Dusty Chalk

Bell & Ross have been listening to my requests, apparently. They have been coming out with this color combination they call "phantom", which is pretty much straight up my alley. Alas, they're still in the >US$1K range, and limited, so I doubt I'll ever own these either.

Yeah, I have to admit, it's a great concept, and if I ever become a big famous rock star, I will probably do something "eventful" like that. Maybe side projects as tribute bands.

Okay, how about "no, because that was a cover?", even if of a whole album. That would be like me asking of my string quartet tribute version of DSOTM counts as DSOTM. It doesn't. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that Is There Anybody Out There? does not count as The Wall. They (Les Claypool, et al) didn't play the riff right in "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" -- they didn't even bother to play that whole grace note thingy, IIRC (I only listened to it once). On the other hand, Out Of Phase's version of Animals ("Animals 2001") is freakin' inspired. As is the reggae version of DSOTM -- they even matched the beats on that one, so that you could still do the Wizard of Oz thing if you wanted.

No, because that version sucked.

Yeah, I have to admit to being underwhelmed by their Remain in Light gig. Their original material I enjoy, but for some reason, don't dig their covers. Same as Gov't Mule. No idea why. Which reminds me: multiple Talking Heads stuff; also, NIN and Tori Amos. EDIT: Also: Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Gary Numan.

Yeah, but which MFSL version? I have both. And why do you have the Japanese SACD and not the domestic SACD? I mean, I understand the other way around, but not the way you did it. Do you have a bootleg of the Halloween concert at which Phish performed the whole thing, though? I'm guessing your response will be "multiple versions".

This is going to be hard for me, as I grew up on vinyl and never got rid of any of it (I had over 2K records at last count), and replaced much of it on CD. Now I'm doing the same with SACD and DVD-A, but at anywhere near the same rate. And yes, that includes a truckload of Depeche Mode, New Order, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Rush, Yes, some Skinny Puppy (had mostly fallen for CD by then), Art of Noise, and so on.

Why don't you just stick with the 300B monoblocks? It just seems that if you're trying to drive earspeakers (AKG's term for the K1000's) with a headphone amp, it's like trying to stick a square peg into a round hole. Sorry if I'm repeating myself, it's a pet peeve of mine -- people keep wanting to drive all their headphones and their K1000's with their headphone amp, but only their speakers with their speaker amp, when it really should be "all their headphones with their headphone amp, and their speakers and their K1000's with their speaker amp(s)". If not the 300B monoblocks, something else then.

Hmmm... You know, just because you say, "I don't do this", doesn't mean that you don't actually do this, it just means either (a) you're an idiot and you don't know what you're doing, or ( you're a double-talking slimeball. Not that it matters which you are, but I suspect you're not an idiot. You just like to play one when it's convenient.

Sometimes emails get lost -- try sending him another message through eBay, and also politely but assertively include a deadline to at least respond (I usually give 3 days), after which you should start the process of "no communication from seller" or whatnot. Check your deadlines, make sure you don't miss them. Also, check your spam -- sometimes the seller's email to you gets lost, too.

Whether or not it was initially on purpose, (a) it is something you should have known would happen, and ( you still responded in a certain way -- a way that most people would not have responded. The backlash was warranted, you should have known it, quit whining, and take it like a man. Billy, the backlash wasn't even directed at you, but you still seem to ask for it. What sort of fucked up personality craves backlash, so much that they would crave someone else's backlash? And it's not "ganging up" as I already explained. There's no conspiracy. When you post the way you do, or the way he does, everyone has this disease called "I bet I can explain it to him in a way that will make him understand", so you get multiple people responding with various degrees of vehemence. If you can't take it, log off now. Or just go back to lurking.

I don't know, somehow that shouldn't be in a thread called "slow forum", it's kind of spastic.

Don't give me this holier-than-thou bullshit. Practice what you fucking preach, show us how superior leading said lifestyle is, and I'll consider it. Oh, wait, not when it's inconvenient for you to hold it in. Ah, well then, them's the breaks.

