Long story really short, I swore off all my old haunts two years ago because I just felt the need to. I find that my email blew up like mad because of an ancient thread of mine from years ago, and I realized I genuinely missed bullshitting with my fellow Prongers, and for the time being, I have loooots of time to kill doing just that.
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Short story made long, I got surgery on my knee, got into the best shape of my life, got involved with a few REALLY terrible women, got really big into the local hardcore/metal scene, got really big into playing music rather than just listening (I was and am still not good at all), and to be totally honest, for a good year and a half just wasn’t interested in basically everything I associated with Prongs. (Ministry was the big one, but I totally lost all interest in industrial and asociated music for a minute, and I figured Prongs as a whole wouldn’t be the place to discuss my weirdly autistic sudden interest in Southern hip hop and hard/metal/death-core.)
I have kept in touch with quite a few Prongers on the Feisbuk, namely 1002, JLW, green death, and void, but I haven’t visited Prongs, even lurked, in well over a year now.
I miss you guys. I miss the irreverent humor. I miss the crazy, borderline insane political debates. I miss my digital friends giving me glimpes into their lives and learning a lot about different parts of the nation and the world by proxy. I miss occasionally chatting with any of my musical heroes from time to time. I miss discovering kick-ass music on an almost daily basis.
Truth be told, I’ve missed the fuck out of Ministry.
I picked up the Trax Box, and fuck, that whole month got me super nostalgic about this place, but I’d been internet dead for an eternity by then. That’s about the point where whatever the hell has been fucking up my body started. I’ve been trying to distract myself with exercise, doing shows, going to shows, etc., but I finally got around to getting my shit looked at within the past few months.
The docs have no idea what’s making every nerve in my body prevent me from sleeping or what’s causing my rapid fluctuations in weight or my crazy headaches and pins and needles everywhere. Blood tests and MRIs have all come back benign, and I can’t see a neurologist in my city until September, and FUCK that, I have a festival to go to.
(Yeah, I’m going to Cold Waves this year. Let’s fucking kick it crazy status.)
A lot of my old internet hangouts have been the furthest thing on my mind lately, but seeing my old 242 thread blow up and realizing how SHITTY I was back in 2008 made me genuinely chuckle at good times with my extended fam here at Prongs.
Ice is back, baby, and he’s cooler than a fan in the summertime.
What have I missed?