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Joined: September 15 2007
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 17:57
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
CCVP wrote:
CPicard wrote:
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
NecronCommander wrote:
I rather like Damnation a lot and prefer it to at least half their albums.
Also, I thought Watershed had an excellent A side but a very boring B side.
Damnation is my favourite Opeth
Watershed is Ok, but the growling annoys me - Adults with families and professional jobs need not apply... The music is targetted to a young male audience.
I know a few women (including family mothers) who laugh at this comment. And I have a professional job (archivist for a service of the French administration)
I wouldn't go as far as laugh at what Scott said, but I can agree that metal audiences are very eclectic. I know many older people (around your age Scott) that do listen to extreme metal with gorwling vocals.
You simply don't like that "singing" style.
Ok I admit - i am biased here. I guess I used to listen to this when I was about 19 - 24 and then it suddenly just became tedious to my ears. I used to own and thrash repeatedly albums of SLAYER, VENOM, DEATH, KREATOR, NAPALM DEATH, MORTIFICATION, and MORBID ANGEL! I still like HELLOWEEN, TOURNIQUET, DELIVERANCE, and some SPEED METAL, but no GROWLING. some how I am drawn to RAMMSTEIN! Not sure why.....? weird isnt it?
Not actually. Agressive music does appeal more to younger audiences and is better written by younger people, but there are other audiences besides them. And you can only like music if it has some meaning in your life, sometimes it just becomes plain and boring. This actually happened to me already with the Gabriel-era Genesis. I can't stand to most of their albums (lucky me that I only have Trick of the Tail, which I enjoy very much, and Selling England, that, despite having my unrelenting hatred, has songs that I actually like: Moonlit Knight, Cinema Show and the one after that). Needless to say, I can't listen to any band that emulates Genesis, what kills most neo bands for me.
Joined: October 03 2008
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 17:58
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
CPicard wrote:
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
NecronCommander wrote:
I rather like Damnation a lot and prefer it to at least half their albums.
Also, I thought Watershed had an excellent A side but a very boring B side.
Damnation is my favourite Opeth
Watershed is Ok, but the growling annoys me - Adults with families and professional jobs need not apply... The music is targetted to a young male audience.
I know a few women (including family mothers) who laugh at this comment. And I have a professional job (archivist for a service of the French administration)
Yikies, you work for the French Administration! Great job? Amazing. I wonder what proggers do around here.... worth a thread? Definitely!
It's a pain in the neck, in the ass, in the brain, in the fingers, in the eyes... I have to classify and to organize the archives of a specific service which hadn't ordered its files since... 1996. I'm swimming among the cardboard boxes. Luckily, wednesday evening, I'll be on a train to Provence, to spend Christmas in family.
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 18:01
Jörgemeister wrote:
CCVP wrote:
Nothing happened in our meaningless lives for yet another day.
That is it.
we live so far yet our lives are so similar
Yeah, sometimes I whished I was more ignorant so i could actually enjoy my life. I live in a great place, a marvelous house and don't lack anything really important, yet there is this void. . . . . I guess Lisa was right:
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 18:02
CPicard, I plan to be an Archivist. Is it ridiculously hard to become one in France? 'cause it's annoyingly difficult over here. Maybe I should learn French...
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 18:05
James wrote:
CPicard, I plan to be an Archivist. Is it ridiculously hard to become one in France? 'cause it's annoyingly difficult over here. Maybe I should learn French...
It is actually quite easy to become one in Brazil. Yous should learn Portuguese and move down here. The weather is much nicer than in England anyway. . . .
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 18:16
James wrote:
Is Bahia as terrible as I've read?
I don't like the place myself, but that's personal, many people I know love it, but remember that the state is as big as Polad + Germany or France or almost three times as big as the UK. What have you been reading about it? Violence and stuff?
Joined: October 03 2008
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 18:29
James wrote:
CPicard, I plan to be an Archivist. Is it ridiculously hard to become one in France? 'cause it's annoyingly difficult over here. Maybe I should learn French...
It depends what you want to mean by "archivist". You can be a "free lance", but usually you have to spend a few years in college, of course (at least, 5 years).
You can study in a IUT (Institut Universitaire de Technologies - Universitary Institute of Technologies); you can get your diploma after a few years in History Universities (there are only 8 of them in France which give the forming). There's the Ecole des Chartes which the "Voie Royale" of this profession: the former students
But, to become a state employee, you have to pass some competition : it's not unlikely to have 500 people trying to get one of the 7 or 8 posts "offered" by the Republic.
So, actually, I'm just some kind of, let's say, "free lance" archivist. My employement contract ends in February... and I'm not sure I would regret it.
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 18:41
CCVP wrote:
Jörgemeister wrote:
CCVP wrote:
Nothing happened in our meaningless lives for yet another day.
That is it.
we live so far yet our lives are so similar
Yeah, sometimes I whished I was more ignorant so i could actually enjoy my life. I live in a great place, a marvelous house and don't lack anything really important, yet there is this void. . . . . I guess Lisa was right:
EDIT: BTW, are you Mexican?
you remind me of a blackfield song. and also the simpsons
Joined: July 04 2005
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Posted: December 19 2010 at 19:53
Thanks, CPicard.
It's much the same here. I have to do a Masters Degree to become and Archivist. I guess that could potentially take a few years. Then I really need to become a member of the Society of Archivists as well. So to pursue this career will be hard work but I really do want to do it.
I guess you're not like me and want to get out of the job. I'd take your job but I don't know any French.
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AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
I guess I used to listen to this when I was about 19 - 24 and then it suddenly just became tedious to my ears. I used to own and thrash repeatedly albums of SLAYER, VENOM, DEATH, KREATOR, NAPALM DEATH, MORTIFICATION, and MORBID ANGEL! I still like HELLOWEEN, TOURNIQUET, DELIVERANCE, and some SPEED METAL, but no GROWLING. some how I am drawn to RAMMSTEIN! Not sure why.....? weird isnt it?
