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That Brazil avatar is hideous as ****, yeah. And not in a funny way like mine. I think the avatars are getting tooooo tall now. I know my last one was really tall but it's becoming a trend, idk, to many 220px+ height avatars.

[QUOTE=Deth;16027350]Movie aside, that's a hideous, hideous avatar.

And yet it's still an improvement on the current one.[/QUOTE]

Agreed on both parts. Dexter avatars make me want to stab my eyes out.

[quote=Cocaine;16030478]That Brazil avatar is hideous as ****, yeah. And not in a funny way like mine. I think the avatars are getting tooooo tall now. I know my last one was really tall but it's becoming a trend, idk, to many 220px+ height avatars.[/quote]

i agree

maximum avatar height should be 150

I don't get why everyone thinks the Brazil avy is ugly?

And it's smaller than my current one.

Because it looks very very gay.

good movie nevertheless.

[QUOTE=Eliminator;16031112]i agree

maximum avatar height should be 150[/QUOTE]

but mine's not too bad :[

As long as it's not that Starfox chick I'm fine with it.

you need a life.

[quote=Txus;16031688]Because it looks very very gay.

good movie nevertheless.[/quote]

I love it. And that's all that matters.

Ok guys. I am requesting a bigger avatar. I've been a poster here since 14 and haven't been perma banned yet. I usually try to keep my posts helpful and have a good amount of rep. I help alot of people in the pit on the love and relationships thread. And I would really like to have this avatar. So plz plz plz guys?

[url]http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v448/Pantera76/?action=view&current=finalfantasyac001-1.jpg[/url]

Your complete lack of posting in R&M up until now makes this the perfect place to request an avatar!

Sorry dude. A friend told me about it. I never posted here because I was afraid of getting uber flamed and banned =/

Guess I can't get that avatar :(

You shouldn't not post here because you're affraid to get flamed. Stick around for awhile its not so bad. Then maybe you'll get your avatar.

[URL]http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9677/fotkaol8.jpg[/URL]

can i have dis please?

can we have [img] tags plz?

It will never happen.

Yeah, they have it in other subfora

I don't think R&Mers would abuse the privilege tbh

some would

Seriously, we need [img] tags

It'd be far more annoying to scroll past whatever stupid crap the plebs are finding funny this week.

Could someone change my avatar to
[url]http://i29.tinypic.com/2646jxz.jpg[/url]


And could you also capitalize the S and E in my name?

Could i get my Avatar changed to this plz?
[url]http://i25.tinypic.com/1497grc.jpg[/url]

Hi I'd like to have my avatar changed to

[url]http://i26.tinypic.com/2jct1lw.jpg[/url]

because I'm awesome. That is all.

Hi.

You're all going to have to wait until Tojes logs in, or write essays. :)

Yours sincerely,

Riva.

**** nigg

alright

"When I first came to this forum, I listened to bands like Slipknot, Atreyu and In Flames. I didn't even know how to use blogsearch, so I had to beg people for links to all the shitty albums I wanted to download. The nadir of my experience here came when I got addicted to crack cocaine and stole people's rep points in order to finance my habit. Eventually, I realized I hit rock bottom, so to speak. I had a full line of red neg bars and scrounged for flakes of crack on the sidewalk just to feel normal for another day. The next morning, I stubbornly marched out of the rundown crack-house where I once lived, never to return again. While in counseling, I learned about good bands such as Summoning, Amon Amarth and Rhapsody of Fire and stopped being such a hardcore fag. With time, I became a man about town and brought great cheer to the community thread. I even regained enough of my drug-addled intellect to excoriate self-important hypocrites in the black metal thread, help nobs with software / Intertubes related issues and guide [b]Riva[/b] on the path to learning Swedish.

[b]1338 H4X0R ON SPUTNIK
HALLOWED BE MY NAME
MY KINGDOM COME
MY WILL BE DONE
IRL AS ON SPUTNIK[/b]"

That is why I feel I deserve this 175px Odin avatar

[url]http://i26.tinypic.com/2jct1lw.jpg[/url]

[url]http://musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=552536[/url]

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[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=552355[/url]

Close please, it's becoming a mini-community thread.

[size=6][CENTER]My Musical Autobiography[/CENTER][/size]


Throughout my life, there have been few things that have made such an impact on me as music has. Music is the perfect friend everyone has always wanted. It can do all sorts of things and convey all sorts of emotions. Music can entertain, pump up, and even comfort. Its uses are endless and to even try to imagine my life without it is almost impossible. Without music, would Elvis have always been a truck driver? What would Ferris Bueller dance in the parade to? And what would become of the writers of The Wedding Singer? Music is essential in life and it plays a huge role in not only my life but life in general. Without it, life would be boring.

