tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81422171790987583242024-03-05T02:14:42.618-05:00The JMCA very serious man; a local man. Dum buddy. Very Cool.The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-81821614713182910932023-12-01T00:00:00.016-05:002023-12-02T01:41:36.465-05:00Lilith 1181 - 'What Comes After'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R8h8lK3J7DE?si=bAiLK4k01Jhel-iM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>This last month I had taken to playing this song on my bike rides around the time the sun sets. It is silly that my phone says the sun goes at 4:28PM, as if it is a event. The majority of my rides are on a trail that goes through the woods, so depending on hills and tree coverage, some times are lighter than minutes before, and darkness is gradual. First I start not being able to see far into the thickets of plants, then the ground in the distance becomes undifferentiated from the sky, and soon the paved road obscures into the gutter of leaves. I would play this song two or three times in a row. It’s a longer song, and doesn’t have a traditional structure, so if you listen to it on repeat it is hard to tell if you are on the 3rd verse of your second listen because it isn’t really applicable. I liked listening to it as an era of sound during my day. I think it is pretty but not light. Contemplative but not pretentious. It would be a few times over before I realized I had listened for maybe twenty minutes and was in pitch dark.</div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-19094401952375758632023-07-25T00:00:00.003-04:002023-07-25T18:53:14.305-04:00August 3rd - Queue Videos #1<p></p><div style="text-align: center;">August 3rd - 7pm</div><div style="text-align: center;">@ Black Spring Books</div><div style="text-align: center;">672 Driggs Ave</div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">A found footage festival featuring our most cherished online videos with selections & introductions by…</div><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://www.instagram.com/frankiecombos/" target="_blank">Greta Kline</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://www.instagram.com/sidneyg156/" target="_blank">Sidney Gish</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://www.instagram.com/clarkeislove/" target="_blank">Clarke Sondermann</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://www.instagram.com/marg.mp3/" target="_blank">Margeaux</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://www.instagram.com/evesoleil_/" target="_blank">Eve Soleil</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://www.instagram.com/adlankj/">Adlan Jackson</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://www.instagram.com/yasmina.tawil/" target="_blank">Yasmina Tawil</a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">FREE. L to Bedford.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The theme is Catharsis Videos.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_DGF020_odsbIistaMwTYDevoTW0TSrw6aMkz4emkoIeAmHwnDZAo6UvkcgF5nDoCMGkyczzzB8l0D7qKf6TxZiMAaZndraQ8L8kWZY_3oa8Gl4WBT-NPjRHBFit49RY35gHJgMvj094QK2_oBZDrz0e13-aqx1L_uGerz_vTDKEjHSisu79XiKq3rII/s1653/Queue%20Videos%20grid%202023%200803.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1653" data-original-width="1653" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_DGF020_odsbIistaMwTYDevoTW0TSrw6aMkz4emkoIeAmHwnDZAo6UvkcgF5nDoCMGkyczzzB8l0D7qKf6TxZiMAaZndraQ8L8kWZY_3oa8Gl4WBT-NPjRHBFit49RY35gHJgMvj094QK2_oBZDrz0e13-aqx1L_uGerz_vTDKEjHSisu79XiKq3rII/s320/Queue%20Videos%20grid%202023%200803.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-88558374326762301562023-01-09T00:10:00.009-05:002023-01-09T17:58:51.979-05:00January 20th - Parks Department, Ben Seretan, & Nico Hedley<div style="text-align: center;">January 20th - 8pm</div><div style="text-align: center;">@ Woody's House</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="mailto: jm@jmcaggregate.com">email me</a> for address</div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CMQoIk3QrHQ2uTWuZ7XQp?si=YpZKaladQM-8I-twxSun1g">Parks Department</a> [NY] (9:30pm)</div><div style="text-align: center;">++<a href="http://www.benseretan.com/">Ben Seretan</a> [NY] (9:00pm)</div><div style="text-align: center;">+++<a href="https://nicohedley.bandcamp.com/">Nico Hedley</a> [NY] (8:30pm)</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Free. F to Ditmas. Q to Cortelyou. BYOB.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-14543342717287762782023-01-09T00:05:00.002-05:002023-01-09T18:12:02.938-05:00February 17th - Sweet Joey Vermouth, Big Dumb Baby, & Zuzia<div style="text-align: center;">February 17th - 8pm</div><div style="text-align: center;">@ Sundownstairs</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>68-38 Forest Ave</div><div>Ridgewood, Queens</div></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://linktr.ee/sweetjoeyvermouth">Sweet Joey Vermouth</a> [NY] (10pm)</div><div style="text-align: center;">++<a href="https://linktr.ee/bigdumbbaby">Big Dumb Baby</a> [NY] (9:15pm)</div><div style="text-align: center;">+++<a href="https://zuzia.bandcamp.com/">Zuzia</a> [NY] (8:30pm)</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">M to Seneca. L to Myrtle-Wyckoff.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Tickets are $10 and only available at the door.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-42934511514359223082023-01-09T00:00:00.004-05:002023-07-25T18:43:01.128-04:00March 24th - Eliza Niemi, Ray Bull, & Blums<div style="text-align: center;">March 24th - 8pm</div><div style="text-align: center;">@ Sundownstairs</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>68-38 Forest Ave</div><div>Ridgewood, Queens</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://elizaniemi.bandcamp.com/">Eliza Niemi</a> [TORONTO] (10pm)</div><div style="text-align: center;">++<a href="https://linktr.ee/raybullmusic">Ray Bull</a> [NY] (9:15pm)</div><div style="text-align: center;">+++<a href="https://spiritlust.bandcamp.com/track/further-away">Blums</a> [NY] (8:30pm)</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">M to Seneca. L to Myrtle-Wyckoff.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Tickets are $12 and only available at the door.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-66602108940303972542022-12-23T00:00:00.002-05:002022-12-23T22:37:20.332-05:00The JMC Aggregate Podcast #19 12/10/2022 show diary<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1409269825&color=%238617bb&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/jmcaggregate" title="JMC Aggregate" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">JMC Aggregate</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jmcaggregate/episode-19-show-diary" title="19 show diary" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">19 show diary</a></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-85766673915858427332022-12-21T00:00:00.003-05:002022-12-23T23:20:13.990-05:00Big Dumb Baby - 'I Didn't Sign Up For This'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GuG17xkja88" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>This song sounds incredibly cool. It is a tight pop rock song that still sounds loose like, “Yeah I know what I’m doing whatever.” It slowly narrates the agonizing process of starting another day, and it reveals the uniquely mid-20s feeling of being the age where time begins to pass faster than you can observe but not yet being old enough to feel like an adult. That feeling reminded me a lot of the days leading up to Christmas when I was a child, overwhelmed with anticipation of what was to come yet precipitously depressed because it soon coming meant it would soon end. Someone I looked up to once told me everyone gets their time in the sun, and that we spend our lives either looking forward to it or looking back at it, but rarely do we know when it is happening. That’s what being 25 feels like.