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Non-Music Shit / Re: SMOKING WEED

« on: September 19, 2015, 01:32:27 PM »

Stoner culture is tacky, sure, but it's all bound up with legalization efforts. Vote and make it legal and the hubbub should cease.

I take greater issue with drunk idiots euphoric on themselves mouth-breathing their egotistical opinions on me.

Weed itself is awesome, needless to say.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: September 16, 2015, 02:06:36 PM »

The best season of TV I saw recently was last year's ten-short-episodes run of Amazon's first original series, Transparent . I hope they don't trash it with Season 2. Starring Jeffrey Tambor and Amy Landecker, created by Jill Solloway who was a showrunner on HBO's early flagship melodrama Six Feet Under, no other current scripted ensemble reflects life on earth more accurately than this. The gender issues it grapples with had me skeptical of hot button topical daytime fare, but it's really a convincing, well acted portrait of a family in every kind of identity flux, dislodging taboos about right and wrong in a world over-concerned with consensus as a read on the health of personal lives, chiefly about discovering who you are and that long, aching process. In one season, the characters are fully rendered in an arc that starts at being terribly annoying, only because the same characters will change, a lot. To say nothing of how funny and moving it just is.

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Music Shit / Re: What record SOLD YOU/corrupted you?

« on: September 16, 2015, 01:51:49 PM »

I lost my virginity to the Effigies.  "Security."  She got mad when I imagined her head as a taxidermied moose trophy and lost my mind in laughter.  She was 23, twice divorced, two kids.  I was sixteen.  Had raspberry brandy bleeding down the front of my tee.  Great night.

Combing through my old submissions to see how embarrassing they are and kept reading.... This here might be my favorite post on tb. IANMF: the Keats of our time.

A toast to this boast.

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Music Shit / Beth from TNV interview

« on: September 16, 2015, 12:12:47 AM »

http://www.yellowgreenred.com

Good read if you're a fan.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Harry Dean Stanton

« on: September 15, 2015, 11:13:10 PM »

^ this guy is really good with links.

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Music Shit / Re: Jerry from Devo has 9/11-themed wedding

« on: September 15, 2015, 11:09:38 PM »

Maybe she's in love with the idea of him.

You really don't need a reason to have a 9/11 themed wedding. It's a free country, which frees you to be judgmental and presumptuous about another man's joy.

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Music Shit / Re: Jerry from Devo has 9/11-themed wedding

« on: September 15, 2015, 01:21:47 AM »

Fuck Jerry

Fuck 9/11, they're in love.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: September 14, 2015, 10:24:09 AM »

Hounds of Love is great.

I am partial to the VU, unsurprisingly, but I don't think everything put out under their name is gold.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: List the 3 Worst Places You Have Been To

« on: September 14, 2015, 10:18:14 AM »

I wanna hear about Bakersfield, CA and Bridgeport, CT. Heard about them but never been.

In lieu of TermBo login/ID "Futon" who actually lives there, I'll offer an interim answer which is to say that Bakersfield is not without it's charms, so I always stick up for it when any of my fellow Sacramentans bag on it. Sacramentans sometimes like to bag on Stockton, Modesto, Fresno, and Bakersfield because they can't say enough nice things about our own city. But these are probably also the kinda Sacramentans who are as guilty of under-rating Sacramento as anyone who's never truly been there and formed an idea about while driving their Land Rover from the Bay Area to Squaw Valley's ski slopes on I-80 which takes you on a tour of some of our worst neighborhoods.

Anyway...Those charms of Bako are music (if you can at least appreciate country & western music), lots of roadside Americana still intact, a surprisingly clean downtown with a few actually decent attractions (stay at the Padre Hotel!), and primo Basque family-style dining (or what we call "Basque food" in the USA). It also has some of the best city-block-sized antique stores I've ever seen. It would seem that as the petroleum industry shrinks in Bako, the selling-grandma-and-grandpa's-old-stuff is now the 2nd biggest sector of the economy. Sure...Bako has its blight, too. By my eyeball test (and sore throat in the morning when I wake up there), it has the worst air quality in the Central Valley. On hot summer days, to compare Bako's sky to that of Silent Hill is not that much of an exaggeration. It's soupy and gray without any clouds. There are some charming older neighborhoods near downtown and some nice snob hill-type parts, but as the city's population exploded in the 90s, everything new was a stucco McMansion.

Stretches of the old US Route 99 through Oildale in the north and S. Union in the south show you a lot of pain and suffering by folks who are down and out or one step away from it. But it doesn't seem nearly as down and out or desperate as Fresno. That petro industry has been in decline and susceptible to downturns when oil prices plummet like they've been doing lately, but as a "life's blood" of a local economy, it's a lot more lively than picking grapes and hauling scrap metal in shopping carts, as in Fresno.

