Krev wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:20 am Coconut ... drinks with chunks.

Revolting.

boilermaker wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:50 am

Vibracobra wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:40 pm

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:33 am Go big only.

AFL
The music of Annette Peacock
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Laziness is so underrated. It's in fact considered bad.

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Let us take the Vow of Sloth

PASTA wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:38 pm

Dave N. wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:28 pm Quietness is underrated. Stillness and quietness.

absolutely yes, nothing more underrated

100%

Quietness and stillness are definitely underrated, especially in the smartphone era of constant distractions.

Laziness, however, is okay to a point and then sucks after that. Truly lazy people are a burden to everyone else. And personally speaking, if I’m lazy for too long, it makes me feel depressed and anxious: I could have done something fulfilling, but instead I frittered away time on stuff that didn’t leave me satisfied at all.

Oddly, the people I know who complain the most about their own laziness are never actually lazy. Genuinely lazy people complain about everyone else riding them.

- A daily walk
- Short albums
- Really good socks
- A daily walk in really good socks listening to short albums

Insofar as a person can be "stuff", Roy Orbison. I know he was celebrated during his life, but I rarely hear anyone referencing his total coolness and excellence nowadays.

kmc wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:19 am Insofar as a person can be "stuff", Roy Orbison. I know he was celebrated during his life, but I rarely hear anyone referencing his total coolness and excellence nowadays.

Good shout. Top tier.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:40 am

kmc wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:19 am Insofar as a person can be "stuff", Roy Orbison. I know he was celebrated during his life, but I rarely hear anyone referencing his total coolness and excellence nowadays.

Good shout. Top tier.

Agreed, who knew that Sun records invented emo. For anyone unfamiliar, or on the fence I can recommend the concert film Black and White Night, which avoids the stuffy "tribute show" pitfalls because: Orbison is awesome, the superstars keep their egos in check. TCB band w/James Burton, and T-Bone Burnett de-ELO's the arrangements. (Actually I don't mind the Jeff Lynd re-recordings).

Best part of that show is Burton taking a solo in Ooby Dooby and doing some very James Burton guitar things. Then Roy and James look over to the Boss and he just boinks out the saddest little solo.... I wouldn't wanna take solo 2 after James Fuckin Burton.

"Doing nothing" is more appealing, in my experience, when it's not just "dicking around"/general listlessness (checking social media feeds all day, reading/sending emails, channel flipping, visiting websites, etc). If anything, I think the point is to make your mind wander less, to unplug and decompress, and not get caught up in this or that. To whittle things away, even if you're not meditating or "practicing mindfulness."

I've had a busy past six months and when I didn't have the luxury of being able to "do nothing," I would often just listen to atmospheric electronic music. Seemed to help.