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04/09/2014 20:51 #58883

facebook fatigue
So after many years of constantly posting I finally deactivated my account. When I started having dreams of "People you may know" friend suggestion I knew it was time to take a break. In some ways I think that I just posted way too much there & my "friends" would never post anything good content wise for me to view.

As a forever alone guy who should have left this area for DMV (DC/Maryland/VIrginia Metro Area) to find a descent professional woman to marry, I'm just sick of the happy couples & baby pics. I get more joy reading about the adventures of the folks on here, the delicious food porn.

But lately my life consists of getting up, going to my cool local coffee shop, work, coming home listening to alternative talk radio, maybe listening to some EBM, emo, goth, industrial, Whatever channel on Pandora & going to bed to do it all over again. I used to just check facebook once every hour or so but honestly I am maybe being paranoid but I am sick of giving more than I get out of it. Deep down maybe my happily married friends are laughing at the weirdo that is me in the coffee shop. But hey I have a bit of money more than most people riddled in debt & drive a nice German car. So I'm eccentric???

Other than that I am fearful of what is going to happen this month on a planetary macro level economically & all over. I used to post hints from the sources that I have vetted over many years of listening to the guests from Coast to Coast back in the day when Art Bell was in he heyday. Now the former guests have their own internet radio shows & are on every week or more than a couple of days a week. In a sense I've taken to keep mum until the S hits the fan & then post while everyone is going nuts? At least that's my plan & it's been easier than I thought it would be at this point, just 10 more days to go.

So yeah other than the above I am digging the Whisper app to vent weird thoughts I have. Heck I've even found some people to chat with & almost get places [You know me I have no luck with women] but hey it has been working better than traditional dating sites!

So yea it's good to be back even though I haven't been in the cool part of the city since a former epeep came back for a visit when she was still with child. But that's what kind of is the sad part of getting off facebook as her friend who I hit if off with on a friendly level was an awesome facebook friend. I just am stuck with high school drama there with very little content from quality people.

But by the end of the month we will cross some place emotionally where whining about the little things in life will be breaking the cardinal rule of etiquette.
metalpeter - 04/10/14 18:53
So some of this I really relate to..... Being Single and what ever you want to call it Lone Wolf Baby Ha... Not really ... I do like keeping up with people I know and seeing how great they are doing... But it has the what I call the grass is all ways greener thing.... Yes you are Happy for them but as their grass gets greener and greener little Patch of grass gets browner and muddier ... It doesn't matter that some people have no grass some people don't know what grass is and people in wheel chairs would get stuck it... You only notice how those who have things better then you (Or that is how it appears) and that is true of all social media really yeah there are people who have it worst off in some ways but you tend not to notice that.... I wonder if I didn't take photos at events if I would still be on there...
joe - 04/10/14 12:52
I think facebook was pretty awesome when it started but after the novelty wore off, it became just a constant stream of noise and ads. That, and most of the friends on it are people I never talk to or even care about.

I want to get rid of mine, but so many events are only posted on facebook. I wish there was a viable alternative for things like that.

estrip is pretty much the only social media I use now.
paul - 04/10/14 00:59
I hope Facebook dies. They are the Walmart of internet.

02/16/2014 18:22 #58696

Stuck
Category: dating
So I realized how alone I am over the last few weeks & it just struck me suddenly. I'm getting old let's say pushing upper 30's and my potential pool of possible women out there are next to nil. I could have written this book Basically the market for my demographic is very thing & I have known that for more than a decade. I should have moved to DC or Toronto years ago basically is the captain obvious answer to my own problem.

Although at this point of my life, I am not too depressed about it. I've gone through enough horrible experiences in dealing with people who are desperate. It's just lately I have also been smacked in the face with the fact that class has a more of an impact now that it ever has in my lifetime. Now that I drive a Benz, the impact of how people perceive me is finally smacking me in the face. I guess I have been the most low key now old "rich kid." I guess if I was 15 years younger & likewise my parents I would have grown up to be a douche. But I probably have the lowest self opinion of any luxury car driver? LOL

Anyway I think I should start blogging again. My cousin took a month off of Facebook & it seems to be going well for her. I do like the way that people are posting videos on Facebook & this 24 hour challenge thing is kind of funny. Although to be honest people were doing the same thing here in '06. For me I am just torn & confused on where to go and what to do. Not just for what to do with my lonely self in real life but also online.

Other than that I contemplating blowing money on match.com or even the other site howaboutwe.com. I like the concept of howaboutwe but to be honest there isn't enough people in Western New York to justify it being the most expensive dating site. Sometimes blowing money is far worse than getting rejected digitally over and over again.
paul - 02/17/14 11:41
Good luck. I always wonder if those sites really work or not. I'm usually attracted to people who are different than me but they seem to focus on similar people for matching.
metalpeter - 02/16/14 23:10
I wish you luck.... I can admit I get hit with the being lonely as well but I do also talk to people some on twitter and that is fun.... I terms of the dating sites it is tough Cause for me I can never tell if what I like and others would gel .... I wish you luck... I have no idea what site is the best .....

06/30/2013 10:57 #57854

Dirty Allendale Theatre
Category: allentown
So this is how it was advertised when the Allendale Theater showed porn?

I caught this graphic on the wall of the new music venue The Waiting Room. They also had some old show fliers and other Buffalo music scene stuff on their one wall as well.

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paul - 07/02/13 09:36
That's awesome. What a switch to Theatre of Youth.
metalpeter - 06/30/13 11:32
Wow I had no idea .... Pretty cool....

04/14/2013 22:10 #57527

It's been a while
Category: random
I'm just watching the Coachella a feed on youtube and I have to say I'm kicking myself for not going for week #2 as I'm off, but I already booked a trip down to the SRQ in Florida. I caught Spiritualized, Phoenix, Social Distortion & right now Paul Oakenfold. One of my best experiences in my life was a random trip to California which had me end up at Epicenter.

Anyways in watching a clip of Father John Misty I read something from his Wiki page that just nailed my earlier life.

On his upbringing Tillman stated: "I was actually a pretty aimless kid, I didn’t really do anything: I never really studied hard and all my parents were interested in was my spiritual status. When I was younger my reality was heaven and hell and angels and all this bullshit that doesn’t mean anything in terms of becoming an actualised human being."



So true, I should be more of an actualized human being instead of worrying about making stupid money decisions & other crap that I do and do not deal with...

04/14/2013 22:08 #57525

It's been a while
Category: random
I'm just watching the Coachell[youtube]coachella[/youtube]a feed on youtube and I have to say I'm kicking myself for not going for week #2 as I'm off, but I already booked a trip down to the SRQ in Florida. I caught Spiritualized, Phoenix, Social Distortion & right now Paul Oakenfold. One of my best experiences in my life was a random trip to California which had me end up at Epicenter.

Anyways in watching a clip of Father John Misty I read something from his Wiki page that just nailed my earlier life.

On his upbringing Tillman stated: "I was actually a pretty aimless kid, I didn’t really do anything: I never really studied hard and all my parents were interested in was my spiritual status. When I was younger my reality was heaven and hell and angels and all this bullshit that doesn’t mean anything in terms of becoming an actualised human being."



So true, I should be more of an actualized human being instead of worrying about making stupid money decisions & other crap that I do and do not deal with...