NETWORK.

[cacophonish]

Who: Jeff Calhoun
Username: freakscene
Warnings: None yet.

hey does anyone play any instruments? i finally got a guitar so it'd be cool to jam sometime

[ maybe start a band... maybe cast a whole lot of spells on audiences in whatever passes for Gloucester's nightlife... ]

hey! while i'm here! you guys should totally check out this app thing these other guys showed me
its called spotify
its really fucking cool i can't BELEIVE how much musics on their
like holy shit the butthole surfers new album is fucking amazing!!

[ And by 'new album' he means Electriclarryland, released in, uh... 1996. ]

ive got 25 yrs of music to catch up on so can you guys rec some bands or albums from after 1995? maybe even after 2000
i swear this is work related

Comments

text | un: 941.

[heavenchained]

How could this possibly be work related.
Also check out Maximum the Hormone.

1/2

[cacophonish]

[ hang on, he's gonna put on a couple songs ]

holy shit
these guys rock

i cant tell what their saying tho but the compositions fucking great

[ Maybe the fact that they're singing in Japanese will click... soon........ ]

2/2

[cacophonish]

and its work related because if i gotta blend in with people my age
you know for spooky investigation stuff
itd be a lot easier if i didnt come across like there dads or some ghost from the 90s

[heavenchained]

Makes sense I guess.

It's in Japanese. Their titles are kinda weird, but they're good.

( He's listening to a certain song now. )

Fuck if someone gets me to say all of Chu Chu Lovely though.

[cacophonish]

i like it
thanks for the rec dude

why not? come on i'll duet it with you

un: mercyme; text

[graveyounglady]

[Mercy can't recommend any music, but she can ask questions and enthuse.]

Dear Mr. Calhoun,

A guitar is not an instrument I know, but there seem to be many of those. One of my companions plays the piano and is a most excellent bard, both with this and the written word. Though, I expect she is too modest to say as much.

I fear I cannot recommend music to you. The songs I know are those for tending a grave, working a field, and a night at a tavern.

Regards,
Mercy Graves

[cacophonish]

hi Mercy

[ Oh no he absolutely thinks she's referring to someone from his world. ]

theirs another bard here? you met another bard??? i'm a bard too!!! :-)

and those songs sound fucking cool
PLEASE teach me

from,
Jeff

[graveyounglady]

Dear Mr. Jeff,

I can give you one of our songs, if you would like. I cannot say I am graced with a sparrow's voice, but I know the words well.

O the grass grows high
and the birds do fly
o'er across the morning sky

Our friends below
O we love them so
As we place them row by row by row
As we place them row by row

Tend to the graves
Tend to our friends
Tend and bring them back again

In the flower and seed
In the autumn mead
Sing round, sing round
Give praise to the ground
That feeds us all we need

It has a few more verses after that, mind. My brother and I used to sing that as we were digging graves to give us a rhythm for the spades.

Regards,
Mercy Graves

[cacophonish]

[ Okay, he's usually not into being called mister anything, but 'Mr. Jeff' is so adorable he can't not love it. ]

Ms Mercy,

thanks for the song! you mind if i record a cover of it? itll be like Intro to Guitars

and hey
so your like a gravedigger? for real? i never met one before

--Jeff

text, un: strange

[sorser]

[There are likely a myriad of more important posts to reply to—and he intends to trawl through them all later—but a request like this inflames the musical trivia part of his mind, rising up and refusing to be ignored like some kind of infection.

So, then—]

OK Computer, Radiohead. 1997. Give it a listen if you haven’t already.

[cacophonish]

[ Music is ALWAYS IMPORTANT, Stephen!

Jeff does a search for OK Computer, getting about halfway through the album before he responds. ]

jesus this is like a fucking revelation compared to their 1st album

i mean Pablo Honey wasnt bad or anything but its kind of conventional you know?
this is on another level
i cant beleive im just 2 yrs out from this album coming out

[sorser]

[On a sliding scale, where one has to take into account the problem of being supplanted into a new world, now connected to an entity that feeds on fear, one might consider music a 3 out of 10 in priority. Maybe a 4 if we’re feeling generous.

