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did you shit it out or regurgitate it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM post-punk, mothafucka.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, i was just jokin' on your "digested" bit. such a weird thing to say about music.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You seem to get hung up on words. "Digested" = I've listened to it a lot and understood what all is going on on the record. Like I needed to explain that to you.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't need to explain it! i know wtf it means, touchy-touchy-dude! and gee, who would think someone who likes to write and edit (and has been paid to do both things) would be hung up on words?

"you musicians sure seem to care a lot about music!"

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"i can't understand all these silly film majors, they only talk about movies!"

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Regarding your hang-up: it was a QUICK way of saying that I've listened to the record a lot already and have understood what is going on on the record, okay?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate it when mom and dad fight. when someone call social services?

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

tim i think it's your hang up because i was just making a joke! it really wasn't a big deal at all.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

But I was joking with you about your hangup!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't seem like it, i read it as you being pissed off at me as always. sorry.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M SORRY TOO!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

THATS WHAT THE NZ BRD IS ALL ABOUT.

BROS.

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

they have BROSEPHS in New Zealand?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lorinrowan.com/Maddox-Bros-poster-web.jpg

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

do you still have your old postpunk records?

where do you keep them? in the garage?

-- kippax lad, ls? (...), March 4th, 2005.

Ironically, I was just listening to an old Rough Trade compilation album called Wanna Buy a Bridge this morning. I thought to put it on initially because I wanted to listen to the TV Personalities doing "Part Time Punks." The fantastic "Read About Seymour" comes on after it. Even more ironically, I realized that one of the things that's cool about Franz Ferdinand is that they really kind of sound like "Read About Seymour." And before anyone gets all up in arms about me saying this, let me add that yes, of course, Franz Ferdinand are not as ballistic as the Swell Maps and their lyrics aren't as cool.

So maybe, ironically, those of you who hate Franz Ferdinand do so because you're just not all that partial to the "Read About Seymour" spirit?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Tim,

Have you ever pretended to like a piece of music? Ironically or unironically?

Love,
gygax!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think so. What's an example of someone doing this?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

hey tim,
sealed copy of XCIII....worth $11 + shipping?....really like to hear it...but not sure if its worth it.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, no. Go to musicweb.com. Pretty sure they have it for $4.99!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, dude, if your order with them is over $25, free shipping.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I see....thanks tim.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Wed. long blk hair, ipod mini, listening to the killers, I walked away
Reply to: [email protected]
Date: 2005-06-02, 11:54AM EDT

Wed. 2pm ish We were on the same train, we got off together, I said "I saw you jamming out to your ipod, what were you listening too?" you said "the Killers", I walked away in the crowd, not because of the music, it was really crowded.

a long shot that you would see this, but I feel I have to try to post again. Send me an email.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this is jw

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

TIM: WHISTLE STOP OR SHOOTERZ??

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

CASBAH OR KEN CLUB??

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Vahid, I don't know. We have a three year old and don't go out a lot. However: Saturday night - Che Cafe - Of Montreal. We will be there. (I don't think I've been to the Che Cafe in six years or so.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Gawd, concert preview in the Reader today describes Of Montreal as "Smile on 78 RPM."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

my guess is that the writer has heard neither

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Dearest Tim:

Could you tell me a little more about the structure of the new Orthrelm album? How often do changes occur, would you say? Are they regularly or irregularly spaced? Are the repetitions EXACT repetitions, or is there some permutation?

Best,
IJ

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

ian, what do you think of the ORTHRELM strategy of combining it into big chunks now?

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE IT.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey Ian. At the beginning of the piece, they keep repeating some riffs for several minutes at a time, but the changes happen more frequently as it goes along. They're exact repetitions, but of course the guitarist can't play them exactly the same way each time so there are these interesting variations that happen like sometimes there's a particular note in a riff that will stand out - you'll hear it repeating each time they play the riff, but the pulse of the repetitions wavers. And sometimes there'll be this cool white noise sound that seems to occur at really irregular places each time the riff gets repeated. Near the end, Barr plays some stuff that doesn't repeat - there might be some riff permutations going on there.

I actually gave that album an A, not an A- and am waiting to hear why the grade was changed without my being consulted.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

where did you review it at? me want to read.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

It's up today on stylusmagazine.com

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Very nice piece, Tim. I give your review an A+.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks dude!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

no problem, KILLER.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

tim, what are your thoughts on San Ul Lim's "Celadon (Arirang)"?

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Which song is that? I actually have three of their records, but there are no translations of titles.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

last song on Volume 1 (1971)

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Right. That song is totally sick. It's hard for me to tell how out of tune they are with each other because the record I have has this oversized hole in the middle and wherever I place it on the spindle, the needle ends up riding back and forth a little so it sounds a little warped.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

its got like that almost motorik keyboard part and bassline as it chugs along in the instrumental parts

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah but on this total roller rink keyboard

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

the keyboard reminds me of the rink one on the Ethiopiques compiling Getatchew Mekurya

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

Yo Tim,

I finally picked up Traffic Sound's Lux! Amazing!! What an awesome record. Half of sounds like some kind of Malo/Santana/El Chicano thing and the other half is just really strange; love the long track. Then it ends with like three short tracks that sound like Blues Image or Grand Funk Railroad up-with-people singalongs. Great stuff.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 27 June 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

WHAT A GREAT BAND.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Tim,

Have you ever heard the album Better Can't Make Your Life Better by Lilys?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

No, but I am interested in hearing about the indie rock!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

It's a good record, Tim.

When are you visiting Britain again?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

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