Thank You Mexico Thread

Genteel Death · 10.24.2010, 12:17 PM

Today I'm going to thank Mexico simply for looking so good. There are obviously other things I could easily thank Mexico for. This will do for today. Thank Mexico for something.

Dead-Air · 10.24.2010, 05:22 PM

Thanks Mexico for keeping all those Texans and Arizonians so busy.

finding nobody · 10.24.2010, 09:04 PM

Thx 4 tacos!

!@#$%! · 10.25.2010, 02:15 AM

thank you mexico for:

great bookstores
chapultepec
carnitas
gorditas
albures
la revolución
los zapatistas
el huachinango
el queso asadero
xochimilco
editorial novaro (que ya no existe)
gorostiza
josé agustín
juan rulfo
tortas de jamón

me voy a dormir, sigo mañana
(nellie campobello, josé revueltas...)

Glice · 10.25.2010, 03:44 AM

Thank you for wresting the Bolero from the hands of its oppressors.

ilduclo · 10.25.2010, 07:06 AM

thanks for hipster be bop junkie

TheMadcapLaughs · 10.25.2010, 07:24 AM

this country where i born (for reeeelz) D.F. SON

EVOLghost · 10.25.2010, 10:30 AM

thanks to mexico for indirectly giving birth to me.

Florya · 10.25.2010, 10:48 AM

Thanks to Mexico for:-

My grandchildren
Xochimilco
Oaxaca
Tequisquitengo
Frida Kahlo
Tequila
Huevos Rancheros
Quesadillas
Modelo Negro
Tulum
Chapultapec
Naucalpan
Beautiful, friendly people
Their laid back attitude
Murcof
Mezcal
Lucha Libre
Carlos Vela

EVOLghost · 10.25.2010, 11:35 AM

oh yeah! and Morelia! fuckin' love that city.

EVOLghost · 10.25.2010, 11:35 AM

and queso fresco!

toxic johnny · 10.25.2010, 02:16 PM

I would definitely like to than Mexico for Los Llamarada, Gael García Bernal and the Day Of The Dead...

batreleaser · 10.25.2010, 11:25 PM

For being so close and for strip clubs being so cheap.

Norma J · 10.26.2010, 01:36 AM

I'd love a trip to Mexico. So thanks for its existence.

Genteel Death · 05.14.2011, 07:18 AM

This is a quote about music journalism from one of the smartest Mexican internet posters ever. Thank you Mexico.
''Yeah, the record-review-as-philosophical-investigation is such a joke. I guess we have Lester to thank for that, as much or moreso than Marcus.

You're right about the outsider aspect of this kind of "criticism." I get the sense from a lot of these reviews that the writers don't have a very clear idea of what it means to make music, in the most literal sense, and that they imagine it to be a magical process that involves, you know, Artaud and "fire" and a reckoning with mortality and history or whatever. Music making is mysterious, but not in the way that these guys imagine. It's about lugging equipment around, getting wastered, practicing an arpeggio 'til your fingers hurt, fucking up, scribbling shit in a notebook on the subway, arguing with bandmates, listening to records, trying and failing to copy a song you admire, duct-taping gear, tripping on cables, the temperature of the practice room, having a shitty day at work and then trekking to the studio to get a few hours of recording in, daydreaming, jerking off, listening to your own songs over and over, breaking strings, breaking drumsticks, rewriting lyrics over and over again until they work, editing, erasing, doing it over, etc. etc. etc. until you finally get what you want.

If you come from a DIY background the music-making process is demystified because all that shit is laid bare: you know what a rehearsal studio smells like, you've seen your favorite drummer lug his gear into an illegal shitspace in the middle of nowhere, you've probably recorded something yourself, and you're not likely to buy someone's line of bullshit about how their nth-generation synthcore is "inspired by Ballard," or how it's a commentary on urban ennui and the tension between blah blah blah and blahblahblahblah. 'Cos you know it doesn't happen that way.

The graduate school idea that Serious Art Must Have a Conceptual Hook -- and this is 100% an academic / artworld idea -- has infected not only pop music criticism but pop musicians themselves. So assholes like Tearist or Zola Jesus wind up in an echo chamber with the Lil' Greils and Lesters of the blogosphere where they flatter each other back and forth ("You're important! You're intelligent!" "Yes, and so are you, for noticing all my Big Ideas!") ad infinitum.

Everything Is Serious. Even Britney Spears and Lady Gaga are serious in their unseriousness. Where'd that crock of shit come from? Probably Dylan, or the legion assholes who took Dylan seriously.''

