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    Habs vs Coyotes, Nov. 10, 9 PM EST

    in Habs & Hockey Talk

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    We should learn how to pass the puck. If we learn how to pass, we don't lose possession and we're not down by one. Isn't passing the puck one of the fundamentals of the game. You learn that right after you learn to skate?

    Naw, we're all about playing well without the puck. Who needs speed on offense and tape to tape passes when you can defend and keep players to the outside without the puck? ;)

    -- Permanent Floating Music Thread --

    in The Lounge

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    "Twas in the darkest depths of mordor I met a girl so fair, But gollum, and the evil one crept up And slipped away with her."

    Smeagol is a hero!

    Everyones got the Silmarillion but me... :(

    This is how I feel.. ;)

    Zeppelin is good, yet ahhh, if anyone knows of Alister Crowley that would be the reason I stay away from them now :( Not that it helps me overcome my issues.... I can play a few songs on the guitar from them, stairway, over the hills and babe im gonna leave you.

    As for Tolkien inspired music, Blind Guardian made a whole album titled "night fall in middle earth" as well as earlier songs dedicated to Tolkien such as "the wizard", "lord of the rings" and "gandalfs rebirth". Ah why not, here's one song! :)

    Who thinks that this story is more than fiction?

    -- Permanent Floating Music Thread --

    in The Lounge

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    I have a weathered and well worn first edition right above my desk as I type this haha :P

    !!! Very awesome. I went to the book store today and it wasn't there!!! They had everything else, the hobbit, and multiple copies of LOTR.

    Well, without further ado. Here is my favourite band of all time! They're also a big fan to Tolkeins work. I love Blind Guardian! :wub:

    And my second favourite band...

    Ayreon!

    -- Permanent Floating Music Thread --

    in The Lounge

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    I used to listen to Blue and Yellow a lot. Box Full of Sharp Objects and Buried Myself Alive. I still listen to AFI and The Used's older stuff (AFI up to Sing The Sorrow and The Used up to In Love And Death) The Used especially still carries a lot of nostalgia from 2004, Story of the Year as well.

    Nightwish was one band I listened to. I got weirdly specific and only listened to symphonic female-fronted bands. Within Temptation was my favourite but I also liked Epica, Xandria, Lacuna Coil, Edenbridge, After Forever, Delain and the aforementioned Nightwish. I think there were a few more but I can't remember.

    What about Sonata Arctica?

    Wow, you guys are awesome. :)

    I like all those bands. Totally thought I was alone with enjoying those bands, it's nice to see fellow HW members who know those bands.

    Maybe there is still strength left in the race of men. :D

    Well, I've gotta go pay rent and find JRR Tolkiens Silmarilion if I'm lucky.

    -- Permanent Floating Music Thread --

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    Awesome. jetsniper we seem to like some of the same music. I still like the Used, Blue and Yellow being my favourite song from them. I like AFI too although haven't listened to them in awhile.

    Sigur Ros! Nice that song is so amazingly beautiful!

    Never heard that song bbq, thanks! pretty good. catchy stuff.

    So now I'll turn on some sigur ros and keep posting random thoughts.

    Generally though I'm all over the place. I can't say I hate mainstream stuff because I like Eminem and Kanye (Eminem not so much anymore but I still really like Kanye) and I've got Lady Gaga and Katy Perry as my guilty pleasures. I've been big into Foster The People since last year too and I'm pretty sure they went mainstream over the summer. They got a ton of buzz after Coachella.

    I used to work at a night club in Ontario, and they played top 40 music, and some songs were enjoyable, yet lately I've found myself not able to listen to them. Sure I like Eminem's song "I'm not afraid", yet I can only say that they're two mainstream songs that I like right now. J-Lo's "I'm into you" and Avicii "Seek Bromance". I do have a soft spot for 90s mainstream, as you actually had bands that were playing instruments, The Wallflowers, Goo Goo Dolls, Smashing Pumpkins, Creed, Tracy Chapman, Black Crows, The Tea Party, Guns N Roses and more bands of those types, so I highly respect those bands. So I understand the guilty pleasures. I liked to listen to Kesha 'cause it's so slutty, then I slowly turned away 'cause it's TOO slutty.

    What kind of gothic metal did you listen to? Therion? Nightwish?

    Alrighty, for the song of the day I'll reciprocate with... Seventh Wonder for today. Enjoy. :)

    If there was no hockey or music on this planet, I wouldn't have come.

    -- Permanent Floating Music Thread --

    in The Lounge

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    Though they were real emo, not what people think is emo. Mae, The Get Up Kids, Sunny Day Real Estate, Thursday. Those were the real emo bands of the 00's. What you saw in the mid to later years of the decade was a total destruction of the genre and confusion of what it was. Bands like Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy ruined things. I was pretty much done with the genre around 06-07.

    But Mae is top notch, I listened to them a lot in high school.

    Oh cool. Awesome that you know those bands. And yeah that quote was from wiki. I like writing yet sometimes I get lazy.

    I started listening to them in high school as well, primarily Mae and The Get Up Kids. The last three Mae albums, (m)orning, (a)fternoon and (e)vening are pretty genius, and this comes from a metal head. I like a few Get Up Kids albums as well, mostly Something To Write Home About. I listened to Thursday a few times and Sunny Day as well yet never really got into them.

