I don’t buy any of the current polling. Who the hell has a landline phone anymore? Does anyone under the age of 60 ever answer a call from an unrecognized number? Would anyone younger even speak with a pollster if they did? I even ignore canvassers asking for signatures for their poorly thought out ...

Christ, this thread is worse than when NPR tries to talk about hip-hop In all fairness, I can’t stand hip-hop. Music that’s pretty much nothing but words and samples is a fundamental polar opposite of what I look for in music. Like making Norma Desmond watch talkies. Talk, talk, talk… I adore backp...

Damn, someone has to make an outdoorsy, geology rap project. Just samples of wind and boulders rolling. I'd try, but honestly my rhymes would be terrible, even if I tried to do the Beastie's thing. Tried to make the hike over to the OLYMPIC HOT SPRINGS but we lost the trail in BLOWDOWN bunch of ame...

I was hoping for a moment that there were guys rapping about mountain goats and marmots, glaciated granite and andesite, freeze-dried food and sleeping under the stars.

I hate ranch dressing. I really don't see why some people are so goddamned obsessed with it. Just go ahead and gloop mayonnaise on your salad, why don't you. Or dip your chicken wings in mayo. BLORP! Mmm, eggy. The cult is just built on trying to be as obese as possible. I won't defend it, but I li...

ErikG wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 5:39 pm Bowen Yang, Sara Sherman. Ego Nwodim etc. All pretty funny.

All three are great! Yang should be getting more praise and press than it seems he has.

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:05 pm And on that note I've given-up smoking. Don't smoke, don't drink ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Congrats! I haven't had a cigarette/tobacco in almost exactly 10 years. No regrets. I also can't drink because I get a nasty-ass headache from just a half-glass of wine or sip of good booze now. That sucks.

I was one of the first 300 or so people that signed up for this forum. Sometime around 2002-2003, IIRC. Before I moved to Chicago from Madison. It was the wise folks here that put me in touch with Carrie Weston when a needed a buyers agent in 2004 when moving to Chicago. Both Bob and Carrie were reg...

that said (and no, I don't expect some idiot musician to think this hard)...... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jamie-Allen-11/publication/336882553/figure/fig3/AS:11431281106311460@1670616581910/Godspeed-You-Black-Emperors-Yanqui-UXO-back-cover-showing-relationships-between.png I've read more...

I don't think that's how art works. You're right. I was just being reductivist and cynical. I hear formula and mimicry in almost everything. What made it worse was no longer being able to give credit or weight to the minutiae that seems to differentiate music for those when enjoy splitting genre-ha...