deadreckoning

Time for some real rap....

With age has come an appreciation for seltzer water. I want to upgrade from my puny siphon style to a larger carbonator. Any recommendations, particularly on CO2 tanks vs. chemical? Sparkle uses electricity and  single use chemicals, so no need for tank exchanges. I heard you can hack it and use citric acid and baking soda, which would be nice.  For the tanks, what the ratio of seltzer to CO2 - i.e., how much seltzer does one get from a 60L tank. Is it worth it?

let's discuss.

On the off chance..... I am moving soon and have a ton of record mailers up for grabs. Just need to pick them up in the Hyattsville area.

It sounded a little rough through my crappy internal laptop speakers; maybe it will sound better through my crappy bluetooth headphones. 

3 hours ago, deadreckoning said:

All this talk of prequels - I want a spin-off of Arya and Hound traveling around just getting into adventures and cursing a lot.

 

21 minutes ago, Tardcore said:

yeah...about that...

We will always have the chickens... every last one of them.

All this talk of prequels - I want a spin-off of Arya and Hound traveling around just getting into adventures and cursing a lot.

On 4/30/2019 at 5:38 PM, glass realms said:

I should be getting my copy from Bull Moose tomorrow. Curious to see if it's white vinyl or if it's the clear with neon green splatter. 

what was the verdict?

17 minutes ago, deadreckoning said:

 a somewhat oldie, but still a goodie...

 

Q: What's worse than 9/11?

2 minutes ago, Tidal Wave said:

7/11?

no, 311.

[jazz hands optional]

On 3/8/2019 at 12:03 PM, IanRees said:

am i the minority who loves Y&G?

I dig it. Though yellow is by far better than green.

 a somewhat oldie, but still a goodie...

Q: What's worse than 9/11?

Haunt - Burst into Flame

Done.

Was Nightfylers any good? The recent cancellation doesn't portend high expectations. I forgot this dropped in a big chunk around Xmas. Tried to watch it recently, but  they want you to pay for the 1st half, while the 2nd half is still available on-demand. Not the best way to build a base. And they cancelled The Expanse  for this? Good thing Amazon picked that up. If you haven't watched it, I recommend it (it will grow on you). Or better yet read the 1st couple of books. 

No DL code. Its like they expect me to play this thing. 

On 4/26/2018 at 10:49 AM, FiggyPud said:

I loved the first season of Handmaid’s Tale, but these first 2 episodes of the second season were better than the whole first season combined.

Waiting on season 2. My wife might hurt me if i started before her. 

Altered Carbon was decent. i dug the hotel. The male lead was seriously jacked compared to the strung out look in The Killing.

Part way through Wild Wild Country. Haven't gotten to the real crazy stuff yet. If orange was more my color, i might consider joining. Also, tough titties.

PO is up for the new Red Hare LP.  The last LP and 7" were fantastic. This band is essentially Swiz (Shawn Brown, Jason Farrell, Dave Eight) and Joe Gorelick (Garden Variety, Bluetip). So DC, so good,

Get on this quick. 200 on clear, the rest on black

https://redhare.bandcamp.com/

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Why this hasn't been posted already is a mystery to me...

Atomic Action Records is reissuing  Verbal Assault's Trial LP.  Absolutely crucially seminal.  If you dont own an OG copy here is your chance to spin one. There are also tapes, CDs and some t-shirt bundles. Rowdiest thing to come out of Rhode Island since Metacomet. get on it.

http://atomicactionrecords.bigcartel.com/

Classic Rhode Island hardcore band Verbal Assault's 1987 masterpiece finally re-issued and remastered by Nick Townsend from Townsend Mastering (drummer for Fireburn/ Deadbeat). Originally released in 1987 Verbal Assault bridged the gap between "heavy" hardcore and "smart" hardcore playing extensively with everyone from Agnostic Front to Fugazi. Lyrically "Trial" hit on personal but also socio/political themes while never letting up musically. This is the first time since it's original release 31 years ago its been re-issued.

Pressing info: 

White Vinyl 300 mail order only 
Yellow Vinyl 300 RevHQ.com only 

Black Vinyl 400 
Red Vinyl 1000 
Includes free downloads

3 hours ago, curator said:

White Lung - Paradise

www.dominorecordco.com/claim

3FZDAZEB / WIGLP373

 

Front Bottoms/GDP Split

www.soundtrax.com

XKPTgAua

Snagged a White Lung. Thanks!

