The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

[jfrey]

Louisiana Private Schools Teach Loch Ness Monster Is Real In Effort To Disprove Evolution Theory

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/2 ... 24643.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TbGjt-weA[/youtube]

[alexa.]

the thing is... this band really needs to be a live band, you know...

yeah I know.. I'm just desperate

[DarkAxel]

Yeah, tell me about it... finding cool musicians is hard

[dubkitty]

sent off a e-letter today to my cousin in Texas, telling him about my shitty situation and asking him to call me because i need help. i also e-mailed another relative and got my brother's contact info--have you gathered that i'm not close to my family?--so i can write him in Chicago and ask him if he can take me in if i have nowhere to go. i sat there crying the whole time i was writing to my cousin Doug. my childhood was not good, and i distanced myself from my family early. i've always gotten through on my own, and never asked anyone in my family for anything, though my Mom sent me a few dollars when i was really poor in the late 90s. to find myself now reduced to begging my relatives for help is utterly heartbreaking to me. it makes me feel more a failure than anything else i've lost. there's still a ghost of a chance that i'll find something before they foreclose on the house and i have to leave, but it's getting near closing time. i've picked out the guitars to try and sell when it's time to raise money to haul the rest away.

[snipelfritz]

I was playing drums with my hands on my desk along to Mars Volta songs. Now my hands hurt.

[dubkitty]

gotta do the rolls with the fingers like a tabla player, not with the whole hand like a congolero. especially on a table top LOL.

[nieh]

apparently the westboro baptist church is going to be in milwaukee next week.

[bdunlap]

It's very hard to find anyone that wants to start a powerviolence band around here.

Where you live?

Indiana, PA

One of my friends who's in his last year at IUP is interested, but we never actually make solid plans and I have no idea where he's gonna go after he graduates.

[MEC]

My house is flooded and the power is out.
The good news is that I have a Pipe Amp.

[dubkitty]

it turns out, from Googling, that my cousin in Texas moved back to the Chicago area after his Mom died last year, which is when i got back in touch with him. so it looks like if i can't get anything together here in the time i have remaining, i'm probably going to end up there, since all the friendly-ish relatives i know are there. i can live with that...i have a down jacket now, and a ton of Patagonia long underwear from my camping days that i can fit into again cos i've lost thirty pounds in the last year and a half. i still hope i can get one of the library jobs out here, though...i'd like to have a quiet life in a little place with the fog going by.

[phantasmagorovich]

it turns out, from Googling, that my cousin in Texas moved back to the Chicago area after his Mom died last year, which is when i got back in touch with him. so it looks like if i can't get anything together here in the time i have remaining, i'm probably going to end up there, since all the friendly-ish relatives i know are there. i can live with that...i have a down jacket now, and a ton of Patagonia long underwear from my camping days that i can fit into again cos i've lost thirty pounds in the last year and a half. i still hope i can get one of the library jobs out here, though...i'd like to have a quiet life in a little place with the fog going by.

This sounds like it actually belongs in the happiness thread, mate.




Hope all of this works out for you. As much as you talk of your fond memories of Chicago I think you might be better off there. Maybe it will help to reconnect with your family as well. For all it's worth at least that is a bunch of people that know you well and know where you're coming from. They might not agree with you but in most cases they respect you more than people that just see the surface of a present you, rather than knowing the depth and riches of a persons history. But then again I'm a huge fan of family.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuRhaDrnlWo[/youtube]

[dubkitty]

my childhood was very difficult, and a major reason i moved away from Chicago was to get away from my folks and the issues associated with them. i'm the youngest son; thus, my whole immediate family is dead now except one brother. apparently i'm a great mystery to my extended family, having disappeared into the mist like Amelia Earhart. i got in touch with my cousin last year when his mom died. i loved her dearly, and hadn't seen her or talked to her since the 1980s; i felt terrible about this because she'd gone above and beyond in ways too personal to discuss to try to help me when i was a kid. i couldn't afford to go to her funeral because i wasn't working, but wrote a remembrance of her which i sent to him to be sent to the rest of the family. i've been afraid of my family for years and years, because back in the 1970s, when i was still there and present for gatherings and all, it seemed like everybody judged me for being a hippie as well as associating me with my folks' issues, which were at their worst then. at that time it was way easier for me to be gone. now i may not have anywhere else to go. i've always been a proponent of the notion of growing where you're planted, you know? wherever i wind up, i'll do what's necessary to deal. it's not going to be Happy Fun Time for awhile, because no matter what happens i'm going to lose the house and there's going to be a period of unpleasant adjustment, but i'll wind up doing something.

[dubkitty]

well, there's only one positive thing i can say: at least they didn't do it the week before Christmas.

[dubkitty]

thanks. i hope your job doesn't wind up fucking you, too, but i'd watch your back.

i will find some way to make things work out. i don't know what it is, but i'll make something happen.

[theactionindex]

Nervous about recording next week.