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[veganinja]

I beat my record on the deadlift today. 140 lbs. Not really something to brag about, especially for a guy with legs my size, but considering I'm still leg-injured AND it was for 8 reps on my 4th set, it was pretty good.* When I started again in mid-may, after a month of being too injured to lift, I could't get above like 100. And 140 is actually

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[f13nd]

Those pics are hilarious.

[veganinja]

Ha, thanks... I'm just waiting for a knock at the door and "'EY, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, YOU LITTLE PUSSY? COME ON, FAGGOT! THAT'S RIGHT, I CALLED YOU FAGGOT, I'M POLITICALLY INCORRECT! THESE SUNGLASSES COST MORE THAN YOUR LIFE, YOU LITTLE PUNK BITCH! I HIKED THE GRAND RAPIDS! BOMB IRAQ!"

[nolegs]

You call them Horks, I call them Guidos or Meatheads. I'd say the second picture would be a Guido and the fourth a Meathead if they proved themselves to be as oafishly minded as they look.

[veganinja]

Well, the thing is, many of them aren't very meaty. A lot of the horks I see around appear to not lift weights at all, instead deriving their masculinity from lack of hair, some attempt at facial hair, badass tribal tattoos, overly expensive personal accoutrements, and women. Also, doesn't "Guido" specify Italian? Horks come in a full spectrum of white-male subgroups.

[kirk_tinman]

I was pretty bad-ass manly with my sideburns. Hahahaha. No.

I just got sonic youth's daydream nation from the library... I've never had much curiosity about them for some reason, but hell, it was free. Half crap is being kind of liberal, I think. But I never like anything on it's first spin.

[veganinja]

Well, you have to understand it in its context of '80s alternative rock and roll.
"Teenage Riot" has a really nice, happy, Cure-esque guitar thing with overly '80s American indierock vocals. "Silver Rocket" is just tense, similarly American-Cure rock. "Cross the Breeze" is kick-ass, simple, dark, dirty, bluesy, punky, fast dangerous girl rock and roll, in the vein of PJ Harvey and the Birthday Party (but the birthday party weren't girls). I think it's my favorite and most addictive track on the album. Just listening to it makes me want to hang my hair down in my face, lose 50 pounds and do heroin.
"Eric's Trip" is garbage.
"Hey Joni" is sort of lukewarm because of Thurston's annoying vocals (they're like a big, licky golden retriever) but we get more of that really pretty Robert Smith-style guitar stylings. Same with "Candle" (also the name of the best song on The Process, coincidentally). Really good, sprawling, droning, gothy guitar, but spoiled by Thurston's obnoxiously good-natured yelling

[altbro_emeritus]

yeah daydream nation didn't really do it for me either. but that's because Goo and Dirty are like, umpteen times better. (x 10!)

[veganinja]

Well, I still need to get stuck into those. eatsdirt burned me Dirty and another oen that I've listened to but haven't really gotten, like, into. But I guess Daydream Nation is just me-music, with its Velvet Underground, Cure, Stooges, Bauhaus, PJ Harvey, Birthday Party, Pavement melting pot-ness. And I don't really like Pavement that much, I just needed to convey the '80s underground American rock and roll feel of it that often makes Thurston sound so goofy like he should be riding a skateboard and starring in some movie with Corey Feldman and Corey Haim.

everybody's talking bout the stormy weather

[maria_sputnik]

MAN OH MAN. When I was seventeen I listened to "Teenage Riot" every morning, my feelings about it much like your feelings for "Flagpole Sitta". I don't know if it cured all my ills, but it got me out of bed.

This is the first time weightlifting has been mentioned on my friends page.

[metron_ariston]

Will you grow one of those villain-who-ties-damsels-to-train-tracks mustaches, too?