I wanted to be an archeaologist, until I found out they don’t carry guns or whips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZOOkvbVzA
Wanted to make a living doing music. Yep, i’m one of those…But, this leaves me with a question - When did Al do business with the Devil? At first Arista, blah blah blah. But “The way to succeed or the way to suck satan’s cock” was the last gasp for me.
Maybe it would be better for all of us if you two just IGNORED EACH OTHER’S POSTS?!?!?!
Ok, I officially with draw from this.
Done responding…Olsen can post what ever drivel he wants I will ignore him in this thread now
I apologize for pissing everyone off for my own amusement. can’t say it won’t happen again cause olsen really is entertaining to me… but for this thread I am sorry
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grmpysmrf
I agree that the financially elite having the attitude that the rest of us are beneath them is wrong.
They need to remember that without the rest of us, they wouldn’t get chauffeured around, their floors scrubbed, their food prepared by their personal chef, their child’s diapers changed, their clothes purchased for them, their hair fixed, or the golf course maintained.
Maybe it would be better for all of us if you two just IGNORED EACH OTHER’S POSTS?!?!?!
They need a button to do that.
i still think the omaha boot is their best.
i still think the omaha boot is their best.
I’m very fond of the overflow boot.
Late,
grmpysmrf
I like the Denver Boot.
Now I am focusing 100% on my true path of rockstardom with a summer tour in the works. I will not get another cushy full time gig again. I will make it work with oddjobs, freelance writing/editing and Obama’s generous unemployment system.
Voidhead, normally I’d laugh and say ‘yeah, right’. But… that’s more balls than I ever had. Give me some.
Then again, what Peligro said was very true. And I’ve seen first hand the sort of chaps who’ve tried this caper, but just simply didn’t have the goods, or maybe the opportunities, or simply the luck, to go all the way. It has really fucked with them. But, I guess that’s what having guts is- being able to stare that in the face and say ‘fuck it, I’m going to try’.
Currently, my way of compensating is to do it, but to juggle and not get enough sleep or see people as often as I’d like. This is displeasing. But you cannot have everything. I think that’s part of growing up. If you want to live your dream, there is some degree of sacrifice. But, it truly is something you are passionate about if it doesn’t feel like an obligation, let alone something that is done to one’s own chagrin.
When I was a kid, stuff like Heavy Metal and Mad were the reason I picked up a pencil and started drawing. I wanted to be the next Mort Drucker or something.
ICEPICK, HOW AWESOME WAS HE? To me, he was my favourite along with Sam Viviano, Tom Bunk, Al Jaffee, Herman Mejia and Drew Neumann… probably heaps I’m forgetting.
Granted, I inherited alot of it. But I invested well and made a shitload. Any other dickhead with half a brain would have blown the inheritance.
Makes me wanna go up to my old Year 11 math teacher, grab him by the collar and rub his face in it for calling me a flake and an abject failure.
I’m really proud of you, man.
I stopped writing poetry because I went all faggy and emo about it. I got no enjoyment from writing a poem about being sad because Mr X was a jerk and y made me suicidal. I enjoy writing (in general) but don’t enjoy it when I have to do it.
BlueVelv, this is spot on. But, this is why I prefer not to make a career out of music. I do it as I please and not because of any bullshit obligation. As all creating any form of art should be.
Reading the rest of Olsen and Grmpysmrf’s posts…
alright, Olsen.
Just gonna weigh in here.
You inherited money. You invested it well. I can actually respect that. I read what you’ve detailed, and there’s nothing unreasonable about that.
But why you preceded all of this by boasting about living a priviliged life and making out that you did virtually nothing for it, let alone finishing high school, and then expect people not to react, is beyond me?
I get the sense you know what you’re doing. It’s some form of entertainment. Good for you.
But can you sort of see where the backlash comes from? You’re like the kid at school who gets the awesome grades, but makes out they don’t study for it and just have this natural gift or whatever.
People who do that shit me. If you’d just come out with how you fucking saved your money from the onset, you would’ve earnt a lot more respct immediately, rather than precipitate yet another thread hijacking and flame war in an otherwise interesting thread.
I would’ve changed my response had I read further into this thread, but I won’t because your first post really did deserve that sort of response. But, I find my opinion has been tempered by the amount of detail in your following posts.
But I am in agreeance with Icepick. You both really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really seem to have way too much time on your hands. If someone busted my balls like either you were, I’d just let them ‘win’.
Oh, and my career aspirations?
When I was kid, I went around telling everyone I wanted to be a ‘lawyer’. I knew this is what they wanted to hear. Truth is, I didn’t fucking care about. I didn’t even care about what they did.
I wanted to play music, always have and always will. I remember looking at the famous metal bands when I was a little kid and wanting to do that, if anything, to play with them.
I eventually realised that last year. Not trying to blow my own trumpet, but I did. And I saw it for what it was.
I’m at a funny point in life. There’s heaps of stuff I want to do, but I can’t seem to make up my mind. All I know is, that so far, I’m pretty happy.