</div><div><br /></div><div>The half-life of trends gets shorter and shorter. The way we look and sound are mercurial, but what will always be cool is the act of suffering nonchalantly.</div></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-32209420063936121492022-12-02T00:00:00.009-05:002022-12-08T02:09:25.091-05:00Webring vol. 1 Ric Leichtung of AdHoc<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Webring is a semi-regular series with different people who operate independent media.<br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9S8_E3u2qlTeTtXOeSpN_6XXtAI66INeKxWD2gvrm-7OPsjoGQAq2RW5p28Ub29SVdrT1ezWZewT8Flb1GjzrEYl2198CM5vP2VHTPNgYF9BYDluLQQ-d6gzilws1YuwF-Xhf5bFbOdC7pWL-oDhNiiQfYtgzULS_vhp1-bspFyzhoqAwwihTJfG/s2688/Webring%2001%20AdHoc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9S8_E3u2qlTeTtXOeSpN_6XXtAI66INeKxWD2gvrm-7OPsjoGQAq2RW5p28Ub29SVdrT1ezWZewT8Flb1GjzrEYl2198CM5vP2VHTPNgYF9BYDluLQQ-d6gzilws1YuwF-Xhf5bFbOdC7pWL-oDhNiiQfYtgzULS_vhp1-bspFyzhoqAwwihTJfG/s320/Webring%2001%20AdHoc.jpg" width="148" /></a></div><p><i>This month I am talking to Ric Leichtung of AdHoc, an events promoter and zine based out of Brooklyn. Ric is an old friend of mine and we met when I impersonated them on Facebook while living at Market Hotel.</i></p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What defines AdHoc in terms of the people who work on it?</i><br /><b>RL:</b> I get questions like this a lot, and it never gets easier to answer. I think it’s just hard to articulate over text, and defining something ends up putting it in a box, which is the last thing I want to do with AdHoc and the work we do.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> How do you describe what you do?</i><br /><b>RL:</b> We initially chose to express ourselves as a publication focusing on artists that weren’t getting the attention they deserved. We felt it was important to intellectualize music with longform music journalism because the things we were interested in were getting overlooked, not taken seriously. Over time we realized that writing about folks shouldn’t be the moment we stop helping, which gave way to promoting events and contributing to the local and touring creative economies. </p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Do you think the idea of daily music writing and album reviews is out of date?</i><br /><b>RL:</b> I think there’s been a TikTokification of media that has changed the way people consume things. People have unprecedented access to content, and it makes sense that there’s a move away from longform journalism. I think more good is done by embracing the way things change than fight against them. Ten to fifteen years ago it was really about the popularization of Spotify, but it has proven itself to be an inferior platform for discovery. I’d still like to think music crit is alive, it just comes in bite-sized video form.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> How do you find new things you are interested in?</i><br /><b>RL:</b> TikTok.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> When you say you find TikTok to find things you like, what does that look like? Do you use TikTok in a specific way, or do you find these things through scrolling?</i><br /><b>RL:</b> I put effort into training my algorithm to show me more things I might be interested in. I use it as a search engine for anything I’m interested in.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Whose a good music crit follow? I have been having a hard time finding a good one on TikTok.</i><br /><b>RL:</b> I was thinking usage of crit would come back to bite me... I suppose I meant music discovery, because I care more about that than what someone who asserts themselves as qualified to wax intellectual about whether or not something is good. But for discovery I have a lot of overlap with <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@gee_derrick">Derrick Gee</a>. There also aren’t specific resources I rely on either; it’s really just a nebulous algorithm. I’m really looking for people who are like, “Wow I discovered this thing and let me tell you all about why I think it interests me”. </p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Do you think there is a reason people dislike TikTok beyond “things are changing in a way I'm not prepared for?”</i><br /><b>RL:</b> I think it’s because they don’t understand how the platform has evolved. Many think it’s still all about karaoke and dances when there’s so much more. That and they haven’t trained their algorithm, which really shows they haven’t given the platform a chance.</p><p><i><b>JMC: </b>Before you said you think people spend too much time fighting change. If someone asked you to make some form of independent media from scratch in 2023 how would you do it? Like what, should 22-years-olds who move to NY and have big ideas about “magazines” get started.</i><br /><b>RL:</b> Well I think part of the tough thing to accept is that the written word isn’t the accessible preferred medium for consumption; it’s video. Articles, features, etc, will spread quicker if they’re translated into a TikTok or YouTube format, which his a tough for some folks to swallow. To me if feels like the biggest generational difference between Millennials and Zoomers is being comfortable on camera and accepting their own digital footprint. There is something shitty about forcing yourself to put yourself on the internet to be heard. I definitely empathize with folks who don’t want to do that. Not too different from artists who excuse themselves from participating in Spotify or streaming services!</p><p>I guess it comes down to what these 22-year-olds are really trying to do. If it’s to put a spotlight on things they care about that need attention then using mediums that cater to that will be the way. A major issue with leaning into a TikTok though is that the folks who own the content aren’t truly in control of it. This is why so many people are fascinated by the idea of decentralized Internet and Web3. There’s no perfect way to do things, to be honest. There’s barely even a good way.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> To be clear though, while there is no perfect way you are to a degree acknowledging that things are getting worst, correct?</i><br /><b>RL:</b> Mmm, worse how?</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Well, you said that the way things are changing does alienate a lot of people who would much rather have their ideas speak for themselves.</i><br /><b>RL:</b> I don’t think that the format hurts the ideas. I think it makes them more accessible. It’s easier to get kids to learn something with an educational video than making them read a dry text book. I can see how some intellectual nuance is traded off, but I think there’s tremendous perks to spreading your message via social platforms rather than a website, and the big one is discourse. Continuing to focus on TikTok for the sake of doing so: you have comments in videos, users have the ability to stitch videos to react to them, people can duet them and comment on things in real time. That’s amazing! </p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> I guess what I’m confused by is if you think it is better or worse? Obviously it isn’t a unipolar situation where all things or more good or more bad.</i><br /><b>RL:</b> I try not to think of it as better or worse, just different. But if I’m forcing myself to pick, I’d say it’s better because ideas and information spread more easily than text would. This is why the one of the toughest current issues we have is fighting misinformation. </p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What have you been reading and listening to lately?