☮ Social ☮ PD Social Talk Thread: Firly Swolks Discussing Mitillating Tatters Fithout Wilters

[Jabberwocky]

I was a big Melvins fan back in the day DroneLore. They're amazing live. They inspired a whole generation of musicians. Kurt Cobain used to hang out at their early band practices before he was in a band. Never listened to Stag or Senile Animal. My favorite albums were Stoner Witch and Bullhead. My musical taste has changed a bit since then but they're the real deal.

 

[Xorkoth]

Real life has been getting a little too unreal lately, like swinging on the swing set as a child and getting the wind knocked out of you for the first time. My current writing is trying to channel a down-home house party where someone demanded I delete my entire night's worth of permissible video documentary because he didn't trust I wasn't going to show his face in the video. Welcome to the new age of video permissions.

To be honest man, I would be pissed if someone took video of me without my permission. I don't want videos of me out there, on social media or otherwise. I don't want pictures of me out there. I don't really want myself on social media at all especially, or anywhere that I didn't specifically decide to be. It's everyone's right to be able to make that decision. You should understand that and not hold it against people or feel like they're being unreasonable, because they aren't.

I spent some time with you and I must say, the constant videos straight to facebook made me nervous. It's one thing if you want to do that yourself, but a lot of people aren't into being videoed. Myself included.

 

[Xorkoth]

Does anyone else get overwhelmed by music? Its a good feeling TBH. Music is honestly one of the reasons I wake up, its the first thought I have, what tunes shall we start the day with? Today, its this damn Cut Copy album. It just appeals on a deep level, the dance beat and the slightly forlorn music, I dunno, I fucking love it.

Hah, yeah, constantly. Music is the best thing. Playing music gives me a "music high", which is a high that compares to the feeling of being in love and when it washes over you when looking at your person and everything feels right and wonderful. Beats any drug.

In other news, I just opened my first credit card line today. Now I'm an adult, yay.

Nice, credit cards can be really useful if you're responsible with them. Also it's good to build up your credit score so that if you ever buy a house you can get a good rate on a mortgage... also for big loans like auto loans, the better your score, the better rate you get which makes a huge difference. Plus you can borrow more. But credit can also be a terrible trap. Over the course of 10 years of being addicted to opiates and also supporting a wife who never started working and had really big student loans, I accumulated an absurd amount of credit debt. I don't even want to say how much but I will say that I always paid on time, so my score kept going up, and they kept offering me more credit cards with higher limits. Eventually I got one with a $10,000 limit. And maxed it out eventually. I had to declare bankruptcy once I got past my relationship and addiction because if I paid minimum payments, it was $1,100 a month, and would have taken me 27 years to pay off at that rate. So, uh, don't be like I was, and be careful. It's a slippery slope, but they're a good thing if used sparingly and paid off quickly. And in an emergency situation they can be a lifesaver.

 

[yepyepwoah]

If I'm understanding this, shit man!

Yup. False 911 call, door kicked in, face down with 5-8 rifels and pistols touching me. "get down, dont move, well fucking kill you". Another 7-8 cops oit front. Detained two hours and let go... No recourse except to do the same thing to the guy, hire a lawyer or do some dirt.

PTSD like a motherfucker.

 

[vortech]

I've had traumatic things happen to me before, like being robbed at gunpoint 3 times...by the third time I got so good at dissociating that I just held my head down and went to my peace zone...afterwards when I realized they stole my laptop, that's what really got me flippin (luckily they didn't touch my external hard drives, once again checkmate Universe, I only lost a small amount of irretrievable data)...there aren't a lot of material things in my life that can't be replaced....but don't fuck with a person's livelihood and personal data...

 

[Xorkoth]

Jesus, that's crazy. Sorry you had to go through that, that would be traumatizing I would imagine...

So someone called 911 on you to have that happen, on purpose? Do I understand that right?

 

[tokezu]

^I think that is what is usually referred to as swatting. Sorry that happened to you yepyepwoah, that is so fucked up.

