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Grafwritah2

Grafwritah2

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  • Soul Strut 25. This is the End.

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    I'll chime in as well - had to make a new account as I don't remember my password from 21 years ago, and it looks like I'm about 15 years too late to reset my password with a collegeclub.com email address, haha.

    Like most everyone else I haven't posted here in a long time, but really enjoyed the heyday of Soulstrut.  At the time, I was an immature barely-adult with small children, a C- GPA to manage, and occasional $6 an hour part time jobs.  I had no time but to take care of kids, go to class, and work. I remember it being an immensely stressful period and even though i was unnecessarily obnoxious half of the time, I enjoyed talking with you all.  In retrospect I regret not having the time or money at the time to have connected in person like a lot of you did, but the online community was fun anyway.

    A little while back I sold my house and in that process almost all the records I had.  They been collecting dust, untouched, for years.  Part of a different past chapter of my life, I guess.

    Soulstrut is like returning to your hometown years later - you're sad it's not the way that you remember it, but still nice to know it's there if you want to return someday.  But you know in the back of your mind that you and the people you knew have moved on and aren't coming back.

    As part of trying to figure out my login here I found an old Photobucket account I used for Strut related pics and whatnot.  Kind of a weird time capsule - everything from early stage memes to injokes to MySpace screenshots (I have no idea why).

    Does anyone still have any of the Leo Sayer Beat-Off archives?  Unfortunately a lot of stuff I posted up I used my own website/domain to do it and all that is gone.  I remember how many people's beats they made were actually pretty good given the source material.

    Would love to catch up with anyone from those days - feel free to drop me a line at rollingacres@gmail.com.  

    Nagging questions:
    - Where is TheMack these days?
    - How will Pap Day be celebrated going forward?
    - Is Guzzo still in West Covina?  Will he be making any more dating show appearances?
    - Is Reynaldo still down on the hippie commune?
    - RIP Brian Peppers
    - Does Faux_rillz still have this shirt?

      


    ketanbillbradleykicks79

  • Anyone have an e-copy of the Soulstrut Break In the Road Katrina CD?

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    kicks79 said:
    Better late than never. 

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11GEzTVog5MnKS-j5qtlbXPWa9gvYAqoh?usp=sharing

    Let me know if this works for you all 

    Thanks for doing that!  Much appreciated.  18 years later I can finally check it out!

    kicks79Duderonomy

  • Electionstrut 2024

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    Electrode said:
    Grafwritah2 said:

    I honestly think a lot of that was just Clickbait to drive traffic.  What sounds more interesting to read/watch, "Europeans HATE Americans because..." or "European guy loved his trip to St. Louis".

    It's very annoying and most of them are garbage, but I do think that drives clicks.

    Definitely. The point I was trying to make was that, as stated in the Reddit post ketan linked to, those with nefarious geopolitical intent insert themselves into certain popular topics or social movements, act as outside agitators and get people arguing.

    Another example would be how years ago, hashtags like "save the children" and "bring back our girls" were hijacked to spread QAnon/Pizzagate nonsense. Non-profits who work hard to eliminate real-life human trafficking have nothing to do with non-existant "Democrat politicians and celebrities kidnap children and drain their blood", but Russian troll farms made it so.

    Point taken.  Aside from the noise that generates that obfuscates the real problems (and solutions), does that really take away from the people who aren't morons?  What I want to say is does anyone that wasn't born with fetal alcohol syndrome really believe Hillary Clinton was facilitating trafficking of children from the non-existent basement of a pizza shop?  Or maybe it doesn't matter - if they stir up enough morons they'll get the result they want, which is confusion and idiots showing up to pizza shops with guns looking for non-existent children.

    Electrode