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I have never even made an introduction like that...

be sure to check out media matters, and "what are you currently listening to"

have fun here on DarkMatters!

 

Delta!

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...wow what an epic intro! Reading the above really woke me up this morning. Thank you. There are many subforums to choose from. Feel free to surf. You may or may not find all you are looking for, but never hurts to atleast give it a whirl.

 

Enjoy your time here.

 

I remain, Etherian

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And Delta, I don't listen to a lot of music any more. I used to be "with it" when it came to music, until they changed what "it" was. What "it" has become...... is lame to me, so most of the music I listen to is in my head.

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Thank you. I've been to Australia a few times, I really like the sapphire and black opals mined in your country, especially around Queensland and South Wales.

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And Delta, I don't listen to a lot of music any more. I used to be "with it" when it came to music, until they changed what "it" was. What "it" has become...... is lame to me, so most of the music I listen to is in my head.

 

Ah yes.. A sure sign you're getting old. It happens to everyone eventually. It started off with 90's metal for me.. And then all of a sudden there was this Grunge stuff. I learned to appreciate some of it - but I still don't get Nirvana... Today's music - mostly has me begging WTH were these idiot record executives smoking when they signed that band... Ditto with Rap.. It started off being somewhat OK - kind of amusing really - with stuff like Young MC and Tone Loc... But then it morphed into this Gansta ©rap.. BLEAH!

 

Most of the stuff coming out is pretty weak. There are some exceptions - Blind Guardian, Dragonforce - and Nichole Atkins - to name a few.

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Old? Not by a long shot, I'm 33. I'm just old enough to remember a time when music actually had balls. I'm familiar with Blind Guardian and Dragonforce

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Yup.. Old. At least "old" by record executives' imaginations. Consider the top pop acts of the day - Justin Hemorrhoid, er Bieberhoid, er.. Bieber. Consider the target audience. Ditto to One Direction... I can guarantee that neither one of those acts are aimed at YOU.

 

Even Mylie Cyrus/Hanna Montana was aimed at aspirational preteen girls and young boys just hitting puberty who might have thought in their hormone enraged fantasies they had a chance with her... NOT at you, nor me.

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What I find funny is how some music is timeless/ageless, while other tunes are definately time period music. I went to college when I was 30. No one raised an eyebrow when I'd listen to Skynyrd or Floyd, but I was walking along one day, listening to Ratt, and some girl asked me what I was listening to. I told her, and she said "Oh,yeah.....my dad likes that." Kinda a buzz kill, esp since I had just made out with her the day before after Archaeology. that's a long story, but that little incident killed any more make out sessions. Or, one semester, I lived in the dorm, and kids knocked on my door, asking for party music. I told them I didn't have a lot of cds with me; a little Judas Priest, Iron Maiden,Alice in Chains, Pantera,Tool, Meshuggah...... and they said "we might as well raid our dad's cd cabinet". No, Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus aren't aimed at me. Shakira wasn't aimed at my age bracket either, but damn, did she have a tight little body

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Well, gogo, diamonds are indeed cool, but my passion is quartz. They come in a variety of colors, shapes, and in one aspect are like people: a flaw in a quartz (depending on its nature) can add charm and value to the gem. For instance, I saw a quartz with silica inclusions that made it three times its normal value. In layman's terms, moss and algae were incased inside this quartz, giving it the appearance of having green veins. In another case,I saw a quartz that's host rock was sandstone, which gave the quartz a rare, salmon coloration. In your area, because of certain minerals in the soil, amethysts often have a red center, which gives them the appearance of having a living heart. Humans can be creative, but it's mother nature that comes up with the most imaginative designs.

 

And Etherian, I'm glad that I could wake ya up :)

 

 

I remember reading years and years and years ago in a penthouse magazine expose on how the rarity of diamonds was a myth (wasn't my penthouse! :P) ...that whole new diamond caches were potentially coming in from Russia...and that Debeers was doing all it could to "keep" the stones rare.

 

Yay/nay?

Scintillating having you here with us Gilberticus (your name reminds, with affection, me of the affixes from Goscinny and Uderzo Characters^^)

 

:)

 

gogo

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Well, here is the unadulterated truth. Diamonds haven't been rare since the 1920s. I don't judge you on the Penthouse. When I was a wee lad, mom wondered why she wasn't getting any of her bra magazines. Anyway, diamonds are almost as common as glass. There is such a surplus of them that we could easily pave every street in America if places like Debeers and Kays opened their warehouses. That is why I'm not a big diamond fan, and that is why I sell quartz. I study to be a gemologist appraiser to make money so I can offer a wider variety of quartz. Granted, I'll have to work with diamonds for a while as an appraiser, but when you buy a diamond, you don't buy it from me, that's not what a gemologist appraiser does. How my job works: you buy your ring/jewelry from some place, like Jared's, for instance, then you take it to me to appraise it for insurance purposes. All I do is evaluate your diamond for insurance in case it ever gets stolen. Diamonds are the most overpriced gems in existance

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Hi and welcome...

 

I almost never speak about my time in the military, especially when in a war zone, but you're never prepared for what you see, and I'll leave it at that. Glad to see you were able to focus your energies on something when you got out. I've known a lot of vets who had a hard time adjusting back to civilian life.

As far as music goes. Mostly stuck in the mid to late 70's. My teen years and when music really was a part of me growing up. I like a lot of the new bands out like Slipknot and Disturbed but nothing beats hearing an old Black Sabbath or AC/DC tune for me (almost wrote toon lol)

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