Ever since I was a baby I have been surrounded by music. My mom, while being heavily into music such as Madonna, never played it in the house or even at all. My dad, however, would play all sorts of music when I was young, from Brit Pop to Industrial. He listened to a lot of Morrissey, Pet Shop Boys, and Jimmy Somerville. He still listens to these artists a lot, and Pet Shop Boys are his favorite band. Of course, my dad has a rather wide range of music taste. He would also play Alice in Chains, Led Zeppelin, and Frank Zappa. While Pet Shop Boys are very poppy, Alice in Chains and Led Zeppelin are classic rock and grunge rock, and Frank Zappa is jazz fusion. My dad still listens to all of these bands, which is a rather honorable feat when one looks at how much new music has come out in the last fifteen years. Also, a lot of the times I hear my dad playing music I recognize, but I don’t know who the artist is or what the song is called. It almost always turns out to be an artist or band that he played from when I was a child. Nowadays, my dad and I share a bit of music taste with each other, as we both like Nine Inch Nails and Muse quite a bit. I can fairly say that my dad has played a large role in the development of my current music taste. It’s quite amazing how hearing a genre of music repeatedly as a baby can influence one’s own future taste in music. Thank God my dad didn’t listen to Madonna, and thank God my mom never played any.

Growing up around the tender age of eight, the two places I looked to for new music was the radio and my older sister, who at the time was thirteen. My sister listened to the definitive angst-ridden teenager music. Bands such as Metallica and The Offspring were what I heard a lot of. I still really like The Offspring to this day. Looking back, I wish I could have searched further for my own music, but at the time I had no problem listening to what my older sister listened to. In fact, I actually liked it. I continued to listen to these bands until I was about ten or eleven, when I eventually broadened my horizons a bit and started to listen to tons of Incubus and a lot of Tool. This was the point in time where I eventually discovered my own taste in music. I started to look for music in more places than my sister’s CD case and the radio. My dad’s music stayed the same as it was in the earlier years, which is not a bad thing at all. My dad grew tolerant to my sister’s music, and they both eventually learned to enjoy my own. By the time I was twelve, my favorite band was Tool, and I was also in love with Rage against the Machine. I could finally think for myself.

Now, in high school, I have many ways of discovering and obtaining music. I rarely listen to the radio anymore as it is overrun with twenty different bands that play the same exact same music, although they all claim to be “new” and “original” and that they are going to “reinvent rock and bring it back to the mainstream.” Most of these bands do not realize that what they are doing is destroying rock as much as they are creating it. Just because there is more of it doesn’t mean all of it is good. Of course, there are many bands that write the same song over and over, such as AC/DC or Guns n’ Roses. Of course, the radio is meant for easy listening most of the time, so I would not demean these bands for being catchy. I much prefer listening to music on the internet and finding bands that sound like other bands. I also obtain music in a different way than others in a daily e-mail from a website linked with Apple. This e-mail is full of relevant artists and songs that Apple thinks I may like by what I listen to on iTunes and what my ratings are on it. I enjoy this thoroughly, and it has helped me to discover a lot of new music.

I like to think that I have a diverse taste in music. My favorite bands include Between the Buried and Me, a progressive death metal band, Porcupine Tree, a progressive pop rock band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a post-rock band, The Offspring, a pop punk band, Mogwai, a post-rock band, and Less Than Jake, a ska-punk band. While my interests mainly fall into the Rock genre with a bit of Punk in there as well, I also enjoy some jazz and hip hop every now and then. I love Avishai Cohen and Hiromi, who are both jazz artists. I also love some Wu Tang Clan every now and then. While jazz and hip hop are not my favorite genres, that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy specific artists from these respective genres. I don’t understand why people could just shrug off a genre just because they don’t like some of what they’ve heard. Everyone should embrace all types of music because they all have something different to offer!

As well as the aforementioned bands, I also love movie scores and musicals. Some of my favorites include “Jesus Christ Superstar” and of course, “Aida” for musicals. I love work done by James Howard Newton, who has done work for movies such as “Unbreakable” and “The Village”, both by M. Night Shyamalan, and the score to the film “Memento”. I am also in love with the opening sequence to the Disney animated film “Beauty and the Beast” as well as that whole soundtrack in general. Along with scores, I like some classical music. I too enjoy a fair share of Bach and Brahms, as well as any rendition of Amazing Grace ever done. These composers were indeed geniuses. We have yet to have a composer as brilliant as Beethoven.

