Hey Tmidgett,

This thread was all the way down to page 12 of the GD index, so I'm bumping. Thought you'd be interested.

Also, how was the tour?

What is your favorite chapter in Ulysses? How do you feel about Joyce's other three novels?

Hey Tmidgett,

You feel that earthquake?

Hey Tmidgett,

If you had the chance, would you ever start up a side project dealing heavily in synthesizer-based music?

Hey Tmidgett,

This thread was all the way down to page 12 of the GD index, so I'm bumping. Thought you'd be interested.

Also, how was the tour?

Hey fuck what the fuck.

Tour was super fun. Debilitating b/c of having to work in the middle of it, but super fun.

I love my band, and I love the Kadanes, and I love Matt Barnhart, so it was kind of an obvious awesome time waiting to happen.

What is your favorite chapter in Ulysses?

Nausicaa or Circe. Had to look them up.

How do you feel about Joyce's other three novels?

Dubliners is great. A few of those stories are just devastating.

Portrait is great, funny, kind of pathetic.

I've been on the same page of Finnegans Wake for about 20yrs. But it's an incredible page.

You feel that earthquake?

No! I did once, feel an earthquake. Shortly before leaving Seattle. About the size of the one in LA today.

It was cool.

If you had the chance, would you ever start up a side project dealing heavily in synthesizer-based music?

I don't believe in side projects, for myself.

I could imagine doing this as my primary endeavor--I think there is a lot of untapped potential in this area.

But I'd have to learn so fucking much--the chances of me ever having and taking the time to figure all that shit out are about zero.

In the wake of Silkworm's disappearance, Andy and I talked about just basically becoming Kraftwerk. We didn't have the balls. Or the time, know-how, etc.

tmidgett wrote:

If you had the chance, would you ever start up a side project dealing heavily in synthesizer-based music?

I don't believe in side projects, for myself.

I could imagine doing this as my primary endeavor--I think there is a lot of untapped potential in this area.

But I'd have to learn so fucking much--the chances of me ever having and taking the time to figure all that shit out are about zero.

In the wake of Silkworm's disappearance, Andy and I talked about just basically becoming Kraftwerk. We didn't have the balls. Or the time, know-how, etc.

What would you have to learn? A lot of technical stuff, like getting keyboard chops and all that? Kraftwerk are, by no means, technical geniuses in that way at the synthesizer. It seems as if it would be easy as hell to make some great keyboard-based songs. On the other hand, I get the idea that actually having to learn about what makes synthesizers work would take an assload of time.

The reason I asked was because I have listened to Iggy Pop's The Idiot three times in a row today and probably will listen to it more tonight, and I am seriously in rediscovery mode and at the moment think it is teh awesomest. So I was wondering what kind of stuff you would do with the synthesizer if you actually had all the time/know-how you think you need.

HEY!! I dream

Hey tmidgett!

Is it officially The Year Of The Bro?

Hey Bro,

I think I hear some faint horns towards the end of "Pitch" on the new _Congress_ ep. Is it really horns that I am hearing?

Hey Tim,

What are you singing on "Red Pen" after the line "I don't want to control"? To my ears, it sounds like "You are the sun of Babar", but I don't think you are singing about the elephant's son on this one.

This may just be my favorite BP song to date.