I must have missed something.

Anyways, I'm in love with Welcome the Plague Year's s/t.

Also, question to anyone who owns Cryonics by Hot Cross. Do you feel like the indie emo and post-punk tendancies they put into most of the songs brings the album down a little as far as build-up and dynamics are concerned?

[QUOTE=Jason101]Yeah, the games ruled. Scyther owned everything in the coolness stakes.
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My girlfriend asked me yesterday whether it was a good idea to have a fancy dress themed party. I said yes-, they're always a laugh so today she comes in and says that the theme is Pokemon.:eek:

I was thinking more along the lines of scantily dressed women and casually dressed guys night.

Wow... I hope your girlfriend is good in bed, or I'd be looking for the escape hatch. ;)

Seriously, pokemon is a hell of a lot of effort if you're only going to get wasted anyway.

Just cheat and go as a member of Team Rocket.

Themed dress parties; I've not attended a private one in quite some time, but my wife does force me to attend Renn Faire events in-costume once a year. Not that I really mind, but sometimes the cod piece can be uncomfortable. Her costumes are well made, and with our four daughters and our son also in costume, we are often mistaken as faire employees.

Oh, hello S&L community.

I’m likely to be considered an old geezer by many of you. My earliest memories are of helping my aunts make reel to reel tapes for my uncles in Viet Nam. They’d hand me a stack of records and ask me to pick songs I liked to add. Later, I had the left 1/3rd of my head shaved and the other 2/3rds to my shoulder, wore the punk uniform, and told everyone that Washington was spelled harDCore. It was an act. Yeah, I liked punk, but I also liked glam, 70s prog, and mellow stuff that would have made many of my friends puke. Goth intrigued me, but mostly because I fell in love with every pale girl in fishnets and a black skirt; how little some things change.

As indicated above, I'm the father of five now, but don’t feel my age. Maybe it’s the California-Girl wife who still dyes her hair blue to turn me on. We listen to everything from modern college alternative to late 60s Psychedelia to 80s wave, play online games, and dabble in backwater Pennsylvania lifestyles, like hunting deer and playing regional card games. I think the word enigma may apply to us.

At this point the only songs of mine that get played are the family specific pseudofilk pieces that I write for my many cousins (who play guitar and sing quite well). My 3 year old routinely says "Da da, you're not a good singer" and I never learned to read music. Someday I hope my children open one of my books of poems and put them to music. To encourage this, I've started taking my oldest (13) to shows.

Anyway, I’ll write more later; but I wanted to say hello.

Hmph :mad: I can't get any inspiration. I want to write about something original but I can't think of anything :(

Schirf seems cooler than Jason, by far. Jason, do you have any songs posted up on the net for us to listen to?

Welcome to S&L, Schirf. You sound very interesting. I look forward to reading some of your work.

hi :wave:

He IS cooler than me. :(

*slits wrists and puts Hawthorne Heights CD on*

And no, sadly I don't. I'm still working with a tape-deck until I get the motherboard ordered for my new PC... then I have to get the new zoom pedal with the USB connector and Cubase bundled in (a steal at £99), then I'll start chucking stuff on the net.

Hey Schirf. Looks like you've inherited the title of coolest parent in S&L from me. Guard it well. ;)

I'm Jason, 21, in the process of getting divorced. (Yeah, we all make mistakes, that was one of the bigger ones...) I'm also a daddy, although it's just the one for me at the moment (and for the forseeable future!), and she's just turned 2.
Welcome to the forums and stick around. :)

Hey so is there going to be a winners thread for Song of the Month?

Hi S7L forums.

:wave:

sup

You know what's lame? Spilling a Diet Coke on someone while you're training to be a server. My friend who is training with me dropped 3 waters on some ladies on the other side of the restraunt at about the same time as me, and got a much better reaction. The waitress I did a lot of work for didn't even tip me out a few bucks. Lame.

[QUOTE=A_Perfect_Sonnet]You know what's lame? Spilling a Diet Coke on someone while you're training to be a server. My friend who is training with me dropped 3 waters on some ladies on the other side of the restraunt at about the same time as me, and got a much better reaction. The waitress I did a lot of work for didn't even tip me out a few bucks. Lame.[/QUOTE]

I work at a restaurant, but rather than being a waiter I decided to wash dishes and do all the dirty work no one else wants to do.....sigh.

