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I just found out ink dries shiny and weird :sad:

Oh well. I've spent like 4 hours arting. That feels like enough.
 
AnCatKatie said:
Mrr. I need to go to Seattle.
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Seattle is wonderful! But Portland is nice, too. Fewer mountains, less water ... but nice. :wink:

zuropa_fit said:
They played here a couple years ago. DRay and I want out to the casino to see them. I didn't love the lead singer, but he grew on me as the set went on. I'm sure you'll have a good time.
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The Bonos of the tribute bands are the ones that weird me out the most. I know they have to throw themselves into it because ... well, they're Bono, and everyone's watching them anyway. It's just weird and goofy. I love the goofy, and get into it with the other faux-2ers, but I get weirded out by faux-Bono being all Bono-y.

But only when I stop and think about it, which luckily isn't in the moment at the show, because then I'm dancing and jumping and being a weird goof myself!

And I know I've only seen one tribute band so far, so I guess I'm just basing it on them, but I could see how it might hold true for others!

there's apparently a local tribute band, but they never seem to play any shows in the city. They did have a New Year's gig last year, but I opted for my friend's fancy-schmancy party instead.
 
Philosophical moment: art is very different than music. I feel like if I made music, I could make some really shitty garage rock song and be satisfied with it. I've been staring at the same painting for like 8 hours, wondering why I'm unsatisfied with it. It was watercolor with an ink background, now it's got acrylic on it and what the fuck. I don't have the eyes of the public so I have no idea if people here are going to pay money for this thing. To me, it just looks like art student material, but I critique all art really hard. I've been departing from realism but I can't really do abstract-ish professionally...

(I mean, it looks better after not seeing it during dinner, but I still don't know)

I've just been reading yet more music-related material and thinking, it's way more popular than art, when people do it well. And opinion seems to matter less; shit albums sell a lot.

And then I started wondering whether it's all culture byproduct, blah.
 
I would be interested to see a U2 tribute band. But I can imagine the Bono character is hard to perfect-the guy's pretty hard to imitate well, if at all.

Katie, yeah, art's weird that way. And you're right that it doesn't get nearly the attention or appreciation publicly that music does. Art's often perceived as: a) being viewed through the eyes of snooty upper class people who wander around museums and pompously analyze the crap out of a picture of, like, a dot and focus more on how it looks in their homes and its price than the art itself, and b) being made by bohemian, free spirit types who babble on about muses and such. And someone in the latter group has to die for their work to finally be "appreciated" by the former group. And even then very few artists manage to go on to be renowned the way a Picasso or Van Gogh or Michelangelo is.

I love to draw and paint and stuff from time to time, but I wouldn't call myself an art expert by any means. I judge a painting by whether or not I find it pretty/cool-looking or think there's a neat story within the art. I've liked the stuff you've shared here thus far, so there's one member of the public's opinion for you :). I hope you're able to get your issues with your painting sorted out.

TaraCynara said:
Also, I think we're forgetting his inability to keep things to himself. He likes to talk. A LOT. I don't think he'd be able to handle tweeting, given that each message has a set word limit.
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Good point! Very true. It'd just turn into stream of consciousness rambling spread out over multiple tweets.

TaraCynara said:
There's only one indoor place that I know of that goes through the same ticket seller as the ampitheatre, so maybe he'd go there in the fall.... it's supposed to be 99ºF on Wednesday :crack:. This ampitheatre is in the more desert area of northern UT, too....
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Ah, I see. Eh, well, worth him looking into it if he wants.

99 degrees? Yaaaaaaaaay.

It's been in the 80s here the last couple days. Much nicer.

TaraCynara said:
Grrr......

stupid Amazon Marketplace person. I ordered something from them, and then they send me the wrong product.

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Agh, that happened to me once, too! Very frustrating.

What was the mix up?
 
night, people

I plan on thoroughly non arting tomorrow...I think? I probably need a break day, esp. because figure drawing after tomorrow

M-A, yep pretty much.
 
Moonlit_Angel said:
Good point! Very true. It'd just turn into stream of consciousness rambling spread out over multiple tweets.
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It'd be funny, though. :lol:



Moonlit_Angel said:
Ah, I see. Eh, well, worth him looking into it if he wants.

99 degrees? Yaaaaaaaaay.

It's been in the 80s here the last couple days. Much nicer.
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Lucky. It's too hot to go outside. :sad:



Moonlit_Angel said:
Agh, that happened to me once, too! Very frustrating.

What was the mix up?
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I ordered the Byran Adams Unplugged dvd, and the damn person sent me the cd.

