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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Home Blitz tour of the Midwest

« on: May 14, 2010, 11:49:46 AM »

Yeah, I actually just got diagnosed w/ THA MAC this year, but I've been known as a liability to friend and breast alike for many a year. It's similar to your friend's experience... gotta have a person to lead me around and it gets awkward because I won't quite be sure who I'm talking to sometimes if I haven't memorized their voice, but I haven't quite got the hang of just asking "who am I talking to?" without feeling like a total ass. Don't get me started on determining the location and gender specificity of bathroom doors or comprehending whether a bartender is acknowledging my presence or is in fact present themself. On the plus side, I feel that my hearing is probably more sensitive so I have an advantage when it comes to FEELING THE MUSIC.

Just marking time now until things tunnel out enough to legally get "blinded by the tax benefits"... until then, were I to have a car and the daring, I could totally hit the road by my lonesome to catch the Blitz in MKE!

Which is why they should add a daytime instore in Madison at Good Style en route to Minneapolis. <3 me.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Home Blitz tour of the Midwest

« on: May 14, 2010, 10:19:18 AM »

I'm Matt -- not really sure what would be known about me round town, per se. I, of course, have "big plans" for my "home recording project" (sustained intentions going for probably 4-5 years now) but don't play/book shows and only sometimes attend. In terms of local people-knowing, I would say I'm at an "acquaintance" level relationship with Julian, Luke, Max, Nikki, Aaron and Indra, etc. I use to follow Ivan M around like a puppy before he moved and was at most of the shows booked at his place (though I missed Circuit de Yeux, eff me). Any overlap there? Also down w/ the Second Family dudes, but I'm still tryna shake off my intense winter hibernation cycle and get out a bit. *Almost* went to that Nite Jewel thing out of curiousity but I don't think she's quite my thing, in spite of all her apparent component pieces being rather in my zone. Last show I was at was Julian Lynch, some project of Solomon's (sic?), and a band of Julian's touring friends on E Mifflin St a little under a month ago.

Otherwise, I use to have a radio show and would DJ at the Nattspil, all under this username, but am taking a break from WSUM and Prentice stopped booking me. All in all, I'm a lingering alumni of the UW, most of whose friends have been moving away over the past years, leading to a significant record collection, an appreciation for craft beers, and a metronomic awareness of my gradual aging in a town that never does. Nice to meet you! (unless I already know you...)

But yeah, Home Blitz.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Home Blitz tour of the Midwest

« on: May 14, 2010, 09:17:08 AM »

Not as good an option as the Twin Cities area, but Madison WI would also love to have you on the 22nd. And by love I mean "an attendance of 10-30". But I would be one of them.

Uddawise, I'll hafta come to Milwaukee.

FYI, I've yet to see a good show in Madison with more than ten people there in years. And back in the day it was only hardcore shows I'd see kids at.

Yeah... people wait for tha String Cheese Incident to come thru here or Serato mashup djs to book a show usually before spending their hard-earned entertainment budgets here. Haven't been to more than a couple hardcore-type shows here since the first couple of years I lived here (basically after a kid died at a houes party we were throwing), but I heard that that warehouse venue that was on Park St (forgot the name) got pretty wild.

I'm also part of the problem. Probably only go to <=10 shows a year at this point, but I'm pretty blind in darkened venues and feel incredibly awkward bumping into tons of people. Have accidentally touched boobs and stuff, and based on the shows I do attend the odds usually figure that they're man-boobs, so I pick my shows carefully.

Was bummed that I missed yr last show at Madcity Music Xchange a year+ ago, I remember being outta town for it. I think there was an alright turnout for the semi-recent Tyvek show, tho' (from what I could barely discern without too much groping), so some kids are up on it. I dunno what convinces the youth to show up and I ain't even old, so I guess I'm not the dude to try to book any damn thing at all.

MADISON = WHERE TO STOP IF YR VAN BREAKS DOWN ON 90/94.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Home Blitz tour of the Midwest

« on: May 14, 2010, 06:23:05 AM »

Not as good an option as the Twin Cities area, but Madison WI would also love to have you on the 22nd. And by love I mean "an attendance of 10-30". But I would be one of them.

