For those about to chat...

ssba91

New song from The Agonist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5htNJsh1IQ

Lithium93_

So this is happening Stateside in the summer..

StaticAge11

Did anyone else see this?!
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/gwar_frontman_oderus_urungus_reportedly_dead.html

Several sources are today reporting that GWAR frontman Oderus Urungus (real name David Brockie) has died at the age of 50. According to Style Weekly (via Blabbermouth), police have confirmed that the 50-year-old musicians was found dead in his Richmond home by his roommate.

Former GWAR bassist Mike Bishop has issued the following statement about his bandmate:

"Dave was one of the funniest, smartest, most creative and energetic persons I've known. He was brash sometimes, always crass, irreverent, he was hilarious in every way. But he was also deeply intelligent and interested in life, history, politics and art.

"His penchant for scatological humors belied a lucid wit. He was a criminally underrated lyricist and hard rock vocalist, one of the best, ever! A great frontman, a great painter, writer, he was also a hell of a bass guitarist. I loved him. He was capable of great empathy and had a real sense of justice."

Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe also posted a tribute to Brockie via Instagram. GWAR and Lamb of God toured together in 2009:

"I got a very sad call tonight from my buddy Chris Bopst, who was one of the original members of GWAR- my friend Dave Brockie, AKA Oderus Urungus, the singer of GWAR, has left the building & taken off back to his home planet. He was 50 years old.

"I do not know details of why he died yet, just that he passed away at home & his roommates found him. When someone dies, a lot of the time people will say 'Oh, he was a unique person, really one of a kind, a true original' - most of these people no idea of what they are talking about - they obviously had never met Dave. Dave TRULY WAS ONE OF A KIND - I can't think of ANYONE even remotely like him. That's VERY HARD TO SAY."

According to theMusic.com.au, GWAR's management will issue an official statement later today.

salacious crumb

Passenger wrote: »

Aye, I only heard about it Sat and stalled in for a gander. There were 6 or 7 people there so I went to Brux. :pac:

Ha!

You going to Brains tomorrow?

Passenger

salacious crumb wrote: »

Ha!

You going to Brains tomorrow?

Nah. Might have a quiet one tomorrow. How was Berlin?

Nailz

*puts on FNM fanboy hat*

19 years to the day since this masterpiece was released!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dteL3lvN9h8

Passenger

Nailz wrote: »

*puts on FNM fanboy hat*

19 years to the day since this masterpiece was released!

My favourite FNM album. And their most versatile and consistent too imo.

salacious crumb

Passenger wrote: »

Nah. Might have a quiet one tomorrow. How was Berlin?

Twas good. COC were awesome as always. Got a set list signed by Mike Dean and a photo with him too, which completes my COC photo collection (apart from Reed, but meh :pac: )

Brains were pretty good on Saturday too.

Nailz

Passenger wrote: »

My favourite FNM album. And their most versatile and consistent too imo.

It's my favourite too, at times, and other times it's Angel Dust; that sort of thing.

Will definitely be trying to see them this summer though! Was not expecting them to be touring at all this year, was convinced that'd packed it in for at least another year. I'd love to see them perform KFAD...FFALT in its entirety next year, given that it's the albums 20th anniversary, kind of like what they'd done in Chile in December, 2012 when Trey Spuance played with them for the first time ever; that'd be something special.

Passenger

Nailz wrote: »

Will definitely be trying to see them this summer though! Was not expecting them to be touring at all this year, was convinced that'd packed it in for at least another year. I'd love to see them perform KFAD...FFALT in its entirety next year, given that it's the albums 20th anniversary, kind of like what they'd done in Chile in December, 2012 when Trey Spuance played with them for the first time ever; that'd be something special.

Seeing them perform at a festival wouldn't appeal to me in the slightest. It would have to be an indoor gig for sure.

Links234

Hey folks, how goes it?

Passenger

Grand. And yourself, Links?

Links234

Not too bad at all

starting a Japanese language course girlfriend's off away for a few days so I get to stay up late watching all sorts of **** until the wee hours :pac: and I got a new BPRD comic book, so yeah, it's all coming up millhouse! Linksy!

