bugs has the more advanced jiu jitsu
― Aimless, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
thanks ian, i was waiting for someone to ask that question. the answer is bugs bunny. bugs understands that you must spare no effort in outwitting your enemies. the riddler is always giving his opponents clues... he is too cocky, and for no real reason because there has never been a time when batman failed to foil his efforts. basically, i don't think the riddler is a serious competitor, whereas bugs will always find a way to victory.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
are you on 77 yet?
― markers, Thursday, 9 May 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
if so, come to the "what's happening to our borad" thread plz
Treeship, would you rather have been a Ronette ("yes, I was a backup singer on "Be My Baby", and yes, that was my real hair. settling down to write my memoir these days"), or have climbed the Seven Summits ("I still keep in touch with all my old Sherpa guides! settling down to write my memoir these days")?
― faster, it's alright (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
(also I implore you to listen to the Ronettes' "Here I Sit" one time in your life)
― faster, it's alright (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
would you rather die being shot by Mark David Chapman or trapped in the Apollo 1 command module
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
thanks unregistered and VegemiteGrrl. to unregistered's question, i think i would rather have climbed the seven summits, if only because i don't want to have had to deal too closely with phil spector. i know this might seem hypocritical in regard to the fact that i would rather be a beatle than an astronaut, but really, the beatles didn't have to deal with spector as intimately as the ronettes did, and i feel that the beatles always had the "upper hand" with him, whereas the ronettes probably felt they had to "put up" with all kinds of bullshit for the sake of their careers.
in response to VegemiteGrrl's question, obviously i would rather be gunned down in front of the dakota. dying in a fire is worse than dying of a gunshot wound, especially if you are trapped in an enclosed space. also, apollo 1 never left the earth's orbit so dying in the command module would not have even been a poetic death. if dying in space was an option, i would probably prefer that to dying on the upper west side.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
tree --
did u grow up in new england?
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Friday, 17 May 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
no. i moved a couple of times as a kid but i primarily grew up in long island and new jersey.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
more new jersey than anything though.
okay. still a pretty heavy dunkin donuts munchkin presence.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Friday, 17 May 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
"munchkins"
― Spectrum, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
what part of jersey?
xpost yeah, there are a bunch of them. not as many as in boston though, which is a city i've spent some time in. for some reason when i picture back bay station i remember there being two dunkin donuts in that train station, but that seems impossible.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
i live in central jersey in a really small town outside of princeton and this is where i have lived for most of my life.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't know jersey had a central part. i grew up in north jersey and i'm back here for a job. doesn't matter, DIRT JERZ REPRESENT ON ILX. ME AND TREESHIP WILL FUCK U UP
― Spectrum, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
sweet. good to hear there are more new jerseyans on here. it's a pretty good state, all things considered. i am a twelve minute drive from my favorite record store, the princeton record exchange. have you ever been there?
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
xpost yeah, there are a bunch of them. not as many as in boston though, which is a city i've spent some time in. for some reason when i picture back bay station i remember there being two dunkin donuts in that train station, but that seems impossible.― Treeship, Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:17 PM
― Treeship, Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:17 PM
the next time you're down here you're gonna hang out with us
― markers, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
sure, that would be awesome. i think there's a boston thread on here and next time i'm up there i will post on there.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
what area of boston do you live in markers?
sure, that would be awesome. i think there's a boston thread on here and next time i'm up there i will post on there.― Treeship, Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:26 PM
― Treeship, Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:26 PM
do it
― markers, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
suburbs
Boston -- Classic or Dirty Water?
― markers, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
xxxxxp no, but i've heard good things about it. last time i was in the princeton area was 2005 when i interviewed at dow jones and pretended to be a hayek-loving freako... didn't work out. i'm in the montclair area.
― Spectrum, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
i just assumed you were from vermont or ontario.
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
interesting. i have never been to either of those places.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
alright.
i guess it was a special blend of twee-terse overearnestness and undergraduate sociology seminar talking points leftleaningthat i associate with those places for whatever reason
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
man even trying to explain that sounds fuckin ridiculous but yall know what i mean
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
or you TREE SHIP know what i mean
ok. i think my "overearnestness" has been exaggerated but whatever, it's not the worst thing.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
do you like joe budden?
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really know enough about joe budden to have an opinion.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUvguNA33ek
i want your thoughts on that
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
hey treeship what's it like to make love to a killer whale
― waterface, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
i need some tips/advice, have a potential "thing" this weekend going on
― waterface, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
that's not a thing i have experienced waterface. sorry i can't be of help to you. i would like, however, to discourage you from having sex with animals in general because it is illegal, exploitative/abusive, and in the case of large animals like killer whales, dangerous to you as well. cheers.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
really? that's weird, i heard you make love to killer whales on the reg
― waterface, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
anyway thanks for the advice, that's very helpful
xpost to dylann, i listened to that joe budden track/series of tracks you posted and like it. my favorite thing about it is the echo effect, where certain words he says are repeated in the background of the recording. i like how these echoes seem like a second voice in the track, like they are commenting on the main course of the lyrics. it's also moody and introspective and about relationships so it's my kind of rap song in that sense. thanks dylann.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
hey treeship this isn't a 'question' but i like how "all i want" is your favorite LCD soundsystem song, because that is also my favorite song of theirs
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
thanks kevin. i like that you like that song too. the lyrics always get to me, and i love that he takes the risk of ratcheting up the volume on that squeaky synth part toward the end, which adds a bit of noisiness and imperfection -- "character" -- to it.
― Treeship, Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder, who wrote The Book of Love?
― Aimless, Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
idk but it is long and boring, no one can lift the damn thing.
― Treeship, Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
alright. moody and introspective rap about relationships, and he's from jersey, too.
― dylannn, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9sOcpFsyPg
now, how about this?
― dylannn, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
right off the bat, i like the repeated tupac line as the refrain. and those cheap sounding synths are strangely bleak, and fit the song well. B+
― Treeship, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Treeship, what are some of your favorite diners?
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.americanadiner.com/
i eat at this place pretty often... more often than makes sense for my budget. they have good craft beers there, or at least a couple, so it's not the most diner-y diner out there, but when i go for lunch i'll have like a turkey sandwich with coffee and then it seems more like a diner.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
also there is pies and thighs, a brunch place in williamsburg that i like a lot. and this place in greenwich village that i can't remember the name of but their coffee is amazing and the vibe is sort of "french." i do not like pj's pancake house in princeton even though that's a local favorite.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
oh nice. v simple. will try with the folks that don't do fish sauce.
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 September 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
Treeship, after a lengthy absence you suddenly re-registered just before the impeachment/whistleblower news broke. Actualities you are actively engaging in discussion in on this borad. Are you the whistleblower?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
Yeah but don’t tell anyone. Trump might send his killers after me
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Your secret's safe with me, buddy
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
is it happy bday tríseóig
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Monday, 20 April 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
Happy birthday treeship!
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
thank you!
― treeship., Monday, 20 April 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
Happy birthday man!
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 20 April 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
may your happiness burgeon like a yeasty mass in a warmish place
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 20 April 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
happy birthday dear treeship, kindly keep on truckin for all our sakes
― ogmor, Monday, 20 April 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link