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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by D.Ingram, Feb 20, 2010.
Chipmonkcheeks \m/
Mine is learning to play the guitar. Guitar got me into music and music means alot to me (as does guitar) and its worth the effort to be able to play.
Also is getting a snake after wanting one for 6 years, being at the Memorial show and getting my gaming computer.
Haven't kissed a girl high 5!!!
#21 Chipmonkcheeks, Feb 21, 2010
Covet Chaos Weedian
St.Helens
Okay now my heads cleared up ill get listing propperly.
Learning guitar and writing some songs im proud of. As ive mentioned getting albums done n shit like that. Id fallen out with all my old friends over shit but over time ive got that back to a talking stage, but it just got me out socialising much more and ive become a new person in crowds of people or with new people.
I wouldnt worry about it if you havent been kissed or anything. Just head out to some propper clubs. Being into metal its difficult to find women. I sorta like that though because id hate to be in a relationship with somebody who loved all the same bands as me. Dunno why like but ahh well.
#22 Covet Chaos, Feb 21, 2010
Ocelot2010 Burger King Diamond
Zehm said: ↑
well, I'm 20. I'm still at university and am thinking about grad school. I came here from highschool as a Junior with 47 credits. when my boss scheduled me to work 10 hours and refused to let me take a Lunch break, I told him to screw himself, I'm not some fucking Illegal wetback immigrant, and won't tolerate that bullshit. I've hiked in and out of desert canyons. I've had a pretty easy life so far. No complaints, any problems that I have are my fault to begin with.
#23 Ocelot2010, Feb 21, 2010
Keenan Crippling Self Doubt
#24 Keenan, Feb 21, 2010
metallicdistort Shite name.
Leicester, UK
Just keep smiling.
#25 metallicdistort, Feb 21, 2010
Caveman Ninja It's a carnival... of monsters!
Dolph Lundgren's Secret Island
Hmmm, well there are quite a lot actually. I've been lucky in life in a lot of ways.
Academically I have an English Degree with first class honours and a Masters in Literary Studies with distinction. I'm quite proud of that.
I'm proud of the ten years I had with my last band, we were the biggest metal band in Aberdeen for most of that time, and while that may not seem like much, we did literally hundreds of gigs and most of them were pretty packed. when we retired a year ago the venue was absolutely chocabloc and we did a two hour set, and everyone screamed the words to all our songs and generally went apeshit. One of my favourite nights of my life, I really felt like God for a couple of hours. I'm proud how many people on the local music scene tell me we influenced them to start a band or to like metal, and I really count that as something of an achievement. We won the Most Metal of Metal category 8 years running at the local music awards, and the people voted us best band aswell. The band I'm in now are current holders of most metal too, which officially makes me the most metal person in Aberdeen, and I think that's quite an achievement too. I've also seen Iron Maiden 25 times, and hundreds of other bands, and I'm proud of that too because it involved a lot of travelling and I've been to a lot of very cool gigs with bands both big and small and met many of my musical heroes.
In terms of relationships I held down a six year relationship with my first girlfriend where we were both nice to each other most of the time and that's some kind of achievement too I think!
I've got a radio show and have fun with that which is something I always wanted even when I was a kid, so that's cool too.
And I've got a lot of great friends, many whom I've known for most of my life. I count myself very lucky really, things always go wrong but overall I've generally had a pretty good time
However, all this is eclipsed by my one single greatest achievement, which is surely my beard
#27 Caveman Ninja, Feb 21, 2010
Zehm Member
Ocelot2010 said: ↑
yes, I am aware. Normally I wouldn't say such things, but I was pissed off as all hell.
@ Caveman Ninja
that's kind of how it was in my town, but I saw it from the other side. there was this band of high school students called Blue Destroy, and all of the guitar guys in high school, myself included, worshiped them. Their main songwriter, Aaron Brooks, would hammer on melodies on his left hand, and play the harmony on the keyboards with his right. They kind of pushed us to go beyond the led zeppelin, pink floyd,
boston, stuff we were all playing and be more technical. That's when we started to get really into Megadeth and Liquid Tension Experiment. You can still see the impact that they left. The 16-19 year old kids are sooooo much better than any of us were at that age. I expect you'll see the same thing.
#28 Zehm, Feb 21, 2010
Our "metal" scene sucks here in my town. The heaviest you get (HA!) is metalcore bullshit.
Caveman Ninja said: ↑
Beard of legend if I do say so myself. You're an inspiration to us all!
MotorheadMadman The One - Orgasmatron
Hatfield UK
small update - I mentioned a film I worked on was up for two BAFTA's last night - the good news is we won one of them - Outstanding Debut by a British Director (Duncan Jones). Yay!
#31 MotorheadMadman, Feb 22, 2010
MotorheadMadman said: ↑
Did you work on Moon?! I fucking LOVED that film... one of my favourites of last year... what did you do exactly?
Keenan said: ↑
The 16-19 year old kids are sooooo much better than any of us were at that age. I expect you'll see the same thing.
Yup, that's exactly what happened. For a couple of years we were the only band in town playing melodic metal with guitar solos etc. Now there are loads of them, and while none of them have the songs which put us where we were (we were blessed with a drummer who is the most gifted songwriter I know), the kids now can play a lot better than we could back then!
Yes, I worked on Moon, I'm credited as Trainee Modelmaker, working with people like Bill Pearson (built the Nostromo model for the original Alien film, plus quite a lot of Red Dwarf's models) and John Lee (among many other things was the team leader for the building of the Houses of Parliament model that was blown up in V for Vendetta), who I had previously met when he was guest tutor on one of our uni projects. I am hugely proud of the film and what it has achieved, not least because of the tiny 2 million pound budget for the entire film. The budget for models and props was only £40,000, which is negligible - I'm sure Jim Cameron's bar tab for Avatar exceeded our budget!
EvileOL Ol Drake
witnessing Gary Holt, wearing a santa hat with white pigtails, playing along to master of puppets on a banjo, in a german bar, and breaking a string in the solo
#34 EvileOL, Feb 22, 2010
Moon is great! i watched it for the first time a few weeks ago.
Slatanictrash Member
Congrats, well done,
#36 Slatanictrash, Feb 22, 2010
EvileOL said: ↑
Way to rub in your awesome life...
You worked on Moon? Great film. I'm surprised the budget was so low, the effects, scenery and props were great
Man, that's amazing! Well done indeed. The model work was partly what made the film for me, gave it a real old-school feel
Totally. Fecking rock stars...