Passenger

Ah nice! How's the Japanese coming along?

Links234

Slow but steady

some classes are sure to help though. I'm still plugging away at learning the kanji, that's actually not something I thought I'd ever be able to learn, but here I am and I already know some basic stuff

Angron

Sipping on a can of Monster and watching the last How I Met Your Mother with my housemates here.

Links234

Angron wrote: »

Sipping on a can of Monster and watching the last How I Met Your Mother with my housemates here.

Bleurgh! :eek:

On both counts, that is :pac:

Angron

Don't you judge me! The rat story didn't turn me off my Monster craving :P

Links234

That **** is seriously rank

Angron

*blows raspberry*

Passenger

Links234 wrote: »

Slow but steady

some classes are sure to help though. I'm still plugging away at learning the kanji, that's actually not something I thought I'd ever be able to learn, but here I am and I already know some basic stuff

Are you able to converse with other students? I've always been tempted to learn a new language but there's only so much one can learn from books at home. I would imagine that immersing yourself would be vital to being anyway conversational in the language.

Links234

Passenger wrote: »

Are you able to converse with other students? I've always been tempted to learn a new language but there's only so much one can learn from books at home. I would imagine that immersing yourself would be vital to being anyway conversational in the language.

Well, haven't started the new classes yet, but when I went to Japan before, I had a little bit of spoken Japanese, enough to get by. Like I could order food, drinks, ask where something was, as well as please, thanks, whatever else. I have a Japanese friend I meet for coffee sometimes and try to converse a little with, but my vocabulary is a bit limited.

Definitely been immersing myself as much as possible in the language.

Listening to Japanese music can't hurt either

Zwillinge

The How I Met Your Mother Finale... 9 years ago me cried a little at how rushed and icky it was at the ending!

Glad to hear the Japanese is going well Links My teacher was hinting at kanji soon and I'm all Eeek! :P

Have had a nasty ear infection the last few weeks... no headphones/earphones - life has been too silent!!

Links234

Thanks Zwill! How are you getting on with it?

Zwillinge wrote: »

My teacher was hinting at kanji soon and I'm all Eeek! :P

www.wanikani.com

Really can't recommend it enough for learning kanji, a real kanjinating machine so it is! But seriously, it works incredibly well.

Links234

Have you learned Hiragana yet?

Zwillinge

Links234 wrote: »

Thanks Zwill! How are you getting on with it?

www.wanikani.com

Really can't recommend it enough for learning kanji, a real kanjinating machine so it is! But seriously, it works incredibly well.

Links234 wrote: »

Have you learned Hiragana yet?

Thanks, shall check it out properly when starting it :)

We haven't yet - phew! Still on the Romanized Japanese - Early days yet

Links234

Zwillinge wrote: »

Thanks, shall check it out properly when starting it :)

We haven't yet - phew! Still on the Romanized Japanese - Early days yet

Ah, well you'd need to know at least hiragana before using wanikani, but the good news is hiragana is SUPER easy! I used an app called Dr. Moku and although it seems incredibly childish, it works really well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdJdRwjPVkM

Like I said, childish. But those kind of memory tricks really work a treat, and I can read hiragana with ease. It's all about getting you to recognise the kana. Wanikani is kinda similar in that approach, using memory tricks to get you to remember the kanji and then using spaced repitition to review them.

salacious crumb

Got tickets for the Sabbath gig in Hyde Park.

Passenger

salacious crumb wrote: »

Got tickets for the Sabbath gig in Hyde Park.

Should be a good 'un.

salacious crumb

Aye, been a while since I saw them, and even longer since I last saw FNM. Soundgarden don't do much for me though, nothing against them and I do actually like some of their tunes, but not an uberfan or anything.
Hopefully I'll get to hook up with some of my UK buddies there too.

Oh, we went to that Crypt on Saturday after the Brains gig. Wasn't bad at all actually. Was fairly empty when we got there but filled up a little. Jay was playing tunes for us all night so the music was pretty decent too :pac: