hey i had a really great idea tonite... how about an ASK ROXYMUZAK THREAD!!!!?!?!?!?!!!!

1. Always maintains eye contact, pompadour withers in heat, eats Brown Cow popsicles, observant, makes a point to speak to everyone, encouraging, suffers fools, slow talker, anecdotes about the RZA. Eats a fuckton of food. Tall! V. v. smart guy and a super-hottie, obv.

2. I don't really know about "best," but I drink a lot of Beam and Maker's these days. Used to drink Old Granddad exclusively, and that is certainly not the best.

3. That Mark C. sang on an Art Garfunkel record.

dearest roxy,

what do you have against ventriloquy? U PREJUDICED AGAINST PUPPETS?

4. Just that every ventriloquist on earth is embarassing. +1 for Harlan Pepper, though.

*embarrassing

how can you look into these eyes and not smile?

http://www.character-shop.com/images/sprntdumm.jpg

5. Ugh. Like this!

sorry but we can't be friends anymore. you dis my puppets, you dis my pics of my puppets, and when i sent you that tape of my ventriloquist act WHICH I WROTE JUST FOR YOU, you mailed it back with a note saying "get a life, DUMMY". and then you say i can't open for your band with my act.

sorry, but maybe you're just jealous because my career is actually taking off? i played at 2 local church youth centers and i'm a regular at the Barley's taproom in G'ville (every third Wednesday of the month). what have you and your band done? gone on TOUR? hahahahahaha!!!! in two years i'll be on LENO and OPRAH.

BTW, Mordechai (Lenny fell apart:-/) says, "(expletive)"

Late, are you just P.O.ed that you have chosen to engage ironically in an art that no longer actually exists, and now you have no other "skill"? ANY SERIOUS QUESTIONS PLZ

dear roxymuzak,

you're never going to finish tour blog. is it because it's been too long and you don't remember the details anymore?

6. No, that's not it. I have an amazing knack for remembering details AND I write a lot of things down. It's really just the fact that it's been a long time that's making me hesitate to post it.

that's dumb

that's dumb

do u like me y or n?

roxymuzak
what is your favourite lip-syncing video?

xxxxxxx-post

it's not ironic! it is an active, healthy art form.

7. Chaki, you're great. I'm sorry that we ended up banning each other. "I was just trying to be funny."

8. My true favorite of all time is the teenaged Chinese boys in their bedroom lipsyncing and acting out Legend of the White Snake. It contains every element of lipsyncing videos that I celebrate, and I lvoe the song. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkRanYH_-cs

(Jordan/nabisco: Fuck you! Consider the blog in the editing stage. Latebloomer: You're cracked.)

9. what should i name my blog

i didnt really ban you

9. Name it "I know you, asshole."

Chaki, I have never even been to your board. :\

Dear Roxy, can YOU make this dancer go the other way? (and if so, how? thx) I only see her going counter-clockwise and trying to see her go clockwise is breaking my brain cell.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html

(i only see clockwise, that is crazy!)

roxy,

what kind of person would be dumb enough to encourage kingboypato posting?

10. Hi, Stan! First of all, the test is a sham! I see her going counter-clockwise, and I will not attempt to do otherwise for long because it is hurting my eyes.

11. I've never met such a person.

Dear Roxy,

Are men > women, or are women > men? (> = better than, not bigger than)

Yours,

Libc

this is not intended as a slight on roxymuzak as she is awesome, but really, you shouldn't be asking someone from tennessee what the best bourbon is.

(the answer is pappy van winkle 20 year family reserve)

12. Some women and men > other women and men, and that's it.

(& Stence is right, Kentucky pwns Tennessee in bourbon lore any day.)

Roxy,

What is yr most obnoxious habit?

