tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post3801805011965404553..comments2024-03-24T01:16:48.151-04:00Comments on Grind and Punishment: Smoke, Grind, Sleep: Why Blastbeats and Bongs Are Best BudsAndrew Childershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09817760227836086070noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-65185706623011168812015-06-24T07:38:38.255-04:002015-06-24T07:38:38.255-04:00The kindergarten kids like to smoke them after sch...The kindergarten kids like to smoke them after school," says Yusuf.Yusuf is a street vendor in central Jakarta selling homemade dry ice pipes for Rp 1,000 ($0.10). He also sells ice creams from a portable cooler. <a href="http://www.buy-bongs.co.uk/glass-bongs-vs-plastic-bongs/" rel="nofollow">should i get a glass or acrylic bong</a>Elizabeth J. Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01824134730760179008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-7038495616030110032011-02-03T23:00:43.677-05:002011-02-03T23:00:43.677-05:00Wicked article bro. Loved reading this. Strikes so...Wicked article bro. Loved reading this. Strikes so truly.Chargerrrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-91224249197492082882011-02-02T20:16:03.086-05:002011-02-02T20:16:03.086-05:00I think I came off strong, sorry man. I just meant...I think I came off strong, sorry man. I just meant things like that tend to get extrapolated.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15703464346535085995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-18759936356651452422011-02-02T11:16:54.209-05:002011-02-02T11:16:54.209-05:00@ bill
I grew up about 40 min away from meridian i...@ bill<br />I grew up about 40 min away from meridian in scooba. SEC! indeed.<br /><br />@ everyone<br /><br />back when I didnt have a job that drug tested, i found smoking a little help me really concentrate while playing guitar. Def, helped the creative juices flow. Sometimes smoking caused me to think too much about music and i'd forget everything else around me.PatrickDMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138399896045505593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-23213814646743402592011-02-02T10:42:31.127-05:002011-02-02T10:42:31.127-05:00@ Wet: I had a few friends from highschool that w...@ Wet: I had a few friends from highschool that went to Miss State, and I used to hang out in Meridian when my brother was doing a co-op with Mississippi Power(violence). Small world.<br /><br />My girlfriend is a staunch Auburn fan, haha. I always pull for them outside of the Iron Bowl, though. SEC!<br /><br />On topic: I found Mr. Green's comment about riffs/distortion and concrete to be particularly on-point. I know what he's talking about. <br /><br />Sometimes there's nothing better than being spaced and feeling like you've just been engulfed in riffs and noise.<br /><br />My only experiences actually playing in a state were just noodling around on a guitar with my friends in college. I remember I had plugged my headphones into the amp once. Sometime later I was thinking, "What the fuck am I listening to? This just sounds like one long, shitty solo. There's not even a drummer! This guy is awful." Oops. <br /><br />Sigh. School daze.Bill Willingham IV, Esquirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867217033974730914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-67877614429796971212011-02-02T08:17:44.267-05:002011-02-02T08:17:44.267-05:00@bill
I went to mississippi state right down the ...@bill<br /><br />I went to mississippi state right down the road. I knew a few people @ bama and my mothers side of the family are all alabama fans, except one uncle who went to auburn.PatrickDMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138399896045505593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-9548646710884945162011-02-02T06:31:06.115-05:002011-02-02T06:31:06.115-05:00@Shantera
Fair enough, I don't know how true ...@Shantera <br />Fair enough, I don't know how true the statement is or the circumstances surrounding it, but I do trust my friends. I shall see if I can get a name place and time on it.<br /><br />@Everyone Else<br />The people have spoken, time to get some Disassociate.Alex Layzellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285669088354552309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-48036717247001758732011-02-01T23:02:29.108-05:002011-02-01T23:02:29.108-05:00Hah, speed + weed! Awesome work, man. :) Kudos for...Hah, speed + weed! Awesome work, man. :) Kudos for making the topic so fascinating, considering that it ought to have a fairly hard time being(/becoming) interesting to anyone other than the stoner(s) in question.Zmajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17093889738405243944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-63958979490170415522011-02-01T20:02:27.928-05:002011-02-01T20:02:27.928-05:00bill, this whole story actually started with disas...bill, this whole story actually started with disassociate. lo res viscera posted one of their albums and i set off to see if i could track down any members of the band. i failed. but if i had interviewed them, their fondness for the ganj would definitely have come up. but tis not to be. so here's the next best thing.Andrew Childershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09817760227836086070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-79522397024330858202011-02-01T19:19:31.826-05:002011-02-01T19:19:31.826-05:00I have a hard time believing an internet rumor abo...I have a hard time believing an internet rumor about violence from people I've hung out with and were awesome.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15703464346535085995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-37274581769262990632011-02-01T16:41:06.986-05:002011-02-01T16:41:06.986-05:00@ Wet: Yep. Undergrad and law school, actually. ...@ Wet: Yep. Undergrad and law school, actually. Was there for 7 years. Roll Tide, muhfuckazzzz.<br /><br />I think I kept the Downtown Pub in business, haha. You have any connection to T-town?<br /><br />@ Andrew: I found a copy of the last Disassociate album (actually, lots of copies) on Amazon going for fucking crazy low prices. Like, one cent. I've seen that happen before, what on earth causes it?Bill Willingham IV, Esquirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867217033974730914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-7512097561443874642011-02-01T16:26:40.747-05:002011-02-01T16:26:40.747-05:00duuuuuuuuuuude. disassociate were fricken legendar...duuuuuuuuuuude. disassociate were fricken legendary. a band that never got the level of success they deserved. shit, i bet there's not a band that passed through nyc in the 90s that didn't know ralphy boy. from all i've heard, he's an amazingly supportive figure.<br /><br />also, thank you all for your kind words. this is the story i felt probably the least comfortable with given my lack of first hand knowledge.Andrew Childershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09817760227836086070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-51803863682485420752011-02-01T15:45:33.085-05:002011-02-01T15:45:33.085-05:00@bill esquire
