Haven't upped any music lately because I don't have any music on my HD. I sent out my extra HD to get replaced and now my enire music collection is on a 3 year old ipod that I'm hoping doesn't die before my replacement HD arrives.

So I'll be doing this for a little while, which is posting links to other blogs that have amazing posts.

First up: this mega post from a no-longer running blog complete with some of these albums (some links have expired, hopefully you all can find what you really want here)

1000 Travels Of Jawaharlal - Owari Wa Konai
1905 - EP
1905 - Voice
7654 Stories - S/T

A Fine Boat, That Coffin!The Second Nail
Able Baker Fox - Voices
Ache Emelie - S/T
Adonis Battlefield - S/T 7"
Adonis Battlefield/D'Amore - Split 10"
Adorno - Demo
The Album Leaf - Red Tour EP
Algernon Cadwallader - Demo
Algernon Cadwallader - Hot Green
Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind Of Cadwallader
Amanda Woodward - La Decadence De La Decadence
Amanda Woodward - Meurt La Soif bw Un Peu D'etoffe
Amanda Woodward - Picture Disc Demo
Amanda Woodward - Pleine de grâce
Amanda Woodward - Ultramort
Ampere - All Our Tomorrows End Today
An Arrow In Flight - Various Methods And Movements
Andtheywillriot! - Kick Up The Leaves, This Is Autumn
Angel Hair - Pregnant With The Senior Class
Angora Static - 7"
Angor Static - S/T
Angstzustand - Malen Nach Zahlen
Angstzustand - Ohne Dich Sind Wir Allein
Arab On Radar - Soak The Saddle
Arab On Radar - The Stolen Singles
Arab On Radar - Yahweh Or The Highway
Arsen AKA König Der Monster - No Gods...Only Monsters
The Assistant - We'll Make The Roads By Walking
Aussitôt Mort - 6 Songs
Aussitôt Mort - Demo
Aussitôt Mort - Montuenga
Aussitôt Mort/Balboa - Split

Balboa - S/T
Behead The Prophet, No Lord Shall Live - I Am That Great And Fiery Force
Belle Epoque - Demo
Books Lie - Hall Of Fame Of Fire
Books Lie - It A Weapon
Braid - Frame & Canvas
Bright Calm Blue - 7"
Bright Calm Blue - Assymetry Set
Bright Calm Blue - Direct Approach for Casual Conversation

Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Catena Collapse - Demo
Cats And Cats And Cats - Sweet Drunk Everyone
Cats And Cats And Cats - Victorialand
Cease Upon The Capital - S/T
Celeste - Nihilist(s)
Choke Their Rivers With Our Dead - Tour CD
Cocoon - My Friends All Died In A Plane Crash
Crocus - The Worst Kind Of Joy Is Hope

Daitro - Des Cendres, Je Me Consumme
Daitro - Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes
Damezumari - No Hugging, No Learning
Damezumari - S/T
Damezumari - The Politics Of Lonely
Daniel Striped Tiger - Condition
Dead Like Dallas - A Story As Old As Time
Death of Anna Karina - New Liberalistic Pleasures
Death of Anna Karina - S/T
Des Ark - Loose Lips Sink Ships
Devar-Toi - S/T
Die, Emperor! Die! - Demo
Dolcim - I Am Casper
Dominic - S/T
Dot Flash Line - Easter Demo

Eaves - Höhenangst
Einermusstot - Großstadtraeume
Elements Of Need - S/T 7"
Elements Of Need/Jasmine - Split 7"
Encyclopedia Of American Traitors - Discography
End Of A Year/Kids Explode - Split
Envy - All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead
Envy - Insomniac Doze

Fall On Deaf Years - We Can Do Anything!
Fieldtree - S/T 7"
Final - Dead Air
Fleeting Joys - Despondent Transponder
Flowers In The Attic - S/T
Forget Cassettes - Instruments of Action
Four Hundred Years - S/T 7"
Funeral Diner - Difference Of Potential
Funeral Diner - Doors Open EP
Funeral Diner - Is Dead
Funeral Diner - Swept Under
Funeral Diner - The Underdark
Funeral Diner - The Wicked
Funeral Diner - The World Of The Forms
Funeral Diner - Various Songs From Splits
Funeral Diner/Evylock - Split
Funeral Diner/Nexus - Split LP
Funeral Diner/Shivering - Split LP

