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There's also the whole saga of Paula Cole not wanting it as the music for DC on Netflix then changing her mind and so on and so forth

healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link

but we want to know right now Paula

Number None, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link

where have all the fuckin' cowboys gone

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link

lol

and i loved it too, table!

just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link

Table, you have webmail! (How does one know if one has received webmail?)

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 29 October 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link

I got it, Chinaski, but unless you also have webmail, there's no way for me to respond to you! So send yr email if ya like!

healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 29 October 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link

I thought I did! I'm turning into my dad.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 29 October 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link

Welcome to the club.

One of us, one of us.

Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 October 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link

the tear in the anal fissure that is Trump's GOP is widening, soon there will be two distinct assholes

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, November 6, 2020 12:19 PM

This was uncomfortably easy to visualize.

scampo-phenique (WmC), Friday, 6 November 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

every 5 months or so i have a complete meltdown and then speculate about how impossible it is to be a working artist these days, more than ever. because yeah, there are a thousand mozarts running around now, for real, at this moment. and in order for it to make sense for them, financially, they have to compete globally. there are still local scenes and it's possible to make things and sell them locally and to friends and family. but for the most part, you're competing against the internet. part of the promise of the internet was that it would open up the audience, that you'd be able to find some dude across the world, or he would find you, and that wasn't possible until now, etc etc. and that's technically true. but they forgot to throw in the co-efficient of 0.0000001. 0.0000001% of dudes across the world will find you, maybe more like 0.000000001 if we're being real. and you have to be in the top 0.000000001% if you want to make more than $15 off your youtube streams (paintings, sick beats, choreography, whatever). eh, whatever. i'm sure this will be interpreted as a eugenics argument, and/or the point will be made that no artist has ever been successful, there is a long history of artists working for absolutely nothing and hoping that they can break into the 0.000001% of the world that has enough money and cares enough about art to give it to the people who make it and that the internet has actually made things better.

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2020 18:04 (yesterday) link

but imagine living in a cave with 200 of your smelly friends, and you are the drummer. or the painter. or the choreographer. there isn't some genius in another time zone who has mastered everything you haven't even learned about yet. it's just you, and since no one else can provide the sick post (pre?) apocalypse beats, the one rich guy in the cave who has access to velvet blankets decides to swaddle you up in one, and encourages you to make more sick beats. because in this cave, there is no internet

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2020 18:07 (yesterday) link

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 December 2020 08:12 (three years ago) link

damn, that speaks to me

Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 December 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link

Same. Which thread is it from?

pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link

Thx.

pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Four years ago, and I haven't seen dylannn in a long time, but dammit:

