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Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
This was a damn satisfying month of reigning to read.
Thank you. I tried my best
as for next up....have you gone before, Decaanter ?
Never been in the hot seat. This could be fun, let's do this folks.
Also, I'm gonna go grab lunch with a friend a haven't seen in a few weeks, then do some house managing, then get drunk and fed for free at another opening night party, so feel free to unload your questions all day (oh and all month, I love this kinda shit) and I'll get around to them drunkenly and really fucking honestly.
favorite show you've ever seen at first ave? Tricky one. Mostly in the word "favorite." I think my favorite show might still be my first show there. I used to go to school at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Christ, what a different time in my life that was. So I used to borrow my friend's car to drive up to Minneapolis to go see shows, because it was the closest big city to Winona. Anyway. Spring Break 2010, I stayed with my then roommate and our great friend at the time in St. Paul and we went to go see Girl Talk. We snuck in half-pints of some shitty liquor down our pants/behind our belts that I was neither old enough to handle nor afford. I have a vivid memory of losing both of those dudes and then finding one halfway through the show. I think that was one of my first remarkable pseudo-festival-esque memories, where - in my mind at the time - something unthinkable happened. I also have a vivid memory of making direct eye contact with a girl who was baffled by the fact that I knew every single word to that sampled/famous Luda verse from Move Bitch. I rapped that whole verse to her. Haha it was so weird, I loved every second of it. She must've been twenty people away from me. I was probably wearing a light-blue, maybe teal V-neck, some stripe-y cardigan and absurdly skinny jeans. I think they were those Levi "Super Skinny Jeans," I'm sure. On the grand scale, I haven't been to that many shows there. Crystal Castles 2010 was fucking madness. The show I'll never forget would be James Murphy's DJ set earlier this year. I have so much respect for that man. Probably a tie between Girl Talk and James Murphy but for very different reasons. favorite place in minnesota? Since I wasn't born here, I haven't explored much of the state. I spent most of my time in university and then working non-stop afterwards until now. Nevis, MN provided some fond memories for me from last summer. I'm not really one to stay in one place though. My favorite places are purely experiential. The bus stop next to the Downtown Hennipen library, for example, has given me many great stories. Pacing in the bitter cold for hours. Near-robberies. Moral crises. Gay jokes. $700. My favorite place in Minnesota is probably a bus stop. Alright. favorite minneapolis bar? Sporty's. That fucking place just does what it wants. I'm a regular there, but only to the cooks and maybe only two of their waitresses. All of their bartenders know who I am. I've asked one of them out and flirted with several of them on multiple occasions. They have a chalkboard in the bathroom and the illusion of a wall between the toilet and the urinal as well as a clearly scissored piece of fabric covering the window. The swinging, but clearly markedly different doors from the bar to the men's and women's restrooms, respectively, lead to the same area: a sort-of lobby with a chair and then two more doors to the actual restrooms. I can only imagine what the women's restroom is like. There's also cheap tequila. Oh and they have weekly (or biweekly) LAN parties. And karaoke night. And trivia night. My second favorite would be the bar attached to the theater I work in. The bartenders know me well. The moment I walk in, I get a pint of Grain Belt poured for me, a handshake and a pre-arrival anecdote. They fucking close around 11:30pm every night because their shit is too expensive and all these 70-year-old theater-goers don't have the energy to get after it after watching To Kill a Mockingbird. My third favorite would be Republic. Cheap rail tequila. Sunday nights, Jay pours me a shot as I come in. I'm a proximity guy. Also clearly a tequila guy.
What's your favorite drink and what is your favorite hangover cure? I'm a pretty simple guy as far as this question is concerned. I experimented and practiced drinking for fear of being embarrassed during high school and my first year of college. Now, I almost exclusively drink cheap beer and cheap tequila. That said, since I usually shoot tequila, a nice rocks glass full of tequila is a beautiful thing. I could sip on that all night. If anyone gives me any salt or lime, I'll just laugh and slide it right back.
As far as cures, I'm not really skilled at this. I'm not really one for getting hungover anymore. I've made far too many poor drunken decisions in the past couple years, though. My usual cure is drinking a beer immediately and taking a shower and going for either a run or a bike ride. Basically my cure is booze, really hot water, sweat.
