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laying in bed reading my text on music copyright and licensing, listening to "talkin shit about a pretty sunset" quietly in the background, i had a strong flashback to 4 or 5 years ago when i was just getting into music that wasn't readily accessible by listening to radio and watching mtv. yeah i got a late start. yeah i was still really into goldfinger when i was 15. anyway, here i was at the gateway to all the music i've fallen in love with since then, and all the people i've met, the trends and friends i've gone through, and the people i still have with me today. few are the same, but i'm not sad about it and it's not why i'm writing.
i remember following the box social from the suburbs into milwaukee. discovering bands like doom buggy, the response, el oso, learning about what a basement show was. going to one of the early RMF's and not understanding ANY of it. not having strong convictions, but not wanting to drink. rock shows at shorewood (if you can believe it)! all ages shows at mad planet! THE GLOBE, even. visiting atomic records, the yellow jacket, and brady street and having them be this novel, exciting thing!
i guess i'm really into remembering this specific period and position in my life. trying to make sense of this new way of understanding music, of understanding people, taking note of a certain north shore hipster's (who shall remain nameless here) record collection, and immediately thereafter downloading modest mouse and q & not u on kazaa. slowly changing from a clueless kid with goldfinger and other warped tour circa 2001 patches on my backpack into something else, growing into and out of certain pretensions.
this might have exacerbated the insecurities i held at that point (age 15)... being thrust into this new, hip thing immediately made me want to be thinner, more attractive, more stylish. it's amazing how it wasn't the mainstream media that i had been unquestioningly absorbed in up to that point that did that, but rather, its alternative. i wonder what kind of person i would've become if i would've been able to make a couple of those changes in any real way.
anyway, just looking back on the past in a brief moment of clarity.
take care, all of you.
i remember following the box social from the suburbs into milwaukee. discovering bands like doom buggy, the response, el oso, learning about what a basement show was. going to one of the early RMF's and not understanding ANY of it. not having strong convictions, but not wanting to drink. rock shows at shorewood (if you can believe it)! all ages shows at mad planet! THE GLOBE, even. visiting atomic records, the yellow jacket, and brady street and having them be this novel, exciting thing!
i guess i'm really into remembering this specific period and position in my life. trying to make sense of this new way of understanding music, of understanding people, taking note of a certain north shore hipster's (who shall remain nameless here) record collection, and immediately thereafter downloading modest mouse and q & not u on kazaa. slowly changing from a clueless kid with goldfinger and other warped tour circa 2001 patches on my backpack into something else, growing into and out of certain pretensions.
this might have exacerbated the insecurities i held at that point (age 15)... being thrust into this new, hip thing immediately made me want to be thinner, more attractive, more stylish. it's amazing how it wasn't the mainstream media that i had been unquestioningly absorbed in up to that point that did that, but rather, its alternative. i wonder what kind of person i would've become if i would've been able to make a couple of those changes in any real way.
anyway, just looking back on the past in a brief moment of clarity.
take care, all of you.