a tale of two parties

[amw]

This weekend was 端午節 Duanwu, aka Dragon Boat Festival. That's one of those rebrandings that feels a bit out of left field because when most people in Taiwan think about Duanwu they don't think about canoes, they think about zongzi (aka "Chinese tamale" aka rice pyramid filled with stuff wrapped in a banana leaf

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[amw]

I think music taste gets more specific the closer you get to the stuff you actually like. For instance, if i am listening to some country music, and it's terrible, then it's like oh well, it's just country music, of course it's terrible. But if it's at least approaching a genre that i like, then i get annoyed that the artist didn't make this choice or that choice that would've made the song a million times better. Perhaps this is just part of listening to music as a musician, you deconstruct it too much? I do think that in some ways the more i learned about making music (and subsequently DJing it), it took a level of enjoyment away from hearing stuff that perhaps once might have seemed more novel or exciting.

But music nerdery aside, the whole point to go to parties or clubs for me is to listen and dance to the music. So if the music isn't something that i want to listen or dance to, it defeats the whole point of going in the first place. I think that's what makes it so disappointing, like going to a nice restaurant and then they serve shit food. It's might still become an experience and a fun story to tell, but that didn't make the food iself suck any less.