Haha! Good catch-that is funny
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Axver said:
Because people like being sold crap? I can't think of any sensible or logical explanation. Almost all of the bands I like have never had a top 100 hit in either the US or the UK, and are lucky to make the charts elsewhere. Meanwhile, check out the garbage on the charts.
Aw
. Some of mine have been lucky enough to make it into the charts, but yeah, I understand your frustration. I mean, that stuff can certainly make the charts, as there are people out there who like it (I've certainly found some top 40 stuff in the past I like, after all), but it would be nice to have everyone get an equal chance at that sort of thing. Bah.
I guess your explanation must be it...I can't think of any other reason, either. Go figure, it seems.
Axver said:
And before any smartarse comes on here and says "yes Axver, but you mainly like longwinded prog and death metal", listen to Porcupine Tree's Piano Lessons first and tell me it's not just as or more immediately catchy than the majority of U2 or Crowded House's hits. That should have been a huge single. Blah.
I don't know any Porcupine Tree songs, but I'll track that one down and give it a listen
.
Axver said:
Huh, so that's what he's saying there! I'd noticed that vocal before, but never really deciphered it. The "high" is readily apparent, but I hadn't picked up that it was "Rocky Mountain" beforehand. Cheers!
You're welcome. Yeah, it's sorta mumbled, but listen closely and you'll catch it. 'Tis a neat little find.
Axver said:
Passports can be a pain in the arse, agreed. I currently just have an Australian passport because it would cost too much to renew my Kiwi one. I hate having to write down my nationality as Australian though. But once you have a passport, travelling between the US and Australia/NZ has become a breeze recently as you don't need a visa as long as you stay 90 days or less. (And for those of us with an Aussie or Kiwi passport, what's really sweet is that we can travel between the two countries completely freely. When I moved across the Tasman, I just hopped on a plane. No visas or anything required, just a valid passport.)
Wow, that's not a bad deal at all! It'll indeed be easier to travel once I actually get a passport down the line, yeah. Hopefully someday you'll be able to afford to renew your Kiwi one, too.
Axver said:
It's funny how foreigners always seem to be pretty impressed by Australian scenery. I rarely find it to be awe-inspiring. A lot of it's very nice, that's for sure, and I don't mean to talk it down. But, well, when you come from New Zealand, your standards are high. I'm used to Milford Sound, the Marlborough Sounds, and my hometown, the Kapiti Coast (in the mid-ground is Paekakariki; my specific hometown of Raumati Beach is in the background further up the coast).
Heh, actually, a lot of what my friend showed me
was New Zealand-related, as she's taken a few trips over to that country. She loves the place and has actually talked about possibly moving there someday. But whether it's Australia or New Zealand, I find either place attractive-though that's probably due to the fact that it's all new to me. I'm originally from a part of the U.S. where there's just nothing but flat land and cornfields for miles, with the occasional hilly areas popping up here and there. So anything that involves mountains and other various types of change in scenery is going to fascinate me (one big reason why I like the area I live in now)
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The pictures you shared are
gorgeous. Especially that third one-so much lush green land there...nice place to call home!
Axver said:
Also, I'm totally in agreement with you re: flying. I try to avoid it, but it's the only way to get to New Zealand, heh. Whenever I can, I travel by train.
Good plan. Glad I'm not alone.
Axver said:
I want to come to the US again, I didn't get to meet nearly half the people or go half the places I wanted to go in 2005 (as Khanada will certainly attest). I especially want to visit the Pacific northwest. Damn finances keep conspiring against me. I'm hoping 2009 will have an opportunity. I want to come for Christmas one year, just because a winter Christmas sounds weird as hell. Christmas without cricket? The mind boggles.
LOL, and it's just the opposite for me-I can't imagine Christmas without snow and cold weather. It just doesn't look right to me at all (and I've experienced a few snowless Christmases. It wasn't fun
).
Hope you get to come back as soon as you possibly can-we look forward to having you here. I'd like to meet up with ya.
I've never been to the Pacific Northwest. Looks like a lovely area from what I've seen, though. Farthest west I've been has been southern California, and that was 10 years ago.
Axver said:
To tell the truth, I don't think I've willingly tuned into the radio since about 2002. It's always been either 1. because I've been with someone else or 2. wanted to hear some U2 stuff around 2004-5. Now it's gotten to the point that I have literally gigabytes of music that I haven't even listened to on my computer, so I'm certainly in no hurry to turn on the radio and listen to songs I don't like and ads!
LOL, understandable. Many people feel that way nowadays. It's kinda sad, because there ARE still a few radio stations out there that are actually pretty decent, but...yeah. Too much blech nowadays. My dad even acknowledges that the radio industry has some serious problems.
Angela