So youre real into pretty fucked up musical genres, real into combat sports, have less than stellar social perceptiveness, and are looking to find a serious mate (nothing casual) in a new country you just moved to.
Ya might want to broaden your horizons instead of pigeon-holing yourself with such niche and polarizing interests and standards. You don’t have to be the biggest fan of something to have fun doing it… Do you like all music played at a wedding? No, but you (I) certainly have a blast dancing like an idiot to it all (except songs with instructions, fuck you don’t tell me how to dance).
You’re young. Try new things, and have fun with the new experience. Opposites attract, as much as shared interests attract IME. I loved alt girls and was super successful with them even though I appear straight edge and looked like JCrew threw up all over me.
If your gonna be so narrow and rigid in your interests, standards, and likes/dislikes, youre making it really difficult on yourself.
Why is casual sex off the table? As long as both parties are crystal clear on what it is, it’s on par with meeting up to play tennis, or bball, or a random sport. You’ll learn how to be better at sex, how to be more relaxed, and how to have FUN while fucking instead of a frantic race to each other’s orgasms. It was great having FWBs… Always had a date, they as locals show you new stuff, you learn new ways to get women off, increases your confidence, Andis “usually” better than beating off.
My next stop will be prolonged though 5-6 months. Finding a partner while I’m there wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
If I’m drunk… yes, I can dance to anything.
I can date people with opposing interests, I can be friendly with those who have opposing interests. What I can’t stand is the dogma of “you think differently to me… so fuck off”.
I don’t know how you’ve reached the conclusion that I’m somehow narrow minded. For the most part I don’t care what others think so long as they don’t bother me about it
If someone doesn’t like metal, I’m not going to play it on loudspeaker in front of them.
Being OK with someone else’s interests is not the the same as being interested by, or enjoying.
It sucks being with a picky eater, someone who is loud about musical dislikes, and people who are generally not open and WILLING to have fun in damn near any context.
Being new to a place is tough. Don’t make it tougher by being quick to eliminate people and experiences.
I used to enter sober and i’d become more and more inebriated as the day went on.
But I haven’t been to a concert in years. Australia lost it’s shit over covid.
Now Australia is divided… you’ve got the states who have given up, lost too much money from endless lockdowns and the states of which covid never infiltrated that might just stay shut for God knows how long.
This is black metal x hip hop (not gangsta Rap, but hip hop)
From my perspective… it sucks… it’s awful… take the worst part of black metal (the tortured, distorted
shrieks from the vocalists) and cross that with mumble rap and a lot of base… take out what makes black metal awesome (the crunchy, distorted guitars, eerie pacing of the music, aggressive tone)
and you get ghostemane
Metal isn’t popular amongst kids… but this dark, emotional breed of shitty hip hop crossed with a smidgen of metal like ghostemane and xxxtentacion, this is the new “alternative”.
Metal was mainstream in the 80’s, and again quasi mainstream in the early 2000’s… what happened? Now the top hits amongst my demographic tend to forego guitars entirely.
I don’t listen to much music at all these days. When I do, it’s classical.
I will not listen to anything that is characterized by:
Yelling, grunting, or mumbling
Violence
Sexual talk
Nervous breakdowns about women or men who left ( likely 95+% of 80s/90s freestyle)
Gore
Fantasy
Bitching and moaning, whining (likely 90+% of punk, hardcore)
Angst
Anti-authority (mommy, daddy, cops, teachers, government, spiritual leaders, employers, are all big meanies in my way)
Abrasive sounds
Any genre that has its listeners convinced that they should be walking time bombs and present threats to those around them or motivates them to menacingly and sexually move about is avoided. It’s played out, infantile, and I’m unfazed by it. As you know, I’m from NYC, and now live in LI. Plus I go to the gym. So I’ve accumulated an enormous fatigue from this image.
So that leaves out rap, punk, hardcore, and much metal, genres that sound as if life itself is terrible and that one cannot deal or that man should exist to complain, fight, throw tantrums, defy, and fornicate. A few of my friends feel the same way now.
If others like these genres, fine. I’m done with them. But I’ll hear one of them in the gym in about 15 minutes.
I won’t derail yet another “what do women want” thread further.
Either way, you’ll have a FRONT row ticket to listen to the schmiggly florps.
You left out going going to the bathroom! We are SO much more than complaining, fighting, throwing hissy fits, toppling authoritarianism and having sex!
Being a man is about complaining, fighting, throwing tantrums, overthrowing authority, having sex AND going to the toilet! How could you leave that out?
Remove examples 4 and 5 and you’ve actually got a baby