GEORGIA MAX COFFEE / MY RATING: *

i drank this in the basement of a sort of mall below ueno station, down ameyoko. the only time i go to drink coffee, it's usually at ameyoko, one of the coffee shops across from the station that i guess you could call kissaten but maybe they're cafes or just coffee shops-- i feel like the difference was explained to me once and i believe it had something to do with smoking? but like lots of the finer points of DEEP JAPANESE CULTURE, i might have missed the point or it might be bullshit, or maybe the difference had something to do with food being served, but again, i think i've smoked and eaten food in coffee shops and cafes and kissaten, but anyways. if you've never been to ueno and the ameyoko side... ueno station, all around it, it's kind of a commuter hub and sort of the first taste you get of the old city, the low city, or the last taste if, like me, you commute into the city, pop up at ginza or kasumigaseki or somewhere. there's the museums, the park, and if you wander away from the station, you're in the REAL TOKYO, DEEP JAPANESE CULTURE part of town, you could wander to nippori, yanesen, asakusa, iriya, and you could wander even further to less gentrified shitamachi neighborhoods, hour or so walk and you could be across the river to mukojima, right under the skytree, or you could get up to sanya and minowa. ameyoko is kind of a tourist trap now, i guess, and i love DEEP JAPANESE CULTURE shotengai like (near enough to ueno) joyful minowa, jujo ginza shotengai, irohakai shotengai at sanya, but they're dead zones, even the most vital shotengai run to 40-50% abandoned unless there's some anchor property like a shopping mall or a 100 yen store and those places always feel like the most lively. so, whatever ameyoko, it's going to be full of tourists, especially on a sunny day in june but on a cold morning in late october, it's pretty dead. but anyways, i'll go there in the morning, when i'm on my way into the city because the only coffee option near where i work are places with french names on gaienhigashi dori or starbucks. the coffee places in ameyoko, very old fashioned, i guess, in that they're like most of tokyo trapped in like 1986? no espresso but you can get pourover, actually, and i usually just get iced coffee and i actually drink it with syrup and milk, so i should be more into GEORGIA MAX COFFEE but i'm not. ameyoko is lively, ugly. even it's a sunday today, it's noisy and the train runs right through it and you see it reflected in the dark glass four storeys up a hostess club or some shithole irish pub and then it disappears in yellow stucco and grey tile and appears again on more black glass across the upper floors of a pachinko place. in a city that's pretty sedate and homogeneous, ameyoko is a nice break sometimes. i just flew back to japan yesterday and i was in hong kong and across the border in shenzhen and both cities have a certain energy, a certain, you know, they're brash and bright? and hong kong, even in the meaner quarters of the city feels more modern than tokyo does-- in the sense of like, "this is what cities will all look like in a few decades." i always have a crisis coming back to tokyo after going to especially hong kong. i know the problems hong kong has but taking the morningliner from narita to ueno yesterday-- actually, right when you land at the airport, you get this feeling of, like, landing at, i dunno, somewhere that's transitioning from a command economy and stalinist bureaucracy to limited capitalism, all the grey and the dated signage and the weird appeals to appreciate japanese culture (there was this big bank of gashapon with the slogan in large: WHY JAPANESE PEOPLE LIKE THIS! and then a smaller explanatory note: DEEP JAPANESE CULTURE, which is where i got that phrase i've been repeating to myself for the last day), and it just feels like entering a museum, tokyo does, coming in on the train and it's... you've come in from narita before, it's not the most scenic trip, especially after you've done it a dozen times. like a museum to japanese culture, which feels weird, coming from hong kong, which is multicultural and multiethnic and multilingual. girls in hong kong wear shorter skirts than girls in tokyo. or even loud, grimy shenzhen, feels more lively and liveable than tokyo, i think. or more like a place that you could call home. i mostly work with people with east asia and southeast asia who came to tokyo mostly for the opportunities. but i wonder about what appeals to japan for mostly white westerners that come here, all the tourists you see in ameyoko with, like, anime shit on their messenger bags. i think the weird purity of DEEP JAPANESE CULTURE or its imagined purity, if that makes sense, has to be part of the appeal. like, there's that thing about the hopes and dreams visa, japanophiles in their 20s that dream of coming to japan, i never got that at all but i don't want to be too judgemental BUT japanese culture and tokyo itself feels so conservative to me. i mean, i live here and i probably will live here for a while so what am i complaining about but whatever, it comes into focus after visiting a vibrant, politically active, multicultural but still wealthy and sorta democratic city not so far away. but i do appreciate it sometimes, those coffee shops at ueno, where i actually feel sorta unwelcome and everyone else at the bar beside me is at least 50+ years old, it's nice but conservative and museumlike. so, the ueno ameyoko basement is kind of a hopeful place, where you have all these people that have come to tokyo from other countries kind of showing themselves in a way that they don't usually in everyday life, chatting in tagalog, buying groceries, and upstairs, across the road, where i went to get a breakfast of liang'pi, i shared a table with hunanese girls walked over from yushima just off work maybe and eating suanla fen. there's that poem that they have on a piece of iron in front of ueno station: i slip into the crowd at the train station / just to hear the familiar dialect / of my faraway hometown. ameyoko is where the city feels least insular, most international, least grey. anyways, i ate my breakfast and went down to shop, bought a pack of rough ground pork to make lurou fan like i ate the last day i was in shenzhen. there's a spot at the end, under the stairs, where people eat their lunches and there's a few benches and ash trays and an antique empty coke machine and a coffee machine and a cigarette machine. i bought a georgia max coffee and enjoyed it while smoking a cigarette. it tasted the same as every other canned coffee.

