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I enjoyed the rainy season in Costa Rica; though, where I live, it's almost as rainy some parts of the year.
 
herbavore said:
I think one of the most delicious things in the world is to walk around in a tropical rain. Being able to experience that soft water on your skin without getting cold is one of life's great pleasures.:)
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Now, that does sound brilliant! I hope to experience that someday!

I'm going back to Ecuador/Peru in January and there is sure to be rain in both the Amazon parts and the Andes so hopefully I will get a good long drink for the soul.
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Going to catch an aya ceremony while you're there? ;)


You non-desert-dwellers must think we're crazy for waxing poetic about rain like we do, but trust us, when your average yearly rainfall is less than a tadpole's piss, it's really a momentously awe-inspiring occasion.
 
Hey, I still love the rain even though it's frequent here. I live on a bayou. Moist as all get out here. Today it rained, and I still appreciated it by listen to Animal Collective's "Campfire Songs" EP and taking a walk down to the bayou in between showers, with a fat bowl to accompany me of course ;)
 
I'm glad to know it doesn't lose its novelty in wetter climates; now I won't be afraid to move to one. ;) 90+ degree (F) weather certainly does lose its novelty however, and we had some just last week, but thankfully we're starting to see some cooler weather now.
 
Hey, so did we (90+ degrees last week). Only it was wet. :p

If they made a movie about my life, it would be something no one liked and they showed to first year art students in order to impress upon them the utter absurdity and pointlessness of many parts of existence.
 
I really enjoy Florida, the humidity makes everything feel so alive, probably because all of the rain and moisture is helping the plant life flourish here.
 
Cream Gravy? said:
If they made a movie about my life, it would be something no one liked and they showed to first year art students in order to impress upon them the utter absurdity and pointlessness of many parts of existence.
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Haha... anything in particular make you say that?

I can, and do, easily begin to see my life that way as well. But, it's more fun to imagine that all of the bumfuckery in my life is leading me to the path of glory in some incomprehensibly mysterious way. Like, I know I'm an idiot. But what if I'm an idiot savant? How cool would that be? :D
 
^I'm fastidious about cleaning my hands. It's weird. I'm not clinically OCD but exhibit many of the symptoms. I'm not a germophobe, just like being... clean.

Anyways...

I saw Animal Collective a second time a few nights ago. They... are changing. In the years between Centipede Hz and Painting With, much seems to have changed. The concert was... far out. I dunno. I was frying half a tab and buzzing on a few hyrdocodones. I was standing not more than ten-fifteen feet from the stage. I simply stood there, occasionally bobbing or hopping in excitement, but staring at Avey Tare and never truly dancing, my arms crossed. He kept looking at me (or at least I perceived as such), he kept talking to the whole audience. There was a mosh pit for some reason right in front of us. It was so strange. Their music never truly formed into songs. They kept making... sound. Portner kept shouting and screaming in the mic. I doubt even he knew what he was saying. He appeared to be frying his ass off and acted as such.

The whole concert left me feeling odd and thrown off. Animal Collective is no longer putting out the music I so loved. They didn't even play the top single off of Painting With. I heard one Centipede Hz song-ish, two or three MPP, and one weird part where Portner started singing the lyrics from The Other One or such variations by the Grateful Dead. When I'd seen them a few years back on the Centipede Hz tour, the music was much better, they still used guitars, Portner was coherent and playing music still. I almost felt sad to see how zonked he acted. While I truly enjoyed the show, it was strange to know that I was truly not frying nearly as hard as the guy here to sing our songs. I don't mind it... I dunno. I'm confused about it all. I hope the band continues touring. I got a shirt at the Centipede Hz tour and I would like to continue wearing it to their concerts, to show them I remember those times. I love the band to death still. I just need to sort out my feelings.

And always, remember the good times:
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I first saw them on the MPP tour and went to the bar with them afterwards, it was really cool. Gave Reverend Green a ride to the bar in fact. I havent gotten too into Painting With yet but I think they always have done whatever they want and always will. From hanging out with Avey at the bar it's pretty clear he's a werido. Panda Bear was the coolest one and also my favorite in the group but Geologist was awesome as well. (Deakin comes and goes, I didnt meet him.)
Sung Tongs will always be my favorite but I mean have you listened to some of the stuff before then? They've always been super experimental and always changing. They definitely went through a "for the masses" phase with MPP and Centipede.
 
^Campfire Songs is likely my favorite work by them, perhaps that or Feels.

I wanted to meet the band bad. My friend knew a girl who could get us in with seeing them after, but he drank like ten pints at the fucking venue and fucked it all up and missed his phone. Real Shame. I honestly wanted to talk to them about their music after.

Painting With isn't bad, and I do agree their music is unique and that is a hard bar to keep raised. It's just that the opener they had blew. Last time when I saw them they had this Deradoorian chick open and she was amazing. Bought some of her music after. This time they went mostly electronic, with Avey screaming in spurts, or fiddling with weird sounds. I really love the band, but it was more of a show than a concert. The crowd was insane, it seemed to vibe with the music. It was a very close and personal experience. I couldn't help but feel a bit cheated though; the last time I saw them they played an encore of two songs off the Fall Be Kind EP, but this time the encore was... more sound. A muddle of two songs off of Painting With.

