― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
Right now I'm working at an independent animation studio in Canada making a low-brow funny TV show. I'm surviving on zero income for a while while this studio is getting established, doing work thats too good to be real work, & I like it like that. I'm way into self sufficiency. I bike everywhere & I'm obsessed with dumpster diving. Latest thing I'm proud of scoring, is two huge bags of day-old bread to feed a dozen people this week.
I listen to lots and lots of music every day while I work. Music is the ONLY thing I spend money on- esp. in mass quantities of old records and tapes from flea markets & garage sales. Can't love them enough. People drop all kinds of wierd stuff there. Accordingly my collection centers in the 80's. Especially post-punk stuff. Screw lists, I'll just name my top favorite album of all time: Chameleons "Strange Times"; and last one bought, Rational Youth "Cold War Night Life."
Well, I guess thats all that matters I guess. Maybe I should mention that my greatest unfulfilled wish is to give birth to tadpoles. Also, my balls are slammed in a cop car trunk & I accidentally swallowed the key, won't somebody please free me?
― sucka (sucka), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:06 (twenty years ago) link
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― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
wow! you know custos?!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:36 (twenty years ago) link
Whew, life can be a bit crazy sometimes. After all that I am still a music geek looking for the best new sound.Cheers.
― hector (hector), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Saturday, 30 August 2003 05:14 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 30 August 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 30 August 2003 06:06 (twenty years ago) link
23 Positions in a 1 Night Stand
― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 30 August 2003 06:59 (twenty years ago) link
I Don't Serve Ribs
― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:02 (twenty years ago) link
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― trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:07 (twenty years ago) link
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― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 30 August 2003 08:36 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 30 August 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 31 August 2003 09:59 (twenty years ago) link
― totalbastard (chester), Monday, 1 September 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link
ok, so i'm intense, random, my brain is in overload and my attention to detail is sh*t right now. yeah, but ridilin doesn't help, never did. music is an (at times) overwhelming emotional/physical/psychological experience; daily a song or album will just fuck my mind all up. i'm a total naive idealist romantic, partly, at least. so, uh, hi, again:)
― mandinina (mandinina), Friday, 21 November 2003 07:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― mandinina (mandinina), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― mandinina (mandinina), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
I grew up listening to '45s on the kitchen floor. My recollection is hazy, though I recall enjoying: the Monkees, Johnny Cash (Boy Named Sue), Georgie Girl, and somewhere along the way, "Boogie Nights." I listened to transistor radios a lot in my youth and thought disc jockeys wielded enormous power and influence. This was before I met some of them.
First record purchased with my own money: Kiss Alive at K-Mart sometime in 1977. I saw Kiss that same year, or '78, at the Chicago Stadium with my parents and a friend from school. . I soon tired of them and sold all those records at a garage sale. Records that mattered since then: Back in Black/Moving Pictures/Quadrophenia/Stop Making Sense/It Takes a Nation of Millions/Doolittle/A Love Supreme/Mummies Play Their Own Records/Reverse Willie Horton/Teenager of the Year/Mass Romantic/One Beat and literally hundreds of others I can't think of this instant.
I am, to one degree or another, a rockist, but my tastes now are more catholic than ever and I'm open to anything with a great melody/good texture or tough beats. I don't have the time to listen to music like I once did. Basically, I live for the spine tingle that music delivers sporadically. That, for me, is what it's all about.
I've written a few music pieces that ran in Chicago recently (one on the impending demise of the Checkerboard Lounge) that I have been working up the nerve to throw up here for commentary or ridicule.
alright then, that's me.
― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
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― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB, Friday, 21 November 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Erik Tripper (Erik Tripper), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
Jaymc: I write primarily for Crain's Chicago Business. They pay well and I have a family to support.
― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link
I hope that's not mutually exclusive. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
Rockist, I was not suggesting mutual exclusivity, just answering your call.
Regarding name recognition, give me something more to go on and we'll see if we've crossed paths. There are clips I'm proud of and there are others I'd rather not revisit, if you know what I mean.
― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB, Friday, 21 November 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
but perhaps not
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:31 (twenty years ago) link