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Why should the members change just because you don't like the way the forum is if nearly everybody else is happy with it? That's a rather selfcentered point of view. Besides that trancenonZENsedance made a really nice post about this subject in this thread, have you read it? And yes, people just post here if they need or want to. If a topic is not interesting to anybody or only to a few, it will not get many replies or maybe none at all. Get over it... We're not here for your entertainment. As you said, this is a forum, not a 24/7 chatroom. I also fail to see how people should be able to bond with each other if you push them to do so. Funny enough there is a topic about a meet up so it seems (some) people do feel close to each other. I also don't think getting as much posts as possible has anything to do with getting closer together. You like the attitude of some people or you don't, most of the times you don't need to read many posts to see where it is going. And if you want to talk about older artists or albums why don't you just use the search and look for old topics you can post? If people have anything new to add they will and if not you can at least read the old replies.

Just in case you haven't noticed: summer started and lots of people prefere doing other things than being online all day.

I can't really remember the first big concert but my mom was into rock and did enjoy taking me to concerts. Among the first for sure where the Leysin Festival where I saw Billy Idol and Guns'n'Roses together with Sepultura and Faith No More (both concerts took place in the 90ies). Other bands I saw where Pink Floyd on their Division Bell Tour, Jean-Michel Jarre, Guns'n'Roses a second time, Bon Jovi, Skunk Anansie (and also Skin solo later) and Roxette with Bonnie Tyler. I'm not going to concerts that much anymore but during the last years I was able to catch Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Prodigy, Faithless and Madonna.

The Walking On Air track on that album is absolutely awesome. I can'^t remember the rest of the tracks. All I know is they didn^t move me as much as Walking On Air. If you like organic prog/psy from around that time I can recommend you this sampler: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Lovefield-No-Dream-But-Life/release/201548 It's among the first psy cds I ever bought. Some of the names on it are rather well-known, I still haven't heard much about it on psynews.

Funny enough I tried to find the very same song some months ago. Did you watch Bones, too?

Well, there's lots of older music I listen to very rarely (I'm talking about psy/goa here). Mainly because I'm not that much into them anymore and because I've heard them too many times. For me the availability of so much music on beatport for example does not make me appreciate the newly bought tracks less. First of all lots of available music does not mean there is lots of music I like. So I only buy the stuff I rate as top and that I'm willing to play when I'm DJing. Since I buy the music for DJing I do give the the bought tracks the attention they deserve. Because I use them to train my skills and also because I need to know them if I want to create nice sets with them. I also like to listen to my sets to check if they might work and to rearrange them. More play time for the tracks again... From the appreciation point of view I can recommend djing a lot. Also because you tend to listen to music in a different way. Because you not only listen to it passively but more actively with hearing the rhythms, the melody build ups and you think about similar track to mix in.

According to Discogs my collection is about 2,142 items. All styles included but the majority is electronical music (psy/goa/trance). The collection is not complete since I didn't add the stuff i wasn't able to find and to lazy to add myself. Also not included are my (legaly bought) MP3s I use for DJing (techno, deep house, tech house, progressive), it's 10.5 Gigabyte or 952 files.

I don't know how common it is to meet people over the internet. But I've met people from psynews as well as people from other forums (some of the German users from Eve & Rave for example also met). But considering you spend a lot of time online it's the most logical thing to do. If you are part of a forum for some time you should be able to notice if there are people who are into it (or if you even want to meet them). Another way is taking part is joining non-profit organisations or groups. Obviously this is lots of effort but if you are bored with your life anyway and if you manage to find something that actually interests you (otherwise it's kinda pointless) it might help you a lot. You don't have to go for an NGO but there is also stuff arround like groups organising events of all kind. But I would advise you not to have too high expectations like having a gf or finding the best friends ever after just some weeks. Obviously it depends but I personally need more time to get into new people and putting pressure on myself does not help with that.