Yrs,

Libc

13. roxy how do you know jim jarmusch?

dear roxy,

why is it that numbers like 49 and 99, in roman numerals, are expressed as XLIX, or XCIX? wouldn't it have been easier to just use IL and IX?

related question: where do the french get off thinking belgians are dim, when the french say "four twenties and ten" and begians have a proper word for "ninety?"

confused,
nabisco

(like especially why say XLV -- meaning "ten less than fifty, plus five" -- instead of just VL, meaning "five less than fifty"?)

dear roxy,

where do you stand on the issue of bed sheets? tucked or untucked?

quotidianly,
-m.

13. My most obnoxious habit is either getting drunk and starting fights or intense procrastination. I am working on both.

14. I met Jim Jarmusch when my band played a music festival where he was showing Coffee and Cigarettes.

15. Because Roman numerals function in a kind of decimal system (grouped by what, in Arabic numerals, would be a decimal place). In other words, for 49, you gotta have 40, and you gotta have 9. IL would throw off the entire system. Did you ask me this because I studied Latin?

16. I don't know much about this, but I'd say that while the French are probably not being fair to the Belgians, they probably also do not care about their number ninety.

17. Tucked to the max!

18. How are you coping with Gradski as your new PA?

18. That's going really well. He's got inside scoops on everything and knows how I take my coffee. And I'm not above just sitting down and having a chat with him, like he is an actual friend of mine instead of just an employee.

I asked because you're smart and whatnot! I kinda realized why along the way, but it was still fun to wait for a response.

:)

19. Dear Roxy - what is best black metal album for the noughties?

19. My gut says to go with Nachtmystium's Instinct: Decay. Highly recommended. Though apparently they no longer want to be known as a BM band (too bad, they still are).

20. What's your stand on bassists like jaco pastorius and les claypool?

21. How big of a role does geometry play in composing bass lines?

22. Will anyone ever be as cool as Cliff Burton?

20. "Stop playing like an asshole" is my basic platform.

21. While you still suck, it plays a much bigger role than it will after you stop sucking.

22. Clarify: Do mean as cool just existing on Earth or as cool IN METALLICA?

earth.

23. whats the name of your band+style+influences+ysi?

22. Yeah, there are people that match Burton in coolness. No one will ever be as cool in Metallica, though.

23. The name of my band is Tenderhooks. There are a couple of other bands called this, and they stink. Our style is rock music. Our cumulative influences are Neil Young, Beatles, Television, Meat Puppets. My individual influences are Jon Entwistle, Paul McCartney, Peter Hook, and Matthew Freeman (for bassing) and Emmylou Harris (for singing).

You can listen to us here.

Revisiting question 10: Position your broswer so you can only see her feet and only concentrate on those for a while. Think about clockwise motion. Then scroll back up!

http://web.archive.org/web/20060718150302/http://stout.hampshire.edu/~bjk02/princess/excuse1.swf

That's taking way too long to load.

that's just the sound

http://web.archive.org/web/20060701045214/stout.hampshire.edu/~bjk02/princess/

Ok.

dear rox,

which is yr fave led zep album?

when i go get snack later, should i get CHOC BROWNIE or DONUT?

24. IV, but I'm not the biggest fan in the world. I love "Black Dog."

25. I'd go for the brownie every time! It's way more substantial. You will be craving another snack in 2 seconds when you son that brownie.

I mean donut! Haw.

the brownie in question is pretty big, i think yr onto something here.

Here to help, haitch!

dear roxy,

do you wear a watch whilst playing bass?

-m.

26. No, I do not. It would rub and cause a problem, because I hate to wear things like that on my left arm. Also, I do not wear a watch.

27. Mark Wahlberg's Shooter is a v good movie, have you seen it?

(If not, u should)

do you like men with facial hair? or a clean-shaven lad??
do you ever tour the west coast??

27. Nope!

28. I like both. I used to have a stronger predilection for beards, and I still have a soft spot for the three-days-with-no-shaving look.

29. Haven't yet, but soon.

30. Did you know that Pato posted on ILM as far back as November 10, 2000 (6 years ago)?
(I'm banned from 1p3 again it seems)

:(

30. I had no idea, Heave!

roxy i didn't see any fliers for your band tonight. ;_;

who are you playing here with?

