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[dakotacityrag]

should i use tumblr like i use twitter, but with longer and more effortful thoughts than what fit there?

[pascalcampion]

Late night thoughts #kittycatandmanlymanandMilo

[dakotacityrag]

Hard to pinpoint what’s lacking in my life and which of these various social media platforms should or could have a role in addressing that

[prinnay]

I replenished a ton of stickers and am running a special on them (B3G1F) !

Also I made some zine thingies and new prints. Stuff!!! Annnd free shipping at $40 for USA folks with code “MAYYY” at checkout. Both specials run until next Monday the 15th.

www.gdbee.store or click here.

Thanks thanks!!

[thebiballerina]

Hello, Sherlock Holmes adaptation writer. I have trapped you in this room. It is fully furnished and comfortable. On the table, you will notice a copy of A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of which redistribution is perfectly legal, as the work is in the public domain. You will notice it is rather thin. You have 24 hours to read the approximately 8,550 words in this story. To exit this room, all you must do is summarize the plot of the story without referring to Irene Adler as a seductress or implying she is attracted to Sherlock Holmes. Good luck.

[woobosco]

Afro Culture (My culture)

@woobosco

[power-chords]

Last night Low Cut Connie covered Little Richard and it got me thinking about how there's a timelessness to rock 'n' roll that gets lost on studio recordings, the way the stage functions as a kind of experiential equalizer, particularly in small clubs where production values tend to be similar and similarly unornamented. Recording technology and the accompanying production tastes and trends have changed so much since the 1950s, whereas the practice of amplifying and playing those instruments in a room of 50-500 drunk people — while certainly not static — remains unaltered at the level of fundamentals in such a way that the brunt sensory difference between hearing a song written/recorded in 1954 and one from 2004 becomes the least perceptible when they are performed live. Like I fully believe that if indie rock bands were covering "Lucille" or "Rip It Up" on the reg we'd have a thriving new generation of vintage rock 'n' roll aficionados. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part. But a girl can dream!

[dakotacityrag]

This is compelling but how do we know for sure how little audiences experiences and perceptions of live music have changed so little? I don’t say this to call you out but to ask if you know anyone who’s old enough to compare and has described the comparison in writing or online, I’d love to see/read what they have to say

[anotherpapercut]

successfully got my bass teacher into fall out boy. mission accomplished boys

[dakotacityrag]

that sounds lit!! I’ve never heard fall out boy at a session (though we did do radiohead one time, and the middle another) but this is something i’d love to see/hear/try

i hope this goes great and you come back with stories to tell or even recordings!

[dakotacityrag]

who on tumblr is having conversations about jam sessions and community learning and balancing looking to the past to learn from what’s been done with looking to the future to acknowledge how things are different

[dakotacityrag]

everybody struggles with promoting their art but i’m just logging on to say i’m part of that too

[sam-keeper]

A Multiverse Around The Corner (Where Your Dead Friends Live)

A blog of esoteric media criticism, laying siege to the Ivory Tower of academia from the gutters of pop culture

Isn't it weird how many stories lately feature villains trying to tap into alternate or simulated realities to reunite with loved ones? Let's take a tour of this multiverse full of dead relatives and what they have to say about our cultural moment.

[prontaentrega]

i love dialogue in old comics where characters speak unnaturally and describe out loud the things theyre doing. reminds me of stage plays

[mrsterlingeverything]

[dakotacityrag]

Duet w/ @Gavin_Glover_Composer focusing on call and response and different types of melodic development (what philip tagg calls inversion)

made this in 2022 but it holds up. Love the timing on the last licc

[dakotacityrag]

i’ve also reframed my relationship to jam sessions: i used to only go when i felt prepared, which inevitably lead to long breaks where i nev

Recorded myself playing at a local jazz jam and put my thoughts about practice consistency on top of it

The text at the bottom of my video basically says that I also used to refuse to go to jams unless I had prepared something to impress people. Now I go on a mostly set schedule regardless of what I practiced and just focus on building relationships with others, and everything about my experience is better for it: my musicianship, my relationships, and my headspace

[dakotacityrag]

What else do I care about enough to post on this blog? I don’t know any music theory nerds on here, I don’t know any sesame street fans, or people who live/work/play in my area, or saxophonists, or anybody but like two friends I can talk to offline lol. It’s not that I’m lonely on tumblr but I am realizing why my content here is so disproportionately shifted toward sex, and that’s because that’s the one topic i can’t put anywhere else so it has to to here. If I wanted to talk harmony, i’d go to discord; groove, twitter; local events, facebook; etc

[dakotacityrag]

Cool thing about sex is the sense of play. one of the few spaces for adults to pursue things purely for joy and merriment. idk if my fiancée agrees but i be playin with them thangs silly putty, just touchin on em to see how they react. but i already know how they react lol

[dakotacityrag]

The other thing that makes sex playful is that it can be a space to not only experiment physically (“how does this titty feel when i touch it like this? Let’s repeat 1000x to be sure”) but also a space to try out different identities, relationship dynamics, and habits in a way that prioritizes the joy, ecstasy, and orgasms to be had in each.

I point this out because it’s also something hard to talk about. I see so many sex conversations online where people (both the sexhavers and the commentators) define the person in terms of their perceived interests (eg “if you’re asking about butt stuff you must love butt stuff, stop pretending you don’t love butt stuff”). But if there’s play in sex then these things don’t have to be so deep or committal. You can just… play lol. I can’t break down the concept of play anymore than that