Just listened to a track. Pretty strange and cool. Think I’m gonna be investigating further.

While trying to figure out the discography of The Gathering, a band that has been on my radar for a long time but with a lot of albums and different sounds to go through, I’ve come across Agua de Annique / Anneke van Giersbergen, the solo career of the now ex Gathering vocalist, which is fairly easy listening (although still rock / alternative) and something to listen to slowly when I’m in the mood.

And then also the previous band of the current Gathering vocalist, Octavia Sperati, which is some sort of gothic flavoured metal I guess? I dunno, I don’t really care to know subgenres of subgenres. But I’m really enjoying this one. Which kinda sucks because it looks like they haven’t done anything since their vocalist joined the Gathering.

And then today I listened to some Chappell Roan and I liked it! Not music that I’m always in the mood for but I think it’ll go nicely in my rotation of '80s and '90s stuff when I’m feeling so inclined.

Edit: also I think I’m gonna finally look up whoever it is that does the intro songs for Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex.

When I was younger, I believed that it was an ideal worth striving for. Now I don’t have that much faith in people anymore and I think that the best you can ask for is to try to live life your way and stay true to your beliefs and morals as best you can, according to whatever circumstances that you’ve been given.

Just listened to “Good Luck, Babe!” and “Hot to Go!”. Definitely poppier than my usual tastes, which I was expecting. But old school, as you say, and it gives me feelings of nostalgia. Her voice is awesome too.

I’m definitely sometimes in the mood for this kind of jam, so this might actually become a little guilty pleasure of mine. I think it would fit well with all the '90s (and some '80s) shit on my playlist anyway.

While I agree with the gist of what you’re saying, rioting because your favourite sportsball team lost is also deranged shit that shouldn’t exist in a civilized society. It might not be nationalism to a country but it sure as shit comes from the same place, maybe just with a little more gang mentality thrown in.

Kid that wants to take everyone else’s toys, after being told no by a grown-up: “I hate you! You’re not my friend anymore!”

I honestly haven’t even listened to any of her music (and maybe I should give it a try at least) but so far I’ve liked almost everything I’ve seen and heard about her online. The mainstream music industry needs more punks and rebels to speak out and cause a ruckus. If anything, just to kill the manufactured, conformist slop it’s all become.

Yeah, Zulu is a different beast to European languages. I suppose as different to English as certain Asian languages would be. It also borrows from English and Afrikaans though, for certain Western words and concepts that weren’t in the vocabulary before. And there’s still nouns and verbs and tenses and shit, so it follows the same basic rules / concepts as any language.

As for Afrikaans, funnily enough I’m actually living in a part of the country now where some fluency would’ve been useful. Luckily you seem to be able to get by with just English just about anywhere though.

Yeah but she was a “female”. Ew, cooties. And Joe Rogan the alpha instructed all of his alpha followers to vote Trump, so they did the alpha thing and obeyed him without making their own informed decisions. And did I mention she’s a feemale? I ain’t gonna vote for no woke DEI feminist illuminati agenda.

(/s just in case)

can’t function in society where random individuals can freely reject their statements, so they need the internet to hide away from life.

Show me where in real life are random individuals able to interrupt your conversations with friends and like-minded people without being told to fuck off or punched in the face? People like you keep peddling this idea that we’re all supposed to ‘meet in the middle’ at all times with bigots that think we don’t deserve human rights, or else we’re the bad ones. Fuck off, what does the ‘middle’ of respecting rights or not respecting rights even look like. And real life doesn’t fucking work like that anyway.

I would not hang out with inbred supremacist ‘alpha’ fucking idiots even if you paid me. And I would not welcome them into my home or my social circles. You’re free to speak but that doesn’t mean that I have to fucking listen.

I should look into where I can get hold of CBD products. We don’t really have dispensaries and stuff around here. It’s legal to have but not to actually buy anywhere (or sell) lol. I think it is approved for medicinal use though.

Although you can get a grade of weed here that’s basically a step away from being a hemp plant. As far as I know, that can of stuff is heavier on the CBD ratio of things. Doesn’t taste great though.

I buy R50 bags, which is around the price of a pack of legal cigarettes with some change left over. Although I think it’s hard to compare prices of things across borders and currencies.

And this R50 bags are basically the lowest rung of the decent quality. And it’s outdoor, so sometimes the quality is pretty close to indoor, sometimes it’s not so great. And if the quality is good, it’ll be a strict 5 grams but if it’s standard stuff, the guy usually packs a little extra.

So it’s also a bit difficult to give it a per day cost. A R50 bag can last me 1 to 3 days depending on a few factors.

Just want to add, I’m also my weed guy’s movie and series guy. So I’m often getting free bags thrown in, in exchange for some movies and shit loaded onto USBs.

I can believe that having kids changes things. And yeah, I’d like to cut down as well. If for nothing else, then just my wallet lol.

South Africa and pretty much just English. Apparently I was fairly fluent in Zulu when I was little kid, before starting school and losing it. And we learnt Afrikaans in school but Afrikaans kids went to Afrikaans schools and I grew up and lived in English speaking areas so it was never used. If I tried to speak Afrikaans now, I would embarrass myself but I can mostly read it and understand someone if they’re talking slow enough and I’m concentrating hard enough.

Honestly something that pisses me off is that despite going through school in the ‘new’ South Africa, the new government never bothered making sure we learnt to communicate with each other. So instead of learning Zulu and being able to freely communicate with the majority of the population, we learnt Afrikaans because they never fucking bothered to change it.

I can also understand very small bits and pieces of written and spoken German from high school but that’s barely worth mentioning. Also, I can kinda sometimes understand a little bit of written Dutch because it’s remotely similar to Afrikaans.

Lol I guess it is. And I’m absolutely addicted to weed. Anyone who says that isn’t addictive hasn’t experienced the lack of appetite, insomnia and general lack of will to live when you’re a heavy smoker and you go without.

It’s still probably cheaper therapy than actual therapists and pharmaceuticals though.

Drinking too much coffee and doomscrolling from my bed until I get my hands on another bag of weed later and can function (somewhat) properly again.

Dune and Dune Part 2

Something I need to add to my list and finally watch. Funny enough, I never read the books either, even though back when I was still reading a lot more (mostly sci-fi), it was regularly praised and recommended.

Currently busy with my fifth (I think, I’ve actually lost track now) watch of everything in the Ghost in the Shell franchise (excluding the live action movie). Usually I end with my favourite, Stand Alone Complex, but this time I started with it. Currently about half way through 2nd Gig, once I’ve watched Solid State Society, I’m going to follow it up with my second ever watch of SAC 2045, hoping that I like it more the second time.

Yeah as someone from a BRICS nation, I would not trust or put my faith in these people any more than I would American institutions. And I feel pretty confident in saying that even if a BRICS backed currency became dominant, absolutely fuck all would change in the quality or cost of life for the majority of people and the only ones that would be smiling would be the fat cat piece of shit politicians and elites that are already smiling.

My first ever suspension from Reddit was for an anti religion comment. On Reddit. Then after my 3 days were up, the first thread I saw was on the subject of religion, full of people saying worse thing than I had, and in one of the major subs, not even atheism or anything.

I could definitely buy that they’re using AI but personally I always had the impression that they outsource the job and don’t make sure everyone is even on the same page or can read English properly.

Because even the stuff that gets [removed by Reddit] seems to be nonsense a lot of the time. A while ago I saw someone make a post saying something like “Hi guys, haven’t been active much lately. But I’m back and gonna be posting more.” Came back later and it was [removed by Reddit]. So not even that is trustworthy or gives the impression that they actually know wtf they’re doing.