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the concession stands inside this boxing arena turned music venue for mostly shoegaze bands only serve soft drinks, coffee, and cup soup. while the experience of a cup soup at a Godspeed You! Black Emperor gig is enough aesthetic violence as-is, what you REALLY need to do is walk out the back door of the venue into what can only be described as a parish hall hastily converted into a bar complete with teen disco lighting, buy the last €6 rum and coke you'll probably ever see in your life, and then walk through the tunnel back to your early 30s. the bar at the National Stadium exists in an entire other world to any other aspect of any other music venue I get to see anymore. the past is a foreign country and I feel like I need a passport and a visa to buy a bottle of Smirnoff Ice here.
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tyler opens a music venue/bar called The Rec Room
Feb 17, 2025
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People are there to watch the game and watching it on one tv or even better a projector gives it a communal vibe. A sports specific bar is overwhelming with all the TVs.
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Brendan Behan in JP
Glorietta Baldy in Bed Stuy
The Emerson in Clinton Hill
Oct 17, 2024
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Just walked into one thinking it would be quirky for the aesthetic but no. Only whispering was allowed. I sat in something that resembled a pew? Gregorian chants were playing. Bartender looked like he wanted to kill himself. Exhilarating
Great way to experience the MTV show “Silent Library” irl
Feb 8, 2024
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the simplicity of exploring around on Google Earth meets the infinity of local radio from every single pocket of the globe. the thrill of the hunt and the joy of just hanging out. it doesn't get better than this folks
Dec 4, 2024
it's only like 11°C outside in Dublin right now but the sensation of sunlight helps to elevate the cruel existence of Computer Work. so, fuck it! balcony season! allowing the Macbook to experience its true natural habitat of Somewhere That Isn't My Desk has made me a bit more appreciative of its possibilities. last summer I took the idea to its logical end point and brought my cheap usb dj controller out on the balcony with me, recording DJ sets for nobody in particular on my headphones as the sun sets. those days approach once more. now if only I could solve the glare problem
Mar 10, 2025
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the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has the idea of "Bangs". throwing !g at the end of a search fires it over to google, !w to wikipedia, !r to reddit etc. there are thousands of these, and it lets you get very intentional about where you want to search for information; not just relying on one tool for every job.
outside of the bangs feature, well, ddg is... fine. it's not immune to spam, but at least it hasn't implemented an AI that lies to you. yet.
Mar 24, 2025