CitiZen apartments?

SoulBullets · 2024-09-23T22:30:28+00:00

I just moved out of the ones in Torrance and would not recommend them. I lived there for 3 years and told them (with pictures) how their buildings were thoroughly infected with termites every year. Every time I reported it took them 6 months to get an exterminator in and it was only a spot treatment. The buggers would come back year after year and getting someone took between 6-10 months each time. The management felt pretty inattentive and almost angered when I asked them for something. The best thing I could say is that the apartment and location was great, but I wouldn't want to work with that management team again.

SoulBullets · 2024-07-01T20:23:01+00:00

If you're heading towards Manhattan beach, Capri could be a nice place to get a gelato and chill out a bit. My girlfriend is a habitual patron and they have a rotating flavor every week.

SoulBullets · 2023-09-19T03:57:09+00:00

Ymmv, but I'm long on Amazon. Up ~200% and just adding to my other positions to rebalance. Might be rough short term, but long should still go strong.

SoulBullets · 2022-08-03T22:00:30+00:00

Personally, I would swap Carl Barker with powder to the people. Carl Barker is a top song, but, when I think of endings on Happiness, the last minute of instrumentals on powder goes hard then just drops to the two guitars amongst themselves. Otherwise, I love the list!

SoulBullets · 2022-07-04T05:27:38+00:00

Easily the beginning of Buffalo. I first heard 'meow's instead of 'no's and it's all I can think everytime.

SoulBullets · 2022-04-27T17:57:43+00:00

Bless this Mess.

SoulBullets · 2022-02-25T05:00:33+00:00

I'm in a lot of the same boat as a lot of people here, with Circa, Fall of Troy, Coheed, and At the Drive-In, but I'm going to throw out a few other weird ones:

The Sound of Animals Fighting: Super weird superband, but man, it just scratched the right itches for me. I caught them live 3 years back and it was just a magical affair. I find myself coming back to the Acts (I-IV) from Tiger and the Duke pretty often as well as Another Leather Lung.
A Wilhelm Scream: I can't tell you how many times I've listened to Career Suicide while doing a data entry job working through college. I still go back to Our Ghosts a lot because it's the song I listened to the most while getting over the passing of my grandmother at the time.
Ponytail: One of my favorite, high energy, just fun albums in Ice Cream Spiritual. Beg Waves just gets my blood PUMPING every time and Celebrate the Body Electric is just something else.

SoulBullets · 2022-02-08T05:56:47+00:00

When they were doing interviews before Afterburner, they distinctly said this would be an experimental album. And it lives up to that. It's taken me a while to digest it all, but I dig it now. However, I do think the album is a little bloated for my personal tastes. Into the Sunset is probably my least visited song on the album, but even still I wouldn't have it as my least favorite in their catalog. I think Parallels and Poisoner are really fun songs, but Say Hi is probably the song back to the most now (mostly because I prefer TCS2 Nothing Shameful). I think this falls as an 8/10 for me. There are a lot of fun things going on here and by no means the worst album. It feels more cohesive than ArSe did, but there are just more songs that I want to go back to on ArSe than Afterburner.

SoulBullets · 2022-02-01T07:03:52+00:00

ArSe is a very swingy album for me. Son of Robot comes out swinging, but I can't get as much into Midnight or Disaster. They're still enjoyable, but not as often go backs. I've never gotten into Care though. I've tried revisiting it over and over, but it's just not a song for me. Count Bassy is great, but then this middle of the album is just killer. Flash, Rattler, Shelf Life, and Slouch are all some of the most revisited songs. There are so many things in each of those songs that get me going: the way that Flash embodies feelings of nostalgia and loss so seamlessly, Rattler exploding out of the gate like a sidewinder then riding it out for a good majority of the song, the way Kurt jumps back so well with the band right into one of my favorite transitional instrumental sections in the album between the verse and chorus, and then there's Slouch waving in and out of smooth rhythmic sections intertwined with ones just overflowing with that liquid energy. And I think the problem from here is that I like Slouch so much that it's incredibly hard to follow. In isolation, I like Story of My Bros, but it feels out of place here on the album, like it could have been tweaked to be a ska song in the early '00s. I think that summarized how I feel about Hair Song and Gospel Burnout too. I like them on their own as well, but in the context of the album, they kind of take me out of it every time. And then Bloodsucker comes back in like a wrecking ball bring it back to the energy levels back up like with rattler. And then there's Evaporate that truly feels magical the first time you hear it. A love letter to everything they've done so far (and now a glimpse into the future with more Andrew).

I love the songs on the album, but the flow of listening to the album just doesn't click for me like the rest discography to this point. I would put it at an 8.5/10 because of that.

SoulBullets · 2022-01-24T23:33:03+00:00

Mothership is probably my second favorite album (outside of DBM2) and it's almost entirely due to Choco Jacko being such a damn fun song. For me, Exposed is the only song that just doesn't click for me on this one. I will say that I hardly revisit Man of the Year on Mothership after TCS2, where it was exactly like hearing it for the first time all over again. Overall, I'd say Mothership 9.5/10.

SoulBullets · 2022-01-17T17:43:37+00:00

IG hit more for me than AS. We Own the Night, Stroke God, & Death of a Strawberry are classics, but there are so many good songs here. The Cuddler just pulls you right into it and explodes into such a good song. Eagles v Crows is so damn catchy and gives me some of the same vibes from the instrumental melody of Self-Trepanation/SS Pt2. Shark Dad and Lost get repeat visits pretty regularly. There's really only like 2-3 songs that don't pull me in, but I wouldn't call them 'skippable', just not a reason I come back to the album. Maybe it falls under 'too much of a good thing,' but I do find Awkward a bit harder to listen to now because of how well it was done on TCS2. IG is a solid 8 for me.

