nodata8967: hey...
Afext: hey
nodata8967: so what's shaking down...?
Afext: not much
nodata8967: hmm. did you ever used to watch 120 minutes on mtv? y'know, that show on mtv that actually played videos every sunday night? i just heard last night on the radio, that this sunday night is the very last show. that blows, mtv are such soulless whores.
Afext: After they got rid of Matt Pinfieild 120 mintues was worthless anyway
nodata8967: true, true...
nodata8967: regardless, it was the only place to see the occasional cool video.
Afext: yup
nodata8967: it hasn't even been on for 3 months or so anyways, oh well...they can play say what? karaoke for all i care, bastards.
Afext: lol
Afext: bands shouldnt even bother making videos anymore
Afext: the art of videos was lost a year+ ago... I stopped watching mtv for videos a while back... it's so worthless no one wants to be creative
Afext: are they still gonna show AMP?
nodata8967: i know, i know. there's absolutely no reason to make videos...120 minutes was the only place they even had a chance of being played on. now it's just m2 which most don't get...and vh-1
Afext: yup I dont egt m2 and VH-1 plays popular crap now too
Afext: Vh1 was supposed to be my godsend after MTV turned to shit cos VH1 played Garbage back in the day and other stuff but now all they do is play popular crap too
nodata8967: mtv only plays teenybopper muzak and crap...err, rap
nodata8967: it doesn't really matter though, i guess...because the music business is slowly eroding in some sense.
Afext: I suppose
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nodata8967: so...uh...what are some records you're thinking about picking up? there's quite a few i want...both new and old
Afext: hmmm
Afext: I dunno
Afext: I'm drugged out right now so if I dont make sense....
Afext: But uhhmmm
Afext: I really dont have a cd list really
nodata8967: ahh, i see...
Afext: I havent been on top of new music to get or any music to get at all..
nodata8967: eh, me either...
nodata8967: i mean, i'm gonna get Kid A and a few other albums that are coming out soon. but other than that it's mostly stuff that i've never gotten around to getting. like some pixies albums for instance...
Afext: I want to get all of Cat Steven's albums cos I love cat stevens, and older david bowie... but theres not a lot on my list
nodata8967: yeah. some of bowie's older albums i need to get too. i'd like to check out some of nick drake's albums too...
Afext: I should get some Squarepusher
nodata8967: i saw a squarepusher album in a used cd store a week or so ago...i don't really know who they are, they were on nothing records if i remember correctly.
Afext: I dont think Squarepusher is signed onto Nothing...... maybe he is...
Afext: Squarepusher is like a more complex and beautiful Aphex Twin
Afext: kinda like Richard D. James V2
nodata8967: i haven't really listened to much Aphex Twin...sounds interesting, though.
nodata8967: i'm not much of a techno person, myself. most of it is...rubbish, i usually only like ambient stuff like brian eno or something.
Afext: aphex is great but I think squarepusher is better on a more dance upbeat level
Afext: aphex is more mathmatical and.. i dunno...
Afext: aphex has some cool stuff, it's kinda like how praystation.com is to Flash... does neato stuff with music technology
nodata8967: they're two different people though, yeah?
Afext: yeah
Afext: As someone told me, wrongly about one thing, is "Squarepusher is like Aphex Twin minus the genius and talent" .. the talent is there, just the genius and the ability to move forward isn't.
Afext: squarepusher is just building on the foundation richard layed
Afext: and not experimenting too much
nodata8967: i don't know, something about electronic bugs me. it just...it's too repetitive for my tastes i guess, and it lacks the human aspect of music. it's just hard to connect with...for me
Afext: ahhh i love it... when praystation.com makes art from math I love it too... I dunno, I like repititions and I like pattern
Afext: I relate to computers and love techno
nodata8967: how do you relate to computers? that's interesing..
nodata8967: err, interesting...
Afext: I dont know I just do
Afext: I have a natural affinity for computers
Afext: like... I pick up stuff reallyfast, my mind is programmed like a computer so I can relate to the logic of a computer or something
nodata8967: they don't talk back, heh...
nodata8967: well, unless you make them..
