before. I use to always give my dogs half of my candy bars when I was a kid, and never seen one get sick or die as a result. I suspect that that may be an urban legend, just from my experience (probably created by a cat lover), but I could be wrong. 

Chocolat is bad for most animals really, deadly in large doses, most of the time it just makes them sick, guess you had some tough dogs HeadThump, or maybe your candy bars just didn't have much chocolat in them. =) 

I haven't given them chocolate for quite some time.

But what about beer? My dogs love it; especially if it is warm and flat. 

Are your dogs australian? xD 

I just don't like to drink alone ;) 

Dogs are wonderful beasts, I would become a farmer back before domestication existed and use my dogs as slaves for tree-climbing ... that way I can get to the sweetest watermelons. You see, before domestication, watermelons grew on huge oaks and you had to climb nearly 300 feet straight into the air to get one, and a watermelon only grew from a tree once every 13 and a half years.

I'm not drunk, this is really how I think. Seriously, I'm not drunk.

Sparta is a good band imo, got Porcelain a couple weeks ago and it is quite good. Not heavy or anything, but floats like a butterfly in a straight direction, instead of all over the place. Quite focused imo, good stuff. 

A person who needs to reaffirm people that he is not drunk, probably is, but not necessarily drunk from alcohol or other chemicals. As I like to call it, So Little Sleep Your Mind Can't Think Straight. 

Something I did recently.. beat and electric-piano was from some older demo experiment stuff I never used, so recently I sat with it and it kinda came together.

http://www.phait-accompli.com/rougefire/ 

http://www.purevolume.com/spiderthetylercore

5 year old kid doing vocals for some band
its... strange. though some people dont believe its real... however i have no problem accepting its occurance, ive heard worse tantrums. 

Here's another rouge~fire demo.... it's kinda out there I mean... not my typical kind of arrangement. It's kind of an ironic song, given the title you'd think this might be hard rock, but it's not.

"playing god" - 03:26, 160 kbps, 3.93 MB

http://www.phait-accompli.com/rougefire/music.php 

Shambler's recent playlists:

These are almost all good stuff but some I recommend more than others if you're into those particular styles. For many of these you can check out excellent MP3 playlists at http://www.juno.co.uk/

Very recent:

The DJ Producer - Doomsday Mechaniks (hardcore techno, disappointing, not as good as his Interpretations CD)
Marco Bailey - Sindustry (techno, good stuff, solid banging funky mix) Recommended
Klute - No-one Is Listening Any More (intelligent drum'n'bass, good, well produced often atmospheric, with a strong downbeat/vocal 2nd CD) Recommended
Pentagon - Revelation (mellow / atmospheric drum'n'bass from Japan, with a fair bit of funk) Recommended
P Money - Magic City (hip-hop from New Zealand, quite good but not as good as his excellent Big Things CD)
VA - Riddim Driven: Rah Rah (ragga, rudebwoy business)
VA - Riddim Driven: Stepz (ragga, rudebwoy business)
VA - Riddim Driven: Strip Down (ragga, bit saucier than the other two)
(All Recommended if you like ragga)

Recent-ish:

The DJ Producer - Interpretations (hardcore techno) Recommended
Various - Bonkers 1 (mid-skool happy hardcore / trancecore)
Various - Bonkers 2 (mid-skool happy hardcore / trancecore)
Various - Bonkers X (modern hardcore)
DJ Hixxy - Exclusive John Peel Bonkers Mix (modern happy hardcore)
(All Recommended if you like hardcore)
Various - 3D Mode presents: Under The Counter (jump-up drum'n'bass) Recommended
Shere Khan - Age (tech-step and mellow drum'n'bass)
Omni Trio - Rogue Satellite (ambient drum'n'bass)
Richie Hawtin - Decks, Efx & 909 (techno)
Richie Hawtin - DE9: Closer To The Edit (techno)
Von Thronstahl - Imperium Infernum (neo-classical/martial) Recommended
Various - Chamber / Coldspring Sampler (dark-ambient/industrial/classical/experimental) 

hardcore techno . . . hardcore techno . . . mid-skool happy hardcore . . . mid-skool happy hardcore . . . modern happy hardcore . . . dark-ambient/industrial/classical...

