america

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Again, sorry to say it, but I am virtually deaf/disinterested in music, in my current intensity. When I finally come around to it, I know I'll have a field day/week/month here.

Where I left off, I had been: only recently shaken out of a sort of default low appreciation of classic rock; largely dismissive of rap and hip hop more broadly because my only primary exposure to the music was though preppy milieus; obsessively struggling with racial role/identity; was starting to get into Steve Reich.

But when I come back to it, I suspect I'll approach it as an aggregate of bubbles, each bubble being some genre/category, which is liable either to spawn bubbles inside it or not, or schiz out and split into a varied clone of itself. Thus the bubbles will proliferate, develop dialogues, and amount into ever more complex relations with one another networks.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Yeah he's talking about where I live. Haven't spent much time specifically in Reseda though. My one drunk driving experience was there, though gladly it was a very short and benign one.

Ventura Boulevard is the nearest hotspot.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Most of my friends from preK-8th when to Notre Dame high school, which is just across from the mall in which much of that seems to have been shot. Looks a bit different, but it might just have been all the time thats passed.
 

Murphy

cat malogen
Strange nation, but in many ways the American has been increasingly demonised.

Been over at various times - in a ltr with a *Lily from Philly, then years later worked for a relative who ran a food gaff popular at state fairs and the like for (too) long. Most people served up were open and fun, the odd cock drunk, but a more loose psychology than this side of the pond overall, i think. Had an absolute hoot though, but no health insurance meant staying was unsustainable. The side gigs were the best education. Yard work, pool installation (), roofing, bars and pvt dinner waiting, pet sitting, painting and decorating etc. Before Graigslist, so a constant hustle.

The accent was a solid pulling weapon. Definitely a more north European drinking culture. Drink driving seemed a cultural blind eye spot. Only time i saw any police purposefully stop anyone for that was nr midnight on 4th July. Philly on New Year's Day was brutal too, liver trying to revolt levels of drunk, followed by a ruck for laughing at the Mummer costumes. Weird fixation about parking cars in the same direction.

I miss the 'butter' days (3 shower humidity melters), live sports and football days at friends, outdoor swimming pools (only a Brit would cite this), baseball pitching machines, certain beers, good pizza, playing cards under the stars listening to cicadas and fireflies going off. Didn't meet the Glanton Gang, thank fuck.

*Anything but a flower, but a Zanzibar veteran and taught me loads about the Dead as a live group.
 

catalog

Well-known member
Why don't you listen to any music Stan? Is there a reason? What was the last music you listened to and do you love any music?
 
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