Small Talk Revival Thread

[Bladew1ll1s1sdead]

ha. i wish. i currently don't even have a frame since my crappy old one broke a few months back

I knew yr bed frame was broken but I forget how.

[Dominic_]

You know who's the best? Dea.

I just got the GBA in the mail today.

[Bladewillisisdead]

I lived without a bed frame for like 5 years after breaking 2 in the course of like a couple months.

[The Butcha]

I lived without a bed frame for like 5 years after breaking 2 in the course of like a couple months.

 

I haven't had a bed frame in soooo long.

[Guest]

Do you just have a mattress sitting on the floor?

[themeconspiracy]

I knew yr bed frame was broken but I forget how.

 

ha. it was a cheap $50 ikea frame i bought years ago. the best thing about it was having extra storage under it. i had it up on risers so i could store extra shit beneath it. then decided to upgrade and swapped out my risers for faller risers so i could store even more crap under it. but when i was swapping the risers, i fucked up the weight distribution and wound up snapping the flimsy wooden midbeam.

 

it held up decently well for a while after that and then just collapsed one night with me in it

[The Butcha]

Do you just have a mattress sitting on the floor?

 

Absolutely. Ladies love it.

 

Edit: I'm totally kidding.

 

They probably hate it.

[themeconspiracy]

I haven't had a bed frame in soooo long.

 

they're overrated. the best thing about it was just the storage space under it. in small nyc apartments, you need all the extra storage space you can get :/ 

 

Do you just have a mattress sitting on the floor?

 

yeah :/ i finally found a new frame that i liked and it was backordered for months. then once things went super downhill with work, i cancelled the order. figured better to figure out what i'm doing with my living situation and avoid having to bring one more giant piece of furniture with me.

 

it's not so bad. i slept on a mattress on the floor through most of college (although that was more so because i initially got duped by someone on craigslist...). the only really shitty part about not having a frame is....remember how i said i broke my bed putting it on risers to store shit under it? well, now all that stuff that was under it is just big piles in my apartment  

[The Butcha]

they're overrated. the best thing about it was just the storage space under it. in small nyc apartments, you need all the extra storage space you can get :/ 

 

 

yeah :/ i finally found a new frame that i liked and it was backordered for months. then once things went super downhill with work, i cancelled the order. figured better to figure out what i'm doing with my living situation and avoid having to bring one more giant piece of furniture with me.

 

it's not so bad. i slept on a mattress on the floor through most of college (although that was more so because i initially got duped by someone on craigslist...). the only really shitty part about not having a frame is....remember how i said i broke my bed putting it on risers to store shit under it? well, now all that stuff that was under it is just big piles in my apartment

 

I could totally use some space under my bed. My room is teeny tiny.

[themeconspiracy]

Absolutely. Ladies love it.

 

Edit: I'm totally kidding.

 

They probably hate it.

 

hahahaha. i can't speak for all ladykind, but i certainly don't mind it. 

[themeconspiracy]

I could totally use some space under my bed. My room is teeny tiny.

 

oh for sure. that extra space under there is so useful. granted a bed with giant risers and tons of boxes under it isn't the most attractive thing in the world either, but hey. it works. 

 

also, curious as to what "teeny tiny" is to you. 

[cambionic]

Long post, but it's been a while since my last post and a lot of crazy stuff has happened:

 

So about three weeks back a guy I jammed with a couple times (we'll call him "D") hit me up saying that he wanted to get on some "lofi experimental bassy noise rock" and that really piqued my interest. I show up at his place around 7 and right when I walk in, I see the lead singer/guitarist (we'll call him"G") of a very popular local band sitting on the couch with an old Casio.  He turns to me and says "Grab your theremin, we have a show in two hours."  G tells me that the band is called Gaytripp, we have three bands opening for us, and that we're going to be completely anonymous on stage - so grab whatever costume I had.  It took me by surprise, but I was down for anything. 