Gantz - 318 366.2
Gospel - The Moon Is A Dead World
The Grand Color Crayon - Ice Eaters

Han Shan - S/T
Harriet the Spy - Unfuckwithable
Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game In Town
Her Breath On Glass - We Aimed Straight Down
Hugs - S/T
Hugs - The Tarpit

I Hate Myself - 2 Songs
I Hate Myself - 3 Songs LP
I Hate Myself - 4 songs
I Hate Myself - Live In Tampa 1997
I Hate Myself/Twelve Hour Turn - Split
I Have Dreams - Demo
Index For Potential Suicide - Sex, Violence, Whatever (Discography)

Jenny Piccolo - Information Battle To Denounce The Genocide
Jiyuna - This Desolate Veil

Karysun - Interceptor
Kidcrash - New Ruins
Kill The Man Who Questions - Pigeon English EP
Kite Flying Society - Discography
Kite Flying Society - S/T

La Dispute - Here, Hear
The Last Forty Seconds - LP

Majority Rule - Emergency Numbers
Malady - S/T
Manrae - Pacata Hibernia
Mara'akate - A Significant Portion Of Their Discography
Maths/Throats - Split
Men As Trees - Six Waves In 2007
Men As Trees - Weltschmerz
Mineral - The Power Of Falling
Mogwai - Batcat EP
My Own Private Alaska - S/T
My Precious - The Fine Line

Needletail/Eucalypt - Split
Neil Perry - Discography
Nervous Light OF Sunday - Jakushinkoukei
Noisy Sins Of The Insect - Discography

Oh My God Elephant - S/T
Oh, Apollo! - Twin Peaks
Old Canes - Early Morning Hymns
On The Might Of Princes - Sirens
Orchid - Chaos Is Me
Orchid - Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow
Orchid - Gatefold
Orchid - Totality
Owltian Mia - The Greatest Games Ever Played

The Paddington Bear Affair - S/T
Palatka - The End Of Irony
Pg.99 - Document #8
Pg.99 - Document #14
Pg.99/Majority Rule - Document #12
Pine - Days Slipping By
Play The Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument Until Your Fingers Begin To Bleed A Bit - 7''
Please Inform The Catain This Is A Hijack - Defeat Or Humiliate The United States Of America
Pocahaunted - Beast That You Are
Portrait - Discography
Portraits Of Past - 01010101
Pyramids - Through The Hourglass
Pyramids/Violent Breakfast - Split

Quebec - Together We Have Grown, Together We Shall Bloom
Quest For Quintana Roo - New Disorder Records
Quiet Steps - S/T

Raccoo-oo-oon - S/T
Raccoo-oo-oon - The Cave of Spirits Forever
Racebannon - IV: Acid or Blood
Racebannon - Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In
Raein - Nati da Altri Padri
Rapider Than Horsepower - Rapider Than The World
Rapider Than Horsepower - Stage fright, Stage Fright
Rentamerica/Agna Moraine's Autobiography - Split 7"
Reversal Of Man - Discography
Reversal Of Man - Revolution Summer
Rites Of Spring - End On End
Russian Circles - Enter
Russian Circles - Upper Ninety
Ryu Vs. Ken - Suffer, Surrender EP

Saetia - A Retrospective
Samurai Tod - Yokuzuna Party
Senneval - Mi Padre El Hondero De La Pistola
September - Erasmia Pucella 10"
Serena Joy - Ours Will Be A Lonely Battle
Sharks Keep Moving - S/T
She Died Real Pretty - Carpe Diem Is Dead
She Spits Macabre - S/T
Silbato - S/T
Single State Of Man - S/T
Sofy Major - S/T
The Sons Of Saturn - The Red
Sounds Like Violence - Unreleased
St. Alban's Kids - Tales Of Late Night Excursions Into Urban Wastelands (A Political Economy Of Noise)
Staircase - The World Of The Forms Vinyl
Steeples - EP
Steeples - Summer 07 Demo
Still Life - Slow Children At Play And Beyond
Stop It!!! - 7 Song Demo
Stop It!!! - Self Made Maps
Street Smart Cyclist - S/T
Suffocate For Fuck Sake - S/T
Suffocate For Fucks Sake - Blazing Fires And Helicopters On The Frontpage Of The Newspaper. There's A War Going On And I'm Marching In Heavy Boots
Sugatown Cabaret - The First Time I Lost The Road Map
Suis La Lune - Heir
Swallow! Swallow! Splinter! - Demo