31. No idea! The flyers are the fault of our booking agent, who is terrible, and getting fired. :D

well at least i'll be there. i did tell a couple people at the show tonight, and for whatever it's worth, the venue is awesome. they have a horseshoe pit! I CHALLENGE U.

Thanks, stence! It already sounds 1000x better than the last place we played there.

dear roxy,
i just had a listen to your music and it is WAY COOL. why are you not mega famous?

xxx RR

32. Working on it, Rubes! And thanks!!

roxy muzak, is there anyone making good 80s Metallica/Megadeth style thrash today? is mastodon the closest thing? because i have Leviathan and that's pretty alright.

rm - How come you never post on I Make Music anymore? Didn't you used to? I mean, I know it's pretty lame but the only way it's going to get better is if more cool people post there and actually talk about interesting things instead of just talking about gear. So how come, huh?

hi roxy, why do i not have my own "ask" thread yet?

33. Jordan, I am going to let you in on a little secret: all the good thrash is coming from Brazil! I have never gotten much into Mastodon and am unable to comment on them, sorry.

24. I pretty much only go there when I have occasion to ask a question about music-making. I typically look at ILE, ILM, Noize, and 1p3, and that's a handful as it is. I support the mission if IMM and will make an effort to do so more actively!

(er, 34)

35. Maybe because you are so open and friendly that you lack mystery? :)

Dear Ken C, who's the babe? (er, the one on the left)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/DCP_0006.jpg

Oh man, that was a hell of a day! My hair is as short as T-BOZ!! (Her hair, that is.)

dear roxymuzak,

have you ever had a romantic entanglement with a bandmate?

behind the music,
-m.

Dear Ms. Muzak,

Do you believe in an afterlife? Also, do you hate this question?

Yours dumbly,

Abbott McFaxmachine

35. All band relationships are romantic entaglements! That said, yes. I dated a bandmate for 5 years, even.

36. I do not believe in an afterlife and I am ambivalent about the question itself.

*entanglements

I AM AMBIVALENT ABOUT THAT QUESTION TOO! That is SO AWESOME. And I am glad to know that my hypothesis about bands eventually turning into Fleetwood Mac romantic meltdowns seems to be correct.

Well, that's not true in my experience at all, actually.

Bands either turn into meltdowns or they don't, regardless of smooches being performed or not. Romance rarely, IMO, complicates it any further. I think people underestimate how complex and fucked up band relations are as is.

Dear Roxy,

I don't want to make false assumptions, so what else do you play besides rock music? Also, who are your favourite bassists?

37. I am also in Children of Bodom, a local band. JK! I *have* played rock (metal, punk, and what I play now), bluegrass, and dub. I *can* play in various styles other than this. I have never studied jazz. My favorite bassists would be a long list. My first favorite was Matt Freeman, and my current favorite is Aston Barrett.

38. Pick or fingers?

To be honest, I'm not that big of a fan of Jaco Pastorius's playing either, but the dude wrote some lovely songs. Plus his solo albums are much less wanky than his reputation would make you think, "Word of Mouth" has maybe one bass solo altogether.

39. do you own a copy of buckingham/nicks?

40. Where u at dawg?

her band's playing louisville tonight!

ohh. forgot about that!

I have some live Pastborious stuff that's basically garage rock, it's pretty cool.

Roxymuzak, have you ever played in Wisconsin?

hi do you have any treats

38. Pick AND fingers.

39. No, I don't own a copy of Buckingham/Nicks.

40. I am tired and dirty in Lousville, Kentucky.

41. I have a half-eaten box of Captain's Wafers in the van.

42. did y'all get home safe last night? it was a pleasure to meet you and your band and see y'all play. forgot to mention that both hanson and black rebel motorcycle club were playing shows in louisville last night, that must be why there weren't 400+ people there...

