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alright -- this came up in conversation a few days ago. but i just actually heard this PSA for myself about 15 minutes ago:
has anyone heard this relatively new "anti-marijuana" ad that starts up with a robotic woman's voice, and then slowly morphs into a kid saying how she's realized how much she hates indie rock? that marijuana had somehow brainwashed her into liking indie rock, and that now she's realized how awful it is once she got sober?
this is relatively old news, but is anyone else kind of offended?
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carrymeohio, Actualy it would be hilarious if i were stoned. But its frightening when you realize how many people know NOTHING about the demon weed except what they hear from uncle sugar. I work with a man who is terrified that his college age daughter will try marijuana an' become a hippy. HONEST! But hey...........75 yrs of propaganda is hard to wash away. but i say IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY FIRE THAN DON'T COME AROUND 'CAUSE I'M GONNA BURN ONE DOWN!
I had seen people allude to it on here before but wasn't quite sure what they were talking about - that's freakin' hilarious, and scary all at the same time! Man, your gov't is whack. I mean, what's so bad about indie music anyway?
(I kid)
LET US BURN ONE, FROM END TO END!
To you, kristiana, a TOKIN' of respect. WHAT'S OF THE EARTH IS OF THE GREATEST WORTH
my band Kaslo has been in 3 Elliott Studios for the past week, noses to the grindstone working on our first LP. actually having something with my name on it has been a dream that i've harbored since my parent's bought me a Rok Ax at Ames when I was 14 years old. when you were younger there was a mystery to the studio, it was something unattainable or mystical.
but there is no glamour to it.
a wall of amplifiers, a forest of guitars and a faint ringing in my ears. living off of peanut butter and late-night chicken curry, sleeping 10 winks when you need 40, and unwinding by draining bottles of Labatt into the small hours of the morning. it's frustrating when i take 6 swipes at a solo, and they go by with no tangible progress being made. and it's liberating...intimidating to know that anything within reason is possible, and, at the same time, attempting to balance the constraints of time and reason.
but it is satisfying to see the work coming out of it. the early mixes are still spinning my fucking head around. the ethereal chime of the Rhodes organ, the snarl of guitars and the flurry of drums. seeing my bandmates (poorplaces, sansterminus, teddyismyroomie) in action never ceases to amaze me. the talent in those rooms at 3 Elliott still astounds me, even though i've been playing open mics with Tedward since freshman year of college. and the work by our engineer Josh Antonuccio has been beyond astounding -- the man knows his shit in ways that i don't think i'll fully appreciate.
so even though there is no glamour to the whole operation, the mystery still endures.
and it is heartening to finally become a part of the madness. nothing pharmaceutical can match the feeling that i have in my chest when i'm listening to the mixes. a pleasant mixture of awe and pride. we're not done by a long shot, but we have the hope of being finished. that's almost the same thing.
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Bright Eyes new album is very good. I feel its his 'illinois', just all the sounds are extremly well aranged, though some better than others, and are just some of hte best stuff oburst has written.
Funeral by The Arcade Fire, if you havent alraedy listened to it. I suck at describing music, but its real good. Neon Bible is a solid album as well, though i prefer funeral.
On the lesser known side of things, Tilly and the Wall are freaking kick ass. I mean, they have a tap dancer do most of their percussion. Thats bad ass.
I never understood what the obsession is with the strokes, never really liked that album that much. Didn't rolling stone rate is as really shitty? Granted, they also said Pinkerton was shitty, so shows how much they know.