music nerd rambling

[tosei]

I'm on a real elephant 6 (http://www.elephant6.com) kick right now. Not just the music, but their whole aesthetic thrust. It got sort of ridiculous later on when there were like 50 bands involving different configurations of the same 20 people, but for me at least there was something really

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[breeps]

heh. i love those 20-piece revolving bands.

[tosei]

there are only so many zizanthaphone solos that you can fit onto one recording...If you take that "everyone I know must play on my record" mentality to it's logical conclusion, you end up with the polyphonic spree, which is sort of elephant 6 pastiche in a lot of ways.

[runninggunblues]

i have to disagree w/ mr. barnes. i work exactly 25 hours a week at a relatively low-paying job, and my rent takes up less than half my monthly pay and my apartment is huge. 3 large bedrooms, full size kitchen, hallway and entryway and a living room that is bigger than mine in OKC and a giganto dining room (yes a dining room!). yes, i'm still broke, but that's for other reasons. of course, i've heard from a friend that athens is a delightful place, a lot like OKC w/ better architecture.

[tosei]

yeah, I'm really too hard on NYC I think, but I'm just so bitter about having to defend my hometown for years that I take pleasure in trying to spoil the big post guilianni NYC civic pride circle jerk. A place like San Francisco is actually a lot more expensive than NYC just because it's so tiny (the city itself, not the bay area) and it's way less dense with housing than manhattan, not to mention the fact that NYC is a bargain compared to the astronomical cost of living in the center of a place like paris or tokyo. In any rate, I don't think any of those places are my kinda scene...I like midsize cities and college towns mostly. And I've heard great things about Athens too...I get the sense that it's probably really unbearably hip, but that's true of so many places.

[runninggunblues]

yeah, it's really a matter of individual tastes. and, i, individually, love any city where i can call a rude woman a twat in a drugstore and people practically applaud me. of course, i don't know if i'll survive one more go round in OKC, but i'm willing to go to walgreens and give it the twat test this summer. and congratulations on your new place. what neighborhood are you moving to?

[tosei]

of course, my change of heart won't stop me from bragging about the fact that I'm moving into a huge 3 bedroom 1 bath house in a good neighborhood for $550 a month.

[punctuality]

Yeah, I feel like I've been going through your phase for two years.

[tosei]

I was really deeply into the whole e6 thing when I was in high school and in my first year of college, but then I sort of branched out into other things, but now I'm coming back to it. What a great body of work those bands produced in such a short time.