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Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights jenny in that first pic from niagra falls you look sorta like this girl i am hopelessly in love with and i'm drunk also it makes me sad

Gooood goooooooood. Your anguish sustains me.

*rubs hands together, menacingly*

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Perhaps I was not whipped enough as a child.

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Originally posted by Miss Pie

Something tells me you where not alone in this trip....

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On OOKA-OOKA ME NACHOS ME PRESS KEYS ON COMPUTER GOOD

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Originally posted by Lira I don't know. Sure, no one can be (or have) fun 24-7. But if you take music too seriously, you may end up thinking that music matters or that it is somehow important. I'm afraid that's the most effective way to stifle creativity.

Music is as important to me as things like friendship or laughter. I can't begin to list all the things in my life that have been turned from mind-numbingly intolerable to enjoyable with the addition of music. Whether it's keeping fit or commuting to work or cleaning up the house. There's the endless list of people I've met, good times I've had and unforgettable memories that all happened because of music. And there are the times I've felt unimaginably shitty and it's kept me borderline sane.

True, being po-faced and actively regarding your music as "important" is just as bad as thinking of it as "fun", with the opposite effect. I'm not saying that thinking that music is essential to people's lives while making a track is going to guarantee that that track ends up being important to someone.

But it's like a comedian laughing at his own jokes - it's rarely as effective as when he keeps a straight face. It's why Arnie's stone-faced non-acting enlivened many a shitty '80s action movie. I remember reading a Chekhov quote advising writers to render their work in a tone that is opposite the intended effect. If you're being serious, render it in an offhand way. If you're being light, play it straight.

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Mixes:
> Live @ J00F Editions, 30.03.13 [Chill Out]
> Time & Space [Mixtape]
> Ain't Nothing Going On But The Funk [Breakbeat Classics]
> The Singularity [Drum & Bass]
> Distant Places [Progressive Trance]

I Am Not A Music Journalist.

Music is important to life, that is true... but I'd still try not to overemphasise its importance because it's just escapism. A play to help us drift away from our own lives every now and then. As an English philosopher once said, "I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter"

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On

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Originally said by Adolf Fleisch Hitler How naive can people be? Curing the COR with messy hair and philosophy?

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Originally said by Maurice Moss I came here to kick ass and drink milk... and I've just finished my milk

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Originally posted by Lira As an English philosopher once said, "I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter"

See, this is why I dislike philosophy. He said that after getting laid for the first time in his thirties. And he's being remembered for that crap.

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Then stop coloring and visit Meat187's mix archive!

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Originally posted by Lira Music is important to life, that is true... but I'd still try not to overemphasise its importance because it's just escapism. A play to help us drift away from our own lives every now and then. As an English philosopher once said, "I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter"

Are you listening to anything I'm saying? Music might be escapism when you stop everything else in your life and just sit there listening to it, like you might when playing a videogame or reading a book. But what makes music quite unique amongst the artforms is it can permeat everyday life. I don't think listening to music while working is "escapism", I don't think listening to music while travelling is "escapism".

I also find it daft that you'd treat music and life as somehow separate realms, that you escape from one into the other. For someone who claims to read a lot of philosophy, that seems a very simplistic view.

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Mixes:
> Live @ J00F Editions, 30.03.13 [Chill Out]
> Time & Space [Mixtape]
> Ain't Nothing Going On But The Funk [Breakbeat Classics]
> The Singularity [Drum & Bass]
> Distant Places [Progressive Trance]

I Am Not A Music Journalist.

holy shit, if there ever was a time that this thread needed my pics-
it is now.

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I have that same bikini as in the second pic. Not that body though, lol.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Perhaps I was not whipped enough as a child.

I have that body. Oh, I have that body.

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Reduce those darkened forces
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When I found blue

A picture in your mind every time you whack off doesn't count! Fag!

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Perhaps I was not whipped enough as a child.

I don't need pictures; I have freezer space!

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Reduce those darkened forces
From a naked view

When I found blue