Timewaster's Guide Archive

I'm looking into them now.

So far I've looked into the following and liked them:

The Dresden Dolls, kinda weird, but enjoyable.
Oingo Boingo, I didn't think I actually knew any of their stuff, but I was wrong.
Tears For Fears, I've been meaning, and then forgetting, to find out who did Shout for a while now, and now I finally know.
MIA, what do you know Fell, thanks to you I found rap I like, got anymore?
Love and Rockets was nice, but I didn't find anything that I really liked a lot, so any specific suggestions there?

That's all the ones I've looked into so far, but like I said,  I'm still looking into things so please keep the suggestions coming.

Bump.  Maybe Brandon'll see it this time.

Honestly the thing I like the most about these suggestions is that I know a quarter of them at best.  Come from being a generation behind you guys, but it also means that I get to draw on a wealth of your information instead of just mucking around by myself. 

To correct Fell though, I said that I don't listen to most rap, since I've never found good stuff on my own.  I'm looking into what you suggested right now actually.

Attitude my friend.  Attitude is everything!

There are actually a lot of things that can get readers upset, but I digress, obey Ookla!

you're not powerful enough to be a mutant cyberbiotic frog. The point is not creativity, but that you really are nothing more than just a failed test subject that happens to be a plain, regular, pathetic frog.

Ah, that puts my miserable existence into perspective.  Thank you, oh great ruler of monkeys.

I don't know (and don't care to look up) what an Acelen is.

It's probably derogatory.

Me and my friend Sam were trying to get our friend Brianna to do something a while back, I can't remember exactly.  I think we were trying to con candy from her.

Brianna: "No!"
Me: "How could you?! After everything we've done for you!"
Sam: "Learning your name and everything!"

Wow, so I take it this would be your first hate mail after mine?

Personally I think this reader was over reacting, and might not have read very much literature.  Something you often come across in almost all forms of fiction is the cliff hanger.  Whether it be in between chapters or books, it makes little difference.  Read at all and you're going to find it.  It's something authors use to build emotion and suspense, to get their readers imaginations going.  Being angry about it simply wastes energy, just RAFO really. 

It has been my observation that experienced readers usually express nothing more than mild annoyance, if anything at the advent of a cliff hanger.  However I have noticed that far too often, annoyingly so, people of my age or close to it tend to express disproportionate rage at the merest hint of not having the facts laid completely bare.  Specifically gamers.  The amount of people who hated Halo 2 that I talked to mainly had nothing more to say then 'the ending sucked, it didn't finish the story!'  When I encountered the ending it didn't even phase me because I had read enough to be familiar with the plot device. 

Sadly people my age seem to be conditioned to laziness.  They want the instant gratification of knowing the answers to their questions immediately and not being required to think.  When pushed to such they react with anger, such as this reader has.  They seem to think that they deserve to know everything with no work.

A few of you have made mention of Tolkien.  Something that few casual readers realize, and even less that have only seen the movies, is that the story of Middle Earth has very little to do with Sauron or Frodo.  It's exactly that; the story of Middle Earth.  The Lord of the Rings is simply a small part of that elaborate history that Tolkien spent his life developing.  Middle Earth was created decades before The Hobbit, and it extended decades afterwards.  The story is about the setting entirely, the history of the world.  The Simlarilion illustrates this perfectly, where you learn that Sauron and Gandalf are actually the same type of being, Miar.  You also learn that Sauron pales in comparison to the enemy that took thousands of years and the help of gods to defeat, Morgoth.  Sauron was actually only one of Morgoth's lieutenants. 

Anyway, I just woke up from a nap, so this probably isn't the most linear of posts, but whatever.