Thatguy

Excellent album! Thatguy approved.

If you say so - impossible to know over the Internet. Anyway, if I have offended you I apologise. I thought my absurd analogies and winking emoji would put my comments in the realm of harmless banter. If I was wrong I'm sorry, and if you are winding me up, then I guess you win.

Fuck me you take everything so personally. No fun at all.

You've paid yer 10 quid, so here's yer argument. Saying books are better than movies is like saying whales are better than volcanoes. Books are books. Movies are movies. Whales are whales and volcanoes are what they are. You can prefer whales to volcanoes. Good for you if you do, but preference does not equate to a superior value and to assert that whales are 'better' you'd have to closely define what better actually means in general or at least in this case. I prefer cats to a poke in the eye wth a sharp stick, and I can define why that is and by what criteria I make that judgement. Better? Define better - more pleasant to me, not (usually) harmful to me, easily accessed - yep, cats win. Less damaging to the environment? Well, no one cares about my eye but me so cats lose. Morally superior? That's a meaningless contrast and surely no judgement can be made. You can prefer books to movies for any number of reasons just like you can prefer your favourite music to mine, but you have to carefully define better in this case too if you want to think your music is better and on most criteria you won't be able to rationally defend your judgement beyond 'it's what I like.' And - as we have all here been over endlessly - there's nothing wrong with that. I love books. I have a library full of them and I am always reading 6 or 7 books - some in my study, some in another room downstairs and some upstairs in my bedroom. Books give me so much that movies can't, but I love movies too. The interactions of mise en scene, natural features artfully presented and the intimacy of human form, movement and voice gives me feelings and thoughts that books cannot. They are different media, almost different magisteria, and they do different things, like whales and volcanoes. Of course not. And I hope you have had your money's worth. Any further argument will require actual payment. Oh, and😏

I don't like horror books or movies. But yer can't say one is better than the other. They are different experiences and those who see a movie expecting it to replicate their experience of a book are being very naïve. I'm not accusing you of this - we can accuse the Orca of a lot, but not naivety - but I just wanted to shoehorn a general comment onto your specific one.

OWL - Ghosts of Summer . Very noice. VÆGTLØS - Aftryk. OK but a let down after OWL.

Goatwarming? Yeah, baby.

Yep. You are a good man.

There is nothing wrong with ponderous and sprawling. Not offended, but I'm a bit of an Aosoth fanboy. I have two of their - ironically white (a bit ponderously ironic I guess). -shirts. And I've just been listening to some Underground Youth. New to me and now Thatguy approved. Thanks. GG.

VITRIOL - Suffer & Become NOTHINGNESS - Supraliminal Both very noice indeed. NP - JAMES BRANDON LEWIS QUARTET - Transfiguration. This is saxophone playing! And what a band. There is a lot of second rate jazz (and second rate everything) around, but this is the real thing.

For anyone so inclined, the 4th symphony is up. BELOW THE CLOUDS AND MIST - Symphony No.4 https://skybluesky.bandcamp.com/

CASTAVET - Obsian.

KRVVLA - X . Noice FARSOT - Life Promised Death. A bit tame.

Welcome, young American. Crack on.

OPHIS - The Dismal Circle

It's a bit slowish and thoughtful and deeply textured - refined even...say no more!

They do, and contrary to scurrilous assertions by the bent cucumber, I am exposed to whatever they serve up when I go shopping. Mainly oldies it seems. My wife might be able to pick a Taylor Swift song, but she is a good woman and wouldn't point it out to me. I will be going to the movies later today with her and the daughter - in the daughter's car and she certainly knows all about TS so I may be exposed. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted. SPECTRAL VOICE - Sparagmos. Noice. OPHIS - Spew Forth Odium

Noice.

I'm sure it's a badge of honour here to say this, but I too have never consciously heard her music and have no idea what it is like.

SUMAC - What One Becomes CLAIR CROSS - Sleep Cycle NP - CHELSEA WOLFE - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

Condolences from me too.

Yelling at turds.

It depends, but usually more than you. The fucking Rolling Stones of metal. Yawn. CARPE NOCTEM - Vitrun NP - CLIFFDIVER - Cliffdiver (Ambient Extensions). Not many chords here, but that just goes to show that - as ever. - context is everything.

ARAKK - Self & Distance CHAOS MOON - Escaton Mémoire Too much synth! It's pretty music with (electronic) drums and a bit of shrieking. Meh. No, worse than meh, fuck right off.

Neither do I. Thank you Nasty. I agree with all you wrote here. They are a fun listen, innit? Neither you nor I are attempting to change the GG's mind - I just want to needle him a bit - but there are plenty here with different ears and some may appreciate the Arctopussy.. And, by the way all, the version of NNC Summoning I have is the one with the live versions of all the songs after the originals, proving - and it didn't need proving to me - that they ain't playing at random. The live versions are tight and almost the same as the originals. NP - KLAUSE SHULTZ & LISA GERRARD - Dziękuję Bardzo - Vielen Dank. Not metal at all but a nice way to start the day. Yeah, me too.