On a pretty sunday morning a bunch of pretty baptist girls linked their pretty hands and they sang:

Life is shit, life is shit
The world is shit, the world is shit
This is life as I know it
This is life as I know it

And in the sky I saw Richard Nixon smoking a lacey with Mr. Dickson
He said "Son, there's something I must say.
I do believe i've found a better way"
And a vision came and I new it was Bob Crane and Bob sang:

Life is shit, life is shit
The world is shit, the world is shit
This is life as I know it
This is life as I know it

One of my favorite Dead Milkmen songs!

<---Throws Up on Self

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Reason number 180 for why I'm in an "I hate most people in this world" mood lately.

<---Doesn't call that mood. That is my life. I like just about everyone in person (or via nerdy board). Pretty much hate them until then.

wtf?

if hate is the path to the dark side, then i'm lord darth muthafucka!

I love my world and everything in it.

Too bad it's an imaginary one.

LOL Oh that cracked me up. Thanks shiv.

I hear where you are coming from Todd as I have been having similar problems with this board as well. In fact I haven’t even been posting here for about a month, while I miss it tremendously I figure a break will help with my passion for this board. I have had a post here or there but wasn’t going to post again until my birthday but this topic hits at home.

The thing is I hate, Hate, HATE hipinion with a passion. I liked it at first but always felt they lacked on the music part of the board. After about a year, they have been around for about a year and a half and yes I know they were something before that, I just stopped even clicking the link. I took a while but I finally grew out of it because it’s just the same thing over and over and over again also I hate one sentence posts. Joined other boards like SOMB but left really quick. Music boards based in one city or one band have always driven me crazy because everyone knows each other. When people start to bitch and complain and start telling people to fuck off than it’s not the board for me.

So what to do because I need to talk about music almost daily. Six months ago I discovered ILM and have been trying to break it in. It’s hard to break into that board because it has been around forever. It’s about three times as big a hipinion and you have all the writers from Pitchfork, Stylus, Guardian, NME, AMG, and others who post there. It’s real intimidating because you have people who will break down a song to the very core. I thought I was hard-core but I merely a boy among some of those people. Plus I’m list crazy and they have list. They just finished, at the end of last year, the 90’s album and singles thread. When that was done a person over at Pitchfork, it might have been Ryan himself, posted their 101-200 lists. I never even saw that list on Pitchfork itself. Last month they reveled the top 100 albums from the 1970’s, best list I have seen for that decade. Right now they are reveling the top 100 singles of the 70’s. In two months they are going to do the 1980s, I can’t wait. On and on…

http://ilx.p3r.net/newanswers.php?board=2

I love this board and it will always be my home. I love how it flows, the humor and glad we moved over here from CMJ. Could never thank Haq enough for providing a home for us music geeks. I just needed some time to really break ILM and see if me, not being around makes a difference. It’s good to know that I’m not the only one who really cares for this board was fed up with it like I was and it appears so.

np: LCD Soundsystem

I found your post very interesting. I took a long time to come to this board after CMJ crapped out. But I am really glad to be back. I don't have many friends who have somewhat similar musical taste. I have friends who likes pixies or bob dylan, but nobody who shares the same passion as me. So this place is a much needed outlet for me. And it's been really slow at work, so I need something to occupy my time. I say screw your birthday rule and brink back the posts.

Hooray! I just pooped! Told ya I'd share the durrty details!

But seriously. The one thing I think this board has going for it is the various ages of all of us involved. CMJ may have had more diversity - not sure as I'm not entirely ready to keep score, but we got folks as old as the hills and as young as the Olsens.

And most of us - even in our cynical scorched eath policy posting "Give A Shit"

I hear ya Todd on the parenting tip. My daughter played her first ever soccer scrimmage and dammit it was glorious. Kids just manage to impress and reward with tiny things that seem utterly craptastic to the hipster crowd. Fuck 'em! Those pasty little weasels would crumple in a fight with me, and I'm itching to rip off a few skulls and knaw on their pitifully tiny monkey brains anyway.

Does the enjoyment of my daughter and son mean that I've gotten soft? In some respects yes I have. But in others, my fierce hatred of mediocre mindless sheep bleeting out Paris' name and my growing distain for the holier-than venerated pope poo called indierock elitism keeps my blackened heart sufficiently charred and leathery.

