Lamp, broken circa 1988

I got paid. A friend and I made a commitment to go see Swans (w/ Carla Bozulich) opening in September. I go to check tickets, and it was sold out. Fuuuuck. I lay down, and fail to sleep (full of energy with nowhere to put it now that the semester is done). Stir, look at my internet, and see that Swans added a date the day before. I'd like to see your insomnia pay off like this.

This is an actual front choke So, I'll take your alternative over indie dudes using the holds like they might cause a bad boo-boo at the maximum. also because i mostly watch lucha these days and yeah who knows how some of that shit works but whatever at least there's not documented footage of the reality of it also also the punchline of this being a problem being exhibited by davey's kid hasn't eluded me

American pro wrestlers and MMA holds: still the worst.

did they really go to england and not have barrett wrestle like why

I didn't want to start a new thread for this, so, seeing as we're coming upon the end of major releases for current systems and are starting to look towards THE FUTURE~~~ maybe it would be time to start entertaining a "games of the generation" thing? Just for consoles, seeing as the number of dedicated PC gamers in here is like me aaaaaaand I havent found the other one yet. yes this is me volunteering to run it if it comes to that

PS3 and 360 both launched with two hardware options. One of Sony's was $500. So that's not wrong. Also yeah 360 basically only outsold Sony in the US over the course of the generation, and they both jobbed to Nintendo worldwide.

Brief aside: I have very little experience with reading fiction writing. I mean, I did when I was a kid, but I stopped from like 14-now, so a lot of what I'll have to say about a book is reflected through my own experiences since I have no know-how on what "good fiction writing" means other than liking it or not. This seems like a good enough metric. Anyways. When I was a teenage stupid, I was deeply scorned by what I understood to be love. I had two circumstances play out very similarly to Tony, Adrian & Veronica. Neither time could I really bring myself to lash out in a meaningful, direct way like Tony did. Reading this has me feeling like "It's a wonderful life"- I could've been this guy but I'd end up where he is. Pats on backs.

Successful semester, despite bronchitis, drama, late nights of unrelated art, and routinely feeling like I am far too old/stupid to be there. I've never been more relieved to be a B student. I'd fill this board with stupid student stories if I wouldn't rather eject them from my memory. I'd also burn all my biology notes if San Diego wasn't on fire*. *do not worry, I am quite far south of all fires

you leave scott norton out of this

Yeah, they've just had a massive upper level overhaul at their entertainment stuff. X-Box is now under control of Phil Spencer, a guy who spent the 2000s working with Microsoft Game Studios, and he's been going around saying buckwild shit for an executive. Example: "...when I just heard how our message resonated with people and some of the decisions that we made, that I think were actually the wrong decisions, and we had to revisit those decisions.” So they've been very active about reasserting that the xbone is for video games. Thus dumping news of a price cut and Halo weeks before E3.

as subtle as reading the word "subtle"

this is all a great metaphor for devitt's talents with in ring psychology and match layout

STREAMSDAY BRUH Thankfully, I had a new source of album streams pointed towards me so there should be a larger variety of crazy shit to check out for this stuff. This week: complete opposites. NEW YORK TIMES- you might have heard that I like this band called Constantines. Well here is the second folkish record from their lead singer. "Free Will" by Bry Webb 1. Fletcher 2. AM Blues 3. Positive People 4. Prove Me Wrong 5. Let's Get Through Today 6. What Part of You 7. Policy 8. Translator 9. Big Smoke 10. Free Will 11. Receive Me 12. Someplace I'm Supposed To Be P4K- I kept forgetting this album was coming out so soon. "...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin" by The Roots 1. Theme From Middle Of The Night 2. Never 3. When The People Cheer 4. The Devil 5. Black Rock 6. Understand 7. Dies Irae 8. The Coming 9. The Dark (Trinity) 10. The Unraveling 11. Tomorrow

I've bought three records from Sub Pop this year. Two of them are rap records. 2014. (if you are an old rap head, Shabazz Palaces is the insane progressive concept rap thing from Ishmael Butler, a.k.a. Butterfly of Digable Planets and a co-conspirator named Tendai Maraire. They've done weird shit like this.) EDIT: Also, this remix of Kanye West's On Sight by DJ Rashad which gave it the laserblast energy the song was going for originally.

