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[Kitsunebaby]

There's been a hashtag floating around twitter today for people to post their favorite song lyrics.

I'm kind of curious myself, RP thread. What song lyric do you really love?

I don't think I've ever like a song for its lyrics. I mean they can add a lot to a song but they're not usually high poetry or anything. It's kind of hard to think of a song where the lyrics stand out against the music. I gotta think about this one.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

99% of song lyrics are terrible.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I'm gonna cheat because it's a tie for me

Abandoned Pools - The Catalyst

Specifically this line:

I wish I could say something beautiful to make you fall in love again.

I remember listening to that song a lot during a breakup and if any sentence described all my wants and needs at that time, that did it. Now I think about that line whenever I am suffering from writer's block because it taps in to a part of my head that makes me get imaginative.

Second one is Joshua Radin - Closer

The chorus is fantastic

Won't you
Be the new one born to shine
Take the blue ones everytimes
Walk me down your broken line
All you have to do is cry

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

I bailed out again because people are fucking assholes. Not on this forum mind you.

 

[Femmeworth]

I bailed out again because people are fucking assholes. Not on this forum mind you.

Oh Ducky, you're just letting those fuck wads win.

 

[Zekes!]

I bailed out again because people are fucking assholes. Not on this forum mind you.

I can get behind this sentiment

 

[friskykillface]

I bailed out again because people are fucking assholes. Not on this forum mind you.

sorry to hear that, dumb idiots harassing you


wait, people who are not registered can email/pm us on here? 0_o





finally have some time to put a new pic up, was busy working all week , this one took about 20-30 minutes haha since that was my first one, how long will this take D:

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

Oh Ducky, you're just letting those fuck wads win.

Let 'em. The internet fucking sucks when it doesn't rock.

On an unrelated note I checked out the complete Sherlock Holmes from the library. Imma read this. Apart from Hound of the Baskervilles what are the best stories? Any of them shit that should be avoided?

Impression so far, having never read these. Sherlock is kind of a dick.

"I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance."

 

[lazybones18]

I bailed out again because people are fucking assholes. Not on this forum mind you.

damn that sucks

 

[Kitsunebaby]

I guess I've always liked the lyrics of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams and Tom Petty's Mary Jane's Last Dance.

I've got so many songs that I love but when I think about the lyrics I realize they're silly or make no sense. Or they're sappy as hell.

I bailed out again because people are fucking assholes. Not on this forum mind you.

It's really odd how the rest of OT has had an explosion of rude and annoying posts in the last few days.

Edit: Wait, not this forum? Are the lurkers harrassing people now?

 

[Alucrid]

There's been a hashtag floating around twitter today for people to post their favorite song lyrics.

I'm kind of curious myself, RP thread. What song lyric do you really love?

Baby girl twist away
when I'm talking to you I can't breathe
Set some time aside to say why don't you stay
Ten years later, I still feel like a child

- High and Driving, Baby girl

 

[BobsRevenge]

They're Winning by The Walkmen is short and sweet... and hopeless.

They're winning.
I know its not fair, but what is?
I've given up hope.
I've stood in line so many times.
How could I, do it all again?

They're starting,
to run out of steam.
Fall to their knees.
The headaches, and worry, and crying, and bills to pay,
how could they keep it up so long?

:lol

More positively, also from the Walkmen...

Half of my life I've been watching
Half of my life I've been waking up
Birds in the sky could warn me
There's no life like the slow life

 

[Femmeworth]

wait, people who are not registered can email/pm us on here? 0_o

Detective work most likely isn't banned on the NegaGAFs, unlike here.

 

[Red]

Favorite song lyrics? Hm. I guess it differs depending on the day.

"The times, they are a changin'" -- Dylan
"Only in dreams" -- Weezer
"We don't know where we're going" -- Arcade Fire
"Send me a daughter so I can show her beauty before all this damage is done. But if that's too much to ask, if that's too much to ask... Send me a son" -- Arcade Fire
"We've got one chance to make everything right" -- Modest Mouse
"As life gets longer, awful feels softer" -- Modest Mouse
Basically all of "Dark Center of the Universe" and "3rd Planet," especially "I've got this one thing I consider my only art of fucking people over"

If I had to estimate, I'd say probably 1/4 of all music I've listened to in my life has been Modest Mouse on repeat.

 

[Basch]

Late, I know, but my connection was being fucky.

How about this new question super happy fun time:

What are your favorite authors?