― dylannn, Sunday, 30 October 2016 6:12 PM (four years ago)

assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 27 December 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link

that is fucking magisterial

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 27 December 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link

That's a great post, it cuts esp. hard because I spent a hard decade or two slanging biz in that neighborhood and trying to gtfo that side of town as soon as I could "clock out".

There is one of the best no-nonsense curry rice shops pretty much right under the JR station that I do miss though, also the open-air markets were always worth a perusal on the way to the station.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 27 December 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link

I stayed in Ueno for a week one time, it's my favourite part of Tokyo. I was gutted when I learned they had cleared out the janky amusement rides from Ueno Park in preparation for the Olympics. Anyway, dylannn, if you're out there I hope you are doing well and if you have any major writing projects I would love to buy / read / follow them.

assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 27 December 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link

Yeah, excellent post.

"Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 28 December 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link

I saw EB & NB in the summer of '89. My excuse is that they were on a bill with Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, and Cowboy Junkies. CJ went on first, and were shockingly effective in a 40,000-capacity outdoor shed, even if they didn't stray from the recorded arrangements at all. Brickell et al were interminable. For some reason, I had no idea they were a "jam" band, having only heard two songs on the radio. Imagine the auto-wah solo in "What I Am" drawn out for an hour, with absolutely no variation in phrasing, tone, or dynamics. It was like listening to an adult on a Peanuts cartoon for a solid hour, but it wasn't funny.

(Lou had broken his ankle a day or so prior to the show, and was replaced by Violent Femmes. EC's set was disappointingly rote.)

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, April 30, 2018 12:01 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link

striking sonic "imagery"

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link

PROMOTER: "hey guys. Lou broke his leg and won't be able to make it tonight."
NB GUITARIST: *wahmp - wahhh*

pplains, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link

dylannn is a really gifted writer

treeship., Tuesday, 5 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link

xps

treeship., Tuesday, 5 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

I've been working deliveries part-time during lockdown (in lieu of being able to do my actual job) and occasionally I have to go to this farmhouse that belongs to this old lady and her dog, which is some sort of 'Poo' variant, and it creeps around the hedges then springs out and has this truly terrible bark, I've never heard anything like it, a sort of torn, screeching, penetrating knife in the head in all the wrong frequencies, it's like some Aphex Twin video dog, I have to plug my ears when I deliver there now.

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 10:29 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link

voting that dog in next year's metal poll

imago, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link

"torn" is a particularly nice touch

Lily Dale, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link

When Word is all chummily colloquial like "your margins are pretty small there buddy" I just want to give it a fierce backhand and scream HOW DARE YOU BE SO FAMILIAR like a stern Victorian patriarch

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 15:52 (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

I've lived scenes like Diane's at that party: being alert to humiliations from people once in your life, being seated beside weary sour old ladies while a beat box pitter-patters in the background.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, April 17, 2021 4:21 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link

One of my favorites was out in the woods (the Big South Fork National Park), where we had this camp set up in a big overhang about 2/3 of the way up the side of the mountain, and we were playing this game where we would throw a glowstick* as far out into the dark-as-fuck night sky and watch it plink-plonk down through the tree branches until it landed WAY down at the bottom of the mountain. Then we all took off running down the mountain after it, which was hella exhilarating and fun. And whoever got to the glowstick first got to be the next to throw it. After a good solid while playing this game, I finally got to it first, brought it back up the mountain to the campsite, pulled back, chucked the fucker into the air...and it got stuck in a tree.

