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Heh...

Boredom + Digital Camera + Drawing Mannequin=this.

Mannequin Bob says hi.

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*f o o f* is a craft-aholic, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:28, archived)

git on aim you!

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:30, archived)

mmmmmkay

^_^

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*f o o f* is a craft-aholic, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:32, archived)

your band sound like they

can't decide if rage against the machine are better than chilli peppers.

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Mingus wonders where all the time went, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:37, archived)

ive had that said before.

i can see how we sound like rage on some stuff, but i really dont get the chillis comparison. we sound nothing like em. And theres only 2 or 3 songs that sound like rage.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:41, archived)

ahem

you do sound like rage....urghh you unmetal person you, i can pull more metal riffs out of the hairs surrounding my scrotum

/edit: and to think i stopped listening to my metalcore :\

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:43, archived)

i doubt it.

plus, you have never heard me playing the stuff I WANT to play. The stuff i do with my band is about 30% of what im capable of. There isnt a person alive that can play a faster fucking riff than me.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:45, archived)

sooooo

why the hell are you in the band that you're in then?

oh and i can pull off some meaty metalcore schtuff

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:46, archived)

because im not JUST into metal.

I put a band together briefly in Lancaster that blew the fucking heads off anyone that heard it cos we were that fucking heavy, and fast. The guy who runs the studio that we practice at said in 20 years, hed never heard anything like it. The stuff I play with my band is fun to play, and easy to play, and has a cool groove to it. I enjoy playing alongside the other guys in my band as we're all friends. none of us have the same taste, and so thats the way we sound at the end of the day.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:48, archived)

hehe ok

fair enough, im not just into metal myself, but lets face it, it fecking rules. ive probably heard heavier but then i do span quite wide over the metal genre, listen to 'fuck....im dead' and you'll get the idea

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:50, archived)

it does indeed fecking rule.

and if i knew more people into thrash/death then id start a band like that. but i dont. the guys i started the band with in lancaster all graduated from uni this year, and fucked off down south, so that was the end of that. It was brief, but it was fucking unbelievable. We were playing under the name "corpse on a string" just cos it was a stupid dumbass type death name. We sounded like Slipknot crssed with slayer, but on one guitar, one bass and one drumkit, and my mate Daz screaming his fucking head off and tearing at the walls.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:52, archived)

yeah

there aren't enough thrash and death fans around. im off to uni myself very soon, hopefully i'll meet up with likeminded people.
in the meantime check this out www.uchideshi.co.uk it should be very good and im not plugging it, im off there myself

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:56, archived)

bloody uni

you'll probably get stuck with a bunch of people you don't like and have to try to get on with them for at least a year and go slowly crazy in their company that you can't get away from.

/bitter

(||lll||ll||lll|| ||lll||ll||lll||, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:58, archived)

yeah, i agree there.....

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:01, archived)

i know

people who are already going, thanks for the advice though, it will probably turn true

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:03, archived)

Fuck em off

if you don't like em, no rules saying you have to hang around with people in your halls that you don't know, you didn'y choose them to live with. Chances are most of the people you meet you won't speak to after 1 year even if you do spend all your time with them.
If you know people already, bonus I say.

(||lll||ll||lll|| ||lll||ll||lll||, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:05, archived)

we played one of the shittest gigs ever at stockport uni...

our first gig ever.

Can these boys play then? cos I tell you something, theres NOTHIGN worse than a bad death metal band.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:00, archived)

the band that i know are metalcore/hardcore

are called scarlet bullet lake.. they really are shit hot, ive been in a band with the bassist before and he's damn good, 'cept his main bass is in for repairs at the moment :S. if you havent heard of gutworm the main band on the night then you're a fool, theyre huge on the uk underground :)

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:02, archived)

even i've heard the name gutworm

and i despise that kinda music :)

(vork and burlap, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:05, archived)

heard of em yeah.

havent been to any of their shows though. been out of the loop whilst ive been at uni. Tell you something though, look out for a band called MERICHANE from lancaster. they fucking RULE. and i very rarely say that about bands at our level, cos bands at our level are usually shit.

I think ive heard of scarlett bullet. did they used to be my red bullet?

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:07, archived)

hahahaha

thats so fucking weird, no they arent, but i also know my red bullet, ive been in battle of the bands with them in bolton, seen them at a few local pubs too, i sorta know ramsey who is the lead guy (i.e. talked to him a few times), but theyre emo guys and im not a huge fan of the music to say the least

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:12, archived)

ahhhh.

cos my red bullet were "band of the month" the month after us on some website or other. trippy that they share a name.

When i get back to uni, im starting my own solo project, of seriously heavy grooves, like Pantera style stuff. I'll send some links your way, see what you think.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:14, archived)

yeah sure

sounds good, pantera kick arse along with anything that sounds like them....like pissing razors :)

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:16, archived)

yeah.

you ever heard of a band called Restricted Rights?

