ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

like god was gonna catch u by the ponytail

ask dayo

dayo, what's your favorite gilmore girls episode?

Dylannn what's your favorite Mountain Girls episode

this isn't the ask dylannnnn thread. please direct your questions to treeship.

i like the episode where rory turns down logan's marriage proposal. a huge victory for the ninety-nine percent.

foxy or kim?

I don't know if anyone comes out of that rivalry looking great.

treeship how did you find ilx

in college i stumbled across the original M.I.A. thread, which i thought was great, and then i lurked here, off and on, for years, sometimes posting something or other under my real name, which is not Treeship. i started posting here regularly partly because i broke up with my long-time gf and was feeling really lonely (we used to talk, online or off, about music, books, and films nonstop, pretty much all day long, for over four years). i thought that ilx could be a place where i could talk about the stuff i like to talk about basically whenever i had down time. the level of discourse here is higher than other message boards i think.

i'm glad this thread was revised though. i'd like to answer whatever questions people have. i like all of you so far, basically.

*revived.

real name = al shiptree

shhh!

treeship,
do you prefer anglo-american fiddle music or eastern european fiddle music?
if you have a different favorite type of fiddle music, what is it?
one love
ij

what are your professional ambitions, treeship

with eastern european fiddle i keep imagining klezmer music, although that uses other instruments too, and i like that. have to go with bluegrass fiddle though. so anglo-american.

my professional ambitions are sort of confused. i write book reviews for tottenville review (unpaid) and i want to expand that and try to write different types of freelance criticism for other outlets, but don't know how to go about that really. currently i am looking for an entry level job in publishing, and hope to do that and maybe move to new york, but it's been tough. ultimately i would like to be a literature professor but i think a phd program would be too much for me to take on right now for numerous reasons... idk. right now i am a substitute teacher and reading tutor.

treeship do you really like buzza

i think buzza is doing what he feels he needs to do to protect this board from socks. maybe. i don't know, he's not my favorite so far.

ouch

i didn't mean that as an insult to buzza, and i don't dislike him -- he posts funny things sometimes. but, i mean, he did say i was worse than a "shitbin" on one thread so...

Treeship, what do you feel are the biggest gaps in your musical knowledge?

i have many. probably classical music. i am decently conversant about jazz, and i love it, but i don't know nearly as much as i'd like to. popular music from the non-english speaking world is not something i tend to know that much about either.

oh also, i don't know anything about music theory. i played trumpet in high school but that is the extent of my music-playing, unless you count fooling around with the ukulele once in a while. so yeah, not being a musician seems like a pretty serious gap for a music fan.

Treeship, Which is the better Roy Orbison song with the word blue in it: Blue Angel or Blue Bayou?

Blue Angel, duh. "Sha la la, doo-bi-wah, bum bum bum, yep yep, bumm..." come on. Serious questions

do u like bunheads?

also what your favorite style of beer?

i do not like bunheads but i find myself attracted to the quirky lead character, played by sutton foster. my favorite kind of beer is IPA. i don't know if i have a favorite IPA, but i really enjoyed the Green Flash Red IPA that i had recently even though BeerAdvocate only gave it an 87.

So who is your favourite so far, treezy?

Me obv

Treezy, whiskey, y/n and which

don't have a favorite right now, but when i was a lurker i was a big admirer of nitsuh. he sat next to me once at a coffee shop but i was too nervous to tell him that i knew who he was and that i was a fan of his writing.

i'm not a big whiskey drinker so i don't really have educated opinions on which whiskey is best. every so often i'll have a glass of scotch for nostalgia value because my grandfather was a johnny walker drinker.

Educated opinions v often lack charm. Nostalue is the word you seek btw.

nitsuh still posts here as "frogbs" btw

origins of the faux-naif froggy voice

my professional ambitions are sort of confused. i write book reviews for tottenville review (unpaid) and i want to expand that and try to write different types of freelance criticism for other outlets, but don't know how to go about that really. currently i am looking for an entry level job in publishing, and hope to do that and maybe move to new york, but it's been tough. ultimately i would like to be a literature professor but i think a phd program would be too much for me to take on right now for numerous reasons... idk. right now i am a substitute teacher and reading tutor.

― Treeship, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you came to just the right place to have these dreams promptly crushed

lol

Lol @ faux naif froggy voice. I dont really want to talk about the feasibility of my dreams tbh, but Jordan asked.

treeship, who would win in a fight -- bugs bunny or the riddler?

bugs has the more advanced jiu jitsu

thanks ian, i was waiting for someone to ask that question. the answer is bugs bunny. bugs understands that you must spare no effort in outwitting your enemies. the riddler is always giving his opponents clues... he is too cocky, and for no real reason because there has never been a time when batman failed to foil his efforts. basically, i don't think the riddler is a serious competitor, whereas bugs will always find a way to victory.

are you on 77 yet?

if so, come to the "what's happening to our borad" thread plz

Treeship, would you rather have been a Ronette ("yes, I was a backup singer on "Be My Baby", and yes, that was my real hair. settling down to write my memoir these days"), or have climbed the Seven Summits ("I still keep in touch with all my old Sherpa guides! settling down to write my memoir these days")?