Takaru - There Can Be Only None
Take Down Your Art - Demo
Take Down Your Art - Unknown Album
Ten Grand - This is the Way to Rule
Tera Melos - Drugs To The Dear Youth
Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Thee Oh Sees - Peanut Butter Oven EP
This Scares Me - 7"
Tipping Canoe - S/T
To The North - Landscapes
Toru Okada - Eight Songs
Tunes For Bears To Dance To - Asking In Askance
Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction

VA-Confuse Yr Idols - A Tribute To Sonic Youth
Verse En Coma - Rialto

...Who Calls So Loud - 12''
...Who Calls So Loud - S/T
With Horses In Her Eyes - Prologue
Wow, Owls! - Pick Your Patterns

Yossarian Is Drowning - S/T
You And I - Discography
You And I - The Curtain Falls


Can all be found here:


http://whitethrashin.blogspot.com/2009/01/mind-blowingly-fucking-insane-crazy.html

Links are pretty much mediafire . As you can see its also mostly emo and screamo, but there are some other things in there worth checking out.

I want the quiet moments of a party girl

i haven't been away so long but i kept you waiting. i haven't been away so long seems some things have changed.but bad habits still make best friends. aren't we just like envelopes? keep i ntouch with my hand. have you met the new guys? let's play who here would have gone nazi? let's get it on. i'm sorry i want to die. do you still want to die? let's get it on. let's drive to alaska.let's drive to alaska. let's drive to alaska. it really is a lonely life leaving and ignoring messages. all the necklacing. let's drive to alaska. let's drive to alaska. let's drive to alaska. oh i enjoy myself. i'm sorry i want to die. do you still want to die? let's get it on. o don't we all saunter innocently enoughlike, love as a battlefield video.


By Owls

Ways to spot emotional manupulators

In keeping with the spirit of this blog, loosely, I think this is a good read. This article basically informs about the more obvious signs that someone is trying to manipulate you or someone else emotionally.

http://www.friedgreentomatoes.org/articles/emotional_manipulation.php

Off Minor - Staring Down the Barrel of Limited Options

post-morbidity, pre-mortality, the dying proceeds and the living intercede
on the behalf of your best interests as we perceive them
and so you sign this document stating the following 'please let me go'
post-morbidity, pre-mortality, facing this inevitably
that i could never begin to understand
what is it you see staring down the barrel of limited options?
what goes through your mind as you make the decision to end all decisions?
never say everything will be ok

Today, during a break from feeling, I reflected on the style of my prose. Exactly how do I write? I had, like many others, the perverted desire to adopt a system and a norm. It's true that I wrote before having the norm and the system, but so did everyone else.
Analyzing myself this afternoon, I've discovered that my stylistic system is based on two principles, and in the best tradition of the best classical writers I immediately uphold two these two principles as general foundations of all good style: 1)to express what one feels exactly as it is felt - clearly, if it is clear; obscurely, if obscure; confusedly, if confused - and 2) to understand that grammar is an instrument and not a law...
In establishing usage, grammar makes valid and invalid divisions. For example, it divides verbs into transitive and intransitive. But a man who knows how to say what he says must sometimes make a transitive verb intransitive so as to photograph what he feels instead of seeing it in the dark, like the common lot of human animals. If I want to say I exist, I'll say, 'I am.' If I want to say I exist as a separate entity, I'll say , 'I am myself.' But if I want to say I exist as an entity that addresses and acts on itself, exercising the divine function of self-creation, then I'll make to be into a transitive verb. Triumphantly and anti-grammatically supreme, I'll speak of 'amming myself'. I'll have stated a philosophy in just two words. Isn't this infinitely preferable to saying nothing in forty sentences? What more can we demand from philosophy and diction?
Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command when they express themselves.

