Clearly, Darth Vader has ignored his own "No Relationships Policy," and will soon be married.
That's awesome. I wish he'd blog again though.
Ogged, if you ask the lifeguard out, don't forget the lesson of the pralines.
Honestly, people. The Incompetent Attorney had this relationship with a girl he really likes. He posts a picture of Darth Vader holding *an engagement ring*. Huh. I wonder what happened?
No, I got that somebody somewhere got engaged to a fellow nerd, but... who is that somebody, and why do we care?
I didn't notice the engagement ring. Or I thought it was the Stone of Zorloth or some other thing I'd never heard of.
You people make me want to cry. Here's an old post about the Incompetent Attorney.
Huh, that's interesting. Now I know that I started reading Unfogged sometime after August 2003.
No one cares about this blog's glorious history.
I didn't see the engagement ring either. I thought FL was commenting on the fact that IA was blogging again, and thought the exhortation to congratulate him a bit odd. I'm no good with subtlety.
Yes John, that's noted in the comments of the post I linked. More typical Fresh Pepper.
That's an impressive ring. Most impressive.
Wow, I miss his blog.
Arms, he is an attorney, after all. Damn, I should have gone to law school.
Also, you could just read the hover text.
And 'Smasher, if it makes you feel better, I got 17 even if Labs didn't.
Somebody had to rescue this pathetic excuse for an Internet forum–based community.
To no one's surprise, Gary Farber scooped everyone with pictures of his fiancee.
Shouldn't this thread be called "Darth Nookie"?
I thought the engagement ring's diamond was the head of a tiny-scale mace and was wondering why Darth would be weilding such, when he has his more lethal and appropriate light sabre to hand.
Wait, the Incompetent Attorney is marrying the Invisible Adjunct? Yowza.
Due to an editing error, the Incompetent Attorney's fiancee is having sex with Gary Farber.
Look, he could have linked to this.
Your sad devotion to that ancient blog has not helped you conjure up the stolen archives.
Comics artists Jim Balent and Holly Golightly were recently wed in a Star Wars-themed wedding. That's Golightly as Leia, Balent as Vader.
But, but...
No, there is another way to reach the archives.
FUCK YES. I just got free tickets to SLAYER.
No members of the Slatanic Wermacht in house? I'm even skipping out on Marnie Stern to see them.
Awesome. I'm kind of regretting not buying tickets.
Isn't that the Evangelical Christian metal band?
That's "Wehrmacht".
I got free tickets to the Mountain Goats.
Or maybe I'm thinking of Stryker.
Ah, now I understand -- thanks, Ben.
Slayer's classic rock. If it wasn't too late, I'd insist you see Mastodon.
And JESUS that's a big rock. Helps to be a lawyer, I guess.
Slayer is fucking awesome. I'm trying to like Mastodon, but I have this foolish insistence on a discernable melody that's making it a tough hurdle for me.
Wow, Marnie Stern is pretty fucking great.
Huh, and she's playing here tomorrow night.
Total new indie crush. Marnie!
The more you listen to Mastodon the more there is. Blood Mountain is reasonably "accessible," I thought.
There's a lot there, I guess, but I can't get past the Cookie Monster vocals.
Blood Mountain is much more melodic/accessible than their first two.
Though really, if you can't get into "Blood and Thunder", there's something wrong.
The CM problem, like the poor, will always be with us. Mastodon at least breaks it up with the two vocalists, only one of which is usually CM. ("Colony of Birchmen" is pretty good at mixing it up, e.g.)
Wait, Cookie Monster is a feature, not a defect.
After listening to Black Dahlia Murder, who have both a death metal growler and a black metal shrieker, I wanted to write a post about it called "Two cultivars of human ugliness". But mostly I wanted to use the word "cultivar".
Opeth are also good at mixing up the cookie monster with the so-called "clean" vokills, which in their case originate from numerically the same person.
Two cultivars of human ugliness
I really hope you do this.
During the composition of the above comment, audacious began playing a track from this album.
I just have Blood Mountain, and it just feels scattered--they'll occasionally break into something that I recognize as rocking, then they jump on to something else--no themes are developed, the structures are just all over the map. The drummer is both wickedly talented and apparently unable to edit himself one damn bit. I'll give it a few more listens, but this might be the album that convinces me that I'm finally too damn old.
The songs on Leviathan are more coherent. Give "Blood and Thunder" a download. It has an awesome harmonized guitar solo!
Huh. Opeth was recently recommended to by several folk. Also recommended: new Converge, as well as Children of Bodom, Gojira, and the apparently astounding Intronaut record.
And, w-lfs-n, wow. Had no idea this was your cup of tea.
Oh, what the hell. No man of the flesh can ever stop me!
But you're hardly indie-pop-guy-who-also-bizarrely-likes-Mastodon, a phenomenon which I've seen several times this year coming from dudes who haven't even heard of Slayer.
Although Bodom might be too hard-rock-hallelujah for some. Those crazy Finns.
Lombardo fucked up "South of Heaven". I am shocked. And I believe I detected lyrics that could be construed as anti-Catholic.
That's what happens when you start making inscrutable appearances in artsy-fartsy movies and hanging out with MacArthur grant recipients—you forget your roots.
It was Lombardi playing, right? I didn't hear about any sudden substitutions, although I only heard that I had a ticket waiting for me an hour before the show. But it's nearly more unbelievable that a Lombardi substitute could fuck up "South of Heaven" than Lombardi himself.
He was crucial in that movie! Who else was going to play the drum solo?
Ok, only semi-appropriate to the thread, but still strong marital advice. Plus, it's embarassing, but it took the new Tony Hawk game to remind me that slayer rules.
Oh, also, what it is it about scandinavians that they have death metal and super-happy pop like abba and aqua, but nothing in between?
From foolishmortal's link [my emphasis]: In a study of over 15,000 women suspected of having performed regular fellatio and swallowed the ejaculatory fluid, over the past ten years
Eh?
I'm forwarding that to my wife. She never remembers to check the URL.
72: Also, in the spirit of the doublecomment, I recall an NPRish (Fresh Air, perhaps?) interview with Jeff Tweedy in which he said that Abba's "Dancing Queen" was one of the best pop songs ever written and also, genius.
(And gswift ruins my doublecomment to get head. Typical.)
72: Seasonal affective disorder & order.