"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
The Top 50 Albums of 2005
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"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
KaminoSS
Don Juan
what country is this list from?
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Scrumtulescence
Master Don Juan
You've never heard of Billy Corgan?
Sigur Ros, Deathcab for Cutie, Mars Volta, Minus the Bear, Broken Social Scene,a nd Explosions in the Sky are the only bands I've heard of on that list. ok that's actually more than I thought.
Broken Social Scene is a really good band, actually. Their music is a little out there, but they're pretty amazing.
WhitePimp
Master Don Juan
Dredg - Catch Without Arms
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV
Finch - Say Hello To Sunshine
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Dimebag_Darrell
Banned
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Eyehategod - Preaching the endtime message(or something like that)
Jerry Maguire
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strams4ever
Don Juan
"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
The Bravery is good. Bloc Party is better.
Not much else there really interested me. I listened to Frances the Mute in the bath, at night, and damn. I thought aliens were outside my window.
Afterwoods, I put it in the bin. It was different, granted. Experimental, granted. Good? I don't know about that. Give me At The Drive In, 2005 is just about ended, and I've been listening to them for years.
I'd like to vote for
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
(may have been released 04? first single was out sometime in 05 in Australia, so I'm counting them as 05.)
Its emo-pop type music, whatever. Alot of haters for anything thats popular. In Australia, even though they are touring as we speak (with greenday) no one knows of them, so they aint popular here, but a damn good cd.
ShizamDaMan
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WhitePimp
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I forgot Deadwing. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here is orgasm