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Man Bandcamp is proving good for coming across new music...it's like Myspace crossed with Amazon/Napster recommendations and way easier to use. I've got 16 tabs open to different albums, and I already discovered two new groups.

Yeah the app works well too for streaming on the go. Crap for purchasing though. I love those occasional Sunday afternoons when I hop on Bandcamp and go off on little voyage of discovery based entirely on visiting other people's collections. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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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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Yeah the app works well too for streaming on the go. Crap for purchasing though. I love those occasional Sunday afternoons when I hop on Bandcamp and go off on little voyage of discovery based entirely on visiting other people's collections.

Yeah, that's exactly what I've been doing.

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That's not a bad idea, but the initial problem was overuse followed by a work injury. It healed up a couple of years ago and then I hurt it again running.  Pretty sure I'd need surgery to get it back to what it used to be. 

 

Yeah knee injuries suck all kinds of ass. I consider myself lucky that the worst thing I've done to my knee was a severe sprain. Speaking of injuries it is insanely frustrating to finally, after 10 weeks of physio and rehab get the all clear from your hamstring/hamstring tendon tear (apparently 10-12 weeks is the norm for that kind of injury and I can see why) only to get sick and miss another three weeks of training. It's to a point now where my coaches won't let me back on a tandem until I've put in a solid month of hard work indoors. So the plan is a week of moderate workout just getting the legs rolling over and the heart-rate up a bit. From there it's 2 hour sets twice a day + 1 hour core workout.

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I'm sorry to hear that Midi. Get well soon!

Lately, I've been a bit more busy again, so that means I have less time to spend on the forum here. I've worked out my interview My Dying Bride and I will post a summary of that here next week. Also, they've announced an European edition of Maryland Deathfest here in the Netherlands. I'm pretty curious which bands will play, but since MDF is involved, you can't go wrong I guess.

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I've been approved to stay on with the Center during the fall semester, which is good. My prospects after that are less certain but I'm also much less terrified about not having a job afterward, the stuff I'm doing is pretty transferable and if I end up doing this African Studies certificate that should be good as well.

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I've been approved to stay on with the Center during the fall semester, which is good. My prospects after that are less certain but I'm also much less terrified about not having a job afterward, the stuff I'm doing is pretty transferable and if I end up doing this African Studies certificate that should be good as well.

Well done Iceni :)

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Indeed, congrats Iceni! Btw, is it just me or is it really silent here at the moment? Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-I9505 met Tapatalk

You're right, it's pretty quiet. For myself, I've been working hard on a new song, and I haven't had time to post much or listen to more than a song or two of anything new. On the upside, I just went on a nice little hike with my family, had some great barbecue for dinner, and got to try a lovely beer that certainly didn't taste like it was nearly 12% alcohol...

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Horse? I've eaten some interesting things but horse seems odd even to me. Fish burgers are pretty common here but I've never had a decent one. Had a brilliant crocodile burger at a tavern a couple years back though and I guess that could technically count as seafood? Also a phenomenal kangaroo burger with a pepper berry sauce yay for native ingredients being put to good use.

Also now I want kangaroo so good on me for that. 'Roo is very tasty if you get it right though inedible if cooked beyond the rarer side of medium rare.

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Seriously?! I had to google what conch is and, really?! We dont mix sea food with burgers here. :D Its pretty traditional, a meat or a vegetable pattie. But we do have killer horse burgers..but thats as far as we go. :D

I was surprised too, but yeah, it was really tasty. Horse meat is very hard to find over here; I've never seen it on a menu. The elk was awesome, and I love venison as well, but I've never been able to handle eating goat, and I've been turned off by lamb lately too. 

"Seafood" isn't a good clade by any means, but putting crocodile in that category seems like a bit of a stretch to me...

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Yeah I thought that as soon as I said it. Tasty though. I quite like venison as well easily one of the better tasting meats I've eaten. Goat too for that matter though perhaps it was the method by which the goat was cooked. A delicately balanced Indian curry was my only experience with goat. I don't like camel, it's gross and I don't know how anyone could actually enjoy eating that, also gone off pork a little recently.

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Crocodiles, kamels, kangaroos..waw. We dont have any of these. We mostly eat poultry, beef and pork.. You dont see horse meat as an independant dish often, only in burgers..But we do eat a lot of hmm..weird word, "game", deer and such, since we have lots of forests and hunters.. Ive even noticed a "bear goulash" being sold..but thats just too much for me. Just like crocs, kamels and kangaroos. :S My personal favorite type of meat is lamb.. when im not toying around being a vegetarian.. :/

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I bought some meat labeled vainde (meat), in Paris once, and brought it back to the housemates to be informed that it was surely horse and would need a lot of cooking. That made me feel pretty cosmopolitan in the long run, but was not especially delicious.  Crocodile is hard to find here in Maine, but I've always got my eye out, as it is fantastic. Never ate a camel, as far as I know, but I'd love to get my hands on one of the alpacas around here. There are a load of them standing around simpering like petulant adolescent douche bags. Sadly there seems to be this strange idea that they are valuable, so no one gets to eat them, yet. I'm sure that will all change, and I'm certain they will taste delicious. The nervous apprehension of the alpaca itself shows that it is delicious.

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