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:16, archived)

im afraid not

they any good??

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:18, archived)

ever heard

of a band called electromink?

(||lll||ll||lll|| ||lll||ll||lll||, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:19, archived)

but it sounds amusing all the same

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:22, archived)

I made it up

If I ever get arsed to record a series of songs and form a band proper like, it will be named such.

(||lll||ll||lll|| ||lll||ll||lll||, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:25, archived)

oh oh oh

you joker you, but i wont steal that name for any future band i may be in

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:28, archived)

tits

it's been copyrighted.

(||lll||ll||lll|| ||lll||ll||lll||, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:42, archived)

no. avoid.

i got into a big argument with em when they played a battle of the bands with us. I thought they were utterly shite, and their singer had a strop when they didnt win, so i basically told him he was a childish cunt, and his band (and his mates) all started giving it some. But they were fucking wank. shit vox, shitter guitars and the drums were out of time. At one point in time I was inviting em to come down to our next gig and Id personally kick the shit out of them onstage. It was pretty heated. But theres a guy who plays for em that was suggesting that I cant play metal riffs, cos of what I do with publicide. I wanted to tear his fucking head off. But yeah, stay away from em, cos they suck ass. They think theyre like ULTRA heavy, but theyre not, theyre just a mess. I mean, I listen to some aggressive, abrasive music, but this was just noise. I believe I called them "the audio equivalent of bad handwriting" at the time.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:23, archived)

ahh

i shall give them a wide birth...with all the contractions and everything. i think i get what you mean though, i hate the people who think theyre metal and just turn out to be pussy out of time shite. well, theyre just there for fun i suppose

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:27, archived)

not my idea of fun.....

shit, I wish Corpse on a string was still going. youd fucking flip at that stuff. some of the fucking riffs we did, people were having fucking nosebleeds!

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:30, archived)

sounds good

ive got crappy at guitar over the past few months, barely played due to exams/lots of work/drinking

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:32, archived)

funny that

cos ive barely drunk/done work/exams due to guitar playing....

I do need to practice more though. I used to play for about 9 hours a day, every day, but i stopped when i got to uni. although i been playing loads recently, but its fucked my wrist up playing so fucking hard for so long without warming up. heh, I wanna record some riffs for you now... My mate Daz called me "machine gun" cos of how fast i play, it sounds like a fucking uzi going off.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:35, archived)

damn smooth

i dunno the style that i play right now is......probably metalcore...stupid fast followed by slow grooves.........drop c tuning is a blessing

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)

yeah.

the corpse stuff was all drop B. gauge 13 strings on an epiphone SG. could barely bend the fuckers, it was great! Its a great tuning to sing over, cos ive got quite a deep voice, and it actually gives me some range.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:40, archived)

mmmm drop b

i can get my guitar to drop A but i prefer C, its just more fun. hehe drop B always sounds damn meaty, bet it did sound good.i can't sing for shit so thats never a factor

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:42, archived)

someone once told me i sound like james hetfield without the tune.....

A is good on a 7 string. My SG didnt like it too much though. Drop B was plenty heavy. I hired this piece of shit Peavey amp, cranked everything up to 10 and tried make it explode. Those were the days....

This year im putting together a Guns N Roses style blues/hard rock act, with a few mates of mine. But I still wanna do the heavy shit.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:45, archived)

arrghh

death to 7 strings...unless steve vai is behind one. i own a really cheap shitty ibanez but it seems to manage alot, speccially weird string guages (i use ernie heavy bottom, slinky tops). i have a peavey amp too but thats pretty shite, but it can knock out some pretty heavy crap. hehe you going back to the old school, everyone seems to be doing that thesedays.........'death to the darkness' i hate those fuckers

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:49, archived)

i hate this fucking "modern old skool" vibe thing though.

basically, the only good old skool rock bands are Guns n roses, led zeppelin, sabbath and aerosmith.

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PMGT -Bacon., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:53, archived)

true true

i dont think anything could go back to the proper old stuff. anyway im gonna go to bed now, ive gotta go to work tommorow :S ive had 2 bottles of red wine and im gonna be screwed. sleep well

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:56, archived)

I hate it when

the post is right at the side of the page and it gets all squished up.

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Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:34, archived)

hehe yup

but thank god for 1600x1200 resolution........it gives alot of space :)

(melancholiclaughter Corpsichord, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:34, archived)

but the board still

squashes posts like this...

i'm on 2048x1536 :)

(vork and burlap, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:41, archived)

sorry

but there is no comparison

Chillis win hands down

I said hands down bob

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faithy, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:53, archived)

hello

mannequin bob

(||lll||ll||lll|| ||lll||ll||lll||, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:30, archived)

howdy

(stop looking at my goats you bag of spunk, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:31, archived)

That's nice

I think I may go to bed.

2 whole days of trying to come up with a website design now, and still nothing, it's starting to iritate me now.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:31, archived)

You could use something from that webdesign generator thing in the newsletter a while ago.

