Iceni

Got a lot to be thankful for. I got to spend about 6 days or so of Thanksgiving with my best friend, meaning this was my first really good Thanksgiving in about 3 years and one of the only good Thanksgiving celebrations without my family. I also got an offer for an internship with a journal of Christianity and international affairs, which will be essentially full-time pay - meaning I can quit my humiliating department store job. Gonna take the GRE again since my quantitative score needs work, but I got promotional emails from the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Josef Korbel School at University of Denver, so clearly I'm doing something right.
That all this should happen at the end of a year that I largely wasted is an enormous relief and has been really motivating. Hopefully I spend 2018 at this internship before embarking on grad school and the future writ large.

Got a lot to be thankful for. I got to spend about 6 days or so of Thanksgiving with my best friend, meaning this was my first really good Thanksgiving in about 3 years and one of the only good Thanksgiving celebrations without my family. I also got an offer for an internship with a journal of Christianity and international affairs, which will be essentially full-time pay - meaning I can quit my humiliating department store job. Gonna take the GRE again since my quantitative score needs work, but I got promotional emails from the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Josef Korbel School at University of Denver, so clearly I'm doing something right.
That all this should happen at the end of a year that I largely wasted is an enormous relief and has been really motivating. Hopefully I spend 2018 at this internship before embarking on grad school and the future writ large.

I could go for that.
Still making my way through "Fragmentary Evidence" by Augury and it stuns me how good this is. I remember thinking it was OK when I first heard it but I really hear the melodic elements now and that's helped a lot. Clean vocals work wonders and this bass is sublime. They're apparently coming out with some new material next year, definitely looking forward to it.

I’ve had a huge fortnight of work related shenanigans and record breaking profit margins that included working deep into the evening to maximise my bottom line. And that sort of thing.
But that’s done now and I’m having beers to celebrate/take my frustration out.
In other news Moonspell have released the album of their careers. You’ll hear from me at great length on it when I’m not tapping like a yuppy clown on this telephone.
 

Is Katana a Welsh name or have you taken the sword as your username?
 
Welcome though?

Wow. Awesome...I absolutely love A Sense of Gravity. The market's lousy with progressive/death/prog-death bands in the mold of BTBAM lately, even some good ones (Last Scattering come to mind). In that field your band's tireless attention to detail and howling intensity absolutely blow the doors off all but the choicest of your competition. I'd easily rank ASOG with Native Construct. "Atrament" was magnificent and that album art is some of the best-looking I've ever seen. Your profile picture is lovely too. Welcome to the forum!

Lords of Chaos. True Belief Studios.
 
Req left; TB right.
 

 
 

Just discovered this: Equilibrium - Widars Hallen
I'm in love.

Hey Everyone,
My name is Morgan Wick, I'm a guitarist and composer from Seattle, WA.
You can check out my music https://www.facebook.com/MorganWickMusic/
and also check out my band A Sense of Gravity https://www.facebook.com/asenseofgravity/
I look forward to chatting with you all.
 
Thanks,
 
Morgan

This post will have a lot of cursing and anger.
Just remembering that a friend of mine liked this status and accompanying photo. This kind of idiocy is why I wanna do African Studies, so that I can help crush this vile festering tankie shit. Fuck dictators and fuck the dipshit Westerners who support them, be they cynical conniving neocons trying to maintain an American empire or racist partisan SJWs with no ambition beyond being contrarian attention-seekers. A few years ago, wouldn't this have been dismissed as the kind of fringe nonsense spouted by a paid regime shill lurking around YouTube? The fact that these abject partisan self-appointed iconoclasts actually command some amount of respect in any credible academic circle is just nauseating, and it's one of my main reasons for wanting to get into this field and join other Africanists (for there are a fair few) in comprehensively rejecting this arrant bullshit.
Before I go nuts, let me specify that Gaddhafi did do a lot of good for Libya, particularly in ensuring parts of it became well-developed. His sheltering Chadian refugees is also to be commended. He also decided to reject his country's nuclear weapons program. For anyone who liked Gaddhafi, life was good - but then that's always the case in all but the most incompetent dictatorship.
For those of you who are joining us, Gaddhafi also ran a one-party state and held power for 40 years, making him the longest-serving despot in Africa. The man severely restricted the press and ruthlessly suppressed all opposition to his rule, including during the Arab Spring where his troops gunned down protestors in droves. This is a pretty good article that shows the rebels did their fair share of lying but which also states there were human rights abuses by government forces (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/amnesty-questions-claim-that-gaddafi-ordered-rape-as-weapon-of-war-2302037.html) - and that's just in 2011 before he got pulled out of power. Other abuses that year can be seen here (https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2012/country-chapters/libya and here https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2012humanrightsreport/index.htm#wrapper and here http://www.refworld.org/docid/4fbe392b5.html) Most heinous of all, however, is that this guy sponsored terrorism in Europe. He funded the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/world/4-guilty-in-fatal-1986-berlin-disco-bombing-linked-to-libya.html) and more importantly gave weapons to the IRA (https://jamestown.org/program/libyan-state-sponsored-terrorism-an-historical-perspective/). Finally, lest anyone forget, he sponsored the Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people in an airplane over Scotland.
This makes me particularly angry because the guy who liked it is one of the warmest, friendliest people I've ever met. He's a smart guy too - fellow Georgetown alumnus, landed himself a Fulbright to study religious conflict in Nigeria, and is currently studying for a Masters at a divinity school in Ireland. I wonder if he knows anyone with a family member who was killed by the IRA. He likes this page and has commented on other statuses here, so I know it wasn't an accident. I still don't hate the guy; he must know better. He doesn't seem to have said anything disgusting on his own over Facebook, yet - but I have lost an immense amount of respect for him.
This whole thing really does encapsulate the heinous impact this election season had on everyone. A number of people who I'd consider largely morally upright individuals have gone so apeshit over trying to signal their uprightness and resist evil that they've become apologists for any kind of foul murderous scum as long as they're purporting to defend the common man. Well, folks, the tyrants, despots and butchers of the world are laughing their guts out at you. The kind of mirror sheen your spit polish puts on their iron fist vastly exceeds the capabilities of even their most talented governmental spin doctors. Come forward to the dais and claim your degree in useful idiocy - you graduated with fucking honors.

