not sure how anyone hears "a," there's some serious th-ing going on there
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
I seriously don't hear any "th" at all, I'm listening through a pair of beyerdynamic dt 231s
budding ears of crystal here
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
definitely hear "voice insai myehhddd"
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
:D
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
think I'm going to wake up my roommate with how loud this is making me lol
why joe perry left aerosmith
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
w/o context if someone were to play that sound for me I would say 'a' but I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be 'the', don't think he's capable of dealing w/ more than one voice in his head
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
xpost ^ when the roof caved in & the truth came out i just didn't know what to do
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
markers are you ever gonna get a new meme
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
I guess you have 'snacks'
yeah i'll work on it
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
i'm trying to stretch it so my ears expect him to say "a" and it gives me serious dissonance to hear the weird soft-"th" sound connected to it and now i feel queasy (that's science)
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
don't think he's capable of dealing w/ more than one voice in his head
or, like, distinct syllables
right
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
it's not "i miss you [plural]", it's "i miss you" -- it's not "hear your voices of treason," it's "hear your voice of treason"
THERE'S ONLY ONE VOICE INSIDE HIS HEAD Y'ALL
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
I took "a voice inside my head" as a way of saying "you're becoming a distant memory" - I have a hard time parsing "don't waste your time with me, you're already the voice inside my head" - "the" there sort of presupposes previous discussion/mention of said voice, but there isn't any - ppl are like "what voice are you talking about?" but there's no explanation forthcoming - idk Tom de, not hating, but I gotta say sloppy work man
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
WHERE ARE YOU
and I'M SO SORRY
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
plus, "the voice" has more impact behind it than "a voice"
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
the lack of a second person plural in english gives this song extra depth
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
like - I can't really get a coherent reading of "don't waste your time with me, you're already the voice inside my head" - you have to really flog the shit out it to force it to make sense - with "a," it's still a little tricky but do-able - especially when the person being addressed is presumably already absent ("I miss you") and not wasting any of her time with Tom de, nor intending to - we could argue that the incoherence of the line reflects the confused inner state of the speaker but everybody knows that's a bullshit way to read stuff unless there are many other cues - I can get down with "the unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley" but that's probably just because I like the imagery
really getting pretty confused by Blink-182
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
you may be overthinking the band that gave us enema of the state
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
I love you
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
enema of the state
just revel in that for a moment
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
aren't these guys like 40 now?
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
i think i probably had to hear 'take off your pants and jacket' a half dozen times b4 i got the joke
― C:\ (Lamp), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I have to say, these guys play a very deep game with the emptiness of the signifier
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
anyway honestly fuq this song
never got that pun before now, g1 blink
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god i just now finally got take off your pants and jacket
this is the worst day of my life
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder what the brainstorming sessions were like for those puns
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
they played it a couple of levels deep cuz bros were 'famous' for taking off their pants and shirts (jackets) in their video and running in the streets naked
― C:\ (Lamp), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
then they made a video that referenced that first nude running video but they were played by midget versions of themselves, in a celebration of diversity
seriously i feel like i've been staring at a magic eye painting for years and i finally saw the hidden image and the hidden image is mark hoppus slapping me with his dick
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
i'm learning a lot tonite
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
guys come on this is important
he wants her to "come home" but immediately follows with "don't waste your time on me" and then there's like four tons of overdramatic horror imagery, so to me it sounds like tom and the other guy understand that the relationship was the pits and she's better off without him/them. "you're already the voice inside my head" means that she's taken permanent lodging in his head, 'i still carry you around' etc, or his conscience has been replaced with his expectation of her, so "don't waste your time" is a warning that he's obsessed but also a resignation to the fact that he hasn't really lost her and he doesn't need the ~real~ her
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
Travis Barker says that the line was directed towards his then girlfriend, Shanna Moakler.
Moakler currently hosts E!'s Bridalplasty.
