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The joy! of discovery! Often you can get something sounding good pretty easily, and then you can make it sound bad, and then you can figure out how to make that sound good, and then you're cooking with gas.
I had a lot of fun making the linked video.
Jan 26, 2024
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This is the pinnacle of life on earth to me. And I'm not talking about learning your first song on the drums with a Youtube video or taking a guitar lesson. I mean finding an instrument and doing something with it right there. The first time I touched a piano and figured out what keys to hit for a major chord. Getting a note out of a flute after desperately trying for half an hour. Playing a theremin, finding a broken string instrument in a pawn shop and making up a melody. Instruments are our most beautiful tools and you can only ever build love with them
Apr 11, 2025
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It's a learning platform! And I'm a visual learner.
Dec 20, 2023
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Ok so I’m dogshit at playing bass but it makes me feel like a toddler who’s recently discovered that piano keys make noise and I like having that sort of childish wonder abt making music again
Apr 1, 2024
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Blindsided by this, really sad. The list of Albini's productions is jaw-dropping. Magnolia Electric Company is one of the great pieces of post-industrial Americana, bleak and beautiful. Farewell Transmission is Jason Molina's most powerful recording, but the album (incl. outtakes) is stacked. Heavy & gorgeous, suitable for the moment.
May 8, 2024
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Tearing up right now instead of working. I moved to the city as the last of Williamsburg's artistic energy was spent, and I moved to the edge of the neighborhood after it was already hollowed out. God bless the few places that are still interesting: Spectacle, Union Pool, Ore Bar, Blue Sun, Miriam Gallery, The P.I.T., Baby's, etc.
Are there places in NYC with a real artistic scene now, or did our new way of living end that possibility? Please don't say Hudson, there's no way I can learn to make furniture.
Jan 30, 2024
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More of a look back on the making of the album, no footage from the actual recording, iirc. But great banter, good insights into the process.
The Wilco doc about making Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is good and dramatic, too—I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.
Jan 25, 2024