Where do you buy your groceries and why do you buy them there? I almost exclusively buy my groceries from the Aldi in the Cedar/Riverside area. It's occupied pretty heavily with people whose race I don't identify with, and as someone who works in one of the whitest theater establishments in Minneapolis, I love shopping there because I get to talk to people and enjoy a conversation with people who share a different perspective than most of the people I talk to everyday. The opinions of the people in this building are so often based on sensitivity and PC-ness, it's nauseating. I like this Aldi because the people are honest. I might not always agree with what I'm hearing but they aren't feigning honesty. Also the prices are beautiful. Also the cashiers are shit talkers. Also the police officer who works there doesn't seem to mind when I take carts back to get free quarters (bus money), even though they clearly aren't mine since all of my food is in this backpack he just watched me fill up with food. What ways do you prefer to listen to music? In the car, on home speakers, from the phone, vinyl, etc. Oh man. When I used to own a car, that was easily my preferred mode of listening. I would always be the first person to offer to drive somewhere so that we could listen to music. These days I have a backpack and a bike. In my back right backpack pocket lives a Bluetooth speaker. In my front left pocket lives my compatible ipod. That's my most common method of listening. My preferred way of listening are either live or through my speakers. I like to be inundated when listening. Essentially, if I can have music coming in both ears equally, then I'm golden. That said, I'm not really a headphones kinda guy. That always feels too much like being in musical isolation, for me. I used to have a nice set of headphones, yet even before they broke, I would always simply wear them around my neck and then turn them up. Walking around listening to music always bothers me because I can't really be aware of my surroundings. Short answer: Preferably live, if not, nice speakers on either side. I will eventually find a new set of speakers that work with my record player.
What's your favorite drink and what is your favorite hangover cure? I'm a pretty simple guy as far as this question is concerned. I experimented and practiced drinking for fear of being embarrassed during high school and my first year of college. Now, I almost exclusively drink cheap beer and cheap tequila. That said, since I usually shoot tequila, a nice rocks glass full of tequila is a beautiful thing. I could sip on that all night. If anyone gives me any salt or lime, I'll just laugh and slide it right back.
As far as cures, I'm not really skilled at this. I'm not really one for getting hungover anymore. I've made far too many poor drunken decisions in the past couple years, though. My usual cure is drinking a beer immediately and taking a shower and going for either a run or a bike ride. Basically my cure is booze, really hot water, sweat.
Good on you, man. Tequila is one of the few alcohols that I plain old do not enjoy the taste. I shuddered a little at the idea of drinking it straight all night.
Good on you, man. Tequila is one of the few alcohols that I plain old do not enjoy the taste. I shuddered a little at the idea of drinking it straight all night.
Good on you, man. Tequila is one of the few alcohols that I plain old do not enjoy the taste. I shuddered a little at the idea of drinking it straight all night.
Don't listen to him Nico, tequila is great!
Oh, by all means, it's a wonderful thing. I just leave it to the professionals these days.
Post by Fozzie Bear on Oct 4, 2015 11:37:40 GMT -5
Favorite concert venue? Favorite festival? What's your ideal city? What's your ideal climate? What musician/band do you think is super overrated? What musician/band do you think is super underrated?
Oh, by all means, it's a wonderful thing. I just leave it to the professionals these days.
No worries, I didn't take that as judgement in any way. I love tequila too much to care anyway. I feel like I should clarify though. When I said a rocks glass full of it to sip on, I meant of the good stuff. If I get rail, I just shoot it. I don't need to be sipping on rail tequila. Anything and I mean anything better than rail, however, I'll sip on that shit forever if I could. Though I end up just drinking it all down because it tastes so fucking good.
Related note: I worked a nice 40 hour week this week, so last night I went straight to a bar down the street and shot 3 shots in under ten minutes then went wandering. It was a nice night. I gabbed with an officer. I ate a burrito. I listened to that Avener album again. Good times.
If you were given the chance to have one 1-hour performance in your very own living room with TWO other audience members, what artist/band would you choose and who would you invite as your two plus-1s? Would you rather have to give up oral sex or cheese for the rest of your life? Favorite drunk snack? Would you rather unicorns or elves be real? Do you want kids? Marriage? Weirdest/most unusual thing that turns you on? For when you finish your 3-album run of Radiohead: which of the three did you like best and why? Best track overall that you hadn't heard before today?
