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  1. Laughing Man
    like the title says. I used to update this pretty often but for the past couple years I've only really used it to post music collection updates that nobody reads, with the occasional random musing here or there. I've got a tumblr (which I so can't link here) where I do most of my actual blogging and updates and stuff, but it feels weird having a blog here and doing absolutely nothing with it. I just don't know what to do with it. I'm not exactly the picture of activity on this site (especially considering my interest in Lego/Bionicle is below 0% at this point, so I rarely if ever post in those subforums) but I'm still more active in COT and stuff than I am here in my own blog.
     
    I also used to have it pretty well decked out with graphics and stuff but now it's about as bare-bones as you can get.
     
    so yeah, suggest stuff I can post here, I guess. this blog used to be semi-active and fairly popular and now it's just dead.
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    I AM SO ANGRY THAT THE WRITERS WOULD DARE TO ACTUALLY DO THEIR JOBS AND WRITE NEW THINGS ABOUT A CHARACTER THAT I OBVIOUSLY KNOW BETTER!
     
    THEY ARE RUINING THE SHOW BY NOT KEEPING EVERYTHING EXACTLY THE SAME FOREVER. I AM SO DONE.
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    Soilwork

    By Laughing Man,

    (originally published 7 October 2014, updated and re-published 30 August 2015, updated and re-published again 25 August 2016)
     

     
    picked up the new rarities compilation Death Resonance last week. kinda bummed that it makes owning the Beyond the Infinite EP redundant by including all of those tracks, considering I dropped $25 to have it imported from Japan and all, but whatever.
     
    from top to bottom:
     
    - Steelbath Suicide (Century Media 2000 reissue)
    - The Chainheart Machine
    - A Predator's Portrait (2003 German re-press)
    - Natural Born Chaos
    - Figure Number Five
    - Stabbing the Drama (US limited edition)
    - Sworn to a Great Divide (limited edition, if that wasn't obvious)
    - The Panic Broadcast
    - The Living Infinite
    - Beyond the Infinite (B-sides EP released exclusively in Asia)
    - The Ride Majestic (limited edition)
    - Death Resonance
     
    still missing the live album they released last year, but then I've never been one for live albums anyway. I'd also like to get the 2011 reissue of A Predator's Portrait at some point, if only for that sweet new artwork and owning the bonus track "Asylum Dance" physically (I bought the MP3 of it off Amazon a couple years back).
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    http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-dead-at-63/
     
    honestly in shock right now. I grew up with so many of his movies. this dude was the funniest person ever to me when I was a kid. he was the man. I can't believe it.
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    Opeth

    By Laughing Man,

    updated with the band's latest release Pale Communion.
     
    from the top to the bottom:
     
    - The Candlelight Years box set (Japanese version), includes:
    Orchid
    Morningrise
    My Arms, Your Hearse

    - Still Life (2009 remastered version)
    - Blackwater Park (2011 Legacy Edition)
    - Collector's Edition Slipcase box set, includes:
    Blackwater Park
    Dangnation *
    Deliverance
    Lamentations: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003

    - Ghost Reveries
    - Watershed
    - Heritage (special edition)
    - Pale Communion
     
    *censored for BZP, not actual title
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    Nice Hooves

    By Laughing Man,

    is a new band made up of members of Detroit hardcore punk band The Armed and they just released their self-titled debut album for free download (high quality with digital booklet!) and it is seriously one of the best things I have heard this year like you don't even know. so good.
  11. Laughing Man
    almost 16 years since I joined this site as a kid. it was a major part of my life for so long. to say that my time and the people I met here was instrumental to my development would be an understatement.
    so many friendships came and went, even a relationship started and ended here, and the drama - so much drama. all the arguments, bullying right-wing bigots, carving out an identity and (infamous) reputation through so many different phases and identity crises. Laughin'Man, Scythey, Ryuujin, Serein, Heck - I changed so much from the time I started here till I faded away that it feels like I was five different people, and there's a little bit of every one that's made me who I am today.
    shout out to the 3 people who might see this and think, "hey, I remember him". and to the handful of people who joined after I left who are reading this and thinking "who's this weird old guy?" just remember when you're pushing 30 the people, places, and things that got you there.
  12. Laughing Man
    casting Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in Batman/Superman seems like a weird idea until you realize that he's actually the same age as Henry Cavill
     
    if he plays the character anything like he played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, though, I can see him pulling it off pretty well
  13. Laughing Man
    like whoever thought this was a good idea.
     
    for once, can't we please just continue a long-running franchise without rebooting it?
     
    Rise of the Machines and Salvation were pretty bad, but really, does it need a full-on reboot? couldn't they do what the Child's Play franchise (not the best example, I know) is doing and just disregard those movies and do a faithful sequel with a similar tone and style to the first two?
  14. Laughing Man
    what's this? a new entry on Scythey's blog that isn't a music post, some kind of bait-and-switch, or unfunny attempt at humor? I know, I'm disappointed too. never mind, it has all those things now. crisis averted.
     
    first things first: this is officially my new proudest moment on BZPower
     

     
    second things second (see, I can count): I got a drawing tablet and have dipped my toes into the abyss you call art. personally I think I'm pretty terrible at it but I started an artblog anyway (if you're dedicated enough you'll find it) and apparently people like my stuff enough to ask me to do art for them. I got the amazing opportunity to do the interior artwork for an actual upcoming music album that will be printed in an actual physical CD booklet, which is an actual dream come true for me.
     
    third things third: speaking of amazing opportunities, two days ago I submitted a write-up for possible inclusion in a special featured article on a popular music site and today it was approved for publication. it's a large project that will feature a bunch of other writers and so far they've only got half the people needed so there's really no telling when it'll actually be finished, but still. also pretty much a dream come true.
     
    and fourth things fourth: because this wouldn't be a good entry on my blog without some kind of music hype, new Katatonia album comes out this Friday and I should get my pre-order of the 2-disc limited edition by then. potential Album of the Year h y p e.
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    The Minecraft Movie

    By Laughing Man,

    according to Deadline:


    honestly this makes even less sense than The Lego Movie did. Minecraft literally has no story. it's a sandbox video game with even more creative limitations than Lego.
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    Monsters University

    By Laughing Man,

    personally I think a Monster's, Inc. prequel is a bit unnecessary
     
    especially with how bad Cars 2 turned out
     
    (granted, I didn't like the first Cars either)
     
    but
     
    Mastodon are writing and recording a brand new song for it
     
    so there's that
  24. Laughing Man
    um I never actually started that
     
    but basically brickfair was fun and I met a lot of cool people and some stuff happened like Korra party and laser tag and Nervous Pudding concert
     
    which was really really good btw and you should totally go support them by buying their singles and their album when it comes out (I gave Princess Grr the money for the album in person and essentially pre-ordered it and I also bought a sticker and got it autographed so yeahhh!)
     
    I've been working on revising my list of BZPers I've met and I plan on putting that as a content block but tbh idk who all to add because there were several people I was around a lot but never really formally met or talked to so idk
     
    but yeah
     
    I'm possibly maybe going to try to go next year?? except I want to drive this time because it's a 5-hour drive and I had to wait that long in the airport alone so
     
    I'll see if I can get a rly cute hat or something and bring it next year k <33
  25. Laughing Man
    the frontman of the Christian metal band As I Lay Dying and the sideprojects Austrian Death Machine and Pyrithion was arrested earlier today after allegedly attempting to hire an undercover cop posing as a hitman to kill his estranged wife.
     
    yep.
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