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Music Shit / Re: FUN PUNK vs. SERIOUS PUNK

« on: February 26, 2008, 04:46:47 PM »

Fun and funny aren't the same thing.

Hmmm, very true ... Clockcleaner are pretty funny, but I wouldn't say fun ... well maybe ... shit, would everyone please try to keep it simple?  Please just be funny, fun, or serious.  Pick one.  Otherwise everyone is going to be very confused.

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Music Shit / Re: FUN PUNK vs. SERIOUS PUNK

« on: February 26, 2008, 04:10:24 PM »

I was talking with Kevin the other day about how the hardcore punk scene consists solely of emasculated, self-hating men and very butch, self-hating women.  And yet ... I have never seen more accusations of rape or sexual harrassment than I did at hardcore festivals.  I'd look around at these asexual little vegan waifs (those were the dudes) and wonder, which of these guys actually has the balls to try to rape someone?  I'd love to see them try.  I could have taken any of their anemic, whiny asses any day.

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Music Shit / Re: Crazy recent eBays

« on: February 26, 2008, 01:40:33 PM »

Wow ... nice pen.  Eraser and everything.

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Music Shit / Re: FUN PUNK vs. SERIOUS PUNK

« on: February 26, 2008, 01:35:42 PM »

Don't even get me started on Food Not Bombs.  I was telling someone about FNB one time and they thought I said "Food Not Bums."  That is much, much, funnier.  I like food better, too.

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Music Shit / Re: FUN PUNK vs. SERIOUS PUNK

« on: February 26, 2008, 01:33:59 PM »

When I was younger I spent a lot of time trying to listen to hardcore ... listened to a lot of shitty crust bands, went to SO many of those shows ... they were the least fun people ever, a lot of them.  And they smelled bad a lot of times.  Sometimes they tried to play "free jazz."  Punk - fun/humor = a bunch of homeless guys making a lot of terrible noise.

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Music Shit / Re: styx

« on: February 21, 2008, 12:42:31 PM »

Dad rock is very very real.

as real or realer than Yacht Punk?  or as I think someone here spelled it YAUGHT PUNK?

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody listening to? Part II

« on: February 21, 2008, 12:41:18 PM »

Sun City Girls ... I just really started listening to them ... should have started years ago ... currently listening to Valentines from Matahari, Torch of the Mystics, and 330, 003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda.  Anything else essential listening by these guys?

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Music Shit / Re: siltbreeze feature on pitchfork

« on: February 21, 2008, 12:34:55 PM »

I have heard that you can have a lot more success with a mobile setup.  It just seems ridiculous that you should have to move around constantly under the cover of night just to play a few records over the airwaves for your friends.  I'm sure the quality of the broadcasts would vary from location to location, too.  Probably because of the Clear Channel monopoly, the radio game being completely tied up with a very few powerful entities, and the FCC bowing to the financial and therefore, of course, political clout of these entities, they government has a vested interest in making sure that it's as difficult as possible for small community radio stations to exist.
Also, they're probably worried that someone is going to be broadcasting stuff about making bombs and meth.  Kevin, if you're planning on doing this from the house, we better buy some guns to defend ourselves from the Feds ... maybe we should build a grow room while we're at it, too, what the hell.

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Music Shit / Re: siltbreeze feature on pitchfork

« on: February 21, 2008, 11:56:20 AM »

Rick, you know anything about current FCC laws regarding pirate transmission. Is that the kind of thing that will get you an FCC fine (which I don't care about, I've never paid a fine in my life) or have the pigs busting down your door with guns pulled?

as far as what I've heard (and this really is hearsay only), they just fine the shit out of you for a while.  I don't think they bring in the SWAT team, at least not right away.

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Music Shit / Re: siltbreeze feature on pitchfork

« on: February 21, 2008, 11:54:01 AM »

There were a few pirate radio stations here in Columbus, this way maybe around 7 or 8 years ago, and apparently, they got busted all the time ... the FCC pays WAY more attention to that stuff than you think.   why would they bother fucking with some small-time operation out of someone's bedroom playing punk records at 3 AM?  I dunno, but it seems that they do ... way back when I was maybe a sophomore at Ohio State and working at the Underground, our student radio, there was a week or so when somehow one of our tech people boosted the signal from one of our transmitters so that we were broadcasting to something like a radius of 3 miles (instead of the usual 3 blocks), and within the week, some dudes in suits were at the station office.  after that it was Internet-only.

oh, and the other thing about Ohio State radio is that OSU already owns no less than 6 or 7 different frequencies between all its branch campuses, etc. and not ONE of them is student-run ... just the usual classical/NPR bullshit.

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody listening to? Part II

« on: February 20, 2008, 01:35:37 PM »

TV Ghost LP (again!)
Necropolis - Song for a Working Man 7"
Sun Ra - We Travel the Spaceways/Bad and Beautiful
Steve Miller Band (thanks to a discussion in the "Styx" thread a few days back) - Brave New World

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Music Shit / Re: siltbreeze feature on pitchfork

« on: February 20, 2008, 11:44:25 AM »

The local alt-weekly around here which we like to call the Snooze & Refuse rarely covers any good music that is happening in the substrate, and when they finally wrote about Sacto's intersection of jazz and psych and noise, they titled it "Amidst the Hipsters."

aggghhhhh!  why is every local alt-weekly like this?  this is the same attitude that seems to emanate from not just one, but BOTH of the major weeklys here in Columbus ... not to mention the local "alternative" radio station (and I'm sure you can imagine just how much of an "alternative" it is), CD101 ... if it's not a known quantity recognized by the Pitchfork Establishment, and worse, a home-grown product nurtured by genuine local weirdos, it's "hipster" shit and not worth anyone's time but the "hipsters."  what is up with this high-school BS?  no one's excluding anyone from any show or keeping anyone from buying the records.  it's in the head of these insecure ex-nerds.  god, even I got over that years ago.

oh, and:

Laura's da bomb

you heard it here first, folks!

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Music Shit / Re: siltbreeze feature on pitchfork

« on: February 20, 2008, 10:39:32 AM »

who, me?  yeah, we all know hipsters work in libraries and like to read Russian history ...

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Music Shit / Re: siltbreeze feature on pitchfork

« on: February 20, 2008, 10:32:49 AM »

It might be a payola kinda deal, but I feel the way about this stuff that I do about government conspiracies ... don't blame on premeditated evil what you can just as easily blame on laziness, lack of imagination, and stagnation.

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Music Shit / Re: siltbreeze feature on pitchfork

« on: February 20, 2008, 10:29:46 AM »

I still have my copy of Entertainment Weekly from that has a whole article about the Great Columbus Indie Rock Boom of 1995 (the FIRST time we were "the new Seattle" ... does that even mean anything to ppl anymore?)!!  Big color pictures of Gaunt, etc.!  I'm so glad I kept that.