FTL ADVANCED EDITION- I realized that FTL is like a board game. Specifically, a board game where you pilot a board game, and every space you land on starts a new board game in which you play a board game and fight other board games to get out of that board game to move on to the next board game while board games chase you. Sometimes you fight these board games, using the remains of these board games to upgrade your board game. Ultimately the end goal is to reach the last board game of the board game board game, where you pilot your board game around other board games while you attempt to reach the final board game which you fight in three stages. Every time you beat the final board game, it moves to another space in the board game so you have to back track through the board game to get to the final board game again to fight it again, and then you repeat this process one more time to beat the final board game, leader of the board games, in the board game board game with your board game. Board game. KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO, ACT 3- I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH, but I can't recommend it until it's all out because right now it's a year between episodes. I mean, that's good, because I find it about that emotionally draining. Rural gothic surrealist adventure. So good. PIXELJUNK SHOOTER- oh yeah, cutting edge. It was $2.50 on the Humble Store, and I loved the shit out of it every chance I got to play it on PS3. Now I'm playing it for myself and it's the best. Two joysticks and two buttons, everything feels just right. There's even nuanced moves that you can learn just by fooling around with the controls in logical ways. I bet there's something else I haven't figured out yet. That's awesome! DARK SOULS 2- Rerolled, having a MUCH better time now. Just mid-heavy tank, with a halberd as a primary weapon and a club as a secondary. Doing a dexterity build (my original problem) seems super fucked this time around.

or, he's waiting for his contract to expire first so he doesn't get sued for breach of contract over whatever he has to say but who knows

STREAMSDAY. HOLY SHIT there is some awesome shit this week. Before that, Antwon's "Heavy Hearted In Doldrums" is now available for free through UNIF, the fashion label that has been financing and promoting the record as well as collaborating with Antwon to make somehow even more bizarre Nature World gear than what was already out there. FAIR WARNING: They'll ask for your email to send out the download, and the first picture of that email is the one that made the stream Not Safe For Work, so maybe send that to an email account where no one will go "man what are you doing with this." ANYWAYS. P4K- Nothing can ever fully replace the amazing Vivian Girls, but Kickball Katy's solo work is pretty fucking close. Also, this cover is pretty dang great. "Hour of the Dawn" by La Sera 1. Losing to the Dark 2. Summer of Love 3. Running Wild 4. Fall in Place 5. All My Love is For You 6. Hour of the Dawn 7. Kiss This Town Away 8. Control 9. 10 Headed Goat Wizard 10. Storm's End P4K- I believe I described this as "murderous blues attack rock" to a friend the other day. "Easy Pain" by Young Widows 1. Godman 2. Cool Night 3. Kerosene Girl 4. Doomed Moon 5. Gift of Failure 6. Bird Feeder 7. King Sol 8. The Last Young Widow NPR- I posted those other two first so you wouldn't go right to this and ignore them. They are awesome records, but if you're gonna stream one record this week... "To Be Kind" by Swans 1. Screen Shot 2. Just A Little Boy (for Chester Burnett) 3. A Little God In My Hands 4. Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture 5. Some Things We Do 6. She Loves Us! 7. Kirsten Supine 8. Oxygen 9. Nathalie Neal 10. To Be Kind

