FatherAlabaster

I once had some World Wide Stout from Dogfish Head. That stuff was around 21%, and amazingly still delicious. Do you get their beers out in UT?

Bespectacled? Sure. Introspective? Absolutely. But this whole "fun" thing seems out of character...

I do my best with what I've got.

Re: your biggest accoplishments/goals in life? Nope, my dad was a beer judge and I learned a lot from talking with him. There's a good bit to it. Inadvertent snobbery resulted.

You should get that checked out, bladder control is essential for advanced beer sampling.

Nah, if they read this thread during their due diligence they'll charge way too much. Screw 'em anyway. My son gets my guitar collection and my wife gets all my paintings. Maybe I should take out wife insurance, though...

Wow, at 12% it basically is wet bread! You don't really need food, if you're drinking that.

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - A Fine Romance

Corona, man, that stuff will kill you before your time. Do you get Pacifico over there? That's my favorite Mexican pilsner. Same brewery as Corona, and they also make Negra Modelo - a nice, drinkable dark lager. Don't know why, but corona always gives me the worst headache.

Billie Holiday - When Your Lover Has Gone

Heaven calls; they want their bread back. Desperate at the thought that you might be denied entry over something so trivial, you race after Shaggy and Scooby, all thoughts of the hill evaporating from your mind. I find a coal oven dating to the early 1900s in a basement underneath the hill, and open a successful Italian restaurant and bakery on the spot. My restaurant.

Yeah, we never had them on special occasions... they were everyday food. Kind of hard to look forward to that special Christmas meal of ground beef and boiled cabbage. When he says kielbasa is "the bomb", the expression means it's really good. Not a gut bomb like Indian food can be (love some Indian food, too, though). edit - Oh cool, I didn't know how to pronounce that "a" - and I can't find a code for the character either. Thanks!

Re: Whatcha Eatin'? Hah, I grew up eating those. Almost always with ground beef, although my mom used turkey instead sometimes. My maternal grandmother is Polish. But the family always pronounced it "ga-lump-kee", so I'm surprised to see it spelled that way. The "l" with a slash through it is more like an English "w", right?

Hi, welcome!

I'll check out Disaffected if I can. I never liked Cynic. Most of the drummers I know, and plenty of other people, get a real hard on for Focus (and Human, a real drummer favorite). I've heard it a bunch, it just never really did anything for me. It's been five or six years since the last time I listened to it, and I'm sure I'll play it again at some point. I don't hate Human, Death was a great project and they've been a big influence on my writing. I listen to everything from Spiritual Healing on. But I almost always play Sound Of Perseverance or Symbolic first. SOP in particular has Chuck's best vocals and IMO his most personal lyrics. The feeling in that album is gut-wrenching at times. That's his legacy, for me. Reading some of his other lyrics, you can almost get the sense that he knew what was coming, but on that album it's totally apparent.

Prince Humperdinck's horse has a cheetah print saddle! Fucking cheetah print! How did I never notice that? Ha!

I'm watching The Princess Bride. Oh fuck yes.

The Negation, I didn't get down with their later stuff. Columbo or Poirot?

I'll get cracking on that right away.

Oh, and, pics or it didn't happen!

Re: What Are You doing? (Picture Version)

No, I'd imagine you're considerably more reserved.

I envy you right now. We have some awesome beef in the fridge, but my wife keeps saying it's for a lasagna and I'm not allowed to touch it. So i just had some pan-fried Chinese chicken dumplings and a Scotch ale. Can't complain, I guess...

Human as an album isn't my favorite. I love some of the songs, but as a whole I feel like it drags. Individual Thought Patterns, Sound Of Perseverance, and Symbolic are the ones I always got into the most. I don't get why some people take a dump on Symbolic, it's a great album. There's nothing wrong with being approachable. It took me a long time to start liking Death, and I'm still not that into anything before Spiritual Healing.

Isa is amazing, they definitely found a different voice on that album (I think the Red Harvest drummer had a good bit to do with it). My initial impression of Ruun was the same as yours, but it grew on me quite a bit, and now I sometimes prefer it to Isa. Those two are my favorites after Below The Lights, although I haven't listened to RIITIIR yet. I'm not a huge fan of their older stuff. I liked some of Blodhemn although it's been years since I listened to it, and Mardraum and Monumension never did much for me - they do seem to be fan favorites but for some reason they haven't clicked in my head yet.