jeff fox wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:12 pm There!

Atta boy!

You, the reader, are still here in an attempt to make this place entertaining and worthwhile; that's got to count for something.

Music tribalism sucks but then again so does a lot of music. Nothing wrong with constructive and destructive criticism. Dude, Incredible? More like Dude, Conventional amirite?

My username when I first arrived was Tar Baby. I still think it's a dope username for myself. As a kid I loved M*A*S*H and partly saw the tension and awkwardness my name would bring as a tribute to Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones (IYKYK), as well as showing my appreciation for the finest rock band generated in Chicago, Tar. I'd be remiss if I didn't also state that I saw it as a way to say, albeit lamely, "hey, I'm cool! I get it. 'Big Black' haha." I shoulda kept the username because if there's one thing I've learned in life is that there is nobody more triggered than an aggrieved white guy - ask any of the bitches populating Noise Rock Now. Is that still a thing? I wouldn't know because I got banned for being angry

I miss fantasmatical thorr

Message forums are so much better than the social media that replaced them, in every way. Message forums have real content, properly indexed. Social media is just a FEED. Open wide, here comes the feed. All today's freshest opinions, half-baked and delivered straight to your face. Don't like it? It's already gone, here's something else.

Anthony Flack wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:23 pm Message forums are so much better than the social media that replaced them, in every way. Message forums have real content, properly indexed. Social media is just a FEED. Open wide, here comes the feed. All today's freshest opinions, half-baked and delivered straight to your face. Don't like it? It's already gone, here's something else.

+1

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enframed wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:54 pm Recommend people revisit the "Musical Concern: Burial" thread. Thank god it wasn't lost. Fun times!

John W wrote:Whoa.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:45 pm

enframed wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:54 pm Recommend people revisit the "Musical Concern: Burial" thread. Thank god it wasn't lost. Fun times!

John W wrote:Whoa.

I don’t think I would have had the testicular fortitude required to survive this forum back then.

jfv wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:51 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:45 pm

enframed wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:54 pm Recommend people revisit the "Musical Concern: Burial" thread. Thank god it wasn't lost. Fun times!

John W wrote:Whoa.

I don’t think I would have had the testicular fortitude required to survive this forum back then.

One was basically "jumped in." Still, it was pretty fun once you got past the initial hazing. Unless you were female, they had it rough. I miss Eliza and The Colonel.

enframed wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:02 pm

jfv wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:51 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:45 pm

I don’t think I would have had the testicular fortitude required to survive this forum back then.

One was basically "jumped in." Still, it was pretty fun once you got past the initial hazing. Unless you were female, they had it rough. I miss Eliza and The Colonel.

I sort of had the impression that what with Trump + Covid + George Floyd's murder + so much else, people here lost the energy to spar endlessly with others who they were probably at least somewhat aligned with about those things. I could be wrong though.

enframed wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:02 pm

jfv wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:51 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:45 pm

I don’t think I would have had the testicular fortitude required to survive this forum back then.

One was basically "jumped in." Still, it was pretty fun once you got past the initial hazing. Unless you were female, they had it rough. I miss Eliza and The Colonel.

I remember when you criticized The Weirdness and fm steve asked to hear your record, you cocksocket you.

Gramsci wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:29 pm

losthighway wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:27 pm
Alan Watts once commented on how too free and open of a sexual culture can actually remove some tension that charges things with eroticism. I wonder sometimes if western culture's relationship with music has a similar ironic weakening. Defeated by success in some way.

Oh, Alan Watts quote, nice.

Reminds me to start a meditation thread…

I woke up on Saturday morning thinking about the characters Prickle and Goo from Gumby and I had this 'aha!' moment where I was like "...wait a second...they MUST be named after the Alan Watts lecture, right?" I looked it up and, sure enough, Art Clokey saw Alan Watts MCing an otherwise stuffy and boring psychologists convention in the 60s and loved his 'prickle and goo' theory about people. I think they even became friends.