10.24.2010, 12:17 PM	#1
Genteel Death invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 8,744	Today I'm going to thank Mexico simply for looking so good. There are obviously other things I could easily thank Mexico for. This will do for today. Thank Mexico for something.
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10.24.2010, 05:22 PM	#2
Dead-Air invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Portland OR Posts: 4,300	Thanks Mexico for keeping all those Texans and Arizonians so busy. __________________ FuckBook; My Band; My Radio Show; My Flickr Page; Science Fiction Message Board
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10.24.2010, 09:04 PM	#3
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	Thx 4 tacos!
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10.25.2010, 02:15 AM	#4
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,460	thank you mexico for: great bookstores chapultepec carnitas gorditas albures la revolución los zapatistas el huachinango el queso asadero xochimilco editorial novaro (que ya no existe) gorostiza josé agustín juan rulfo tortas de jamón me voy a dormir, sigo mañana (nellie campobello, josé revueltas...)
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10.25.2010, 07:06 AM	#6
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	thanks for hipster be bop junkie
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10.25.2010, 07:24 AM	#7
TheMadcapLaughs 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: SF, CA Posts: 818	this country where i born (for reeeelz) D.F. SON
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10.25.2010, 10:30 AM	#8
EVOLghost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: cybatraz! Posts: 11,537	thanks to mexico for indirectly giving birth to me.
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10.25.2010, 10:48 AM	#9
Florya expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: a little world, all of my own. Posts: 1,668	Thanks to Mexico for:- My grandchildren Xochimilco Oaxaca Tequisquitengo Frida Kahlo Tequila Huevos Rancheros Quesadillas Modelo Negro Tulum Chapultapec Naucalpan Beautiful, friendly people Their laid back attitude Murcof Mezcal Lucha Libre Carlos Vela __________________ it takes an old guy like bloodbeach'85 to get anything right - atari 2600 listening mirror @ Soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/listening-mirror
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10.25.2010, 11:35 AM	#10
EVOLghost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: cybatraz! Posts: 11,537	oh yeah! and Morelia! fuckin' love that city.
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10.25.2010, 02:16 PM	#12
toxic johnny expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London Posts: 1,657	I would definitely like to than Mexico for Los Llamarada, Gael García Bernal and the Day Of The Dead... __________________ Built Toxic J Tough Optic Disc
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10.25.2010, 11:25 PM	#13
batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	For being so close and for strip clubs being so cheap. __________________ listen to pink reason
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10.26.2010, 01:36 AM	#14
Norma J invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Orstralia Posts: 4,917	I'd love a trip to Mexico. So thanks for its existence. __________________ I want girls with new-wave hair-doos
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05.14.2011, 07:18 AM	#15
Genteel Death invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 8,744	This is a quote about music journalism from one of the smartest Mexican internet posters ever. Thank you Mexico. ''Yeah, the record-review-as-philosophical-investigation is such a joke. I guess we have Lester to thank for that, as much or moreso than Marcus. You're right about the outsider aspect of this kind of "criticism." I get the sense from a lot of these reviews that the writers don't have a very clear idea of what it means to make music, in the most literal sense, and that they imagine it to be a magical process that involves, you know, Artaud and "fire" and a reckoning with mortality and history or whatever. Music making is mysterious, but not in the way that these guys imagine. It's about lugging equipment around, getting wastered, practicing an arpeggio 'til your fingers hurt, fucking up, scribbling shit in a notebook on the subway, arguing with bandmates, listening to records, trying and failing to copy a song you admire, duct-taping gear, tripping on cables, the temperature of the practice room, having a shitty day at work and then trekking to the studio to get a few hours of recording in, daydreaming, jerking off, listening to your own songs over and over, breaking strings, breaking drumsticks, rewriting lyrics over and over again until they work, editing, erasing, doing it over, etc. etc. etc. until you finally get what you want. If you come from a DIY background the music-making process is demystified because all that shit is laid bare: you know what a rehearsal studio smells like, you've seen your favorite drummer lug his gear into an illegal shitspace in the middle of nowhere, you've probably recorded something yourself, and you're not likely to buy someone's line of bullshit about how their nth-generation synthcore is "inspired by Ballard," or how it's a commentary on urban ennui and the tension between blah blah blah and blahblahblahblah. 'Cos you know it doesn't happen that way. The graduate school idea that Serious Art Must Have a Conceptual Hook -- and this is 100% an academic / artworld idea -- has infected not only pop music criticism but pop musicians themselves. So assholes like Tearist or Zola Jesus wind up in an echo chamber with the Lil' Greils and Lesters of the blogosphere where they flatter each other back and forth ("You're important! You're intelligent!" "Yes, and so are you, for noticing all my Big Ideas!") ad infinitum. Everything Is Serious. Even Britney Spears and Lady Gaga are serious in their unseriousness. Where'd that crock of shit come from? Probably Dylan, or the legion assholes who took Dylan seriously.''
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