- Fernando Pessoa

Funny enough, a few weeks ago I was considering why I love reading this mans writing and listening to prose rappers like Sole, Doseone, Alias, or Why?. For me, I came to the conclusion that most of what they say doesn't beat around the bush with literary devices so much as it emphatically expresses whatever idea or feeling is said. I was pretty much on the verge of thinking there is order in the universe when I began to read this passage by Pessoa because of the realization i had weeks ago.

Immortal Technique speaks on a few things.

"A true revolutionary loves his people more than he hates his oppressor."

"When you hate, you see red, instead of seeing things in color and seeing the dimensions and perspectives that they have. When you hate, your hands shake instead of being steady and your aim is off."

Support your favorite bands

We're not this frivolous rich band. People think that we're insanely wealthy. I live fucking paycheck-to-paycheck just like everyone else and I work really damn hard. Our band works damn hard and we just want to insure that releases are paid for, not by the listener, but that the expense is paid for. It's not free to record a record. That time isn't free to get all the stuff done. Mind you, we're a hands on band, so things are still pretty affordable for us to do things. But we do everything ourselves and make sacrifices. But the label still has to pay for manufacturing, they have to pay for promoting, they have to pay for their staff making it visible and available. Regardless of how flawed the aging dinosaur that is the music industry is, there is still a base of consumerism that drives it. And you still need to be able to participate in it a little bit. Or it just becomes complete chaos. And nobody wants that. They would say they want that if they were fourteen years old and living in their parents basement, but they wouldn't say that if they had something to lose.
-Jacob Bannon

Suddenly I'm all alone in the world. I see all this from the summeit of a mental rooftop. I'm alone in the world. TO see is to be distant. To see clearly is to halt. To analyse is to be ofreighn. No one who passes by touches me. Around me there is only air. I'm so isolated I can feel the distance between me and my suit. I'm a child in a nightshirt carrying a dimly lit candle and traversing a huge empty house. Living shadows surround me - only shadows, offspring of the stiff furniture and of the light I carry. Here in the sunlight they surround me but are people.

Rationalize my sadness? What for, if rationalization take effort? Sad people can't make an effort.

- Fernando Pessoa

Elder

Emotive Hardcore band from philly with some great socially conscious lyrics and beautiful instrumentation. NOt much more you could really want from a band. Not much more I'd want at least. I'm gonna try and get something from these guys soon, I think you'll want to buy it as well after listening to just the first two songs on their myspace.



http://www.myspace.com/elderphiladelphia

Fieldtree - FIeldtree EP

Selftitled EP from a 90's emo band I wish I had more from. I play these two songs about 3 times every week or so. Love them.





http://www.mediafire.com/?2jotr5yzw2j

Tim Kinsella deserves a theistic following for this.

This is written by Tim (American Football, Cap'n Jazz, Make Believe, Joan of Arc) . He basically touches on the impact music has in a very penetrating manner. Props given to the man, God Bless 'em.

Beirut. The Patriot Act. Palestine. Africa. Wal-Mart. Clear Channel. Peak oil. Global devastation. The backward talk of those in power that dominates and suffocates our cultural discourse. Overpopulation. The dawning of neo-feudalist Theocracy in America. It's a busy, interesting place we've got here. Lots of information aimed at us. The hidden hand of power.

But beyond our control, dark energy, string theory, conceptions of an infinite mutiverse render any issues of free obsolete. We are really only allowed questions. WE can't understand anything. How could we? We live at the lip of the bubble of understanding of our own designs - never not curious, and never able to poke through.

So my point - I do have one - is that in our world, the most basic requirement we share is kept in balance only if it's shaken in many directions at the same time. And what can any of us do to help rectify the situation? We must integrate our politics into our lifestyle, acknowledge that every bridge, hook, melody and sales strategy has political demensions.

In short, I am asking that every band that appeared in the August 2006 issue of Alternative Press break up.

Sorry.

Desperate times require desperate measures. There's no good reason why "ex-rockstar" shouldn't be the most common job in the future. It's obvious from flipping through an issue of this magazine that there are too many bands, all trying in different ways to look and sound like each other. It's unsustainable. Why don't you guys all save yourself the inevitable worry and humiliation the future holds, break up now, and be the first mass movement in cutural history to self-consciously commit suicide?