 

I speed home to grab my theremin, effects pedals, bass amp, and old man mask/dick costume I had from Halloween.  By the time I get back to D's place, they're in full costume (G wearing a faux-fur coat, bandana, goggles, psychedelic colored pants, and a big stupid hat; D is in a quazi-pirate getup including shiny pants, bandit mask, and a stripey shirt with holes).  They're already moving the gear into the van, so I load up my stuff and hop in.  As we drive to the venue, G explains that we have an hour long set and a few dozen people are going to be there.  I get dressed in the back (I'm butt naked - this is a skintight morph suit with a 3 foot long penis and comically large balls).  

 

When we arrive to the venue, there's a bunch of people smoking cigarettes outside.  The three of us stumble out of the van in full garb and people start looking at the spectacle.  As I carry my gear past them into the venue, people are already storming us, asking all sorts of questions - "Are you guys Gaytripp?" "Is that a theremin?" "Who's under the mask?" etc. etc.

 

We enter the venue and I see a folky band playing on stage, a few people dancing, and a crowd near the back watching.  Their set is nearing its end, so we start putting our gear around the stage.  By this time, I realize that this latex old man mask is going to be rather restrictive but I can't take it off as part of the show.  I'm already breaking out a sweat and we're not even on stage.

 

The folky band finishes up and we start moving our gear into place.  G has his Casio attached to a looper pedal and a smaller Vox amp. D has a guitar, a Boss effects board, and a Fender '65 Reverb amp.  I've got a Theremini, a Zoom effects board, a Swollen Pickle, and a Peavey Max 115 bass amp.  The people from outside follow us in and crowd around the stage while we set up. G tells me to put the theremin right in the middle of the stage and "put on a fucking show".

 

Well, we put on a fucking show.  Right when we're all set up, they drop the lights until it's only a spotlight on us.  I have no idea what to expect at all - what kind of music we're playing, what we're gonna do for an hour on stage, what I'm even supposed to do in the center of the stage.

 

G hits a key and the fucking room shakes.  The crowd screams and we drop into this wild noisy triphop shit completely off the cuff.  G has a few loops recorded in the looper pedal, but most of it is completely improvized.  I proceed to make weird noises with the theremin and dance around with my swinging dick while the other two provide semi-extraordinary music in the background.  The next hour is a blur or sweat, pounding noise, and moving bodies.  We end up doing random cover songs, original freestyle works, and just plain noise for a full hour.  And for some reason the crowd loves it.

 

Once the set ends and the lights come back on, we proceed to wordlessly pack up our gear while people rush the stage.  I pack up my stuff into the van and smoke a cigarette through my mask-hole in front of the venue.  People crowd around and try talking to me but I don't say a word, just nod silently and exhale smoke through the mouth hole.  After the cigarette and pseudo-conversation, I meander to the back of the van and change back into my normal clothes.  I look like I just took a dive into the pool with how much sweat is saturating my flesh.

 

I walk back into the venue and a trio of girls are talking to G (sans-bandana).  They all are clamoring to ask who the hell the guy in the old man mask is and G looks at me with a big shit-eating grin and we both laugh.  They don't realize that I'm standing right next to them, and I don't let it on.  We all joke around for a bit and then leave the venue.

 

The next day D texts me saying that the venue wants us for another show in two weeks (this last Wednesday), so get everything prepared.

We don't meet up until the day of the gig, about 2 hours before, but at least time we have a bit of time to jam and work out what we're going to do.  The biggest rush of the ordeal is the spontaneity and improvisation, so we mostly just get higher than giraffe asshole and go through the whole preparation process.

 

When we arrive to the venue this time, there's three times as many people and they all rush us the moment we get there.  One guy is screaming "WHO ARE YOUUUUU!" at me the whole time I'm helping set up the gear.  Again, three bands are opening up for us, but this time they're a little more coordinated with our sound (the guy immediately before our set - the only one I was able to see - is playing some spacey noise ambient stuff with a ton of bass and reverb).  We jump on stage and proceed to create some of the most noisy (read: shitty  ), raucous, and just plain weird (think a tamer version of '85 Butthole Surfers) music as we possibly can.  

