Thank you Zee, I appreciate that. I realize I fly off the handle about certain things, but I'm really pissed off at the world I see around me. There used to be a thing called common sense, but these days, common sense is no longer common anymore. How many times have you stood there with your mou gaping open in disbelief over how many clueless a**hole you're surrounded by? It's absolutely mindboggling. What happened to America? Remember the saying...A fish rots from the head down? Well.. look who's president.
Boston Massachusetts is one of the leaders of ignorance,in this country. Yeah..I know, you're gonna say myself included. I'll save you the trouble. If you sleep with dirty dogs, you get fleas yourself. I stand accused.
While I was cleaning up my studio to get it ready for my new computer, I found a ton of music I helped produce on a lot less equipment than I have now. Wow..it sounds great.
I am very moved by all the wonderful advice and well wishes from everyone on this forum. I feel a little bit better today. It's unreal how one minute I'll be fine, then out of nowhere, like magic, I'll sink into a very dark place as if some cloud just came over me and left me feeling hopeless, lost and paralyzed with fear and dread. Thank you everyone. And I will stay here in these forums and get involved with other topics. And maybe, by me trying help someone that feels the way I do, I might be able to help myself in the process.
I'm the most unselfish person you'll ever meet. One of my biggest faults is overextending myself and doing for others before doing for myself. I know I should stand up more for myself, but I'm always trying to get people to like me. The low self esteem I have stems from my mother who scared and threatened to kill me all my years as a child growing up. I was still terrified of her as she lay on her deathbed. So now she's dead, and here I am hoping she's burning in hell. Does that make me a bad son?
I'm the most unselfish person you'll ever meet. One of my biggest faults is overextending myself and doing for others before doing for myself. I know I should stand up more for myself, but I'm always trying to get people to like me. The low self esteem I have stems from my mother who scared and threatened to kill me all my years as a child growing up. I was still terrified of her as she lay on her deathbed. So now she's dead, and here I am hoping she's burning in hell. Does that make me a bad son?
Pain from feeling like a total failure. Lost love, divorce, music career down the drain. No support system..as if no one I know in my life cares I'm rudderless
I've been dealing with depression issues for most of my life but it seems to be getting worse with each day regardless of medication and therapy. I have no real friends to speak of. That is, the kind of friends that will be there when I go through these really dark horrible times. I'm always trying to fight back this feeling like I want to end it all. I'm really scared and extremely lonely.
That's why I don't believe in God or any religion whatsoever. John Lennon said it best.. God is a concept by which we measure our pain. To me that means...many so-called christians only call on God or Jesus when things are going badly.
I guess because so many of you people aren't in the music business, you have NO idea of negative effects American Idol has on the music business. If you allow me, I can explain. As a musician of 30 years, I've seen a lot changes, some good, some not so good. I think we'll all agree that for years originality and creativity has been the key to an artist being successful and having a long career. Well, if you look around, you'll notice countless acts (singers and bands) pretty much sounding alike and not breaking any new ground. These acts are here today, gone tomorrow. Just a assembly line of cookie cutter acts that all sound the same. That, my friends is because gone are the days that a record label has an hear for something special and cares to develop great original talent. Everything you hear on the radio, or see on TV sounds the same. Everything is prepackaged and forcefed to the masses. People have become complacent to the point that they no longer go out to clubs to check out up and coming bands or seek out new music. Nope, too many people stay home while the watch shows like American Idol water down popular music from the past. Sure, many of these performers are talented, but they're not very original. The major record companies thought this was the way to go. Well, if that's the case, why are cd sales at an all time low? Yes..free downloads have much to do with it, but more than that.. Music fans want something more and are not getting it. The labels care only about the bottom line...money. The fact is..if these people knew anything about what good new music is without falling back on recycled old songs, the music business would be in a lot better shape. Ask yourself, why are there so many more oldies stations than ever before? Very simple..there was much more diversity and much more variety and there was something for everyone. Now..these labels aim their product to a limited demographic and the scope of music has been made much narrower. People..forget American Idol. There is so much more great music out there being played by great writers, singers and musicians. Get out there and look for it. Thank you for indulging me.
No matter how many times I see this movie, it gets to me every time. This morning I told myself, I'm not going to cry this time. Well guess what... It just has to be one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. Just writing about it chokes me up.
I'm really brokenhearted over losing my girl. If you remember my post, she is suffering from the same thing as myself. I wanted so desperately to be able to help her but she pushed me away leaving me totally devastated. I miss her so much, I can't think of anything but her. I can't eat or sleep, and I'm crying all the time. It's a living hell.
Over the past week and a half I've been very down and feeling like nothing will get better. The breakup with my girlfriend is doing a real number on me. I know that these kinds of feelings happen to us all. I have these feelings of failure and dred all throughout the day everyday. I've been in therapy for the last 10 because of my deep depression and I'm taking meds as well. I feel sad, lost and alone and I'm scared. Somebody please help.
Where are all the Massachusetts women? I checked out the Mass forums..Guess What.. It's a ghost town. Its terrible. Remember my thread last week about the unfriendliness of people from Massachusetts? C'mon ladies..I really want to be proven wrong.
I'm in my studio this minute mixing a song by a band from Boston called Sins of America. OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. I'll be hearing the damn thing in my sleep for a week.
The problem is..so much that's put before Congress is so long, drawn out, and filled with so much pork, no one takes the time to read it. And the bill usually shows up when everyone is ready to leave for vacation, so it just gets signed. Now that's gutless.
To me, the Patriot Act isn't so much to stop terrorism in america. I think it's so the government can look in on disgruntled americans who don't like the way the country is being run and keeping tabs on anyone trying organize things such as protest rallies and the formation of potential militias. The Bush "administration"wants nobody in the way of them bleeding every cent they can out of this country. Call me a cynic..I don't care. it's what I believe
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RE: hello all you single ladys in mass
Nope..not at all.It's pretty much a waste of time here as far as finding anyone from Mass goes