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Doing right now: feeling a bit weird because I just promised to wear my Tiger costume (bought at Primark for 12 Pounds) to a party Gosh, I need a Whisky, right now, otherwise I feel stupid going out with that thing. And don't even dare to say "pics or stfu", I won't post a single one

Hey Pixie, where do you live? It's just that I've been to the UK two weeks ago and want to know if I deserve to be shot in the knee for passing by your area without even saying hello We did Cornwall and Wales, but with a drive through the midlands back down. We passed Chesterfield on the way to Nottingham... The time management was pretty bad this time though ... such a tight plan, no room to really go roaming around much. Just enough time to occasionally stop and piss behind the next bush by the roadside. The stressiest trip so far ... shouldn't happen, because we are not that unexperienced anymore. But it's my company's fault aswell, they didn't give me more holiday and we wanted to see so many things It was awesome though - and I'll probably return anyway, with more time...

What, your daughter is drug addicted now? Aww, that's quite bad, I sure understand that this causes you stress... Good luck that it sorts itself out.

Hey... Why not do it with the reviews in a bit of a same way like it's done with boulder / climbing routes? As people tend to treat things like it's rubbish when the score is below 7 and you have too little possibilities with the remaining 3 points up to 10, why not seperate each "point" once more? Like 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e, 7f or so? That way you'd know it's a 7, but it's a very good 7 or a very bad one (7.5 is not saying enough sometimes). Would that be an idea? You mean 7a out of 10

Thing is, the industry produces "hitsingles" and "bestseller albums" before the public even hears them. With that I mean, that a certain record is defined to be a hitsingle / bestseller album even if it was total crap and nobody has heard it before. You can see it in the advertisement: "the new hitsingle from Lady Gaga will be out on xyz" (for example) ... this is a contradiction in itself: a NEW record that is not released yet can't be a hitsingle - it has not even sold a single copy yet. But the industry has the power to get a huge machine going that automatically makes the record to a hit. It will be played on every radioshow, radio and TV stations get paid to talk about the song ... and sooner or later you'll have the public talking about it and once you're there, the way is paved and people will buy it - in masses. Most people nowadays don't have the time to dig for music and stuff ... they work, have kids, have stress or are just plain lazy ... they don't want to entertain themselves, they want to be entertained. And this opens the doors for such commercial "machineries". That's why it works, that's why even bad songs make it up the charts and generate money, money, money. The money is the main motivation, not the art ... that's why much of it is so dull, because it's been produced in a hurry... And now it crosses the bridge to the original question of the thread: as these "machineries" do search for new things to keep their status and to hit the nerve of time, maybe also attract new people to get even more money, they eventually come across underground genres - and tear them apart their way, like locusts. Okay, maybe it's not totally like this. But I'm sure there is more than just a grain of truth in that.

First of all I gotta say that the Faithless - Insomnia track is good. Like it ... listened to it myself already before when insomniac ... but the solution in it I did not register. Anyway... I am already past the "hot milk and shower" stage. This won't help anymore when I really am in an insomniac state. To have an effect, it has at least to be combined with a considerable amount of valerian ... or chemistry. Nice input, Pixie, but with me, scents and oils are also rather not potent enough for the real insomnia periods. Nevertheless, I used to have Amber oil ready for the night ... the scent makes me tired (until I really was insomniac and saw that it didn't help). But I will be going to take that out again anyway, good to remember Thinking of it now, I found the screen brightness utility to aid me to become tired ... more than I expected. I don't even notice it so much when I sit in front, but I feel that it helps. That was a really good advice, I must say again.

Great recommendation! Actually there can be a lot of tracks found when looking through the soundtrack of older racing games - a bit earlier issues of the Need For Speed series for example. Rom Di Prisco is an artist that uses lots of these acid synth lines ... and he did the music for the old NFS... In fact, I was instantly reminded of Rom Di Prisco as I listened to the track of the threadstarter ... such acidic synths are characteristic for him. This is the most intense example I could find - not goa anymore I would say ... but coming closer to what I personally would define as "goacore", if I may say so: http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxMBDjKGLc

The music is plain old Goatrance to me. Like I listened to in the beginning as I came into this scene (even though I came much later than this was actual)... Is "Goacore" now a genre or not? Or should we regard it as a genre? Let's see how much power we have to create a new genre?! What I have to tell you is that Goacore is an artist: http://www.myspace.com/goacore ... but I find the music not really good. That surely can't be what you mean anyway... I would - and I already did (on parties)

I already tried conditioning. I am conditioned to the Sync24 - Source album to sleep off on that. The "funny" thing is now this: when I'm insomniac I don't want to sleep off to this album because it puts an even bigger pressure on me to sleep off to it because if I don't then the conditioning was for nothing and I'd have to start over all the way with something new. So I kinda never listen to it anymore - not before going to sleep (for fear of not sleeping off to it and breaking the conditioning) and not under day because it's intended to go to sleep to. It might sound like a bad joke, but this is somehow the thinking I do. And here lies the problem. It's this anxious/nervous thinking that has to be stopped. On all fronts.

OK, thanks ... I don't feel like I'll be going to watch it then

Yes, I sometimes also feel like that when awake. Too bad to hear it's a devil's circle that when I get less sleep I get even more anxious getting even less sleep. I think that's the periods where it gets severe, it just amplifies itself through that phenomenon.