</i><br /><b>RL:</b> DeForrest Brown Jr. is one of my favorite music journalists to read, so I picked up his latest book <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781734489736">"Assembling A Black Counter Culture"</a> which looks at the history of techno from a sociopolitical lens. Nabil Ayers' autobiography <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593295960">"My Life in the Sunshine"</a> is also on my list. </p><p>Asa-Chang & Junray's <a href="https://youtu.be/Kd1efwItF98">"Hana"</a> was a big deal for me when I was 15, and it recently got a 20th anniversary remix record that I haven't been able to put down. Asa-Chang is an amazing percussionist and on the song plays tabla, which is an extremely difficult instrument to master. He inspired me to explore tabla virtuosos like <a href="https://youtu.be/Zz0PcNCZbBY">Anindo Chatterjee</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/y3VREXj1Ss4">Zakir Hussain</a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/SQoY-gYiYQ8">Yogesh Samsi</a>. The variety of sounds these guys are able to get out of a pair of hand drums is incredible.</p><p><i><b>JMC: </b>Who is someone's whose taste you trust a lot?</i><br /><b>RL:</b> I trust Emilie Friedlander's perspective on the state of media, I read her <a href="https://theculturejournalist.substack.com/">Substack</a> and listen to her podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-culture-journalist/id1527948961">The Culture Journalist</a> every week. I trust <a href="http://thisistheread.com/">The Read</a> on all things pop culture, which is a podcast I listen to religiously that also has a Patreon and Discord community. Max Alper (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/la_meme_young/">@la_meme_young</a>) has a really unique ear and is excellent at finding TikTok with really unique, sonically interesting things happening in them.</p><div><br /></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-77073354587598811392022-11-30T00:00:00.010-05:002022-12-01T23:17:22.822-05:00Eliza Niemi - 'Staying Mellow Blows'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s9riUQajah4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p>This is a travel song. Eliza needed to get out town, so she traveled from Toronto to California and back, and over the course of this summer on the road she weaves in and out of what seems like a relationship or what seems like what might as well be a relationship to one if not both of the people involved. The narrative is opaque and full of references to things only the people there that summer could identify, and in so much is incredibly vivid. It is the mythology we all have for our lives, with our own little Iliads and Canterbury Tales. It is the same type of thing as me remembering that the day I first fell in love was October 28th, 2006.</p><p>I don’t travel. I was born in New York. I’ve lived in New York my whole life. I don’t go to places that aren’t New York, with the exceptions of Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania. When people express their desire to go to other places it confuses me. Like, “You want to go somewhere other than New York? Okay, random!” </p><p>From what I can gather the impulse to travel comes from the same place as my impulse to stay put. Being local is comforting to me because I can plan my life around it. I know at X I’m going to be doing Y and in 5 days I'll be in Z. The rigidly linear nature of tour seems to force this way of living on people. I’m going to sleep here and I’ll poop there. We think we are managing our time and our space, but what we are doing in truth is trying to manage ourselves. You can create a box to store your life in, or you can set yourself free, but either way it is only a story you tell yourself.</p><p>At the end of the song Eliza plays a homecoming show, and even though she instructed this man not to talk to her she spent the night looking to see him in the crowd. She doesn’t say if she found him, and I don’t think it matters.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-84633164236189401022022-11-29T00:00:00.014-05:002022-12-01T23:10:03.366-05:00Eliza Niemi - 'Trust Me'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tRTHytlZvu8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: small;">You can’t trust anyone with everything</i></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>But you can trust almost anyone with almost anything</i></div></span><p></p><p>‘Trust Me’ is a refreshingly optimistic song about what you can expect from others. Shocking news for our times, but apparently most people are fine! Granted, in some situations they will hurt you, but in most other situations they will be absolutely fine. Yeah sure, they might leave you in a puddle of emotional filth, but in exchange they will water your plants without killing them and make you laugh when happiness feels impossible and lend you $50 without being weird about it. People will leave, but you will be OK.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-38220028551998036202022-11-28T00:00:00.092-05:002022-12-01T23:30:32.228-05:00Eliza Niemi - 'Sushi California'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zBrNIwe26tM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div><div>Eliza Niemi fits lyrics into her melodies like someone who can win a game of Tetris. On paper these lines would be obtuse shapes, but she puzzles them together as if her each word she sings could only be followed by the next. ‘Sushi California’ mirrors this in a way, as it depicts a relationship that is clearly ending, but the good parts feel exactly like how they should and the bad parts feel bad in a way that locks into all of the narrator's complexes. It’s the kind of relationship that should have obviously ended yesterday, but also would do a great job of fucking up a kid sometime in the future.</div><div><br /></div><div>The opening line of this song addresses her partner’s premature grief for their aging parent. A friend of mine suffers from this problem. The last few years has been marked by her anxiety over her elderly father, which is ironic because that’s a long time to mourn someone who hasn’t died yet. That’s irrelevant though, because these worries are more about the preparation than the event. Oh, you love this person? Well guess what, bitch.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>There have been many times where I have thought to myself, "I wonder if this is the last time we will ever ever ever be together in this stupid restaurant we love?" That thought can occur so many times, and it is excruciating. Give me what I want or take it away, but for the love of God pick one soon. It would be easy though if it were just agonizing. Sadly, there are moments where you look at someone and everything feels perfect. In this way loving someone is a lot like gambling, because the thing that's bad about gambling isn't that you lose most of the time but that hit the jackpot some of the time. That's why people do it. It's terrible.</div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-61220306572061406502022-11-25T00:00:00.001-05:002022-12-05T02:14:59.345-05:00Pretty Sick - 'Self Fulfilling Prophicy'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lD_tid0K3dU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>As a person I am more or less exactly who I wanted to be when I was growing up, and I feel totally trapped in my own life. It is a real testament to the fact that whether you get the things you want or are denied them, what you long for will haunt you one way or another.</div><div><br /></div><div>This song is beautiful and rocks. Also, the music video is fantastic. Very rare you see a good music video that feels as if it is doing something new these days.