Thoughts on sundry matters

[glenatron]

I'm walking a little easier- I still can't bend my leg very well and I need to have a stick for the times it gives out but it's definitely improving.

I'm thinking I might get a new CD as Autumn is here and I need some autumn music to enjoy it with. Currently I'm looking at Fleet Foxes or Elbow or Shearwater or Bon Iver. I'm probably inclining somewhat against the latter as my late summer album was Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days and they are a little close perhaps. Does anyone with experience of any of those records have an opinion to share?

Let the banks burn. They've been bailed out enough. If the world economy goes with them then so be it. We can make something less fragile and exploitable to replace it with. As life_of_tom observed; it's what Tyler Durden would want.

We played two open-mic nights with Quesada & Molino in the last week. Wokingham on Friday was poor- the sound set up wasn't ready for three people switching instruments constantly and we couldn't really hear what we were doing. Last night in Ascot was really good- everything was audible and we were able to play off each other much better. I don't think I mentioned it at the time but we changed the recordings on our myspace page a few months ago and they are, although not outstanding, at least more listenable than the original ones.

Comments

[stu-the-elder.livejournal.com]

Q&M are coming along nicely. Keep up the good work.

- Crumpwright

[penella22.livejournal.com]

Let the banks burn. They've been bailed out enough. If the world economy goes with them then so be it. We can make something less fragile and exploitable to replace it with. As [info]life_of_tom observed; it's what Tyler Durden would want.


Thank you for making me smile. Its good to remember our independence from the idiocy of the world, even if it comes at a pretty high cost.

...and now back to reading Fahrenheit 451...I may start bashing in televisions sets the world over after reading that...

[penella22.livejournal.com]

and I love the music!! well done.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's a frustrating fact of how we work that whatever we have on record is nowhere near as good as what we are writing now, but listening back to those for the first time in a few months with a little bit of time to forget some of the details I'm quite happy with them. The newer songs are stronger, though- we're still developing in that respect.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

The cost reduces as the currency collapses...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm not sure that i'm independent at all. I just don't fear change because some part of me is a little bit optimistic and believes that ultimately it can be for the better.

[http://users.livejournal.com/blitzen_/]

fleet foxes are GOOOOOOD. i haven't sat down to hear the whole record, but our alternatve radio station has featured them quite a bit. very summery sounds.

[spirithorse21.livejournal.com]

Let the banks burn.

YES. Yes, yes, yes. I am 100% behind you on this. I know if means we'll go through a depression, but damn it! Let all the greedy bastards feel the burn and then we can rebuild and make it better and maybe, just maybe, learn from our mistakes too.

[life-of-tom.livejournal.com]

I'm staggered that one of the pillars of the bailout is the US government BORROWING MORE MONEY to pay off bad debt.

One day, we won't need all these fragile toys, and we won't depend on and banks' imagined promises to each other, that when our greed finally catches up to us, we'll simply pass our problems on to the next database of poverty, putting off the day before the dominoes collapse.

One day, we'll stand at the top of a ruined skyscraper, looking down at a gass-covered highway wearing clothes we made ourselves. Or so Brad Pitt told me.

Oh, I think you love Fleet Foxes by the way. I've not heard the whole album but they have a certain sweet harmony, and a strange pastoral imagery to them which is, well, your kind of thing.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

They talk about corporate responsibility, but surely responsibility means dealing with the consequences of your actions? Mr Monbiot, in his usual insightful, knowledgeable and consequently deeply depressing way explains why the bailout will happen (http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/09/30/congress-confronts-its-contradictions/) in spite of everything.

[stu-the-elder.livejournal.com]

Okay, what with all the replies, I felt I had to address the financial brou-ha-ha.

If everything goes tits up, you are welcome to come sing the blues in my part of Hooverville. I will assign you all blues names - there has to be some semblance of order left.

- 'Gibberin' Blackberry' Crumpwright

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

The offer is generous, but due to previous experiences I have no intention of touring Canada again.

We'll handle the financial fiasco by fading into field and forest I expect...

[shiva-matimbres.livejournal.com]

it seems to me that this whole business means we'll soon be in a totalitarian dystopian science fiction future.

Mind you sci fi got it wrong in one way - they missed out the fact that as the world tumbles, TV comedy panel shows take the piss

awesome

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I think Sci-fi tends to understimate the power of sarcasm.

[overload74.livejournal.com]

I was pleasantly surprised by the Elbow LP - it's a good, solid album with a fair range of songs on it.

If I could recommend something, it'd be the new Okkervill River album "The Stand Ins", which I think you (and Tom) would like an awful lot. Really well-crafted American indie-folk.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

New recommendations always welcome, especially from people with exceptional good taste such as yourself.