New War on Drugs is so good:
What are you listening to now?
exile
#2980
Love that, just what I need for the next show Iām playing, lovely opener, not too hard but can be played with a bit of feeling.
saf
#2981
Iām gagging over here waiting for @thebalvenie to dish his thoughts on the Red re-release. This board is extra quiet lately.
thebalvenie
#2982
sorry! iāve been out in the woods hunting and camping. i had to get back in time on saturday to make the drive up to a service/celebration of life for a close friend who took his own life. just awful stuff.
the red re-release is alive and well in our house. we listened to all the new songs yesterday. we watched the short film all too well and watched her perform on snl. our eldest is obsessed and addicted to all things taylor.
red is an excellent album.
thebalvenie
#2984
thanks saf.
iāll be around more now. filled my deer tag and we chased a lot of elk around and saw tons of moose. my bro would have turned 40 last friday so we did a 4 day hunt in his honor and in the honor of a camp stove in a wall tent with Crown and Cokes 
thebalvenie
#2985
oooh
i also cut out the heart, kidney, and tenderloins on the deer and we ate it for my broās bday. it was delicisous.
bakamomo
#2989
Truly for your loss, Balv. Take care. Many years ago the kid brother of a friend took his life when he was about 16 or 17. The most heartbreaking funeral service I have ever attended (they are always rough). At one point, my friend just walked up and down the aisles carrying a big photo of his brother, tears streaming down his face and telling everyone āThis was my little brotherā.
thebalvenie
#2992
pretty fucked up.
he had posted a hug scathing letter about his cheating wifeā¦she had slept w/ four of their āfriendsā
anyways, a friend close by happened to be on facebook and saw the letter and ran over to his house to talk to clay to make sure the letter was just thatā¦a letterā¦it wasnāt he found him hanging by an electrical cord.
the friend had the wherewithal to open clayās phone w/ his face and delete the post/letter off of facebookā¦i guess it was pretty brutal.
bakamomo
#2993
That is brutal, indeed. And heart-wrenchingly sad. I wish my friendās kid brother would have seen only a glimpse of how much he would be missed before he made the fatal decision (stepped in front of a train). J was a cool, smart and cute as a button 16-17 year old boy with long blonde hair and black nail polish, who I had given all my Dungeons & Dragons role-playing books (Swedish versions) a couple of years earlier (dunno why that meaningless detail has stuck over the years, something about passing stuff that you love on to someone else and thinking that he had himself some fun imagining slaying dragons and so, I guess). And things would have changed for him ā his whole life would have been so different just a couple of years later.
Excowboy
#2994
Fuck, thatās pretty rough. Iām guessing the wife isnāt going to forget that in a hurry.
Edit: been listening to Bat For Lashes a fair bit lately, grabbing her stuff on vinyl but itās a bit extortionate these days!