Bakersfield is actually a fascinating place to visit except in the heat of summer.

That does sound worthy of sticking up for. The person who once told me "Bakersfield is Cali's answer to Flint, Michigan" made it sound like a meth zombie's Elysium. She was also quite coddled and from Marina Del Rey. I dunno how you can live in California and have much ill to speak of, personally.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: September 13, 2015, 10:09:24 PM »

Their capacity to indulge themselves here is daunting, staggering and every note is sublime. They make sounds on this record not found on any other VU release. If not for the sheer length of it being noteworthy, do you think one could undistract themselves from that spectacle long enough to appreciate the incredible dimensions of the VU, captured most comprehensively here, and never staying still? It is much better than the Funhouse demos, though I like those too. Sweet Sister Ray is the Molloy of Velvets' records. To listen to their musical thought process so sprawled out is a treat. Though they weren't above exhaustion, this is a singularly great record that doesn't rest on any laurels, or come dead-on-arrival with preconceptions met. They don't even sound like a band on it, and this was long before Twin Infinitives. The only caveat is that it's mostly ambient and saves all it's aggression for the end, which is also part of why it feels strangely both curated and unrehearsed. It's a statement of a record.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: September 13, 2015, 09:03:02 PM »

VU, Sweet Sister Ray 2xLP.  The boot from a couple-few years ago.  Mostly unnecessary with some brilliant flashes.  Still waiting for the bootleg of them doing "Happy Birthday," "Auld Lang Syne," "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," "Hava Nagila" and "Louie, Louie."  I will sell this to you for less than anyone else will.  Same with the similarly unnecessary La Monte Young thing that came out around the same time.  C'mon, admit this shit is stupid.  Or admit you're stupid.  I'm fine either way.

Best VU record and one of the best shows ever recorded. What could be better than four sides of their best song? Can you imagine how cool it was for them to be doing this live? If you don't like this, you must hate freedom or have a cognitive dissonance regarding. I will admit to being nearly always stoned when listening to this, but that's as much admission as you'll get.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: List the 3 Worst Places You Have Been To

« on: September 13, 2015, 05:07:26 PM »

Pomfret's nice, and some other place that begins with a P... Incessantly pastoral hinterlands to whet your city blues, bed n breakfasts where you can't avoid the innkeeper at breakfast or smoke in your room. Wouldn't wanna live there either. This isn't Settlers of Catan, though, was my original point I think.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: September 13, 2015, 04:43:59 PM »

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: September 13, 2015, 04:42:56 PM »

Let's hear it for brunch rock, they won a hard-fought campaign through shrewd business practices and futurist viral marketing against the dinosaur Clear Channel, victory evinced by Arcade Fire's Grammy and the existence of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, to say nothing of CC's retreat into rebranding. They've made the world a sunnier, more inviting place for your iPhone, so keep groovin', freedom to record Yo La Tengo's set is now yours. Madison Square Garden will now be sheltering the homeless. Vinyl is now at your local fresh supermarket. Even the Vatican is taking heed: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/pope-vatican-shelter-families-fleeing-war-hunger-33568171

Enjoy the Bloody Mary, you earned it (I'm speaking strictly to Brunch Rock, Term Boarders have earned something much more special, a place in the heart).

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: September 13, 2015, 04:28:03 PM »

Listening to the Capital Punishment LP right now.  Find it hard to believe anyone would fling a ripe fuck at this if Ben Stiller wasn't involved.  OK, fine.  Reissue this in every way possible.  CD, expanded LP, mp3s, certainly a cassette, maybe an 8-track with numbered labels, throw a fucking USB stick in there, maybe shove fragments of the original rec in a homeless man's mouth and ask him to gargle the contents around Williamsburg.  Make sure there are billboards and skywriting involved, too.  Tattoo it across an infant's face.  Shave it onto a dog's back and whip its raw ass, send it running through McCarren, Prospect and Central Parks.  Blog it.  Blog it hard.  Are we done with this shit yet?  Can everything just collapse already?  At least Superior Viaduct had the good sense to go after Mingus.  Diet dilettante authenticity by way of reissues is fucking done, OK?  It's through.  No one cares.  The real spectators have left the building.  The dickheads are holding the supports, and there's an earthquake coming.  The earthquake will be quiet and uneventful.  It'll be like the housing collapse of some years previous, except there will be no press, because vinylz will be un-back.  The tide will have gone out without having ever really ebbed or flowed.  No more Wall Street prospectors throwing ham & eggers 'fore Record Store Day.  You will be moving back in with Ma, and she doesn't know how to spell ramen until your pappy gets home with the belt and one-quarter of his paycheck for your tithead label.

Well I dunno 'bout any of that buddy, but one thing's for sure, you are NOT Marty Feldman.