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
If you could have any super power, what would it be? Why? Oh the superpower question. For years I've always been stuck between the ability to stop time (Clockstoppers was a pretty important movie to me growing up; I thought that shit was so cool) and invisibility. The ability to stop time would take the cake for me though. I feel like actual good could be done in the world and I could have some fun doing it as well. I think the good in the world could only be accomplished (for me at least) if you subscribe to the time-stopping prospect that you could collect other people to bring with you into stopped-time-land by touching them. At least a couple times I would probably do what I used to play Roller Coaster Tycoon, which is whenever there was a really angry guest in my amusement park, I'd pick them up, and put them way the fuck out there to fend for themselves, pissed off and vomiting. God that game was entertaining. Anyway, Stoping time. Hands down. What would you do with unlimited moneys and never had to work again? I would buy a boat. I would hire someone to teach me everything I would need to know about how to successfully operate a boat, teach me about boating regulations around the world and I would just travel. I would buy things for everyone. I would probably find myself working in some way anyway. Physical labor is always something that satisfies me, so not working ever doesn't seem fun to me. I'd use my money to help people out, but I'm not a philanthropist or anything, nor am I particularly selfless. I'd help people out, but honestly, I probably wouldn't do too much to end the world's problems. More profound problems would present themselves anyway. I would use my unlimited moneys to simply be. That's all I want in life. Just to be. I'm a simple guy. Favorite hobby? Conversational riffing. Nothing gives me more joy than talking absolute nonsense with people. People who 'commit to the bit,' are the greatest people alive. This is second only to music. Obviously. Is music a hobby? I'd say yes. Maybe more of an obsession. Any talents? Eh. Not really. I'm great at talking my way out of things. I'm a pretty average actor. I'm really good at getting people to laugh. I'm confident in that. I don't play any instruments, or play any sports, I can't juggle, I can't do card tricks, I can only whistle while inhaling, my cartwheels are pretty average, my writing is good and has been complemented consistently as being interesting to read, but I don't think that's a talent, that's just a product of my personality. OH! I can open a bottle of beer with another bottle of beer. That's a great party trick. It's so damn simple. The second I start talking about fulcrums and levers people become mesmerized as I open bottle after bottle. I've had countless people approach me just to open their beer, it never gets old, especially because I keep my current conversation going, open their beer, hand it back, and let them go. It's great. Biggest fear? Never finding true and lasting happiness. I no longer fear death. Not finding happiness is the only thing I truly fear. Biggest pet peeve? Obvious dishonesty. And people who stop walking on staircases when there are countless people behind them. I used to get furious about that in high school because I was so passive-aggressive. Do that to me now and I will all of a sudden no longer be a stranger to you, we're about to have a conversation. Favorite color? Purple. It used to be navy blue when I was younger, but I think I was just afraid of admitting the truth. Oh man. My bedroom when I was 14 was dark navy blue. It was so fucking brooding. I listened to that damned Jack's Mannequin song WAY too many times, I now realize. Purple. Fuck you, pubescence.
Favorite concert venue? 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. Ugh. That place. It's such a hole, I love it. Somehow the capacity is 250, but it feels like 100. Favorite festival? While Bonnaroo is a beautiful beast, it can get a little overwhelming at night. I think it's just because I always end up with people who can't handle what's going on or who seem to suddenly realize their personal reality every single night. I love being overwhelmed. That said, Pitchfork in Chicago is my favorite. I've gone 7 times and I'll never stop. It's just put together so well. What's your ideal city? If Sydney, Australia was frequented by the same number of smaller bands as Minneapolis does, then that place would be like heaven. What's your ideal climate? Just give me summertime all the time. Spring is only really satisfying because it means summer is coming. I'd rather be sweaty all day than layered up. Anywhere where the winters don't drop below 45 degrees. Many parts of New Zealand are good that way. Alas, I live in Minneapolis, so, I'm a fucking idiot who apparently doesn't want to be happy. What musician/band do you think is super overrated? Aphex Twin. Pretty good, but not mind-bending-ly amazing. Also Chvrches. Also kinda Beach House. I mean, Cocteau Twins were alright, but let's move on. I'm just not into it anymore really. What musician/band do you think is super underrated? Simian Moblie Disco. Leon Vynehall. Studio. Your Old Droog. I listen to all four of those groups all the damn time, I wish more people did too. So many rap fans sleeping on Your Old Droog. So many house fans sleeping on Vynehall. Simian Mobile Disco and Studio are just legends of their genre, imo.