I used to spend betweetn 300 and 700 Swiss Francs per month for vinyls and cds when I was bilding my psy/goa collection. I still own that stuff but during the last three or four years I masively slowed down my spendings. Nowadays I spend around 100-200 Swiss Francs per month and mainly for MP3s in the techno, deep house, progressive, tech house section and very rarely for psy psy stuff.

Yeah, that's what I proposed in your thread about finding friends. I actually can't see how you would meet people with similar interests if you are not more active about it. Just hoping that one day people in your age and with similar interests will start living near you is not much to hang on to. And even if they do, how should you know about or even meet them? If a club is not the right thing for you you could still join a German forum about some of your interests and try to hook up with people from there in real life. Obviously it takes some work so to say but considering you work from home and have (at least as much as I know) not many hobbies that make you interact with people that are not online I fail to see another solution. Depending on your charakter it might take several tries and also failures before you can find real friends, even if you manage to find people with similar interests (this is not a put down of your character, I'm speaking about my own experiences).

Well, I haven't tried the Pillars book but I read mixed reviews about it and about Ken Follet in general so it's not that high on my priority list. But I finished New York and I have to say it's a real gem. I started with London from the same author and it's similarly great. There is a series about Ireland too but I don't know if I'm interested enough in the topic to give them a try. I haven't found any other suggestions lately. But I like the works of Tom Wolfe. His most known book must be Bonfire of vanities but I also like I Am Charlotte Simmons and A Man in Full a lot. His books are not really in the historical fiction department but he is very good in describing the environment of the different social classes and in different times and how they are linked.

Either it really is some kind of depression or you are just bored. No matter how much fun some things might be, if you always do the same stuff, it gets less interesting with time. It's like eating your favourite meal every day. No matter how much you like it, sooner or later it loses its magic. It's very hard to tell what to change since I don't know much about you, only the stuff you write here. But you made another thread about your work and the desire to meet new people. The situation with your work is rather clear now (as far as I remember) and you will try to make your money with the freelance work. But meeting new people takes an effort you seem not too willing to take (at least that's how I interpret it, feel free to correct me). You write in your first post that you wish for a world where everything is possible and you have no limitations in your actions. Who wouldn't want that? But even if you would win the lottery big time your world wouldn't be like that. So being sad about not having something like that is rather pointless. Maybe it would help you if you would focus on realistic things you actually could achieve and invest some time in that. Having a goal, doing something for it and in the end achieve something gives you satisfaction. Like having your own appartment, take some actions to meet new people or whatever else you feel is worth taking an effort.

Well, why should they pay you for six months without asking you do to do anything for it? One application per week really is not much (you need to write it once and then you just adjust it, especially if you don't want a job) and if you really want to avoid getting a job you can still fuck up the interview if you accidentaly get an invitation for one. If you want to get money from the unemployment insurance fund in Switzerland they ask for 10 to 15 applications per month (or at least they used to some years ago but from what I've heard it's gotten worse, not better). Depending on your qualifications you can't even find that many suitable jobs.

But the question is if there will always be that many jobs available on those portals. Especially if you don't want to invest time to improve your language skills. I don't know what kind of texts you had to write but depending on the topic you might reach the limit of your skills sooner or later. But I guess it's a bit hard to tell after only one or two months so maybe you want to check that out before you make any bigger decisions. Actually you don't even have to go to classes to get a diploma. If you want to get one of the Cambridge diplomas (one of the BEC-series or first, proficiency and what not) or as far as I can tell nearly any other diploma you can simply register for the exams. You can buy your own books to study (there are several for each exam) on your own.

Btw. didn't you think about working as a translator too and maybe even taking some classes to enhance your english skills? I think this might also be another thing you could work online with. And if you get a better diploma it would help for freelance work and for a regular job if needed.

Yeah, how dare I even think about it.

