NokturnalBoredom

Bang Star Blast energy drink (the can is Red, White, & Blue and thus, is the flavor I usually buy for that reason). I need energy. I just did 4am-noon at my job on 4 hours of sleep and if I go to sleep now, I'll be all messed up and will probably wake up at 10pm and be unable to get back to sleep.

Destroyer 666 "Phoenix Rising" I'm about to be going on a massive Destroyer 666 kick as I just ordered two more of their records from HHR.

Tristania "Widow's Weeds" even though I absolutely hate the cover of the album. Possibly Cradle of Filth "Dusk and her Embrace" even though that's more Hot Topic black metal, but with a gothy backbone.

Welcome. I have never been to LA and will probably never go out there, but it's good that you're here. Consequently, that was one of my favorite scenes in Wayne's World.

In another thread, I said "I doubt I could thrive in Oz" this is a great example as to why. I am trying to open my own record store, I cannot deal with $37US for a record, unless it is a Nokturnal Mortum one that I am importing from Osmose. That's just obscene. Your guys COL is way too high there. Granted you probably make more money than we do for doing the same jobs & have national healthcare as far as I know, but seriously now...

Just put in another order from Hell's Headbangers today: Slayer "Hell Awaits" (orange/black vinyl) Destroyer 666 "Cold Steel for an Iron Age" (Red /black marbled vinyl) "Wildfire" (Black vinyl) Setherial "Ekpyrosis" (Black vinyl... I had Endtime Divine when I was a kid and loved it!) Nekrofilth "Worm Ritual" (Black/Green swirl vinyl... I have the "Love Me Like A Reptile" 7" and absolutely love these guys brand of dirty, depraved, violent crossover thrash/death metal)

The cost of living, the fact that it's like a 22 hour flight to the USA and I can't handle being on a plane that long, and the way that it appears to me in the US that your government is acting regarding covid19 (locking down states over 1 or 2 cases, unless that's propaganda from my media which I am willing to admit it could be). I've also heard that Oz government are like fundamentalist Christians or something and ban a lot of metal music and fun video games and I can't deal with a society that tries to tell me what media I am allowed to possess and consume.

The Clash "Give Em Enough Rope"

Vaping isn't great for you, but it's harm reduction compared to cigarettes. I'm hoping that I'll be able to entirely quit someday, as my buddy just did when he got covid19, but I'm not terribly worried about it now because it did get me off of cigarettes which were having me coughing, etc. I don't think I'd fare very well living in Oz, the more I hear about it. No offense intended, it just doesn't really seem like a place where I'd be able to thrive.

I started getting really bad hangovers in my late twenties, but I kept on drinking because I had a problem. Around the age of 31, I completely quit drinking and messing around with drugs (even marijuana). I don't miss any of it at all, matter of fact? I'm way better off without any of that stuff. I still use a nicotine vape though, that's the one thing I haven't been able to let go of. I actually just got a new one today to replace my old, beat up one. It's an improved model of the one I was using, nothing spectacular but easy to carry around in my pocket and conceal.

Agnosy "As Daylight Reveals the Torture"

Emperor "Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise"

Graveland "Thousand Swords"

Nekrofilth "Love Me Like A Reptile" 7"

It really is. It's essentially making a value judgment on a person based on whether or not they buy things that they cannot afford and then pay more for them in the long run. It's particularly bad here in America because you need a credit rating to do pretty much anything, including to rent a house, but I don't worry about any of that because I already have somewhere to live & live where I do because my mom is getting older and fell down last year when I wasn't living here, so I moved back in after that because that scared me since my mom is really the only person I have aside from my sister. (My father has been out of the picture for years). I'll probably continue to live with my mom as she gets older. If I can ever afford a travel trailer, I might get one of those and live in it on the property, but we don't get on one another's nerves and again, all we really have is each other since my sister is getting married and moved to Toronto this year. I don't see a point in spending money to get my own place since it would be just me and I don't want to live alone because it would just be too depressing. I do a lot of the cooking, housework, and stuff for her & I'll continue to as she gets older and starts to have trouble doing it on her own.

Yeah it's a remaster as far as I know. 180g crystal clear vinyl. I'm actually listening to it now because it's been a minute since I last listened to it.

