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    Top 10 Favorite Bands

    In no particular order: Sleep King Crimson Electric Wizard Big Black Agalloch Intronaut My Bloody Valentine Godspeed You! Black Emperor Samothrace Converge
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    Beer appreciation thread

    A treat for any upper Midwesterners:
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    Help me choose a music related research topic!

    I recently read an interesting quote from the contemporary Austrian composer, Arnold Schoenberg stating, "dissonance and liberation." Perhaps researching his development of the 12-tone scale and its impact on 20th and 21st century music would be good?
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    Official What Are You Reading Thread:

    Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
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    Brutal/Deathcore/Grindcore is NOT Music!- The Butthurt and Misunderstanding is strong

    WTF is brutaldeathgrindcore? I realize that to some, they sound the same, but I love my grindcore and powerviolence, but I'm not a fan at all of deathcore or brutal death metal. What made me the angriest was talking of Anal Cunt and Suicide Silence in the same breath. Edit: all your power...
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    First semester of college is over and...

    3.02 after first semester of Sophomore year, but I'm going to a pretty tough school and once those 100s are out of the way, the coursework can be interesting enough to keep my attention so I can get better grades:lol:
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    The Game Username Thread

    Platform: Mac/Steam Username: Sgt. Gerry Boyle Games played on Steam: CSGO, TF2, L4D2, Endless Space, LOTR:O, Assassin's Creed 2, KOTOR (a few of those are primarily single player)
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    Steam Holiday Sale!

    Picked up Assassin's Creed 2, Endless Space, KOTOR (oh the nolstalgia!), L4D2, and the Legend of Grimrock. Good haul
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    Official What Are You Reading Thread:

    Recently finished Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, brilliant how his wit shines through the working-class Scottish language of much of his prose and how he writes of big ideas focalized through small, drug-addled minds. Now reading: JRR Tolkein: The Simarillion...
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    Favorite Metal Genre?

    Voted sludge, but my favorite's anything that's slow and heavy from Eyehategod to Evoken.
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    Favorite band name?

    Two come to mind immediately: Agoraphobic Nosebleed and All Pigs Must Die
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    Where in the world are YOU?

    Now I'm at college in St. Paul, MN: This is home, Fox Island:
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    Your favorite album artwork?

    So iconic:
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    The postmodernism generator

    Not a quote from the postmodernist school, but it's very relevant to this thread and one that I try to understand: "There is nothing true anywhere The true is nowhere to be found. If you say you see the True, This seeing is not the true one. When the True is left to itself, There is...
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    Your favourite things in the world

    Philosophy Northern European epic poetry and folklore Weed Craft Beer Art Films (especially Ingmar Bergman) Modernist Poetry Fuzz Pedals Bagpipes Quiche Burritos Gnocchi Wild Turkey Barbecue Sandwiches and finally... Old Books
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