</div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-4739034429687454162022-11-24T00:00:00.001-05:002022-12-05T08:18:36.853-05:00Fanclub vol. 5 Ryan Sheehan<p><i style="text-align: center;">Fanclub is a semi-regular recommendation series where I talk to Normal People about the Things They Like. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5O6y1jlWzp7Kgem4AM5LA9DoFmii1FXBgjStTQLlbCja5ccdfHP0cwvCDrEvDqhRFabJzdjGiM92L2fKiRfOeKyNSYJVuBYHsgEzJSXTuqZ5rpZnOulQw44QW3CSU7lz4jgKUosGRf9UlEPDatj25bskylv_f_vC7E30GiH_HJ18E8FJgLH2wZaE/s2688/Fanclub%205%20Ryan%20Sheehan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5O6y1jlWzp7Kgem4AM5LA9DoFmii1FXBgjStTQLlbCja5ccdfHP0cwvCDrEvDqhRFabJzdjGiM92L2fKiRfOeKyNSYJVuBYHsgEzJSXTuqZ5rpZnOulQw44QW3CSU7lz4jgKUosGRf9UlEPDatj25bskylv_f_vC7E30GiH_HJ18E8FJgLH2wZaE/s320/Fanclub%205%20Ryan%20Sheehan.jpg" width="148" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Ryan Sheeham (he/him) - New Paltz, NY<br />I know Ryan because he is dating my niece.<br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ryansheehan000/">Instagram</a></i></p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What have you been listening to lately?</i><br /><b>RS:</b> Definitely a lot of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvAmj3k3Imc&list=PLML7ziSV-WtOSMN1GeSC-otS7FrCLxs0V&ab_channel=PeterGabriel-Topic">Peter Gabriel</a> recently. Every couple months I’ll slip back into a Peter Gabriel phase, specifically his third self titled record. Aside from Gabriel I’ve been diving into <a href="https://deradoorian.bandcamp.com/">Deradoorian</a>’s catalog. She’s incredible and versatile. A lot of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Qd0mbji0U&list=PL2CFndANM_t0iNif93F7Ayhent-Eo7qvr&ab_channel=shuffle76">Low</a> as of late too, sadly as a result of the heartbreaking passing of Mimi Parker. A truly heavy loss. Such a talent, with a voice that always gave me chills. Oh and some <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbx7vhaIxi0&list=PL-UWPlRIl68oVKYGk7jA-yW27AR-8mKAO&ab_channel=24Adrian24">Sade</a> for good measure! </p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> How’d you get into Deradoorian?</i><br /><b>RS:</b> I kept hearing the name a few years ago, I think first in an interview with Fleet Foxes. I checked out couple of songs, then forgot about it. But the name came popping up in my head. Something about it just stuck with me, so recently I went back to her stuff, and found out she’s released a ton since I last listened.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Are there any shows coming up you are excited about?</i><br />RS: Gonna be seeing <a href="https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/bajascillators">Bitchin Bajas</a>, a psychedelic trio, on December 3rd at <a href="https://www.tubbyskingston.com/">Tubby’s</a> in Kingston. Been wanting to catch them for quite awhile now. They make some of the most beautifully hypnotic music since <a href="https://www.tangerinedreammusic.com/">Tangerine Dream</a>. Apart from that I actually have a show coming up on November 22nd at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/snugharbornpz">Snugs</a> in New Paltz that’ll be the debut of a new band consisting of me and one of my closest friends, Matt.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What’s the show scene in the Hudson Valley like right now? For a few years my friends from Brooklyn have been moving there, and I think they always expect it to be Brooklyn with trees because they spent a weekend at Storm King or in Hudson.<br /></i><b>RS:</b> It’s definitely a bit of that, but everything is so spread apart which I think causes this lack of cohesion, and I think actually is a good thing. I wouldn’t say the Hudson Valley has any kind of definable sound. There’s an incredible spectrum of bands from hardcore to folk. A lot of really great artists are based out of here. But with that spectrum also comes the complete mediocrity of the singer/songwriter craft brewery circuit that I really have no time for.</p><p>JMC: What’s something good going on there? Are there any good venues or specific bands?<br />RS: Tubby’s in Kingston is definitely a stand out venue. Whoever is doing their booking is killing it. Great local bands as well as classic indie bands are playing there all the time. My friend Nik’s band <a href="https://linktr.ee/overturnband">Overturn</a> is a killer stoner metal band. Another friend of mine, Dennis, just started this thrash band called <a href="https://sinnerstable.bandcamp.com/album/2022-demo">Sinner's Table</a> that absolutely rips. They’re based out of Poughkeepsie. <a href="https://www.thebobbylees.com/">The Bobby Lees</a> are another sick band, based out of Woodstock, who actually just recently got signed to Mike Patton’s <a href="https://www.ipecac.com/">Ipecac Records</a>.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What is something you've been hearing a lot about but haven't fully made your mind up about yet?</i><br /><b>RS:</b> Whatever the thing is, I’ve made up my mind... I think. </p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Do you really not have anything you’re undecided about? You are firm on everything you’ve seen and heard? I don’t believe that! Okay, well, what’s the last thing you changed your mind about?<br /></i><b>RS:</b> First thing that comes to mind would be Spielberg. I grew up with his movies as a kid of course, but as I became a pretentious young adult I came to despise him. I just thought he was completely overrated, sappy, predictable, and boring. But now I’ve started to go back and watch some of his stuff and I couldn’t have been more wrong. The man knows how to make a movie. He’s an absolute master of the craft, even with some of the stuff I don’t personally love.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What do you do all day for money?</i><br /><i>RS:</i> I work at a bar called <a href="https://wherehousenbny.com/">The Wherehouse</a>. I suppose it puts bread on the table.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-51327340244349366692022-11-23T00:00:00.016-05:002022-12-02T17:48:04.383-05:00Miya Folick - 'Nothing to See'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RGUTAxHrs9U" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>I liked the lyrics to this song a lot so I am going to do a line-by-line commentary of the song.</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>I know you've been talking to girls on the internet</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">Uh-oh.</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div><i>She's only nineteen and I can't compete with that</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">He’s talking to a 19-year-old? My gut says you’re better than this guy, but I guess you can’t help who you’re attracted to. It do be like that sometimes.</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div><i>I've been trying to change the way</i></div><div><i>I look so you like what you see</i></div><div><i>I've been losing weight so I can wear these Dolls Kill jeans</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">Dolls Kill are a massive apart of this revival of clothing you need to be starved and waxed in order to be comfortable in. Perfect reference for this song.</div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><div><i>Why did I do that?</i></div><div><i>Why did I do that?</i></div><div><i>Nothing has changed, I'm just sad and in pain</i></div><div><i>Said I would never be desperate</i></div><div><i>Look at me (x2)</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">The things we want have this terrible ability to make us do shit we do not want. We sacrifice so much in order to get this one subject, and then when we don't get it we're left abject.