I'm bored

Assassin · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:50 am Post subject:

Though I would like to see this in the Hall of Fame.

Dunkinbean · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:51 am Post subject:

Dunkinbean · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:56 am Post subject:

So uh, to answer your question, those songs are all stuff you probably woudn't like.

Efreit · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:57 am Post subject:

Insubördinum · Member since 1999 Joined: 20 Nov 1999 Posts: 2945

I Care Because You Do was fairly engaging, melodically. Also, the singles from that period. On, Donkey Rhubarb and the other one.

A SAW 3 would kick ass.

Assassin · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:58 am Post subject:

To be honest, I'm younger than I look, and older than I act.

Assassin · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:00 am Post subject:

And my parents keep telling me that I'll stop growing soon. I find it funny that they have to keep buying me new pants every couple of weeks.

Edit: Shirts are taken care of. I wear my dad's shirts. My dad's not even three inches taller than me. And he's supposed to be three inches shorter than me eventually. Poor short old dad.

Efreit · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:01 am Post subject:

Why don't they just buy massive pants, and tell you'll grow into them? Isn't that what every single parent on the planet does?
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Dunkinbean · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:03 am Post subject:

Ironicly, if you asked my to name my favorite albums, I woudn't have very many Aphex on there....the only Aphex album that I think is consistent enough is The Ventolin Remixes.

Knowing RDJ's personality, he probably won't ever make one for that very reason.

Assassin · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:04 am Post subject:

They keep thinking I'll stop growing. Laughing

In fact, my pants are the same length as my dad's pants. I just have a smaller waist. In fact, due to the fact that I'm incredibly slim and ripped for someone who's spent the past year sitting on his ass and eating donuts, they don't make pants that fit me perfectly. They always expect me to either be shorter or fatter.

Insubördinum · Member since 1999 Joined: 20 Nov 1999 Posts: 2945

Yeah, some people can just pen song after song of amazing stuff and never get tired. There are others, who are total geniuses at crafting the music itself, but struggle to put together one song, which usually sucks. It's weird.

The average subject matter you get in most songs wears down on my patience a bit after a while, hence my penchant for instrumentals.

Efreit · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:06 am Post subject:

Why me?
It isn't fair...
Love left me in the lurch
I miss the smell of her hair

I can't take this anymore
I'm starting to go insane
Please, oh please ooooh
Come back to me Jane

Speaking of common themes in songs, does this sound familiar?
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Assassin · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:10 am Post subject:

This proves my point about the randomness. We're back to music. What'll we be discussing next, what color underwear we're wearing?

[PLEASE NOTE: THAT WAS A BAD ATTEMPT AT A JOKE. PLEASE DO NOT MENTION YOUR UNDERWEAR.]

Insubördinum · Member since 1999 Joined: 20 Nov 1999 Posts: 2945

Lyrics, yeah. Should've paid more attention when I wrote that.

Ted Hitler · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:14 am Post subject:

Bleh. I'm struggling with songwriting myself... just the lyrics part. I've actually got a battle of the bands kind of thing coming up in two days and we banged out a song for it today, but I don't have any lyrics and I have no idea where to start. It shouldn't be this hard, it doesn't have to be poetry... I think my mind's been tainted with the horrendously bad lyrics of music lately (especially of all the Avril clones, but a lot of post-grunge type stuff too)...

Assassin · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:15 am Post subject:

I can write lyrics. Sometimes. And I can never write music. And I can sometimes sing. Usually not.

Efreit · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:15 am Post subject:

What kind of song are you writing?
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Insubördinum · Member since 1999 Joined: 20 Nov 1999 Posts: 2945

Steal some.

Willie Mitchell · Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 2275

do to Dylan's website. He has all his lyrics to all his songs. Read a bunch and it'll get you in more of a lyric-writing mood, probably.

Start with a single line, and then spin it into a story

I always had a hard time coming up with stuff; those are always good tricks. I never write lyrics anyway, though. Never wrote melodies either until I learned how to write them down (i.e. recently). Why am I even talking.
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Ted Hitler · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:18 am Post subject:

It's nothing too fancy, 12 bar blues fast rocker kind of thing, with a modified turnaround so that it's clearly a new song... various elements of the Who and Van Halen stolen and spliced in... if I need some at the last minute I can throw together a bluesomatic cliche fest anyway though, no-one in the highschool auditorium with an incompetent sound crew is going to know the difference anyway.