But here they are, and here he is, having this discussion regardless. He supposes he can indulge in some sense of normalcy, afforded to him rarely enough.]

There’s a reason some consider it the greatest album ever released. Probably an exaggeration, but there’s no denying that it was a cornerstone in the alt rock genre. Still is.

[Anyway.]

What does this have to do with your work?

[cacophonish]

theres so much in the compositions man. this is definately gonna be a repeat listen

what other big cornerstones did i miss?

[ This is like audio porn for a time displaced bard. TELL HIM EVERYTHING. As for 'work'... ]

im a musician so its kind of proffessional curiousity

and i figure i should try to blend in with people my age here
which i cant do if i dont know what the hell their talking about and only know the same music as their middle aged dads...

un: max

[carmesi]

[well, that's an interesting read in trying to get familiarized with the nature of this world. it's also interesting to know that not everything is so serious.]

Sounds like you found a treasure trove.

[cacophonish]

[ Hey Wanda, stick with Jeff and you'll get ALL THE DESPERATE DISTRACTIONS FROM ANYTHING SERIOUS ]

i could blow way to much time on this app
i mean it doesnt beat having a real cd or record or anything but its such a cool way to catch up on everything i missed with this time travel bullshit :-)

[carmesi]

[probably a pretty sweat deal that they are next door neighbors, then!]

"Convenience" is pretty much what fueled technology in the future. Everything at the tip of our fingers.

What year do you come from? I'm from 2023.

[cacophonish]

i still dont know how i feel about it all
i mean some of this stuff is cool [ like Spotify, OBVI ] but its a lot to get used to

[ It's not, like, totally foreign tech to him. Sure, cell phones, computers, and the internet are all already a thing when he's from. But not like this, all combined and ubiquitous.

Maybe he shouldn't have teased his little brother so much for being so into the web and all that dorky amateur hacking shit. ]

its 1995 for me. which is weird because so much is the same but its also different in all these ways i never wouldve thought

is it weird for you too? [ Like, sure, she's only got a two-year displacement, but who knows, a lot of insane shit could've happened in those two years. ]

text | un: bifrost

[variantl1130]

Butthole Surfers.

[cacophonish]

you never heard of them before?

oh my god
dude
their the BEST!

seriously put on Locust Abortion Technician!! that album changed my life
fuck man even if you go back to the beginning to Psychic, Powerless, Another Mans Sac its all fucking great

[variantl1130]

I spent nearly an hour learning how to use this phone's app store, finding this app, waiting for it to download, and creating an email address in order to create a Spotify profile for this drivel? It's just a bunch of obnoxious sounds overlapping each other. There's no instrumental harmony here.

If you ever want to listen to actual music, let me know.

[cacophonish]

[ Oh Loki.

Oh no.

He's making the saddest puppy dog face at the screen. HOW CAN YOU NOT BE CHARMED BY THESE WONDERFULLY CACOPHONOUS TUNES? ]

its real music
its like modern art. you learn the rules and then you totally destroy them to create something new and beautiful

like a dischordant butterfly...

[ CUE DREAMY SIGH. Anyway, he's still eager to expand his audio horizons, so: ]

whats actual music to you?

un: galliard

[bigporkenergy]

are YOU the asshole who makes all the noise at Bonnie's?!

[OOC: Electriclarryland still slaps and I will die on this hill.]

[cacophonish]

[ IT WILL ALWAYS SLAP ]

no
i dont think i make noise

do i make noise?

[ He's not even trolling; he's just a giant airhead, so he's very sincerely considering this for the first time. ]

[bigporkenergy]

which floor do you live on? because if it's the second one, then YES

[cacophonish]

oh
yeah
i live on the 2nd floor
sorry dude

[ Does this mean he'll stop playing his guitar at all hours? N O P E ]