There are pictures of maybe half a dozen people in that issue that I know, trust, respect and consider my friends. And I'm sorry to ask this of you guys, some of you have helped us in the past, and I appreciate it, but our country needs you. Your bands have to break up. You guys on the cover (one of you was 13 in 2001, so you're now at draft age), we need you to quit.

Even you guys that just had a thumbnail band photo in an ad, sorry. Collateral damage, I guess. However you each choose to understand it, let's all agree we need to draw the line clearly. Every band whose name is even mentioned in the August 2006 issue of AP must break up immediately. So, Cute Is What We Aim For, consider your new aim ansering the call of our country. Underoath, pledge allegiance to the freedom of your fellow citizens. Circa Survive, you ran an add, and I'm sorry, that's enough. You must not survive.

I know this seems like a bummer to you guys, but think about it. Throughout history, music has been at the center of every culture. Music is what people have always had between them to help each other understand how to live. The values of a culture are hiddin within its music. And I dont mean that in a Christian-rock or straight-edge way. I mean our culture is not only sick, but its taking the whole world down with it, and its symptoms are in song structures and rituals of performance.

The simplistic, sensational, emotionalistim of soaring crescendos - whose success or failure relate only to how familiar they seem on first listen - must become tired and redundant by design. When you reach your saturation point and can no longer react to these octave chords' urgent demands, then what? Will all displays of emotion seem silly? Mustn't it be true, like the boy who cried wolf, that every feigned-spontaneous emotional signifier thrust upon you by some band will just deaden your sense of empathy in the future? Perhaps even in a real-world situation, with real-world consequences? If TV and reality can be so interwined, past signifiers of rebellion is rebellion, and this is punk rock, why not?

Don't the sensationalist requirements of vicarious catharsis ask so much, that our empathy will be spent before it ever has a chance to blossom? I mean, I might not be able to understand when someone is hurting - and in turn know how to help them - if my formative experiences with understanding emotions is via these fashionable men and women.

But it's not too late. If the bands break up, maybe we can have music again in the future, and we will be able to hear it for what it is - not what it's being sold as.

I know this is a lot to ask of bands. And no one 22-year-old New Jersey kid is to blame - it's the design that is flawed. But one can't stay quiet. One has a responsibility to stand up for what one sees as god and right in the world, and if my plea can make a difference in even one young band's life - if just one band breaks up - my work here will have been worth it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky never stops winning

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Notes from the Underground"

Jacob Bannon of Converge, spitting some knowledge

It's interesting you say you strive to do your own thing. A lot of musicians - just for example, an interview I had with Andy Williams of Every Time I Die. He was very adamant about the respect he had for your band and your D.I.Y. attitude. Having the longevity you've had as a band, what do you think about the D.I.Y. scene now with technology such as the Internet either ruining it, or in fact helping people do things that were much harder to do back in the day.

The world of independent music doesn't exist of the level that it did, say, 15 years ago. 20 years ago - 15 years ago. Things are just dramatically different. Things are no longer truly underground. Underground culture, counterculture music, has been co-opted and packaged and sold as safe rebellion to a lot of kids. A lot of independent music doesn't have the bite and power that it used to have. It doesn't have a message - whether it be a personal message or political message, an environmental message, anything. A lot of that fight is gone. A lot of that will is gone. It's not to say that there aren't these bands that are embodying those key things and speaking up for something, whether it be artistic or social relevance. It's few and far between. There's more bands playing the fantastic level. They're role playing. They want to be in a large band. They want to play heavy music, but there's no message. It's decoration. It doesn't really go past the sound. There's no sort of personality or character behind it. That's a sad thing to me. Personally I wouldn't want to go out there and play music and share ideas with people if I had nothing to say. That's kind of how we've always been as a band. The day we aren't relevant anymore to ourselves, that we no longer have something collectively to put out there that we want to share with people, that will be the day we stop making music. I find that to be an interesting thing. Now there are bands that come out there and they get management and booking and they run around and merchandise themselves to hell - there's not really a message to what they really do. That's sad to me. I hope that they find their voice with those bands that are missing that. That's definitely the difference in punk rock or D.I.Y. mentality now. D.I.Y. mentality now is setting up a MySpace music player and adding friends. It's not going out on tour and booking their own shows. It's playing to 10 people at a VFW Hall. It's learning to find your own voice and find what you love in music. There really isn't much of that anymore. [People care more about] their fame and notoriety rather than their substances. That's sad. At least to me it is.