A reading from the Book of Heavy Metal, Chapter 7 verse 3-6.
"It was at the twelfth hour, around midday that Ghouly was seen to emerge from the dwelling; and upon her egress the beams were found to reflect from her visage and pierce the clouds. And Helios was afflicted with blindness, and he was laid up for a time on medical leave. Thus it was that the heavens were overcast on the outskirts of San Fran in the land of Cali, for seven days and seven nights. And amongst the Katatonia fans there was much rejoicing."

My cat had four teeth removed today and still ate a bowl of food when he got home.  Beat that Gaddhafi,

I've had a very up and down day. Right now, with The Misfits playing and something legal in my state to smoke, I'm feeling better.

Took the GRE and did OK, so I'm going out to eat with a couple friends this evening.

first - an unassuming sentiment that became ubiquitous and remained a well-studied phenomenon well after its obselescence
fake and gay - the predecessor to the false even-handedness practiced by poorly-informed lazy blowhards across the political spectrum that now constitutes a fundamental paradigm of discourse on all news sites
Hey guys I Have found link to Avengers 5 the Bloom Brightens you can watch here https://www.obviousscam.ru/watch/youcredulousnitwit/vid.mp4_wOLolOloLLhuUeHUEHhuehehUEHU3H3 - a sentiment formed hand-in-glove with globalization that facilitated the expansion of digital discourse to include overambitious third-world con men

Welcome to the forum, I'm always happy to see metal parents!

Are you one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rangel It's something of an unexpected move for you to come here after the House, but I don't blame you for wanting to get out of the Rotunda before anything really ridiculous happens. Well, anything more ridiculous than what's already happened, of course.
In any case, welcome to the forum.

Are you one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rangel It's something of an unexpected move for you to come here after the House, but I don't blame you for wanting to get out of the Rotunda before anything really ridiculous happens. Well, anything more ridiculous than what's already happened, of course.
In any case, welcome to the forum.

DSBM has always had an extremely negative influence on me. It's strange considering I adore funeral doom but I suppose it's how that bleak atmosphere is created where the two genres differ. Funeral doom being generaly more mournful where DSBM is hateful and hopeless. I wish you luck with your band but particularly given some things going on in my life right now I doubt I'll check out what you have going on sorry.

@RelentlessOblivion I'm pleased to hear things are improving somewhat for you and that you've been able to maintain willpower with such consistency. I do realize that makes me sound like a blowhard but that is my assessment from what I've read most recently.
I took the general GRE to get into an international relations program, I've got about six or seven I want to enter. Planning on taking it again since I think I could improve my quantitative score. As for food - well, it was good enough to warrant Cheesecake Factory, which somewhat compensated for my having eaten only a couple pizza rolls beforehand.

first - an unassuming sentiment that became ubiquitous and remained a well-studied phenomenon well after its obselescence
fake and gay - the predecessor to the false even-handedness practiced by poorly-informed lazy blowhards across the political spectrum that now constitutes a fundamental paradigm of discourse on all news sites
Hey guys I Have found link to Avengers 5 the Bloom Brightens you can watch here https://www.obviousscam.ru/watch/youcredulousnitwit/vid.mp4_wOLolOloLLhuUeHUEHhuehehUEHU3H3 - a sentiment formed hand-in-glove with globalization that facilitated the expansion of digital discourse to include overambitious third-world con men

first - an unassuming sentiment that became ubiquitous and remained a well-studied phenomenon well after its obselescence
fake and gay - the predecessor to the false even-handedness practiced by poorly-informed lazy blowhards across the political spectrum that now constitutes a fundamental paradigm of discourse on all news sites
Hey guys I Have found link to Avengers 5 the Bloom Brightens you can watch here https://www.obviousscam.ru/watch/youcredulousnitwit/vid.mp4_wOLolOloLLhuUeHUEHhuehehUEHU3H3 - a sentiment formed hand-in-glove with globalization that facilitated the expansion of digital discourse to include overambitious third-world con men

Took the GRE and did OK, so I'm going out to eat with a couple friends this evening.

we all have our own perspective

we all have our own perspective