42. We got home safe, but very tired. It was a pleasure to meet you, too! I am glad you attended.

awesome, i really enjoyed your music! also i enjoyed talking with the guitar player whose name i'm blanking on! good dude!

Sweet! I didn't want to ask you what you thought. Guitar player is named Ben. He likes prog. ;)

he is the corny prog fuck, right? of thread legend?

43. Indeed!

hahahaha nice. i didn't want to say anything.

Oh, he would have just loled, probably.

44. please give me your thoughts on this picture:

http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/img/fulmer1013.jpg

xpost - hey you were the one talking about the various sexual tensions in your band, i didn't wanna embarrass you or anything.

Haha, they all involve Ben, according to what I was saying that night.

44. My initial thought is "ew", my second thought is "poor guitar", my third thought is "not the kind of guitar i initally thought", my fourth and final thought is "who is that".

phillip fulmer, tennessee football head coach

I suppose in some reality I am expected to know this.

45. do you like my friend's country covers of misfits songs?

45. I do not like the sound of the recordings (and I hate the song "Where Eagles Dare.") Your friend is a good guitarist, though!

Roxy, you skipped my question! Wisconsin???

and I hate the song "Where Eagles Dare."

:,,(

latebloomer otm

Sorry, guys!

46. And sorry, Jordan. We have never played in Wisconsin, but we have definite plans to play there soon (Madison).

47. are you gonna play tha west coast?

47. At some time. That is expensive, though. If we make a few mil in the East, we'll be there in a jif.

do u like my cover of the misfits song skulls? http://myspace.com/chaki

48. Now, "Skulls" is a song I enjoy. I am familiar with this artist "Chaki" because he was recommended to me on Last.fm. I liked this cover very much. Cuet voice!

i am glad u like skulls at least..phew ;-)

u mah boo

49. when ya gonna play SC?

49. I don't know. What city should we play?

46. And sorry, Jordan. We have never played in Wisconsin, but we have definite plans to play there soon (Madison).

Let me know, because that is where I live.

:)

greenville, duh!

Is Charleston far from you?

actually, yeah:-(

though asheville is not far away at all, and i know you play there occasionally...next time you do i'll try to get someone to go with me. i'll be your greenville street team and try to get you some new fans, lol.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Celebrity Interview 1: Emily Robinson
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Chaki Sklar: Hey, everyone! Chaki here! Today im sitting down with Emily Robinson. Bassist from up and coming Knoxville rockers The Tenderhooks! Hey, Emily! How are you today?

Emily Robinson: I'm doing great! Just drinking some coffee and listening to some white folk music.

Chaki: I know you've been on tour recently. Any CRAZAY road stories for us?!

Emily: Well, in Terra Haute I got in a fight with a man with a perm who called me "babe". That's not a story, per se, but it's about the most drama we've seen in a while.
Also, we all have heroin problems and fuck each other.

Chaki: Did you hit him in the nards?

Emily: No, it was mostly a verbal standoff.

Chaki: Well I know you're a strong lady! All your fans know that from your awesome band pictures. You are a role model for all girls.

Chaki: Controversy!!!

Emily: That's not very controversial!!!!

Chaki: Your love for Varg Vikernes of racist band Burzum is well known. How in GOD' NAME do you defend yourself?!

Emily: I do not feel the need to defend myself.

Chaki: But he would want me dead! And i do not like that. Do you want me dead, Emily?!

Emily: I understand that point of view. I also listen to music made my many people who surely believe that I belong barefoot and pregnant in a kitchen, or that if I am raped it is my fault, or that if I become pregnant I should not be able to have a legal, safe abortion. Does any of this take the shine off of, say, "Ace of Spades"? I think not.

Chaki: Lemmy isn't racist!

Emily: Where's the line? I'd rather not have to research the person who made music to know if I like it or not. I shoul;d be able to know immediately. I did not call Lemmy a racist.

Chaki: Everyone knows Lemmy exclusvly dates black chicks. This is well known.