    Yeah that whole underground Emo/Sreamo scene got watered down and replaced with crap that got on the television. There are gems in each genre of music though, I even listen to this folk/country band, although they too are underground. So even with my changing musical tastes, some of the bands that I liked growing up stay with me, and some leave, Mae is definitely one that stayed and they just recently broke up this year I think.

    I always like sharing good music, I have a strong distaste for mainstream music now and days. When music starts mixing with money the end results are... not enjoyable for me. I'll keep sharing, yet I won't flood the thread, I've done that in the past - not pretty. I kinda miss blogging sometimes.

    Cool. Never heard of this band.

    Awesome :)

    -- Permanent Floating Music Thread --

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    Alrighty, I love music. This is one of my favourite bands.

    "Mae was an American alternative/indie band that formed in Norfolk, Virginia[6] in 2001. The band's name is an acronym for "Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience," based on a course taken by drummer Jacob Marshall while a student at Old Dominion University.[7] " - Wiki

    I was born in ’82' date=' a poor man’s son

    When it came to hand-me-downs he only gave me one

    At first I was ungrateful, at once I was confused

    He said, “music is the cup for you I pour

    It’s all I really have, wish I could give you more

    But I have to catch my ride, son, I’m off to a distant shore”

    You see my dad gave me the keys but I’d have to show myself to the door

    Soon the words he left were too faint to hear

    And a path with no direction made it hard to steer

    My soul was dry and thirsty, my mind was so unclear

    While wandering around and searching there

    I came across a man I’d seen before I swear

    And again I’d see him too on a beach with the fading of the moon

    And he’d say,

    “Communication is calling you it’s all in you.

    No hesitation, you’ve got to see this through”

    I needed something to fill me up

    In my bag a gift from dad, my music cup

    Well, I should have looked here first in an attempt to quench the thirst

    The taste was like a melody

    With words to follow so expressively

    I was off to share my song and no, it wouldn’t be too long

    ‘til I was standing on the stage and the crowd would sing it back to me

    And we’d say,

    “Communication is calling us it’s all in us,

    a celebration for you and me and the universe, our destination”

    (How we find the answers)

    When we search beyond ourselves you know we always learn

    (We become so clever)

    Let our walls crumble and burn away

    (Make a change forever)

    Can we lend a better hand than the one that we’ve been dealt?

    Let the music be the way we get there

    And we sing,

    “La la la la la la la la”

    I walked the beach that morning and I found my faithful friend

    Waiting there with words of wisdom and a fishing rod in hand

    I watched him and I listened so peculiar and so sweet

    Saying “Love is all that we need and communication”

    I said,

    “Communication is calling me and yes, it’s all in me”

    The cup has served me well for fifteen years

    With music in my world I’ve shed some fears

    And I’ve tried to understand how to be a better man

    There is rhythm to my life that ebbs and flows

    And at times the inspiration comes and goes

    But whenever it arrives, well, I go down a take a dive

    When I swim up to the surface I sing “communication” every time[/center']

    More unheard music to come. :)

    Controversial Thread

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    Anyways, I have never understood fundamentalism in Christianity. It is too contradictory. God in the Old Testament is quite vengeful and intolerant, while in the New Testament God is quite forgiving and tolerant. Since God changed His behavior, that implies that his old behavior was wrong, meaning He is not omniscient, crushing a primary belief of the religion.

    Well what if Christ really did exist, and the ones that murdered him stole his teachings, used them in creating the religion, to further manipulate mankind into worshiping a false God, to disconnect people from the Truth?

    I'm pretty sure religion means "to bind" while government means "mind control", so when Christianity was created in Roman times by a King, it was created to keep people under control from the threat which was barbarians and the inner decline of that civilization.

    And to further hypothesize, create a religion which is corrupt, by using the teachings of someone who was actually "in the zone" then many years later, start showing the corruption in the book, therefore get a number of people to disregard ALL the teachings in the book, even the ones that are right like say "love your neighbor as yourself", all for a plot to create Anarchy amongst the people, so that we end up looking for help from the same people that created the lies in the first place.

    Bah, I couldn't resist. I should just post more epic music in the music thread.

    Controversial Thread

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    Controversy indeed. I didn't read the scripture posts, I tend to stay away from religion, politics and people. lol. Anyways, for the record the world cult is in culture. If I had a kid I wouldn't be living in a big city. It all comes down to people, people are making the choices to hurt another human being, whether they are aware of it or not, if they aren't aware of it they are on autopilot/artificial intelligence and I would say do not understand what is going on with "all of this".

    I'd say; if two people understand some facets of truth, neither would have to say a word to each other. To say that religion or anything else is the cause of destructiveness is not it; it's a symptom. The question I am asking is what is going on in a persons consciousness that would make them do that? Could is be related to child abuse? Could it be related to bringing a child into this world via sex?

    Why are there 7 billion people on the planet?

    And also, let's say I didn't be-lie-ve in a God, then that means that I can be God. Make children.. make technology.. artificial intelligence... cloning.

    Just ideas over here.

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