Post AhM61X5sLpyraidqam by ajroach42@retro.social
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(DIR) Post #AhM61Ulb0GZQNF8chk by 68km@retro.social
2024-04-28T16:12:26Z
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It was our neighborhood yardsale yesterday so we pulled out some clothes and books to get rid of. We only made about $50 but it was good to do even a little bit of cleaning out and the remainders we're going to donate
(DIR) Post #AhM61VQ0a0teOa2thA by 68km@retro.social
2024-04-28T16:22:49Z
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The night before I pulled out the boxes where I keep my music CDs and had a great trip going through all of them.I've been thinking about the record & book store + art & event space we used to have on the storefront strip by UNCG, it was around from about 2008-2013 when I was finishing highschool and starting college. It was a great space and I met my friend whose house shows I would go to (and play at) all the time. Every album I have brings me back to those sets
(DIR) Post #AhM61VldHcC5TeAAOu by 68km@retro.social
2024-04-28T16:41:52Z
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in early 2011, at the very end of a bad relationship, I went to a show with Madeline Robinson (now the band Racecar), Jake Lazovick (16 years old at the time), and James Berbert (no clue what he's been up to for the past 8 or so years)They each had their own sound of course but to my mind it was like hearing 3 facets of raw, heartfelt folk/punk singers and I went home saying "now, that is what I want to make music like!" and so I did. Those 3 musicians have always been very dear to me for that reason.Towards the end of 2011 Madeline Robinson made a kickstarter to put out her next album and I paid for a 25 minute tape recorded just for me. I figured I was the only person that wasn't her friend to pay for that but her music really helped me get through some tough times and I really enjoyed it.I listened to that tape last night as I re-digitized it, and wow what a special ephemera I have.
(DIR) Post #AhM61WEhXXRivnlNi4 by 68km@retro.social
2024-04-28T17:15:06Z
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For a while, one of the sets that my friend Sam (3 Brained Robot) would play included a small rainbow parachute like you had in gym class. We would flap it up and down while he jumped underneath it, all of us slowly marching from the stage out into the street.I think it was on my 21st birthday, I went to a house show and one of the bands was Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, and they had a great vibe and brought costumes with them (I think spares for the audience to wear if they wanted?) and broke out a giant parachute that we took turns underneath writhing on the floor. This night was cemented in my mind as the best show I had ever been to
(DIR) Post #AhM61WkxbbFaXqr8zY by 68km@retro.social
2024-04-28T18:24:25Z
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Anyway, I have some great memories and great music from that time. I think that most of the tapes I have are ones I can find (better quality) mp3s of out there, but a few I'm going to be digitizing and relistening to now. Then move on to ripping the CDs.
(DIR) Post #AhM61X5sLpyraidqam by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-04-28T18:34:06Z
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@68km I love this, and I so appreciate hearing about what your music scene was like. My relationship with our local scene was immensely complicated by working with the local venues and also being a distributor and a young punk and also having social anxiety bad enough that the only house shows I ever went to were accidental. But I miss it! And I'm glad I took the time to digitize most of it.
(DIR) Post #AhM8j8pY7ffKzQvXuq by 68km@retro.social
2024-04-28T19:04:29Z
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@ajroach42 Thanks, it had its fair share of drama and stress (and really, I was a part of a subscene within a city full of scenes) and sadly the record shop/art space I mentioned couldn't stay afloat with capitalism, but I really value that part of my 20s.
(DIR) Post #AhM8p8In04Ur5YSdV2 by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-04-28T19:05:32Z
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@68km our shop was that space for a lot of people. I get calls and emails about it sometimes. People miss what we were. We're doing new things now, but it doesn't have the magic anymore.
(DIR) Post #AhM9HvIqPS9lAdDNuC by 68km@retro.social
2024-04-28T19:10:42Z
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@ajroach42 Times change.It's weird, this is city with many colleges (but enough actual industry and culture to not be a "College Town") and so there are pockets that come and go, with young people lamenting that there's nothing to do here or that there isn't enough DIY community.And so yesterday, a younger friend who is taking part in a new DIY community space that's slowly developing right now, was talking about how great it is to finally see that stuff blossom in our city.I brought up pretty much what I just said above, and how I remember what is now 15 years ago that a very similar movement was happening in the same neighborhood. A lot of the organizing? was built up by folks who had energy from the Occupy movement.
(DIR) Post #AhMA0jL1k0Xd5rbLzU by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-04-28T19:18:50Z
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@68km we were in a similar space at the same time with the same kinds of people, and we're doing it again in a similar space with the folks from this new movement. (It's a lot of the same people.)