(stop looking at my goats you bag of spunk, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:32, archived)

Leave the design to the designers I say.

Make it work, then get someone to bung you some tables and a stylesheet.

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supermoore: HUNG, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:33, archived)

I don't mind how

my current design works, but i just don't think the design fits right with the content.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:35, archived)

Are we on about

this one?

homepage.ntlworld.com/gaz18jf/home.html

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supermoore: HUNG, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:37, archived)

That's

the bugger.
And i know it's full of typos.
After making it I never really updated the content or checked over it.
It was more of an excuse to learn CSS than anything.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:38, archived)

To be honest

I like the way it's clean and trick-free. I can't stand busy design.

I have to say though, I hate the navigation. You should put text under the links to indicate what they are. I stared at the screen for 10+ seconds before I worked out how to navigate, others will too.

Generally ace though! Woo!

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supermoore: HUNG, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:41, archived)

Plus

you haven't linked to any of my sites!

;)

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supermoore: HUNG, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:42, archived)

Yeah

I know about the problem with navigation, if it comes to it I may just redesign the navigation and use the current design.
I'm not too fond of the "updates" iframe either though.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:44, archived)

You know

with your flash skills you could do the navigation with that, keep the same look, and have a small actionscript flash file, which downloads once in a top frame, instead of the javascript/html changing the images in onmouseover manouvers.

/my 2 pence.

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supermoore: HUNG, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:47, archived)

I've always tried to

avoid doing flash navigation with sites.
But I may do it this time.
I'll think about this time.

And when I am done, I'll be linking to your flash fear thingy, because it's great.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:50, archived)

Not as great

as your last effort mate. That humbles me.

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supermoore: HUNG, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:51, archived)

I read that

as 'hobbles me'

(||lll||ll||lll|| ||lll||ll||lll||, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:53, archived)

I think i've gone and

shot myself in the foot with that one, beucase i'll never be able to top it.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:53, archived)

you better

fucking had do

i want more

(vork and burlap, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:55, archived)

i've said it before,

but get a pen, get a stack of paper and start pissing about. or use Photoshop.

write down your tree of pages, (what _has_ to be on every page, what is most important visually etc) then draw as many scribbly ideas as you can. once you get one that looks like it could work, draw it out in photoshop
(this is what i do - depends on the style you might want to go straight into dreamweaver - it usually ends up being too graphic intensive..), then away you go.

it's not a complicated site, i can't see your problem - is it the look, the layout or what?

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dipdapdop, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:47, archived)

The look

the making of it is easy.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:55, archived)

how are you doing it at the moment?

you obviously have the PS skills - why not draw a spiffy design then work out how to make it later. Don't even think about tables or the making part at all until it looks good.

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dipdapdop, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:03, archived)

The way i work is

sketch on paper, then knock up a preview in photoshop, then build it upon that.
But i just draw a blank at the sketching stage.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:07, archived)

that's no good ;)

still to proud to steal someone elses?

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dipdapdop, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:09, archived)

Yeah

damn me.

The biggest problem at the moment is I can't decide where to place the navigation. At the top or to the left.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:11, archived)

top means

more horizontal space, less room for navigation
side means les- well you get the idea (and got it a while back methinks)
definitly work out your page-structure first anyway. - that way you should know exactly what you need. Then try different options for the layout. Choose 3/4 colours/shades that really go together, put some roundy/angular(depending on which way you bend) corners on, and bob is you dads brother. fuck icons, poncy buttons, rollover images, graphical text, you should end up with a slick, clean design that looks good and is easy to get around, perfect for the real point of your site, showing off the content.
colour is very important (lots of offence, but i don't really like your present colour scheme)

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dipdapdop, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:19, archived)

Colours - I did like at the time

but about 2 weeks later I didn't like it anymore.

In my head I have a vague image of a dark menu on the left. But the thing is I don't like dark designs, I like them to have a light background.

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StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:26, archived)

open the colour-chart thing in

PS (can't remember what it's called but not the picker) and find a good shade, then you have a light background, a table filer, a text and table-border colour all derived from the same shade - choose a nice one and it will all fit together nicely.

Stick to one font, and sans-serif is always better in my opinion (definitly for titles anyway).

shading always looks a bit cheap in my opinion - i prefer solid colour personally (or those one-pixel one colour, next another look nice sometimes)

i think one of the problems in your current site is the parts see kind of seperate, not really smooth - they don't fit together. try to get it all looking as one, smooth transitions between menu and content (not shading, i mean so it looks like one thing)

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dipdapdop, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 3:36, archived)

tell mannequin bob

that i hate him

but he should be thankful that i've yet to think of a reason why

(vork and burlap, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:35, archived)

awwwwww

but you can't!!! hes so cyuuuuuuuuute!

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*f o o f* is a craft-aholic, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:40, archived)

woo for boredom resulting in a cool picture

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Or is it?, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 2:37, archived)