Posts made by SemenDemon

I can't say I'm a big fan of them, though I do really like some early Ozric Tentacles. And Hawkwind, if you consider their live albums "jam-y" enough.

I remembered another uplifting song that I really enjoy a couple of days ago:
T. Rex - Sensation Boulevard

I think it's only sad inasmuch as it makes me reflect on how young Marc Bolan was when he died. I sometimes get lost in thinking about the alternate reality where he never died, and all the songs and albums that never came to be.

@JerodParker:

The first song from the Last Unicorn movie was so beautifully illustrated, it made me tear up too.   Sung my America?

The title sequence from The Last Unicorn makes me cry, too. And, yes, it was composed by Jimmy Webb and sung by the band, America. That whole soundtrack is probably the only reason I ever managed to develop an appreciation for the band, haha.

On the topic of soundtracks, Art Garfunkel's song, Bright Eyes (from Watership Down) completely destroys me. That whole movie just depresses the hell out of me. The last time I watched it, I was despondent for weeks.

"facial features and general complexion", I suppose. But also hair (head and elsewhere :D). Even since childhood, I've always been attracted to people with soft, shiny black hair, regardless of gender or race. I have just always found it totally gorgeous. As such, I have always had a natural aesthetic affinity for a lot of Asian/Latino people. Dunno why.

@Riddler:

scientists say the sample wasn’t quite big enough to reach a firm conclusion

heh.

I just remembered one recently: The Gravy Train - St. George's Way
I cried listening to this not long after my dad died last year. That was the only time I've ever actually cried over his passing. I didn't feel the lyrics necessarily reflected the event, but they are very existential, and they remind(ed) me of how fleeting everything is, and how much time has already been lost.

I'd say that "most men (especially in the west) do not grow hair on their backs and shoulders" is at least more accurate than "most men do grow hair on their back and shoulders and just decide to shave it?", though it's probably a combination of both. A lot of Western men shave their faces, but not necessarily anything else. Some, like me, are naturally very smooth. I have minimal body hair. I can't even grow more than an ugly, tufty neckbeard, even if I wanted to. I do think a lot of "manscaping" goes into modeling and pornography, but, for the average guy on the street with minimal body hair, it's more than likely just genetics.

I'm probably a freak, though. Most or all of the men in my family are at least moderately hairy, and I don't even have much in the way of leg or arm hair. It's all wispy and blonde. Practically invisible. Maybe that's got something to do with my infinitesimally small amount of Native American blood, but even my dad was hairier than I am.

I just use spit. Being uncut, using much of any kind of lubrication just means I can't retract my foreskin because my hand slips up and down it with no grip. Not very stimulating.

I appreciate the sentiment, but–and I mean this in the sincerest and politest way possible; I'm not just trolling--I personally think their writing is terribly pretentious and self-aggrandizing (Pretty serious charges to be coming from me). I honestly couldn't finish reading it. :-[

@DemhaFeta:

almost any song on doolittle by pixies, such a cheery album :cheesy2:

You really think so? It always had the opposite effect for me. I just get very emotional listening to some of those songs. I once spent an hour or two walking around an old local cemetery with the song "Here Comes Your Man" stuck in my head. I felt like I could almost cry. Shit was intense. I'm a miserable cunt, though.

As I was leaving the cemetery, I happened to notice a caved-in sarcophagus-like structure (not sure of the technical term for it, but it was like a cement cap over a burial plot, I guess) near the edge of the cemetery with a dead opossum pinned between the broken pieces of cement. That sort of killed the mood.

Happy songs… Happy songs... I tend to like stuff that evokes a lot of bittersweet, intense, spine-tingling feelings in me. Calling the effect "happy" seems like a gross oversimplification. More like "overwhelming". But some songs songs I simply consider cheery and energizing without tacking on a lot of excess emotional baggage would be:
The Aislers Set - My Boyfriend Could Be a Spanish Man
Henry's Dress - Winter '94
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
A shitload of Sparks songs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… (on and on). Sparks cheer me up like no other!

And, before anybody calls me a mindless sycophant, I liked those last two for years before I knew Morrissey was a fan.

@porkyV2:

we know how we lust over married men

Speak for yourself. ::) I've never understood this ring fetish thing any more than I understand what's supposed to be so appealing about straight men. Personally, these creepy obsessions some gay men have with all things hetero reek of self-loathing more than a sense of excitement or danger in my mind. I will never understand why some gay men are never happy with other gay men, or men who don't seem "straight" enough.

As far as marriage is concerned, I don't care enough about it to even argue for or against it. I couldn't care less, beyond the thought that it's nice for those who want it to have it. I don't understand why some are so obsessed with harping on how terrible and pointless it is. Like, no shit. So is life… What's your point?