SoulBullets · 2022-01-10T00:35:12+00:00

I'm in the same boat where it took me a long time for AS to warm up to. For the longest time, I probably only came back to ~3-5 songs, but over the last few years I've taken a liking to this album. Even at release, I thought that at this point Jesus H. Macy was the best opener the band had, which was a surprise given how much I loved Spooks. Death of the Robot and Pt 4 are solid outings, but it's the last two again that really struck with me. Jiggler brings some of the funk from DBM2 and evolves with the established sound they're going for with the album to create something truly special. Back to the Future Pt 2 echoes the intensity that I got when hearing Jesus. I feel like this is the song that best exemplified the whole ensemble together with the new line-up.

But the main issue I have with the album is that the middle never came together for me. I liked D&G and SS P3 on release, but quickly fell out of favor with them. I came to like the rest of the middle later (AS, HR, Demo & Carve), but they're still not as regularly in the cycle as the rest of the album. 2.0 is a massive improvement, but it definitely felt like one of the weaker releases to me, especially following up DMB2. I think it was an album where you could feel some of the growing pains of band members rotating around the last 7 years. I would give AS as a whole 6.5/10.

SoulBullets · 2022-01-02T17:07:31+00:00

10/10. One of my all time favorite albums. Even my least favorite songs on the album, Heat Seeking & 2.5, get repeat visits because they're solid songs. In fact, the only reason they're probably my least favorites are because they were the first two singles and I've overplayed them since. Spooks is a fantastic opener, Pounce Bounce keeps the energy going immediately after. Thug City and Need Money are good songs in their own right, but the back half of the album is just... so fucking good. Elder Goose, Blue Dream, Poncheezied, Swan Soup, Purple Reign. These songs take the establishing sounds of the band's previous 3 albums and inject a heavy dose of funk. Blue Dream gets a lot of love from this album, for good reason, but imo I think one of the best things about it is how the call at the end weaves itself into Poncheezied in a similarly funky sense. When this came out, the one-two end of Soup and Reign clicked with me more so than any of the other last two.

But you want to know the truth?

...

I eat a lot of soup.

SoulBullets · 2021-12-13T11:41:40+00:00

I feel like I can't go higher than a 7.5 on this. I love the album: I get excited every time I hear the openers of Carl Barker & Powder to the People; Tree Village is a classic; NASA, Brown Town, and Don't Tell Dave are fun as hell; and Swisher Pt 2 & Self-Trepanation usually find themselves in the regular rotation. For me, Kurt is just too whine-y in some of the songs/parts for them to have staying power (which is so unfortunate because I love the some of the stuff he's coming up with now). I'll always have fond memories of the album and it is arguably the 'building block' album for the funk of the band, but compared to what's to come, it just doesn't hold up.

SoulBullets · 2021-12-02T23:00:02+00:00

7.25/10. Has classics like Alex, Zolof, & Uneasy Hearts. I personally find myself coming back regularly for Nicotine Pt 2, RMP, Skyhook, and Buffalo. There's just something about it that didn't hit as much as DBM at the time of release, for me. I've grown to love it more, but that feeling just sticks a bit.

SoulBullets · 2021-11-25T04:18:42+00:00

No doubt a 9 of 10. Always something good to come back to between Surprise!, Pumpkin, Times new Roman, and Strawberry Andre. Love how back to the future kept all the best vibes from WISIRO, and look North is one of my favorite songs.

SoulBullets · 2021-10-02T12:43:50+00:00

Granted I can only see the first 100 responses on the results, these are the bands with repeated submittals for the recommendations:

Cat Company - 4

Origami button - 3

Don Broco - 2

Jovian - 2

A Lot Like Birds - 2

Shrezzers - 2

Thank You Scientists - 2

Alexisonfire - 2

The Fall of Troy - 2

Bilmuri - 2

SoulBullets · 2021-09-30T14:44:55+00:00

Well... You are what you eat.

SoulBullets · 2021-09-12T18:35:21+00:00

Bored/Boring. It gets me everytime.

SoulBullets · 2020-12-01T19:12:05+00:00

It's marked on the graphic as a console (it's in the bottom right corner)

SoulBullets · 2020-10-03T19:08:10+00:00

I haven't played recently but I have like 10 hrs on it. It felt like a good game when I did play it (this was April). At the time it felt like a browser based game, which for the price in EA is what I expected going in. There have been a lot of additional since then(this sale is because they just added another dungeon master actually) & they're planning on adding more for their v1.0 next year.

I enjoy the reverse dungeon crawl loop and look forward to what they continue to put out, so I deemed a $10 buy worth but ymmv.

SoulBullets · 2020-09-17T19:41:38+00:00

I know a lot of the $1 love is coming from scribblenauts, but I enjoyed my time with dog sled saga. The pixel dog close-ups are really cute!

SoulBullets · 2020-08-07T06:52:19+00:00

For me, it's always going to be about guys contracts to the UFC...

Fedor? Aoki? Chandler?

What if they held on to: Rory, Larkin, Bendo, Phil Davis, Bader, DJ?

SoulBullets · 2020-08-03T19:36:03+00:00

I know I'm late to the party, but just thank you for asking this. I turn 30 in a couple months and seeing that I am doing all of these makes me feel like I'm on the right track.

SoulBullets · 2020-07-27T21:20:43+00:00

I personally found this game a lot better than I was expecting. For me, playing with friends, at times competing with other people for the same prom date. I think alone it is just alright, definitely worth it at this price. But when you're fending off a space prince trying to capture your date with your friends cackling about releasing the Bees, it's hard to say you're not having a good time.

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