So I signed up for the network, and my streaming experience wasn't awesome but Time Warner is bullshit so it's probably not WWE's fault. Anyways that show was super fucking weird! 4 out of 8 matches were good, but that's still an F. GOOD STUFF YAY :D -Rusev handicap match! This is mainly just because of me being a mark for this whole gimmick. They finally figured out how to make "scary foreigner" work in 2014- he's not scary because he's foreign, he's scary because he can fucking kill you. He just happens to be foreign. Plus the cheap Putin heat was pretty inspired. -BNB/Big E! Middle-upper quality television match. Both guys were motivated and Barrett when motivated is fucking solid. I feel terrible for Big E but at least he went out with something good. -Shield/Evolution! HHH is still motivated to put people over which I'm still having trouble accepting, but bless him for it. Orton's been good for a while, and Batista... well he didn't gas -so- hard. The Shield is still the best thing about WWE in ring, though. -Paige/Tamina! Totally unfair that they had to follow what they had to follow, because they went out there and had a solid match. Paige'll get a lot of the credit, but Tamina showed up and was game to look foolish at all the Nuevo Johnny Saint dodging spots. The crowd couldn't have cared less which is again totally unfair. OKAY STUFF :| -WeeLC... C. Excellent stooge work from 3MB. It was very nice of WWE to not put that on PPV if their whole plan was to do mini commentary and use a mini announcer who had apparently never spoken in public before. I was inititally put off by the announcers being bad, but then I thought "well that's in line with their gimmicks." Seemed fine, but that was for the live crowd more than the home crowd. -Triple Threat! Which at some point became a Three Way Dance instead, because it's Extreme Rules. I just wish they would've told the crowd and left out the minute of everyone looking around like "did we fuck this up" before Roberts chimed in. Unremarkable otherwise. BAD STUFF GRRR >:| -Cena/Wyatt. Vintage Dungeon of Doom. I mean, I laughed pretty hard at the whole match, so I enjoyed it, but PHEW they made that a weird fucking spectacle. Chopped And Screwed Sheep Kid is now among the dumbest Cena finishes I've ever seen. -And speaking of Dumbest ____ I've Ever Seen, Bryan/Kane is the 3rd Dumbest Forklift Centric wrestling match I've ever seen. Kane's no-sell of everything post forklift was pretty wretched, as well as the show going out with Kane going "NEVERMIND I'M FINE GRRR" like it was a Raw go-home was pretty doofy.

no threads during shows come on, how hard is this

"Wrestling KO finished their list of 100 wrestlers, you won't believe what happens next" actually that's a lie what happens is people show up and go "THIS IS SOMEONE ELSE'S OPINION >:| " instead of going "hey wait what's a Rey Hechicero" and enjoying wrestling Oh, or complaining about the lucha renaissance because it's happening at the same time that the majority of New Japan matches aren't total trash since 2003 and are making easily accessible tape.

P4K - No part of what awaits after the link is safe for work. I repeat: Not Safe For Work. Amazing, though! Great beats, and the MC is a lot of fun. Recession era party raps. "Heavy Hearted In Doldrums" by Antwon 1. Rain Song featuring Lil Ugly Mane (prod. Shawn Kemp) 2. During Mimis (prod. Cities Aviv) 3. Cold Tears (prod. Matrixxman) 4. Dont Care featuring Sad Andy (prod. Suicideyear) 5. Loser (prod. Stacy) 6. Baby Hair (prod. Tulip Pezley) 7. Mr. Intercontinental (prod. Walsh) 8. Metro Nome featuring Wiki (prod. Lord Pusswhip & Vrong) 9. KLF ELF featuring Heems & Lakutis (prod. Pictureplane) 10. Stop (prod. Dayfade) 11. Break Yo Back (prod. Ohbliv) 12. 143 featuring Andre Martel (prod. Froskees)

first verse for best love song of the year 2014 second verse is just more greatness from ugly mane beat is another impossible beauty

I got pretty good at it, but I had a falling out with my team over them being horrible people, then I noticed how much happier I was without the game, then they changed everything about the role I used to play. So at this point, I can't go back even if I wanted to. I still think it's a well-designed game, though! Just not for me anymore.

"other musicians" is why I'm a DIY hermit who writes, plays, and records everything. I want to make art. I don't want to chase adults down to do it.

new album's all done recording now to just stab it with "how to sound engineering" guides until we both stop crying.