cheers guys, appreciated :) it has been a particularly shat time, but hey ho life is life!

big decision eh MP? come on then, fill us in... spill the beans, and i dont mean on the toast :P

Since inquiring minds want to know, I'm trying to decide whether to stay here in San Francisco, which would mean the inevitable end of my relationship with my girlfriend of four years, or to try to move to Portland to be with her.

It's taken me -years- to get where I am in this city, no small feat, indeed, and it's unfortunate that my gf has decided that if we're to stay together the only way that it can happen is if I give up what I've spent years building to go live with her in a place where she's never lived before... Pretty shitty when it comes down to it. There's no question I want to be with her, but I'm getting the idea that I'm going to be staying put.

If I get a great job offer in Portland, I'll move. But I have gained a foothold in my profession, and I don't want to just jump into any job that comes along. Employment opportunities aren't at a high--point in fact, they're at a low. So, I think that the events of the next month or two are generally going to shape the events of the next year or two to come.

Oh, for all of you geographically challenged folk, Portland is about six hundred miles north of San Francisco, and it's fucking cold up there. :-(

@xdankstahx

You're fucking sexy.

Hey man, I'm all in favor of self love. Looks like you love yourself... a lot...

Yeah, it helps that I'm ultra-modest.

Question: The Chemical Brothers use a "brother's gonna work it out" sound sample in "Leave Home", and were on the album of the same name, etc...I recently got Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet" - the second track (I think) is called "Brother's Gonna Work It Out". Did Public Enemy coin this phrase thing? Did it come from somewhere before them? What's the dealio???

I don't know if Public Enemy has any stake in coining the Brother's Gonna Work It Out phrase, but Fear of a Black Planet is a fucking great album!

One of the Chems influences back in the early days was Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, so it doesn't seem like coincidence that the use of that phrase is sort of a nod to PE.

And mipps... I'm sorry to read about the absolute shit string of luck you've been having lately. What a lousy week... when it rains it pours. I hope things get better for you. You definitely need your guitar hands!

Pooter - That's a tough choice to make. Clearly some compromises are going to need to be made in order to move forward with whatever choice will be best. You have a lot vested in CA and you live in an awesome city and you're making it there (which is a feat in itself!) Damn. This requires a lot of thought and I wish you luck.

yeah mipps, sorry to read that shit list of things. if you donate blood, they usually give you your own blood type info. I'm O+. but don't donate blood if you have an O type, cause they'll call you like telemarketing vampires to come in.

Pooter, why doesn't your girlfriend move here? Is she in school, otherwise get her to move down here, I do believe you can be a french bread winner.

I'm living in a Residence Inn hotel until the end of July for work training. I am making a music studio back in Santa Cruz and soon I'll have to also find a place to live there too (and to answer future questions: the music studio doesn't have showers- which is why i wont live there). Since I've been at this hotel (which has little stuff around) I've been 20x lazier than I was... playing Wii and watching TV... good fun.

I'll keep my bullshit short.

2 got away, and 1 from my past haunts me, and fills me with envy.

I'd rather not explain or get into detail.

I just need a shot..... or 5

@Bosco, I'm guessing this involves Women or rare Chems merch.....

I would need a few shots after that too.

Awwww... Bosco!!!

You poor boy. Why does love always seem to screw people over to the point of bitterness? (me included)

I just know that no matter how badly I get screwed over, it's always worth going out and trying again. Connecting with other people intimately is definitely always something I strive for, whether it be romantically or platonically. Though it's always a little more fun when you get to bump fuzzies with someone else... ;-)

I've taken a few seminars which helped me deal with letting go a lot of the past, and it's helped me in extraordinary ways, where I still love to be nostalgic about people I've met, but I don't dwell on anything. That had been a big problem for me before.

Coincidentally, I was just Facebook stalking (not really) a fling from when I lived in Washington D.C. She now lives in England, but she was doing an internship in D.C. the same time I was, lived in the same house that I did, and we kind of carried on a thing for a little while. Good, scandalous fun, with something a little deeper involved, but it wasn't supposed to go anywhere because the two of us were supposed to go... well, in completely opposite directions across the globe. But the memories make me smile. :D

Anyway, best of luck in love to you, Bosco. I hope to have some more musical journeys with you sometime in the near future!

Bosco mate,

If there is one thing i learned about love the past month, is that it's something i will never understand. And when i think i get it, something happends and i'm even more confused than i was before.

So not that that answer will help you, i don't even know if you actually have girl problems, but, love is just fucking weird and annoying sometimes.

I hope whatever troubles you're having Bosco, your troubles will soon drift away.

You know. This has been a seriously messed up year. I was hoping this would be better than 2008 and it's been just as bad and worse. It's been one of those years where you see the light at the end of the tunnel, but then a boulder comes out of nowhere and blocks the opening and you're stuck chipping away at this giant rock hoping to see some pin-points of light shine through.

This hasn't been this way just for me - it's been this way for nearly everyone I know.

This past month has been especially hard for me and my family. All the negativity and all the residual crap from the previous year and a half was shat out over the course of this month, and I think finally *finally* there is some light at the end of the tunnel. It's been so hard... thinking about the relief of moving past this BS brings tears to my eyes.

I hate to sound anymore sappy but on a positive note, if there's anything I've learned in the past month it's that love truly is all. You just have to believe that you are capable of it, and that the people you need to love are capable of it too. I'm ashamed to admit I had allowed my circumstances to overpower me to the point of forgetting that.

Anyway. Onward and upward!

YEAH!!!! PLUR FOR ALL!!!! :D :D :D

sometimes it's not about good years drawn on traditional jan-dec lines, it's about gerrymandering them so they are good years, e.g. 06/09-06/10 best year ever!]. In other words a good year can be started... I will be on Oprah promoting my book this week.

"SUMMER OF GEORGE!!"

Nice. Biff, you're an inspiration to us all.

*i meant "can be started any time"

i need to read my stuff

I'm guessing it's women, so in that case....

Bosco! Don't give up bro!

You gotta stay in the hunt. While your at home, some dumbass is taking YOUR girl. If you love women just as much as I do, then you'll go out tonight and find some at the (insert place here!)

You know what you gotta do bro! I'm counting on you.... actually all the men in this country are counting on you. ;-)

Just try to get over it as best as you can and move on, the faster you do this, the faster you can score (and then the both of you move into an apartment,then get married,then maybe a kid or 2,add a dog,etc.)

Wake up :)

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=0x-fkSYDtUY

Everybody here on the forum loves you bro! And I wish all of you a great weekend! Peace!

I have my son with me this weekend. It's great to spend time with him. He's 6 and lives with his mother.

We spent a moment listening to Surrender in the car on the way back to my apartment, and he liked The Sunshine Underground, but he LOVED the track Surrender. :D

I told him that this was The Chemical Brothers that he was listening to, and he asked why. Then he said, "Is it because they have chemicals in them that make them rock and roll?"

I laughed, and said, "yes, indeed."