tales from an ordinary world

1999-11-13

So having nothing better to do on a friday night, I tag along to a pub with a friend, to see a band a friend of his plays in. "What's the name of the band ?" "Oh. Er. I can't remember, actually." Turns out the band in question is one called First World. Coincidentally, a guy I work with said to me a month or two back "hey, I've got a friend who likes lots of weird music like you. He's in a band and stuff." "What's his name ?" "Paul Tan" "Oh, I've heard of him..." "I'll get him to burn you a CD of some of his stuff" "Yeah, that'd be cool." And he did.

So yeah. Back in the middle part of this decade, I used to pay a bit more attention to the local electronic scene, mostly by virtue of having joined a mailing list (called "Vivisect", presumably after one of the more popular Skinny Puppy CDs. They had a 'zine too...), etc. etc. and listening to one or two radio shows about that kinda stuff. Somehow or other I got in touch with one guy who'd done a few things, and he sent me a tape of his stuff, which was cool. He then said "there's this local compilation coming out soon, I can get you a copy if you send me the cash, etc." This Paul Tan dude had been one of the people organizing this very compilation (and various other things at the time). So there you go.

It's odd when I think about it - That kind of music has been a fairly big part of my life, and yet there's nothing to show for it around this website. I need to do a better job of explaining myself.

I got depressed looking at some of the oddly cool sites mentioned in Shift. They were all mostly done using Flash, which of course I object to from my browser-standard-compliance-and-accessibility-nazi point of view, but they still look good. I can never really get started with art, music, whatever - there are always too many conflicting thoughts in my head about what I should or could be doing. It's hard to shut them all off and just listen to one of the voices...