Best Decade Tournament - 90s - Numbers wins!

[Lament]

It's an easy place for me to live. I know it well enough to integrate myself immediately, but don't have the sort of connection to it that would make it difficult to leave at the drop of a hat. The cost of living is very low, and the population is very transient so there are always new people showing up. I don't think I could ever live here for a very long period, but it's perfect for a year or two. The touristy areas give me a weird sense of perspective and keep my oddly balanced and in check. Life is a pretty absurd thing, and driving past Cinderella's castle and Space Mountain every time I leave the apartment complex helps me remember that. I don't know if that makes sense, but it does to me.

I came back this time because I got offered work and it had been long enough since I'd left that most of the people and things that annoyed me the last time I lived here are gone. I'm at the point where the only thing I care about are opportunities to play music, and I felt like I had a decent chance to find people to play with down here, so I went for it. The happiest I've probably ever been as an adult was the first six-seven months I lived here in 2006, so while I don't believe in lightning striking twice, I figured this was a good place to try to get things back on track.

[Lament]

Also, you never have the dilemma of whether or not you should go see Pearl Jam.

[PryTo]

It's an easy place for me to live. I know it well enough to integrate myself immediately, but don't have the sort of connection to it that would make it difficult to leave at the drop of a hat. The cost of living is very low, and the population is very transient so there are always new people showing up. I don't think I could ever live here for a very long period, but it's perfect for a year or two. The touristy areas give me a weird sense of perspective and keep my oddly balanced and in check. Life is a pretty absurd thing, and driving past Cinderella's castle and Space Mountain every time I leave the apartment complex helps me remember that. I don't know if that makes sense, but it does to me.

I came back this time because I got offered work and it had been long enough since I'd left that most of the people and things that annoyed me the last time I lived here are gone. I'm at the point where the only thing I care about are opportunities to play music, and I felt like I had a decent chance to find people to play with down here, so I went for it. The happiest I've probably ever been as an adult was the first six-seven months I lived here in 2006, so while I don't believe in lightning striking twice, I figured this was a good place to try to get things back on track.

Thanks. It all makes perfect sense to me. (And the bolded statement makes 1000% sense.) A year ago, I was living in the Middle East. If you want a daily reminder that life is absurd, that's a pretty good place to begin. Were you in Chicago in betwixt these transitions?

[PryTo]

Also, you never have the dilemma of whether or not you should go see Pearl Jam.

I was going to add that you clearly did not move there for all the PJ shows.

[Lament]

Were you in Chicago in betwixt these transitions?

Yeah, I moved to Chicago when I left Orlando. From Chicago I moved to Tampa for about two years, and then back up to Chicago again before returning to Orlando.

Tampa is the worst city in the world.

[PryTo]

Thought so. I was in Chicago from 2003-2010. Love that town!

[Lament]

Chicago is great, but I've just spent too much of my life in that general area to be there right now. I always keep the idea of returning there open as a possibility, but I try to fight against it. It always seems like the easy way out for me, like it would be surrender. Both times I went back it was because I was trying to start very specific bands, and both of them fell through. It'd be hard for me to go back for any other reason right now.

[PryTo]

I had a love-hate relationship with Chicago. I loved it; it hated me.

[Lament]

Ha!

Chicago can be a cruel, cruel place.

[PryTo]

True dat. Like many major cities, it would have been so much more liveable if I had millions in the bank.

[Lament]

If only we were all doug rr.

[knee tunes]

If only we were all doug rr.

...then he would need some bigger clothes...

[BigRedLedbetter]

they do sometimes perfect versions of Nirvanas Pennyroyal Tea or Rihannas Umbrella. Love'em.

Their cover of Been a Son is easily my favorite Nirvana cover by anyone.

Deer Tick does some awesome Nirvana covers.

[BigRedLedbetter]

It is absurd how massive pop-country is in America.

This! Thank you!!

Being in the Midwest it's everywhere here and most of it is garbage IMHO. Some good stuff here but stuff like Florida-Georgia Line is just awful.

[BigRedLedbetter]

"I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)" by Alabama is better than any Garth Brooks song there is.

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Cheap Seats by Alabama all damn day. But that is probably because I'm a massive baseball mark.

[knee tunes]

Stip
ABNorman
Kaius
Numbers

[LetMeSleep]

I would like to thank this thread for Paw, Refused, Shihad, and Tripping Daisy. That is all.

Paw - Dragline is essential listening for anyone here.

[i got bugs]

I picked a song from Pauls boutique in the 80s tourn n songs from illmatic n check your head in the 90s.. 3 best rap albums of all time

[dsb1218]

The touristy areas give me a weird sense of perspective and keep my oddly balanced and in check. Life is a pretty absurd thing, and driving past Cinderella's castle and Space Mountain every time I leave the apartment complex helps me remember that. I don't know if that makes sense, but it does to me.

From 2003 - 2007 I lived a stone's throw from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Every time I got in my car I'd see planes coming and going in all different directions. I loved the near constant presence of one or two planes in the sky, it was a reminder to me that people move around. They don't have to stay in one place their whole lives, they can and should go to new places and explore new things.

[LetMeSleep]

really?? too metal for this crowd, i say. I love Amorphis though, not my favorite finnish metal act though..

kp

I stopped listening to them around Tuonela. Any albums since then that are pretty good? I loved Lakes and Elegy.