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Ritchieâs touring crew doesnât live the Groundhog Day life of âoh ok itâs song four hereâs where he swan dives off the monitor wedges; ok hereâs his big closer, is the cake on deck?â
And itâs cool someone of his stature is doing that.
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But - not all art performance needs to be âimprovisatoryâ to be âvalidâ. But: what gives performances energy is their human element. The thing that lives & breathes & changes every time it happens on stage. If you have a time coded festival show, every time you press play, you get the same thing
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Tbh one of my favourite things about furry parties is how much they remind me of the old rave energy. People dressing up! Oftentimes âunexpectedâ music choices (lol)
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I am just old enough to have come up with a bit of the first wave rave shit where the whole point of an experience over a night was what everyone brought to the party. There was a time when raving was distinct from clubbing. And being surprised by the DJ was part of that
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The essence of performance is human spontaneity; DJing in itself is capable of it, even with just two decks. But far too much of what falls under the EDM catch-all is on rails. If youâre in the business of selling tickets, hey: crowds sure seem to dig it. So, mission accomplished if youâre into đ°
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Booking like this helps reassure my natural inclination to just stay home & never buy tickets for stuff đ
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Itâs cool when you have to piece things like this together over lots of trial & error (mostly error & âwhy do people seem to react awkwardly to my presenceâ) where other people just kinda instinctively know it
(Itâs not cool itâs actually quite frustrating)
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You have to studiously look like you donât notice them or are looking at something else but once you get within 8-12 feet you can look up & give a smile or head nod. Maybe a âhelloâ. The distance expands to some degree with familiarity. I did not realize this.
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My delicate raised-in-the-90s constitution is not cut out for this schedule of fresh daily news horrors
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EXT: the rubble of genocide morph-cuts to a luxurious Emirate-like intersection centred on a GOLDEN STATUE of POTUS. Cut to fat white boomers on lawn chairs drinking by a pool.
âNo, this would be hitting them over the head with it too much. Even fascists would have better taste.â
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I for one as an elder lennial baby Xer whatever deeply resent that I now live in a time Verhoeven wouldâve seemed too gaudily devoid of subtext to put in one of his films
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(This is self-talk as much as anything!!!)
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Never have I been so grateful for the road noise of highway travel đ
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Holy shit morning radio is absolutely hellish
Never getting in a car without headphones again jfc
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With Covid it wouldâve been ideal to simply have adopted widespread (& publicly funded - just get masks everywhere) preventions - including adopting new norms for air filtration in public places. Itâs a no-brainer. Not cheap, but in the long run cost effective. Lost opportunity.
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I do wonder if bathhouses have ever returned to their previous business heights (particularly in the hookup app smartphone age) compared to the late 70s/early 80s. Hard to shed a tear for the owners either way.
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For my money: preemptive shutdown to prevent highly lethal transmission (during periods of high mortality/when research is catching up to pathogens) followed by institution of preventative measures & adaptations to allow resumption of social activity is the way to go
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The discourse on âshould we close the bathhousesâ during the AIDS epidemic is basically identical to how people talked about how to respond to COVID. There are far too many parallels
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I really just wanna toss a beer at Dougie & call him a fat fuck
(Cut to: Al on crutches.gif)
Also conservative gay staffers are evil & ought to be hounded mercilessly
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Not dying of AIDS _is_ good! And yeah that whole book is basically about how even during all the death it was only a segment of people who âgot itâ & âacted upâ (boo bad pun boo)
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It isnât much in vogue the way it used to be!!
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For some you really gotta be born into that sort of circumstance. Or just be willing to live on a high wire. Age has made me much more risk-averse, alas
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I dream of having a life where I could just yell at people & throw drinks at vile personages & still have something to show for it. But, instead: I behave myself. Iâm definitely the more boring for it. But: employable, and by extension, housed!
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The most interesting fun & unique parts of making stuff involve learning & doing it yourself. The more you integrate readymade shortcuts, the more you shortchange yourself & your work, & it shows tbh
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Prime example: you could take any old dickhead, put them on stage with a pre-programmed pre-quantized DJ set list & their âsetâ would sound exactly the same as anyone else (minus filter cuts, volume drops, etc). More of your âvocabularyâ that is external, automatable, & fungible =less personality
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Which isnât to say that anyone _truly_ starts from zero: nobody teaches themselves vocabulary; everything is to some extent imitative & iterative.
But there is a difference between internalizing something & spitting it back out - repetition with a difference - that puts a human fingerprint on it
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Which isnât to say youâre a bad person if you use some shake & bake chord / scale plugins from Polarity or whatever (some look pretty cool tbh) but just realize that youâre trading one sandbox for another; doing something âinterestingâ involves learning to build things from âscratchâ
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And hey: depressing thought - you can even buy official KLF merch these days. Even those guys sold out!!
Spoiler alert: in The Manual they point out the problem with the music biz isnât music itâs capitalism but oh well. Here we all are. The bad guys won
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âThat sounds like it would take time!â
Well yes, getting good at stuff takes time & digestion & reflection & understanding.
I know, we all live in Billy & Jimmyâs world & just about everything we hear confirms to the KLF Manual structure
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Like, maybe the reason you keep using the âsame chords & ideas all the timeâ is a sign that you shouldâŚcheck some stuff out that has a different harmonic orientation? Maybe study a bit of theory? Try to understand how having a narrow group of influences might constrain your creative output?
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Like, itâs fun to have tools in the box thatâll let you come up with melodies & chords right off the top. But itâs kinda like saying âhey make your own sentences in [language X you donât know] by stringing together a bunch of words you donât know - hereâs the vocabularyâ
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I made this a ways back , and it explains everything.