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"The Best Outback Party Ever"

Mon Nov 16, 2009, 1:35 PM
  • Mood: Yearning
  • Listening to: Iron & Wine "The Creek Drank the Cradle&q
  • Reading: "In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka
  • Watching: NHL Network
  • Playing: Shining Force III
  • Eating: No...food...I don't even want to think about it
  • Drinking: Not tonight
According to one of my coworkers, who's worked at the Outback for 15 years, the party I threw last night was the best one any Outbacker there has thrown.
We had champegne. We had eight cases of craft beers. We had about 30 people attending at my apartment. We went through three bottles of rum, a fifth of gin, and two fifths of Vodka. I had twenty-two drinks all night. I don't know how I'm even awake right now.
What's better, there were only five drinks spilled all night, only two bottles found broken in the middle of the road, only two people had to pass out over here, and only one person lost their phone, which I found this afternoon. Also, only one cop knocked on the door. But he was just coming to the party.
Yep, good, liver-cleaning, awesome fun. I wish it hadn't ended when the sun came up.

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  • Current Residence: Madison, AL, USA
  • Interests: Poetry, Political Field-Work, C-Span, Music, Drinking, Trying to find time to pursue interests
  • Favourite movie: What Dreams May Come, Memoirs of a Geisha, Office Space, Last of the Mohicans, LOTR
  • Favourite band or musician: Mark Lanegan, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Opeth, Celtic Frost, Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy
  • Favourite genre of music: Goth, Prog-pop, Grunge, Blues, Black Metal
  • Favourite artist: H.R. Giger, Alan Lee, Cor Blok, Kris Kuski
  • Favourite poet or writer: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Dante Aligheri, Machiavelli, Ralph Nader, David Gemmel, J.R.R. Tolkein
  • Favourite photographer: You guys
  • Favourite style of art: Surrealism, Eastern Art, Poetry
  • Operating System: Whatever is on any computer I can commandeer
  • MP3 player of choice: Newconfounded technology...I'll never get rid of my CDs
  • Shell of choice: hermit crab
  • Wallpaper of choice: Any kind that will keep me from having to paint...
  • Skin of choice: black...it ages slower
  • Favourite game: 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons
  • Favourite gaming platform: Sega Saturn
  • Favourite cartoon character: Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • Personal Quote: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" -Gandhi
  • Tools of the Trade: Poetry, Prose, Sarcasm, Intoxication, photgraphy (but no photoscanner)

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:iconal-is-in-chains:
Gladly, comrade

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"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
-Baba Dioum, Senegalese author and conservationist
:iconmichellelynn725:
It's not typical of me to throw links around, but...
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Wanna talk about strong words?
It's what I'm listening to right now.
You could appreciate this.

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"A man destined to hang can never drown
and now that we got that straight,
I want to take a fuquing bath..."

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:iconal-is-in-chains:
Yeah, I have no speakers or soundcard, but I am familiar with Regina Spektor. I like the whole soulful-acoustic-bluesy-folk thing.

Ever heard of Mark Lanegan? My all-time favorite musician.

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"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
-Baba Dioum, Senegalese author and conservationist
:iconmichellelynn725:
No... hit me with something in particular to sum his style.

--
"A man destined to hang can never drown
and now that we got that straight,
I want to take a fuquing bath..."

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:iconal-is-in-chains:
OMG. Go buy "Whiskey For the Holy Ghost" or "Field Songs", or illegally download them, or SOMETHING. You have been deprived. His music is the best drinking companion ever.

He used to be the lead singer of a Seattle band called "Screaming Trees", and they were one of the 1st "grunge" bands back in '84-85, along with Soundgarden, Green River, Mudhoney, the Melvins, et-al.
Nirvana actually used to play as his backup band before they were anyone.
He's not an extremely well-known artist among the general populace, but he's an industry legend. He's been a guest on something like fifty or sixty albums, and has worked with everyone from Isobel Campbell, Masters of Reality, The Twilight Singers, Mad Season, and Queens of the Stone Age. He actually wrote most of the material for three of QOTSA's albums.

His solo stuff is mostly very acoustic-folksy-bluesy-grungy. His voice is like a dozen broken bottles on a gravel road run over by a steamroller, and then driven over again in reverse. Then stomped on by Bob Dylan.

I'm sorry. I got a little carried away there. But I can't even do him justice with that description.

Just go listen to a couple tracks, and knock back a couple drinks. You'll understand.

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"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
-Baba Dioum, Senegalese author and conservationist
:iconmichellelynn725:
So according to your description, he sounds a bit like Leonard Cohen, then?

--
"A man destined to hang can never drown
and now that we got that straight,
I want to take a fuquing bath..."

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