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eliya wrote:Hey Tim, how did it come about that you joined Sunn on this record? I know you guys know each other from way back when Silkworm and Engine Kid toured, but how did this reconnecting happen?We have always been in touch since we met in 1992 or whatever.Silkworm played with all their bands. Thorr's Hammer, Burning Witch, Sunn.When they booked time to do the record with Steve, they asked me to play a bunch of stuff. Of course I did it. Same thing with touring. Great traveling group, and the shows are mindblowing as a matter of course.Hey, thanks for being willing to let me use that cabinet! The rental gear in Chicago wasn't awesome, but eventually we got a working bass setup out of it.

Hey Tim! Still on Sunn, are you playing with them over here in the UK later in the year? I ve got tickets for Manchester already and you d be the icing on a very noisy cake!

Hey Tim! I have to admit to being rather envious that you got to play on the new SUNN record as well as perform with them. However, not so envious that I am not stoked for you. Because I am stoked for you! Nice work! Salut!

Hey, Tim!Super excited about the In The West reissue.Also, wanted you to know that NC knows how to give love to the 'worm. I was happily surprised to see IP featured on their new release homepage.That's all...

Damian wrote:Hey Tim! Still on Sunn, are you playing with them over here in the UK later in the year? I ve got tickets for Manchester already and you d be the icing on a very noisy cake!Yes indeed, I will be theremattw wrote:Hey, Tim!Super excited about the In The West reissue.Also, wanted you to know that NC knows how to give love to the 'worm. I was happily surprised to see IP featured on their new release homepage.That's all...Oh that's real nice of them. I really appreciate that. Thanks for pointing me to it!El Protoolio wrote:Hey Tim! I have to admit to being rather envious that you got to play on the new SUNN record as well as perform with them. However, not so envious that I am not stoked for you. Because I am stoked for you! Nice work! Salut!Thanks. It's the only place to play music anything like that, I think, and given how fond I am of the music and the people involved, I am very fortunate to be in the mix. Great times all around...

tmidgett wrote:Best plug sound is plugging one's ears with fingers, I think.I agree and I do it often. I did it at a Meat Puppets show during a realllllly screetchy guitar solo because Cris was playing this awesome bass line I wanted to hear and I was directly in front of Kirk's Twin. A guy behind me who probably assumed I was a youngin' there to see Cass McCombs (who was headlining) got super belligerent with me after the song, saying I was being disrespectful and don't-you-know-who-that-is-he's-a-legend-how-dare-you blah blah blah. It was awkward. But yeah it sounds so good!

^^^ That's why a guy's got his own thread.

Tim ”How do you get over heartbreak? I can t figure it out. It s been too long but it s not getting better.

NewDarkAge wrote:Tim ”How do you get over heartbreak? I can t figure it out. It s been too long but it s not getting better.What's too long?My sense of loss or disappointment when I'm let down by life is almost always tied to ego.Our egos tend to be rather fragile, and a big part of heartbreak and/or disappointment is being hurt that we're not wanted in a particular instance, in a particular way. Often that we are deserving but being deprived. It helps me to remember we're animals, operating more or less on instinct more or less all the time. Every one of us. It's doubtful that we have any substantial free will. We are all guided by biological impulses and environmental influences that push pull and nudge us every which way, coming from directions and sources we sometimes barely perceive or don't even understand.Our perception is that there's some particular path we're on. Or that our lives are guided in some way. That's our experience, and we try to talk ourselves into that, certainly, many of us. But I think reality is far more chaotic and unmanaged than we experience it as being.I think I'd believe all that even if it made me uncomfortable. But for some reason I'm calmed by it. Which is nice.Certainly other people act according to whim often enough that we're our own best counsel a lot of the time. And we have to accept what other people think they want or need. It's just a basic fact of life, part of being part of humanity, and yet there's something almost noble about that acceptance, because it's pretty rare that we actually do it, when someone else's desires contradict our own.It's an act of sacrifice to accept that a path we felt we were on has to end, and we have to move down another path now, to allow someone else to follow the path they feel they must take.Bears mentioning that a lot of people are in the world. Whoever you think is your soul mate...isn't. You're compatible with a load of people, whether you've quite met them yet or not.

ldopa\_chicago wrote:I have often suffered under the delusion that if I do the right things, I will achieve the right outcome. What I've come to understand is that whatever occurs when I do my best in a given circumstance is the right outcome. It may not be the outcome I want or thought I wanted, but I am in the right place from which to take the next action.This is wise. Lately I could apply it to struggling with a job search. It's natural to take it personally when an interview doesn't pan out, but I try to put my honest self (at least to a socially/professionally acceptable level) out there and see what happens. If that's not [something] enough for them, do I ultimately want to stick around just to prove them wrong? It's a hard thing to do when there's no guaranteed next thing lined up, but I know in my head it's true. It might not ever happen, but I can try to focus on growth in other areas which may help out with the initial goal or lead to something different entirely.And of course this can apply to relationships. Or any areas where you may be setting yourself up for hurt.