Lemuria - Yesterday's Lunch. I've been having a lot of music and the meaning of community thoughts lately, if we're doing the whole "Weekly Music Thread becomes pseudo-Pubski" thing today.
This is Tim. Tim is a friend of mine, and one of the people (my old roommate being the other) who really got my into music and local music in particular. One of the nicest, most genuine people you will every meet. He has Stage 3 cancer, which sucks, right? Everybody came together. Bands who started local and now tour internationally (Joywave), nationally (Maybird and Mikaela Davis) and all the other locals...700 person venue, sold out. All for one man. Look at this lineup. http://imgur.com/a/LvGOS bfx where the fuck are you going with this? Yeah, good question. That is a community, that is music and people where everything is about people, not politics, not anything else. That's how it's always felt back there and in Boston for that matter, and other places in the Northeast (granted, I haven't spent much time in, say, Philly or NYC). The songs we write and the places we go are centered around stories and they're centered around people, and sometimes a bad thing happens to a good person and you do what you can to help out. It does not feel that way in the northwest to me, (and here's the part where kb comes and smacks me down for doing this for the fifteenth time since moving out here). Maybe I haven't discovered it yet, and there are benefit shows for things like Standing Rock, Shout Your Abortion, etc...but everything is so politicized out here. Going to pull up a recent Odder comment and focus on the political correctness and "teaching moments". That bleeds over so much into the music here, where everything seems like it has to be a statement and to quote another person from Seattle "everything turns into a crew and posturing". That's not a community, that's self-serving, and I just can't see anything like Roc4Tim happening out here. A community is about the people in it and being able to come together, not about your personal politics. /rant
Got called a failure by some family recently, so this is on my mind. ------ I am in the middle of recording a whole mess of covers, including all the following: ^This was the first record I ever bought. ----- Christmas tunes (fun fact, one of my favorite bands used a bit of this song in one of their earlier, less good songs, directly below)
Didn't fail at any discrete thing, my dad just went off on me the other night and repeatedly let me know that he considers me a failure right now, especially re: deciding to move twice in one year, investing time in non-masculine hobbies/skillsets (sewing etc), telling my parents that it is almost definite that I am never going to be giving them grandkids. After reminding my dad that he was my age over FORTY FUCKING YEARS ago, that he changed cities three times when he was 22, and was working minimum wage jobs for a few years after college, he settled down a bit. It just made me feel a bit shitty. (sorry for making this a mini-pubski, bfv :/)
Does he know how good you are at it? Not meddling in your family politics, but perhaps the fact that you're talented might make a difference. It's difficult to pursue creative endeavors, but being good at them helps a lot. Everyone thinks art related pursuits are a waste of time until you succeed at it. Then they will act as if it's the most natural thing ever. Seen it many times.
First, thanks for having faith in me, I really do appreciate it. He admitted that he gave up trying to understand what I do, musically or in any other regard, a few years ago. We have such radically different interests, artistic experiences, and tastes that there is virtually no common ground between a.) the things I make and b.) things he understands/likes. I think it was easier for him to be supportive when I was making things he enjoyed listening to. (potentially enjoyable sidenote: I'm making everyone in my family christmas gifts this year. My brother is getting one of these, my sister gets one of these, my mom one of these. Due to the fact that he wouldn't know a good garment if it strangled him, my dad is getting the most boring navy blue tie I can muster.)
I want the maroon sweater but with a Hubski logo as the patch.
That sucks. Something I never thought about until now was how lucky I was to have a Dad that was happy that I knew how to sew, cook, clean, etc. And in the spirit of the post, here is Feist on Sesame Street. Everytime I change computers my iTunes gets screwed up (songs and album art disappear, etc) and I found out last night all of my Feist except this song was missing. And I also started listening to the only 2 Xmas albums I ever play:
I forgot to add. One of my memories of the last song (which was actually written by Aphex Twin according to the liner notes) was from junior year of high school. We were taking a field trip to DC, but we had to be there super early...IIRC we had to be at school at 6am. So I'm driving myself to school, it's like 5:30 in the morning, still dark, and this song is playing on my car stereo. People who need drugs to trip the fuck out just lack imagination.
Dylan LeBlanc - Cautionary Tale King Woman- Burn And I suppose it's time to break out the Christmas music, so: The Kinks- Father Christmas "Weird Al" Yankovic - Christmas At Ground Zero Joe Alessi- O Christmas Tree (there's nothing like some good trombone music, it's clearly the best instrument ever created!)
Found an awesome music channel on Youtube this morning. Mahogany Sessions. Tons of really good artists from various styles, and only a few I've heard of. It feels like I hit a treasure trove or something. Here's a few artists that stand out to me . . . Gary Clark Jr. Tom Figgins Fil Bo Riva Foy Vance Seasick Steve That's just a handful of stuff I like/found, they have tons more and a lot of variety. So stoked to have found it.
Whenever I'd watch Jools Holland Seasick was on a bunch of the time. Seems like a great live performer. (Potato video warning)