2681

Your father is old school. When my father was young, children called their fathers sir, even though they weren’t knights!

2682

I had that exact same feeling when I visited San Francisco. I don’t usually get that feeling but I had a serious case of “this place is perfect!”. Of
course it seems a lot of people get that feeling, as housing prices there are even worse than DC or NYC.

2683

Yeah, I love the feel of San Francisco. It’s a great town. If I was rich I’d live there, at least for awhile and then probably move to Oregon mostly because it wouldn’t quite be returning to Washington, but it’d still be getting the hell out of California.

2684

Yeah it’s already started to get old. I agree that Professor is really the most awesome title.

2685

I had Thai food for the first time. Which is weird because I have had a lot of other ethnic foods save that one.

2686

I finally got to see Slayer again after 10 years. They are better than ever. I can’t stop listening to them now and am really looking forward to the new album and tour.

I also adopted a dog. I had no idea I even wanted one until I met Sasha. We were buddies from the start. A friend from work did not have time for her and is now pregnant so I volunteered to take the dog. She’s a 4 year old Alaskan Malamute and is my new best friend :) I’m still shocked at how fast she took to me.

Edit: I hope I got the links right now.

2687

Slayer fucking owns. Your pic link is broken though…

2688

Slayer is one of those few bands who are consistently good live. Given the type of music they play it would be very easy to sound like crap, but they always sound very tight and well rehearsed.

Metallica went 10-15 years playing some of their faster stuff really crappily on stage, so much so that songs like Whiplash were just a garbled mess. More recent concerts have them sounding MUCH more to form than when I’d seen them years ago. They seem to have put a ton of effort into sounding better on the older thrashier stuff. Dyers Eve still sucks live though, the few times they’ve played it.

Although I think both bands have good music I haven’t seen a metal band perform as well as Slayer does live, there’s always something that doesn’t quite make the translation from album to stage for so many other bands.

2689

Really? I’ve never seen Slayer live but in the YouTube videos I’ve seen of them in concert the singer sounds like he’s completely unaware of how the song goes. I LOVE the studio recordings but he seems to be almost making it up live.

Angel of Death

I understand some liberties are taken when playing live but some parts of this make me cringe.

EDIT : THis is just the singer I’m talking about. The band, musically, sounds awesome. Lombardo rocks the double bass at 4:30…

2690

I can assure you Tom sounded exponentially better than that. Perhaps he’s just gotten better playing live throughout the years? Maybe the monitor was shit that night. Who knows.

This was Detroit Mayhem Fest by the way. I finally got to see Behemoth, and seeing Cannibal Corpse for the billionth time was fun.

2691

I’ve seen Slayer live three times over the last 15 years, and they have sounded really tight every time.

There is a big festival happening in Oslo this week, so far i have seen Band of Horses, Bon Iver, Kylesa, The Bronx, Municipal Waste, Satyricon, Wilco, Glasvegas and Arctic Monkeys. Still two days to go!

2692

Well, speed metal enunciation is a craft all it’s own in a song like angel of death whentheysqueezewordsinfasterthanlightning, but he does a much better job intoning the words than Hetfield (who blew his voice years ago and has to sing even the screamy stuff) as an example.

As for the gaps in lyrics, who knows. I’ve seen bands do that when they want the audience to participate and fill in the gaps, but Slayer has never exactly been an audience participation band (whereas Metallica makes a show of it).

Also, when judging a bands performance I typically look more at the music, because so many of my favorites vocalists just can’t pull it off live (or even on later albums) after a decade or more of screaming (Danzig, Burton C .Bell, Hetfield, Brent Hinds as examples). Because of this trend I think my expectations have been changed accordingly… And Tom is still better than all those guys live.

2693

Trying to plan a trip to New York with a couple of friends, but we suck at planning this type of stuff. We can’t even decide if we should stay in Jersey and travel into the city every day, or pay more to stay in the city and not have to worry about transit as much. We’re only going for three days. Anyone have any suggestions? Keep in mind we’re on student budgets.

Also, someone here recently made a list of a bunch of cool, geeky places in NY, but I can’t seem to find it.

2694

If you plan on doing anything at night, getting to / from Jersey can be a pain (the PATH stops running, etc). There are a fair number of relatively inexpensive hostel-type places you could stay at within the city.

This is probably the thread you’re looking for.

2695

If I didn’t have relatives and friends in Manhattan, I’d stay here: http://www.thejanenyc.com/

2696

I now know someone that has had “breast augmentation”. She is an attorney here, she is young, has a huge chip on her shoulder, not very attractive and certainly not a pleasant person- she is rude, obnoxious and believes the world revolves around her.

And now she has big boobs- and the best part is that she walks with her chest pushed out- it appears that she has made a conscious effort to change the way she walks to push those boobies out even further.

If it weren’t so silly it would be kind of sad really.

2697

Marged

I was totally intrigued by that hotel you linked until I read this:

“Please note: All cabins share the communal bathrooms located at the end of the hall on each floor.”

Thanks! Next…

2698

If you’re trying to do NYC on a budget that’s just something you’re going to have to deal with.

2699

I dunno. The Milford Plaza seems like pretty regular hotel, and that ~$165/night (and all three of us can share a room).

2700

When we went to Manhattan last year, we stayed at the Murray Hill East Suites. It wasn’t too expensive in comparison with other options in Manhattan. It’s close to Grand Central Station. The suite was clean if a bit worn, but it was large and spacious. We got a suite with a bedroom and a sofa bad in the living room.