Awesome. Left-handed people are so creative.

It's plagued with problems. Actors jumping ship; the villain is downright boring (all he does is the tall dark and gaysome brooding thing that Angel makes fun of so well); oh, and there is just way too many actual tears. That said, I just watched 10 episodes (the entire first box) in about 24 hours. The writers did manage to keep things moving along. And there's just something about the British where they just excel at snarkiness. So I'd say it's more like British Buffy meets Charmed with a little Bewitched thrown in. There's very little "teh funneh" thrown in -- at least, not out-and-out Joss Whedon funny, more understated "Dr. Who" funny. To synopsize: a qualified thumbs-up.

You assume we're doing it to make you feel bad -- or, as you imply, to make others around here "appreciate" us -- that's not true. I don't know about anyone else, but I just do it because it's fun -- I do it for me. I happen to know that it makes at least half a dozen fellow headcasers uncomfortable when I call people names, and when I get reminded of that in real life, I feel bad...for maybe 30 seconds or so, and then I get over it.

Billy, there's no conspiracy. I'm not even on chat. Here's what happens. Someone -- for example, you, for another example trose, for a third example me -- comes in and posts something. Those posts can be divided up -- overgeneralizing, but still applies -- into the kind of posts that get attention, and the kind that do not. Those that get attention can be divided up into the kind that gets good attention, and the kind that does not. So someone came in and made a post that got attention, and you're what? Surprised that it got attention? Okay, so here's what else happens: everyone who reads this, takes it as an opportunity to have a one-on-one conversation with said attention whore. Now, imagine having a one-on-one conversation with 372 people (or whatever). It sure seems like a conspiracy, but actually it's just overwhelming. You should know this, you've gone through it yourself. And it's not just head-case, it's all of the fucking internet. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the internet. It's very simple. All of us who have not been dropped on our heads as a child have figured it out years ago, some of us who are learning hindered keep making the same mistakes repeatedly. Left as an exercise to the reader which is which.

Quoted for irony.

And that makes you ... what? The tough guy standing up to the tough guys? Like you said, it's just the internet, someone overe here, someone over there. How are you any better? I mean, other than in your own mind? We've at least thought this through -- we see asshat extraordinaire as perpetuating questionable product as ridiculously superior with post quantity. What else do we need to know? And you have the gall to say that we should somehow set a superior example? That's the epitome of irony, right there. Don't try to spin who you "really are" that way, Billy, we don't fall for it. We know your faults, and that's as much part of who you really are as the occasional apology. EDIT: <DARE DELETED.> On second thought, don't, I don't want to hear more of your spin-doctoring.

Hex, Complete First Season -- British, dead people, the supernatural, violence, the occasional booby, lesbian fantasies, fallen angels... ...oh, and school. What's not to like?

Billy, you are an idiot. Really. If I said, "now watch, Billy's going to post like all illiterate, with grammar problems and spelling mistakes", and then, after you do, I could then say, "see, now that just proves my point". That's what you're trying to do right now. I ain't fallin' for it. You're full of shit, and you should just quit while you're as far behind as you are. Fucking spin-doctor.

Billy, I don't need an excuse to pick on you, I just do. You are retarded. That's not an excuse, that's just me picking on you. I don't have an excuse. I don't need an excuse. Sorry about your thin skin. Even the one you wear for someone else...or is it? Also, I don't understand the point of your story. What's wrong with wearing pink shirts? I actually applaud that group for how they handled the situation. Double-clique.

Must be Billy pretending to be trose, that's the only explanation I can come up with why he would defend him so. Billy, the only reason you'd accuse us of those things is because you'd try them yourself. I know there's more than once back when you were friends with Mark that you called him in here to "help you out".

"Reason"? We don't need no steenkeeng "reason" to call someone a name. "Billy". It just sometimes makes it easier to come up with a name to call them.