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

[madmax1012]

currently watching The Strokes perform on Conan. Not only are they extremely boring to watch but this song isn't a winner either. they've failed to win me over yet again

[unownunown]

awww, i forgot about that.

i honestly wasn't impressed by the new album. but i'm a big strokes fan. they seem to be reallllly hit or miss around these parts.

(i agree that they were so much more interesting back when they were young and consistently drunk)

[madmax1012]

awww, i forgot about that.

i honestly wasn't impressed by the new album. but i'm a big strokes fan. they seem to be reallllly hit or miss around these parts.

(i agree that they were so much more interesting back when they were young and consistently drunk)

everything is better when you're young and consistently drunk


but from what i read about them recording this album, the singer basically kept in contact only by emailing the band. i've had some problems with singers before, but that's just kinda a bullshit approach to making an album...

[adrianlee]

Watching Real Madrid vs Barcelona right now. No beer in the house. Aargh!

Decently entertaining match, el Classico. North London derby was mint today. Not the outcome I needed, though. We need a new defense. And Vermaellen back.

[unownunown]

awww, i forgot about that.

i honestly wasn't impressed by the new album. but i'm a big strokes fan. they seem to be reallllly hit or miss around these parts.

(i agree that they were so much more interesting back when they were young and consistently drunk)

everything is better when you're young and consistently drunk


but from what i read about them recording this album, the singer basically kept in contact only by emailing the band. i've had some problems with singers before, but that's just kinda a bullshit approach to making an album...

honestly you have to put that into the stroke's historical context. julian used to write EVERYTHING by himself. the band pretty much told him to back off which had a lot to do with the super-long hiatus and loads of solo albums from the rest of the strokes (the solo albums pretty much sounded like less interesting versions of the strokes, too ). i read that they wanted this album to be an actual collaborative effort, so i can kinda see why that happened.

[Holy Schnikes]

I think Julian needs to go back to writing everything, that new album is a letdown. Really everything after Is This It has gone consistently downhill, IMO.

Regardless, they've ALWAYS been super boring live. Early, I figured it was just them being a new band with minimal live experience, but all these years later and they're still lame as ever live.

[unownunown]

truth. i don't even know what was so good about is this it, but they haven't found it since then... they need to move away from that sort of sound. i could write a ridiculous essay about the decline of the strokes. i think it's mainly because they refuse to evolve their image and consequently their sound. i feel like strokes releases are about 'how can i (more recently we?) write music that sounds like the strokes?' more than anything else. julian's solo release had some really genius parts that i wish he would've saved for performing with the band.

[mathias]

Realized I'm not getting any better as a guitarist. depressing.

New gear helps but doesn't make me play better. Doh.

Also depressing: all the job stuff I've been going through, but this is the wrong forum for that.

[Achtane]

Realized I'm not getting any better as a guitarist. depressing.

New gear helps but doesn't make me play better. Doh.

Every time I get a new pedal it's like "shit yeah, this sounds AWESOME






...what do I do now..."

Lately I've been seriously practicing though. I mean, more than picking a guitar up for 5 minutes, noodling out some bad...thing, and then going on the internet. After a few days of really going for it I feel like I've build some momentum up, gotta keep at it!

[mathias]

I keep thinking finding people to play with will help, but I haven't had much luck with that

I may get a teacher. it's a less of a pride thing for me and more of an acknowledgement that every guitar teacher I had wasn't very good, and so I don't really feel like I'd get much out of paying for lessons now as an adult.

[Holy Schnikes]

truth. i don't even know what was so good about is this it, but they haven't found it since then... they need to move away from that sort of sound. i could write a ridiculous essay about the decline of the strokes. i think it's mainly because they refuse to evolve their image and consequently their sound. i feel like strokes releases are about 'how can i (more recently we?) write music that sounds like the strokes?' more than anything else. julian's solo release had some really genius parts that i wish he would've saved for performing with the band.

I think you're onto something here. The Strokes limitations as musicians early on actually benefited Is This It. They just churned out a bunch of catchy, simple, poppy songs with shitty production and it was a welcome sound when it came out, like a decade ago (that's crazy!) I think they've really grown as musicians since then, but the songwriting is a lost cause. I know it's hard to live up to debut albums and all, but c'mon, Is This It is no masterpiece, figured they'd have something better in them by now.

Julian's solo release def contained some shit that would've been a step in the right direction, but like you said, I think the other guys are too worried about being "The Strokes" (whatever that is?) to have the balls to put it out.

[01010111]

I had to turn in a take-home test to my professor earlier today, he wasn't in his office so I left it in the office inbox and sent him an email that I did so. He replied "no problem," then about a half hour ago he said his "box was fine." Those were the entirety of those two emails. Does it mean he got my test or does it mean that I'll have to haul my ass out of bed, or more likely away from writing a paper to turn in another take-home exam by his deadline at nine in the morning ugghghh.

I'm also working on a paper, due tomorrow, that essentially determines whether or not I graduate with degrees in both Economics and Political Science. It's worth 15% of my grade, I've had all semester to work on it and in the last two weeks I've easily spent over 70 hrs on it, and I'm just now starting to write it. I'm skimping a lot on the background because the background info on the assignment could easily put me over the page limit because I'm basing it on two intertemporal choice micro-economic equations and the theory of general equilibrium. So do I include the big explanation of the equations, which would include lagrangian multipliers and four equations to start with seven in the middle and one in the end, or the oversimplified versions that I've put in, which are simple addition and two equations, and hope a professor specializing in linear regression statistics has no advanced knowledge of microeconomic analysis and doesn't want to double check my equations.

[snipelfritz]

lulz. Economics. My buddy was an econ major. He always seemed like it was some inside joke that people learned because they have to but everybody knows it's not real at all.

Sometimes I wish I had studied something practical. Then I see people go through ridiculous nonsense like that and I think, "y'know, I think I'll just keep bullshitting my way through life for now."

[adrianlee]

I had to turn in a take-home test to my professor earlier today, he wasn't in his office so I left it in the office inbox and sent him an email that I did so. He replied "no problem," then about a half hour ago he said his "box was fine." Those were the entirety of those two emails. Does it mean he got my test or does it mean that I'll have to haul my ass out of bed, or more likely away from writing a paper to turn in another take-home exam by his deadline at nine in the morning ugghghh.

I'm also working on a paper, due tomorrow, that essentially determines whether or not I graduate with degrees in both Economics and Political Science. It's worth 15% of my grade, I've had all semester to work on it and in the last two weeks I've easily spent over 70 hrs on it, and I'm just now starting to write it. I'm skimping a lot on the background because the background info on the assignment could easily put me over the page limit because I'm basing it on two intertemporal choice micro-economic equations and the theory of general equilibrium. So do I include the big explanation of the equations, which would include lagrangian multipliers and four equations to start with seven in the middle and one in the end, or the oversimplified versions that I've put in, which are simple addition and two equations, and hope a professor specializing in linear regression statistics has no advanced knowledge of microeconomic analysis and doesn't want to double check my equations.

Play a fuzz?

[hbombgraphics]

I hate writing procedures by comittee, seriously all they need to do is check revision level and I have already filtered through 20 e-mails from 3 departments. I could have just written it by now but we have to have a meeting and a group effort for anything.

If anyone works for a less disfunctional company I would love to hear about it.