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Pop Punk / Re: Smith Westerns: Staunch Careerists

« on: April 30, 2011, 08:17:28 AM »

MALIBOOM!

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: April 29, 2011, 08:32:07 AM »

Why do I not like Spiritualized at all? Seems weird.

Can't get into them either.  Not terrible, it just doesn't do anything for me.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: fuck law school

« on: April 29, 2011, 08:30:41 AM »

The biggest lie about law school is that it "teaches you how to think."  It does no such thing.  Just as the primary purpose of the LSAT is to test your ability to take the LSAT, the primary purpose of every law school course is to prepare you to take law school exams, none of which bear any relationship to the real-world practice of law.

Law school is one of many hoops you have to jump through, at great expense, to become a lawyer.  The primary purpose of law school is to indoctrinate you into the profession.  It teaches you the mores and manners of the guild.  It teaches law students a sense of entitlement and superiority and provides conversation fodder at cocktail parties.  It emboldens assholes who already believe themselves to be the smartest people in the room, whatever the room.  (Everyone in law school fancies himself a cynic -- even the most doctrinaire, sheltered, vanilla suburbanite -- because they conflate the positive meaning of cynic (one who believes that all humans are motivated primarily if not exclusively by self interest) with its negative meaning (one who is, in fact, motivated solely by self-interest to the exclusion of all other considerations)). 

Law school is the first of many dues you have to pay for the privilege of someday, maybe, making a shitload of money.  Everything substantive you need to know to start practicing law you can learn from:

(1) a one-semester legal writing course
(2) a two-semester clinic wherein you perform meaningful legal work under the tutelage of a good, well-practiced attorney
(3) a good bar prep course (no joke: I retained more from six weeks of intensive bar preparation than I did from ninety credit-hours of coursework)

Law school is a place to network and meet people who may someday hook you up with a job.  It pays to be well-liked and to make as many friends as possible.  And it pays to get very, very good grades.  It's the only way you'll wind up with a high-paying job. 

I went about it all wrong and am now busting my ass to correct mistakes I made nearly eight years ago.  Fortunately, I'm a pretty fucking good litigator, so it should only take... oh, another five to ten years before I start earning the money I need to feed and clothe my family and pull us the fuck out of the six-figure debt I incurred by going to law school.  Right now I can just barely manage the former. 

In hindsight, the most valuable lesson I've learned since I first decided to become an attorney is that you have to play the fucking game in this profession.  If you act the contrarian you will lose every time.  There's no bucking the system, and there's no such thing as improving it or subverting it from the inside.  Public interest jobs are a luxury that only the rich can afford.  The Law is the exact opposite of Punk (but we already knew that... or we should have).

For more information... PM me.  I'm angry but not bitter.

So to sum this up, don't go to law school.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: April 28, 2011, 03:43:57 PM »

Guzzard and Gas Huffer doing a band together....sounds pretty bad.

also Peter Buck's guitar playing is the only interesting part of REM...I'm sorry all their shit is just whatever to me...I've tried to get into teh IRS years and it sounds ok at best.

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Music Shit / Re: Poly Styrene: DEAD

« on: April 28, 2011, 03:42:35 PM »

Why? Most of the big-name classic punk LPs were well-produced by trained engineers in pro studios with nice gear. Major labels are good for something sometimes...

Some of those lot of production but a lot weren't....1st Clash for example.  Germ Free was like super produced even more than bands like the Buzzcocks.  to tha next level

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Music Shit / Re: Best new Krautrock-styled bands?

« on: April 28, 2011, 01:24:54 PM »

to those that keep saying pop punk. I don't get why.

there is obviously enough interest in this topic for this thread to expand to 7 pages in a day or two.

May I direct your attention towards Exhibit A?

http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=28216.0

or B?

http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=16406.0

one is about a car company and other is about ariel pink.

this is about a genre of music. are termbros only allowed to listen to awful garage rock rehash?

Termbo 2008 was more on the garage rehash tip...no one even mentions that kinda shit anymore...

That being said, most bands attempting Krautrock are pretty dire.....Noi! was at least interesting about it bc it's so corny and weird.

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Music Shit / Re: Poly Styrene: DEAD

« on: April 28, 2011, 01:22:15 PM »

It's crazy how "produced" that album was considering the zeitgeist of the time. 

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: April 28, 2011, 01:20:45 PM »

into gg king, predator and apache dropout lps but what i've been playing the most the past couple weeks is r.e.m. 'best of the irs years '82-87'. i'm starting to really appreciate r.e.m.

What is there to appreciate....even their best moments are pretty meh to me.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: fuck law school

« on: April 28, 2011, 01:19:42 PM »

loans will be more than 30K, most folks I know are around the 60-80 range...some at 100.

Law school and art school are beyond retarded to me. 

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Music Shit / Re: Best new Krautrock-styled bands?

« on: April 27, 2011, 04:14:40 PM »

can we add Psychocandy era JAMC as well...

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Music Shit / Re: Best new Krautrock-styled bands?

« on: April 27, 2011, 03:40:07 PM »

Cave live is on a rave music tip, never really checked the rex...

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: April 27, 2011, 03:38:47 PM »

giving my ears a break from loud guitars

Showbiz and AG
Ice Cube-Death Certificate
BIG-Ready to Die
NWA-100 Miles and Runnin EP and efil4zaggin
Diamond D-Blunts, Stunts
Jeru the Damaja-Wrath of the Math

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: April 26, 2011, 02:35:04 PM »

I heard a Chinnichap doc in which Chap said he would usually have the drummer overdub toms over the original drum track.  I've done it and if the timing's right, it can sound really great.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Important question about men's swimming attire

« on: April 26, 2011, 02:33:24 PM »

I just go commando, fuck it.

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Music Shit / Re: Poly Styrene: DEAD

« on: April 26, 2011, 02:26:07 PM »

I was waiting for the piss to hit the parade....like clockwork, tha Officer comes thru