sonsofvipers

From the top of my head:
 
'Contact' from Come Now Sleep by As Cities Burn
'The Birth and Death of the Day' from All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone by Explosions in the Sky
'A Three Legged Workhorse' from This Will Destroy You by This Will Destroy You
 
also 'Torches Together', 'Messes of Men', and 'February 1878' by mewithoutYou, from Catch For Us the Foxes, Brother Sister, and Ten Stories respectively.
 
edit: oooh also 'Back to Back' from The Fiancee by the Chariot

ill get a picture of my board later if i remember

The Chariot

Any album, EP, and/or track ever released by Dot Dot Curve, Blood on the Dancefloor, Brokencyde, or any of those other godawful scream-rapping, overproduced, scene kid fever dreams that call, or (thankfully) in some cases, called themselves "bands."
 
I get embarrassed by the fact that I actually tried to listen to a few of them in high school, just because my friends did. Don't cave in to peer pressure, kids.
 
(If you really feel like subjecting yourself to torture, click on the links.)

I lost my virginity to a sexual assault. Trust me as a guy it was confusing. Being in the 90s it took me going to four separate therapists before I found one that could help me cope. I was assigned to a rape counselor and couldn't understand why at first then fired her because I thought I was taking her time away from people that needed her attention.  I get wickedly depressed in the winter to this day since that's when it happened. I remember shaking in the freezing cold in my parent's driveway as I tried to explain what happened and having them tell me to stop since they couldn't help me. Trust me, professionals couldn't understand nor could my parents even let me finish my sentences. I bottled it up inside. I told my wife last year for the first time and have never uttered another word about it to her again. If I told people the circumstances and the individual they would never believe me. Shit, I bet half of you can't even believe what I wrote here hence why I've never given a name, date or place and never will - it's always been my cross to bare whether I wanted it to be or not. This is a beyond confusing experience. I nearly killed myself in the aftermath, failed to have professionals or family manage to help me and spent years trying to figure out my identity. 
 
So when I see these things come up and people ask "Why wait so Long?" I understand the question but you can't possibly understand what it feels like in the direct aftermath, the year after, the decade after etc. It's winter again and I've been lost in thinking of my lost years again, it comes without fail as I feel the sting of the cold like I did in my parents driveway all that time ago. A couple days ago I was looking at my kid swearing I would protect him so he wouldn't ever feel what I have. 
 
I won't judge her. I don't have enough details to judge him. But I can understand why it might be scattershot. 

Wow thank you for sharing that. I am sure that was tough to write. As guys we are told to be tough and such and when something like that happens no one believes you or thinks it is possible because you are a guy. I definitely think this girl is a victim. Whether she is a victim of rape I don't know but she is at least a victim of cyber-bullying.

A high percentage of rape victims know their rapists and have some sense of closeness to them.  I would go as far to say that the victim probably has the upper hand in where emotions lie and whether or not they are dealing with something that's hard to swallow.  Conor, in this case, ultimately has the upper hand not only because is a upper middle class white cis male, but because he is a popular musician.  Because of that, people automatically side with him and blame the victim.  So this is a little different, yes.  People who cry wolf exist, yes.  But there is no logical reason why someone would - while trying to console another rape victim - bring up a musician raping them on a site like XOJane to make a false accusation.  If she wanted to do this effectively, she wouldn't have waited 10 years to open up about it and she certainly wouldn't have done it on a site with as little traffic as XOJane.  What most people don't get is that that particular website is supposed to be a save haven for victims where they CAN open up about what has happened to them.  It's not TMZ or ONTD or any other celebrity gossip site.  She was helping someone else cope with a very similar issue.  Did anyone here read the original post?  The woman was abused by a popular musician very recently and was afraid to post his name.  This victim here posted Conor's name out of support and to prove that he doesn't hold that power over her anymore.
 
Like... I don't know how else to explain this.  The reason that the anon on XOJane felt afraid is because of this EXACT REASON.  She was afraid of being treated like this victim who was trying to help her.

well thanks for crushing my dreams, man.

WE TIGERS

also, The New Year by Death Cab but that's too obvious

I opened this thread without seeing who posted it...
Should've known it would be you, Brian! Hahaha

Damnit Brian those Anathallo and Noah mockups are too good...

I can't see the title of this thread without reading titties.
 