Lewis Carroll, Brandon Sanderson, George R R Martin, Tad Williams, Terry Brooks, Gene Wolfe, Ursula K Le Guin, and Shakespeare

Favorite book of recent years: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. I secretly want to adapt it into a game.

Also...

There's been a hashtag floating around twitter today for people to post their favorite song lyrics.

I'm kind of curious myself, RP thread. What song lyric do you really love?

And you could have it all,
My empire of dirt,
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt.

If I could start again,
A million miles away,
I will keep myself,
I would find a way.

Hurt - Johnny Cash/Nine Inch Nails
* I found the way Johnny Cash sang it to be more profound

Gets me every time

 

[Skilletor]

I like most of Gaiman's stuff but my favorite author of all time is F. Scott Fitzgerald.

It sounds like a cliche, but Great Gatsby changed my life.

We should be friends.

My favorite authors are Gaiman and Steinbeck. I read Grapes of Wrath anually.

Neil Gaiman is Neil Gaiman. I want to eat his hair in hopes that some of his awesome runs off on me.

 

[BobsRevenge]

Why doesn't anyone enjoy French Naturalist novels anymore!? I feel like I'm the only one who even knows who Zola and Maupassant are. Dudes were brilliant!

Luckily Bel Ami is getting a movie soon.

Unluckily it stars Robert Pattinson in the lead role. Though, honestly, that might work out fine.

 

[Basch]

Why doesn't anyone enjoy French Naturalist novels anymore!? I feel like I'm the only one who even knows who Zola and Maupassant are. Dudes were brilliant!

Luckily Bel Ami is getting a movie soon.

Unluckily it stars Robert Pattinson in the lead role. Though, honestly, that might work out fine.

I don't read as much as I should. : \

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

I don't care for Mark Twain or those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

 

[Kitsunebaby]

Why doesn't anyone enjoy French Naturalist novels anymore!? I feel like I'm the only one who even knows who Zola and Maupassant are. Dudes were brilliant!

Luckily Bel Ami is getting a movie soon.

Unluckily it stars Robert Pattinson in the lead role. Though, honestly, that might work out fine.

Aside from Le Horla, which I did enjoy, I never read any of Maupassant's work.

 

[Lissar]

Late, I know, but my connection was being fucky.



Lewis Carroll, Brandon Sanderson, George R R Martin, Tad Williams, Terry Brooks, Gene Wolfe, Ursula K Le Guin, and Shakespeare

Favorite book of recent years: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. I secretly want to adapt it into a game.

Good taste.

Actually I just got around to reading the last book in the Mistborn trilogy. I had been putting it off since I didn't like the second one as much, but I had bought The Alloy of Law and I wanted to get around to reading that so I thought I should finish the trilogy first.

So far I'm loving it. I'm normally a person who doesn't like to read fighting scenes much and I skim them, but the ones he's writing here are really gripping me. The way they use Allomancy makes it feel so fluid.

WHY have they not made a video game out of this series yet? It would be SO PERFECT for it. I want to see it as an action RPG. Just IMAGINE the things that could be done with it.

I don't care for Mark Twain or those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

I've been reading Mark Twain recently. So far, I think he's kind of okay. Certainly nothing to write home about.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

Favorite authors:
Cormac McCarthy, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Conrad and Hitchens.
I also love the Classics.

My favorite book is McCarthy's The Road.

 

[Skilletor]

The only Sanderson I've read is the start of his new epic Fantasy and his Wheel of Time books.

I still love the Wheel of Time. I'm so excited that it's actually finished.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

I love the lyrics to Crucifixion by Phil Oches.

Images of innocence charge him go on
But the decadence of destiny is looking for a pawn
To a nightmare of knowledge he opens up the gate
And a blinding revelation is laid upon his plate
That beneath the greatest love is a hurricane of hate
And God help the critic of the dawn.
So he stands on the sea and shouts to the shore,
But the louder that he screams the longer he's ignored
For the wine of oblivion is drunk to the dregs
And the merchants of the masses almost have to be begged
'Til the giant is aware, someone's pulling at his leg,
And someone is tapping at the door.

The song makes me feel pretty damn hopeless though. :/

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Twain's autobiography (which was actually published pretty recently) is better than his novels, in my opinion.

 

[Skilletor]

Favorite authors:
Cormac McCarthy, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Conrad and Hitchens.
I also love the Classics.

My favorite book is McCarthy's The Road.

I've tried repeatedly to get into The Road, but I can't. I love No Country and All The Pretty Horses, though. McCarthy is awesome.