(also I implore you to listen to the Ronettes' "Here I Sit" one time in your life)

would you rather die being shot by Mark David Chapman or trapped in the Apollo 1 command module

thanks unregistered and VegemiteGrrl. to unregistered's question, i think i would rather have climbed the seven summits, if only because i don't want to have had to deal too closely with phil spector. i know this might seem hypocritical in regard to the fact that i would rather be a beatle than an astronaut, but really, the beatles didn't have to deal with spector as intimately as the ronettes did, and i feel that the beatles always had the "upper hand" with him, whereas the ronettes probably felt they had to "put up" with all kinds of bullshit for the sake of their careers.

in response to VegemiteGrrl's question, obviously i would rather be gunned down in front of the dakota. dying in a fire is worse than dying of a gunshot wound, especially if you are trapped in an enclosed space. also, apollo 1 never left the earth's orbit so dying in the command module would not have even been a poetic death. if dying in space was an option, i would probably prefer that to dying on the upper west side.

tree --

did u grow up in new england?

no. i moved a couple of times as a kid but i primarily grew up in long island and new jersey.

which country are you in again, ogmor? sorry that i don't recall

ogmor is in The North

like manchester?

exactly like Manchester, but I picture you more in Ireland, Holland, Spain, Scandinavia or Germany - somewhere a little more... European

I'm in the North as well. Every country has a North tbh

i live in north brooklyn

That makes the transition to a North somewhere in Europe so much easier

is Bildt (or whatever the fascist government renamed it) The North in mentality as well as geography? iirc yes

Oh absolutely!

(+1 for fash gov remark)

btw treeship should move to florence imo

or vienna!

northerness is a state of mind prone to being romanticisation.

I recall a dave queen review of a travis album in which he quite convincingly divided europe into a spirit-drinking north, a beer-drinking middle, and a wine-drinking south. this also lets my drinking habits stand as testament to my cosmopolitan ways

eh you know what I meant

Can highly recommend Thinking Northern, a collection of essays about Britain's North. It covers a range of topics like identity, dialects, conceptions of 'Northerness', Salford, The Fall etc. Oh, and a bonus essay titled "Northern Racism: A Pilot Study of Racism in Sunderland"!

LJ knows how this is somewhat a main topic of mine. I'm still glad I got to live in t0dm0rd3n for a while, for compare/contrast. There are universal Northern similarities, of that I'm sure.

(the North being grim probably the most compelling similarity of all)

Fun fact: my ancestry is North as well (north Cyprus/Yorkshire) but both sides relocated (thanks to Turkish invasion/job opportunities down South) just in time for my parents to happen - I wonder what Northern echoes persist

That's a muddled timeline actually - my Cypriot grandparents set up in London and had my mum long before they moved back to Kyrenia and got displaced. Job opportunities all around then

Anyway as this is Ask Treeship I guess the big man had best tell us if he has any Michigan ancestry or whatever

treesh have you considered emigrating to Canada?

Charlton Athletic is SE London no? You rebel!

Did your gp flee Cyprus because of the invasion? That's rough. xp

our west is afaict our north

our actual north is another thing entirely obv

your actual north entirely different thing, but grim it is

its that northerly thing of beautiful but orrible alright

My grandparents fled Kyrenia and set up in Limassol. They'd only moved back to Kyrenia a couple of years earlier, from Camden

(north London, the least North of all norths)

flightiness in the family nest pas

you leave my family nest alone

i suppose a n'ornithologist wouldve been expected to spot that one

:)

treeship do you bring us any tidings from the great outside world

Yes.

I saw the Whitney Biennial and found much of it overwhelming, but some of it excellent. And I found the discussion around it alienating as every commentator, critical and laudatory, seemed to take it for granted that most important thing about a work of art is its politics.

I’m glad they forced Kanders off the board but it seems like kind of a hollow victory. He is still manufacturing chemical weapons, he just isn’t allowed to be on the board of the Whitney. Is the point of critical art just to purify the museum?

how is the cooking, treechef?

Sorry—first comment, meant to write underwhelming not overwhelming.

Oh cooking is going well! At home I’m doing veganism. Pasta salads, open faced sandwiches, some spring rolls, it’s the best.

My personal life is actually good *knock on wood*

excellent! Glad you are keeping with it.

so vegan spring rolls. Have to imagine you have a great tofu marinade or an amazing dipping sauce?

Tamari and peanut butter. And i put little slices of tofu in the rolls.

oh nice. v simple. will try with the folks that don't do fish sauce.

Treeship, after a lengthy absence you suddenly re-registered just before the impeachment/whistleblower news broke. Actualities you are actively engaging in discussion in on this borad. Are you the whistleblower?

Yeah but don’t tell anyone. Trump might send his killers after me

Your secret's safe with me, buddy

is it happy bday tríseóig

Happy birthday treeship!

thank you!

Happy birthday man!

may your happiness burgeon like a yeasty mass in a warmish place

happy birthday dear treeship, kindly keep on truckin for all our sakes