I'll still see the band again if they ever come through (it had been ten years since they'd last been here) but I really hope they don't sacrifice quality for a unique sound. I think they have it in them to make amazing music still, it just seems they've gone down an odd and strange path.

I had a whole lot more written but fucking Bluelight is offline at 2am and I forgot and hadn't saved my post material.
 
I saw them a couple of years ago, and to be honest, the concert didn't excite me very much, allthough at that time I really enjoyed listening to their albums.

going to see Russian Circles live tonight, flashback to my 18-year-old postrock fanatic self :D
 
^The visual get-ups at the two concerts I saw were unparalleled though. I mean, they really blew my mind. Maybe I'm easy to satisfy... but they were dope.
 
I had a date with Destiny last night, summoning me to New York City to meet an old friend and party till the sunrise. I'm on the bus on the way back home now with not regrets and a new optimism for the future. It is possible that I look upon the events of these 24 hours as a great turning point in my path. I can only hope and see; I am ready for a new relationship, especially with a creature such as her. *Swoon*. Anyway the night was filled with loads of connection, smiles, laughs, dancing, cosmic kittens and galactic feels courtesy of my first experience combining MDMA and ketamine, and also my first roll with MDMA in years. I was really overdue.
I'm so tired now, but in the most satisfying of ways.
 
I'd place of Montreal in the Intellectual/Psychedelic anti-establishment pop/rock/funk dance music genre. Definitely one of the best artists of the 20th century and the first part of the 21st century in terms of listenability and lyrical/musical content. With special attention to counterpoint and music theory, cloaked in a veil of drugged up lunacy and sheer psychotic derailment.

They promote things like the abolishment of gender rolls and corporatism while also touching on some of the more minor topics like breakups and ketamine binges.

Done in an all-encompassing way that will blow the minds of anyone born after 1980. And possibly even earlier.
 
hm after your description, I think I should check out that band as well. I heard that name often, but never listenend to the music.

Russian circles yesterday was great, even though I don't normally listen to metal, but they do it right. no lyrics, super hard riffs, ambience in between, great sound. <3
 
The hard part is figuring out where to start with of Mont because he has so many albums. I guess you can't go wrong with Satanic Panic in the Attic, Sunlandic Twins, Hissing Fauna are you the Destroyer, and Skeletal Lamping.
 
I had a metal mind-expansion experience yesterday. As in, metal, the type of music. I've really never gotten it before, I mean I have liked certain metal songs, some a lot, I could never get past the screaming though, or the dischordant elements, like I just really didn't get it at all. Well we had this local metal band called Kairos over yesterday to record 4 tracks live in our studio and then do an interview for our podcast (we're going to do an episode featuring them where we play the 4 tracks from that day and the interview). It was absolutely incredible, it blows my mind how talented they are. It's a perfect blend of soaring and beautiful and melodic and dark and horrible and dischordant. The singer does the demonic screaming thing over half the time, but he does it much better than anyone I've ever heard, I actually appreciated it a lot, and he would then switch into his regular singing voice which is beautiful. It was really profound for me. I also had taken 3-MeO-PCP and ALD-52 (a particularly powerful combination I keep finding) so my level of open-mindedness and music perception were at a peak. They told us about the world they created that their music is all about. In the future, humans had to leave the planet and when they go out they find various other planets and their terrible denizens, and it's about their adventures. Something like that, it really helped to paint the picture. These guys are incredible, I can't imagine being able to conceive of such a scope with your music, it was like a semi-psychotic journey through every sort of emotion in all these different landscapes of sound. And everything they did was in one take, they just played their songs, and then the singer went back and overdubbed the vocals (all in 1 take too) to replace the live vocals, just because then there's no bleed from the rest of the instruments into the vocal track. The songs were so fucking complicated and intense, and they clearly can just execute them perfectly whenever. So talented.

It's extra cool because we have 4 unique live takes of their songs in professional quality, and those exist forever. :) I know some of you here are into metal. Not sure when the episode will be out but I can post the link when it does. They're awesome in the interview too, hilarious and articulate guys. Also really nice.

vortech said:
I had a date with Destiny last night, summoning me to New York City to meet an old friend and party till the sunrise. I'm on the bus on the way back home now with not regrets and a new optimism for the future. It is possible that I look upon the events of these 24 hours as a great turning point in my path. I can only hope and see; I am ready for a new relationship, especially with a creature such as her. *Swoon*. Anyway the night was filled with loads of connection, smiles, laughs, dancing, cosmic kittens and galactic feels courtesy of my first experience combining MDMA and ketamine, and also my first roll with MDMA in years. I was really overdue.
I'm so tired now, but in the most satisfying of ways.
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That's great man, I hope something amazing comes from it. <3
 
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