And I’d be just as happy to end up in a shitty flat living alone on fuck-all as long as I had a piano and a decent veggie patch. Lame, but… whatever.
I wanted to be a pilot. Tried out for the RAAF when I was 17 as a maintence engineer. Figured it was a step in the door as I didn’t have the grades or aptitude at school to do well enough to walk straight in as a pilot. Failed the medical. Got a second opinion from a specialist and had a date set for my appeal but I decided not too as I didn’t want it hanging over my head that I’d taken the RAAF’s medical staff on and won. It may not have mattered but that’s what I felt.
So I continued on in school (not for much longer) and scored myself a traineeship in IT.
Worked in IT support for 10 years in various companies both large and small. At one stage I was supporting an area that covered Australia up to Japan and across to India (so pretty much all of SE Asia). The best job I had was doing QA for Australia’s largest telco (I was working for IBM at the time). Man did I get into some fights with management. I’d still be doing it had I not gotten bored and decided to leave. Oh well.
Approaching 30 my time in IT was at an end.
After a brief time driving trams I moved over to driving trains and I’ve never felt better about the job I have. It’s a pleasure getting up to go to work. I’m sure that sounds strange but happiness at work is more important than money (well that’s what I think).
Guess I’ve drifted away from the original topic of this thread but I’m not the only one.
I never even went to university. In fact, I only barely passed Year 12.
Lots of people do that and end up successful. Stanley Kubrick was an “average at best” student who slept through most of his classes and rarely ever achieved a grade higher than a C+.
And here I am with a $2m + house, $2m + in the bank, a shitload of shares worth…hell, I dunno, an additional property in the sticks worth nearly $1m and a new Lexus.
See, I wouldn’t have said that. It reeks of smug, self satisfaction and infantile ego glorification. If you’d discovered a vaccine to protect mothers from having down syndrome babies or something, I’d be impressed. All this just makes you sound like a jock. No, it makes you sound like a parody of a jock character from some John Hughes film.
Granted, I inherited alot of it.
Wow. And then there’s this.
But I invested well and made a shitload. Any other dickhead with half a brain would have blown the inheritance.
True. But then, any other dickhead with half a brain would keep the kind of info you’ve shared with us to himself.
Take that, asshole.
Take what. In all fairness, dude, you haven’t really said anything.
It’s good that yr rich and I think you’re a an interesting person with an ear for good music and it’s nice to find like minded individuals to talk music with. I don’t really care that you have a Lexus or a pool or an expensive looking house in an exclusive suburb. None of that shit means anything. The only kind of people that will care about that kind of shit are the kind of people who get on message boards and brag about how wonderful it is that they own a lot of expensive shit and how much sex they get with hot models.
And you know as well as I do that those kind of people are fucking tools.
this thread is full of lolz.
I have a 12’ long solid gold penis.
I win.
What, I’m gone for a week and I miss…THIS?
What the? What exactly did all that huffing and puffing between Olsen and Grmpy achieve anyway? Settle.
I think both those guys make valuable contributions to this forum and it would definitely be a loss if either one decided to jack in it over a dumb fight over social status.
Like fucking…who cares?
I just had my cock yanked and I drive a BMW landcruiser. Do I win anything??
Well I’ve got a 12’ gold penis so I’m winning…oh wait, that’s bi-winning.
Well I’ve got a 12’ gold penis so I’m winning…oh wait, that’s bi-winning.
I think that’s a “FAIL” how do you get any feeling out of that thing? Maybe good for the velvester or any other chick out there but for dudes can’t be much winning in some chick sucking and fucking yer metal rod…
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I never even went to university. In fact, I only barely passed Year 12.
Lots of people do that and end up successful. Stanley Kubrick was an “average at best” student who slept through most of his classes and rarely ever achieved a grade higher than a C+.
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that was only up to twelve years old, not twelfth grade… Not only that C+ is an upper average grade. look at everything else Kubrick went on to direct and write. I don’t think your Kubrick=Olsen analogy applies here.
[reply]And here I am with a $2m + house, $2m + in the bank, a shitload of shares worth…hell, I dunno, an additional property in the sticks worth nearly $1m and a new Lexus.
See, I wouldn’t have said that. It reeks of smug, self satisfaction and infantile ego glorification. If you’d discovered a vaccine to protect mothers from having down syndrome babies or something, I’d be impressed. All this just makes you sound like a jock. No, it makes you sound like a parody of a jock character from some John Hughes film.
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And that’s all I was saying, it just devolved into stupid snide personal attacks (Which I still say was funny, btw) Also, explains his love of everything Conservative… He can’t see past himself to understand that there are others out there getting fucked over just as hard as he lucked out (which is huge) and the fact that he doesn’t even want to try to see it from someone else’s point of View (the majority of people’s point of view at that) and sticks to his own is just petty and ignorant.
[reply]Granted, I inherited alot of it.
Wow. And then there’s this.
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Which makes his Point of view even worse and rife with ignorance. Then top all of that with his love of typing obscenities at me for understanding the plight of those less fortunate than I.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Hey, I laughed.