 

[yepyepwoah]

Jesus, that's crazy. Sorry you had to go through that, that would be traumatizing I would imagine...

So someone called 911 on you to have that happen, on purpose? Do I understand that right?

Yup. Said i was gonna kill a bunch of cops, then myself. I know who did it and why (hes a bitch made pussy that fucked me and is now afraid of me). So you can imagine the response from the cops on a supposed "welfare check" was more like they were looking for an excuse to execute me.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

To be honest man, I would be pissed if someone took video of me without my permission. I don't want videos of me out there, on social media or otherwise. I don't want pictures of me out there. I don't really want myself on social media at all especially, or anywhere that I didn't specifically decide to be. It's everyone's right to be able to make that decision. You should understand that and not hold it against people or feel like they're being unreasonable, because they aren't.

My thoughts exactly.

Also it's good to build up your credit score so that if you ever buy a house you can get a good rate on a mortgage... also for big loans like auto loans, the better your score, the better rate you get which makes a huge difference. Plus you can borrow more.

I loath credit, wouldn't have even bothered with it if I wasn't trying to get an apartment in the next few months and most likely an auto loan in the next two or three years. And of course, eventually home ownership.

I'm a really impulsive guy, but when it comes to the idea of credit, I don't fuck around. Credit is what got us into the American Revolution (debt/credit, same thing). Our forefathers were great guys and all but I'm not looking to follow in their footsteps in terms of spending and lifestyle choices...

Yup. False 911 call, door kicked in, face down with 5-8 rifels and pistols touching me. "get down, dont move, well fucking kill you". Another 7-8 cops oit front. Detained two hours and let go... No recourse except to do the same thing to the guy, hire a lawyer or do some dirt.

PTSD like a motherfucker.

Damn dude... I once got held up by the cops in a county over from here. Was airsofting on some private land; dumb as guys saw us playing (I was frickin' 17) when they were next door on a domestic disturbance. Pulled out their AR-15 and Glocks and held us at gun point for an hour till they finally realized not one of us had been committing a single crime. Called the department after to complain, they said the lead cop had already been on probation for some other shit. They'll hire anyone to be a cop. In fact, I've heard some departments do an IQ check to ensure no one is too smart, though that sounds like some silly BS.

 

[vortech]

To be honest man, I would be pissed if someone took video of me without my permission. I don't want videos of me out there, on social media or otherwise. I don't want pictures of me out there. I don't really want myself on social media at all especially, or anywhere that I didn't specifically decide to be. It's everyone's right to be able to make that decision. You should understand that and not hold it against people or feel like they're being unreasonable, because they aren't.

I spent some time with you and I must say, the constant videos straight to facebook made me nervous. It's one thing if you want to do that yourself, but a lot of people aren't into being videoed. Myself included.

I do understand that...and in the past have not always been hyper-aware of these sensitivities some hold, but with that said I don't recall posting a video with you or any of your local homies, or even recording people specifically. After going over my travel vids its easy to see I was only interested in nature, the cats, myself rambling and capturing some music. But I do empathize with the collective 'Big Brother Is Watching' paranoia, especially after the visceral confrontation the other night. Thing was, he wouldn't listen to me. The few seconds that pointed in his direction were too dark to even make anything out...regardless, from here out I will be very explicit with intentions.

 

[Just A Guy]

For those that read my posts about the new job and all that jazz: been going great. As it gets warmer and more construction's in the works, the work days have been longer. Most days I'm out the door by 6am and I usually don't get home till after 6pm. Twice this week I had to be at an assignment at 5am. Love the work, but it's definitely work! Just being tired by 10pm is so nice... to sit down and relax is so much more than it used to be. Other good news: while I'm the same weight as always (approx 180 lbs) I've definitely put on some muscle and lost a lot of fat. I haven't touched any drugs (except for pot, daily, maybe three times daily hehe) for a while, but that's going to change soon, on account of the fact that I want to get hhiiiighhhhh. Distance and time make the heart grow fonder, yes?