Emily: I was calling him a sexist. Get one reading comprehension skill.

Chaki: I will find pictures to prove that he only dates black chicks!

http://www.blackdevilrecords.com/friendsimages/KatonLemmy1.jpg
Lemmy and a black guy

Emily: I'm not sure you're following me.

Chaki: Well thanks for being my first celebrity interview for my Myspace page! I hope I did a great job!

-The End-

More info
Tenderhooks Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/tenderhooks

http://a715.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/24/l_a601364d240af51e638c9eb2cea37672.jpg

I hate that picture, what a pack of choads.

aww that's a nice pic

We look like we are the Gin Blossoms.

could be worse

you could look like blues traveler

http://www.espacioblog.com/myfiles/eclipse/theband.jpg

thats like the best band photo ever

the one of the band i mean

the one of the t3nderh00ks = 2nd best obv

you dont really need to googleproof tenderhooks. they know already.

i was talking about a different band

maybe u just dont know that much about music huh

what

t3nderh00ks, a rockin bluegrass 3-piece from augusta maine

omg look at those

!

"those choads"

sorry my AOL disconnected

i was joking

u_u

great joke

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i was being serious

why are all three bros looking at camera and u looking away? Is it "significant"?

she's the only one that knows how to take a goddamn picture

it accentuates the those

I am guessing the middle 2 are the 'rhythm section'

i duno whydont you ASK ROXYMUZAK

51. is that chaki interview real?

yup

52. why is chaki acting like this is his thread? he has a whole fucking board to answer ppls questions.

good question

I am guessing the middle 2 are the 'rhythm section'

It would actually be impossible for you to be more wrong.

51. That Chaki interview is in fact real.
52. Chaki is welcome to do whatever he wants on this thread.

# Description Price Total
=== =========== ===== =====
1 TENDERHOOKS: vidalia $12.97 $12.97

Sub Total $12.97
Shipping $4.00
Grand Total $16.97

Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
it was in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money
can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Friday, November 9th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did.
Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all
exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh...

<3 <3 <3

You're the best, Rubes!

roxy i want to start a thread that is just pics of females dressed up like princess leia.

what should the title be and which board should i bless it with?

53. "The Crepe Strikes Back"??? Of course I am gonna say it should be on 1p3.

ok 1p3 it is but that title makes no sense

I got nothing!!!

roxy how is xmas in kxville? i heard it was sleeting.

Knoxvillians don't even know what sleeting means. It was raining earlier, and apparently rain on Xmas = sleeting. Christmas at my house is awesome, fwiw and ftw!

Gradski, that Leia thread is sub-Heave at best!

yeah i have somehow become him now that he is banned.

:/

what kinda reactionary idiocy did he get banned for, anyway?

55. Being the creepiest MF of all time?

http://a715.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/24/l_a601364d240af51e638c9eb2cea37672.jpg

56. roxy are they real and and are they spectacular?

56. Yes and yes, obv!

(Wait -- did you mean the beards?)

Seems like from that picture, you'd be the beard!

(j/k m. xmas)

Lol @ THAT!

Where is that? Looks like some mining town from tv? :0

It's in 4th and Gill in Knoxville. It's a really colorful neighb, it just looks black and white in that photo, because it is a black and white photo.

Oh I just noticed the roofs before, not that the photo was even b&w. They looked nice. Curvy roofs.

Roxy, why don't Kinski get more respect?

Klaus Kinski?

Claws Kinski the cat :-D

57. Should I feel bad about sleeping with this English chick just to score some Jaffa cakes? OK, not just but still...!

ew dude why did you sleep with kate

I think you have me confused with Dom Passantino, son! But I like your zing, A+.

57. I don't know what a Jaffa cake is, but I don't think guilt is something to be cultivated. So, no.

58. And I barely know who Kinski is, tbh. Sounds like a question for Gear or something.

emz, whitechapel y/n?

