ribbons

Very vivid descriptions of your childhood homes, Cella and TH - I really enjoyed reading them (but maybe not about the rat...as I too am a scaredy-cat ). music_collector, I am having an olfactory hallucination of smelling sulfur right now, lol.

Guybrush

1. Who’s your favourite Muppet?

Maybe Sir Didymus from the 80s movie The Labyrinth. He guards a bridge in the bog of eternal stench.


2. What was your first home like (that you can remember)?

It was a house in a short street next to a field and a farm.
There was a short rock wall along the edge of the field where I would find snails. I vaguely remember learning to bike and prying chewing gum out of the asfalt to chew. The farm had lots of cats and chickens. We moved from there when I was 4, I believe.


3. What, currently, is your main or preferred mode of experiencing music?

In my studio from my studio monitor speakers, even though I don't recommend buying monitors for music listening. Mostly, I just listen to our various google assistants as they play in sync and are littered around the house.


4. What was the last gig you attended?

A couple of weeks ago, me and my wife saw Susanne Sundfør, a norwegian artist with an absolutely fantastic voice. She has a bunch of beautiful songs.




5. Would you rather take a trip on an old sailing ship, a steam train, or neither?

Boat, easily! I grew up close to the ocean and spent much of my childhood in or around boats, though mostly the small kind. Being in or on the ocean just feels great and soothing for strange reasons I don't quite fathom. Whether swimming or in a boat, it just feels right, like what I should be doing.

A lot of the music and songs I write have something to do with the sea.


6. How organised are you, in general?

More so than the average person, though perhaps more so inside my own brain or in digital systems I create than what's apparent on a surprise visit to our house.

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innerspaceboy

1. Who’s your favourite Muppet?

So difficult to choose! I'm an unabashed Muppet fanatic with rare Muppet treasures all throughout my home. Kermit's positivity resonates with me, and I adore Gonzo's weirdness. And Emmet Otter from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas is a humble but noble protagonist. I think each Muppet has an endearing quality with which I like to associate.

2. What was your first home like (that you can remember)?

I remember a modest house from when I was 7 or so, at the bottom of a freeway on a hill and not far from a train station. The white noise of the highway and the distant trains lulled me to sleep each night. A fond memory.

3. What, currently, is your main or preferred mode of experiencing music?

Despite my having a substantial rare vinyl collection, I can't overemphasize the convenience afforded to me by my media server. I've made sure to research and track down lossless archival copies of the most superior digital master of each recording in my vinyl library, and to carefully construct exhaustive discographic archives of noteworthy record labels, artists, and composers, and to meticulously tag all with parenthetical release date prefixes to populate catalogs chronologically. My server provides me access to hundreds of thousands of my recordings from any web-enabled device and can transcode/downsample if needed for devices where the DAC would not benefit from FLAC to save on data, so I can enjoy my entire library from my phone anywhere I travel. It's a dream come true.

4. What was the last gig you attended?

Graham Nash at Babeville in Buffalo, NY on my birthday. It was an honor to see him live as my late father gifted me a vinyl copy of Songs For Beginners many years ago and it became a staple folk record in my library. At the show I claimed the very last autographed copy of his latest album which made it all the more memorable.

5. Would you rather take a trip on an old sailing ship, a steam train, or neither?

Steam train most likely. The scenery out the window would be zen-like.

6. How organised are you, in general?

I am an INTJ and am meticulously organized. I've worked to hyper-structure every moment of my life down to a window of 5 minutes. I manage my finances in a similar fashion.

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Scarlett O'Hara

Haha the funny thing is I was like 8 years old and watched the entire scene of day beating the rat to death, I've always been a bit morbid! Glad you liked reading my memories!

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That really is amazing.

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ribbons

I don't think you're morbid, just really BRAVE! And I really admire that.

ribbons

Songs For Beginners is a very fine album. Cool that you were able to obtain an autographed copy of Graham's latest. I always like reading about your fond remembrances of your father and things you shared together - including that beautiful lamp he gave you.

innerspaceboy

Thanks so much for remembering! I have something extremely exciting about my writing in the works. I'll have an announcement on my member journal once things are finalized.

Stay tuned!

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music_collector

I have to admit, when I turn on my natural gas BBQ, the smell comes back and I'm reminded of those times.

Scarlett O'Hara

Ribbons, you are so amazing, I just want you to know that!


Thank you, I've learned to be brave as otherwise I might not have got to places like Antarctica!

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