LOLZ in the Conference Room; I'd Like to EXCELSIOR some of that

unregistered didnt post in that thread and your post was a bit too tryhard-xelab

my six.byseven post, m8

unregistered's post is the best thing to come out of the whole saga mind

that doesn't quite work as bathos or self-deprecation, 'i was at a show nobody cares about' because evidently you did/do care about it, a lot

it works in terms of a relativist affirmation, 'my six by seven is as important as your vu show in 67' but that isn't 'funny' and it doesn't 'pwn' anyone

never ask for your exam paper back lj, accept the grade and move on

LJ you did at least tryhard

ha, the essence was deconstructing the idea of the 'legendary show' by chucking in something quite low-profile & immaterial (they've since broken up and reformed again) that would act against the canonical rhetoric of the threadstarter, but maybe that's more petulant than funny. analysing what is funny can be quite productive tho and i'm glad we're doing it live on excelsior

in all fairness though, six by seven rocks harder than vu

i saw myself host a private listening session here in my bedroom just three days ago. a half hour before sunset i put on Rubycon. about 15 minutes in i asked myself, "are you going to play this one all the way through?" i smiled huge and replied "of course, man!" it was dark by the time the song's 34th minute rolled around. the mixture of an epic lava lamp with an epic track orchestrated by such a master selector created something hard to describe. it will probably remain one of my top 5 musical moments for the rest of my life.

― disinclination loops (unregistered), Saturday, 6 September 2014 23:32 (Yesterday)

otm

What potentialities does excelsior have? How can it most productively strive against its own reactionary marketing & outmoded* orthodoxies?

*They're outmoded. Deal.

― 龜, Monday, January 6, 2014 2:01 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

getting that reference might qualify it as a "too much time on ilx" post as well

lol

fyi I relegated my post to the second thoughts thread because I felt like a snob for *disparaging dj culture* (especially when said dj is THE UNSUNG SECOND GREATEST DJ OF ALL TIMES) and also I felt like an asshole for mocking an experience that obviously means a lot to gr8080 nearly a decade later. but tbh I simply cannot relate to a worldview/culture in which "some guy spun this one 20-year-old record at sunset and it gave off some rly chill vibes" can be the highlight of somebody's musical existence, on par with going to Woodstock or seeing Charlie Parker's last gig. I'm not proud of my irrational rockist impulses & I feel like I should contain them to a safe space where they won't hurt people's feelings.

but that entire thread is some bullshit, so I appreciate imago's fearless front line attacks.

(xposts)

lol i hadnt read that post before i read yours

anyway gr8s is just doing the same thing as lj except not trying to 'make a point'.....circumstances make the event, not whatever 'importance' history grants it

yeah nothing against the orig gr80 post, just found unreg's remake hilarious