NokturnalBoredom

I've never had a metal hoodie either. There isn't really much opportunity to wear hoodies considering that I live in Southwest Florida. I have a lot of band shirts, some metal bands, some hardcore bands. I wanted to get both a Graveland and a Burzum "Filosofem" shirt, but I can't find ones that aren't XXL and that's simply too big for me.

Cro-Mags "In The Beginning"

Iskra "Ruins" Sort of black metal, but more leaning toward crust. I don't read the lyrics though.

Iggy Pop "New Values" I was inspired by the other user who had shared that they were listening to Iggy earlier.

Thanks, I can write relatively well when I want to. One thing I had always hoped to do for a career was to review music, so occasionally I write up reviews about albums I have purchased. I'd do more, but I'm not really on the cutting-edge of music, as I am buying albums from years ago that I never heard at the time. I might write up a review of Cemetery Lust "Screams of the Violated" later on today, but I haven't made my mind up whether I want to review that or another album instead.

Instrumental

I'm thinking about how disappointed I was the other night when I went to Steak 'n Shake for the first time in years: they've fired all the waitstaff, gotten rid of the actual dishwear that they used to serve your food on, gotten rid of the counter seating, and now you have to order from a kiosk and then pick your food up when they call your number. Part of the reason that I liked Steak 'n Shake for so many years was that it felt like a "real" restaurant because you got table service. Now they have shitcanned all of their waitstaff (likely so the CEO could retain his multi-million dollar bonuses every year) which means that working people are without jobs and it just feels like going into a glorified McDonald's... and I already work for McDonald's (and do not put the "food" there into my body whatsoever). I'm wondering what else I like is going to change as this area becomes an unrecognizable shithole. What other places I like are going to change or close. So far we've lost Sonny's BBQ, Jason's Deli, and TGIFriday's although none of those places were really places that I liked all that much. I'm wondering how one of my favorite diner's is holding up even though I have not been there since before the start of "ThE nEw NoRmAL". I also wonder how long my favorite record stores are going to be able to hold on for, even though I shop there on a weekly basis.

Emperor "Wrath of the Tyrant"

If you need to hide your drinking from someone, then it's the person that you're hiding it from that has the issues, not you. There is absolutely nothing wrong with drinking & I say that as someone who does not drink at all.

Got a new Emperor shirt today from my favorite local record store. It's black with the Emperor logo in white and the "Ancient Queen" design on the front, in White. Only cost me $13.95.

Kroda "Selbstwelt"

Watain "Trident Wolf Eclipse"

I figured as much, but the reason I primarily order through HH is because I trust the distro, it gets here quickly, and he has a lot of stuff that I don't initially know about, but then find out about browsing his site. I know I should probably be checking out Peaceville and Season of Mist, but I'm strongly biased toward HH because his label has put out so much good shit that I wouldn't have given a second thought to initially.

Rotting Christ "Non Serviam"

Yeah, same here. I haven't really listened to anything more modern, maybe some stuff from the 2010s or an album from the 2020s here and there, but all of my favorite black metal albums are from the 90s and 00s although a lot of great stuff has come out of Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, etc since then (once they began to see artistic freedom again). There's a great album by a Belrussian band called Vietah that I've been listening to (Smalisty Zah) and there is a cover of Darkthrone's "Quintessence" on it that is pretty solid. I think this album came out in the 2010s and there is some dungeon synth parts that hearken back to the best of Burzum, but all in all it's a really solid record & I'd recommend giving it a listen if you haven't already.

Panopticon "Social Disservices"

The only reason why I want to go to Eastern Europe is because I'm ethnically a Slav. I have no desire to see Western Europe whatsoever, it has nothing to do with me. Same goes for Asia. I get that it's got a lot of natural beauty and that's something that I can appreciate, but I wouldn't be willing to be on a plane for the amount of time it would take to get to the area. The longest I could probably do on a plane would be the time it took to get to Poland and then cross by land into Ukraine, Belarus & Russia.

Destroyer 666 "Phoenix Rising"

Emperor "In The Nightside Eclipse"

I need to start listening to Enslaved. I've heard that if I like Emperor, that I'd like Enslaved.

Sleep "Sleep's Holy Mountain" I don't listen to this album a lot anymore because I quit smoking weed. Kind of a shame, because it's obviously a very good album.

Yesterday the following LPs came in the mail from Hell's Headbangers: Destroyer 666 "Phoenix Rising" Panopticon "Social Disservices" Cemetery Lust "Screams of the Violated" Drudkh "A Furrow Cut Short" Rotting Christ "The Heretics" So I listened to them all yesterday afternoon and as of right now, I think I'm going to be hanging on to them. They're all pretty solid albums.

Mercyful Fate "Don't Break the Oath"

See, a big part of the problem down here in Florida now, is that there simply are no apprenticeships anymore the way there were when I was a lot younger (although they were already starting to dry up back then). Construction companies want guys who can either already do the work so they can pay them below market value and work them to death, or they simply want perpetual unskilled laborers that they can work to death and never train on how to do the more important and crucial aspects of the job. It's a real problem around here and I'm wondering if it's going to be different when I move back up north, because then I would give construction another shot because I generally feel inadequate working at McDonald's despite the fact that I'm making decent money with no experience whatsoever. It's just a very difficult and stressful job and I feel like eventually it's going to give me an ulcer, particularly because I am on the customer service end of the spectrum, which was literally the last thing that I wanted to be doing because I do not like people (but am apparently great at dealing with them according to my boss). My buddy and fellow metalhead and I have talked about it at length. You don't get apprenticeships anymore, so it's become exceedingly difficult to break into the trades. Sure, you can get a job as an unskilled laborer when you're young, but that's because most places are looking for young guys that they can work to death and then never teach them how to do the job at all... but still expect them to have some experience, prior knowledge, and tools. We talk about it because he's worried about what his 16yo son is going to do for a living since the kid is obviously not going to college with the kinds of grades he gets. He didn't want construction labor for his son, but with the inability to get an actual apprenticeship down here in Florida anymore, it's looking like his son is going to follow in his footsteps of being a general laborer and maybe, if he's lucky, land a job where he can pick up a skill naturally from working. If I could do it all over again, I'd have chosen to go to tech school and trained for a trade but the problem with tech school is that the only tech schools around here have little to no job placement for graduates (and the local businesses don't care about tech school credentials). I mean, I guess I could try climbing the ladder at McDonald's and seeing how high I can go, but despite what I am told and the raise I earned, I don't feel like I am good at the job because I cannot do more than one thing at a time (and I think this might be due to my condition), particularly I cannot take orders over headset and prepare food at the same time. Or handle cash. It's either one or the other because my memory is so poor (again probably due to psych meds) that I can't simply memorize what people are ordering and then enter it into the POS system while I do something else. I don't know, maybe I am too hard on myself. I just see what management is capable of doing and feel like I will never get to that point even though I've been at this job for less than 90 days already (and managed to get a raise already)

Yeah it was a good choice. I'm off tomorrow as well, so I'm going to go through the recent arrivals again. My metal collection is shaping up to be pretty nice.