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510. des von bladet - 2010-02-09 08:05:56 |
The great thing about 80s metal bands is that they’re (individually) renewable resources. There are metal bands still touring, only with none of their original members. So if you want to take a few down sometime, feel free.
I never got around to listening to Therapy? when they were topical, and getting them up on the ’Tube suggests they have too much of an indie-pop sensibility for my metal tastes, without really suiting my indie-pop tastes either. |
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509. Headbangin’ Mrs Tilton - 2010-02-09 00:27:51 |
Dead / Baroque / "Italo"; two out of three ain’t bad.
Many, many years ago, I stumbled upon Iron Maiden walking about in Spain (some place up north -- Pamplona? S. Sebastian?). They hadn’t yet become really famous by that point, nor (apparently) rich enough to buy personal trainers and other things that help one pomp oneself op. Indeed they were weedy specimens altogether. I idly toyed with the notion of beating the shit out of them, because they were stupid long-haired wastrels with a stupid zombie as their mascot. In the end, though, civility prevailed. Even unto today I am gripped by the occasional pang of regret at my reserve; but my regret dissipates swiftly when I think of the hours of enjoyment their music has provided to generations of young people.
If one absolutely must hear metallish stuff, BTW, one could do worse than Therapy?. |
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508. Richard J - 2010-02-04 16:01:46 |
If fits; ’one carrot to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them all’.
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" target=_blank> 507. AJP Crown - 2010-02-04 13:04:45 |
| Do they have referenda? Are you sure there isn’t just one ruling carrot? |
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506. des von bladet - 2010-02-02 15:36:51 |
| Not at all; it was the carrots’ idea! |
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" target=_blank>505. MM - 2010-02-02 15:28:04 |
| Is it true that carrots are only orange because the Dutch wanted them in their national colour? (explained food technologist Hugh Mowatt) |
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504. des von bladet - 2010-02-02 08:37:21 |
| Dutch is certainly easier to learn, since it is widely taught and written and stuff. Dutch dialects are also impossible to learn. Infrastructure (with a side of reward) over intrinsics. |
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" target=_blank>503. Grumbly Stu - 2010-02-01 22:57:18 |
| Mrs. T’le really bent my spokes with " ’Sch fai wohr ". I finally found out "fai" means "very", but only after getting in over my head in Swabian websites. I rushed in like Brer’ Rabbit, but ended up tangling with the tarbaby. I worked frequently in Göppingen in the early 80s, but I apparently overlooked the fact that a furrin language was spoken there. Dutch would probably be easier to learn ... |
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502. des von bladet - 2010-02-01 20:16:10 |
Grumbly; Chermans can learn Dutch very quickly, but usually don’t. Bah!
Mrs. T; I left out the bit where Bavarians struggle to learn Engleesh because Bavarian is insufficiently like standard Cherman, if that’s any consolation.
MM; Incomprehensible is an opening gambit in academia, though. And I have been very lucky with other persons’ driving this winter. |
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" target=_blank>501. MM - 2010-01-31 14:49:15 |
| I can’t really recommend the harmless accident where one is driving slowly along a road, basically clear but with snowbanks on the sides, and suddenly a Red Cross ambulance carrying dialysis patients rolls backwards and slits open the back of one’s car. Still, they admitted liability. |
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