When I emailed them about it, they apologized, gave me a refund, and then said they never had the dvd. :grumpy:

Galeongirl said:
:love: Imagine him in such a tailored suit with a top hat and a fancy cane. That would be awesome.
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:love::drool:
 
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Totally did that in 2012...it can be a way to listen to more of the material...

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Kinda still had that problem in the 2000's. Except it was more like didn't know what was on in the week.

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Teachers make kids do research papers with few or no internet sources. Library's a bit of a pain in the ass. I do not miss.

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Toootally missed it when I was 6 months old. That and ZooTV.
 
Yea, obvious you're not a 90s kid. :wink:


We had to suffer through this shit. And kids complain these days that they had it so tough.

The day my favourite SNES game stopped working I cried.
 
Definitely not :giggle: I mean, the 90s were my really early years. I just remember being little in 1999. And leggings with ugly patterns. I vaguely remember MTV, but it was something my older sister watched. I didn't hear alternative radio until like 2005. And I definitely didn't have to deal with most of that stuff.
 
Dude...you don't even KNOW.

*Gets on her bifocals.

In my day, there was no scrolling TV Guide channel and we had 63 channels - including like 2 movie channels.

Now, I get you have a massive boner to be in your late teens/early 20's in the 90's...but all it will get you now is some wrinkles, gray hair and whole lotta unused anger/discontentment.
 
Hey I remember 2 TV channels and one or 2 that came in fuzzy on a good day. And we had the first video game on our block.

PONG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every kid on the block hung out all day to have turns playing.
 
GraceRyan said:
Dude...you don't even KNOW.

*Gets on her bifocals.

In my day, there was no scrolling TV Guide channel and we had 63 channels - including like 2 movie channels.

Now, I get you have a massive boner to be in your late teens/early 20's in the 90's...but all it will get you now is some wrinkles, gray hair and whole lotta unused anger/discontentment.
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bonocomet said:
Hey I remember 2 TV channels and one or 2 that came in fuzzy on a good day. And we had the first video game on our block.

PONG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every kid on the block hung out all day to have turns playing.
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*makes room on the porch with the other old ladies*
 
I've had that problem with the 70s and the 80s, too, Grace, it's just a basic daydreamy state I get in. I don't tend to actually do much aside from art, and occasionally reading, and trying to fill the gap between past and present via music research means it's basically on my brain constantly. I daydream a lot.

I'm doing my best to accept the 2010's at this point. Though it means I have the lovely task of explaining to people like DJ guy that I'd rather hear, say, Wire than Chris Brown.

Sigh. I'm glad I've seen 2 of the 'older' bands I like live, a lot have dropped out of the running though and it's sad...
 
bonocomet said:
Hey I remember 2 TV channels and one or 2 that came in fuzzy on a good day. And we had the first video game on our block.

PONG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every kid on the block hung out all day to have turns playing.
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:rockon: Pong! Ha, that's even before my time. Yea I don't belong in the oldies club either, but at least I was a kid in the 90s aware of everything an' all.

We had about 30 channels tops I think, and no interactive tv guide or whatever. We had a paper one, and occasionally teletext/Ceefax had some.

Kids these days don't even know how to connect a NES the old skool way via COAX cable and channel searching.
 
AnCatKatie said:
I've had that problem with the 70s and the 80s, too, Grace, it's just a basic daydreamy state I get in. I don't tend to actually do much aside from art, and occasionally reading, and trying to fill the gap between past and present via music research means it's basically on my brain constantly. I daydream a lot.

I'm doing my best to accept the 2010's at this point. Though it means I have the lovely task of explaining to people like DJ guy that I'd rather hear, say, Wire than Chris Brown.

Sigh. I'm glad I've seen 2 of the 'older' bands I like live, a lot have dropped out of the running though and it's sad...
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Why would you even bother trying to explain that with that DJ guy? It's his music, let him listen to it. You listen to your music, and would you appreciate if people told you off on that?


Bono said it nearly 30 years ago. People Glorify the past when the future dries up. The past wasn't all that great, it may sound great now, but it wasn't. Had its good and its bad times. But you live in the now. You grew up in the 00's. Why not embrace that, rather than get stuck in the past when all your peers aren't?

I'm sorry if I come across too strongly, but I really don't get this hipster thing.
 
I remember when we got colour tv :lol: and with that 2 more channels as old black and white only showed 1 channel :lol:
 
He's semi actively searching for other music, is why. Bleahh.

Yeah. I know, and agree, somewhat...refer to above.
 
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