If you were given the chance to have one 1-hour performance in your very own living room with TWO other audience members, what artist/band would you choose and who would you invite as your two plus-1s? Hypothetically: Alive 2007-era Daft Punk. One of my brothers and my best friend Lars. Realistically: Ratatat. Same two dudes. Would you rather have to give up oral sex or cheese for the rest of your life? This is easy for a few reasons. I would give up cheese. First reason: I'm lactose-intolerant, so I've basically given it up anyway. Second reason: I could find cheese substitutes. Dairy-free mint chocolate chip ice cream, as an adjacent example, is pretty great actually. Third reason: In my mind, I could probably give up receiving oral sex forever because I've only had one experience in my whole life that was actually any good and it was amazing; every other time has been average, but I've appreciated it anyway, because it's obviously not everyone's favorite thing. That said, I would never want to give up giving oral sex. If I could never go down on a girl ever again, I would be very upset. I just love it so much. It's easily one of my favorite sexual things, maybe even one of my favorite parts about life. I'm not a selfish lover at all. Well, maybe that's not true because I get great pleasure out of pleasing the other person. I could focus on them the entire night and have nothing reciprocated and totally not give a shit at all. Don't even worry about it. Favorite drunk snack? Food. Anything free. I like to steal shit when I get drunk, so free food. Outside of that, burritos. Maybe I'm just saying that because I had one last night circa 2am. Would you rather unicorns or elves be real? I've never thought about this before so I'm gonna stick with my first instinct. Unicorns. They would make so many people so happy. Though people would probably start farming them for whatever is in their horns, people would hunt them at first because their horns would probably be worth a lot of money (assuming they become real all of a sudden). I've already reconciled with the fact that rainbows don't have a beginning or end point along the horizon. I think if I saw a rainbow...nevermind. I just mistook elves for leprechauns. Yeah. So nevermind. Unicorns for sure. I was kinda looking forward to rambling about my feelings about the end of a rainbow and the state of affairs surround them if we grew up in a world where there was a definitive end point with little folks and pots of gold at the bottom. Moving on. Unicorns. Do you want kids? Marriage? I absolutely want kids. Marriage I'm a little unsure of. If that happens then it happens. I could see myself in a situation where I raise a child successfully with another person wherein it's a 50-50 thing. I'm not enough of an adult to truly rationalize my thoughts on this though. In an ideal world I would have something like a dozen children with multiple partners and then allow our personalities to affect/let nature/nurture run it's course. Likely an extremely selfish act, but essentially almost everything is, so, there ya go. Weirdest/most unusual thing that turns you on? I honestly can't think of anything out of the ordinary. I'm sure my sexual preferences have been heavily influenced by all the porn I've watched over the past ten years. I have an unusual fascination with pain, which occasionally presents itself during sex. A little choking, scratching, vigorous ass-slapping. The best sexual encounters I've had were with girls who were really passionate and didn't mind getting a little aggressive. Those girls always love when you don't allow them to be aggressive. As long as it's safe and both parties agree, it's extremely hot. That said, I'm never the victim for lack of a better opposite word to aggressor. One time this girl dug her nails into my back so hard, I bled profusely from my back. I didn't realize until I walked back to my room after showing her out the next morning that there was blood, sweat and both of us soaked into my sheets. I don't own those sheets anymore. Man, we're gettin' honest now. Let's keep this rolling. For when you finish your 3-album run of Radiohead: which of the three did you like best and why? Best track overall that you hadn't heard before today? Actually, in about ten minutes I will have listened to all of The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail To The Thief. As far as the 3 are concerned, I'm going to say The Bends > Kid A > OK Computer. I don't really have a good reason right now though. It's purely based on feeling. I think I just liked the atmosphere of each of them differently and in that order. Best track I hadn't heard before today: Either Electioneering or Black Star. I'm slowly realizing how many Radiohead songs I knew before this or that I've heard sampled in other things and also that so many fucking bands sound like this band it's simultaneously upsetting and awesome. Everything is derivative in some way, though, so it can't be too bad. I need to give my brain some time to process though. Gonna listen to something totally different after Hail To The Thief here in a few minutes.
If you were a hot dog, would you eat yourself? I might live my life as a hot dog, but I feel like everyone would always be trying to eat me. Or they'd keep me around as some sort of trophy "friend." If I somehow managed to live my whole life like this without getting more ridicule than a regular person, I think I might have to eat myself instead of dying slowly or being eaten by someone else. Self-preservation in self-eating. Or I'd have someone else euthanize me and they could eat me. I bet I'd be delicious. If I was just a hot dog and not some human-like hot dog, I'd definitely eat myself. I mean, what's the quality of life there? I'm just a hot dog. If my two choices in that hypothetical to eat myself or not, then absolutely I'm gonna eat myself. I'd be like the falling whale in The Hitchhikers Guide, except when I become self-aware, I'm just gonna eat myself before I hit the metaphorical ground at maximum velocity. I think that last sentence is the most interesting sentence I've written in weeks. Anyway, eventually, yeah.
