OFF TOPIC

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That is all.

We should probably pin this thread. Every forum in existence has its own "Off-Topic" thread, and i'd like to come here just to talk whatever.

My life is off-topic :)

you want to talk about real life chaos, I have everyone here topped right now

A quick movie review.

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I work way too much on EB, or do I? I have gear IQ over 30,000 and nearly 5000 submissions. Let me make it 5000th submission on my birthday! (11th of July!)

Silly Walrus. Power levels mean nothing. I am the hope of the Board. I am the answer to all amped things that cry out in reverb. I am protector of the incandescent. I am the stage light in the darkness. I am truthful posts. Ally to Godin! Nightmare to Gibson!

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no offense, but I don't think thousands of submissions and the top gear IQ is a badge of honor. Its helpful for EB and I am glad you are doing it because I couldn't be bothered to... and I have way more down time that can only be filled at a computer than when I was a teenager. But when I was a teenager I filled my free time playing the guitar. if I was home I was practicing or writing throw away songs to hone my craft. Or I was painting or drawing. That's when I wasn't busy partying like a... well, a teenager! I was playing shows (had a band from the age of 13, played my 1st small show that year).... I always had a girlfriend or at least some young ladies in my life. back then my gear IQ woulda been ZERO. I can't imagine not having SOMETHING better to do...

Now I have a career and a kid to raise so there's a lot of puttering around the office or house. EB is a godsend to kill some time, but I still can't get motivated to keep up with your level of obsession. I just like the forum for the most part (because I spend most of my time talking to non-musicians or home alone with a 2 year-old and never get to talk about my interests and might go days without talking to another adult except to say thanks at the grocery store).

But when you have no life-&-death responsibilities as a teenager you almost owe it to yourself to have a life and do everything for yourself you can possibibly do before its too late! The internet wills till be there when you are 30....

your youth is disappearing at the same rate regardless of what you do with the time. Make the most of it. My 2 least favorite words are "too alte" and believe you me, it can be too late sometimes, don't let anyone sell you that "its never too late" line. Not true...

I don't think Gibson's afraid of you, sorry Boom. They do have nightmares about the EPA though....

When I was a teenager, I wasted a lot of time on video games. I wish I had started playing seriously and more often then. Once 19 hit, it was 5 years of drugs and alcohol. People say this a lot, but I deeply, deeply mean it. I wish I could go back and be a kid again with what I know now.

I dunno. I feel I've fret-blocked a lot of people away from them in guitar stores :)

I'm so bored today. It's my first full day off. I'm thinking abut grabbing some beer but... then I need something to do while drinking. Not any movies I want to see out right now.

I certainy abused my fair share of substances from my teen years into my early 20s, even put myself into rehab to put it all behind me. God that's like another lifetime. But a lot of the drug use was more about being wakeful to play and record more music and make more artwork and if I had it all to do over again I would just focus more in school, I don't know if I would change anything else I did. I had a lot of experiences in my life I wouldn't trade for anything you could offer me.

My parents were totally against video games for young kids so by the time I was allowed to have them and was old enough to raise money to buy my 1st console I was hopelessly inept at them and had lots of other interests. I rarely found myself playing Sega or Nintendo alone, though the desire to buy my 1st used system did teach me the value of a dollar! Video games were a social thing for me as a teenager and that is all. As a result I was a really productive sort of teenager, but being a rebellious type I completely (and intentionally) failed to channel it scholastically. Its not like anyone gave me any practical sense of direction though. Just because you could become a scientist or teacher doesn't mean you are inclined to... and parents and teachers shouldn't bully you in a direction you don't want to go. Rather its good child raising to help a kid channel their talents in a way that will actually make them happy.

I did drugs just to pass the time and see how they effected me. A buddy of mine and I would study different drugs weeks before we got a hold of them and would try them in different doses. He used to by Salvia Divinorum 60x in bulk and have parties for it. Everyone would sit around the edge of a dark room and we'd watch them 1x1 experiment with it. My favorite was nitrous oxide. I bought 2, 40lbs. crates of medical grade 80cc cartridges and did a lot of experimenting with it alone until I figured out the perfect way to do it. If I ever need a dentist and need a procedure, I don't think I will be able to get gassed because of the use. I found drugs to make me anti-social mostly. I preferred to do them with just 1 close, trustworthy person or alone.

I was a $*#&head in my teens. I wanted control over my life and felt I had none. My only successful pull was refusing to do any work. I went 4 years without picking up a pen and just reading books or drawing. I would go back and fix that. If I had just seriously gone through college the first time I went, I would have had a masters degree by 23 and less than 30,000 in student loans... that's a very generous number too. My first semesters at Sul Ross were like 1200 each for 12 hours. Now I'm in a college, not a university like I was, and I'm racking up 10,000 a year. Just a huge waste of time. I started going to school seriously at 27 (I'm now 30).

I ended up getting a 12 pack of Heineken and rented "Kraumpus" from a redbox. I have my first date since my engagement on Sunday so, when the movies over, I REALLY need to clean my car and house up a bit.

please tell me some of that Heineken's for next week... a couple of them will make cleaning up more fun, all of them will defintielyd emotivate you

When I buy a 12'er, it usually lasts until the next morning. I drink a couple and then get tired almost now. I'll lay down and want to nap. If I drink 4 or 5, I get energy for some reason. I get antsy and want to do something.

LOL. The movie backfired. I LOVE old Christmas music, and I usually only WANT to celebrate Christmas in July for some reason. The movie started out with Nat King Cole singing and it put me in the mood to hear the whole song. I paused the movie, pulled up some seasonal music, and now that's all I want to do now. Burl Ives and Nat King Cole get me every time.

wow

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I'm a pretty big fan of Nat. I encountered him like most, thanks to x-mas music. Lets face it, he's the standard. But many people don't realize he was an even better pianist than a singer nad prior to doing poppier vocal music hs jazz band kicked some serious ass during the period where small combos were reinventing jazz in small clubs dotted around America's major urban areas. Check out the sweet guitar playing too:

I was confused at first. I thought I said Bing Crosby :p

I like Bing too... different kinda thing than Nat apart from the x-mas music. As far as great songwriting, Bing Crosby, the Gershwins and Cole Porter set the bar pretty fucking high right at the birth of recording....

if I am not asking myself what the Beatles would do when writing my own songs I am generally asking myself what the old prohibition-era American masters would do.

songs like these are hard to deny (I started you at one of my all time faves):

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Why do you even think that I'm spending so much time on EquipBoard? Yes, I might spend a little bit too much, but I still live normal life like everybody else. I do shortwave radio, heavily household chores, plus I have an A from school overall. I also perform at places like libraries and theaters and I sing my own songs there. I also do acting and fancy riding a bike through the nature...I read books and go out...why'd you think my whole life is EquipBoard? I have so much stuff, and Equipboard is just one small part of the stuff..