kriss

same. it's not that it's a bad album, it's just that it's really not up to the par of a lot of the other stuff they did before it and that's a major factor in why it's such a bummer. i don't know if it's the more polished tone of the record or what, but what caught me with Losing Streak or Hello Rockview isn't in this album.

Jared grabbed a ton of cassette racks the other day and gave me quite a few of them - I'm beyond appreciative!
 

surprised no one has thrown in American Hardcore yet.
Also, 1991: The Year Punk Broke as well as The Decline of Western Civilization (but not the second one from the 80's unless you want laughs). Another State of Mind is great as well but it comes off really scripted and planned at certain points - worth it for the Minor Threat and early Social D footage though. Kill Yr Idols is great as well if you like the early 80's No Wave stuff (as well as the no wave/post punk revival stuff of the early 2000's).

You didn't like the comment? Stop going around these boards posting equally condescending bullshit to people with less than xxx number of posts who haven't been on from day 1. Be a dick to people and people will be dicks back, eh?
Do you want another package or not? I promise this one will appeal to your sensibilities - maybe a Boxcar Racer LP for the board's favorite 30 year old teeny punk correspondant.

Now let's take a moment here. I did not see that Have Heart lp on your tradelist and I assumed off of what you had that you would genuinely enjoy the items I sent. I love that Tear It Up LP and figured you would, too. Apparently, however, obscurity means the band sucks versus me just getting you something stereotypically better known. Next time, I'll peruse the pages of AP for ideas. The note was completely tongue in cheek. Come on, man; I meant no malice. If you're genuinely sore about it, I will gladly send you a new package of stuff - no need to go into swearing at me. I DID try to get stuff in your interest range, afterall. Sorry that you took it as being a bad gift - would it have not been if I hadn't booby trapped it? No one ever plays pranks, they always play it super straight, I apologize for trying to step outside of that. If I was genuinely trying to give you a bad gift, would I have gotten things that I thought would be interesting to you? No, I would have gotten a half a dozen thrift store lp's and sent those. You may not have liked it, but I genuinely tried - I was unaware that there Are hidden rules for how to package a secret santa gift as well as what it's made up of.

Now let's take a moment here. I did not see that Have Heart lp on your tradelist and I assumed off of what you had that you would genuinely enjoy the items I sent. I love that Tear It Up LP and figured you would, too. Apparently, however, obscurity means the band sucks versus me just getting you something stereotypically better known. Next time, I'll peruse the pages of AP for ideas. The note was completely tongue in cheek. Come on, man; I meant no malice. If you're genuinely sore about it, I will gladly send you a new package of stuff - no need to go into swearing at me. I DID try to get stuff in your interest range, afterall. Sorry that you took it as being a bad gift - would it have not been if I hadn't booby trapped it? No one ever plays pranks, they always play it super straight, I apologize for trying to step outside of that. If I was genuinely trying to give you a bad gift, would I have gotten things that I thought would be interesting to you? No, I would have gotten a half a dozen thrift store lp's and sent those. You may not have liked it, but I genuinely tried - I was unaware that there Are hidden rules for how to package a secret santa gift as well as what it's made up of.

You didn't like the comment? Stop going around these boards posting equally condescending bullshit to people with less than xxx number of posts who haven't been on from day 1. Be a dick to people and people will be dicks back, eh?
Do you want another package or not? I promise this one will appeal to your sensibilities - maybe a Boxcar Racer LP for the board's favorite 30 year old teeny punk correspondant.

You didn't like the comment? Stop going around these boards posting equally condescending bullshit to people with less than xxx number of posts who haven't been on from day 1. Be a dick to people and people will be dicks back, eh?
Do you want another package or not? I promise this one will appeal to your sensibilities - maybe a Boxcar Racer LP for the board's favorite 30 year old teeny punk correspondant.

Now let's take a moment here. I did not see that Have Heart lp on your tradelist and I assumed off of what you had that you would genuinely enjoy the items I sent. I love that Tear It Up LP and figured you would, too. Apparently, however, obscurity means the band sucks versus me just getting you something stereotypically better known. Next time, I'll peruse the pages of AP for ideas. The note was completely tongue in cheek. Come on, man; I meant no malice. If you're genuinely sore about it, I will gladly send you a new package of stuff - no need to go into swearing at me. I DID try to get stuff in your interest range, afterall. Sorry that you took it as being a bad gift - would it have not been if I hadn't booby trapped it? No one ever plays pranks, they always play it super straight, I apologize for trying to step outside of that. If I was genuinely trying to give you a bad gift, would I have gotten things that I thought would be interesting to you? No, I would have gotten a half a dozen thrift store lp's and sent those. You may not have liked it, but I genuinely tried - I was unaware that there Are hidden rules for how to package a secret santa gift as well as what it's made up of.

What's a mea culpa?

posted this on Facebook earlier. I know I don't post much around here anymore, but this is as much a confession as any, right?
 
I'm going to go ahead and put this out there in a public manner after countless years of private deliberation and thought and questioning - and if you feel the need to cut off ties with me, you are more than welcome to, though, I would prefer to retain the friendship of all of you:

I am pangender. 

