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I prefer eBay as well. I've said this before' date=' but you ought to see if you can find an Australian distro to buy from, I think Modern Invasion has a bunch of licensing deals with other labels for Australian distribution, so I would check with them.[/quote'] I can tell you now, NEVER buy from carton.pl. My brother ordered a Division By Zero shirt for me more than a month ago and according to USPS it hasn't even left Poland yet.
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What's on my mind... Well I'm kinda feeling like an ass because I haven't posted in like a week and a half and I miss you clowns. Things have just been nuts with life and work, and I always am much happier when I can post here. I've been spending nearly every drop of my free time with my business partner cranking out 3D models and texturing them, and he's pretty much my creative soul mate if that even makes any sense. The way some people can just come together and jam on music and it's pure fucking harmony, that's how we are with what we do. So we've been bingeing on our latest project which is coming along great -- we're doing some terrain pieces. I've overindulged though so I need to reel it in, and wrap the project up and focus on what we'll do next. In other news I got a haircut today. Hair was down to mah butt, cut it up about 4-5" to my hips. Haircuts are always such an awesome treat.

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AAaah! Force hugs! My back and ribs... ugh... can't breathe... On my mind - lyrics and vocals for the last and most chaotic song on the album, and then, I need to do some artwork. And then I need to send it off to the presses and write another one. But I have to say, as proud as I am of this material, I want to write something real with other people based on sounds we all make with our instruments. Too many metal albums are fiction. I was telling a friend, we've got entire genres of music built on things most people can't actually play. Somehow it's not good enough. Or maybe it's just late and I'm tired...

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I haven't gotten a haircut in years...:D I can only grow it about halfway down my back at the longest part. Sad thing is, my hair doesn't grow uniformly so the hair in the front only just touches my armpits. That and it gets really disgusting in this humid East Coast weather, it's just perpetually greasy and matted. Maddening.

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I had to lose the hair. I've had it down to the middle of my back three times, and each time I got tired of it, hated the way it looked, didn't like dealing with it. The kid clinched it. The hair had to go. Right now I'm growing out a moustache to go with my beard thing, for kicks, and it makes me look ten years older, which ain't great. I should bathe in Nair.

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AAaah! Force hugs! My back and ribs... ugh... can't breathe...
its like you know me! o.o *gives really epic hugs*
and then' date=' I need to do some artwork. [/quote'] Do you have a specific idea or direction or theme or subject matter in mind? Will you be doing your usual painting style or something different?
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I had to lose the hair. I've had it down to the middle of my back three times' date=' and each time I got tired of it, hated the way it looked, didn't like dealing with it. The kid clinched it. The hair had to go. Right now I'm growing out a moustache to go with my beard thing, for kicks, and it makes me look ten years older, which ain't great. I should bathe in Nair.[/quote'] Nair on your balls is a bad idea. Take it from someone who had a friend who did it....
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Could be worse, I can't grow my hair out because I end up looking like Shaggy for about a month, hate the look, get it cut and repeat every single fucking time. Also on my mind: I want to write more lyrics. I also think I want to change my uni degree to a literature course and become a writer for a living (with some other things on the side since you can't make a living as a writer any more).

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I haven't gotten a haircut in years...:D I can only grow it about halfway down my back at the longest part. Sad thing is, my hair doesn't grow uniformly so the hair in the front only just touches my armpits. That and it gets really disgusting in this humid East Coast weather, it's just perpetually greasy and matted. Maddening.
Yeah most people have a maximum length their hair will reach ever, some people's hair will grow without stopping. I think I have that gene! Hair grows like a weed, about an inch a month. You should use a good keratin serum on your hair, it will keep it from getting matted and frizzy from the humidity, and a really nice dry shampoo spray for your roots to keep them from getting greasy. I have some stuff that will keep my roots from going greasy for days. Yup that's right. Metalhead beauty advice. You're welcome.
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its like you know me! o.o *gives really epic hugs*
:) You did say "force"...
Do you have a specific idea or direction or theme or subject matter in mind? Will you be doing your usual painting style or something different?
I have a couple of ideas. It depends on what I wind up calling the album, and since it's so personal I feel like I should do something hand-drawn, but I've stayed away from incorporating my paintings into band artwork for years now. I'm not sure why. But yes, I do have thoughts. It's been too long since I painted. I wish I understood what you meant about having a "creative soul mate"... Creative relationships really don't last for me, they rarely work at all. I'm at my best locked in a room for a week. Just as long as it's a room with art stuff and computers and microphones.
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