Fun Fun Tuesday - Hating is Fun Fun

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:51 pm

*HUGS*

earthloop · Post by **earthloop** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:54 pm

There's a bunch of young skaters who gather just down the road from where I live on the outskirts of town. They gather there because of a unique facility: an old building which has a concrete 'step' which runs the whole 70-80 metre length of the building.

The big thing about this is that the 'step' has a steel cap on the edge which apparently makes it perfect for doing manouvres that skaters do on such things (I am not a skater so I take their word that it is 'special'! Anyway, these guys (and girls...I like it that there are several girls who hang out there too...a bit like surf culture really but more integrated) epitomise the friendly, open sort of "we are just having fun living our life" culture I have lived most of my life.

Now I am quite a bit older than this crew but because I walk by on my way to the shop nearly every day I have got to know them and even get invited to hang out and have a beer with them! (I like this casual, friendly 'street culture')

Why am I telling this little story? It is because recently I have been thinking of this Ableton community as being a lot like that community I just described : friendly, at times 'fiesty', but never 'angry' : accepting of others who accept them ... it is the same vibe here and while I don't post often, I love the friendly, direct, good natured banter even when disagreeing with others. It is like those skaters who are just living the way they feel!

nebulae...I don't know if your comments have anything to do with recent threads like the 'Winehouse' issue (where I got upset about what I felt were uninformed assumptions made by another person which touched a nerve from my own personal life experience..I wanted to apologise for getting angry about the subject)...but I think you are right to say what you have said here.

I love hanging out here ... and soon I am going to have time to get back to making music and will need advice and help coming to grips with the software approach to music production (I have Live 5 and never really got started with it...should I upgrade?...hehe)

So yeah...you make a valid point and I would love to get to know this crew better and get to know Live and use it like an instrument to play music!!! I can't afford the kind of gear I used to own anymore (Gibson guitars, Vox amps etc etc)

Well, that's all I have to say about that! Cheers all!

earthloop · Post by **earthloop** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:03 pm

Bloody hell!!!

I started 'composing' my post in reply to nebulae's OP, and by the time I finished there are 3 pages!!! I know I am a slow typist (guilty) but this is ..erm..intimidating!

jesQuick · Post by **jesQuick** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:12 pm

As I said in another thread the other day...

Ahh, you guys in here are the best! Much love to you and the forum, forever!

-j

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:22 pm

earthloop wrote:skater story

just saw that, had to post...

if you don't like it.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t18/ ... tAsian.gif

/had to be done.

edited to not pop up a pic.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:27 pm

bloody hell tone deft can't we even get free of porn and sex related stuff in normal threads now?

fucker.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:29 pm

^ ^ these are my two new best friends...

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:29 pm

@ tone deft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-cgn3cEGA

.lm.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:30 pm

thefool wrote:bloody hell tone deft can't we even get free of porn and sex related stuff in normal threads now?

fucker.

that's pretty PG IMO. just trying to lighten the mood. I understand.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:31 pm

Thanks to shitfuck nebulae for posting it again hoping i could page_down to the bottom of the thread

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:31 pm

leisuremuffin wrote:@ tone deft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-cgn3cEGA

.lm.

Mullen is poetry on wheels, a human video game.

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:33 pm

I think I'm coming down with something. Perhaps yellow fever.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:33 pm

that's pretty PG IMO. just trying to lighten the mood. I understand.

Yeah its just that when you are browsing known threads i don't mind if people are in the room but if you meet bouncing tits etc..

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:35 pm

thefool wrote:
that's pretty PG IMO. just trying to lighten the mood. I understand.
Yeah its just that when you are browsing known threads i don't mind if people are in the room but if you meet bouncing tits etc..

What if you were to wear this t-shirt to help explain yourself...

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:40 pm