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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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As the leader of the University's wildly-popular taiko troupe' date=' I resent your tone. :P[/quote'] I think taiko drumming is fully metal, and a metal band backed up by taiko could be amazing. the flute music that sometimes goes with it I would prefer to see left out, but I love taiko. How many drummers are there in your troupe? Do you bounce around and play each others drums? That is the coolest.
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Been watching Sam Dunn's 'Metal Evolution'. It's just as bad as 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey'. So far the only worthwhile documentary this clown has been involved in is 'Global Metal' and even that is only half decent. Maybe I'll transfer to sociology and undertake a serious study of the metal subculture.

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Really hate how one small thing can make my mood go from completely good to completely not.
I am the same way and it irritates me a lot, but on the flip side I've realized it works both ways and one small thing can send me right back into a good mood, its finding out what those things are that presents a challenge but acknowledging their existence makes it all the more easy to attain. And I sound like a FUCKING hippy right now >.
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Been watching Sam Dunn's 'Metal Evolution'. It's just as bad as 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey'. So far the only worthwhile documentary this clown has been involved in is 'Global Metal' and even that is only half decent. Maybe I'll transfer to sociology and undertake a serious study of the metal subculture.
Too much analysis and subjectivity involved, your brain would implode. Stick to your guns.
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I am the same way and it irritates me a lot' date=' but on the flip side I've realized it works both ways and one small thing can send me right back into a good mood, its finding out what those things are that presents a challenge but acknowledging their existence makes it all the more easy to attain. And I sound like a FUCKING hippy right now >.<[/quote'] Not metal enough. Leave immediately.
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Hey black how's the weather in Georgia
If you enjoy being coated by a sticky film of filth produced by the marsh and the sun's incessant biological buttfucking the moment you step outside into a 97 degree meadow of misery, its goddamn wonderful. I work outside, and am required to wear a full uniform at all times, so I'm always bitter as fuck this time of year haha.
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If you enjoy being coated by a sticky film of filth produced by the marsh and the sun's incessant biological buttfucking the moment you step outside into a 97 degree meadow of misery, its goddamn wonderful. I work outside, and am required to wear a full uniform at all times, so I'm always bitter as fuck this time of year haha.
That's right, they still have chain gangs down that way. :D
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I am the same way and it irritates me a lot' date=' but on the flip side I've realized it works both ways and one small thing can send me right back into a good mood, its finding out what those things are that presents a challenge but acknowledging their existence makes it all the more easy to attain. And I sound like a FUCKING hippy right now >.<[/quote'] Yep, I am the type that depending on my mood that particular day, heh, I can be very easy to please, but also very easy to displease. Something like, boyfriend not wanting to go to casino to play michael jackson machine with me when I had my hopes up all day to go made me go from real uppity to silent. hahaha
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I think taiko drumming is fully metal' date=' and a metal band backed up by taiko could be amazing. the flute music that sometimes goes with it I would prefer to see left out, but I love taiko. How many drummers are there in your troupe? Do you bounce around and play each others drums? That is the coolest.[/quote'] Right now there are eight of us. But we've had trouble getting proper university funding in the past (shouldn't be as hard now that we're more prominent; we're only two years old and last year was my first as leader/president, so we've mostly just been getting a feel for actually being an RSO) so there are only four drums, plus one flute (mine), a shaker, a tambourine, and a cymbal. Even with a seemingly-jank setup, though, we've reached enough fame to get invited to pretty much every major cultural event/arts event on campus, so what we lack in equipment we make up for in energy and awesomeness. (; Our newest song does indeed involve some switching of drums (more specifically, the two center drummers do a thing where they spin past each other to switch). My dream is to convince the rest of our members to participate in some kind of metal-inspired composition. I would love to try a keytar someday...and one of those continuum fingerboards! They are so cool.
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CannibL corpse didn't get banned. From Starland ball room
I remembeer hearing they had some shows cancelled in their early years. I know for a fact that they have to use alternate album covers in Australia, their first three albums are banned in New Zealand and they are banned from performing any song from their first three albums in Germany.
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