Every once in awhile, sitting around the fire later that night, someone would look into the sky and see it and mention it and we'd have this big reminiscing session like it was a fond "back-in-the-day" memory, and it became inexplicably funnier each time. Yowzah!

(*glowsticks have proven themselves indespensible tr1p-toys)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:52 PM

pplains, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link

Oh, I should mention that's from your acid stories . I sure do miss nickalicious.

pplains, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 02:14 (three years ago) link

2003, when you had to provide a footnote to explain that glowsticks are cool when you’re on acid?

Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 03:49 (three years ago) link

The oppressive blandness of that property would make being there at, say, dusk on a gloomy winter day feel unbearably suffocating. Imagine! It has all the sensibilities of a corporate office property (including the uninviting purgatory of a lawn that nobody will venture onto except to periodically mow; a stagnant arbitrarily framed backdrop for one to watch snow slowly accumulate and then melt over endless monotonous days and for nothing else) that was furnished in 2002 mixed with a dentist office waiting room in an middle class suburb (likely even complete with the echoes of never-ending HGTV episodes that follow such a strict template you would swear that a computer is merely randomizing the humanoids each time in an otherwise repeated artificial simulation). That's the general vibe I get from it.

― Evan, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 6:29 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link

xps that glowstick game sounds hella fun

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link

Ha, remember when I re-posted that?

pplains, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link

four months pass...

a friend has a story about being stuck in a car on a narrow country road during the foot & mouth outbreak in Jan 2001 while a forklift moved a pile of dead cows onto a huge bonfire in front of them, and the only CD they had to listen to was the Hanson Christmas album, that probably left a mental imprint

― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:41 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link

wow

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 September 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link

Holy fuck

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 2 September 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link

mmmmmooo bop

kinder, Thursday, 2 September 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link

what a tale

he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link

p sure that scene was in The Road: Director's Cut

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 2 September 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I like "Kiss Me" because it's bittersweet and nostalgic because it reminds me of 'She's All That' which reminds of Rachel Leigh Cook which reminds me of this girl I was friends with around the time of 'She's All That' who looked alot like Rachel Leigh Cook but then she moved away and after she moved I thoughy 'I wanted to fuck her but I never got the chance' so when I hear "Kiss Me" at Publix (which is like every time I'm there, they've got "Kiss Me" and Air's "All I Need" on a loop or something) I'll sigh. Her name was Kerry.
― James Blount, Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:44 AM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

the one time I got an MRI I made the mistake of asking for the radio to be on, and it was when Adele was big. I'll never forget being trapped motionless in a tube listening to "Never mind I'll fiiiiind, someone like youuuuuuuuuu BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM foooooor youuuuuuuuuuu BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM"

― Lily Dale, Thursday, October 14, 2021 10:08 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 October 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link

That reminds me very deeply of the radio being on when I was undergoing radiation therapy, usually on some classic rock and soul radio station, and I have a deep memory of singing along to "Black Water" by the Doobies while this crazy machine shot radioactive lasers at my crotch.

I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 15 October 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

My dad drank a glass of milk with dinner every night until he died. Didn’t matter what was being eaten - steak/milk, catfish/milk, chicken fried rice/milk, taco night/milk. Awful.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, November 4, 2021 6:10 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 4 November 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link

jon, they'd have to be drinking more than a gallon a day PER PERSON, some of whom are small children. That's not remotely normal.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, November 4, 2021 1:25 PM

just staying (Karl Malone), Thursday, 4 November 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link

drinking milk on its own is weird. on cereal, in tea or coffee, fine. in a glass? weird and wrong.

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link

i drank a glass of milk with dinner until i left home ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 November 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link

i drank the same glass of milk for 20 years

the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 November 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link

i love milk but i fall down on the side of thinking that drinking a lot of it is weird and probably unhealthy and if i'm going honest a little trashy. could be the influence of california idk.

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 4 November 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link


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