Red Hare.

3 hours ago, The Ghost of Randy Savage said:

I do it the easiest way, which probably costs me a little bit more in fees, but still isn't much. You can buy any of the big 4 on Coinbase, transfer them over to Cryptonator, and exchange them for Bytecoin there.

 

Coinbase has a backlog of transactions they're working with now, so it's taking a while to transfer though. I'm waiting on one so I can get another batch of them.

2 hours ago, KingTacoMunster said:

so you cant buy bytecoin from the start? you would buy let say $50 worth of bitcoin and then exchange them for bytecoin?

Thanks to the helpful advice from @The Ghost of Randy Savage I did exactly what he mentioned and it was fairly easy after wrapping my head around the whole process. There are a number of different exchanges, but most of the other others one i looked at required all types of personal info. Coinbase lets you just sign up and then buy either Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, or Litecoin with a credit card or bank account. I personally bought Ethereum cause i liked the name and it seemed to be doing well. I also signed up for a Cryptonator account and then transferred the ethereum to a digital wallet there. Through Cryptonator you can then exchange whatever you transferred in for any number of currencies. Bytecoin is just over a cent, so i assume there is fair amount of growth potential. People are talking up Ripple, but oddly the Ripple exchange has been down for a day or two. If you use your credit card through coinbase it might get flagged by the card provider, so you might have to redo the purchase after  vouching  for it.

On 1/2/2018 at 11:20 PM, omik11303 said:

Came in here to throw my support behind all of this. For what it's worth I thought this show was absolutely incredible. Definitely needs to be watched in German with the English subs, though. I heard the dubbing was awful.

23 hours ago, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:

YES!!!  It was SO GOOD! 

 

the dubbing was SO BAD that I only made it 15 minutes in and turned it off the first time.  I wrote off the show because of it, but my sis in law said to watch it with the subtitles instead and it makes it so much better.

This. I got about 15 minutes into the dubbed version and turned it off. The dubbing was annoying in general, but the English dialog was just plain bad. The scene with the kids bickering in the morning was brutal - "I'm on a hunger strike until the world's problems are solved!" If you can switch to the original German with English subtitles I will give it another shot.

Gonna be heading out town tomorrow morning, so now is a perfect time to Secret Santa.

First, I would like to thank my SS, who went all out. I am beyond pleased by their efforts.

Let's start with some Star Wars Tiki Mugs with a rad Tiki cocktail book. Some drinks, both flammable and not, shall be had. 

To continue with the Star Wars theme we have the Death Troopers book and a herp field guide. I have read most of the cannon books and a goof chunk of the legends material, but i have not read anything in the Death Troopers series. I am excited to crack it open. And we can never have too many field guides. I have the Peterson, but not this Audubon. So I am glad to add it to the collection.

Here are 4 LPs! I do love me some Joy Division. There is the Warsaw boot on white and the Les Bains Douches live 2xLP. Excellent. JD is a band i love that until now had nothing on vinyl. Then there is an American/Japanese HC comp and 1st SSD record. I will play Jolly Old Sant Nick later...

Now on to the 7 inches.... A Pallbearer flexi. Pallbearer are great - Heatless is the best album of 2017. A didn't have this flexi. Now I do! The No Statik "No Hospice" 7" on yellow and a Lee Scratch Perry 7". Excellent.

Plus, there was a crap tons of posters, including a sweet large Coliseum fold-out. 

Using my powers of deductive reasoning, my SS was @roadmonkey! Thanks again. You did a fantastic job. Aces.

Merry Xmas everyone and happy new year. I am not sure what it's like where everyone lives, but Christmas Eve is non-stop fireworks, so i am now going to lay on the couch and comfort my 60lb lapdog...

On 12/18/2017 at 11:44 PM, voltagedrop said:

Was listening to Somewhere in Time today, such an underrated album.

On 12/19/2017 at 9:47 AM, The Ghost of Randy Savage said:

I've said this so many times. It may actually be my favorite Maiden album... Beast and Powerslave are amazing, but there's something about SiT.

Agreed. SiT is soild stem to stern. It's probably the most consistent album song to song. Powerslave is great, but Back in the Village is no Aces High or 2 Minutes to Midnight.

13 minutes ago, deadreckoning said:

Bingo. I am glad you dig everything. I had a blast putting it together. You're right, the pallbearer record is one of the year's best. It's at the top of my list. I also need to frame that Marald Van Haasteren print. I hope you and your girlfriend enjoy the movie, glad you had a blue-ray player. Happy holidays to you and yours.

