Thursday, April 3, 2008

That's all

I love noise jams because it's like listening to your friends practice in the basement. They've been going for about a good hour and a half, ran through the set maybe 2, 2 and a half, times and they took a break, passed the bong around, turned on the four track and thought intensely about the potential awkwardness of every possible social situation while just wailing eternally on all the notes they were playing. And only if they were your friends would you enjoy it. Otherwise you'd immediately call it dog shit. To like this kind of music you have to feel like you know these people. Otherwise you're alienated by the intimacy of the whole thing. It's like if your parents were to act out King Lear to you and your new girlfriend, naked and drunk on Mad Dog. You have to feel like you want to know these people after living inside their awful, stupid skin for at least an hour and a half.

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