197 posts tagged “qotd”
If you could take a class right now and learn anything in the world, what class would you take?
How to speak French. Or Russian.
I really hate not being able to speak anything but English well.
Show us a music video that tells a great story.
Submitted by notreallylois.
I like this song quite a lot.
President Bush lifted an executive order banning offshore oil drilling on Monday. Do you think this is a good solution to the high prices Americans are paying for gasoline?
Is smoking more gonna help you quit? Is that "last" cigarette ever your last? We have to accept that oil-based energy needs to become a thing of the past. There's no future for it, and delaying the future that is coming will do no good. It'll just make the crisis down the road when there really isn't anymore oil left hit us that much harder. We need to wean ourselves off of oil now, before it's too late to do anything about it.
If you could leave notes for the future, what message would you have left in the past for today?
Submitted by Nameless.
"Hi. You're in the future. Think of me stuck here in the past while you're driving your flying car in space."
Did you buy/download Coldplay's latest album? If so, what do you think?
Did Coldplay pay you to ask this, Vox?
I haven't, and I'm not going to. That band is not good.
What's your favorite song with "America" or "USA" in the title? Bonus points if you share it with us.
How have you changed in the past year?
Submitted by littleduckling.
I change almost constantly in some ways. I refine my beliefs and opinions daily, and the more I read and learn, the more "extreme" I get in them, even though I kinda feel most of the ideas I hold are really just pure, applied common sense. Kinda funny how that works.
Other than that... Well, my appearance has changed since I haven't gotten a haircut. I've gotten new glasses, new clothes, given away some old clothes, I don't confine myself to t-shirts and jeans nearly as often as I did last year. I've got a bigger amplifier, and play electric guitars almost as much as I play acoustic ones, and I'm also a better musician now than I was then, since 90% of the stuff I've been playing has been improvised, even stuff that Alex wrote (he's pretty well aware that I haven't actually "learned" any of Mystick Crystal's songs, and that I just wing it and make them up as I go). I don't buy as many records as I did a year ago. I don't go to as many shows either. I'm making an effort to read more now than I did back then, and to read things I typically wouldn't be that interested in, and to become more rounded person.
What album has been most influential in your life?
Submitted by Soup.
It was more of a band than an individual album, and that band was The Velvet Underground. The first album I bought by them (and now my favorite) was White Light/White Heat. At the time, it was just "too much" for my tastes. Too experimental, too raw, and I just didn't really "get it."
Later on, though, I picked up the album that would make everything clear to me. Basically the album that made "experimental" music something I could actually listen to and enjoy rather than listen to and think "this is weird." A sort of stepping stone into being allowed to be a real life pretentious ass. Of course, that album was The Velvet Underground & Nico. First off, the songs are experimental and noisy, but they have this nice buffer of "pretty" songs between them that make them a lot easier for a complete newbie (as I was at the time) to take. Of course, I've included an example of each, over to the side.
Anyway, I'd say this album is essential listening for everyone. I know it sounds incredibly silly to say an album can literally change your life, but if any album will do it, this is quite regularly the one that does! If you haven't heard it, seriously, buy it, download it, whatever, and listen to it right now.
Since hearing this album, I've started getting more into more and more abrasive music, my outlook on how to make "good" music has changed substantially (tending more toward minimalism and rough production, now), and really, my outlook in pretty much everything else, for that matter.
If you knew you were about to lose your voice permanently, what is the last thing you would want to say?
Submitted by exer.
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
What could we do to create a world with less violence?
Don't be violent.
It's not that hard.