 

Once we finish the set, even more people storm us (including the WHO ARE YOUUUUU! guy) and start talking about the show.  Eventually, I pull off the mask around the corner and return to the crowd.  Being completely anonymous, I listen in on conversations and they'e completely sucking our collective dicks.  They're saying things like this is the birth of a new scene in our local area and that we put on the best show they've seen, etc. It's completely mindblowing and unexpected.  I personally just went on stage to have fun and make some shitty music, but it seems like the crowd is very receptive to what we're laying down.

 

The venue owners then take the three of us in the back and say they want to book us a gig in March.   They tell us that we have to get a social media presence and the whole shebang if we want to do this and we'll have posters around town and marketing online. I'm still reeling from the show and everything that people were saying, so I'm just sitting there with a smile on my face while G handles the business.

 

It's been three days since and my head is flooded with what we can do next.  I have so many ideas for weird shit and I can't wait to unleash it upon the public. At the second show, a significant amount of people were taking pictures and video, so I'm gonna try to get that from them and see if I can post the spectacle here.  It's fun. 

 

-- end transmission --

[The Butcha]

so we mostly just get higher than giraffe asshole

 

Thats one of the coolest stories I'v ever read. And thats my favorite line from said story.

[themeconspiracy]

I'm butt naked - this is a skintight morph suit with a 3 foot long penis and comically large balls

 

omg. that was an amazing story. amazing.

 

i definitely had to stop mid way through it to see if i could find any photos or videos of this craziness (i'm not a creepy stalker, this is just what i do for a living haha)

 

 

yep. so much better with the visual to go along with it hahaha

 

can't wait to see some video/hear some sweet jams from this amazing new supergroup sweeping the cali experimental EDM scene. 

[The Butcha]

That picture is fucking incredible. As are your stalker skills Lauren.

[Youinreverse]

Amazing story.

 

[cambionic]

omg. that was an amazing story. amazing.

 

i definitely had to stop mid way through it to see if i could find any photos or videos of this craziness (i'm not a creepy stalker, this is just what i do for a living haha)

 

 

yep. so much better with the visual to go along with it hahaha

 

can't wait to see some video/hear some sweet jams from this amazing new supergroup sweeping the cali experimental EDM scene. 

 

HOLY FUCK YOU FOUND A  PICTUREEEEE!?!?!????????

 

I'm super excited!  Are there more?  Where did you find this?

 

This was from the second show that had a few more additional guests and some other crazy stuff, but the story was already so long I didn't wanna bore with details. 

[themeconspiracy]

That picture is fucking incredible. As are your stalker skills Lauren.

 

hahahaha so much of my job is just finding weird shit on the internet. peeps be like "i need a photo of kanye crying while hugging a puppy" and i'm like "ON IT!" 

[Guest]

Absolutely. Ladies love it.

 

Edit: I'm totally kidding.

 

They probably hate it.

 

Haha, I had a roommate who did the same thing in college. He had a weird tiny mattress though, like slightly smaller then a twin. The ladies stayed far away.

 

they're overrated. the best thing about it was just the storage space under it. in small nyc apartments, you need all the extra storage space you can get :/ 

 

 

yeah :/ i finally found a new frame that i liked and it was backordered for months. then once things went super downhill with work, i cancelled the order. figured better to figure out what i'm doing with my living situation and avoid having to bring one more giant piece of furniture with me.

 

it's not so bad. i slept on a mattress on the floor through most of college (although that was more so because i initially got duped by someone on craigslist...). the only really shitty part about not having a frame is....remember how i said i broke my bed putting it on risers to store shit under it? well, now all that stuff that was under it is just big piles in my apartment

 

Yeah, I can see not wanting to buy one with wanting to move. They are a pain. I bought a cheap metal one, so it comes apart easy, but it's still bulky.