59. Chaki, why do you ask? They get a lot of attention here. I've actually never seen or heard them, but a lot of people go on about them. They take themselves very seriously and are really young. People I respect dig them. That is all I know.

roxy is this u in the new york times

!!!

i thot the same thing, but i think it is the person mentioned in the article

"yee haw industries"

it's a really amusing coincidence, though

haw haw industries

nah, it should just be HAW Industries

HAW, industries...

39. No, I don't own a copy of Buckingham/Nicks.

^^^ did you ever rectify this?

haha WOW that's not me, but people mistake that girl for me all the time

srsly

and no, max, i still dont own it

o hey did your roommate ever turn up?

I'll tell you what.

hey roxy why are you so into the TMI board

she obviously appreciates information

I'm a moderator there so I fig I should pay attention. Also I love gross shit!!!! (duh)

RIP fake ventriloquy feud ;_;

lol

roxy you're here!

i can't find your Ao Doi thread. can you help?

Hey sure!

Áo dài: Classic or Dud

thanks friend

Always a pleasure.

Hey Roxy, is your bf the guy you were crushing on in "a second chance with a perfect stranger" thread?

Haw, the same!

tru

hey roxy why are you so gross??

Hey Roxy, Who was/is yr sockpuppet

haha, is that chaki?!?!?!

i think i was BORN gross!

my sockpuppet is a big secret, but if you guess i'll tell you.

deeznuts is that you?

;)

what is the genital grind shit all about

"genital grinder" is a carcass song, one of the best. "i shine cause i grind" is a crime mob song.

dear roxy,

what is your favorite song from the hit musical annie?

i have "i don't need anything but you" stuck in my head right now.

<3,

t

I love "Maybe"!

MAYBE it has one of my favorite melodies ever. I sing it often, and very loud in Annie voice. BETCHA SHE'S YOUNG! BETCHA SHE'S SMART! BET THEY COLLECT THINGS LIKE ASHTRAYS AND ART!

It's a goodie! I love that feeling of possibility! Also the key change is pretty rad.

thanks to our discussion of "annie", i went out and bought the soundtrack on cd the other day along with the new enslaved, reek of putrefaction and a Tyr album

the guy was like "wow, one of these things is definitely not like the others"

<3

roxy, i would like some advice on what black metal to buy. or any other genre of metal you might recommend.

roxy what should i be listening for in reek of putrefaction cause it is just not hittin me

and i really want it to!!

also how u feel about the new enslaved (i <3 <3)

Daerest Roxy, how does it feel to have shattered the crystal palace of thousands of crying Animal Collective fans?

i can answer that one: it feels fucking awesome.

This is the only correct answer.

Roxy, are you a plectrum user or do you use you fingers?

whoa

Ha, i was waiting for something like that!

^^ hey i had a really great idea tonite... how about an ASK ROXYMUZAK THREAD!!!!?!?!?!?!!!!

Dear Roxy,

Who are you really? I guess everyone here knows but me.

how to make much asnwer!!!

sorry y'all

quickly:

Hoos -- your problem sounds clinical and I am not a doctor. Q 2: Love the new Enslavde! I've been lsitening to it on my 3rd shifts.

Omar - what got you interested? Some of my favorites are Carcass, Enslaved, Ulver and Burzum. Check out Opeth, you might like them (start with "Still Life").

Ned -- it's kinda bizarre! am I being sued, or...?

roxy my roomate is watching mencia what is the best way to kill him aka maximize pain minimize the obv that it was me thx

Wait, kill your roommate or kill Mencia?

oh man i never thought of that...both!

Entrapment.

i tried explaining to him that he has a final tomorrow so he should be stimulating brain cells not killing them. its ok now he's watching NCIS which i guess is better

Dear Roxy,

Do you keep your bedsheets (1) bunched up in moist, cozy, labial folds or (2) rolled up, sleeping bag style, into a firm, thick, pliable cylinder? I'm not trying to get freudian on you, but these little details fascinate me.

whoa

http://dvweb.mpf.arcstarmusic.com/mdb_image2/TE/tT2SE_282226_l.jpg

(x-post)

a ref to another thread fwiw

I think having moist bedsheets is a sign that you need to do laundry.

