Woven Antelope
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Deep in my country/bluegrass/Americana and Australian psych rock phases.
Happy to report that it's pretty dang solid. Definitely gonna purchase. Early favorite is "The Wilderness (The Color of Gold)"
(12) Neither of us stayed in Orlando very long and eventually lost touch, but they still put out the occasional record, including one today called Like Unto Lambs that I haven't listened to yet, but plan on checking out this afternoon after work.
luxury.bandcamp.com/album/like-u...
Hope they don't have Lauryn Hill tickets if they like punctuality.
I prefer they be disclosed up front, but telling me it's $29 instead of $18 is no less offensive because I still KNOW.
I will further elaborate to say someone working on their laptop in an adjacent campsite wouldn’t bother me, but it’d annoy the ever living fuck out of me to have to listen to a conference call, sales call, etc.
Interesting fodder for Friday afternoon discussion. While I don’t agree with the letter writer’s desire to ban them, I certainly understand the frustration. I luckily got to see a lot of America’s national parks just before the Instagram lead onslaught that’s made them more crowded than ever.
I’m Sick of Remote-Working Vanlifers Taking Over My Campground
A frustrated reader asks if we can prohibit Sprinter-van telecommuters on their laptops in the great outdoors
www.outsideonline.comBear Family box sets are the shit. I have most of the Bill Monroe ones.
I cannot overstate how much this friend has shaped my musical tastes. Here are other great records he turned me onto on that trip (and around that time in general).
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Story time.
I met this drummer in 1999 that I became fast friends with (and still am pals with to this day.) We took a big summer road trip that year and were also using it as an opportunity to introduce each other to all kinds of new music. He played an album for me that I fell in love with.
Two FANTASTIC records
If you *really* want to get into the guts of it, there has occasionally and historically been a problem with nationalism in the Orthodox church, so much so that phyletism (conflating the Church with a single nation or race...an ecclesiastical ethno-nationalism of sorts) has been condemned as heresy.
Extreme outliers as far as I know, but I've seen hints of it online. It's gross.
They were. They were one of those bands the Christian music establishment didn't really know what to do with because they didn't fit into a box comfortably or shy away from things other bands wouldn't touch.
Thanks for reading. I left so much out too. For instance, it's kind of amazing they're all alive. They got into a horrific accident on tour in the 90s and some were in the ICU. There were broken necks, severe internal injuries, etc., but they all recovered amazingly.
There is definitely a small, dark strand of converts in the USA that view it as an ancient faith tie they can validate their trash with.
Here's an NPR story about Lee, the guy I met that night.
www.npr.org/sections/all...
Hear Lee Bozeman's Velvet Punk Homily 'The Majesty Of The Flesh'
Luxury's Lee Bozeman has always been something of a romantic and a provocateur, which becomes all the more curious once you learn that he is an Orthodox priest.
www.npr.orgTheir conversion came way before any of that infiltrated our corner of the globe, so I think it's pure.
Can't vouch for the new record, but definitely check out the self-titled at least.
(13) Odder still, three of the five band members eventually went on to become ordained Eastern Orthodox priests, so it'll be interesting to hear how the rocking priests are doing these days and if they can still write a great tune among their priestly duties.
Long thread. Thanks for reading. Fin.
(12) Neither of us stayed in Orlando very long and eventually lost touch, but they still put out the occasional record, including one today called Like Unto Lambs that I haven't listened to yet, but plan on checking out this afternoon after work.
luxury.bandcamp.com/album/like-u...
(11) So he goes out to his car and gets the record. It's Health & Sport which I also very much enjoy to this day. His wife is staring in complete disbelief that not only do I know this guy's music, but I know it well and own it all. We become pals kind of.
luxury.bandcamp.com/album/health...
(10) He says "You're not going to believe this, but we just completed a new album. It hasn't been released yet, but I have a few copies in my car, I'm going to go get you one right now. We aren't planning on touring or anything, but we wanted to make one more record before we got on with life."
(9) So I say, "No way. I own every album you've ever put out" and he thinks I'm winding him up and teasing him a bit. And I say "No way man, I have them all. The self-titled. Amazing and Thank You. The Latest and the Greatest. They're all at my house right now." This guy is absolutely BEAMING.
(8) Now y'all have to understand these guys never put photos of themselves inside their albums and these were early internet days so I had never actually seen a picture of the guys in this band so I had no idea I was sitting with this dude whose entire discography I know like the back of my hand.
(7) Y'all know I'm a music junkie so I was like, "Oh man, that's really cool. What band were you in?" He says, "I mean, we were pretty obscure, it's doubtful you've ever heard of us." I replied, "Man, I listen to a lot of music and some obscure stuff, just lay it on me." He says, "Luxury."
(6) ...we're kind of all going though that "So what do you do for a living" chit chat and this one guy says, "Well, I just started at this insurance job, but I'm a musician at heart. I made a real go at it with a couple of bands and we did OK, but never really rounded the corner into it as a career.
(5) Fast forward six years to 2005 and I'm seated at a sit down dinner wedding reception in Orlando at a table full of people I'd never met (I was new to the city and had recently met the couple and I think I got a bit of a pity invite lol.) Anyway, I'm shooting the breeze with my tablemates and...
(4) Small bands come and go all the time so it was no surprise to me that they were done, but I was bummed that there'd be no more new records and that I'd never get the chance to see them live. But like I said, if you're into obscure music, this is not a new thing.
(3) They were obscure and had released their three albums on two obscure labels so these guys were far from household names, but I loved them. I subsequently found out that they broke up not too long after the release of their 1999 self-titled album, Luxury.
luxury.bandcamp.com/album/luxury
(2) He said his band had toured with this band briefly for a bit and that they were great guys and made great records, etc. I went out and bought the record and the other two they'd released up to this point and they all found regular rotation into my listening over the years.
(1)
Story time.
I met this drummer in 1999 that I became fast friends with (and still am pals with to this day.) We took a big summer road trip that year and were also using it as an opportunity to introduce each other to all kinds of new music. He played an album for me that I fell in love with.
My very otherwise intelligent father (multilingual with degrees in biology, German, and law) was splitting wood in sandals when I was a child and there was an accident and he's lucky to still be amongst the ten toe'd part of humanity. I heard a string of obscenities that'd make a sailor blush.
The texts have been flying for the past 8-10 hours working on it. It’s looking very likely. Glad to see you again.
You’re told it’s a lot but nothing can really prepare you for it until you see it firsthand.
Day passes go on sale next week so I can do Sunday at the very least. Just gotta decide do I want one Gizz and three Phish or three Phish and one Gizz. There’s also the transport/lodging issue in Delaware. Let’s talk this weekend
Seeing the bike storage/parking in Amsterdam at places like the main railway station are mindblowing. Meanwhile in most of America people will circle a parking lot waiting on something to open up five spaces closer.
The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
I’ve recently achieved the difficult task of making a new friend in adulthood with a guy I met at a Flaming Lips show about 5-6 weeks ago. We’re currently texting about Gong, The Comet is Coming, and other psychedelic space music. Hooray new friends. Need more obscure music nerds in my life. 😂
Soccer and hockey get it right. Football, baseball and basketball do not.