footle wrote:

Surely gender is optional?

footle
originally a MUD duck - gender definitely wasn't specified in the character creation setup
now just a random collection of atoms making up theories of the universe as it goes along

Speak for yourself mate...;-)

Hi Garcia,

I'm just walking through the neighborhood dispensing gifts all around and of couse I had to visit here as well. Here is a little something for when you don't know what music to put on.

* gives a box set with all the Ayreon CD's *

Hope you like it.

*sprinkles glitter (or is it fairy dust?) in the doorway, winks and leaves*

Oh one other present I forgot...

*hands Garcia Metallica's masterpiece Master of Puppets*

Hi Garcia! Nice pandemonium!

The name of this makes me fervently miss Pandy (old Tad-world friend).

*plays a missing-Pandy melody*

[ August 15, 2001: Message edited by: Marian ]

Good morning, folks! Scorpiana, MoP, Libbette, and Nolan, thank you for all the lovely presents!

roguewill, welcome to my little house of music. Take a seat but don't forget to mosh in the open air area behind the house! We have a mudpit there for the Mud People, and a lot of nice views directly to the stage! I'm sure Nolan is going to join you there!

*throws Libbette's glitter around* Together with the disco ball my bedroom turns into a great 80ies disco. Dance, people, dance!

Shads, I opened a NIN room just for you, hehe. And Marian, a PM is on the way to you!

Oh, and Bumadax: Feel free to ramble about music here. It seems as if music is as important to you as it is to me, therefore I would be happy to have you around more often!

I like that quote, footle ... Looking forward to seeing you later.

Which brings me to an idea: Those who stumble into my little house of music should post their favourite lyrics, maybe with a short explanation why they like it.

[ August 16, 2001: Message edited by: Garcia ]

Please do, Shads, I need some life in my house ...

Garcia, would you care to hear my audio-blerbs?

Okay well...start with the obvious...

Hurt, on The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails

*mild warning, may offend*

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
That old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away
In the end

And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away
In the end

And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way


To tell you the truth...I can't say why I love this song.  Musically, it is skeletal, and hauntingly beautiful.  Lyrically, it touches so many truths...
It says something I often don't have the strength to say.....

Favourite lyrics, favourite lyrics ... How many Gigabytes does this server provide?

Well, alright, here's one:

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

(Final stanza from Dylan's My Back Pages. For whole text see here)

Why this one? I eventually understood at least some of what he says in the song only years after, when I finally turned my back on university.

Those are cool lyrics, d!


snore snore snore

Gah, I saw ATR at the 2000 BDO.  They really WERE noise.