Shit, man.. I know I posted something this last week, right after that last post^, and it's gone now...apparently this was due to some admin tweakaj. But it got me thinking, maybe it's time to relinquish this protracted, obsessive habit of logging and posting most of what I listen to (Besides, what's the use if the data gets lost? Aside from the obvious musical exchange going on in this thread, I'll admit I was relying on this particular piece of cyber-space as a sort of repository that I would often refer back to and spy on my 'earlier selves,' so to speak...a way to remember and track my existence!) I would like to hear your thoughts on this...
I sometimes use this forum in the same or a smilar way---to see what I'd been listening to at different times, to see what other people are listening to so that I might be introduced to new music
I may like, and to generally boast of my
love of druggie music, along with occasional asides regarding
the joys of the so-called (by Str8 and it's supporters) "
druggie lifestyle".
As to your greater point of "tracking one's existence", yeah, I definitely use this thread (and some other parts of this forum , such as the thread on Straight Survivors regarding the
use of
cannabis and other drugs.....) to track "where I was at" at different points in my life, and my "recovery from recovery". I think that is the reason more than any other why I continue to check in on a forum that has become otherwise mundane, tedious, and boring. The trolls on here aren't clever, funny, or even really annoying.......they are just lame, and have more in common with Ukrainian spammers than they do with the clever wit and wisdom of trollls of yesteryear, such as the ones who claimed to be staff members
for a fictitious revival of Str8INC. Now THAT shit was fucking hilarious, and served to greater illustrate the absurdity that Str8 and places of its ilk were in any way
therapeutic or helpful to anyone, whether or not they had substance abuse isssues. Nowadays the trolls here just plain suck, so this and the aforementioned thread regarding the use of marijuana are really the only
reasons I come here anymore.