Recent content by scorchy

Don't act like you don't know how snug it is up there, gb.

Thanks, everybody. I've missed you guys. I told Ms. Taiwan that I crowd-sourced her problem and she's calling me in a bit to find out what I've learned. Lots of great material here.

Would I have to shave the beard?

Thanks, Chem. Mrs. Scorchy said the same thing about M&T, but hindsight is 20/20. In my friend's defense, she left the US in maybe 2002 and probably opened that account in her early 20s. Obviously, she should have dealt with this when her dad's estate was settled, but she never came back...

Thanks, flop. The grapevine told me about floppinho/Yale - that's amazing. Meant to log in and pm a congrats, but you know what they say about good intentions. Things all good here - just did the conscious uncoupling thing with the FFA but that's another/uninteresting story. The Schwab...

Greetings. It's been a while, but the FFA is still the first place I turn when I literally have no clue how to solve something. Last night, a close friend from growing up who has lived in Taiwan for years asked if she could call me to brainstorm a problem. A couple years back, her father died...

Or I could go back to the pidgin french I used to pull out so that Germans and Belgians would think I was a chubby Parisian instead of a skinny American. But that was mainly because I could never remember how to say 'excuse me' in German.

My friend that's flying in tomorrow is "too old" to do 3 nights in a row. Poor decrepit man.

Greetings from London! Sorry to have gone MIA but the missus suggested that I head to the UK a few days earlier than planned for the annual weekend of Hold Steady shows. She sweetly thought that getting a few solo days away from work madness would get my mind off of things, but of course...

Was so excited to hear this! The Cruxshadows were huge in the mid-90s Florida goth/industrial scene - from Tallahassee (boooo!) but made there way through Gainesville a couple of times and played our little club. Their big hit at the time was Marilyn, My Bitterness, which even got spun up in...

You know who had heard of 7 Seconds, though? Craig Finn, of course. Cause most kids give me credit for being down with it When it was back in the day back when things were way different When the youth of today and the early 7 seconds Taught me some of life's most valuable lessons

I always had a soft spot for Twitch because it's the most classically "industrial" of the bunch. Can give or take With Sympathy on the whole but love Revenge. https://open.spotify.com/track/2IRdmtMgRc2o0g4q59T3dz?si=90711ef02d014974 And I think everyone's first time hearing Every Day Is...

Scarecrow definitely kicked off the brain-wipe. Then "I feel like my heart has been touched by christ" doubled-down.

Theme: 31 Songs from 31 Manchester(ish) Artists Song: Mountain Energy Band: The Fall From: Prestwich, Greater Manchester Tought to capture The Fall in a few sentences. From 1978 until Mark E. Smith's death in 2018, they released 37 studio albums, 11 EPs, and more than 40 live records. No...

Psalm 69 was in constant rotation for me in the summer of '92. There were way too many times that I would make the 45-minute drive home after a late-night restaurant shift and the first few songs of that CD would keep me wide awake. Then the back half would induce highway hypnosis and I'd...