OMG I AM HI FOR THE 1ST TIME IN A COONS AGE

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The sounds of the Animal Collective, a band from Providence, Illinois, on the surface of Sung Tongs, their new long-playing disc. Right now it's about a "leaf house," which strikes me as a very Hemingwayan proposal: where the word "leaf" intersects with hemispherean intellectual prowess. They go, and go, and go, and like Gertrude Stein's famous quote about Oakland, have nowhere to go but nowhere. There's no one, no one, no one, no one: DEE-DEE-DEE-DEE-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO. Meow. Kitties. Beautiful, like a 1905 Degas on display in the loo.

Gimme the unknown, the DJ on a tranquil peace parade. Catch the maracas, shaking like Indians of the past: the wheat fields calling, the crows whistling: you could win a rabbit, you could nab a rabbit, and there's no disputing this song is about the march of the Indian west on the Trail of Tears and how civilization disputes this fact.

OMG I AM GOING TO HAVE TO LISTEN TO "SMILE"

The coffee sure is getting older.

AW-OO, YEAH YEAH YEAH

AW-OOOOOOOOOO!

General Motors calling John Fahey in a seventh-inning stretch somwehere in th' 1963 forest.

Ka-kaw! (Why I say this so much lately, part one: I have no earthly clue.) (The Song of Hiawatha resurrects itself on Plymouth Rock: seriously, though, OMG I am going to have to listen to "Smile," right?)

Trippy.

Update: currently the St. Louis baseball Cardinals are putting a stomping on the Los Angeles baseball Dodgers. The score is six to two in the eighth inning. I feel confident that St. Louis will earn a victory in this contest and advance to the National League Championship Series.

Two hits.

OMG a double entendre.

The achievement is made complete, and images abound of surefooted hitters slapping skin with quick-throwing catchers, and the musk of sandalwood pounces on necks of athletic wonder boys. A tight-lipped catcher in blue, the man who is unfortunately not Paul Lo Duca, glares off in the outfield distance for the Californian all-star.

"I singed my eyebrow" will not cut it in this league. Parker, take two stints on the bench.

Old glory hounds relive past days, but I'll keep it brief: my stint on the pitching mound in 1945, starring as the glorious "Hal Newhouser," brings me two tons of joy in a life otherwise considered ill-illustrious.

They call from the forest, pounding on skins of moose and elk and beaver. Come back from the hunt, from the fish, rattling a tightly-stretched hide over a percussion display case. The howl of the Indian, of the wolf stepping into a jig against the pale moonlight.

And they leave just as gracefully.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:37 (twenty years ago)

turn it down

― dj oliver hazard perry (dj oliver hazard perry), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago)

is "coons age" a racist phrase?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago)

You better believe it

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Noise Dude Nonsense

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago)

I'd be interested in learning more about the origin of that phrase.

― dj oliver hazard perry (dj oliver hazard perry), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago)

What's your point Roy/b?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago)

How might I better serve you on the Noise Board?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago)

by going away.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago)

All-righty, sir.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

You have my permission to delete this thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm still not sure what I've done. It's so strange having enemies.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago)

OMG JAYMC YOU ARE TEH RACEIST!!!!!

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:46 (twenty years ago)

are you wearing a leather jacket and smoking a cigarette while you are typing this?! RUFFIAN!

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:46 (twenty years ago)

"controversial"

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:47 (twenty years ago)

i always thought coons age referred to how long raccoon's live...??

shit, that's an expression that gets tossed around an assload in the south without any apparent racist overtones.

hmm.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcoonsage.html

damn... my yankee born ass needs to watch my shit. gosh, that's embarassing.
m.

― msp (msp), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah.

I was going to say.

― dj oliver hazard perry (dj oliver hazard perry), Monday, 11 October 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

"in a month of Sundays" is an awesome phrase!!!!!

i'm high too, of course.

