Thatguy

Has anyone listened to the new WORM album? I have had the time to listen to one track and rather liked it.

AOSOTH - V: The Inside Scriptures Never forget how excellent this band was.

Just releasing my inner dick (so to speak). And close but no banana. There is a big event coming up for Thatguy - not a big birthday, I've had too many of them - and I just might spill the beans after that.

Older than all of you. And how can you be 6 months older than a dead man GG even if the dead man is the great Steve Irwin.

FLUISTERAARS - Gegrepen Door etc.. Still really enjoying this.

I have agreed with you before and I will agree with you again. Spotify are parasites and they can fuck right off.

ZELIENOPLE - Hold You Up. This is an interesting, atmospheric album. Never heard of these guys before this weekend. Not metal but some of you will like this I think. Looking at you markm.

I used to listen to those ISIS albums every morning on my way to hospital for morning rounds when I had a poor sod in ICU for 2 months with total skin failure. Somehow this got me in the right head space...

Yep. It didn't blow my mind but I enjoyed it enough to be interested in what they do next. I just roll my eyes at the bad boy bogans. I am glad Dead has found a soul mate.

TARDIGRADA - Emotionale Ödnis. This was good BM. They have a new one out soon. NOLTEM - Illusions in the Wake

EOS -Les corps s'entrechoquent I just bumped into this...

KOWLOON WALLED CITY -Piecework Sounds like KWS. Good stuff but.

The riff is indeed amusing and sprightly, but it has always struck me as also sneering and sarcastic, but of course all this is entirely subjective.

Just hanging about this afternoon and it occurred to me that I hadn't listened to KING CRIMSON - Starless and Bible Black for a few years. What a great album this is. The opening riff of The Great Deceiver is one of the nastiest ever played...and on the album goes from there. Joyful, clever music.

OVERMARS - Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo More obscure than thou.

Did we ever actually see a 2020 list? What with change of venue, COVID, work, general bullshit and did I say fucking COVID I am afraid I have forgotten. Sorry, I think.

But they wouldn't look as good in a suit.

As someone born in Marrickville and raised in the western suburbs of Sydney I'd be expected to say Melbourne deserved it, but I don't think that. I like Melbourne, both my kids went to university there and my daughter still lives there and has just started her second - or is it third - lockdown holiday. She works a rostered job and could not change the dates.

My mum - who was English and had many English ideas - always said that pumpkin was only fit to be cattle food. She said this partly to be contrarian, but partly because it's true. And it is true.

And I saw a news item the other day about people hiring out their herds of goats for blackberry clearing and for clearing firebreaks without the need for - potentially dangerous - back burning. I have never had anything to do with goats really but they seem charming, but smelly.

I knew I would get an entertaining response if I poked you. Thanks. There are exceptions to every rule in English so the icing example holds no ice. Most of your examples I will just smile at and accept that we in fact speak different, but mostly mutually comprehensible, languages. Some of your examples though are weird Kiwi things and I am with you on the chicken burger...

I eat therefore I cook. Or my wife does - it depends who is home and how we feel. Once upon a time we went to restaurants sometimes, now we get take-away (another British/Commonwealth usage to drive you to despair GG) occasionally but only if we can pick it up ourselves. And the real reason I am buying into this discussion, GG, is to say maaate...'practicing' reads as practiking and that's not a word.

Oh, yeah. It's straight into my Bandcamp wishlist.

That was cool. Love the song and they nailed it. The only thing really missing was the exact crack of Bill Bruford's snare.

I think we have an interesting subtle linguistic thing going on here. I do not think an Australian would say they are sober and mean that they are teetotal or a reformed drunk. I think we would always mean I am not currently drunk. Whereas I think Americans could take this describing a lifestyle choice rather than the current circumstance. Dunno. I could be wrong.