Weirdest/most unusual thing that turns you on? I honestly can't think of anything out of the ordinary. I'm sure my sexual preferences have been heavily influenced by all the porn I've watched over the past ten years. I have an unusual fascination with pain, which occasionally presents itself during sex. A little choking, scratching, vigorous ass-slapping. The best sexual encounters I've had were with girls who were really passionate and didn't mind getting a little aggressive. Those girls always love when you don't allow them to be aggressive. As long as it's safe and both parties agree, it's extremely hot. That said, I'm never the victim for lack of a better opposite word to aggressor. One time this girl dug her nails into my back so hard, I bled profusely from my back. I didn't realize until I walked back to my room after showing her out the next morning that there was blood, sweat and both of us soaked into my sheets. I don't own those sheets anymore. Man, we're gettin' honest now. Let's keep this rolling.
I know you totally didn't mean it in a bad way, but "victim" is definitely not preferable terminology for what you're describing because that word has too much contextual connection to the idea of non-consent. If you're talking D/S (domination/submission), then just say "dom" and "sub;" the bolded/underlined part seems to describe a sub(missive) - wanting to relinquish control rather than assert it, sexually. Then in relation to pain exchange, "top" (sadist, the one delivering pain) and "bottom" (masochist, the one receiving the pain) are commonly accepted ways to express who is in charge in the sexual situation at hand.
And as for the oral sex v cheese question, yeah, I'm with you. Someone asked me this once and at first I was like, "Definitely give up oral sex; cheese is amazing, and there are so many other parts of sex I enjoy that don't involve someone going down on me." BUT if it would mean that I could no longer give oral sex either, then take away the cheese. Once I'm emotionally invested in someone, I love love love giving them head. Would not want that taken away.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
I know you totally didn't mean it in a bad way, but "victim" is definitely not preferable terminology for what you're describing because that word has too much contextual connection to the idea of non-consent. If you're talking D/S (domination/submission), then just say "dom" and "sub;" the bolded/underlined part seems to describe a sub(missive) - wanting to relinquish control rather than assert it, sexually. Then in relation to pain exchange, "top" (sadist, the one delivering pain) and "bottom" (masochist, the one receiving the pain) are commonly accepted ways to express who is in charge in the sexual situation at hand.
And as for the oral sex v cheese question, yeah, I'm with you. Someone asked me this once and at first I was like, "Definitely give up oral sex; cheese is amazing, and there are so many other parts of sex I enjoy that don't involve someone going down on me." BUT if it would mean that I could no longer give oral sex either, then take away the cheese. Once I'm emotionally invested in someone, I love love love giving them head. Would not want that taken away.
I think I'm The Bends>Kid A>OK Computer too
This is extremely helpful. I needed the terminology and could never think of an appropriate word without being inadvertently offensive in someway.
And yeah. Giving head is waaay too good to give up. To hell with cheese.
Oh, by all means, it's a wonderful thing. I just leave it to the professionals these days.
No worries, I didn't take that as judgement in any way. I love tequila too much to care anyway. I feel like I should clarify though. When I said a rocks glass full of it to sip on, I meant of the good stuff. If I get rail, I just shoot it. I don't need to be sipping on rail tequila. Anything and I mean anything better than rail, however, I'll sip on that shit forever if I could. Though I end up just drinking it all down because it tastes so fucking good.
Related note: I worked a nice 40 hour week this week, so last night I went straight to a bar down the street and shot 3 shots in under ten minutes then went wandering. It was a nice night. I gabbed with an officer. I ate a burrito. I listened to that Avener album again. Good times.
Absolutely. This will give me something to do when I get home from work later tonight.
I was afraid I used the word victim and then people stopped wanting to talk to me.
Noooo, don't be silly. I told you, I only corrected you so you'd know for future reference! Not to reprimand you. <3
Why did you first join inforoo? Have you ever dated someone you thought you'd marry/spend your life with? If so, what happened to change your mind? (gettin' deep, yolo) If you were a forest creature, which one would you want to be? What song would you want to play at your funeral?
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Post by Dave Maynar on Oct 18, 2015 0:08:47 GMT -5
As you journeyed through a bunch of first listens caused by Now Playing, what albums that came recommended did you just not like at all? When did you realize you got into music more than your average person? Why do you think that is?