The Confessional Thread

[ladyislingering]

Originally Posted by Cheese

what can i say? i'm a serial hoarder

there's a show in the states about hoarding.

but those people have dozens of cat corpses in their garages just because they have so much shit.

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by ladyislingering

there's a show in the states about hoarding.

but those people have dozens of cat corpses in their garages just because they have so much shit.

Mines all usable stuff and unless you were looking for it you'd never know i hoard

[Mr. Charlie]

Originally Posted by ladyislingering

I have another sort of sad confession: I have a hard time enjoying the company of people whose musical taste is unsatisfactory. And my opinion of people changes based on whether or not they can follow when I namedrop my favorite bands/songs/albums.

I also harshly judge young people who don't have an appreciation for history and antiques.

See, this is why I think animals are often more intelligent than humans. Animals care that you treat them with love. That's it. We humans, we get hung up on politics and philosophies, taste in clothes and music, and other trivial matters. Not having a go at you by the way, I too let stupid stuff colour my opinion of others.

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by ladyislingering

I also harshly judge young people who don't have an appreciation for history and antiques.

appreciation for history that is written only by the victors and leaves out so much of what really happened?

[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by ladyislingering

Every time I find another band from the 70s to become obsessed with, I'm both happy and sad. Happy because I love great music, but sad because I have hardly a soul to share it with because the rest of my generation is buried inside of daft bullshit.

I think I can relate somewhat. I have a deep love and appreciation for classical music, and one of the only places I can talk about it is MB. Because there are a few like minded people here. My friends like classical as well, but nobody wants to have conversations about the great pieces and the history behind them, or the Common Practice Periods, or the significance of Bach's death, or anything like that. So I went online to seek out people who would enjoy those conversations and from whom I could learn and be challenged. That's what brought me here initially.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Sequoioideae

I know I'm going on a tangent here, but is it wise to not talk about something someone doesn't know about, isn't that how we find out about new things? I've been thinking with the internet and all, it's really easy to just ignore people in real life to go find a community on a forum to satisfy your need for people with similar interests. It feels like we're becoming more and more like a race of bubble men/women.

Well, I could bang my head against a wall trying to find people in real life who've ever even heard of Electric Wizard, let alone Reverend Bizarre or Saint Vitus, or I could cut my losses and go where there's a legitimate chance I can actually find like-minded people. Whether or not it puts me in a bubble is sort of beside the point, since, at least when it comes to music, I'll be in a bubble regardless of where I go.

Originally Posted by djchameleon

appreciation for history that is written only by the victors and leaves out so much of what really happened?

We won. Yon lost. Deal with it.

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by Burning Down

I think I can relate somewhat. I have a deep love and appreciation for classical music, and one of the only places I can talk about it is MB. Because there are a few like minded people here. My friends like classical as well, but nobody wants to have conversations about the great pieces and the history behind them, or the Common Practice Periods, or the significance of Bach's death, or anything like that. So I went online to seek out people who would enjoy those conversations and from whom I could learn and be challenged. That's what brought me here initially.

Nerd!

Originally Posted by The Batlord

We won. Yon lost. Deal with it.

Boo.

Idk it just always seem that people that are into history only like what's on the surface and only like the superficial things associate with certain periods of time and/or a decade. They don't really like history to go deeper and see what is missing from the history books they have learned from.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by djchameleon

Boo.

Idk it just always seem that people that are into history only like what's on the surface and only like the superficial things associate with certain periods of time and/or a decade. They don't really like history to go deeper and see what is missing from the history books they have learned from.

While the Eurocentrism of the American education system (and Europe I'm assuming) can be annoying I see nothing wrong with history as a self-indulgent hobby. My minor obsession with feudal Japan has nothing to do with learning lessons from history, but I still can't help but be fascinated by Ieyasu Tokugawa, and Yukimura Sanada, and the Battle of Sekigahara, etc. Now who's a nerd talking about **** nobody else cares about?

[Ninetales]

Originally Posted by ladyislingering

Feeling your pain, man. Someone I work with recently asked me what I listen to, and since I just don't have the energy to deal with that particular person (or many other people who talk too much and think too little) I just sort of babbled off what I've been listening to lately, and I dropped some names - Strawberry Alarm Clock, Electric Prunes, T. Rex... and I kid you not, the kid was like "are you even saying words right now?" (he literally said that) and I thought to myself "LOL YEP THIS CONVERSATION IS OVER, GET LOST, BYE"

Someone should seriously just put us away forever.

I think you are assuming too much. I mean those bands are hardly in the upper echelon of popularity even as far as 60s/70s music goes (im not familiar with Strawberry Alarm Clock). Dont get me wrong it would be nice if more people I knew were interested in the music I liked, but im not gonna scoff at people for not loving black metal or krautrock.

Most of my friends have vastly different tastes in music than what I really love and Im glad tbh. Although Im pretty easy going with music anyway and im usually down to listen to whatever. But i dont try and force my music on them. Its pretty easy for me to have common ground with anyone so i roll with that.

[Frownland]

You probably don't recognize them by name, but I'm sure you've heard this piece by SAC.