Joanna Newsom --- "Ys"

[luka]

Part of the reason I end up starting Polachek threads instead of threads of artists I actually care about is because at least then there's some distance, I might like Polachek but I'm not invested. I can't imagine actually putting up the albums or books that mean everything to me, just to watched them trashed and ridiculed and made small. Not "ripped to pieces" but shit on, polluted, deflated, lessened.

I mean this is sad, but I don't know what the answer is.

 

[luka]

Because we have to have enemies or we are not a cohesive community. And indie music is one of those enemies.

 

[sus]

If someone was able to articulate a defense instead of "Gus is a pedo with shite taste lol" it would at least be productive.

I dunno, it's whatever, just some days I get pushed to a limit and should back off and come back on my own accord.

 

[luka]

The easiest solution would just be to change your taste

 

[luka]

Limburger did and he's really popular. He just forced himself to listen to old jungle records instead of the dandy warhols

 

[sus]

Isn't gonna happen. Very little grime, hip-hop, dance music resonates with my energy or my moods TBH. Doesn't gimme the feelings I like and am after. Mellow, bittersweet, wistful, or outright happy/ecstatic music. I think it's a sign of mental health.

 

[sus]

My friend listened exclusively to very loud punk music all college and had awful mental health.

 

[luka]

Isn't gonna happen. Very little grime, hip-hop, dance music resonates with my energy or my moods or my soul TBH. I like mellow, bittersweet, wistful, or outright happy/ecstatic music. I think it's a sign of mental health.

Don't you like aggression and exuberance? Healthy manly energies?

 

[sus]

I'm not naturally aggressive, no. I'm a pretty mellow guy.

 

[sus]

Don't even go to live shows of musicians I like. Terrible. Sound bad, too many people. Would rather sit on the couch, listen to a record.

 

[sus]

I like to stay at a low simmering state always. Little fluctuations. Sometimes passing feelings of beauty or sadness but always simmering, never boiling up.

Going dancing all night I can't even fathom the purpose. I'd pour my energy into something productive like writing. Otherwise you might as well be doing aerobics to burn calories.

 

[sus]

@linebaugh can attest to my personality/energy/moods, very stable and well-adjusted

 

[sus]

I would tag Mvuent but that Titan of the Midwest is too busy turning his life around and becoming Powerful to hang here anymore.

 

[luka]

Could be a low T issue maybe?

 

[luka]

Which finger is longer, your index or ring?

 

[sus]

Out

 

[thirdform]

I've already given your musical opinions and preferences an order of magnitude more time than you have mine, i.e., more than I already should have.

Maybe but your analysis of my music is haha drugs or oriental savages or it's too flat, so I'm disinclined to give you the attention you're lusting after.

 

[linebaugh]

Isn't gonna happen. Very little grime, hip-hop, dance music resonates with my energy or my moods TBH. Doesn't gimme the feelings I like and am after. Mellow, bittersweet, wistful, or outright happy/ecstatic music. I think it's a sign of mental health.

I think this is sign of some damage. I cant articulate it but I think for people of our upbringing its part of a healthy maturation process to develop that resonance. The latter tastes yoy described is our natutal state but not a complete individual. Weve got to lick the toads and have our katabasis

 

[luka]

Deep cell damage. Trauma.

 

[linebaugh]

Gus might say that its actually the norm to like hip hop and edm for people of our upbringing and on one level hes right but he also knows hes wrong. He knows that as a youngster there was visceral discord in his constitution when he heard a hip hop song.