</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div><i>There's nothing to see here</i></div><div><i>Thеre's nothing to see</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">Desire hollows us out.</div></div></blockquote><div><div> </div><div><i>My mom was relievеd when she heard I was through with you</i></div><div><i>But my heart still stops when I see a green Subaru</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">Great rhyme! You? Subuaru? Genius! For real. It’s such a beautiful line. I once loved someone with a green Ford and whenever I saw one I thought that maybe I was seconds away from her stopping in front of me getting out of the car and saying she could not live without me. That, of course, was not going to happen, but the hope never died.</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div><i>You told me that you loved me but you mispronounced my name</i></div><div><i>I never corrected you, 'cause I didn't wanna push you away</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">God damn, girl. You're killing me! Don't take that shit from someone! I get it though.</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div><i>Why did I do that?</i></div><div><i>Why did I do that?</i></div><div><i>Nothing has changed, I'm just sad and in pain</i></div><div><i>Said I would never be desperate</i></div><div><i>Look at me (x2)</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">That was an embarrassing feeling I had. This person was my peer. We were supposed to be equals, but I followed them around like they were my babysitter and I'd be lost without them. I think I kept doubling down on my devotion because it felt like if I let them go I'd be abandoned, but they never wanted me in the first place! Why did I do that!</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><i>There's nothing to see here (x5)</i></div><div><i>There's nothing to see</i></div><div><i>There's nothing to see here (x2)</i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">This line feels has two meanings. One being that you cannot see them because they have erased themselves through pursuit. The other being more like, "Nothing to see here move along please don't look at me." Wanting things is humiliating, truly. Gotta love it.</div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><div><i>Why did I do that?</i></div><div><i>Why did I do that?</i></div><div><i>Nothing has changed, I'm just sad and in pain</i></div><div><i>Said I would never be desperate</i></div><div><i>Look at me</i></div><div><i>Why did I do that?</i></div><div><i>Why did I do that?</i></div><div><i>Now I'm wearing black 'cause you like me like that</i></div><div><i>Said I would never be desperate</i></div><div><i>Look at me</i></div><div><i>There's nothing to see here</i></div><div><i>There's nothing to see here</i></div><div><i>There's nothing to see</i></div></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-8471870205855790072022-11-22T00:00:00.004-05:002022-11-22T12:46:37.534-05:00The JMC Aggregate Podcast #18 w/ Smhoak<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1388396905&color=%238617bb&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/jmcaggregate" title="JMC Aggregate" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">JMC Aggregate</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jmcaggregate/episode-18-smhoak" title="Episode #18 w/ Smhoak" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Episode #18 w/ Smhoak</a></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-41152286088523464292022-11-21T00:00:00.041-05:002022-12-02T16:07:55.541-05:00Banny Grove - 'So Happy, So Good'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/16BcIU3R2pg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /><div><div>In 2022 it feels edgy to have a song emit genuine positivity. We’ve had two years of every press release reading, “This album is a meditation on anxiety and imposter syndrome in the wake of the ongoing COVID pandemic and the ever escalating climate collapse” which makes us forget that pop songs used to be like, “I love ta go dancin with my baby shee boo shee boo.” The scraps of positivity we do have are lyrics as a collection of individually wrapped slogans lab-designed to be re-enacted by 30-year-olds on Instagram Reels.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>True to its title, this song is about feeling happy and good. There have been many days where I have held back declaring how much I love life because everyone else is talking about a 15-year-old in Missouri who bulldozed his high school with his classmates still in it or a new bill Republicans introduced requiring McDonald's workers to be chained to the frialator. Saying you are in a good mood feels like you are telling someone to go eat shit and die, and it shouldn't be like that. Nothing is everything. Sometimes I feel like we have empathied ourselves into only feeling misery.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">let's imagine that patience and compassion grow into two legs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and you walk on them</span></div><div><br /></div><div>'So Happy, So Good' isn't saccharine. The lyrics are rapped in a Hip-Hop1.0 style where the flow was kind of just talking but doing it cool. Very "Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly." It's about the joys of life and the moments where it feels like you are an empty vessel rapidly filling up with all the beauty around you. The song sounds like how Spring smells. The leaves haven't bloomed yet but you can tell they will soon by the scent of the dirt. The air is crisp, but not cold. You can go for a walk for the first time in months. Where I'm from this usually happens around April, but every once in a while you'll get a day like this in February and think about global warming. Not that global warming isn't serious, but fuck that. Enjoy the weather.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I'm strong like the mighty ox</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hitch me up and watch me trot</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I'll tell ya there's love and faith to share</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">There's fresh clean socks and underwear</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the deepest part of the ocean's keep</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">There's strange and lingering mystery</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our bodies grow old and our muscles get weak</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our hearts and brains learn how to speak</span></i></div></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-17931771615377727382022-11-18T00:00:00.017-05:002022-11-18T11:29:18.987-05:00HUSHPUPPY - 'I'm Trying'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6hWJUooCUFM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>Yes, my friends, I too am a sucker for nostalgia, and this song immediately brought me back to 2008. Aggressive but soft. Propulsive and focused but also lilting. It reminded me of Vivian Girls and Times New Viking. It made me feel the way I felt when I stopped seeing that one therapist who said if I could try to make friends on the Internet if I was having troubles with loneliness. A lot of 2022 has been spent trying to avoid discussion of the late-aughts lest I get sucked into vibe-shift discourse, but ‘I’m Trying’ had me missing the music scene that proliferated right before chillwave. </div><div><br /></div><div>Nostalgia in and of itself is almost never interesting, but the why behind it cane sometimes have merit. HUSHPUPPY really nails the crux of what made lo-fi and shitgaze so compelling. We wanted music that sounded like equal parts having-a-crush and about-to-fight. I still don’t know why.