I like what I like. I like that you like what you like Todd and that you feel free to share it openly. I like that Pagoda hates you for it. I like the fact that I've devised some very specific brands of inhuman torture to make Pagoda's brief time on this suck-hole plane that much more miserable... lets see... his body hung suspended over punjabi spikes by his arms, legs and cock-n-balls using rusty piano wire that has lemon juice spiralling down into his rapidly opening flesh and brittle, shaved and splintered chop sticks shoved in his eyeballs and up his quickly seperating from his body urethra.... ummm... have I gone too far here? Let me tell you how cute my two-year old Owen sounds when he says the word delicious...

(Just kidding Pagoda)
(Hopefully)
(Gotta find a better outlet for all this pent up rage)

Hey, I like how I've become this total baseball mom cause my son is on Little League this year for first time ever and it's such a blast and watching him score runs or catch a ball makes him estatic. And so now I've developed a bit of a love of baseball and appreciation of it finally, and well that's cool.

And I just watched Field of Dreams for the first time ever(it was on cable and josh reminded me he owned the movie so we put it on so we could avoid commercials) and it just had me in happy tears and well, now I'm in a better mood but tired.

Welcome to the fold. I played [edit: LIVED] baseball from the time I was 5 through my junior year of h.s.

GREAT baseball movie that also happens to be very kid safe AND has James Earl Jones is The Sandlot, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Sandlot is awesome. FOR-EV-ER.

Yeah, I have that at the top of our Qeue(can't spell it) on Netflix for Charlie this weekend but it's got a short wait, so next in line is Rookie of the Year about a little boy who gets to play with the Cubs. He really wants to see baseball movies for kids right now.

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Jeff and Charli understand.
(So, I guess DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince were wrong!)

If I make you throw up, that's cool. Let me give you a bit of (fatherly) advice:
Don't drink so much next time.
Stop eating when you're full.
Don't worry so much about what everyone thinks about you.
But play nice.

Great movie. Baseball Mom's(and Dad's) can be kinda crazy. When I was in Little League there was a Mom who would say out loud-"Shits coming up!" whenever one of the really scruby little kids came up to bat. She would say it right in front of the kid's parents.

Steve

Ah total condescension. My pet peeve.

It is true I think having kids and moving to the suburbs and having kids will make you soft.

Hey I will admit I care what people think of me. Not so much whether they think I am an asshole or not (b/c I already know that) . Once you stop caring, then you have pretty much given up the good fight.

Classic!

Define soft please.

I love you both. (and I dig your icon, Bee)

soft Audio pronunciation of "soft" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sôft, sft)
adj. soft·er, soft·est

1.
1. Easily molded, cut, or worked.
2. Yielding readily to pressure or weight.
2. Out of condition; flabby.
3. Smooth or fine to the touch: a soft fabric.
4.
1. Not loud, harsh, or irritating: a soft voice.
2. Not brilliant or glaring; subdued: soft colors.
5. Not sharply drawn or delineated: soft charcoal shading; a scene filmed in soft focus.
6. Mild; balmy: a soft breeze.
7.
1. Of a gentle disposition; tender.
2. Affectionate: a soft glance.
3. Attracted or emotionally involved: He has been soft on her for years.
4. Not stern; lenient.
5. Lacking strength of character; weak.
6. Informal. Simple; feeble.
7. Gradually declining in trend; not firm: a soft economy; a soft computer market.
8.
1. Informal. Easy: a soft job.
2. Based on conciliation or negotiation rather than on threats or power plays: took a soft line toward their opponents.
9. Informal and entertaining without confronting difficult issues or hard facts: limited the discussion to soft topics.
10. Using or based on data that is not readily quantifiable or amenable to experimental verification or refutation: The lawyer downplayed the soft evidence.
11. Being a turn in a specific direction at an angle less acute than other possible routes: a soft right.
12. Of or relating to a paper currency as distinct from a hard currency backed by gold.
13. Having low dissolved mineral content.
14. Having a low or lower power of penetration: soft x-rays.
15. Linguistics.
1. Sibilant rather than guttural, as c in certain and g in gem.
2. Voiced and weakly articulated: a soft consonant.
3. Palatalized, as certain consonants in Slavic languages.
16. Unprotected against nuclear attack: soft missile launching sites; a soft target.

Ok then, yeah, pretty much.
Except for the lacking character part.