 

I have a king sized bed, but not sheets for it, so I just use twin sheets on it. It's kinda depressing too, and I'm sure a girl would laugh at me if she saw it. The other side of the bed is usually clean clothes I'm too lazy to put away. I had more luck with girls when I had a twin bed, and when I moved into my house got the king, and no one but me has ever been in it .

 

Got all my music backed up on the new hard drive, now I have to go through all 200+ movies and try to figure out if anymore are corrupt (found 3 so far).

[themeconspiracy]

HOLY FUCK YOU FOUND A  PICTUREEEEE!?!?!????????

 

I'm super excited!  Are there more?  Where did you find this?

 

i tried youtube, but had no luck. found these 2 on instagram. both on https://www.instagram.com/batdogrecords/

 

 

i'm also excited to officially be gaytripp's lucky 13th official follower on instagram. don't disappoint me!

[The Butcha]

i tried youtube, but had no luck. found these 2 on instagram. both on https://www.instagram.com/batdogrecords/

 

i'm also excited to officially be gaytripp's lucky 13th official follower on instagram. don't disappoint me!

 

14th here!

[themeconspiracy]

Haha, I had a roommate who did the same thing in college. He had a weird tiny mattress though, like slightly smaller then a twin. The ladies stayed far away.

 

 

Yeah, I can see not wanting to buy one with wanting to move. They are a pain. I bought a cheap metal one, so it comes apart easy, but it's still bulky.

 

I have a king sized bed, but not sheets for it, so I just use twin sheets on it. It's kinda depressing too, and I'm sure a girl would laugh at me if she saw it. The other side of the bed is usually clean clothes I'm too lazy to put away. I had more luck with girls when I had a twin bed, and when I moved into my house got the king, and no one but me has ever been in it .

 

Got all my music backed up on the new hard drive, now I have to go through all 200+ movies and try to figure out if anymore are corrupt (found 3 so far).

 

1. creepy small mattress on the floor is like...something you'd find on an episode of SVU. and i'm a tiny person who would probably be just fine in an oddly small bed, but creepy tiny beds are just creepy. like smaller than a twin? like a child's mattress? no thanks haha

 

2. king beds are AMAZING. i have so much fun whenever i stay at a hotel or something and get to sleep in a king bed. i'm so small and it's so big, i literally take up 1/10th of the space haha. i have to like swim across it to do anything? i want to turn off the light? gotta take a nice long crawl to the switch. it's hilarious and so fun.

 

also, king beds are perfect for two people. you can cuddle or you can roll your own way and be like "OH i forgot you were even here". it's nice to have options. 

 

3. yeah i miss having a bed, but just didn't seem worth it to have a whole big frame delivered a month before i might be moving. trying to get all my records wherever i'm going is gonna be hassle enough

[The Butcha]

Dammit Jeff, after this story and talking to you for a while I was like I need to see what you actually look like. I found your IG and its nothing but records! Hahaha.

[themeconspiracy]

14th here!

 

[Guest]

1. creepy small mattress on the floor is like...something you'd find on an episode of SVU. and i'm a tiny person who would probably be just fine in an oddly small bed, but creepy tiny beds are just creepy. like smaller than a twin? like a child's mattress? no thanks haha

 

2. king beds are AMAZING. i have so much fun whenever i stay at a hotel or something and get to sleep in a king bed. i'm so small and it's so big, i literally take up 1/10th of the space haha. i have to like swim across it to do anything? i want to turn off the light? gotta take a nice long crawl to the switch. it's hilarious and so fun.

 

also, king beds are perfect for two people. you can cuddle or you can roll your own way and be like "OH i forgot you were even here". it's nice to have options. 

 

3. yeah i miss having a bed, but just didn't seem worth it to have a whole big frame delivered a month before i might be moving. trying to get all my records wherever i'm going is gonna be hassle enough

 

It was super creepy. 

 

Sadly I have not gotten a chance to cuddle in it, unless you count all the clean clothes. The space is nice though, and sometimes it feels awesome to just lay directly in the middle and have room all around you.