Apparently I'm a "piece of shit" and a "bum" because I don't use credit though. Oh and I'll "never be able to have the things I want" according to many people I know who have wholeheartedly bought into the usury (credit) system. Which like I've said, if I have to use credit to get something, I don't need it. I already have a roof over my head, a car to get back and forth to work with, and clothes on my back. The few things I buy are records and food for myself (which I don't eat a whole lot of meat, so I save money that way). I have been debating getting a Nintendo Switch so that I can play the new Dragon Quest game, but when I really think about it, I don't have the time to sit around sinking hours of my life into a video game anymore. The dumb thing about credit, is that you're essentially paying more for something that you just could have bought with cash. "B-buh-buh- your credit rating!!!" Yeah, I don't care about my credit rating nor do I care about anything that requires me to have a credit rating. I don't believe in the "credit rating" thing. I never gave my consent for three private corporations to begin collecting data on me and using this to determine whether or not society (which I despise) thinks that I'm a "good person" or not. I go to work, earn money, and use that to buy the things I want instead of using that money to pay (more) for them and just be able to get them sooner. I can delay gratification to an extent and it works out well for me.

This is the way, step inside. I have the 40th anniversary edition of closer on crystal clear vinyl.

Panopticon "Social Disservices" Would like to get more Panopticon stuff eventually.

I don't use credit cards. I don't believe in the credit system (it's a whole big thing I'm not going to get into right now). If I can't buy something with cash, then I just go without.

See, the reason I want a camper/caravan is because I would use it as my metal lair when I wasn't on the road. I could decorate it however I wanted and not have to worry about redoing it before we go to sell the house. I wouldn't get a huge one, just one that had a small galley, wet bath, and a bedroom. I've wanted one for years but I've never been in the financial position to get one because I was working pretty sporadically for the most part and I don't finance things or use credit (don't need to with my living arrangement), so I have never been able to get one (yet). I'm working on paying off some debts and saving money now, so when we sell the house, there might be money left over for me to get one but if there isn't, it's no big deal. I understand that you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need and I've got pretty much everything that I need at this juncture as I try to get back on my feet.

I've always wanted to drive around the US with a camper/trailer. I think it would be so cool and interesting to just go to all of the different little places in this country that you wouldn't necessarily go to, just to see their roadside attractions and "claims to fame". I could spend months alone just touring the I95 corridor to see all of the cities and towns. It's something I actually hope to do someday if I can ever get myself a camper and a vehicle to pull one. I'd start in the South, head North and do the whole New England thing for a summer, then head through the upper Midwest and see all the states I've never been to (Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc) and head further West through the great plains and Montana/Wyoming until I got to Washington, then I'd check out that and Oregon and drive South through the desert and loop around back through the lower Midwest to see what they have going on. I'd likely skip California, not too much going on out there that interests me.

Tonight, I had vegetarian tacos. Used the same beef replacement textured protein crumbles we use for everything in this house, but they turned out good and it was difficult to tell that it wasn't actually beef for the most part. Used hard taco shells, made some spanish rice to go with it. All in all a good dinner. In a little while I might make some ramen. I take oriental flavor ramen and then put peanut butter and sriracha in it so it ends up kind of tasting like a bastardized version of pad Thai. I get that not a lot of people are going to like it, but I got the "recipe" from some vegan cookbook when I was younger & it was one of the better things that they had that stuck with me over the years as a comfort food.

Any good ones? I've been listening to Lex Fridman and watching Russel Brand videos when I turn in for the night but I could get down with a good, long-form philosophy video tonight because I have to (unfortunately) work in the morning. Tomorrow starts my "work week" of stress and general shit-showy-ness (It seems like every day at my job is a shit-show due to how understaffed we are).

Could be, in that specific situation then yeah you probably do have a problem. I had a problem with alcohol and used to hide my drinking because any time I tried to have a drink, I caught shit for it so then naturally I started hiding it and it turned into a problem. What I'm talking about though, are partners who flip out over someone having one or two beers. I know a lady who got involved with some weird church and then she made her husband pour his beer down the toilet. That kind of behavior & sentiment toward alcohol is what I find to be kind of weird & puritanical. But I live in America so there are a lot of puritanical people around here to be quite honest. Not as many as there used to be when I was growing up, but there are still people around who are weird in that way although if you ever had an alcohol problem and had to go to AA to deal with it, I kind of understand it to an extent because having a problem with any substance is no fun.