Going into the first decade of music, how is Deathwish Inc. going, and what do you foresee in the future?

Just like our band, I take everything one day at a time. Our intention was to create a label home for ourselves and our friends needed a label to help them. A lot of us had bad label experience. We wanted to try and create a label that was ethically sound. We still face a lot of the same hardships that any of the other label does. Labels are always financially strained, but you do your best with what you have. In the last ten years, we've been able to employ some great people, and release some fantastic music that I find to be extremely important and extremely relevant. I'm honored to work for those bands. That's really all there is to it. I don't really look at growth. I don't have some grand plan, besides that I just wanted to release some powerful music that moves me, that hopefully moves other people that are involved in the hardcore/punk rock community. It's a bit of diverse, and there's a lot of strength in that diversity. I'd just like to be able to share that with people. It doesn't really go any further than that for me and the rest of the guys that help run the label. We just want to create a really great environment.

Do you think there is a substance of album art that has been lost over the years? People trying to be ironic or cheesy or whatever?

My only criticism of the independent music world as a whole might be that nobody waits anymore. Nobody takes their time to develop something. There's always this mad dash. Some sort of finish line to create some sort of piece of art to get a release out to do this or to do that, before a band really finds that voice, finds what they really want to be. They crack under the stress of that, and aren't really happy with what they put out there. I just wish people would take a little more time in developing their ideas. That's just for me, as an outsider, as a fan of music, purchasing records, experiencing them.


What do you think about vinyl making a resurgence with the catalog Converge has?

It's not much of a resurgence for me. We've been doing vinyl since we started this band. I released our first 7" in 1991. I released our first 12" in 1994. We finally got it out in mid-'94. It's not a resurgence to me, because we've been doing it this whole time. To people who are outside that vinyl world and haven't been taken that much interest into it until now, you'd have to ask them that. We've always felt that it is an interesting media. It's been a media that's always called to punk rock, called to hardcore, just independent music in general. Number one, it's crude, it's physical. It's archaic in some ways, but it's also very beautiful. All those qualities relate to punk rock in some way.



I know we hit on this earlier in the interview, but if there's one thing that all these bands are walking away with from Converge, and what you've been doing, what is the one thing, musically or a state of mind, or the way you've run this band, what is this Smithsonian thing people should look at in your history?

It wouldn't be any sort of moral, or ethical or political statement. It would be a really simple thing - just leave your own mark in this world. That's it. Let it be a positive one. It's really, truly as simple as that. If you stick to that, and you stay focused on that as an individual and the positive aspects of life and positive music...just positive anything. There's so much negativity in this world, I just don't want us to help spread that. I want us to take negative experiences as people and help turn that into positive music and positive art. I want to be able to help people. That's been my way of being able to leave what I would say is a positive mark in this world. I've been in this band since I was 13 years old. I'm 33 now. That's a long time. I've spent more than half my life in this community giving everything I have to it. It's not for some weird ass fame or ego or anything else like that. I don't have that. I don't care about that. I'm not rich. I'm not trying to get rich. If it was about money, I wouldn't be in this community, because there is none. I wouldn't run an independent record label because there's no financial gain in that. Things pay for themselves, and you get by. It's about doing something positive. Being able to sleep at night with a good conscience, like I'm being able to do something fulfilling to me, and hopefully meaningful to other people. That's really it. If I can leave that mark and be a positive, than I have done something right. There are a lot of people that are either dormant or doing something negative in this world. They can either take that and use it in their band philosophies, or they can take that and use it in their lives. That's really that. It should be that way. It should be that simple.

Well here's one hardcore band from LA

Rotting Out

http://www.myspace.com/rottingouthc

Pretty good shit. I love "Positive Views". Its precisely why I feel pessimism is a more optimal approach to life.