I believe that in order to fully appreciate music, one must play an instrument. I could never understand how somebody could listen to their favorite song and not want to jam on it on guitar afterwards. Knowing how to play a song only makes the song that much better. It creates even more of a bond between the listener and the music. I play drums, guitar, bass, and I dabble in piano every now and then. I’ve been playing drums for six and a half years, guitar for about four, bass for about three, and piano for about a year and a half. My favorite instrument to play is the drums, but my favorite to write music on is the piano, because it just has all the notes laid out in front for you. Simple is not always bad! While I enjoy playing drums the most, my favorite instruments to listen to are piano with violin. I love orchestral sounds and how beautiful stringed instruments can sound together. If I ever pick up another instrument, it would definitely be violin.

I could never live a life without music without a part of me dying inside. I listen to music whenever I can. I listen to music when I eat breakfast, when I go to bed, and every time in between. It is my life and my sole hobby. Anytime not spent on homework, food, sleep, or friends is devoted entirely to music. If music did not exist, what would I do, join Scrabble Club?

I don’t think so. “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” This is a definitive statement for mankind. Music is essential to my psychological survival. It enhances my life, and it gives me drive and motivation. Music makes me feel every sort of emotion, but overall happy. It makes me happy, it makes me sad, it makes me calm, and it makes me mad. It can do whatever you want it to do. Never underestimate the power of music, for the day has yet to come where music has failed me.

[QUOTE]Could someone change my avatar to
[url]http://i25.tinypic.com/34i0j2q.jpg[/url]



And could you also capitalize the S and E in my name?[/QUOTE]

tyvm

Just search Riva's threads and it'll come up.

[url]http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=530318[/url]

The young Austin speaks wisely.

why do you keep getting such awful name changes

It was unintentional.

i don't like my user name. i would greatly appreciate it if i could i get it changed to the following:

LoneStarDrummer




thanks to anyone who even bothers to read this.

[QUOTE=something erotic;16070067][size=6][CENTER]My Musical Autobiography[/CENTER][/size]


Throughout my life, there have been few things that have made such an impact on me as music has. Music is the perfect friend everyone has always wanted. It can do all sorts of things and convey all sorts of emotions. Music can entertain, pump up, and even comfort. Its uses are endless and to even try to imagine my life without it is almost impossible. Without music, would Elvis have always been a truck driver? What would Ferris Bueller dance in the parade to? And what would become of the writers of The Wedding Singer? Music is essential in life and it plays a huge role in not only my life but life in general. Without it, life would be boring.

Ever since I was a baby I have been surrounded by music. My mom, while being heavily into music such as Madonna, never played it in the house or even at all. My dad, however, would play all sorts of music when I was young, from Brit Pop to Industrial. He listened to a lot of Morrissey, Pet Shop Boys, and Jimmy Somerville. He still listens to these artists a lot, and Pet Shop Boys are his favorite band. Of course, my dad has a rather wide range of music taste. He would also play Alice in Chains, Led Zeppelin, and Frank Zappa. While Pet Shop Boys are very poppy, Alice in Chains and Led Zeppelin are classic rock and grunge rock, and Frank Zappa is jazz fusion. My dad still listens to all of these bands, which is a rather honorable feat when one looks at how much new music has come out in the last fifteen years. Also, a lot of the times I hear my dad playing music I recognize, but I don’t know who the artist is or what the song is called. It almost always turns out to be an artist or band that he played from when I was a child. Nowadays, my dad and I share a bit of music taste with each other, as we both like Nine Inch Nails and Muse quite a bit. I can fairly say that my dad has played a large role in the development of my current music taste. It’s quite amazing how hearing a genre of music repeatedly as a baby can influence one’s own future taste in music. Thank God my dad didn’t listen to Madonna, and thank God my mom never played any.