AND.... yeah I got over that pretty quick. I'm just over drugs, I guess. Peace out friends. Got rid of all my drug-related shit. Stay well!

 

[swilow]

^Good for you re: drugs. I feel a similar thing, I really don't want to focus my life around drug scenes anymore. But hey man, make sure you drop in here and there.

I do understand that...and in the past have not always been hyper-aware of these sensitivities some hold, but with that said I don't recall posting a video with you or any of your local homies, or even recording people specifically. After going over my travel vids its easy to see I was only interested in nature, the cats, myself rambling and capturing some music. But I do empathize with the collective 'Big Brother Is Watching' paranoia, especially after the visceral confrontation the other night. Thing was, he wouldn't listen to me. The few seconds that pointed in his direction were too dark to even make anything out...regardless, from here out I will be very explicit with intentions.

For me, its not about Big Brother. I just want to keep my drug use, or explicitly illegal activities, off record. This dude didn't have to listen to you, you had to respect his wishes. Which it sounds like you did. The guy may have gotten overly worked up or something, but I totally understand the idea. I can get a touch self-conscious on certain drugs, having a camera to record me is like having an eternal crowd who may watch me at basically any point.

 

[DroneLore]

I've had traumatic things happen to me before, like being robbed at gunpoint 3 times...by the third time I got so good at dissociating that I just held my head down and went to my peace zone...afterwards when I realized they stole my laptop, that's what really got me flippin (luckily they didn't touch my external hard drives, once again checkmate Universe, I only lost a small amount of irretrievable data)...there aren't a lot of material things in my life that can't be replaced....but don't fuck with a person's livelihood and personal data...

What was on those hard drives that was so precious? Just curious, hope my tone doesn't come across rude.

 

[vortech]

What was on those hard drives that was so precious? Just curious, hope my tone doesn't come across rude.

On those drives were about 11 years worth and 2 terabytes of accumulated personal data, and this was back in 2011 before lots of cloud storage was basically free so didn't have any non-local backups.
Specifically, 1 terabyte of video content that I was constantly building for my VJ gigs at the time, which was my primary income, in addition to other video projects. A couple hundred gigs in a sound library for music production, samples, recordings, VSTs, 100s of music project work files etc.
about 30,000 songs
writing, pictures, app installers, a few games, some movies etc etc

 

[swilow]

Rather than gun point, my dog once destroyed years of my music at coffee point.

Hey, if you guys could ride any animal, what would you choose? I'd like to surf a microbial mat.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

^A giant snake

 

[sigmond]

zephyr obv..

 

[yepyepwoah]

Rather than gun point, my dog once destroyed years of my music at coffee point.

Hey, if you guys could ride any animal, what would you choose? I'd like to surf a microbial mat.

Id ride God, then when he was on the brink of cumming Id hop off, smash his/her face in, and say "thanks for the life you desperate motherfucker" put a pistol on em and start riding his favorite daughter, son, wife, or husband, ad nasuem. When I finally worked down to riding my own self, Id pull the trigger on my magic pistol that would do an. Eagle Eye (I think thats tue right movie, with Angelina Jolie, where she was an assasian and did the one shot circle shoot anf took out all the other assians, ending with herself)

Murder before Suicide

Ps: To srsly answer the question, Id let my favorite animal ride me. What balls to think we have the right to subjugate other species to be our transportation slaves.

 

[swilow]

^Meh, I was joking.

You have to be ridiculously explicit with language these days otherwise people think you're really going to enslave microbial mats.

 

[Xorkoth]

I'd ride an intergalactic space tortoise.

Been working on our 5-song EP... it's coming along. All the base tracks are done, and now it's down to overdubbing parts. A have some synth atmospheric stuff and a solo with it to go, and an organ solo, and quite a few support tracks. Pretty exciting, I've recorded tons of stuff since we record everything, but I've never worked on a polished thing like this before. I'm pretty pumped for it to be done. We're gonna get some art together and have 500 CDs made when it's done, then we can start sending them to places and actually have a complete press kit.