Shambler, I have some hardcore country-western you might be interested it.

Also, I bet that last line contained "hardcore" somewhere in there too, but it was blocked by Func's line limit. 

No mention of NIN's "With Teeth" in this thread yet? Since the album has been out for a few weeks now, I figured someone would've posted about it by now.

Anyway, this is a very decent album. Not ground-breaking, but definately good. It may take a couple of run-throughs to "get it" and for the album to start growing on you. My favourite tracks are "All the Love in the World", "With Teeth" and "Right Where It Belongs".

I am looking forward to seeing NIN perform at the Provinssirock festival in Finland next month. 

I listened to it, and didn't want to get it. The Downward Spiral is my fav but Fragile was good in it's own right too. 

is the rockzors. very different from what i listen to normally, but still extremly nice.

fenixfunc 5 & schottkey 7th path.. 

...The new(ish) album from Nu-nrg, the trance legends. If you like trance you've probably got this already... but if not, go get it now! Superb stuff all round. 

You probably know the demoscene?
There was this quite famous finnish
group way back called the future crew.
They made some quite nice pc demos.
Many of the guys then formed the game
company Remedy.

This is the original soundtrack for their
epic megademo "Unreal".

http://scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fdemos%2Fcompilations%2Fdemodulate%2Funreal.zip&fileinfo

You need a plugin for winamp/whatever you use,
BASS module is good.

From 1993 or something... It's good, a bit uneven maybe for working background music.
If you're interested, you can check http://scene.org for all kinds of things from the demoscene. An example could be a 64kb minutes long 3d intro with scenery and everything... 

at first i thought it sucked. but then i just gave it a few more spins and well, it's a good pop/rock album, nothing wrong here, as nin always were sorta electronic rock band. or whatever. only bad thing about with teeth is the vocals. and some lyrics. and reznor is at it again - creating several version of it, like, vinyl version having additional track. not that it's very good but still. anyways, the people in japan get the release with some neat bonuses, one of which is the alternate version of one of the best songs on with teeth - right where it belongs.

for the last couple of months i've been listening to various stuff from ministry, revolting cocks, and for some reason, zz top. 

panic dhh is what kicks my ass most at the moment. noise and pure energy. seeing them live was a unique experience. :)
unfortunately i missed the ambassador 21 gig (comparable to atari teenage riot, but better) last year, which could have been a similar one. the live recordings do not deliver their power very well, because the bass drums are hardly audible sometimes (like so often with 'non-professional' live recordings), but you might want to check it out nevertheless, along with the rest of the dtrash caralogue: http://www.dtrashrecords.com
another trashy nice band from this label is schizoid, kind of grindcore influenced. my favortite is "covered in metal"... 

Really liked their early breakcore stuff - Harder Than The Rest compilation, Sonic Subjunkies, Christoph De Babalon, early Alec Empire. C de B's "My Confession" ranks highly as one of the darkest and most atmospheric jungle tracks ever. But as they tended more into punky stuff, I lost interest... 

From here until eternity, there should be no one who ever uses the word "herein" in the context of a rock band due to the similar spelling of the word "heroin." 

Been listening a lot to some anime stuff - Wind from Naruto and the closing theme from Samurai Champloo are my absolute favorites so far. Absolutely fantastic shit, also groovin to various Bebop tracks, lookin for more, but those are the best I've found so far. 

Lately I've been really into "The The - Soul Mining"

It's just a great, overlooked alt/indie pop album from the 80s. The title as you might imagine, deals with soul searching and digging up the things you like and dislike about yourself. This is just about one of the most thoughtful and intricate pop albums ever made, and if you want to see where Trent Reznor picked up a few tricks, check this out.

(Reznor signed The The to his label, so the influence is even more obvious)

Sonically, it's really something. There's a lot of great synth work, but almost every song is peppered with some kind of chromatic percussion and energetic drum beat, so the complex lyrical content becomes more easily digestible.

Check out this album if you have an open mind for something odd but ultimately extremely rewarding. 

I found The Cure's Wishes in an old case last weekend. I haven't listened to them in years, and I have to say, it stands the test of time very well, accept for 'Let's Get Happy.' 

Good stuff. But Robert isn't 25 anymore, he needs to lose his look.