For being a crappy job, does it pay well?

Starts at minimum wage, and you get a $.25 raise for every 4 months or something if you work so many hours a week. I have a different job for this summer but I'll be coming and going at the restaurant. I think I'm up over $6.15 or something now. These last few months I've just been not wanting to work, too much going on at the moment. So to answer your question, no.

Well I work as a waitress in a hotel and I have to say it's a lot better than the last job I had, which was working in a fast food place... EW. I lasted a grand total of 30 days working there. I hated it. I prefer the job I have now so much more! PS what's the minimum wage in the US for over 18s anyway? I'm just curious because over here (Ireland) 7.65 euros, and that's roughly equivalent to... $9.50? I think...

[QUOTE=kerazay]Well I work as a waitress in a hotel and I have to say it's a lot better than the last job I had, which was working in a fast food place... EW. I lasted a grand total of 30 days working there. I hated it. I prefer the job I have now so much more! PS what's the minimum wage in the US for over 18s anyway? I'm just curious because over here (Ireland) 7.65 euros, and that's roughly equivalent to... $9.50? I think...[/QUOTE]

$5.15 is minimum here I think, or is it $5.25?

$5.15. I hasn't been raised since '97, but inflation sure has...

Sup everyone :wave:

You may not reconize me, Im usually not in this forum. Im starting to spend some more time here though.

Is it just me or is the quality of the In depth crit thread slowly declining?

Well if it was all just one big long deep conversation then I think a lot of people would be put off by it?

DR doesn't give very in-depth crits... nor does anyone else. They need to be stepped up and at least monitored. The original intent of the thread is at least a 400 word (1 page) critique on very specific topics within the piece. It's just once again, no one reads the rules, and because of this they do whatever the hell they want and ruin the thread.

hey I gave an over a thousand word crit on Sketchyjoe's song, and there are a couple of really decent crits in there. It's just of late, that it's beginning to feel trashy.

Well yeah, a few people want the thread to work, but then you get random people who just post a song or something in there, like when I critiqued the one guy's piece with around a 600 word critique and he just freaked out on me. Then the people who are like "I don't know where else to put this, so here it is" type thing.

anyone else seen [i]DIG![/i] great documentary

I'm trying to learn how to crit on these boards. As a newcomer, I'm half afraid to touch song lyrics that are of a style that I don't like. I'm not into dark metal, and so many of the pieces here seem oriented in that direction.

On thing that I'm slightly disapointed in is the lack of humor. There are a lot of well done yet funny songs that would be against the rules of the boards. Is there any chance that a single humorous lyrics thread could be opened?

The rule against joke songs is to prevent (try to, at least) new users from posting a lot of dumb, unfunny songs. I think if you've been around for a while and it's obvious you put a lot of work into a humorous song, then it's okay. I'm not a mod, though. :)

And I think people just want feedback. It really doesn't matter if you have conflicting tastes as long as your comments are reasonable and open-minded.

Generally... crit anything you want.
Be as harsh as you want.
And dont lie.

Those three rules should last you a while.
At least... *disappears*

Minimum wage for tipped servers in America is $2.83 and is what I've made even after four and a half years of working in the same place. If you make more, your boss is excellent. Also, keep in mind that many states tax you on your tips, or the state will tax you on the amount of tips you're SUPPOSED to make, even if you don't make that much. It's insulting. Also, when you're training, you usually don't make tips unless the trainer is generous enough to offer.

Politicians are trying to raise the minimum wage to $6 something, I heard. By the time that kicks in, I'll probably be done with grad school and shooting myself if I'm still making minimum wage.

[B]Schirf[/B], welcome. Not all of us are morbid or political punk rockers or angst-ridden sap-bags. Of those that aren't, some write decent lyrics. You'll find out as you read, but you'll probably end up sticking with a handful of writers that consistently impress you and work with them because that's what's most worthwhile. The community has cliques.

That's it for now from me. I'll post a song soon enough. Don't ignore it this time, please.