― Helios Creed (orion), Monday, 11 October 2004 04:18 (twenty years ago)

down here in leezyannie "coonass" means cajun redneck and has no connotations regarding blacks.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Coonass is a controversial term in the Cajun lexicon: to some Cajuns it is regarded as the supreme ethnic slur, meaning "ignorant, backwards Cajun"; to others the term is a badge of pride, much like the word Chicano is for Mexican Americans. In South Louisiana, for example, one can often see bumper stickers reading "Warning — Coonass on Board!" or "Registered Coonass" (both of which generally depict a raccoon’s backside). The word’s origin is unclear: folk etymology claims that coonass dates from World War II, when Cajun GIs serving in France were derided by native French speakers as conasse, meaning "dirty whore" or "idiot." Non-French-speaking American GIs allegedly overheard the expression, converted it to the English "coonass," and introduced the term back in the United States. There it supposedly soon caught on as a derisive term among non-Cajuns, who encountered many Cajuns in Gulf Coast oilfields. It is now known, however, that coonass predated the arrival of Cajun GIs in France during World War II, which undermines the conasse theory. Indeed, folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet has long rejected this theory, calling it "shaky linguistics at best." He has suggested that the word originated in South Louisiana, and that it derived from the belief that Cajuns frequently ate raccoons. He has also proposed that the term contains a negative racial connotation: namely, that Cajuns were "beneath" or "under" blacks (or coons, as blacks were often called by racists). Despite efforts by Cajun activists like James Domengeaux and Warren A. Perrin to stamp out the term’s use, coonass continues to circulate in South Louisiana and beyond. Its acceptability among the general public, however, tends to vary according to circumstances, and often depends on who says it and with what intention. Cajuns who dislike the term have been known to correct well-meaning outsiders who use the epithet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

This is really lovely.

J0hn, you will always have a place on my noise board.

I was going to mail your CDs on Saturday, but I couldn't get coverstar to print. How annoying.

That's so not true about Oakland, though.

― Ratchet (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago)

"coon's age" is NOT racist. unless you are very racially sensitive about raccoons.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I am.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Me too, it's about time we all got enlightened on this subject.

― Ratchet (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Japan under raccoon alert
AP
September 17, 2004
TOKYO: They're thieving, attic-squatting menaces, a foreign invasion that poses such a threat to Japanese public health that the government is planning a crackdown.
Raccoons have long been beloved in Japan, where one was the star of a popular cartoon, and a raccoon pet fad beginning in the late 1970s led to thousands of them being imported.
That fad, Japanese officials say, has led to today's raccoon alert.
Foreign raccoons are now breeding in the wild, threatening ecosystems, pushing out native species and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage annually, officials say.
"Those who have never seen a raccoon before are still charmed by them," said Yasuko Takano, an environmental official with the Hokkaido prefectural government in northern Japan.
"But others from more rural areas like central Hokkaido know how much damage they can cause," she said.
Raccoons are estimated to have caused 33 million yen in crop damage in fiscal 2002 on Hokkaido island, where 1,022 animals were caught and exterminated.
Officials are uncertain how many raccoons exist nationwide. But they say complaints have soared in recent years after the charm of the furry, ebony-faced creatures wore off and owners began getting rid of them.
"It's really become a problem in these past five to six years. People have called in to complain about raccoons living in their attics, urinating and defecating there," said spokesman Masaru Hirezaki from Kamakura city, just southwest of Tokyo.
"The smell and damage can be so bad that some people have had to put down a new roof," he said.
Attacks on humans are rare – but not unheard of.
Last month, a 57-year-old woman was walking her dog in central Japan when she was attacked by a raccoon that bit her in 26 places, media reports said.
Japan's Parliament passed a new law in June to strengthen measures that could be taken against foreign animal species that pose an ecological threat, said Environment Ministry spokesman Masaru Horikamu.
Horikamu said the measure will probably allow authorities to kill raccoons without a permit if they are causing damage.
Meanwhile, Hokkaido officials are grappling with a surging raccoon population that poses alarming long-term effects.
Raccoons have disrupted the ecosystem enough in Hokkaido to cause a decline in the number of gray heron and Japan's native raccoon dog, the "tanuki", officials say.
And diseases carried by raccoons, such as roundworm and rabies, can be potentially fatal if they infect humans, officials add.