</div></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-34755203616519687572022-11-17T00:00:00.001-05:002022-11-17T00:00:00.132-05:00Fanclub vol. 4 Yasmina Tawil<p><i style="text-align: center;">Fanclub is a semi-regular recommendation series where I talk to Normal People about the Things They Like. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHN1NTEsxOqTM_kUuFaV1OIoaloqMnAhtQvK9X2m36gm7VSfy91TxoDWJP_yotmJqznUTxHY4KAhRF65iV2Nqab2Ab-GwsQUZNenFctTDwqy8IKOehvQ47shcjiPIiR_AYVcVQwBKcrN2FmU4iaOdTi9Z3ZsMDEylErxhrv8x7VJGH0oPEHrw0VlN/s2688/Fanclub%204%20Yasmina%20Tawil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHN1NTEsxOqTM_kUuFaV1OIoaloqMnAhtQvK9X2m36gm7VSfy91TxoDWJP_yotmJqznUTxHY4KAhRF65iV2Nqab2Ab-GwsQUZNenFctTDwqy8IKOehvQ47shcjiPIiR_AYVcVQwBKcrN2FmU4iaOdTi9Z3ZsMDEylErxhrv8x7VJGH0oPEHrw0VlN/s320/Fanclub%204%20Yasmina%20Tawil.jpg" width="148" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Yasmina Tawil (she/her) - Brooklyn, NY<br />I know Yasmina because we shared an apartment at Silent Barn together.<br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/yasmina.tawil/">Instagram</a></i></p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What have you been listening to lately?</i><br /><b>YT:</b> I’ve been in the mood for things that are dark, loud and heavy lately. The exact genre changes day to day, but <a href="https://bobvylan.bandcamp.com/">Bob Vylan</a>, <a href="https://knockedloose.bandcamp.com/">Knocked Loose</a>, <a href="https://turnstilehc.bandcamp.com/album/nonstop-feeling">Turnstile</a>, <a href="https://puptheband.bandcamp.com/album/pup-unravels-live-in-front-of-everyone-they-know">PUP</a>, <a href="https://idlesband.bandcamp.com/album/five-years-of-brutalism">Idles</a> and, for some reason, <a href="http://sickpuppies.com/">Sick Puppies</a> have been in heavy rotation. On the odd days I haven't been in the mood for that sound, it's been <a href="https://twen.bandcamp.com/album/one-stop-shop">twen</a>'s album "One Stop Shop" or <a href="https://rubblebucket.bandcamp.com/album/earth-worship">Rubblebucket</a>'s album "Earth Worship" basically on repeat.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Can you please explain Turnstile to me? What makes them special? I feel like I’m missing it.</i><br /><b>YT:</b> Oh God. I can’t wait to be called a poser.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> No, I don’t think you’re a poser! I just cannot tell a good punk band from a bad punk band, so when there is a punk band people really like I can’t tell why.<br /></i><b>YT:</b> Something about Turnstile’s music just gets my blood boiling. It makes me want to jump and dance. I could not tell you the first thing, musically, why that is. I was, unfortunately, a late adopter to the band after years of people telling me I’d love them, but their current sound and audience has become very *ahem* bro-y. But it still hits for me so fuck it! I love it! I wish I had listened sooner.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> When is the first time someone called you a poser?</i><br /><b>YT:</b> I don’t think anyone has ever called me a poser to my face, but it’s a constant fear I have. I have definitely been teased about my taste in music before though.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> If nobody has said it to your face why is it a fear? Wouldn’t it be easy to conclude it isn’t a thing people think about you?</i><br /><b>YT:</b> Because I think people do think it about me even if they don’t use the word! Ever since I got into music in a real way I was always kind of behind or too late to something. I got into Green Day in the American Idiot era and I had fellow middle schoolers telling me it was lame. I don’t know classic rock at all, or classic movies.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What do you do all day for money?</i><br /><b>YT:</b> Well, I just quit my full time job, so right now I'm the Director of Film Programming at the Arab Film and Media Institute, and I will be pouring beer at Banter during the World Cup. </p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What does being the Director of Film Programming entail? Are you the one who has the watch all the movies that are submitted?</i><br /><b>YT: </b>Yeah more or less! I handle everything regarding programming at AFMI. I do have a programming committee for the film festival that helps me get through everything, but I make the final curatorial decisions and arrange the licensing and delivery of the films. Throughout the rest of the year I do it all more or less by myself.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> This is going to sound like a dumb question, but how do you decide what movies are good and make it into the festival?</i><br /><b>YT:</b> It’s not a dumb question! It is a complex answer though.<br /><br />The first level is basic production value. It doesn’t have to be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, but I tend not to program things that have notable image or sound issues or really bad acting and writing. In certain situations good stories can win out over production value, but there is still a sort of base level the films should reach.<br /><br />After that I start to explore different themes I’d like to see in the festival. This year, I wanted to put together something more diverse in terms of subject & genre. I leaning more towards queer films, comedies, and genre films. Ultimately, some of this is determined by what is created, available or submitted that year, but I do take note of that. I then also consider diversity in things such as gender, countries and such, and try to create a lineup that is rich and diverse in that regard as well. </p><p>Then to a certain degree I have to take into consideration what our audience wants to see. I don’t compromise on my vision or quality but things that have a lot of buzz, awards, or Oscar submissions may be more likely to be part of the lineup.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What percentage of the movies you watched in the last year do you think were related to this festival in some way?</i><br /><b>YT:</b> At least 50%.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-21977718971720701522022-11-16T00:00:00.002-05:002022-11-16T00:00:00.140-05:00ZOOMDWEEBY - "ReWiNd'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vy0UwJljguk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>ZOOMDWEEBY consistently displays one of my favorite traits a musician can posses by having many audible influences and never sounding like a specific one. It feels new, but also as if it was made by someone roughly my age with roughly the same formative taste. I had the lyrics to this song sent to me, and I still have no clue what this song is about. The imagery is specific, grandiose, and vivid, but it all made the song feeling secretive. Mysterious in the way handsome men in movies are mysterious. Attractive because it is hiding nothing, but still has something inaccessible and faintly out of reach.</div><div><br /></div><div>'ReWiNd' isn't even my favorite ZOOMDWEEBY song. It's just the one I think is most interesting.