wow . . . i never thought i would see the day when reality becomes so confusing that a simple thing called a computer could come along and erase everybody's recall that this thing here called a forum cannot survive on simply talking about music, like some living pulse of an entertainment blogosphere. a single thread in here can't even maintain it's origin of life for more than five to six posts before a hijacking occurs. when i first came aboard how ever many years ago, this place was a cesspool of "i've been on here the longest, and my music knowledge kicks that of whom i feel like picking out of the crowd." oh yeah, i think they talked about the smiths or the pixies some, too.
surly bonds is the "sort-of howard stern" of this forum. it's difficult to see the humour, the passion, the perversion that i know is done by him for simple, self esteem issues -- we all do something at sometime, somewhere to feel somehow better than just being a single "me." and you people fuel the fire of him continuing. when i would attempt to post my wierd crap in the pupa stages here, the loudest voices to me which changed my tune was hearing the complete ignore. i received it in vast abundance. surly, unlike howard, does not have the proper control (sorry bud) over the ability to insert thoughts into written sentences . . . that were better off left in one's head of your revolving philosophies. he cracks me up, as much as the people who get so fucking offended at him. it's fiction people. don't you realize that human speech is nothing more than emotional fiction, until the words are transformed into action. creed is more than just a horrible band.
oh and surly, in response to your earlier question - no one controls my opinion of anybody.