Uddawise, I'll hafta come to Milwaukee.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Newsflash: Time May Not Exist

« on: May 13, 2010, 02:12:22 PM »

It has just been discovered that the fudgcicle is a Riemann surface of genus one, a category previously thought to only apply to the torus.

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Music Shit / Re: ESSENTIAL SUMMER JAMZ FOR THE DIME?

« on: April 30, 2010, 08:05:39 AM »

UK Funky whitelabels + Trax & Prescription cuts + YABBY YOU (R.I.P.)

Manuel Gottsching: E2-E4

Needa get that Ozzie comp...

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Headphones

« on: April 08, 2010, 06:32:38 AM »

Thanks everyone... definitely starting to lean towards the Senns for my needs. Ugh, using earbuds for the first time in years today and still can't roll. Aside from sounding like ass, I think my ears are a fucked up shape 'cuz the bastards don't even pretent to be close to staying in there. Worst technological sea-change of the 2000s.

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Music Shit / Re: 2010 HARDCORE PUNK

« on: April 07, 2010, 12:11:18 PM »

Seriously into the Dry-Rot vocals,
 
Elric - thoughts now that you've dabbled?

I do like that 70s breakdown part on "Gas Tube" where he goes "OH YEAH," cuz it sounds funny coming from him.

Listen to this part at 33rpm for Koolaid Man vs. Cookie Monster hilarity.

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Non-Music Shit / Headphones

« on: April 07, 2010, 08:41:11 AM »

After the Technics 1200 thread made me relive the pleasure of first hooking up one of those immortal beasts to my home stereo... and then two of those beasts into a mixer... well, after that thread, frankly, I dropped my damned headphones on the ground last night. They're Sony MDR-V700s and I can still tape the cans onto the headband, but they've been through enough wear-and-tear where I think I'm now "in the market". Curious if anybody has any recommendations on the board. My basic usage details:

1) For home use I sometimes listen through my stereo on headphones (like, when my lady is apt to get all "do you have to listen to the Broken Flag box right now? MY head hurts" etc.)

2) I'm also a bit of a bedroom DJ (read: no club in Madison will have me at the moment but I might need them for "club DJ" use at some point)

3) Would be using the same pair for daily iPhone portable use. Ain't gwan fuck w/ no earbuds rudebwoy.

Am considering lower-end Grados, which get great reviews, but I worry that the open-can shit would piss people off on the bus and in nearby cubicles at work, and also wondering if they're durable or appropriate enuff were I to start DJing "out" again. Probably looking to spend up to ~$150, though would prefer <$100 if feasible... any ideas most welcome.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Technics 1200 MK2?

« on: April 06, 2010, 12:24:23 PM »

I've owned a few of these, all but one used and only every had a serious issue once (the ones I sold were usually out of desperate need for cash). The one I had a problem with had some issue where the pitch control would randomly kick out and the bastard would start spinning faster and faster and faster and faster with no recourse but to unplug it and start over (I think the Start/Stop didn't work when this occured either but am not sure). Brought it into a shop for repairs and never saw it again, but I think that's more the reliability of the shop than the complexity of the issue. That said, of the pair I have now one I got off of eBay for $150 and it has lasted me a long time already w/ no issues whatsoever... and that was with a massive bulletproof flight case to boot.

Guess this doesn't really help you much, but I would say that the problem I was running into did kick in within a few minutes of startup, so it might not be a bad idea just to try letting it play through the side of an LP or something as a test pass. I'm sure there's forums out there full of other stuff to check down to obsessive "turntablist" levels, if you wanna Yoga Frog that shit.

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Music Shit / Re: New Pink Reason album better come soon

« on: March 25, 2010, 08:14:57 AM »

*koff koff* not to engage in more taint rubdowns after what I've had to say in th' WFMU thred, but Cleaning the Mirror gripped th' small cracks forming in my tender naiveskull at the time and rended the damn thing open w/ shaky, sweaty fingers to expose the dullmeats inside... was so fuggin' excited to hear this stuff coming outta the Geeb. I dunno, I only lived there for about 6 months during my senior year of high school and then worked a couple paper mills as summer jobs, but the sound of that record really nailed a LOT of how I thought music made by people w/ more exposure to Green Bay, Wisconsin might sound. And I know kevin's been around (a LOT) and it'd be a huge mistake to saddle those tunes as being strictly "of Green Bay", but they really defined a whole NorthWisco vibe that I got in assorted locales much better than the garage punk stuff that I never really listened to but was par for the course 'round those parts.