</div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-85300861073418768832022-11-15T00:00:00.003-05:002022-11-15T00:38:34.198-05:00The JMC Aggregate Podcast #17 11/11/2022 show diary<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1383363892&color=%238617bb&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/jmcaggregate" title="JMC Aggregate" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">JMC Aggregate</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jmcaggregate/episode-17-show-diary" title="Episode #17 11/11/2022 show diary" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Episode #17 11/11/2022 show diary</a></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-28975557408967382472022-11-14T00:00:00.023-05:002022-11-15T01:23:20.298-05:00Liza Winter - 'Steeping'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9t0PKStuihM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stops go by<br /></i><i>I sit on a train<br /></i><i>See your eyes<br /></i><i>When I close mine</i></p></div><div>This song is beautiful! It is pretty simple present-tense narrative of a person disassociating on a train in a state of longing. The lyrics are sung over the strumming of an acoustic guitar accompanied with sparse but charming guitar twinkles, and it ends when a memory of the missing partner is interrupted by the realization that they missed their stop on the train. Bada-bing bada-boom, now you're sad.</div><div><br /></div><div>For a while I was not sure why this song stuck with me the way it did, but I realized recently that it is the title and what it implies. What is the difference between steeping in a feeling and wallowing in it? Nobody steeps tea for the hell of it; it is something you do because you want the tea made by steeping the leaves. Wallowing, however? That's definitely the main course.</div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-10622690738837612502022-11-11T00:00:00.000-05:002022-11-11T00:00:00.148-05:00The Cradle - 'Joke's on You'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T1j70v79IN4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>Ostensibly ‘Joke’s on You’ is about debased humiliation, and not the good kind. </div><div><br /></div><div>It centers a haughty person down on their luck and calling for help, ignorant that they have been helped this entire time. It is humbling to look around at your conditions and know that all of this shit is actually the best case scenario. Could have been worse if you were poor! Or black. Or whatever. Some people are very fortunate in that they get a few extra lives, and other people go through the world knowing that everything they have done can be rendered futile with one innocuous decision. Imagine someone thinks they are tapping into their first extra life when we all know they’re on the fourth. </div><div><br /></div><div>It’s infuriating. Haha. Joke’s on them.</div></div><div><br /></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-79707367836358802622022-11-10T00:05:00.002-05:002022-11-18T14:59:08.585-05:00December 10th - JMC34 w/ Dougie Poole, Anna Fox Rochinski, and Crosslegged<div style="text-align: center;">December 10th - 8pm</div><div style="text-align: center;">@ Gottscheer Hall</div><div style="text-align: center;">657 Fairview Ave</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ridgewood, Queens</div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">+<a href="https://dougiepoole.bandcamp.com/">Dougie Poole</a> [NY] (10:40pm)</div><div style="text-align: center;">++<a href="https://annafoxrochinski.bandcamp.com/">Anna Fox Rochinski</a> [NY] (9:50pm)<br />+++<a href="https://crosslegged.bandcamp.com/">Crosslegged</a> [NY] (9pm)</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">FREE. M to Seneca. L to Myrtle-Wyckoff.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="https://bndcmpr.co/embed/808a47de?orientation=portrait" style="border: none; height: 600px; width: 350px;" title="JMC33"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4Q2VXETQFADY8">Donate to the event here</a>.<br /><br />The only funding for this show is from donations. There is $1850 in overhead expenses & artist guarantees, and all money after that is split evenly between the three artists and myself. If the donations end up being less than $1850 all the artists and staff will still be paid at my personal expense. Budget below.</p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">room fee $1000</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">artist guarantees $450 ($150 x 3 artists)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">sound person $150</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">security $150</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">flyer $50</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">moving PA to / from my storage unit (~ $50)</span></li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBfU-m9XcdIuytiu7oNh3xYqjpr_BGU7FNn2yvy_-hYjGtfoyvgtDDLqpRf6JxixIDkLKcWg9HVsGKAv3We6O1pKd9QvzEyawhP0NzV_yKiIa2Ss8LyCaBs3Cnxc3EDjdCOx2Hn6yrcSlsYKd7a0-NOiKz6eygDB_dz1JqAp4ISIXIZagEb3j-1PQZ=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBfU-m9XcdIuytiu7oNh3xYqjpr_BGU7FNn2yvy_-hYjGtfoyvgtDDLqpRf6JxixIDkLKcWg9HVsGKAv3We6O1pKd9QvzEyawhP0NzV_yKiIa2Ss8LyCaBs3Cnxc3EDjdCOx2Hn6yrcSlsYKd7a0-NOiKz6eygDB_dz1JqAp4ISIXIZagEb3j-1PQZ=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div><p><a href="https://dougiepoole.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a>. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dougiepoole666/">Instagram</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/dougiepoole666">Twitter</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4QbqmQzCXRjJ0RpfY0Yt1PpaixUimMn9dAsDHLPjkrTlDNlVIYlSiEzJkvR64LyxpRdJkZB-ZlbC5oe0PmrNPXD3rY0Wvc-LkcpgYJrzJOQvHk7E7nFJwUBb4_pUsKuAc2nIkqAJS0RBplmjJEjznyG0rvMHSCBUaGHSs_fHfo3V6Amc-EEb0B7a7=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4QbqmQzCXRjJ0RpfY0Yt1PpaixUimMn9dAsDHLPjkrTlDNlVIYlSiEzJkvR64LyxpRdJkZB-ZlbC5oe0PmrNPXD3rY0Wvc-LkcpgYJrzJOQvHk7E7nFJwUBb4_pUsKuAc2nIkqAJS0RBplmjJEjznyG0rvMHSCBUaGHSs_fHfo3V6Amc-EEb0B7a7=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div><p><a href="https://annafoxrochinski.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a>. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/anna__fox/">Instagram</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnaFoxR">Twitter</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjID6KiYma5eBZU0N-0h40Ml2k1DJgMAsSRhVntqHo3yjaZU1D_x1WZCJ0JrO6jsimf7kuwj9_ft4p8QfRNRjFVA8i-SGZf-MPB2m9_nLzajVA5P1S81VH-Klmu1ib5I1rnwDBnt65TmtRiMHY9Emn_iy75AsSRi_ENM8qvqCFE1dFJ0LWhIHkkO-1Q=s400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjID6KiYma5eBZU0N-0h40Ml2k1DJgMAsSRhVntqHo3yjaZU1D_x1WZCJ0JrO6jsimf7kuwj9_ft4p8QfRNRjFVA8i-SGZf-MPB2m9_nLzajVA5P1S81VH-Klmu1ib5I1rnwDBnt65TmtRiMHY9Emn_iy75AsSRi_ENM8qvqCFE1dFJ0LWhIHkkO-1Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div></div><p><a href="https://crosslegged.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a>. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/crosslegged_/">Instagram</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/crosslegged_">Twitter</a>.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-85422424479089196122022-11-10T00:00:00.022-05:002022-11-16T16:43:01.694-05:00Fanclub vol. 3 Dante Sudilovsky<p><i style="text-align: center;">Fanclub is a semi-regular recommendation series where I talk to Normal People about the Things They Like. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCPBtab2FOsraXhhEF2n9kR4xkZTmUp2Me4K262qa6ty2TUmVevn5QHOiKEiSC-b_Jm_arFon0niNzL2fAJh5CdEu3Yu76K7OYo4jL3t9NQumyjkEukRyGBnES8hUD3u7gwfLgyZ_CuFQoq8N862H89_pzaYd7rOwHsHXMDmm2SkdUGcdwcH3H__G/s2688/Fan%20Club%203.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCPBtab2FOsraXhhEF2n9kR4xkZTmUp2Me4K262qa6ty2TUmVevn5QHOiKEiSC-b_Jm_arFon0niNzL2fAJh5CdEu3Yu76K7OYo4jL3t9NQumyjkEukRyGBnES8hUD3u7gwfLgyZ_CuFQoq8N862H89_pzaYd7rOwHsHXMDmm2SkdUGcdwcH3H__G/s320/Fan%20Club%203.PNG" width="148" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Dante Sudilovsky (he/him) - San Francisco, CA<br />I know Dante because he went to college with Abbie From Mars.<br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dantesudilovsky/">Instagram</a></i></p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What have you been listening to lately?