 
Every fucking time.
 
 
 
 
edit: 666th post had the word titties in it. I'm alright with that.

I could do these all day.

Figured I'd do one more round of these, just for fun, haha.

I'd love to have Vancouver. I'd also love to have the money to afford it.

I got asked to make a logo this week for a band called "court of mayhem".  He told me that he wanted to make sure the logo included the following:  a skull smoking a cigar, playing cards on fire, and some chick with big boobs.....AND ANY OTHER MAN STUFF I WANTED TO THROW IN.
 
God bless america.

If there is a higher power, Godspeed were the reason instruments were created. You are a fool if their albums don't change you in some way.
My personal choice (probably obvious to the few who have heard me say it before on here) is Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On.

My band finally got full-time members again for the first time since June 2012.  This is a band that I've put my heart and soul into since 2009, and last year, when we came to a grinding halt, things were actually really on a roll.  There was a lot of momentum, a lot of light at the end of the tunnel to really see the life I always envisioned for myself come to pass.  Ever since we stopped last year, its been a time of confusion, lost/broken friendships, self questioning, depression, and a whole lot of alone time, and hard work.
 
Like I said, we actually found people that want to rebuild from the ashes of what once was, but I suppose my confession is that at the end of the day, I'm finding myself almost terrified to pick up an instrument and actually start writing music again, because I'm afraid of the daunting task it is to climb that mountain again.  Anyone who has ever been in a touring band knows what I'm talking about.  There are so many uphill battles, let alone questioning your own ability to actually make it a worthwhile attempt, maintaining a level of relevance, or watching it all blow up in your face.
 
I've been freaking out a little bit inside recently trying to piece this all together, while on the outside I have to be the one with the plan to pull it forward....and right now it just seems impossible.  The next few months are truly a "now or never" life scenario for myself that I don't think I will quickly forget, no matter what the outcome.
 
Also...my other confession would be that I never share anything like this ever with anyone.  But that would go into a different confession all of it's own.  Maybe we'll save that for another day, haha.

Dudeeee Brian everything you've written for DH has been phenomenal and your passion for it shines through so much when you're playing live. I know it's really goofy to say to a friend but I've legitimately been really emotional like almost crying seeing you guys play because it's not just the music that's overwhelmingly passionate, you're all so genuinely and sincerely into it, especially you. As far as confessions go, 3:35 in No Particular Night Or Morning has straight up made me cry multiple times. There's no way someone as gifted as you can't do great things, I know making that climb is an intense amount of work but if anyone can handle it, you can.

I think your stance on this man shouldn't change in the long run, nor do I think you need to pitch in if you don't care to, but at least acknowledge him and give him your condolences on his loss. Even the shittiest of people deserve that.

Fun fact: I totaled my car less than a week after I posted that up there. Low speed, I rear ended someone, almost avoided it. Everyone was fine despite me not wearing my seatbelt. (really low speed by the time impact occurred and where it hit were big factors in that.)
 
Surprisingly, shit's actually working out, though. I got a new car that, while the payments are higher, it'll be doable. The timing of the accident made it so it wasn't reflected on things when it came time for renewal of my car insurance policy, which makes it so low that we may be able to pay for the whole 6 months with the sales tax reimbursement check I'll get from Progressive, which will free up more than $100 to do whatever we want with (which translates to "pay down credit cards" unless something horrible is coming up that we need the money for).
 
And I was able to take the money I WOULD have put in for the car payment this month and paid down a super high credit account (the one we had to open to pay to put down my dog last december had an APR of 26.99%) to a point where I will be paying it off outright at the end of the month when Emily's next paycheck comes in, and we'll take the $80 that WOULD have been put on it, and add that to the $35 we're paying each month on the amazon credit line starting in January. Debt stacking is depressing ('cause you want to use that money for other shit, obviously), but holy fuck, Emily and I just realized that the timing of me fucking up the car is just about perfect because it shows us a light at the end of the tunnel for our finances.
 
I didn't know where else to post this. I just remembered the post I made on October, and felt this was appropriate here.

I just came across this thread today.
 
The amount of encouraging comments on here shines a light on how wonderful people can be, in contrast to all the bleak and nasty shit that surrounds mainstream media.
 
Kind of gives me hope for humanity.

Waiting on confirmation from lahispute