Or a sign that you have just done laundry?

Then you need a new dryer.

Nate -- I am not your pal that you emailed me about. My real name is Emily. Nice to "meet" "you."

K3vin -- just stop watching Mencia. It's that simple.

Sex Organs of Admittance -- creepy, dude. I keep my bedsheets pulled super-tight, though, FWIW.

Roxy: I'm working on some guitar-centric recording at home. Should I buy a cheap ($150) Squier bass and record with a direct line, or just keep doing synth bass with the drum machine and see what kind of sound develops? I think I just need someone to decide for me.

roxles: how has your 2008 been?

Thanks Emily. Somebody named Kyle apparently wants to buy my computer but didn't leave a real email address. Ha!

Nabisco -- this isn't the advice I'd normally give (actually, I'd never advise anyone to buy a Squier, so maybe it is) but my gut is telling me you should use synth and see what develops! Alternatively, you could use me as a for-hire bassist for $200 a day plus room/board and relocation fees. Thanks!

Mook -- my 2008 has been a year of heartache and band work. I'm not sure how I'll appraise it in the future.

Nate -- It's all good! I think the MacBook is a little too rich for my blood at the mome, so feel free to sell it to your other friend Emily. Haw.

roxy,

how psyched are you for sefap?

cordially,

tza

SO psyched, Tza. I'm getting my car pimped as we speak (read: getting a windshield wiper installed)!!!!!!!! We need to hammer out some details, though. Let's commiserate on AIM tonight.

yeah!
i'm home around 9:30 or 10 EST i think.

roxy, i got interested in black metal because i went to a couple metal shows recently that were pretty great and ear-splitting and i realized i don't know shit about this genre, and who better to turn to than you?

Ok, I'll be at work from midnight to 8:00am. Maybe we'll cross paths.

Omar -- my BM shortlist looks something like this:

Burzum - Filosofem *****
Burzum - Daudi Baldrs (this is not a black metal album though. dear with it)
Enslaved - Isa
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Ulver - Bergtatt
Satyricon - Now, Diablical
Gaahlskagg - Erotic Funeral *****
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Sarcofago - INRI

lol

(omar -- will up all these albums for you, if you want. or just the ones you desire.)

(it's a long shift)

dear roxymuzak,

why did you misrepresent an AIM conversation between us on a private board?

yours

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[nabisco] [.] otm

roxy:

up all dem shits, i will give them a listen. i was gonna get an opeth cd the other night at amoeba but i couldn't remember which one you recommended, so i bought some orb cds instead, lol

spending time in the "o" section huh

Dear "country" "matters",

It was lol, and you gotta admit it was pretty representative. Moreover, Grady told me to do it.

Yours,
Roxy

Dear Omar,

Will do this weekend, even possibly before!

-Rox

my BM shortlist looks something like this:

http://www.simonnicholson.com/images/stools.jpg

My sister has ^that framed above her toilet.

hey roxy ima buy liquor for the weekend is there any booze u wanna have around the house for when yall get here since itll be sunday and we cant buy booze??

My favorite liquor is whisky, but I will be happy with whatever you do!

dear roxymuzak, i guess so, and i constantly haw @ my own evangelistic ways, but there were some excerpts which altho may have softened the lols would also have made the conversation seem less one-way, viz:

country matters (00:28:39): oh did u hear musics
roxymuzak (00:28:43): yes i did!
roxymuzak (00:28:44): <3

roxymuzak (00:30:24): well thanks for turning me onto them

roxymuzak (00:31:03): hm
roxymuzak (00:31:08): dont send more cardiacs
roxymuzak (00:31:08): lol

roxymuzak (00:51:41): thanks for all this, btw

am not particularly disgruntled, though. :)

wait country matters you are exactly who i think you are aren't you

shhhhhh

welcome back, l0u1s jagg3r

<3

hey are you gonna play this game of facebook scrabble OR WHAT?