Afext: like some people will open a new program and not know what to do but if I know what the program is supposed to do, I can open it up and immediately know how it works because everything operates on a set of rules that I understand on a computer
nodata8967: but, yeah...i understand what you mean, i pick up things very fast like that too.
nodata8967: right, it's pretty amazing at how many people can't use a computer properly. it bugs me when people act afraid of them, like they're going to explode if they do something wrong.
Afext: yeah
Afext: it bugs me when people just dont understabd
Afext: stand
nodata8967: exactly.
Afext: I dont think on terms of what it should do.. I think on terms of what it CAN do... and thats the most important persepective
nodata8967: or in terms of what you want it to do.
Afext: people go "Well you should be able to.." or "Why doesn't it..." ..... I go "Well, it does this and we can use this to modify this and turn it into..." I mean.. ugh... people expect it to me hand fed to them and thats why...
Afext: Yeeah
nodata8967: and that applies to anything, really. not just computers.
Afext: Thats how I think about computers... I think people only have that thinking for only certain sets of things
Afext: Like, whatever your work is meant to be thats what you have the most "patience" and understanding for
nodata8967: i try to have patience and understanding with everything, to an extent...sometimes i don't care, though.
Afext: Wow I was about to say that I can't draw as an example but thats not right
Afext: it's actually some people are artstic and freeform and can work with stuff veyr well
Afext: left brained people
nodata8967: you mean right-brained people?
Afext: and I am very right brained and controled and I can think in a set of rules without feeling restricted
nodata8967: each half of the brain controls the opposite side...
Afext: yup
Afext: Wow this is so amazing everything is so clear to me.... heheh..
nodata8967: right-brained people are the opposite of what you said.
nodata8967: so you're right-handed or...? i'm confused.
nodata8967: right-handed people think with the left side of their brains, and left-handed people with the right...
Afext: I thought right brained people werrethe controled ones.
nodata8967: no. it's just like i said, heh...
Afext: I'm actually right handed
nodata8967: left-brained people, who are always right-handed, think in a pretty...linear way, kind of like you said. in a more logical, mathmatical, straightforward, by the rulebook, type way
Afext: oooh I thought it was the other way around
Afext: then I am left brained.
nodata8967: i'm a lefty. so, i'm basically the opposite of that...
nodata8967: i smudge ink when i write, i have to pay more money for guitars, i wake up on the wrong side of the bed, i put my shoes on left-foot first, i walk in everywhere left-foot first. so lefties, heh...are unlucky and pissed off or something.
Afext: lol
Afext: I wouldnt want to be a lefty
nodata8967: oh i'm just joking, about the unlucky part. you would...
Afext: wheee
nodata8967: are you hallucinating or something..?
Afext: no
Afext: my mind is rushing though
Afext: dxm is very weird
Afext: you believe a lot of stuff and jump to conclusions quickly
Afext: I started fearing being a leftie in a next life. it was scary lol
nodata8967: dmx? what is that anyway?
Afext: it's a legal drug in cough supressants
Afext: in high dosages it's a mind bender
nodata8967: heh. on the plus side lefties are much more likely to have IQ's of 140 and higher than righties...
nodata8967: sooo many famous people have been lefties. don't even get me started, dude. heh...
Afext: bastard
nodata8967: lol.
Afext: ehheheh
Afext: well my mind is strange
Afext: being a leftie is cool just... lol
nodata8967: what kind of cough supressants anyway?
Afext: for some reaosn I was equating retards with lefties and it was freaking me out
Afext: DXM is in Robotussin DM cough syrup and.. I take it in pills, Coricidin HBP Cough and Cold
nodata8967: ahh, i see. be careful with that stuff...
nodata8967: robutussin even in normal doses makes you feel strange, me anyways...
Afext: heehe I know
nodata8967: well. it's really late here...i must be going, catch you later. lay off the cough meds, dude...and go to sleep
Afext: Awww
Afext: Later man
nodata8967: night...
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