Really excited for the next dose, wherever the trip may lead...

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Non-Music Shit / Re: do you workout and what do you do?

« on: March 17, 2010, 09:27:45 AM »

Damn, Termbo is pretty FIT. I guess that explains the sweat-smell.

Played soccer and skate/snowb'd in hi-school, dabbled in track/x-country and (briefly) the swim team. Got fat when I went to college... over the past few years my lady has really put the fire under my ass and it's been great. Can't believe how much better I feel when I get regular exercise. We primarily run outdoors but that lead to a cycle of me falling back out of shape over the winter every year. Now I've finally quit smoking and a community center w/ super cheap fitness room opened up just down the street, so we've been going religiously 3 times / week all winter, resulting in this being the first Wisco winter in recent memory where I didn't wind up all fuggin' Redrum'd up by the end. Started doing weight machines in addition to treadmill running and actually feel small seeds of upper-body fitness starting to sprout for the first time in probably 10+ years. The treadmill really helped to measure improvement in running pace/distance, but now it's getting nice outside so I'll be back on the bike paths grinding it out. Love the runner's high so fucking much it's ridiculous, and finishing a 5 or 6 mile run, drinking 2 glasses of water and then cracking a beer is a pinnacle feeling of my current life "style".

Also do a little biking but my eyes are pretty fucked and I get scared of deth easily now. For the same reason I have an unscratchable yearning for soccer that I doubt medical science will fulfill in my lifetime, unless semiblind leagues are instituted.

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Music Shit / Re: WFMU

« on: March 16, 2010, 02:27:43 PM »

'FMU is the station that spun my head when I could find no older, wiser person to do that, and for that I am eternally grateful to them and to the fact that the Forest Products Lab let me hook speakers up to the computer in my lab for while I was makin' pulp. I am deeply guilty at not having pledged to their fundraiser this year, but have a years worth of medical bills to pay off. Will make a Mouse of Today next year, promise.

As 'Pulco (whose show I haven't heard, but the ol' playlists look good, duh) would say: "No ballz massage", but Brian Turner throws down. I betcha already knew that, though.

For a while I could only do podcast shows cuz they didn't trigger bandwidth usage at work... not really much music show variety in those for legal reasons but Do or DIY had some good fuckery and had to give the Dusty Show some love for its midwistfulness. Mike Lupica's podcast (and archived shows) was another fave, and Tales of the Twelve...

Now my work has completely blocked the WFMU site and I can't even do podcasts... but timing is such that I just got an iPhone as they upgraded their app, so I'm about to re-dig into some of the stuff that has been recommened to me, including the ADP, Marty McSorley and Janitor From Mars, whom a friend of mine swore by.

Oh, also dug Tony Rettman's show when that was on...

I know there's tons more great stuff that I've gotta hear as well, more comments plz.

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Music Shit / Re: Nirvana-nevermind

« on: February 26, 2010, 12:23:36 PM »

I have fond memories of poring over those Sessions inserts and wondering what all the bands sounded like. And then I would wind up buying, like, an Archers of Loaf tape 'cuz... "what the hell is up w/ that name?" Ah, how much cooler a path I would have trod had I instead chosen to hunt out Alien Sex Fiend. So many regrets...

Also somehow wound up only ever owning the TAD album Infrared Riding Hood, which kept me company (along with probably Fugazi's Red Medicine) in the Walkman during a family road trip around Lake Superior.

Are the early TAD albums good? I've considered checking from time to time...

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: NOTHING PEOPLE soft crash LP/Chinese Restaurant 7" now on S.S.

« on: February 17, 2010, 10:26:51 AM »

So the new customs slips are gonna hold up the mightiest meating of them all...

KEENAN REVIEWS PULCO?

My breath is officially "bated".