</i><br /><b>DS:</b> Been really digging <a href="https://markettheband.bandcamp.com/album/the-consistent-brutal-bullshit-gong">Market</a>'s new album. It's very gloomy white-boy-needs-therapy-core, so right up my alley. <a href="https://wingedwheel.bandcamp.com/album/no-island">Winged Wheel</a>'s debut album "No Island" has become my running playlist, despite the fact that it's not really a great running album. Lots of interesting dissonance and just the right amount of experimentation, however. Oh, and let's not forget about <a href="https://youtu.be/5wYI6d9COKw">Everyone Asked About You</a>. They're getting rereleased on Numero group, and the cleaned up/remastered 'It's days like this...' has been making me miss Her. I've also been revisiting <a href="https://womenband.bandcamp.com/album/public-strain">Women</a>'s always-great second album "Public Strain". According to my Last.FM I've been listening to <a href="https://astrelk.bandcamp.com/album/flickering-i">astrel k</a>'s "Flickering i" album. Don't know much about the dude other than he sounds British and makes some nice art rock sounds. Finally, <a href="https://youtu.be/PzbgaWXJN2o">Hood</a>. One of my favorite bands of all time, their 1998 album "The Cycle of Days and Seasons", is the quintessential fall album for me... September brings the autumn dawn... So true...</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> You say live music in the Bay Area has been disappointing. What is disappointing about it?</i><br /><b>DS: </b>I think my disappointment stems from the scale of the music scene here. It’s simply much smaller than NYC or Philly. There’s fewer bands, fewer venues, and fewer touring bands coming through. I have to recalibrate my expectations of live music. Going to a show is not a 2-3 time a week thing here. It’s every 2 or 3 weeks. It just feels less alive here.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Do you think if you didn’t have the stress of starting new career and moving across the country you’d still feel that way?</i><br /><b>DS:</b> No! Not at all. I do truly believe there is great music/art being made here, especially in Oakland, but my perception of the whole place is colored by the realities of my everyday and being disconnected from the scene. Finding it just requires more effort than hopping on a subway. It requires knowing the right people and living in the right place. I’m learning to be more patient.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Do you ever feel like your apex of caring is behind you?</i><br /><b>DS:</b> Perhaps. Since I’ve been on hiatus from my radio show, music in general has become less a part of my life. What is filling that void now, I’m not sure. Maybe my everlasting search for decent affordable housing and groceries? I fear that I’m becoming that which those who do care all fear: an adult. I think it can be brought back into focus, but my life now just doesn’t have as many open doors through which to connect to art as in NYC.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Have you made any new friends since moving?</i><br /><b>DS:</b> Work in progress. I’ve made one very good friend (shoutout to Holly) since I’ve moved here. I’ve been talking to my neighbors the last couple of days and mindlessly swiping on dating apps. But this is another part of my life where I’m learning to be patient. It takes a very long time to make friends when you move to a new place by yourself. Finding the right people is worth the effort and worth the time but it’s something that does take longer than anyone wants</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What is something you've been hearing a lot about but haven't fully made your mind up about yet?</i><br /><b>DS:</b> Hahah man I wish I was hearing a lot about anything at all. The only thing I hear about a lot here is psychedelic shamanistic ritual healing, fires, homelessness, and tech money. Music has become extremely internal for me here in the Bay. Rarely share and rarely shared. </p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What do you do all day for money?</i><br /><b>DS:</b> Emails, spreadsheets, blah blah blah for a Berkeley-based organization working on greening schoolyards. Looking for something that matters, maybe some day...</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> What do you think matters if not greening schoolyards?</i><br /><b>DS: </b>Meaning is complicated. Ugh. Personal fulfillment sometimes is enough, and all that we can really strive to achieve. Nine-to-five is going to be a hard gap to fill realistically for me. The jobs I would find truly meaningful are few, far between, and disappearing fast. I would love to live a life engaging with the things I’m deeply passionate about, like music/radio/watch repair, but for now I think the only thing that can realistically matter for me is filling my life with great people. What else is there really in this twilight, terminal world?... It would be perhaps my life dream to work at WFMU.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Oh damn you can repair watches?</i><br /><b>DS:</b> Yes! Been repairing watches since I was sixteen. I’m hoping to start apprenticing with a watchmaker in San Francisco.</p><p><i><b>JMC:</b> Hell yeah. Okay, that’s it!</i><br /><b>DS:</b> Awesome. Sorry my answers were somewhat bleak. Haha.</p>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8142217179098758324.post-67776993777556369922022-11-09T00:00:00.012-05:002022-11-09T22:17:07.463-05:00Cindy - 'My Mother'<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iQ08OK_KKjk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div>It is under-discussed how bizarre parenthood is. Your parents grew you like a tomato plant out of ingredients made from their bodies, and they spent months (possibly years) within spitting distance of you twenty-four hours a day. Then you started to have thoughts they were not privy too. They remember when you could not figure out to bend your knees when you walked. They remember when you were still figuring out how to wipe your ass properly. They remember when it was obvious you had started to masturbate. Now they now have to talk to you pretending you are an equal, or else you will get mad! This is ridiculous!</div><div><br /></div><div>For most of my childhood my mother was sick, but then she got better, and then we stopped getting along. My father also got sick, but he did not get better, and that is when we started getting along. Now, for the first time since adolescence, I am able to enjoy the time I spend with my mother and show her affection. There is a lot we remember differently. Of course, my memories are the ones that are true, but the more time passes the more I can see that the history we share is actually two parallel but separate set of events. At times this is upsetting because I feel she is rewriting my childhood, but even if her version of me as toddler is different than my own, hers is the only one left other than mine, and that is worth something.</div><div><br /></div><div>“My Mother” is a very focused song that leaves room for ambiguity. A lot of its beauty is in the clear-sighted simplicity in its sound and subject matter. You have a mother; you owe her a lot; and one day she will be gone. The song relies on a playful keyboard flute hook and the sweet performance of lyrics that deftly stands on the line of devoted and obligated.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>my mother</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>how could I just live without my mother</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>cause she's the only one who bothers</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>for always alone with just my mother</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>cause she takes care like you're no other</i></div></div><div><br /></div>The JMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079019179915036678noreply@blogger.com