The trailer does not really convince me. I miss a type of "groundbreaking" element. The fact that everybody with a home computer could make music is old news to me. And the discussion whether this new kind of democratization of the music scene is a good or bad thing is also hovering around since quite some time as far as I know. and we already have come to the conclusion that it has good and bad sides - Veracohr summed it up quite well. I won't wanna watch a whole documentary just to be left with a summarized impression that I already had before. So, to the ones who watched it: are there any more interesting points presented in it too? I'd for example really be interested what comes AFTER the period of "democratization" of music? What will we see afterwards? Because we are already way in this phase as I see it and it is now time to set the perspectives for the things to come. Chances are high people will want certain "authorities" (not to be meant in a bad way here) that guide them towards what might be good or bad and that go beyond mere comments about a release. And that's exactly a spot where Psynews could come into play Or did I now completely miss the point with my last comment?

Thanks for your input, guys... You know, I am glad I slept fairly OK the last nights, so I can talk about it in a more distant manner with a bigger perspective right now. About the meds thing ... I can't speak for me, because I don't take such knock-out pills, but maybe it would be good to use them in periods when they knock you out so badly? Like, taking them three days, then don't take them the rest of the week. Then you'd combine the periods of much sleep and little energy with periods of less sleep and more energy. Would that be an idea for you? The way I see it, my insomnia comes in periods. Sometimes I really have problems with it, that's when I go crazy about it. And then there follow often long times of regular (or more or less regular) sleep where I don't have any problems sleeping. And what I need to understand is that the treatment has to begin in the periods of the good sleep rather than crying for a quick fix under high stress... The thing about the overexcitement is, that I don't feel like I can stop it. I had this problem two weeks ago before I was going to holiday. I have flight anxiety to a degree and I was lying in bed totally nervous, but for actually no reason (I wasn't even thinking about flying). I slept less than two hours - and that before holiday, which makes a really bad start. I didn't want to take pills because they would knock me out and I'll oversleep my get up time. It was quite bad. The point is, it was impossible to mentally stop the nervousness and anxiety that has gotten a hold of me. I really tried to stop it mentally, tell me there is no point to be anxious and that I am relaxed etc., but the periods I really managed to keep this were like 5 minutes and then I got anxious again, in the end also angry that I couldn't hold longer and then the situation is totally escalating when anxiety mixes with anger. I am really not able to hold a level of relaxing thoughts. What can I do against that? And, more importantly, why does my mind always interfere with that and wants to make me nervous?

lol omg, this can't be for real I WIN

and just that is what's not possible I'm almost always overexcited...

I used to be on Skype ... but I practically am no more. I have no time. Plus we use Skype at work and so it always reminds me of work and I don't really want that at home so much And before that ... ICQ, but that's aeons ago

Hey, it wasn't meant in a bad way, I would have kept it. People would recognize you And by the way, the actual one actually bears far dirtier things I'm just arsing around Good luck for the job and all the best to the woman and the little one

Sometimes when a thread gets out of hand, yes. The concerned posts are mostly set to invisible by us then. And it would make no real point (from our side) telling people about deleted posts. If we feel something shouldn't be seen, it would make no point in informing the public that there is something that is not to be seen. I would understand the argumentation from your side that it's not that nice to not be informed ... and you're probably thinking now what happens in the back when you don't look. Don't worry. It doesn't happen very often that we set posts to invisible ... and if there have been actions, we are internally discussing (if it's no spambot that is) to keep an eye on the situation.

I didn't notice it... I don't notice such things if they are not totally obvious. Some years back in the army the commander let me see a picture and pointed in the middle of it and asked me what I see. "A heart necklace", I replied. Only moments later I realized that the heart necklace was hanging between a pair of really fine tits. Everybody was confused why I did mention the necklace, they didn't even check that it's there... So much for that. Anyway, this discussion reminds me of this video: (I don't really know if you can call it "safe for work", depends on you) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJI-o4xXSRg

Saw the fight Klitschko vs. Haye yesterday in a bar. I'm not too interested in boxing, but I like the Klitschko brothers and wanted Haye's ass to be kicked, which fortunately was the case Unfortunately he didn't go K.O. ... that's what I was waiting for. But it was far too much show for the event, they took ages to begin and the fight wasn't that awesome...

There is already some biodegradable kind of plastic that dissolves in water. That concerned prototypes of cookie packaging (you know, the plastic trays they mostly are in when you open the outer package). So I think we aren't too far away from that step. Other than that, why not use starch? That's probably what the above mentioned CD packaging is manufactured of.

I hope the cake is not a lie

I don't know, but this appears kinda polarizing to me, made up for the masses. I used to watch a better series, a german one that is focusing more on music videos and showing what gestures and symbols mean. Not so much polarisation, selling soul to devil or whatever, just more focus on actual information. With such "documentaries", you have to take care that you don't fall into the opposite pit, you know. The media manipulates us. But such "documentaries" manipulate aswell, in the other direction. It needs a strong mind and a good overview so that one doesn't fall into either of those pits and yet doesn't stand still, but has an opinion. There is certainly a form of secret society in the music industry. And it is very interesting when symbols, gestures, design, layouts and all that of music videos are analyzed precisely and they indeed show a lot of parallels towards masonic or satanic symbols. And there are also the people who say that the big pop stars are all manipulated and participating in big satanic rituals, getting abused and all that... However, how much of that really is true you don't know. Maybe some (or all?) of that is true and this explains the kind of "energetic" dislike of pop music which I have since I'm able to think back. I never knew why I felt like that, only after I saw these documentaries I saw that the reason for the dislike might be "evil energy" that is shown, practised or worshipped in these videos/songs and artworks. I don't know. Better listen to what your heart says and nothing else - that's what I do. I just don't like pop for some reason, that's why I listen to psy (and metal).

indeed ... I am using it continuously now and right now I feel much more relaxed and tired than I do normally at this time I feel like I'll even postpone the shower to tomorrow morning and go straight to bed now...

omg did you really try to eat the CD packaging?