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Pensées Nocturnes - Grand Guignol Orchestra

I feel like I dropped acid, flew to France and went to the circus. But now I'm having a bad trip. The only thing I've ever really liked with the avant-garde tag was Celtic Frost back in the day and even then I generally skipped over all the avant tracks and just listened to the metal tunes. I guess that makes me closed minded or too serious or uptight or whatever but I just don't appreciate weird goofy shit mixed in with my metal. To each his own. I will say this makes HSN sound absolutely terrific by comparrison even though I actually can't stand them and their strangeness. 

 

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13 hours ago, Sheol said:

NGL, that sounds absolutely nightmarish. That's a lot of hours per day you're never getting back.

 

Well you have to remember Johan we are Americans after all. Given that time back we'd probably just waste those hours on some dumb shit like staring at our phones or social media or taking selfies or cleaning our guns or playing video games or watching porn or anime or superhero movies or we might even just be tempted to sleep them away. Is being in the car listening to music for 2 hours really so much worse and intolerable than any of those things?

That said I myself never had a particularly long commute back when I was working. Actually for many years I only had to go three minutes away from home to get to work in the morning, about a mile I guess, passed 2 stop signs not even a traffic light. Which was good because I had to be there at 4:30am. But then once I got to work I would spend about 8 - 10 - 12 hours a day driving, much of that in heavy traffic. The last two years before I quit I moved up to the north shore and then my company got bought out by a bigger company so I suddenly found myself with a 30 - 40 minute ride each way and I don't miss that shit at all. Most people don't have that long of a commute though, 2 or 3 hours is just the extreme bad luck multiple vehicular accidents or severe bad weather scenario if you live outside of a big city. 60 to 90 minutes each way is not uncommon in places like NY or SF or Chicago but 26.6 minutes is the national average.

Don't you Swedes ever have traffic over there? Or is that only around Stockholm, or just near the bridge to Copenhagen or what? Is this album cover what your daily commute looks like?

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32 minutes ago, ratpfink said:

My commute is 20 seconds from my coffeemaker to upstairs to the office. At some point I'll have to get back into the 30-45 minutes each way to drive downtown, but hoping my work lets us keep it down to once a week.

 

Same.  Even when I hit the road again travelling the north west of England each day I think my longer treks up to the Scottish Highlands and the North East side are over and we will stay on Teams/Zoom for meetings.

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Clandestine Blaze - Secrets of Laceration, would not be at all surprised to see this one on my list come January.

 

Could very well end on mine as well.

My commute to my normal office is 20 minutes. EP length. I do have to travel regularly for work, sometimes up to 5 hours a day. I don't really mind. It will get old one day, but for now it gives me time to think, listen to podcasts, and jam out. I've tried working from home, but honestly I don't really care for it. I'm redoing my home office, so that may change in the future.

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Wode - Burn in Many Mirrors - can't believe this is the same band that made Servants of the Countercosmos

 

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3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Don't you Swedes ever have traffic over there? Or is that only around Stockholm, or just near the bridge to Copenhagen or what? Is this album cover what your daily commute looks like?

Perennial Isolation - Portraits

 

This is exactly what it's like in all parts of Sweden that is not Stockholm. At least if you ask someone from Stockholm😄

I think most people have like 15-30 min commute to work here, though I know that in the bigger cities taking public transport can take up to an hour to get to work 😝 But from your description it sounds like US isn't that much worse than here, really.

At my old job I could get there in 7 min by car and 15 on bike, hard to get close than that really. Currently I work from home but my new job is located 600 km from here so I realistically will be wokring 95% from home even when the pandemic eases up.

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6 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Well you have to remember Johan we are Americans after all....

That said I myself never had a particularly long commute back when I was working. 

Don't you Swedes ever have traffic over there? Or is that only around Stockholm, or just near the bridge to Copenhagen or what? Is this album cover what your daily commute looks like?

 

I know this is way off topic, but really urban planning in the U.S. is bonkers shit. I mean there are some modern planned communities (Howard County and Rockville MD comes to mind) with centralized dense housing located near metros, park and ride lots and shopping within walking distances, but we generally are slaves to the frontier mentality, "Go West Young Man" and the 20th century romance of the automobile and highway system that leaves many of us in suburban or X-burbian (in my case) sprawl with our white picket fences large yards we spend fertilizing that then (where I live) runs into the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay watersheds and leads to poor water quality. 

Much of our best farmland in the Mid-Atlantic and North East is taken up by homes average people can't afford and large tracks of land that could be used to provide food for the nation. What would make obvious sense would be dense  housing close to  amenities and public transportation with improved infrastructure. But of course, that  would be radical socialism and not tolerated. 

Naught Metal, but I've been listening to John Eliot Gardiner's fantastic 2000 Bach Cantatas pilgrimage in the morning as I have my coffee and wake up. 

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I know this is way off topic, but really urban planning in the U.S. is bonkers shit. I mean there are some modern planned communities (Howard County and Rockville MD comes to mind) with centralized dense housing located near metros, park and ride lots and shopping within walking distances, but we generally are slaves to the frontier mentality, "Go West Young Man" and the 20th century romance of the automobile and highway system that leaves many of us in suburban or X-burbian (in my case) sprawl with our white picket fences large yards we spend fertilizing that then (where I live) runs into the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay watersheds and leads to poor water quality. 

Much of our best farmland in the Mid-Atlantic and North East is taken up by homes average people can't afford and large tracks of land that could be used to provide food for the nation. What would make obvious sense would be dense  housing close to  amenities and public transportation with improved infrastructure. But of course, that  would be radical socialism and not tolerated. 

Naught Metal, but I've been listening to John Eliot Gardiner's fantastic 2000 Bach Cantatas pilgrimage in the morning as I have my coffee and wake up. 

Die you commie socialist pig dog! How dare you use logic in this current day and age to spout common sense strategies that may help the average man. Go back to worshipping your bust of Marx in the basement and keep those thoughts to yourself before you give the youth the wrong idea about how this country could improve!

Sarcasm of course. I think you nailed it.

USBM day for me:

Wind of the Black Mountains - To Thou Unholy Serpents

Cobalt - Eater of Birds

Absu - Tara

Weakling - Dead As Dreams

Black Witchery - Inferno of Sacred Destruction

Profanatica - Disgusting Blasphemies Against God

Demoncy - Empire of the Fallen Angel

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