Playing in a typewriter band, my own son, 8, has definitely had a unique formative experience around what a band sounds like. Also for some reason, the Shaggs’ “My Pal Foot Foot” was an early earworm for him, and I was worried I might have blown up something in his brain. Fortunately he’s moved on to Taylor Swift and Imagine Dragons so another triumph for the resiliency of the child’s mind!

Twitter addiction *ten flood-crying emojis*

twelvepoint wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2023 12:21 pm Playing in a typewriter band

???

I am made to understand that in Britain one has "football language," in which boys and girls can express themselves as their parents do while at the ground for matches, even though that sort of language might have consequences in, say, school.

When my son was young, he and I would often drive to the beach in Oregon, and I would put together a playlist that always had some "beach trip" language. It was a gas watching in the rearview mirror as profanity would come up in a few of the songs and he would look up from his tablet or book with a gleeful, sort of conspiratorial look on his face. These songs were not played at home when mom was in the house. I think the best one was the first time I played Cee-Lo's Fuck You.

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:52 am

twelvepoint wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2023 12:21 pm Playing in a typewriter band

???

Oh, oh, this has got to be his predictive text messing up. Let's try and guess what he meant before he comes back to tell us.

I'm guessing crabcore

andyman wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 11:12 am

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:52 am

twelvepoint wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2023 12:21 pm Playing in a typewriter band

???

Oh, oh, this has got to be his predictive text messing up. Let's try and guess what he meant before he comes back to tell us.

I'm guessing crabcore

Maybe djent

I seem to remember from the Tech Forum that it is an actual longterm project making sound art / music with typewriters.
Unless I dreamt that...

Jeez, folks, it's right there in his signature.

FM twelvepoint: Several months ago I was visiting a town in the Berkshires and I saw one of your flyers.
The local 10-year-old I was walking with goes "Oh yeah. They make music with typewriters."
Like it was the most normal thing in the world. It was cool.

D'oh

Who do I have to blow to get an unemployment check in this state? A robot, apparently. I was laid off and filed over a month ago, nothing has hit my account yet, and I can’t get a human on the phone.

It’s a nice day. I should go take a hike.