Your pointless thoughts & observations

I heard that word both spoken and sung long before I ever saw it written, so it's etched in my brain as "arang-uh-tang" since that is the most common pronunctiation I've heard.

  On 1/29/2018 at 10:12 AM, hello spiral said:

Have you heard of Martha & the Muffins? Check'em out u might likey

Thanks for the recommendation - just checked out the song "echo beach," and I like it very much.  The foxy keyboardist doesn't hurt either.     

  On 1/29/2018 at 10:12 AM, hello spiral said:

Have you heard of Martha & the Muffins? Check'em out u might likey

 black stations white stations 

would you get a tattoo of a rolex if i gave you a rolex to put over it?

Not sure, but I'd consider amputating my arm and then putting a tattoo of an arm where my arm used to be.  And then maybe a rolex tattoo on that.

  On 1/28/2018 at 11:07 PM, marf said:

yeah, I don't get that bolt of lightning excitment feeling when I discover great music, anymore. Not like in my early 20's

I attributed it to the identity crisis of my 30s. Seeing this on a hardcore musical board makes me feel much better now. Thanks watmm. When I'm going to be rich I will sponsor 70 bucks every month for its maintenance, even throw in a bit extra.

I still have Discogs bookmarked on the third spot though, as a reminder of the gold-rush past.

I find I'm not getting super autistically deep into one band/artist at a time like I used to in my early 20s. instead I hop from one to the next a lot more quickly and only repeat-listen to stuff if I'm really into it. I find it harder to focus on stuff that I don't feel an immediate engagement or at least lingering curiosity about, which makes me worry sometimes that my listening ability is getting shallower. or maybe I'm just getting less patient, idk.

I think it has to do with listening to so much music that you’ve heard a lot of things like the new band you’re hearing. Even the bands you got obsessed with years ago weren’t necessarily unique, they just sounded fresh to your less experienced ears and got tattooed on your brain more easily.

Yeah, absolutely.  It's really interesting catching up on older music I'm unfamiliar with, and hearing aspects that clearly had a major influence on bands I was into early on.  

I'm a talentless numale who thinks that making electronic bleep bloops will make him happy for some reason.

Also, making electronic music is kind of fucked right? Our society has chosen to harvest and generate these vast quantities of living energy, electricity, the stuff our consciousness theoretically runs on, in big hubs, chanelling it out to most homes and businesses, for heat, lighting, food, water. And we use it to force little membranes to vibrate at the frequencies of our choosing. Like we have these little orchestras chained up in boxes and we order them to play some of the most ungodly shit imaginable over and over and over...

Yeah.

^ funny, me and the gf and my brother were talking about that exact thing on the weekend. It's pretty strange alright.

  On 1/30/2018 at 7:02 PM, Candiru said:

I think it has to do with listening to so much music that you’ve heard a lot of things like the new band you’re hearing. Even the bands you got obsessed with years ago weren’t necessarily unique, they just sounded fresh to your less experienced ears and got tattooed on your brain more easily.

yeah, that's probably partly it. although my music obsession only started properly after a long period of not listening to music at all (religious reasons - I think I mentioned this elsewhere ages ago) and then discovering Autechre and being drawn into that completely because it was so different and curious. so that is an exception to the point you're making because I found them completely unique. unique enough to draw me back into music and make me super autistically obsessed with the subforum artists for years.

There seems to be a very sharp age cutoff in watch ownership, at least in people around me. I am 29 and have always worn a watch. About two thirds of people I know the same age or older also have watches. But I don't know a single person more than a year below me in age with a watch. They all use their phones like some kind of Victorian timepiece.

I'm wearing a watch, 28 . ;o

If an entry-level job wants more than 2 years of experience right off the bat, then it's not really entry-level is it?

  On 1/31/2018 at 2:23 PM, MIXL2 said:

we will all die

  On 1/31/2018 at 2:41 PM, Tricone RC said:

There seems to be a very sharp age cutoff in watch ownership, at least in people around me. I am 29 and have always worn a watch. About two thirds of people I know the same age or older also have watches. But I don't know a single person more than a year below me in age with a watch. They all use their phones like some kind of Victorian timepiece.

I hate having things around my wrists so I swore off watches around 2002.

  On 1/31/2018 at 7:02 PM, MIXL2 said:

 

  On 1/31/2018 at 2:23 PM, MIXL2 said:

we will all die

 

I too have observed this.

  On 1/31/2018 at 12:38 AM, usagi said:

 

my music obsession only started properly after a long period of not listening to music at all (religious reasons...

I'm curious what those religious reasons were.  Though if that's too personal, no need to get into it.  I have a friend who was only permitted to listen to "secular music" once he turned 15.  His first purchase was David Bowie and something else I don't recall.

my musical idm autism has also waned in the past year, think it's something i'll just have to actively work through regaining 

has anyone written IDM the musical?

And if they have, is it titled Intelligent Dance Musical?

^ more into metal than anything else the last two years

  On 1/31/2018 at 12:20 AM, drukqs said:

Also, making electronic music is kind of fucked right? Our society has chosen to harvest and generate these vast quantities of living energy, electricity, the stuff our consciousness theoretically runs on, in big hubs, chanelling it out to most homes and businesses, for heat, lighting, food, water. And we use it to force little membranes to vibrate at the frequencies of our choosing. Like we have these little orchestras chained up in boxes and we order them to play some of the most ungodly shit imaginable over and over and over...

 

Yeah.

It's not unexpected.  Regardless of the species and regardless of the types of sensory organs this species has, any sufficiently intelligent culture will eventually develop art consisting of modulations of the medium used to stimulate that sense.  If there was a species whose primary method of sensation was touch and they advanced into a human level society, no doubt they would have advanced massage techniques and rituals, which could be abstractly called songs, meant for the stimulation of their touch sensitivity

And since humans are the first species that evolved on Earth with language as complex as ours, sound is a serious and important sense for us.  Music probably stimulates in a similar way to abstract hunting calls and the subtle walking sounds of animals we hunted, which developed into early musical rituals for stimulating that same mechanism

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all music is electronic. unless you live in the 1800's and own fiddle. Music (my little theory) is the mind finding logical closure to a problem, tension release. The familiar pattern of a drum beat cycling. Humans recognize patterns and need to make sense of them.

  On 2/1/2018 at 5:59 AM, marf said:

all music is electronic. unless you live in the 1800's and own fiddle. Music (my little theory) is the mind finding logical closure to a problem, tension release. The familiar pattern of a drum beat cycling. Humans recognize patterns and need to make sense of them.