Ted Hitler · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:21 am Post subject:

I think if I come within 100 feet of Dylan I'll get depressed about how I'll never be able to do that and be completely unproductive for a month... not looking for anything too fancy, though I will be looking for something too fancy once I flex my lyrical muscles a little more.

I guess we're in that state where we've played enough of other peoples' material to be a solid band and now we're looking to do our own and conquer the world... this is harder than it should be.

Willie Mitchell · Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 2275

You should go for some simpler Dylan - much more approachable, but equally mind-freshening and lyric-mood-putting-you-in-like
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Assassin · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:35 am Post subject:

This thread has been at or near the top of the board for over four hours now.

Ted Hitler · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:36 am Post subject:

Not a bad idea... but what I actually think I need is to have someone smack me until I stop being so insecure about coming off as sophomoric or preachy, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that you'll sound insincere somehow when you get stuck on that...

Insubördinum · Member since 1999 Joined: 20 Nov 1999 Posts: 2945

No one else in the band up to the task?

Like I said, you could always steal stuff or take drugs. Damn near every band I've played in did it, and got away with it. It's cheap and miserable, but hell, it's what college rock bands are good for.

Ted Hitler · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:39 am Post subject:

Nah, I'm basically the director of the whole operation, so I get to be the control freak... not that I wouldn't love some initiative that turned out to be good, but no, none of us are budding poets.

Willie Mitchell · Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 2275

You should post them here and I'll run you down for being sophomoric/preachy if you are, or something

Efreit · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:52 am Post subject:

Go the whole nine yards.

Scavenge weblogs and find the worst angst-poems you can find, and convert them into a song. The highschool students will love you for it.
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Insubördinum · Member since 1999 Joined: 20 Nov 1999 Posts: 2945

Writing lyrics while under the influence, I agree, but I've people unlock new, long-term creative abilities using them. Then again, it's risky business.

Walking at night is where I find most of my ideas. I guess because I live in fairly pleasant and peaceful surroundings, so I don't know if where you live it'll be a the same, or if it's an invitation to be gang-raped. A quite place outside is generally a good place to start, though.

Willie Mitchell · Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 2275

Long-term, yeah, agreed. Well, acid, anyway, I dunno about any of the others.

Walking is definitely a good thing. I can't think at all unless I'm walking.
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Efreit · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:08 am Post subject:

Walking late at night is good. I live in a pretty safe neighbourhood as well, and I like to get out of the house and go for a stroll every now and then. There are, however, suburbs I wouldn't go near, for fear of being ass-raped by a group of surly drunken pricks. I remember me and three friends were walking through one such suburb, when these guys approached us with knives. We just turned and ran, and thankfully these thugs were either too drunk or too unfit to keep up with us. You have no idea how unsafe I felt that night, despite the 4 locks it would have taken someone to break to get to me. Not to mention the baseball bat beside my bed.
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Neoenigma · **,,|,,(^_^),,|,,** Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 129

I can write some lyrics, and can sing pretty well I'm told...I play guitar as well...fun stuff, music is one of my passions
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Neoenigma · **,,|,,(^_^),,|,,** Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 129

Wow, it's amazing that a thread so simple as "I'm bored" will go on for hours....we must be pretty damn bored
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Flea · Puta Traidora Joined: 17 Oct 1999 Posts: 1376 Location: SD

Well, the only other thing going on is French people invading the Cabinet Noir boards.

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French People?!
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Assassin · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject:

I'm amazed at how long these discussions were continued. And all I had to say to start it was Metallica > You.

Who Cares · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject:

I can't believe I missed this thread.

Hey now, I usually write off 70% of the bland collegate rock/emo that Ninjew listens to (love man, love), but Dispatch rocks hardcore. Probably because I was listening to them before he was.

Come on Snip, I'm begging you to get back into this for my benefit. You can start with mauling moe.

Assassin · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:08 am Post subject:

Ah, so this thread was temporarily brought back from the dead? It's gone over everything from height to music. We should keep it alive just for discussing shit so pointless that it can't be discussed in the other "pointless shit" threads.