i will be away for a bit (the original thread by gmku)
 

and not checking into Sonic Youth forum very often if at all.

i've been so busy lately i haven't really been around enough to justify making a thread to say i'll be gone, but eh. someone might notice and/or care.

the reason is i'm moving (to South Carolina) next week so:

1. don't get mad/confused/insulted if i don't pm you back
2. don't get mad/confused/insulted if i don't respond to a thread
3. don't ask me if i'm married yet, i am!

on a side note i trimmed my nails today and took a shower.

So weird, to be leaving full-time employment for the freelancer life. Terrifying, actually.

I love you guys, gosh darn it.

Are you having a laugh?
We'll consider all threads 'open' until you return to contribute.

So who's the lucky lass?

are you married?


as a side note: I'll be gone until Tuesday, so I'm afriad that your hiatus doesn't matter until then.

godspeed 'n stuff.

can you please do that again? my wife couldn't get the camera focused fast enough.

Is he having a laugh?

I think I will vow not to laugh till you return.

What? I didn't know that you had left me for somebody older than myself, without even telling me. What a slut.

oh, man! thanks so much!!! I've never watched your show, but I've heard that it is kind of funny (sometimes).

I can't wait until I tell my friend about this!

could I trouble you for an autograph as well?

Oh no I am just using him for his money, so we can have a better life, even if that means whoring myself.

Whatever you do, don't scratch his Rolling Stones records or we're fucked.

Are you kidding? You don't even get to touch my Stones records.

I threw the getting married bit in as a laugh, and to throw off the scent of my admirers, Porky and Syn in particular. I've been married a looonnggg time, and no, not even my bride gets to touch my Stones records.

Well as long as I get to touch something :eek:

Well, I'm jumping the gun a bit. I'll have computer connection for another coupla days. Then the next time you hear from me after that will be from my new gonzo laptop somewhere deep in the tropical swamps of South Carolina.

Just know that my thoughts are with you.

Anyways, hope you like your new place over in SC.

Here's something sad: The first date I took my then-future-wife on was to see a Stones film in the student union. Then on exiting the movie room, we ran into a girl I'd just dated the week before who started flirting with me. Looking back, I'm flabbergasted my future-wife ever went out with me again.

Thanks, Syn. I'll keep ya posted.

Well the good thing is she ended with you. And stones, does she get annoyed when you play them?

Ha, well, let's just say she started out not being a fan. And mostly I listen to music on the phones. But yeah, when it's a mutual listening experience, we hardly ever play the Stones. Maybe Hot Rocks. She seems to be okay with some stuff, like the early-mid 60s garage-y sounding things.

But for whatever reason (love?), she never put up a fuss about my obsession, ever. She was into Fleetwood Mac when we met and soft rock groups like that, but I turned her on to some of the new wave and punk things I was starting to listen to--Costello, Television, Patti Smith, Talking Heads. She'd just never had any friends or boyfriends who were into "good" music.

She never really got into my Stones thing, but... last May I left a tape of Let It Bleed in the car cassette deck, and she was playing it when she picked me up from work one day. I told her she didn't have to listen to that and apologized for leaving it in the car, and she said she'd heard the tape twice now in the car and was really liking it.

have fun old man. it will be just like living parents home again, i guess. hopefully you wont end up responsible for a disfunctional family, divorced, broke and dead in a gutter.

Right that's it, you bitch! I'm off to have a few with my mates and I wanna find you in bed by yourself when I come back later on. Either that or pack your clothes and get outta here!

Porky it won't let me rep you.

Well, I don't know if that would be so bad. At least it would give me something to write about. Could be a novel in that. Except I'd have to be not-dead in the gutter. Maybe just near death.

You must spread some hot monkey sex around before letting Syn and Porky have it.

I can imagine how awkward everything could be.

I just cant date a girl if she doesnt believe Daydream Nation, Spiderland, Kid A and The White Album are the four greatest fucking albums in the world.

with your willie cutted off...

We had enough common ground. She loved the White Album, got into Costello, Talking Heads, others. And I found I liked the Mac albums she was into.

My boyfriend doesn't like any of my music, but then again he has horrid taste in music. But I don't love him for his music.

Cuted off? By a hot cutie? What a way to go. I think.

Yeah, I find that it's pretty boring if you both like all the same things. There should be common interests, of course, but you shouldn't expect a carbon copy. That would be just weird.

I guess one thing we had in common was music. We both liked music a lot. Not necessarily the same music, but we both liked spending time listening to records and going to shows.

Yeah, having the same common ground is good, but not all. We are both into politics, and some other things, but I am not into sports, but then again he doesn't understand art.

All the girls around here listen to Clap Your Hands Say Retard and crap hipster shit like that.

& if it's a good relationship, you both take things from each other's interests. you learn a little about his, he learns a little about yours, and you grow from that.

Agreed.

Then it is your responsibility to get them into other stuff. They probably just haven't had anyone interested enough in educating them about the error of their ways.

Nah, I'm automatically not hip enough to listen to when I mention how I don't see the appeal of Arcade Fire.

Hell, one tried to turn me on to Scout Niblett and being a sucker for Albini-produced acts I looked into her. Big mistake.

have a good trip.

and about the freelancer life-- fear not.

i've got a good freelancer book recommendatin for you-- this one kicks ass



seriously good advice. i've applied it to extra-literary pursuits with good success. brilliant shit.

Hey, thanks, man.

Yeah! I just read that one, actually. Great ideas, and by the end of it, had me thinking, Yeah, I can do this!

Oh, buzz off already, old decrepid man.