Studio playing technique and stage playing are completely different. In the studio, I tend to play a little lighter because I can play more consistently. On stage, I throw on extra compression to please the soundguy and just rock out. I'd rather sacrifice technique and tone for a good visual show.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18761534]Dude, I thought you died or something. What has been up?

And I have no idea what any of these Mary Elizabeth Winstead movies are. I just found the .gifs.[/QUOTE]

[B]6 months abridged version (with pictures!):[/B]

Do I look like someone who'd just keel over and die? Actually, I kind of do. No, I'm not dead. Just been without the net for about 6 months since I moved city.

Now I have unlimited/uncapped downloads, awesome.

Not much really happening, band's kind of falling apart, I think I broke my singer's heart when I said I didn't want to live with him because he was a disgusting slob... hmm. Anyway, haven't spoken to him in quite a while, no drummer, and I cracked and twisted the joint in my ring finger about two months ago at work. There was also some fracturing to the middle bone.

So no bass for me, lost my exercise regiment, starting drinking too much, been pretty lonely, off work for about 3 weeks.

So pretty happy to see 2011 fuck off! Now I'm living in my new place here, planning on doing some animal behaviour certificates this year before probably moving back up to Brisbane and going back to uni in 2013. People said I was crazy to move down here with a band, but I guess I had to find out, and know I know they were 100% right. It has been a good experience in some ways, kind of like starting over from scratch; but I will be moving back home in the next 6-12 months. I love my job here and met some cool people but it's not the kind of thing that'll keep me here. Fuck Sydney.

Pre-surgery:
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Post-surgery; the joint was pinned for a few weeks under the dressing:
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Looking all better now, at about 90%. This is the only thing keeping me happy in this city at the moment really:

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So what's up wit choo?

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18761535]That's exactly how I play the guitar.

Damn I like his tone.[/QUOTE]

Then also this:

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She's purty. Good on you!

[QUOTE=BenJammin;18762887]She's purty. Good on you![/QUOTE]

My persona as an ugly, miserable cunt must pay off somehow.

I hear you. Still waiting for my payout, lol.

So what color are her eyes really? We're guessing brown.

She's a cutie though.

What does a man need other that steady income and a girl? The rest is just fun and games.

everyone haviing a good NYE ?

[QUOTE=Sablate McNuff;18762957]So what color are her eyes really? We're guessing brown.

She's a cutie though.[/QUOTE]

Blue with an amber ring around the pupil, bit odd.

I hear yah gaslight, my income is steady, but very meagre :(

Ended up going to a shit pub where my ex was for super epic awkward times. Then got a taxi to the middle of nowhere to a shite house party full of posh kids listening to Michael Jackson. Then left ten minutes later, falling out with one of our bros because he wanted to stay for the pussay (there wasn't any) so we wasted a fortune on taxis and stood in the freezing cold arguing with him. Then we rocked up to a sweet casino until 6 this morning with the friends we managed to ditch for that shit party. So tired.


It's quarter past 2 and I still feel like I need more sleep. But if I don't get up I'll have wasted this entire day by being in bed. Do shops even open on new years day?

I just watched about six episodes of the Inbetweeners which was alright.

New Year's Eve was shithouse.

You watch The Inbetweeners in Australia? Wow. I really like that show, but the movie was a bit disappointing :/

Yeah it's on UKTV on my cable, and probably on SBS free-to-air here.

There's a movie? I didn't know that, the series is bloody perfection.

Yeah it came out in the summer last year. Don't get me wrong, it had its good moments, but it isn't a patch on the TV shows. I've always felt like English and Australian tastes in humour are much more similar than English and American ones for some reason.

inbetweeners movie is the fastest selling dvd in the uk except for the last harry potter movie. seems people went apeshit over buying that dvd.

nothing to see here >_>

Wat

[QUOTE=fatbandit;18763132]Yeah it came out in the summer last year. Don't get me wrong, it had its good moments, but it isn't a patch on the TV shows. I've always felt like English and Australian tastes in humour are much more similar than English and American ones for some reason.[/QUOTE]

Every single Amercian version of a film or TV series from England or Australia I've seen has just been god-awful. It's like they take a series/film based on subtlety, or heavily laden with idioms and colloquial/national humour, remove it, and say "hey look, we've made a brilliant thing here, look how obviously funny it is because the show we used as a base is."

