103. The 303 Beethoven Used

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Lords:

• Avery
  • https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases
• Jay
  • https://twitter.com/jaytholen

Topics:

• Kowloon Walled City
• Internet communities gaining a reputation and then changing over time as members mature.
• The moral cost of the 303 Devilfish clone
• Justified and Ancient
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5oHL3zBDg
  • Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/Peeo6xZqeVs
• Cyber Nexus internet cafe in Lakeland Florida and late 1990s internet cafes in general
  • https://twitter.com/jaytholen/status/1370002162063990786

Microtopics:

• Putting all of Spotify on shuffle.
• Spotify rejecting your album because you put lyrics on the album cover.
• Immersing yourself in a shitty visual aesthetic until you love it and the guy at the record label rejects your album cover.
• Renaming your company to Content Distribution Baby now but the logo is still a baby on a CD.
• The Godaddy man and the pets dot com sock puppet.
• A demon face in the middle of a circuit board.
• The part of the show where we look at image search results together.
• Visiting Kowloon Walled City for the cheap dentistry.
• Going to a nightmare city to get your teeth worked on: an opportunity to die.
• One of several problems with working seven days a week and never taking a break.
• Blame! or perhaps Blam!
• Trying to live in the dystopian future where the construction nanobots run wild and convert all matter on the planet into endless nonsense staircases and ventilation ducts.
• The protagonist having a really cool gun.
• When the author doesn't know what's interesting about their own setting.
• Having to write a novel because nobody's invented D&D source books yet.
• Feeling like an outsider because you don't know which Dale Earnhardt crashed into a wall.
• An online pixel art isometric place to hang out.
• Being a jerk to people in an organized manner.
• Audio production subforums.
• How internet communities get radicalized and how they mellow out.
• Ironically doing outrageous stuff on the internet.
• The strange purity of being ahead of the curve.
• Memes as a bannable offense.
• Getting a Something Awful forum account for your birthday and never looking at it because you don't like awful things.
• A synthesizer for the singer songwriter who doesn't have a bass player.
• Discovering the future of techno in the bargain bin.
• The history of the TB-303.
• The Prophet-5 vs. the Prophet-6.
• A drum pad that is the first of its kind.
• The thing with the egg breaking against a wall and how you always side with the egg.
• Creating reproductions of saught after out of print old stuff.
• Having two guitars, one tuned in fifths and one tuned like a ukulele.
• Writing music that could never be played.
• Making games because you want to get your music in front of people.
• Jim Stormdancer and the Frog Fractions Players.
• Finally receiving the obscurity you've been craving.
• Writing a book about the KLF as a lens into your particular moral philosophy.
• Drum or Brown?
• Doom Demon Invisible.
• 5 times voted CMA female vocalist Tammy Wynette.
• Trying to gesture at Discordianism or other forms of alternative mysticism.
• Making a new game in character as a character from your last game.
• The Burning Man man.
• Presented with the Most Coveted Living Legend Award Sponsored By TNN.
• Hiring randos to sing and play instruments on your album and hiring entirely different randos to be in your music video.
• King Boy D and the other guy.
• Burning a million quid and then going around asking people why you burned a million quid.
• Good names for internet cafes.
• A square of computers.
• Not recognizing Stargate decor and assuming it's just sci fi Egypt themed.
• Losing at Quake for your birthday while your parents watch a Pink Floyd DVD with the owner of the Internet cafe.
• Which one is Cyber and which one is Nexus?
• Not remembering why your band was invited to play a set at the Interface of Language and Technology.
• That's a level 12 mage, get off of that!
• Whether an internet cafe is the same thing as a cyber cafe.
• The regular at your coffee shop who scalps tickets for a living.
• Whipping out a 61 key MIDI controller to write tracks at Starbucks.
• Trying to avoid situations where you'd accidentally give a philosophy lecture.
• What is an organism and what organisms do.
• Whether Aristotle knows that whales are mammals.
• A category of things that have an effect.