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Re: The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2025 5:38 pm
by dubkitty
this is the sort of thing i mean when i say that i prefer renting an apartment to owning a house and getting to pay more and be responsible for all the repairs on top of it. i very much look forward to never thinking about septic tanks or huge limbs falling 100+ feet off redwood trees ever again. i do miss the redwoods, though, but that’s the only thing about the 00s-early 10s i miss at all.
Re: The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2025 4:09 pm
by Soggy Donkey
dubkitty wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:30 pm
... why am i even doing this? i do enjoy being able to generate sound environments i like, but nobody else cares, so what’s the point? and i don’t want to pimp myself in order to get heard. as Richie Edwards sang, “the only way to gain approval is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me.” add that i live in a sleepy small city 100 miles from a music scene that could accommodate what i do—maybe more if i had to go to fucking Baltimore—and it just seems hopeless. maybe all i was ever supposed to do was keep myself out of trouble and off the streets. well, i’m off the streets, but i’m truly troubled. i remember a guy on the Gretsch Pages who spent ages working on music and eventually asked the agonized question “so, is this just a hobby?” which i guess is to ask “am i doing this just for me, and if so how much does it make sense to put into it?”
but it’s really the only creative outlet i have. i don’t know how to answer any of this. sometimes i just want to sell everything but a few favored items. but then what do i give my imagination to do?
I usually lurk here off and on, but ^this^ really hit home. I play and record at home, make these lovely little cassettes for bandcamp and the local record store, but don't actually ever "sell" any musiuc. In fact, today I paid $10 postage to send a cassette someone bought for $10, but which oh god I don't want to think how much the gocco bulbs and ink and j-cards and physical tapes cost me. So yeah, why do this? For all the reasons you said, I guess. I get obsessed and spend a lot of time doing this, and if i didn't I'd either be already dead or caught up in some other kind of bs.
Plus, I guess, I tell myself money doesn't mean anything, in the long run. Except maybe to make the long run longer. But honestly who wants that?
Re: The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2025 12:43 pm
by sutarappa
Soggy Donkey wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 4:09 pm
dubkitty wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:30 pm
... why am i even doing this? i do enjoy being able to generate sound environments i like, but nobody else cares, so what’s the point? and i don’t want to pimp myself in order to get heard. as Richie Edwards sang, “the only way to gain approval is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me.” add that i live in a sleepy small city 100 miles from a music scene that could accommodate what i do—maybe more if i had to go to fucking Baltimore—and it just seems hopeless. maybe all i was ever supposed to do was keep myself out of trouble and off the streets. well, i’m off the streets, but i’m truly troubled. i remember a guy on the Gretsch Pages who spent ages working on music and eventually asked the agonized question “so, is this just a hobby?” which i guess is to ask “am i doing this just for me, and if so how much does it make sense to put into it?”
but it’s really the only creative outlet i have. i don’t know how to answer any of this. sometimes i just want to sell everything but a few favored items. but then what do i give my imagination to do?
I usually lurk here off and on, but ^this^ really hit home. I play and record at home, make these lovely little cassettes for bandcamp and the local record store, but don't actually ever "sell" any musiuc. In fact, today I paid $10 postage to send a cassette someone bought for $10, but which oh god I don't want to think how much the gocco bulbs and ink and j-cards and physical tapes cost me. So yeah, why do this? For all the reasons you said, I guess. I get obsessed and spend a lot of time doing this, and if i didn't I'd either be already dead or caught up in some other kind of bs.
Plus, I guess, I tell myself money doesn't mean anything, in the long run. Except maybe to make the long run longer. But honestly who wants that?
What's your bandcamp?
Always felt never to professionalize. Yet, a minor, hopeful moment or two went among too many good times. Whims of creation don't play by the cuts of survival. My relationship with music seems insubordinate to the regularity of digging graves. I do fancy the sound of soil and shovel.
Been material with the tools, oh yah. Binge and purge. Probably thought more about the tools than using them.
Still making sounds sometimes, and I'm ok with being inaudible.
Re: The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 10:51 am
by dubkitty
i ordered an extremely rare and boss guitar from Australia, a Greco copy of a Gibson Byrdland. it got hung up in Customs because a form hadn’t been correctly filed, but was supposedly released last Wednesday. no word at all then until this morning when UPS informed me i had to pay an additional $270 in Trump fees. i’m not sure whether to be more pissed at the seller, UPS, or the government but i have sufficient bile for all three. the worst part was the days of no information at all, but it all sucks.
Re: The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2025 1:10 am
by echorec
What's a reasonable amount of time to play obnoxiously loud dance music on Christmas Eve/Christmas?
It's currently 12:05 am and I'm still hearing thump-thump-thump. Since my douchey neighbor moved in, it's become customary for every holiday to be treated as a booze-soaked dance fest complete with daytime illegal fireworks (apparently, he doesn't understand that they're cooler after dark).
I live in the 'burbs. My neighbor owns a business and has several carpet monsters. I just don't understand any part of these rituals. (10 straight hours of drinking, boozing, and loud music seems excessive....i mean how much of that do 8-year olds need in their lives anway?)