Scumbase

Gather 'round my friends, as this week's Soundcheck is now live on Scumbase!

Today, we are departing in the same years we left Iola in two weeks ago. Again, we are blessed to look at the music life of an officer. He has the enormous responsibility to attack other guilds on our behalf. Every 24 hours, he represents The Severed Tongue by the choice he makes. In other words, he clicks the attack button, and therefore is indirectly responsible for Ghetto's anger over people not checking in. Never saw it that way, huh? Me neither, I just came up with it, but I plugged the 'Check in' message, mission accomplished!

Back to business.

Everyone, please applaud this week's contestant, Redwood18!

It is your turn, Redwood,

Songs are actually good.

I know you would

Brag if you could,

But not in our hood!

Yes? No? I don't know, that sound was hard...

And so, not too long ago, two adults in love were talking philosophy*. Among all the very intelligent and thoughtful stuff they said, came what I like to call the 'philosophical annoyances'. Those are catch phrases that adults like to bombard you with when you're a kid. 'Don't do others what you don't want them to do to you', 'All big things are made of small things', 'Be smart in your idiocy', 'The height and strength of a person is measured from the scalp to the top of their eyebrows', 'Don't put all your eggs in the same basket', and more. As a kid, you understand the words and can even sometimes tell when to use them, but you don't actually understand the deep meaning of it until later in life.

One philosophical annoyance that came out was 'Don't judge a book by its cover'. Discussing the subject, they asked different questions. Can you judge a food by its taste? Can you judge a coin's value by the metal in which its made? Can you judge a man's queerness by his voice? Luckily, they could answer that last one with the song that played as #1 on the radio that night.

I can't even understand the words they're yelping. I know fashion and styles and all that changed since those years, but wow! Girls, input? Let's do this: to all girls willing to, in the comments, answer the following: you have to marry one, spend one hot night with another, and hit the third one in the face with a baseball bat. Who goes with which?

What a start for our friend Redwood, that one is going to be hard to top!

Our little friend grew up and was soon 14. He might be clicking the little sword on Shakes&Fidget, but deep down, he grew up to be a romantic. That's right people, Redwood is a romantic, and he is with style. No cheesy crap, just true feelings. He might have been influenced by the actually very beautiful and meaningful song that was playing on his birthday.

I would love to say something funny or put down that song and video, but I can't. That video is actually very well done. Who are those people, actors? The stuff they do and how they look, they look truly happy. Doesn't feel acted. The words are beautiful. I personally think that song rocked and I'm not blasting it. I could demolish the Bee Gee one for weeks though!

Our romantic teenager reached adulthood. He was 21, and he knew how to party. Romantic doesn't mean weak and absolutely not boring. Year-wise, winter is coming, but in Redwood's mind, it's summer, the air is sticky, the temperature is burning; the girls are hot and we're having a good time!

He's no where near Quilp on this, but our little Reddy is smooth, too. And slightly wild; all music videos happen outside, in the street. He's a romantic bum, you definitely can't judge him by his cover. My, my, ladies, doesn't he seem ideal?

That's it for this week people! I hope you enjoyed.
Next week, we were supposed to have Koshka, but sadly he is not with us anymore. It would have been different though, as our little friend wasn't even 21 yet. ZOMG, the stuff we said in guild chat! Shame on us! His poor virgin ears!

So we skip our departed and go to the next on the list, which is our favorite Queen of Duct Tape; Revliss! You think you can tape us around and put us in embarrassing situations, take a picture, and post it on Scumbase without anyone saying anything about it? Well, you're right! It just happens it's your turn next week.

Cheers!

* This column is the work of fiction. I am not sure that's what Redwood's parents were actually doing before, you know, ....