Growing up around the tender age of eight, the two places I looked to for new music was the radio and my older sister, who at the time was thirteen. My sister listened to the definitive angst-ridden teenager music. Bands such as Metallica and The Offspring were what I heard a lot of. I still really like The Offspring to this day. Looking back, I wish I could have searched further for my own music, but at the time I had no problem listening to what my older sister listened to. In fact, I actually liked it. I continued to listen to these bands until I was about ten or eleven, when I eventually broadened my horizons a bit and started to listen to tons of Incubus and a lot of Tool. This was the point in time where I eventually discovered my own taste in music. I started to look for music in more places than my sister’s CD case and the radio. My dad’s music stayed the same as it was in the earlier years, which is not a bad thing at all. My dad grew tolerant to my sister’s music, and they both eventually learned to enjoy my own. By the time I was twelve, my favorite band was Tool, and I was also in love with Rage against the Machine. I could finally think for myself.

Now, in high school, I have many ways of discovering and obtaining music. I rarely listen to the radio anymore as it is overrun with twenty different bands that play the same exact same music, although they all claim to be “new” and “original” and that they are going to “reinvent rock and bring it back to the mainstream.” Most of these bands do not realize that what they are doing is destroying rock as much as they are creating it. Just because there is more of it doesn’t mean all of it is good. Of course, there are many bands that write the same song over and over, such as AC/DC or Guns n’ Roses. Of course, the radio is meant for easy listening most of the time, so I would not demean these bands for being catchy. I much prefer listening to music on the internet and finding bands that sound like other bands. I also obtain music in a different way than others in a daily e-mail from a website linked with Apple. This e-mail is full of relevant artists and songs that Apple thinks I may like by what I listen to on iTunes and what my ratings are on it. I enjoy this thoroughly, and it has helped me to discover a lot of new music.

I like to think that I have a diverse taste in music. My favorite bands include Between the Buried and Me, a progressive death metal band, Porcupine Tree, a progressive pop rock band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a post-rock band, The Offspring, a pop punk band, Mogwai, a post-rock band, and Less Than Jake, a ska-punk band. While my interests mainly fall into the Rock genre with a bit of Punk in there as well, I also enjoy some jazz and hip hop every now and then. I love Avishai Cohen and Hiromi, who are both jazz artists. I also love some Wu Tang Clan every now and then. While jazz and hip hop are not my favorite genres, that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy specific artists from these respective genres. I don’t understand why people could just shrug off a genre just because they don’t like some of what they’ve heard. Everyone should embrace all types of music because they all have something different to offer!

As well as the aforementioned bands, I also love movie scores and musicals. Some of my favorites include “Jesus Christ Superstar” and of course, “Aida” for musicals. I love work done by James Howard Newton, who has done work for movies such as “Unbreakable” and “The Village”, both by M. Night Shyamalan, and the score to the film “Memento”. I am also in love with the opening sequence to the Disney animated film “Beauty and the Beast” as well as that whole soundtrack in general. Along with scores, I like some classical music. I too enjoy a fair share of Bach and Brahms, as well as any rendition of Amazing Grace ever done. These composers were indeed geniuses. We have yet to have a composer as brilliant as Beethoven.

I believe that in order to fully appreciate music, one must play an instrument. I could never understand how somebody could listen to their favorite song and not want to jam on it on guitar afterwards. Knowing how to play a song only makes the song that much better. It creates even more of a bond between the listener and the music. I play drums, guitar, bass, and I dabble in piano every now and then. I’ve been playing drums for six and a half years, guitar for about four, bass for about three, and piano for about a year and a half. My favorite instrument to play is the drums, but my favorite to write music on is the piano, because it just has all the notes laid out in front for you. Simple is not always bad! While I enjoy playing drums the most, my favorite instruments to listen to are piano with violin. I love orchestral sounds and how beautiful stringed instruments can sound together. If I ever pick up another instrument, it would definitely be violin.

I could never live a life without music without a part of me dying inside. I listen to music whenever I can. I listen to music when I eat breakfast, when I go to bed, and every time in between. It is my life and my sole hobby. Anytime not spent on homework, food, sleep, or friends is devoted entirely to music. If music did not exist, what would I do, join Scrabble Club?

I don’t think so. “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” This is a definitive statement for mankind. Music is essential to my psychological survival. It enhances my life, and it gives me drive and motivation. Music makes me feel every sort of emotion, but overall happy. It makes me happy, it makes me sad, it makes me calm, and it makes me mad. It can do whatever you want it to do. Never underestimate the power of music, for the day has yet to come where music has failed me.



tyvm[/QUOTE]

oh hey how are you

you actually wasted time on that?

that was just a story of your progression in music

nothing to do with how you deserve a big avatar

I've already written an essay on why I deserve.


So I changed it up a bit.


And Eliminator it took me a whole 20 minutes.

What's haxor been banned for?