 

If i may ask what gave may identity away? 

3 minutes ago, Reshiram454 said:

It was extremely hard to figure it out, I had to reread all the bios multiple times and you had Baroness, Pallbearer and Hot Water Music (the first song on the mixtape you sent me was HWM) in your faves. What through me off was the Criterion film because someone else in their bio said they were huge fans and then the rebel alliance sticker also through me off because several people said they liked Sar Wars (including you). I'm glad I made the right guess. 

Also I forgot to mention, I'm excited to pop your mixtape you made me in my car. I've never heard almost all of those bands.

Excellent deductive reasoning. Also, my screen name is buried in the mix cd, vis-a-vis the small brown bike track. There is some great 90s emo/post hardcore in there, with a bunch of local NJ/Staten Island bands.

1 hour ago, Reshiram454 said:

Mine came today! My dumbass immediately assumed it was the new Tyler, The Creator album because there were bees all over the packaging. I was gonna wait till Christmas but oh well, lol. 

Here's my presents:

Marald Van Haasteren - I Would Waste It On You mini-print: Marald does a lot of art for Baroness like those Baroness picture discs. I love art prints and wish I had more so I'm really excited to have received this!

A Perfect Monster sticker pack 3 and some BRLSQ stickers: Baizley is my absolute favorite artist and I don't know how my SS figured that out but I'm extremely happy with the stickers, I also love most things Burlesque of North America does and already have a bunch of stickers from them so I'm happy to add more to the bunch!

Harakiri Criterion Collection Blu-Ray: I'm extremely foreign to Criterion Collection so I'm gonna pop this in the PS4 and watch it tonight with my girlfriend. Really appreciate this one though, I'm always open to new things.

Pokémon cards: Always love getting some, as I recently started collecting again. All of these are either rares or promos, and I don't have the Xerneas promo so I'm happy to add that one to my collection!

Pallbearer - Heartless: An amazing album from an amazing band. I didn't even realize my collection was Pallbearer-less until my SS pointed it out. This album is probably gonna end of on my best of 2017 list alongside the new Elder album. Thank you for getting this album for me, I needed this one in my collection for sure!

 

I also got a bunch of stickers, including a Rick and Morty get schwitty decal sticker, and some deathwish stickers!

 

I'm not 100% sure who my Secret Santa is but I'm gonna have to make the educated guess that it was @deadreckoning. I hope I guess that right, lol. Thanks a million for the gifts, they were very thoughtful and I'm gonna get that print framed ASAP.

Bingo. I am glad you dig everything. I had a blast putting it together. You're right, the pallbearer record is one of the year's best. It's at the top of my list. I also need to frame that Marald Van Haasteren print. I hope you and your girlfriend enjoy the movie, glad you had a blue-ray player. Happy holidays to you and yours.

If i may ask what gave may identity away? 

SS gift arrived today in one big ass box!

Will wait to open it. 

Stay tuned.

** Whoever has the power should swap the sticky for this year's SS thread.

PO for the new Red Death LP went up earlier today.  Get on this quick as they still have some red-orange mix (/200) at the moment.

One of the many DC bands just killing it these days. 

http://triplebrecords.limitedrun.com/products/604951-red-death-formidable-darkness-cd-lp

When a band forms, as Red Death did in late 2013, primarily out of reverence for Corrosion of Conformity — and especially when half the members hail from North Carolina — their second LP is bound to have a lot riding on it. Yet to say that Red Death have risen to the occasion is to say not nearly enough for Formi-dable Darkness, their new eight-song masterwork. It isn’t just their Animosity; it’s the best record to emerge from the hardcore scene’s hallowed metal/crossover wing since Iron Age’s The Sleeping Eye rewrote our DNA in 2009.

Everything that made 2015’s Permanent Exile LP and 2016’s Deterrence EP modern classics has been amplified on the new album: the solos soar higher, the riffs penetrate deeper, the rhythm section pounds harder and with more precision, and the vocals are more unhinged. And it didn’t hurt that Arthur Rizk, by general consensus the best young producer in the game today, oversaw the recording.

From their first practice in D.C. some four years ago, Red Death have been heirs to the proudest of traditions in the heavy-music underground, and with Formidable Darkness they’ve fulfilled their immense promise — just in time for the world’s ignominious end. As it was written, so it shall be.