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The Cult of Keneally, Or How I Cured Myself Of This Delusion
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Michael de la Pierry
May 15, 2012, 12:43:27 PM5/15/12
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You guys, I haven't visited here in ages because I figured, what with
the internet being what it is these days (about 40% Facebook status
updates, 50% tweets and 10% lolcats - I am of course only talking about
the 1% of bandwidth not used for pr0n and/or piracy) - I figured it
would probably be abandoned, deserted, a virtual ghost town if you will.
And yet I see a few of you are still keeping on keeping on, boats
against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past, aka the
2000s, aka the "naughties," a naughty decade if ever there was one.
(Any decade that starts off not only mocking Arthur C. Clarke by
failing to have any superintelligent sociopathic computers or
mysterious black monoliths but goes so far as to do… well, you all know
what happened. I'm just saying, way to live up to your nickname, 2000s.)
But anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of you still at
it in here. I doubt I will keep up or post that much because I am much
too distracted by everything that there is to be distracted by, but I
just wanted to say hi anyway. Special shoutout to Smeenus and anyone
else uploading videos to YouTube of Keneally and other concerts.
Extremely cool of you to do so.
I don't know why I wrote so much. Feels awkward and valedictorian,
which doesn't make any sense. I'm not graduating or going anywhere. I'm
just sitting here typing in a weird hunched over position that looks
much less comfortable than it is. Should I edit the fuck out of this
post or just let it slide? I'm gonna let it slide because fuck it, I'm
making too much out of it anyway. I should stop typing now. This is
just going to get weirder. Why am I still typing? What do I hope to get
out of this? Is this some sort of nostalgic impulse, writing a long
post to a newsgroup? Why am I analyzing myself in front of everyone
like this? How did this get so weird? It was just going to be a nice,
normal post saying howdy and everything and now it has turned into
something really weird. I guess I'm done now. Fuckity.
P.S. - The subject line made it seem like this post was going to be
something totally different, right? I actually wrote it after I wrote
all of the above and I have no idea what it means.
the internet being what it is these days (about 40% Facebook status
updates, 50% tweets and 10% lolcats - I am of course only talking about
the 1% of bandwidth not used for pr0n and/or piracy) - I figured it
would probably be abandoned, deserted, a virtual ghost town if you will.
And yet I see a few of you are still keeping on keeping on, boats
against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past, aka the
2000s, aka the "naughties," a naughty decade if ever there was one.
(Any decade that starts off not only mocking Arthur C. Clarke by
failing to have any superintelligent sociopathic computers or
mysterious black monoliths but goes so far as to do… well, you all know
what happened. I'm just saying, way to live up to your nickname, 2000s.)
But anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of you still at
it in here. I doubt I will keep up or post that much because I am much
too distracted by everything that there is to be distracted by, but I
just wanted to say hi anyway. Special shoutout to Smeenus and anyone
else uploading videos to YouTube of Keneally and other concerts.
Extremely cool of you to do so.
I don't know why I wrote so much. Feels awkward and valedictorian,
which doesn't make any sense. I'm not graduating or going anywhere. I'm
just sitting here typing in a weird hunched over position that looks
much less comfortable than it is. Should I edit the fuck out of this
post or just let it slide? I'm gonna let it slide because fuck it, I'm
making too much out of it anyway. I should stop typing now. This is
just going to get weirder. Why am I still typing? What do I hope to get
out of this? Is this some sort of nostalgic impulse, writing a long
post to a newsgroup? Why am I analyzing myself in front of everyone
like this? How did this get so weird? It was just going to be a nice,
normal post saying howdy and everything and now it has turned into
something really weird. I guess I'm done now. Fuckity.
P.S. - The subject line made it seem like this post was going to be
something totally different, right? I actually wrote it after I wrote
all of the above and I have no idea what it means.
Ori Pessach
May 15, 2012, 1:34:26 PM5/15/12
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On May 15, 10:43 am, Michael de la Pierry <mikepie...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Welcome back! It's good to see you again, even if I can't remember
ever seeing you before.
wrote:
ever seeing you before.
Smeenus
May 15, 2012, 11:21:07 PM5/15/12
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I was just thinkin of you, MP, I was sorting through a mess of cd's & I found a copy of "Kid Amnesiac" that I made about 10 years ago.
As to all things Facebook/Twitter/et al, I absolutely don't touch any of them. Call me old, but it's got nothing to do with my age and everything to do with my level of trust of social media. But it's awesome to hear from you.
As to all things Facebook/Twitter/et al, I absolutely don't touch any of them. Call me old, but it's got nothing to do with my age and everything to do with my level of trust of social media. But it's awesome to hear from you.
Michael de la Pierry
May 16, 2012, 1:39:32 AM5/16/12
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unfortunately too weak to resist. Kid Amnesiac was a cool thing. I
actually really strongly prefer Radiohead's newer material lately,
particularly In Rainbows which I think is probably their finest album.
I mainly listen to metal these days but I'm still apt to go off on
weird tangents at random. It's just that metal seems to have a whole
lot of very strange, intense and interesting stuff going on these days.