Just the pure 'in your face' nature of translated humour hurts my head. It takes away so much from the source material, are producers afraid that American's just won't understand things that aren't Americanised?

Examples include: Kath & Kim, Death at a Funeral, Wilfred, Life on Mars, even Little Britain, Top Gear (although the Australian version sucked dick also - unsurprising).

The thing that puzzles me though is that there are so many brilliant US TV shows that I love, but when they try and remake other countries things they just fuck it. Just leave TV shows that are based heavily on the countries they come from alone? Can't do that though, too much money to be had.

[quote=BenJammin;18763191]nothing to see here >_>[/quote]

Damn, I miss all the good stuff.

Was it hot chick nude pics?

[quote=funkyhoney;18763490]Every single Amercian version of a film or TV series from England or Australia I've seen has just been god-awful. It's like they take a series/film based on subtlety, or heavily laden with idioms and colloquial/national humour, remove it, and say "hey look, we've made a brilliant thing here, look how obviously funny it is because the show we used as a base is."

Just the pure 'in your face' nature of translated humour hurts my head. It takes away so much from the source material, are producers afraid that American's just won't understand things that aren't Americanised?

Examples include: Kath & Kim, Death at a Funeral, Wilfred, Life on Mars, even Little Britain, Top Gear (although the Australian version sucked dick also - unsurprising).

The thing that puzzles me though is that there are so many brilliant US TV shows that I love, but when they try and remake other countries things they just fuck it. Just leave TV shows that are based heavily on the countries they come from alone? Can't do that though, too much money to be had.[/quote]

I don't want to stand up for the level of intelligence of Americans and American television producers (because it's low and people are generally idiots), but without being submerged in other cultures, many references are bound to be completely lost in translation. Also, this is America, land of country music and millions of people who listen to it; I suspect even the shitty remakes are too high-brow for most of my peers. *le sigh*

I've never heard of any of those remakes, so I guess I can consider myself lucky.

On a TV note, does anyone here watch [i]Breaking Bad[/i]? Jesus that show is so badass.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18763523]I don't want to stand up for the level of intelligence of Americans and American television producers (because it's low and people are generally idiots), but without being submerged in other cultures, many references are bound to be completely lost in translation. Also, this is America, land of country music and millions of people who listen to it; I suspect even the shitty remakes are too high-brow for most of my peers. *le sigh*

I've never heard of any of those remakes, so I guess I can consider myself lucky.

On a TV note, does anyone here watch [i]Breaking Bad[/i]? Jesus that show is so badass.[/QUOTE]

It's strange because they remade two really brilliant Australian comedies (Kath & Kim, Wilfred) in the US, then plugged the shit out of it on Australian commercial stations as a "new show", even though they'd been on Australian government and NFP stations for years. Same thing when a commercial station got the rights to Top Gear here, we were up to about season 10 on SBS (a national community station), then they started plugging "brand new Top Gear" on a commercial station and started playing season 4. Shrug. Idiots.

Yeah, Breaking Bad is one of the three US TV shows I've really gotten into in the past 5 years. The other two being Californication and Burn Notice.

*For reference

The Death at a Funeral remake was appalling. A pretty good, above average British comedy. The Us version was just Martin Laurence and Chris Rock, being black, for lack of a better analogy. Subtlety - gone! Along with good acting.

The American version of Wilfred was a fucking embarrassment.

I forgive America for stuff like that because we're going to need America when it's time to nuke some countries off the map.

Yes but do you realize how much these shows confuse Americans in there natural state? There are too many people that get all fussy about foreign shows because they are usually too highbrow or use pop culture from another "world" and then ratings drop or something along the lines of the show bombing. Look at Shameless and the port-over of that for example, although I haven't seen much of the american side on the series but from what I've heard it's good in an "american sense"...

[quote=funkyhoney;18763545]The Us version was just Martin Laurence and Chris Rock, being black, for lack of a better analogy. Subtlety - gone! Along with good acting.[/quote]

That is about how I'd describe any American black comedy (as in, black people doing comedy; not to be confused with black comedy, the genre). I think, for the same reasons, I'm not a fan of most black comedians.

Bad news, my classes this year are absurdly far away (not even on the campus) because ASU hates math majors and refuses to put upper division math classes in the math building. The good news is that I have 15 minutes between class. Should I adjust my walking route to this?

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Alison Brie. <3

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who the fuck is she? haha

and why isn't she mew?