themoreyouknow.jpg
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
btw: Blink 182 "Miss You" video
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
wait so when he says "don't waste your time on me" he is imagining himself addressing her even though she's actually already moved on, which he knows: he's addressing the voice inside his head and then telling it that it's already a voice inside his head? I gotta say I am getting the feeling this guy hasn't really thought his shit through before he set pen to paper
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
what if the voice inside his head is writing the song
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:05 (twelve years ago) link
what if "the voice inside my head" is her nickname
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
fuck
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIRGNO-0Wc4
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe we have a punctuation problem and don't have enough information about the person he's talking to and she has a fucked up name like her parents were hippies or something
Don't waste your time on me, You're Already The Voice Inside My Head
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
one night i dj'd a set of nothing but mario paint and mtv music generator songs
― C:\ (Lamp), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
well her name is shanna moakler, which isn't fucked up but is certainly hideous from an "ugly words placed next to each other" standpoint
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
why doesn't he just say "don't waste your time with me, shanna moakler"
save a lot of time and trouble
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:12 (twelve years ago) link
xp just cause she's moved on doesn't mean there isn't a line of communication, perhaps in the form of a pop song she may hear on the radio one day bc blink 182 once had that privilege, or, addressing the "voice inside my head" isn't so weird if you treat it like he's talking to himself and trying to figure out what's going on in his/tom's/the other guy's head, talking to the abstract "her" as a rhetorical stand-in, when he's really just talking to himself on the toilet or whatever
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:12 (twelve years ago) link
also looking over the lyrics to this it appears to have been written with little to no regard for the meaning or feel of words so it seems p fruitless to care to much about any particular one
― C:\ (Lamp), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
2004 was so important.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'M HERE WITHOUT YOU BAAAAYYYBAAAAY
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
i would have a lot to say about 3 doors down, for instance
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, August 8, 2011 4:26 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
I just wrote an impassioned email to Warren Buffett begging him to bankroll this show - I pitched it to him as "Captain Strongo's Palace of Pain" just fyi
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 8 August 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting... I always thought it was "a" but I hear the "th" now.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's "the"
― am0n duul ii (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
I missed this poll, but it was flawed as both options were incorrect. The correct answer is "the voice inside moy 'ed".
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 8 August 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
i saw these dudes live with maura last night and she was like, "it's totally 'the'"
#maura otm
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
:D :D :D :D :D
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
maura otm
did they play this btw?
totally
couldn't stop laughing during the chorus, honestly.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
also tom was accessing a cure-ish guitar tone for the coda in lieu of a piano, it was pretty great
plus lasers and rain
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, August 8, 2011 12:35 PM
<3
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
hoppus on music is the most pathetic show in the history of television
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol i had no idea it was actually called "hoppus on music." it sounds like a column from the saturday evening post or something.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
he had chad smith and flea from the chili peppers on and he told them that blink 182 had never had a #1 on the modern rock charts because there was always a chili peppers record out that kept him from being number one, it was some real sad alt-rock salieri shit
he also had travis barker on as a guest and he asked barker for some hip hop recommendations and he said odd future
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
sounds amazing to me
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
it was originally called "a different spin" but was retooled and retitled recently. the original co-host is this comedian i went to college, true story she was my love interest in a student film! she was funny on the show and it had a decent relaxed vibe when it was an hour long, now it's just a half hour and kind of a bland nothing.
― some dude, Monday, 8 August 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
!
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
so you're basically best friends with tom delonge
ok, it was my voice inside his yed, i admit it
― some dude, Monday, 8 August 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
true story: I wept when I read this post
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 8 August 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
it'll be ok *shoulder pat*
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
it was some real sad alt-rock salieri shit
irl lols
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
i think mark hoppus is pretty cute, full disclosure
yeah but if you take off his pants he'll just turn on the tv iirc
― some dude, Monday, 8 August 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
might even watch his own show
yeah but mark hoppus is the kind of guy you fuck just for the story
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 8 August 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://danliterature.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/theodore-dreiser-an-american-tragedy.jpg
I assumed it was "a" but "the" is much, much better. Kinda fits in with my theory that AVA was about taking a savior complex that developed around a specific troubled person ("the voice") and changing the target to be all troubled people.
― can't remember why i picked this awful name (forapper), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
girl at work was playing this on her iphone, asked her which one, she said she never knew
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Monday, 22 August 2011 06:15 (twelve years ago) link
next time you see her, ask her if she thinks it's "head" or "yed"
― markers, Monday, 22 August 2011 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
at that point i just started singing along and super-emphasizing the "yed" so i think that might've biased her
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Monday, 22 August 2011 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8713/tumblrlqrod7xgwu1qzu13a.jpg
― dj roombahton (zachlyon), Friday, 2 September 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
fuckin weightless like the voice inside my yed
― markers, Friday, 2 September 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
the voice inside my ned ragget
― dayo, Friday, 2 September 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
"when not everybody had cell phones or computers, you had to go outside and call round for your friends"...in 2002
― some dude, Friday, 2 September 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
p sure most of us used aim by then
― markers, Friday, 2 September 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
besides 911 and my home phone number the only other number i know right off the top of my head is my next door neighbor's and i'm pretty sure the last time i called that number was, like, sure, 2002 or before
http://i.imgur.com/QvfTs.gif
― markers, Friday, 2 September 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
did you cool story bro your own post?
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 2 September 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah we don't have a delete button so sometimes you've gotta try to save a lil face
― markers, Friday, 2 September 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
fair enough, I gotta say
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 2 September 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link