I'm not familiar with the new Star Trek stuff. But I checked amazon and there are Star Trek novels available. Maybe you wanna give them a try? Having a good source for inspiration is great but it might be a bit hard to port what you see in the series into your stories since it's another form of entertainment. There are a lot of very good sci-fi books. Arthur C. Clarke is awesome (the guy who wrote 2001 Space Odyssee), Stephen Baxter is also great. Both are actually scientists so they don't just invent silly stuff for their books but have the background to actually have visions who are linked to actual development in the aerospace sector.

I wasn't too sure about what kind of tracks to recommend. As I have said Talpa has a uniqueness for me that makes it hard to compare his tracks to other artists. So I tried do give a selection of melodic stuff to choose from. I haven't heard anything about Trinodia but I will surely check them out. I'm a sucker for in-your-face melodies.

That's a start. But to be commercially successfull it might take a bit more than writing stories after a certain formula. Not only the language skills of knowing your grammar but also the ability to create an interesting story. It also helps if you read a lot yourself. Not only to get a feeling for the language and to expand your vocabulary but also to get into the different styles of the writers. Which are the books or writers you are inspired by?

If you manage to sell that means. But yes, go ahead and try it! How will you gain the skills you need, creative writing classes or what are you after?

It's quite obvious English is not his mother tongue so maybe give him the benefit of a doubt? And even if he would ask that, would be kinda silly since I doubt any artist would chage his or her style because of a forum request (otherwise IM would sound very different nowadays aftert all the bitching here... ).

It's a matter of taste in the end but I personally wouldn't buy a book with stories like the stuff you are posting here. There is some entertainment value in your posts but not on a level that makes me wanna pay for it or makes me wanna read a book about them. But as I said, it's personal taste. Generally speaking I think it is rather hard to actually make money with writing books. I don't know about e-books but considering how much time you have to spend to write the stories down, fine-tune them, get them corrected and what not I think you'd make more money if you use the time to do some freelance work on the pages you mentioned above. Publishing books is a bit like producing music. As far as I know it's possible to make money with it but a lot of writers make more money with going on reading tours than with the actualy sales of the books (unless you are able to sell a lot).

I don't think he has a wrong approach. He likes melodic music and asks for recommendation, similar to lots of other people who ask the same about prog, full-on or whatever else there is. If you like Filteria or not is a matter of taste and he was just giving examples of what he doesn't like so people know what to not recommend. Considering I'm known for my cheezy taste in psy I will try to give you some recommendations: Yahel - Waves Of Sound (the track itself but also the whole album, lots of classics on it like Last Man In the Universe, For The People...) Goma - Intelligent Solution lots of Man With No Name Tracks are also very melodic, maybe you wanna try Sugar Rush, Dayglo and Teleport Space Cat is also melodic, the older tracks like Space Cats are more goaish while newer stuff tends towards full-on. Deep Rising is also great and not yet full-on. I personally also like the whole Mechanical Dream album. For melodic neo-goa I would check out Crossing Mind I would also check out Liquid Soul, it's progressive but he is very good with melodies imho. Global Illumination is my favourite track. Ticon also has (not only but also) very nice melodic tracks: 1987 for example or Six Years After for example. And the last Reefer Decree album is also prog but melodic. I don't know if this is any help since Talpa has a rather unique sound but all of the stuff mentioned above is melodic. Maybe you'll find something you like.

Don't they have to point the part with the red light to your face to actually blind you? Just lifting the mous should do no harm and as far as I can tell it is hardly noticable. But either way, it seems pretty clear you don't want to work in a steady job for several reasons. This means you could try to expand your freelance work. Did you try to calculate how much money per month you'd have to earn to be able to live on your own (unless you want to stay with your parents of course)?

I work in an office all day and actually nobody every raises the mouse. People are there to work and get payed for that, normally they don't care about doing stupid stuff like that. Btw. you can also work part-time, then you will have to spend less than 8 hours a day at work. Or you could look for a combination of a part-time job as a stable income and get the rest with your freelance work. But in the end you will see if you can make enough money with the freelance work or not and the decision what to do will come naturally.