Declaring "emergency measures", the prefecture has pledged to eradicate the raccoons from the wild and aims to cull 2,000 per year.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

When I was walking home from UC Berkeley to BART (the very same night I ate vietnamese on shattuck with mr. and mrs. adamratchetl), the folx i was with and i walked by a raccoon that was just hanging out on a driveway about 3-4 feet from us. it behaved as domesticated as a cat, but i kindly had to remind my one friend that they have extremely sharp claws and are not unprone to rabies and other afflictions. we continued on.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)

the big evil raccoon that keeps threatening monchichi in the backyard is about to have it's "age" abruptly shortened with a shovel.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah... raccoons are all over berkeley and north oakland. i've seen groups of 3 to 5 of them here and there... around trash and scurrying into and out of sewer drains... hey, we've got the BART... i imagine the sewers are probably the safest kind of commute for them.

yeah, i've had conversations with several native southerners this morning regarding "coon's age" and while everyone agrees calling a black person a "coon" is very rude, "coon's age" seems more a straight up raccoon reference and unintended to be racist.

alas and so on... there are probably better ways to express "in a long time".
m.

― msp (msp), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago)

raccoons eat my trash.

― Helios Creed (orion), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago)

OMG I AM HI FOR THE 1ST TIME IN A WEEK

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago)

OMG I AM HI FOR THE `ST TIME TODAY

― Helios Creed (orion), Monday, 11 October 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago)

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago)

SWELL MAPS

― Helios Creed (orion), Monday, 11 October 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Bump-skiddy-bump-bump-bump

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Eatin' oatmeal and listening to Boards of Canada, it's all good, right, brodies?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Note: I am not Wayne "Trigonal Mayhem" Waynester, K?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

That youngster punk can't keep up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

Also oatmeal maybe a bad idea because now I'm out of breakfast.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh well! :( LOLOL

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

YAY! I'M NOT THE ONLY DRUNK ONE!

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

raccoons only live 10 years.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 23 January 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

Did jack cole's pesky raccoon have that run in with a shovel?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 23 January 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

LOL @
http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/gif/1zipcon1.gif

― Thwar (Thor), Sunday, 23 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

"ZIP COON" is his name and YES he looks like a http://atarihq.com/tsr/nes/batltoad.jpg

― Thwar (Thor), Sunday, 23 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I drank a glass of Shiraz. Does that count?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

For what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

anything

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

This is not funny, POST-9/11.

― joe suzuki-san (deangulberry), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

That's because irony DIED.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know what that is!

― joe suzuki-san (deangulberry), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

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Trippy.

― s1ocki, Saturday, 17 January 2009 16:01 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

what's up losers

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 19 April 2009 06:08 (sixteen years ago)

hey do you think facial expressions are hereditary

i think i inherited my smirk

― elmo argonaut, Sunday, 19 April 2009 06:25 (sixteen years ago)

i think it's both nature + nurture

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 19 April 2009 06:31 (sixteen years ago)

pre-4/20 weekend celebrations?

― s1ocki, Sunday, 19 April 2009 16:28 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

whats up party people [these amazing party people in the world] world b. free image workshop

― jaymc, Sunday, 30 August 2009 04:49 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Anyone else listening to P.M. Dawn?

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:41 (fifteen years ago)

OMG this is like one of my favorite threads.

No, I'm not listening to PM Dawn but I once heard Set Adrift On Memory Bliss while on acid and it sounded SO good.

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

U should listen to To Rococo Rot = the work of many miniature factories

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:46 (fifteen years ago)

I briefly became excited until I realized you were mocking me.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:48 (fifteen years ago)

No I'm not!

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:49 (fifteen years ago)

Well, you win. I just put on The Amateur View.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:50 (fifteen years ago)

There's still plenty of reasons to be excited. I was merely recommending you repeat what was clearly a memorable experience. And I used a classic ILX quote to do so. (I mean it's true, that quote, I imagine)

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:50 (fifteen years ago)

I listened to Luomo today b/c of you!

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:53 (fifteen years ago)

That's great news!

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:53 (fifteen years ago)

I once tried to listen to The Present Lover while hi and the vocals on Talk In Danger totally freaked me out

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:54 (fifteen years ago)

hi adam hi .xls

it's friday night, I'm editing, what are you guys doing

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:55 (fifteen years ago)

Oh I'm not hi. I'm tripping balls on ginger tea

What are you editing, Milton?

