the last one. Of course Halifax being Halifax, we only got about 3 inches of snow before the blizzard turned into really heavy rain. Everywhere else got dumped on. They had snow way down in Pennsylvania and NYC right on the coast. They had snow in Maine. It was all snow just a little bit north of us. But here? Rain. As usual. :dozey:

I see lots of yeas and no nays, so deadline extended to December 30th at 8pm EST. Countdown to follow in the new year.

I could extend it if people like. I sure haven't had a spare moment to get my list in order let alone look after all of yours yet. And it looks like the next 3 days are going to get messy... :mad: All in favour of an extension, hands up!

^Hook up Buzz Wilde Raven / WildeRness? Boyfriend Also, toy swords XD Now THAT is the sort of reason they're so much cooler than any to-busy-trying-to-act-like-rock-stars-to-have-any-real-fun type of rock band. :laugh3:

^Hook up Buzz Wilde Raven / WildeRness? Boyfriend Also, toy swords XD Now THAT is the sort of reason they're so much cooler than any to-busy-trying-to-act-like-rock-stars-to-have-any-real-fun type of rock band. :laugh3:

Thanks for all the new lists. :D Will update tomorrowish when I get a spare minute.

^ :wtf: Saw Tron Legacy at a midnight showing Thursday night. I don't know if I have ever liked a movie this much that made me want to punch out the scriptwriters this much. It is so beautiful and so amazing, and then has such a big problem with the plot by the end. :confused: Need to see it again, though. Also, best 3d I have seen yet.

I was teasing. And curious which way it went. Nothing wrong with reviews as long as you're capable of forming your own opinion in spite of them. I like reading reviews and they are very helpful at drawing my attention to things I wouldn't have noticed. But then if I like something the critics are savaging it takes effort to trust my own instincts an tune them out. The one thing that bugs me are the tiny subsection of hipster-wannabes who only like what they're told to like whether they actually get it or not, and then try to force it on everyone else, often by dissing other's tastes. It died down with the hipster backlash, but I've seen too much of it in real life to have much patience with that attitude anymore. Can't find enough info at a glance. I'll look it up in more detail after the weekend when I can breathe again. Also, do you want me to update your link to that list or do you want to edit your old list?

You know what, I think you might be entirely right there. :thinking: :speechless: Crap has been happening everyday since the dawn of time. You're far more likely to die in a regular old drunk driving accident than by terrorism, yet people still get in their car with one too many drinks in them all the time. Risk is part of life. Yet the moment another crackpot sets off a bomb on the other side of the world (and kills far fewer people than many a drunk driver in the process), the press starts hyperventilating again, and the end result is living half-way to a police state in the name of public security. :dozey: I like the title. Let's hear it for necessary flippancy. :thumbsup:

Yeah that makes a pretty big difference. Christmas tree farms are a big business around here because most of our forests are mainly evergreen anyway. They ship trees all over North America. The search for a wild tree big enough to send to Boston as the Boston Christmas tree is a big tradition. (It's a thank-you for helping after the WW1 Halifax explosion which happened in December.)

I have a real one. It's gorgeous and huge this year. I like it very much. So I prefer real ones... ...but I want a fake one because real ones make me sneezy. This year it isn't so bad, but the one last year gave me a sneezing fit every time I walked in the room. However, we looked at artificial ones this year and they all really sucked, even the expensive ones. They just don't look right. The old artificial one we used to have was better than they are. For the record, real is the greener option as long as you get an organic one. They're purpose- grown on a tree farm, they aren't that much of a fire hazard if you keep it watered enough, and they're bio degradable- compostable if your city or town has composting. Yes you throw out one every year, but it goes back to the earth. An artificial one is made from plastic and metal that has to be pumped out of the earth or mined, processed, shipped, manufactured, and shipped again. Sure you will use it for 10 or 15 years, but when those years are up and it gets ragged and you replace it, the old one will go to the dump and sit there. Forever. Eventually to be joined by it's replacement.

I wonder if it all would have been as bad if they had only doubled fees instead of tripling them... Based on the figures I've seen, compared to tuition around here, they were really low before, but they're going to be prohibitively, cripplingly high. :disappointed: What happened at the protests was really, really awful, but your futures are really going to suck soon without education. I can see how there could be those who think jail is a fair price to pay to make their point since they don't have a future either way. It's not a very good way to get the point across, but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny You don't have to be paranoid or a conspiracy freak to know there's a small warped part of the American zeitgeist most often embraced by the types who get into government in the first place that preaches America is supposed to control the world in one way or another. I think there's enough of a libertarian movement afoot in the states to make them stay very careful about it since many Americans would have a very big problem if it was public policy, but yes, it's pretty well documented that America has a very long, complex history of manipulating many things behind the scenes. One could say American destabilization in the past is a big contributing factor in many conflicts around the world today. ie. Arming Iraq to take on the Soviets, and then freaking out when the evil dictator they backed turned out to be an evil dictator with no more soviets to fight. Yep, but Assange is the figurehead. They're looking into manipulating the law to get him. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2034088_2034097_2035994,00.html #1 It already has been opened this week. Too late to close it now. #2 I wouldn't want to, but I would rather have my dirty laundry aired than loose my right to free speech. #3 I sure looks like it's headed that way, doesn't it? Some would say it's been headed that way for a while. Western governments have become more and more authoritarian ever since 9/11. As messed up as the whole situation is, there is nothing quite as funny as watching all of the hundreds of misguided ways the media try to explain anonymous when even they can't quite get their heads around it. :laugh3:

Guess we know where you get all your opinions from now. :P;):lol: But to be serious, how much do you think it's that you are influenced by reviews and how much do you think it's that you happen to be tuned in to the same zeitgeist as the critics? :thinking:

Works for me. :D Thanks.

Never saw this thread, but Edgar Wright twittered this last week: It's acceptable to be listening to Christmas songs in November if the song is 'Christmas Wrapping' by The Waitresses. 12:02 AM Nov 28th via web And so I checked out the awesomeness that is that song then. Also I've been hearing a lot of Coldplay's 'have yourself a merry little christmas' in the stores lately considering how rarely I've been in them this year.

No, according to CNN the site is upgrading because its user base got too big to handle. (But I still wouldn't put it past some of that lot to take advantage of the situation anyway...)

What, are the /b/tards still attacking it? I thought they got bored weeks ago. :thinking: Guess some of them hold grudges...

^One would still be very, very appreciated. :D I don't have time to make one for the next 8 days. :sweatdrop:

Why not post your shortlist and then play around with the order later? The way I usually come up with an order is to split my shortlist into 3 categories: top middle and bottom. I may have trouble coming up with a spot for an album, but I don't have such a problem saying this one definitely deserves to be in the top group, this one I don't care about so much, it belongs in the bottom group. Then I don't worry about the significance of it's exact position so much as long as it's part of the right group. ...if that made sense... :uhoh:

^ Word of warning, it's a soundtrack not a dance album. Ambient Vangellis sort of stuff with an orchestra thrown in, but with a sort of craftsmanship and subtle innovation to it that completely blows my mind.