I don't really think there is a universal correlation between lacking father figures and preferring mature men. Maybe it's true for you specifically, but I don't suspect that it's true for all or most guys into older men. At least not from my perspective. I don't personally have a "daddy" fetish/preference, despite never having much of a relationship with my own father.

That's not to say I cannot or do not appreciate more mature men, but they aren't a major preference for me. When it comes to relationships, I prefer guys who are as close as possible to my own age. I'm not sure why, but being with someone more than a couple of years older or younger than I am feels weird.

I've always hated ankle socks. I find them neither comfortable or aesthetically pleasing… They always look and feel like they're one step away from snapping off my ankles. There is nothing worse than a bunched up sock in my shoe. I also hate feeling the inside of my shoes rubbing against my ankles. In general, they strike me as something only kids and skateboarders wear. Not my style at all.

Then again, I wear work boots almost exclusively. I also roll the tops of my socks over so only a bit of them peeks out from the tops of my shoes.

I know that I've recently posted the song in another thread, but this Current 93 song typically does the trick for me: The Bloodbells Chime

A few of them do, in fact:
The Cat Is Dead
All the World Makes Great Blood
Spring Sand Dreamt Larks
They Returned to Their Earth (For My Christ Thorn)
Sleep Has His House
Imperium V

Oddly enough, so does this Dead Kennedys song.
Well, it doesn't so much make me cry as much as it makes me feel very moody and despondent. Certainly close enough to crying without actually getting there. That and Lost by Jerry's Kids are most appropriate at those times where I feel wasted and suicidal and irreconcilably chained to my own grimy, isolated, pointless, dead-end, post-modern existence, and to the filth and darkness and despair of the world at large.

I've also noticed that IX seems to have developed a strong cult following, despite not receiving much enthusiasm early on. I suppose the lukewarm reception of IX back then was probably from people expecting another VII/VIII.

Generally speaking, religion and politics have always been deeply enmeshed. They have always been used in conjunction by ruling classes as a means of asserting control over people. As someone already said, intolerance of gays, at least within the context of Abrahamic religions (i.e., Judaism, Christianity, Islam), basically boils down to the fact that sex without procreation means less followers to perpetuate a faith-based political power structure. A lot of non-Abrahamic religious and secular cultures also consider homosexuality problematic, though (some more so than others). It is still seen as a social obligation for people to marry and have children, as much to preserve individual family lines as to perpetuate cultures at large.

This is all speculation, to be honest. I haven't done any research to back these theories up, but they've always seemed to be the most obvious, logical explanations.

Shower, because it just seems like a chore I want to get out of the way more often than not. I usually find soaking in a warm tub a little uncomfortable, too. It's hard to describe, but after a while, it just feels very "muggy", especially on my feet and toes, and I can't wait to get out and feel the cool air on my skin. Sometimes, if I feel bad, I like to sit in the shower and just let the water run over me. Yes, I know it's a terrible waste of water. I don't do it very often, though.

@warpaint:

From my experience having sex when being with someone is much better. Much more natural and I can enjoy it better. I just can't do casual hook-ups it doesn't work for me. I must know a guy, talk to him, then there is a connection and I can take it from there. I had a chance to sleep with really hot guys and totally my type but I just didn't because of that. Does a lot of you have that? And for me the sex was always better if I knew and felt more towards the person.

I am very much the same. I don't like hook-ups because I'm not at ease with random strangers. I am hardly at ease with people even socially, let alone sexually. Unless I am very intimately close to someone, I can never really feel completely comfortable in my own skin. But when I am intimately close to someone, it alleviates all the anxiety I would otherwise feel around another person. I'm more confident and uninhibited when I don't feel anxious.

Am I the only one who doesn't like scat but, at the same time, isn't remotely phased by it? It seems weird to me how often I see complaints about it here. Maybe I've been on the Internet too long. God knows I've seen some shit, figuratively speaking. Scat porn doesn't even come close to the worst of it.

Only ever played a handful (I [NES + the [i]Origins version for PS], VII, VIII, IX, Anthology) and none after IX, because I've never owned a console/device newer than the PlayStation.

Of the few I have played, I probably like IX the best. It's certainly the one that I am most emotionally attached to. I liked all of them, really, though the original game is pretty grueling, even as far as old school NES-era JRPG's go. A lot of those older ones seem really hard to beat the closer you get to the final boss. At least the few I played were, which isn't that many, come to think of it. I was too poor growing up to own every new system/game. Most of the ones I played were rented or purchased used, so I never was much of a "gamer".