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:56 (fifteen years ago)

Gotta say, this was a classic mix:

Rex the Dog, "I Look Into Mid-Air"
Nathan Fake, "The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Mix)"
Michael Mayer, "Amanda"
The MFA, "The Difference It Makes (Superpitcher Mix)"
Le Dust Sucker, "Meanboy"
Kaito, "Soul of Heart"
Ghost Cauldron, "Ambient Skit (Superpitcher Ambient Mix)"
Chelonis R. Jones, "I Don't Know? (Just Us Remx)"
Basteroid, "Sonnenbrilliant"
Akufen, "Jeep Sex"
Ada, "Believer"

(possibly not the right track order)

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:56 (fifteen years ago)

I am hi and just hanging out. Girlfriend is asleep on the sofa. It's like 80 degrees in here.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:57 (fifteen years ago)

Haha, is that mine? That is good. Wow that is a lot of Kompakt. I've been thinking about Kompakt recently.

Batseroid is maybe a weak link, I don't remember that track

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:58 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, it is called MICRO/MACRO.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:59 (fifteen years ago)

Awww, I miss making mixes. They're very diaristic, really.

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:00 (fifteen years ago)

autotune does much more interesting things to spoken word tracks when you varispeed down your source 400%, print it realtime, then varispeed it back up. especially with things like birds

while I'm rendering birdsong on the HD machine I'm comping about 10 minutes of narration vocal takes on the other

nothing's stopping you from making another mix

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:01 (fifteen years ago)

What is that '90s indie rock band you like?

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:02 (fifteen years ago)

now I know you're not talking to me

earlier I was editing a radio show and one sentence was 'I was on a soccer field playing with bats (long pause) I lost'

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:03 (fifteen years ago)

I guess not.

I only understand half of what you describe but it sounds very exciting. I wish I could do sound stuff
multiple xxposts

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:03 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry, Milton. Is that a dream?

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:04 (fifteen years ago)

90s indie rock band? Maybe you mean Truman's Water?

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:04 (fifteen years ago)

it was my friend Andrea and I get the impression it happened to her. she was on some sound recording retreat in Africa. unfortunately her preamps don't go to 50kHz, so no recordings of her losing against the bats

here's a pretty great youtube of Bernie Krause slowing down a recording of a tree emitting sap at 70kHz down to the audible range, it sounds like an old school drum machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWkMWDSVZuQ

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:06 (fifteen years ago)

xp Haha maybe.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

That video! I did take a field recording class earlier this year. It was fun but I was too busy and had to drop it. I missed making my own contact mic.

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:08 (fifteen years ago)

I think I am about to blow a lot of money on two incredibly expensive japanese microphones and some kind of preamp and become the kind of birder than Jaxon will punch in the face on sight

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:11 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb0grNXmWGc&feature=player_embedded

― am0n, Saturday, 14 August 2010 07:21 (fifteen years ago)

The title 'Stormcock' was taken from the mistle thrush, the only bird that sits facing the wind in mid-winter and sings into the wind.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

some dude walking by me on the sidewalk just now said to his friend: "Oh, fuck, I love crystal meth!"

love it when someone is a big fan of something.

― scott seward, Saturday, 14 August 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)

xpost. haha. i'm not saying that listening to birds or whatever is annoying. it's the ocd collecting of species that freaked me out. instead of appreciating the excitement and beauty of the safari we were on, they were nerding out on tiny details

― jaxon, Saturday, 14 August 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)

This was at band camp?

― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

saturday afternoon timez

― puerile aretha franklin jokes (crüt), Saturday, 14 August 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

xpost. nah, went on safari in s.africa, zimbabwe & botswana

― jaxon, Saturday, 14 August 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

yeah so

― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago)

what up bruh

― Regional Thug (D-40), Thursday, 17 November 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago)

great thread

― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Thursday, 17 November 2011 06:21 (thirteen years ago)

i'm good, you?

― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2011 06:33 (thirteen years ago)

half a cookie in

― shaane, Thursday, 17 November 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago)

what's up losers

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:08 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 17 November 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.leafly.com/hybrid/chemdawg

― scott seward, Friday, 11 January 2013 03:32 (twelve years ago)

Anonymous said about a month ago
In my top 5 all time strains , and is the parent of 3 of the four strains I love !

wait a second, he has a top 5 all time strains, but he only loves four strains? there's no need to have a top 5 just for the sake of having a top 5, man. no need to mix in the unloved strain in the top tier.

― Z S, Friday, 11 January 2013 03:35 (twelve years ago)

yeah that seems spiteful more than anything else

― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2013 03:41 (twelve years ago)

that kind of thinking is the only reason i made it into my mother's top 6.

― estela, Friday, 11 January 2013 03:59 (twelve years ago)

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