Oh, Ian, I can't use facebook at work!

HARUMPH

shit. bummer.

Let's play something else! RED ROVER RED ROVER

how about pouring me a healthy shot of old granddad?

You know, I actually have a bottle of Old Granddad in my kitchen right now.

i'm just drinking beam. my roommates killed the knob creek while i was out of town.

It occurs to me that in my BM shortlist above, Enslaved - Isa should also have a 5 star recommendation.

do knoxville peeps hate nashville? if so, is it justified or are y'all just jealous?

I'd say it's kind of a Manchester to London kind of relationship. I've never liked Nashville much, but I'm kinda ambivalent TBH. It's just an identity thing: when people hear you are from TN, they assume you are from Memphis or Nashville, both "cradles of country music" and big "music cities" which Knox is not recognized as being, despite being v. important in cuntry music history, natch. So, that's the main beef. Also Nashville sucks to be a working musician in, a lot of people are real "pro" and douchebaggy about band-related issues. I think that few regular people realy care about this, tbh, and it's mostly kind of a fringe, musician thing.

ok that is a gross misspelling of country sorry

"This song puts the 'cunt' back into 'country.'"
-- Carlene Carter

"Had a great idea the other night . . .
What if eh . . .
Come-a ty yi yippie, baby"
--Randy Newman

why u ban me from 1p3 for making dumb joke on bad attitude thread?

it was a bad joke by your own admission

ilx poster roxymuzak

what it is

<7

P.S.--should i go to bed like a big boy or stay up

Sorry, I never really read ILX til I'm at work. Go to bed, haw!

Dear roxymuzak,

Did you get my ILX mail I sent you?

Just wonderin

Yes, I just almost never use the internet during the week. I just now received it! I was not ignoring you. You are too sweet to send that, are you crazy?! You did NOT offend me, lol. Killin' me with cuteness here.

*phews*

n/l means NEXT LEVEL! haw

FUCK, I knew it!

I blame the entire debacle on Max!

roxy did you get my postcard

Yes, I did! I believe I got 2! I forgot to post this, haw. <3<3 Thanking you.

oh yeah i forgot i sent 2! i have plans for more 'creative' postcards next time...

loooool n/l

NEXT LEVEL MAX, NEXT LEVEL

I should have learned to be less gullible after I fell for my sister's "unicorn in the backyard" story, april fools day, 1991.
NEVER AGAIN.

I ended up asking a mod to delete all my wolf animations off of the thread, so did James K Polk, and then Jergins locked the thread. All so Max could get some giggles!

i genuinely thought it was not lovin zach, not trying to play a trick, but this is real lolzy now

agreed!

I feel better. I thought I had faux poed bigtime.

dear roxy,
im filling out citizenship forms and one question asks would i like to change my name and what to. im tempted to change my hated middle name. any suggestions?

Sunny,

AFAIK your actual name is Sunny Successor, so I'm working from there. Standard middle names like Anne and Marie can be nice if you think of them as accentuators of the actual meat-and-potatoes parts of the name (the surname and Christian name, obv). If you've got a good one-two punch with those, then a more vanilla (this does not mean plain, but rather receptive to other more whomp-you-over-the-gourd flavors) name will do well for you. However, if you want to be called Caledonia, be called Caledonia. Whatever makes you happy. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, in a way. Perhaps there is something or someone you would like to commemorate or pay tribute to with your name. Something to think about.

-Rox

PS: "shaquille"

'dusty'

"THE"

There are a lot of quality ideas here:

Greatest Sports Nicknames

And I would add "crazylegs" to the list.

thanks roxy! i was actually thinking about my hero in blondness farrah fawcett. and mookieproiof you knew i was going to name beeps 'dusty'?? everyone in my in-law family has such an aversion to dusty baker of baseball fame i couldnt do it to them. Z_S - im some serious consideration into 'magic'.