Then again, I'm also pretty wild for tUnE-yArDs and Joanna Newsom.
Anyway, I found myself making some nostalgic 90's playlists for myself
on Spotify a month or so ago. There's something so comforting about
listening to a whole bunch of music you listened to when you were a
teenager, you know? In case you're interested, here are the contents of
what I call my "Teenage Depression Megamix!!!" (All the Zappa songs are
covers because of course the ZFT doesn't allow any of Frank's albums on
Spotify).
Tori Amos – Muhammad My Friend
Orio Odori – Intro To Music For Low Budget Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle – Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.16: II. Vergangenes
(Mässige Viertel)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra;Michael Tilson Thomas;Chicago Symphony
Chorus – Symphony No. 4: III. Fugue. Andante moderato con moto
Voivod – The Prow
Bohuslän Big Band – Sinester Footwear
Glauco Venier – Blessed Relief
Ween – Awesome sound
Mr. Bungle – Carry Stress In The Jaw
Michael Hedges – Two Days Old
Morphine – All Your Way
Mike Keneally – Sooth
Wu-Tang Clan – Shame On A Nigga
Primus – Frizzle Fry
The Residents – Blue Rosebuds
Dead Kennedys – Ill In The Head
Eric Dolphy – Out There
John Coltrane – Equinox
Leonard Bernstein – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1:
L'Adoration de la Terre - 1. Introduction
Leonard Bernstein – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1:
L'Adoration de la Terre - 2. Les augures printaniers - Danses des
adolescentes
Leonard Bernstein – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1:
L'Adoration de la Terre - 3. Jeu du rapt
Leonard Bernstein – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1:
L'Adoration de la Terre - 4. Rondes printanières
Leonard Bernstein – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1:
L'Adoration de la Terre - 5. Jeux des cités
Leonard Bernstein – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1:
L'Adoration de la Terre - 6. Cortège du sage - Le sage
Leonard Bernstein – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1:
L'Adoration de la Terre - Adoration of the Earth
Leonard Bernstein – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1:
L'Adoration de la Terre - 7. Danse de la terre
Steely Dan – Bodhisattva
Rush – La Villa Strangiato
Pantera – Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills
Alice In Chains – Nutshell
Tom Waits – Tom Traubert's Blues [Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen]
Frank Zappa – Night School - Arr. E. Lievonen
Paul Simon – The Coast
Dead Kennedys – Police Truck
Steve Vai – Answers
Death – The Philosopher
Ministry – Thieves
Kyuss – Space Cadet
Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Beastie Boys – Hey Ladies
2 Skinnee J's – (718)
Obituary – Final Thoughts
Smeenus
May 16, 2012, 2:27:48 PM5/16/12
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One quick thought, my Radiohead album of preference has been "Hail To The Thief" for quite a while now...
Ori Pessach
May 16, 2012, 4:14:43 PM5/16/12
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On May 16, 12:27 pm, Smeenus <paul.smee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One quick thought, my Radiohead album of preference has been "Hail To The Thief" for quite a while now...
I don't know what my favorite Radiohead album is, really (touch
> One quick thought, my Radiohead album of preference has been "Hail To The Thief" for quite a while now...
choice, that...) but I put on Easy Star All-Stars' Radiodread more
often than I do OK Computer these days.
Smeenus
May 18, 2012, 12:31:20 AM5/18/12
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BTW, MP, seeing you on here gave me the idea to search YouTube for Tarkus, and I found this INFARKINGCREDIBLE 1972 live recording, un-fucking-godly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbeNxBiA6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbeNxBiA6o
Alan
May 23, 2012, 9:38:21 PM5/23/12
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On 5/15/12 11:21 PM, Smeenus wrote:
> I was just thinkin of you, MP, I was sorting through a mess of cd's& I found a copy of "Kid Amnesiac" that I made about 10 years ago.
"Sorting through a mess of cd's" is, of course, a euphemism. I won't go
into details, but suffice to say nothing was being put into a particular
order.
> As to all things Facebook/Twitter/et al, I absolutely don't touch any of them. Call me old, but it's got nothing to do with my age and everything to do with my level of trust of social media. But it's awesome to hear from you.
There are times I think maybe I need a Facebook account, or I should set
up Twitter. Then I have a chicken wing and sanity is restored.
Nice to see you again, MP. Well, that's a lie - I can't see you and
I've never seen you, but I've seen posts that were authored by you, or
at least attributed to you.
Alan
> I was just thinkin of you, MP, I was sorting through a mess of cd's& I found a copy of "Kid Amnesiac" that I made about 10 years ago.
"Sorting through a mess of cd's" is, of course, a euphemism. I won't go
into details, but suffice to say nothing was being put into a particular
order.
> As to all things Facebook/Twitter/et al, I absolutely don't touch any of them. Call me old, but it's got nothing to do with my age and everything to do with my level of trust of social media. But it's awesome to hear from you.
up Twitter. Then I have a chicken wing and sanity is restored.
Nice to see you again, MP. Well, that's a lie - I can't see you and
I've never seen you, but I've seen posts that were authored by you, or
at least attributed to you.
Alan
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