This has raised questions to a few that I have spoken privately to about this, though to most who know me in a closer way, this shouldn't be a surprise at all. What is pangender? Most equate it to the trans category of which this is not. In short, pangender is the eschewing largely of identification with either of the two hard binary genders. I've never since I've been able to re-collect things from childhood been comfortable fully as a male, but at the same time, have never had a desire to identify as female, despite largely taking influence and queues from feminine sources. Consequently, I've always felt comfortable somewhere in the middle. Biologically, I am still a male, of course - but 'gender' and 'sex' are two separate things. The relationship I've been in for quite some time is still very much intact and this is not a sexual thing at all - just a coming to terms with who I am and that I cannot subscribe to a hard binary gender code now, nor have I ever been able to (maybe it started when I found, at the age of 4, that out of the entire cast of the 60's Batman series, Julie Newmar was the one I idolized the most).

In reality, this changes very little, if nothing at all, in how I view my friendships and relationships with people. My only request is that those of you are respectful enough to do so, please refer to me in terms of "they", "their", "them", etc. I understand how this adjustment will likely take years as I've spent my life going by "he", "him", etc, despite my near constant discomfort with it (I took on the spelling "Kriss" in early high school due to distaste for the more male derived "Christopher" I was given at birth).

This has been fairly difficult for me to write out, partially because it's so very public and because there's a part of me that's genuinely worried that there will be some who will now view me as some kind of freak. I certainly hope that's not the case, though I except that as it comes in the event that it does. This has been a source of struggle, in particular, over the last several weeks, as I've come to realize that I need to embrace and accept this after so long trying to ignore it - for those of you whom I've been short or testy with, I apologize. Now you know why. Thanks for reading, and thanks for being rad!

I was referring to yr ego, champ. I've barely seen enough photos of you to get any assessment of yr weight and size. The career one, sticks, though. You get enough handouts weekly to where this shouldn't bother you.
 
Seriously, I offered you more gifts since you didn't like the first ones that didn't even cost you any money. You didn't take that. Relax, and stop whining. Leave that to yr readership.
 
Yeah, I was late. To my recollection, I was far from the only one. I kept contact, though. I certainly didn't slack intentionally.

You didn't like the comment? Stop going around these boards posting equally condescending bullshit to people with less than xxx number of posts who haven't been on from day 1. Be a dick to people and people will be dicks back, eh?
Do you want another package or not? I promise this one will appeal to your sensibilities - maybe a Boxcar Racer LP for the board's favorite 30 year old teeny punk correspondant.

Now let's take a moment here. I did not see that Have Heart lp on your tradelist and I assumed off of what you had that you would genuinely enjoy the items I sent. I love that Tear It Up LP and figured you would, too. Apparently, however, obscurity means the band sucks versus me just getting you something stereotypically better known. Next time, I'll peruse the pages of AP for ideas. The note was completely tongue in cheek. Come on, man; I meant no malice. If you're genuinely sore about it, I will gladly send you a new package of stuff - no need to go into swearing at me. I DID try to get stuff in your interest range, afterall. Sorry that you took it as being a bad gift - would it have not been if I hadn't booby trapped it? No one ever plays pranks, they always play it super straight, I apologize for trying to step outside of that. If I was genuinely trying to give you a bad gift, would I have gotten things that I thought would be interesting to you? No, I would have gotten a half a dozen thrift store lp's and sent those. You may not have liked it, but I genuinely tried - I was unaware that there Are hidden rules for how to package a secret santa gift as well as what it's made up of.

A friend of mine runs a pretty much all cassette label and when I was over at his house on Saturday to help him with getting some new releases together, I was really inspired by the set up of his office, so I took a few cues from him and moved an extra Technics deck I had laying around onto one of my work desks while also moving my cassette wall from the bedroom into my office.
 

 

 
 
 

I was gonna gripe that Giant Steps isn't on the list but then I remembered that it was issued on Atlantic who in my own opinion were rivalling Blue Note in many ways musically with the likes of Ornette Coleman around the time of the transition from bop to free jazz. I will say that Blue Note was unbeatable in terms of sheer packaging - really beautiful stuff. Has anyone heard the record where Madlib takes on cuts from the BN vaults and re-does them? Surprisingly good.

Holy shit sorry for asking a question. I apologize for being new to the ways of vinyl and how it's released. I sincerely apologize for wasting the precious brain power that it took to read and process my post... not to mention the effort that it took to formulate your replies. I guess it's easier, or more maybe pleasurable, to be a dick than to answer with a simple yes or no.

I now realize that this is serious business. Sorry.

Edit: I made a mistake by jumping into the deep end of this topic. I didn't start at the beginning like I should have. I've learned a lesson here. As for others go, I know we're anonymous here but a little tact would go along way... even when dealing with strangers online.

Where the hell is the vinyl??

This just might be the best thread Ive ever made. God damn why did I never think of this shit before?

I hate to be one of those people, but I think the doorbuster deals on thanksgiving night are fucking stupid. Like it straight up ruins the holiday. 

Here is an idea, dont use them at all, targeted at someone or not. That comment alone made a lot of people lose any respect for you.
 
But you were trolling so it's all good.

I was laughing at you making a mountain of a molehill. Obviously I should have left it there, but I am glad that I deleted it because it wasn't nearly as funny as watching you be an absolute prick today.
 
TL;DR - I am LOLing at you, Ryan. You are a hilarious guy to watch make a complete fool of himself while still flaunting his self-importance.

Maybe if you tell them that you're someone, and someone who has 8k+ posts on VC they'll take your call. I wouldn't advise using any of the insults that you used above if you want them to take you seriously, though.

Best comeback of all time. My new default for whenever someone is pissing me off. 

Can this end now? Please?