BonesOfTheMoon

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Those books are wild.

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Grunge is so dull. I am all for generations developing their own style of music without question but I can't believe we turned away from 80s music to THAT. I thought Nirvana was mediocre as can be. Love Mechanical Animals, but like all of his albums to some degree. I'm glad he's gotten back on his feet in life and got sober and lost the weight.

Die Antwoord, what Tokkie is saying just sounds so outlandishly fake. I don't think they're great people but I actually think they care a lot about their kids.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I did focus groups and surveys for money. I often would just stock up on toiletries from Amazon when I had gift cards. That shit is expensive so it lets my grocery budget breathe.

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BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I do too. I pretty much hated all music made in the 90s; I think grunge is awful and so is NIN, but I felt like Manson was a natural extension of what bands like WASP and Motley Crue were doing but reinvented for that generation, and it's really good. I like music that has some concept and theater to it. I still listen to him.

I also like Die Antwoord; I think the accusations by their adopted son are total bullshit. I'm not saying they're good people and I do think they're homophobic, but also a lot of their image is obviously artificial and they obfuscate their true lives, it's clear from reading their interviews. I think they're genuinely average middle aged parents from South Africa, and I think what Ninja said about their son making accusations was to try to get money from them is true. I really dig their crazy music and their videos are insane.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I remember the Vanity Fair article about Cruise where he was having a tantrum at a dinner somewhere and saying "even my own sister can't get me a girlfriend". The article goes on to say that Scientology procured him a girlfriend but later on basically fired her. I don't think he understands human relationships.

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BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I don't think we'll ever know. I have a feeling he actually wasn't a pedophile at all, but just felt close to children because he had Peter Pan syndrome or something. He seemed very infantile to me is the only real sense I got of him. Strange person. But without question he did make some r really iconic music.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Fair. I wish the art people made wasn't tainted by their behaviour.

Like I have a soft spot for Vince Neil even though he killed people drunk driving, because of how his poor little daughter died and how badly it's affected him. I can't help it.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I love Manson's music and I always enjoy hearing him interviewed. I struggle with that too.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

He really is.

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BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I think you mean Lewis CK :)

I heard someone went on a date with him and he bought some insanely expensive watch on it. I think he didn't deal with the loneliness of fame well.

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BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

That is nice.

One day a woman was mad at everyone for not giving up their seats for her as she had a stroller. It contained three cases of beer and a basket of laundry.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Hahaha..

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BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

How did the other people riding the bus feel about this LOL.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I did surveys for money so I could buy things I otherwise wouldn't. I made thousands doing it and bought SO much stuff I needed and wanted. I got entirely sick of them though as it really is a grind and stopped. It's impressive how much stuff I bought with this money. (I'm happy to tell anyone how). Sometimes when I'm leaving for work I just think of everything I'm wearing or carrying that I didn't pay a penny for.

I go to the hair salon school and let students cut my hair to save money (it's super cheap) and began colouring it myself. I only get my hair cut like twice a year as well despite wanting to do it more.

I have like seven digital library cards, I give the library a fake address in their city and sign up. It actually only benefits them that they get more patrons reading books. I can request books at my library anyway that they don't have in their collection and they'll get it from another library too.

My health benefits through my workplace include orthotic sole inserts, but also you get two pairs of shoes. That's two pairs of shoes a YEAR. I have coworkers who do it and don't use the orthotic insert, just for the shoes. If you have workplace benefits look at everything they give you and use whatever you can.

I will price match at the grocery store to the penny. You just stand there and say "this is 5 dollars at Walmart" and nobody ever checks so if it's really expensive I'll tell them it's a price I've seen it be before even if it isn't that week. The cashiers will also say "this is X amount at X store" and ring it up without me asking sometimes too.

I'll go to my doctor and get a prescription for something so it goes through my benefits even if I could buy something to treat it over the counter. I'm Canadian so it doesn't cost me to go, and they're legit conditions, but I don't HAVE to go in. Universal health care for the win.

Our drug reps bring us food like once a week so that's usually my lunch that day.

My workplace has an employee perks program where insurance or phone carrier or clothing stores or whatever will give you discounts. My phone carrier was going to charge me 30 dollars more a month to upgrade my phone, so I went and looked into their phone plans, and got an employee pricing plan for less than half of that with much more data and international calling, through the same carrier through an employee pricing plan dealer. It was even 5 dollars less when I went to pick it up on Tuesday because the plans change all the time. So now I get 100 GB of data, international calling and texting as well as all my usual features, for 45 dollars plus 1 dollar a month for a new Pixel 10. Can't wait to hand my old phone in on Saturday to my carrier and tell them I'm done with their bullshit as they were going to charge me 100 a month. Fuck you Bell Canada.

A local church has a "good food box" program (for anyone who wants it, not just for low income people) where you get a bag of 10-11 fruits and vegetables every other week for 22 dollars. Saves me mountains of money at the grocery store and it's very practical. It's absolutely great, and you just pick it up at one of the two locations.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I look through Tumblr and Bluesky for poetry and book recommendations.

The Facebook page of the writer Jonathan Carroll (one of his book titles is where my user name comes from) is a gem and probably the last good thing about Facebook, it's a collection of excellent quotes and art and photography and the like.

Reddit is for unshittifying search results, can't pretend it isn't.

BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 2mo ago

The poetry community!