was just checking out cellgrafts bl...@bill esquire<br /><br />was just checking out cellgrafts blog and saw that you commented about going to school in tuscaloosa. did you go to univ of bama?PatrickDMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138399896045505593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-81381106037393207752011-02-01T15:10:11.817-05:002011-02-01T15:10:11.817-05:00@ Andrew: You have indirectly caused me to check ...@ Andrew: You have indirectly caused me to check out Disassociate, who sound pretty cool.<br /><br />Streak intact, even unintentionally.Bill Willingham IV, Esquirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867217033974730914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-71834617744048077002011-02-01T15:08:27.758-05:002011-02-01T15:08:27.758-05:00Oh, I just read the last part of Alex's commen...Oh, I just read the last part of Alex's comment. Oops, not sure how I missed that. *sober, honest* Obviously that's super-lame if it's true.<br /><br />I quite like their music, though. Not much to do with grind anymore, but it's fun.Bill Willingham IV, Esquirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867217033974730914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-19098885262828655652011-02-01T13:38:11.208-05:002011-02-01T13:38:11.208-05:00Haha, I never actually took "Kill for Weed&qu...Haha, I never actually took "Kill for Weed" seriously, but Alex Layzell's comment made me remember that I'm a small dude, and most anyone could beat me up and take my weed/other shit if they felt inclined to do so. I'm also not a big Cephalic Carnage fan anyway, so it was more or less hypothetical.DesiccatedVeinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16783531567772825094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-17502720191354238022011-02-01T12:00:31.452-05:002011-02-01T12:00:31.452-05:00yes Andrew, you've been thinking about this al...yes Andrew, you've been thinking about this all wrong, if there's seeds in your dimebag, seek out someone else.<br /><br />"nestersi"orfeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900371723437997908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-28797895389618078942011-02-01T11:12:10.010-05:002011-02-01T11:12:10.010-05:00@ DV: Haha, they're not going to kill you for...@ DV: Haha, they're not going to kill you for your weed. That song is supposedly a rant some drifter got on about cops busting into his house without a warrant and how he killed them with 1) a sword and 2) some kind of cord (I think).<br /><br />Very interesting article.<br /><br />Personal, erm, research, back in the day revealed that different strains produced different results. Some stuff brought on lethargy, and some stuff made one want to lift weights and listen to metal.Bill Willingham IV, Esquirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867217033974730914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-65376947001289496542011-02-01T10:53:38.480-05:002011-02-01T10:53:38.480-05:00Also, weed grind bands are largely about the sonic...Also, weed grind bands are largely about the sonics (not The Sonics) rather than the speed of the music. Guitar tone becomes really important, because like Pop Redux's drummer said, certain nasty tones and distortion just sound extra awesome. That's ALSO the reason that the mix for BT's <i>Sounds of the Animal Kingdom</i> was fucking terrible, though; I could never imagine mixing a record high.DesiccatedVeinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16783531567772825094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-41034600855076779892011-02-01T10:42:34.445-05:002011-02-01T10:42:34.445-05:00I really liked this piece, and I think what made i...I really liked this piece, and I think what made it stand out was the objectivity. The fact that you came at it from the "I don't care about smoking, but these dudes really do" angle instead of "I like weed and grind, they like weed and grind, I'm going to write about it" (like many of us would have) made it an investigative piece instead of just a profile of weedgrind bands, and made me genuinely interested as a reader to get to the end of the piece. It also made me wish I still had a weed connex around here, especially because all of my classes are cancelled due to the blizzard.<br /><br />Note to self: NEVER go to a Cephalic Carnage show (or more importantly, never bring good weed to a Ceph Carnage show.) I actively dislike Pantera, but at least you knew Dimebag was trying to smoke you up, not beat you up.DesiccatedVeinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16783531567772825094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-71808348340654949792011-02-01T07:49:41.954-05:002011-02-01T07:49:41.954-05:00Fantastic article, almost documentary style. And I...Fantastic article, almost documentary style. And I think you have highlighted the most key point, that it all is about moderation, and knowing whats good and whats bad for you. <br />I personally don't like drugs, but I can see their appeal, I like to be in a state of control of myself all the time, and although I drink and smoke all the time, and in vastly excessive amounts, I never purposely tip myself over to loose that control, and perhaps that's why when people take weed it gives them an edge to do something they normally wouldn't do, and hence sometimes something good can come out of it.<br />I am all for people taking marijuana, although I think that some people take it too far, like Cephalic Carnage, they can't function normally without it, not to mention a friend of my friends was beaten up by Cephalic Carnage and their roadies to get his weed.Alex Layzellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285669088354552309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423175970439780764.post-52889462709344243042011-02-01T00:58:51.747-05:002011-02-01T00:58:51.747-05:00Great article. I sometimes forget about the drug/m...Great article. I sometimes forget about the drug/music paradigm as I gave up on most of it a while ago. Honestly I think the weirder aspects of... uhhh stonergrind could be coming from other directions as well. I've often noticed that the other guys in my band are less rigid assholes than me because of their weed smoking, but I don't think they necessarily propose weird ideas because of it. <br /><br />Personally it's when i gave up drugs (with the exception of alcohol which I barely have time for...) when my music started getting really fucking weird... I think there's a certain element of the ultra-self consciousness of being high that sometimes leads to self censoreship (in sort of a negative way) or weird decisions musically.<br /><br />That said, I tend to be much more tolerant of music in general if i am somewhat intoxicated...Ryan Pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00392626484931054113noreply@blogger.com