Iceni

No, I wear pajama pants. Different thing entirely.

I have a tough time trusting very social people. They're very good at selectively revealing parts of their psyches to people without necessarily giving them any hint as to what they really think. You've got no idea whether a stupid remark on their part is genuine or not, and in either case you've no idea how truthful they're being with you. A couple of people I know have said that I wear my heart on my sleeve, which may well be true. The problem, of course, is that I'm not all that great at being tactful. I complain when I'm comfortable, and usually that has the effect of harshing everybody else's mellow, so in many cases I can't win.

The adipose will swallow you whole. Your beard will be visible...but will only grow in surface area, and remain thin and scraggly, revealing the acne-ridden flesh beneath. You will begin to tie your hair back into a ponytail and wear sweatpants in public well into your thirties. You will inexplicably develop asthma as well as myopia, requiring you to wear glasses. But these glasses will always slide down your nose, requiring you to cock your head back at all times and squint in a way that parts your lips, baring your yellowed teeth beset with the debris of Cheetos. You will spend days on end inside, playing World of Warcraft and writing some horrible LOTR fanfic featuring several elves and your self-insert character. You will change your major to 'communications', but the very word will no longer have any meaning for you.

Not as dumb as a merchant insulting potential customers.

If you like Firewind, try out Mystic Prophecy.

...I was likening the band to a life-threatening infectious disease. Just to be clear then: iwrestledabearonce is crap.Listen to Ram-Zet, Madder Mortem, Akphaezya's 'Anthology II' album, the aforementioned Gonin-Ish, or White Walls for much better examples of their 'style'. And even these groups all pale in comparison to the masters of the style, the peerless musical juggernaut that is Unexpect.

If you refuse...I don't know, you'll probably be well-adjusted and confident and endowed with a great sex life or something.

I used to be shy. Then I became socially lazy!

'Hall of the Gods' by Mechanism. Good stuff. I really hope they won't do those awful vocals they had on 'Lobo'...

Try Archetype, I mentioned them to BAN as a good power metal group. I might try Vehemence just to see what Ghouly was raving about. Then again, she likes Rings of Saturn...

Wow, I go offline and the spark of sarcasm just dies...

Sabaton's got one or two good albums, (and Kamelot has one) but yes, the rest of those groups suck. We need to get you up to speed on power metal! I guess you'd be looking for slightly more moody stuff?

I like soccer since it's easy to understand, and fairly exciting if the teams don't suck. Hockey's not bad either.

If you're looking for bands with powerful female vocals I suggest Madder Mortem, Battle Beast and Seven Kingdoms. Forget Gallhammer, if you want really good Japanese female-fronted metal go for the vastly more psychotic, energetic, interesting and talented Gonin-Ish. If you're looking for bands like Otep then I might recommend iwrestedabearonce, but then if I do that I might as well be recommending malaria. So Gonin-Ish it is.

So US lost to Germany, not a massive surprise...the massive surprise is that the US didn't get absolutely slaughtered. So Portugal's out, because they got their asses kicked harder than the US did, and that means the US is through to face whoever makes it from Group H. I suspect it'd be Belgium.

I thought it was fairly enjoyable. I'd say that's a response. A negative response, but definitely a response.

Well, I am on Skype. I have Ghouly as a contact but she's incredibly busy so I don't end up talking to her all that often.

Certainly.

I had a dream last night where I was asked to perform two distinct Scottish accents and succeeded.

I thought 'A Rose For Epona' was actually a fairly good song even though it seemed a technically lazy and easy kind of outing, because the band gave the impression that they cared. The enthusiasm in that song endeared it to me.

Always the same avatar band...