 

[Duderz]

I've tried repeatedly to get into The Road, but I can't. I love No Country and All The Pretty Horses, though. McCarthy is awesome.

It's a HARD book to get into - so very bleak. But I loved it nonetheless. It's the only McCarthy novel I've read, even though I own Blood Meridian. :/

 

[ClassyPenguin]

I had a harder time reading Blood Meridian than The Road.
I don't find The Road all that bleak to be honest compared to other stuff that he has written like The Sunset Limited.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

 

[Nex Superne]

There's been a hashtag floating around twitter today for people to post their favorite song lyrics.

I'm kind of curious myself, RP thread. What song lyric do you really love?

ERLKÖNIG (the last two stanzas)
Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Composer: Franz Schubert

GERMAN
"Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt;
Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt." —
"Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an!
Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan!" —

Dem Vater grauset's, er reitet geschwind,
Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind,
Erreicht den Hof mit Müh' und Not;
In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.

ENGLISH
"I love thee, I'm aroused by thy beautiful form;
And be thou not willing, I'll take thee by storm."
"My father, my father, he's clutching my arm!
Erl King has done me a painful harm!"

The father shudders and onward presses;
The gasping child in his arms he caresses;
He reaches the courtyard, and barely inside,
He holds in his arms the child who has died.

Thomas Quasthoff singing the orchestrated version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwfWtlrFkDU#t=3m01s

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I'll probably start an IRC channel soon.

I'm, uh, assuming we don't want to call it Realpic GAF. Any suggestions?

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

I'll probably start an IRC channel soon.

I'm, uh, assuming we don't want to call it Realpic GAF. Any suggestions?

An IRC channel for GA? #ga?

Don't be silly.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

An IRC channel for GA? #ga?

Don't be silly.

People have said they wanted one for this thread for when it eventually closes. I figured starting it early for when that happens probably isn't the worst idea.

 

[CountAntonius]

IRC huh.

 

[soultron]

People have said they wanted one for this thread for when it eventually closes. I figured starting it early for when that happens probably isn't the worst idea.

You know there's already a GAF IRC, right?

 

[Kitsunebaby]

I'd much rather have a new thread, personally.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

You know there's already a GAF IRC, right?

What the heck are you talking about. No there isn't.

 

[Zomba13]

I'd much rather have a new thread, personally.

This. Still plenty of Jan left.

 

[Pancakes]

I would be fine with either a new thread or an IRC channel.

You know there's already a GAF IRC, right?

The first rule of GAF IRC...

 

[soultron]

I'd much rather have a new thread, personally.

Have you guys discussed the possibility of doing it in Community? I feel like the less lurkers can read this thread the better, personally. I can elaborate if you'd like.

 

[CountAntonius]

What the heck are you talking about. No there isn't.

Why are you so abrasive?

Have you guys discussed the possibility of doing it in Community? I feel like the less lurkers can read this thread the better, personally. I can elaborate if you'd like.

Doubt there will be a thread after January. It's really bizarre how a community launched from this thread. Especially since it's not about one specific thing.

 

[Puddles]

Why doesn't anyone enjoy French Naturalist novels anymore!? I feel like I'm the only one who even knows who Zola and Maupassant are. Dudes were brilliant!

Luckily Bel Ami is getting a movie soon.

Unluckily it stars Robert Pattinson in the lead role. Though, honestly, that might work out fine.

I took a 19th century French Literature course and really enjoyed it. We read plenty of Maupassant, Balzac, Zola, and some poets I can't quite remember the names of.

I really liked The Wild Ass's Skin and The Girl with the Golden Eyes.

 

[soultron]

The first rule of GAF IRC...

I'll never forget being chased out of there. Haha.

 

[shintoki]

But, I'd still like to post my picture. *Kicks dirt*

 

[Takao]

I saw this and had to share:

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Alright, IRC channel is tabled indefinitely.

 

[Zomba13]

I saw this and had to share:

lol took me a second.

 

[SRG01]

I'd much rather have a new thread, personally.

I'd like the new thread to be in Community instead of OT, whenever that happens.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I'd like the new thread to be in Community instead of OT, whenever that happens.

Considering what just happened to Girl-GAF, it wouldn't be surprising if that's the case.

It seems fine here, though.

 

[soultron]

Why not start a separate room on TinyChat, SA?

It's much less obtrusive, doesn't require an install, and you can do webcam/voice/text chat all at once. I'd talk to kitchenmotors to learn about optionally password protecting the room. Keep a thread open in Community where you can still discuss things, like the way TinyGAF keeps their own thread open.