Words don't come easy to me
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greatbearmd .
The rules:
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!", and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal, and explain what they mean to you.
Mashups
When I originally got involved with the British-born scene in 2002 they were known as Bastard Pop, then bootlegs. Mashups is a recent name invention, coming from the fact that Bastard Pop was too rude and bootlegs used elsewhere - so of course as soon as mashups was coined from old reggae terminology, loads of sad geeks jumped in and nicked it for their shitty little coding examples to sound cool, which still annoys me to this day - get yer own frigging word - we did! Anyway first mashup I heard was Warm Bitch by Richard X, then known as Girls on Top in Sister Ray in Soho, best record shop EVER til they moved - in 2001, and then ran home and looked them up on Audiogalaxy.
I probably don't have the love for them I once had, that dissapated on the 10000th Justin Timberlake or Eminem mashup and the fact that very few places are really pushing it forward, to borrow the Streets phrase. Yup they are getting big in the US and continent, but it's still mostly rock vs rap or electro vs rnb* - or retro-nostalgia-Stars on 45 fest of Girl Talk. Not really radical, nor new. Also the tongue-in-cheek humour has mostly gone, Bastard pop was post-modern and silly comments on pop culture, as sarcastic as much as radio-friendly. Now everyone wants to be a (mashup) DJ for career purposes and create pop 'tunes'. Boring.
* yes I know I am guilty of this!
Photography
My first love, and will be my last. Oh no that's music, although photography is close 2nd with me taking pictures since 8 years old on a crappy and defective GALT plastic 120 camera. Thankfully I quickly got a better one via a jumble sale (Instamatic 126!) for like 20p and never looked back. I've lost count of how many photos I've taken - I know I have in the region of 10-12,000 film photos, but digital explosion means I have nearly 10,000 on my Flickr alone since 2005, and those are just the 'highlights'. Scary thoughts! I want to make it my career though, for years avoiding doing that for fear of destroying something I love, but my main profession is so boring and inane a change of career is needed - I need to LOVE what I do again and be creative.
Music
Definitely my first love as a toddler bouncing to the Beatles and Brotherhood of Man (! last time I liked Eurovision) music is always present, via iPod or mashups or mixes or my podcast, it's part of my environment but never ignored, never background. I wish I had early musical training, unlike other places music lessons cost mega£££s we don't have bands etc so I knew my parents couldn't afford piano lessons at age 7/8 so never asked. I used to play my dad's guitar though later on. That lack of training I miss when I do the mashups and mixes, I've learnt to hear key clash but sometimes I can't work out how to fix it, or if I should even try. Most of my musical training is from messing around.
London
My home for the last 10 years, plan was to move here then move abroad but got kind of stuck. Certainly I'm a city boy and not a country person, urban is where it's at. Can't say I'm proud of London but I'm not unproud either ;-)
DJing
I DJ'd in anger from 2002 onwards - first gig a friend's engagement party, first set was of course 100% mashups. I've gotten a lot better and can mix now via laptop but I was never a beatmatch wikki wikki sort of DJ. I decided to retire after a bad gig and realising the last really good gig was in 2006...
greatbearmd .The rules:
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!", and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal, and explain what they mean to you.
Mashups
When I originally got involved with the British-born scene in 2002 they were known as Bastard Pop, then bootlegs. Mashups is a recent name invention, coming from the fact that Bastard Pop was too rude and bootlegs used elsewhere - so of course as soon as mashups was coined from old reggae terminology, loads of sad geeks jumped in and nicked it for their shitty little coding examples to sound cool, which still annoys me to this day - get yer own frigging word - we did! Anyway first mashup I heard was Warm Bitch by Richard X, then known as Girls on Top in Sister Ray in Soho, best record shop EVER til they moved - in 2001, and then ran home and looked them up on Audiogalaxy.
I probably don't have the love for them I once had, that dissapated on the 10000th Justin Timberlake or Eminem mashup and the fact that very few places are really pushing it forward, to borrow the Streets phrase. Yup they are getting big in the US and continent, but it's still mostly rock vs rap or electro vs rnb* - or retro-nostalgia-Stars on 45 fest of Girl Talk. Not really radical, nor new. Also the tongue-in-cheek humour has mostly gone, Bastard pop was post-modern and silly comments on pop culture, as sarcastic as much as radio-friendly. Now everyone wants to be a (mashup) DJ for career purposes and create pop 'tunes'. Boring.
* yes I know I am guilty of this!
Photography
My first love, and will be my last. Oh no that's music, although photography is close 2nd with me taking pictures since 8 years old on a crappy and defective GALT plastic 120 camera. Thankfully I quickly got a better one via a jumble sale (Instamatic 126!) for like 20p and never looked back. I've lost count of how many photos I've taken - I know I have in the region of 10-12,000 film photos, but digital explosion means I have nearly 10,000 on my Flickr alone since 2005, and those are just the 'highlights'. Scary thoughts! I want to make it my career though, for years avoiding doing that for fear of destroying something I love, but my main profession is so boring and inane a change of career is needed - I need to LOVE what I do again and be creative.
Music
Definitely my first love as a toddler bouncing to the Beatles and Brotherhood of Man (! last time I liked Eurovision) music is always present, via iPod or mashups or mixes or my podcast, it's part of my environment but never ignored, never background. I wish I had early musical training, unlike other places music lessons cost mega£££s we don't have bands etc so I knew my parents couldn't afford piano lessons at age 7/8 so never asked. I used to play my dad's guitar though later on. That lack of training I miss when I do the mashups and mixes, I've learnt to hear key clash but sometimes I can't work out how to fix it, or if I should even try. Most of my musical training is from messing around.
London
My home for the last 10 years, plan was to move here then move abroad but got kind of stuck. Certainly I'm a city boy and not a country person, urban is where it's at. Can't say I'm proud of London but I'm not unproud either ;-)
DJing
I DJ'd in anger from 2002 onwards - first gig a friend's engagement party, first set was of course 100% mashups. I've gotten a lot better and can mix now via laptop but I was never a beatmatch wikki wikki sort of DJ. I decided to retire after a bad gig and realising the last really good gig was in 2006...
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Photography
Date: 2009-07-11 05:59 am (UTC)Chuck, now with an Oly E-620
Re: Photography
Date: 2009-07-11 02:55 pm (UTC)I've held and focused a Leica
Date: 2009-07-12 05:08 am (UTC)Chuck
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Date: 2009-07-11 03:00 pm (UTC)Fashion
Bouncers
Tattoos
YBAs