Did you know that if you search Kirkistan on Google one of your photobucket albums is on the front page?
Nice Spector BTW
Chowderboots
Posts : 2197 Join date : 2009-03-22 Age : 32 Location : Kirkistan, WA
Subject: Re: Hey CB Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:55 am
Hahahahahahaha thanks. I hate that bass!
Thank you. It is very cool...it just couldn't be more wrong for me. The pickups sound like absolute poo...passive EMGs...yuck. I'm lending that thing to my boss until my birthday present of a Schecter Stiletto left handed 5 string gets here. Then I think I'm going to sell that Spector. I could use the money.
Kirkistan. The drummer from a local band, Die By Day, used to call this place that. It's not a pretty town...it's kinda gross. I don't like living here and I know that if I weren't living with my mom, I wouldn't be able to afford to. I don't like the vibe at all. As soon as I can afford to, I'm moving to the West side of Lake Washington--Seattle itself. I love it there...I hate it here in Kirkistan. Yich.
Kugelspot
Posts : 649 Join date : 2009-03-28 Age : 33
Subject: Re: Hey CB Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:19 am
Dude you've made 1000 posts! Lets celebrate!
I had Immortal bring you a cake
And I brought you the most brutal present ever...
NOTHING!!!!!!!
Chowderboots
Posts : 2197 Join date : 2009-03-22 Age : 32 Location : Kirkistan, WA
Subject: Re: Hey CB Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:42 am
Nice! I was listening to Damned in Black just this morning!! I always love a little Immortal to boost my spirits!
I can't wait for their new album!!! It's been 7 years since their last release...I hope they tour the US. I want to see them so bad!!!!
Kugelspot
Posts : 649 Join date : 2009-03-28 Age : 33
Subject: Re: Hey CB Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:27 am
Chowderboots wrote:
As soon as I can afford to, I'm moving to the West side of Lake Washington--Seattle itself. I love it there...I hate it here in Kirkistan. Yich.
Ya Seattle's a nice place. Freezing cold in the winter and mild at best in the summer, but other than that its great. It actually doesn't rain as much as people say it does. Another weird thing about Seattles reputation, as someone who lives in the Bay Area but has family in Seattle, so I visit there a lot: a lot of people say Seattle is like SF, which is weird because I don't see the resemblance at all.
So ya, Bad news: cold, and if you were expecting it to be like the Bay Area you'll be disappointed
Good news: not as raining as people say, Queensryche, Mike Lull, and Eric Haven
Chowderboots
Posts : 2197 Join date : 2009-03-22 Age : 32 Location : Kirkistan, WA
Subject: Re: Hey CB Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:55 am
Eeh Seattle is not that cold, duder. Damp, yeah...but it rarely gets below freezing in the winter--only a couple days out of every year. Compare it to other places this far north and it's really quite mild. Last winter was an uncommon freeze, but it really wasn't that much snow. People here just don't know how to deal with an actual winter. They see one snowflake and all of the sudden, they have to drive 15 mph under the speed limit, Safeway is packed with people stocking up, etc. The snow is gone by the next morning, but whole cities shut down. And they really don't plow roads very effectively...so mah. It's not at all bad in the winter. It rains most of the time. Just a little snow and ice.
The air's much nicer here than in the Bay Area!
The suburbs to the east of Seattle are just one big armpit. The area south of Seattle is pretty nasty as well. There are only a few places I would actually feel comfortable living here. I can't get away from this place, though. There's something that you can't find anywhere else in Seattle and it's in my blood at this point.
Yeah...here, we've got a lot of great metal. Nevermore's from Seattle. Metal Church is based not too far away from here. There are some killer underground bands and lots of them! There's a slew of good black metal bands here. Inquinok, Ceremonial Castings, Drakul, Forest of Grey, etc.
Kugelspot
Posts : 649 Join date : 2009-03-28 Age : 33
Subject: Re: Hey CB Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:36 am
Chowderboots wrote:
Eeh Seattle is not that cold, duder.
Really? I thought it was. Maybe its because my grandparents live in North Bend, which gets really cold in the winter, cause thats where I visit most often. Also, I'm almost always there in the summer, when it is pretty mild.
Also, I live in California. 50ยบ is FREEZING to me !
Chowderboots
Posts : 2197 Join date : 2009-03-22 Age : 32 Location : Kirkistan, WA
Subject: Re: Hey CB Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:20 am
Oooh North Bend is kinda different! hahaha Yeah when you're in the mountains and the countryside outside of the greater Seattle area, then stuff's different. Seattle is in this interesting pocket of very wet and very mild weather because of it's position between the Cascade and the Olympic mountain ranges. So we get it easy, but you go east of the Cascades, and you have a huge ******* desert, you go into the Olympics and you have a rain forest. It's kinda wacky.
North Bend is just a little SE of Seattle, still in the same pocket, but it's just kinda out in the boonies, so it gets a little colder and more cut off in the winter, you know?
Yeah that's what it's like for a lot of people here, too! They can't stand anything below 50. I can hardly. hahaha It's not that rainy--mostly drizzle and sputtering grey clouds. I love it. That and when you're in Seattle, you can always smell the sea. I love that smell...grey skies and sea winds. That's heaven to me.
EricHaven Admin
Posts : 2974 Join date : 2009-03-20 Age : 58 Location : Birch Bay, WA
Subject: Re: Hey CB Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:45 pm
That's right! I forget that you're in my old neck of the woods, Kugelspot! Well, as Martin said, Seattle is nowhere near as cold and wet as people say it is. True, it is colder and wetter than the San Francisco Bay Area, but it is also greener, cleaner, and friendlier by a long shot.
To be honest, we have had temperatures in the mid 80's lately, although I'm not in Seattle, but two hours north of the city, and 8 miles from the Canadian border.
And actually, I see a lot of similarities between Seattle and San Francisco. They are both old historic towns, built along the waterfront, surrounded by hills, driven by seafood harvesting and tourism. I often think of Seattle as a cleaner and less-crowded version of San Francisco. But I do still love The City as well.
Kugelspot
Posts : 649 Join date : 2009-03-28 Age : 33
Subject: Re: Hey CB Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:31 pm
EricHaven wrote:
And actually, I see a lot of similarities between Seattle and San Francisco. They are both old historic towns, built along the waterfront, surrounded by hills, driven by seafood harvesting and tourism. I often think of Seattle as a cleaner and less-crowded version of San Francisco. But I do still love The City as well.
I kinda see what you mean. I've just always thought the cities had completely different vibes to them.