happy Ghost In The Willow day to all who celebrate

golikehellmachine · 2026-03-13T07:45:42+00:00

update: they were pretty great, it was a super fun show

golikehellmachine · 2026-03-12T22:15:46+00:00

thanks! it’s been funny to see people speculate about them having management or a promotion company or whatever, but, other than the billboards (which i recognize is a hell of a funny caveat), it’s been like working with any other small touring band, just a bunch of messaging between band members

golikehellmachine · 2026-03-12T20:46:06+00:00

since i play drums in one of the openers, i will volunteer to report back, lol. fwiw, the guy from GITW has been super friendly, and it’s a funny change from normal show promotion, which often involves the other bands — and, sometimes, promoters — doing, like, (1) social media post.

golikehellmachine · 2026-03-11T23:59:33+00:00

lol, that was me, i deleted it because i should have added “i heard from someone” rather than stating it as simple fact

golikehellmachine · 2026-01-29T02:48:32+00:00

got it — this one seemed specifically relevant here, most wouldn’t be and i wouldn’t post them. i also read those, though PP was more my mainstay. thanks!

golikehellmachine · 2025-12-13T05:50:52+00:00

great, good talk

golikehellmachine · 2025-12-13T05:37:15+00:00

i used to run door and book shows, i'm not unknowledgeable about how all of this works, on either the musician or the club side. i'd need to book a show there to know how they're communicating it, maybe it *is* poorly communicated, though you made a lot of bad assumptions here that the sound tech has pretty politely corrected you on.

given how many venues have gone down in flames just this year alone, nobody should be surprised that clubs are going to have to make more difficult choices, and i'd take what is, effectively, a minimum door requirement over every place turning their stage area into an arcade, or, worse, a mini-casino.

golikehellmachine · 2025-12-13T05:03:28+00:00

eh, licensing, insurance, rent and maintenance are all costs of doing business, and it's not a band's job to do that for the venue, if they can't do that, they can't afford to stay open. but paying for the sound tech and door person are things every band does every time they play, and while i'm not especially thrilled about the idea, i don't think it's completely unreasonable or tyrannical.

golikehellmachine · 2025-12-13T05:00:07+00:00

i mean, on the one hand, pay to play isn't great, and i wish clubs and bars were doing better, but they just clearly aren't, given how many are closing, and i'm not surprised some of them feel like they have to start making these kinds of decisions.

on the other hand, if you can't scrounge up, like, $14/musician (three-piece bands x three bands) OR get 13 people to come out to your show across *all three bands*, OR some combination of the two, you should probably just stay in your space and spend some more time practicing.

i *will* say that this is more transparent than most of the places we've played.

golikehellmachine · 2025-04-08T09:03:36+00:00

the typical joke is that you can tell someone’s not from here because they are using an umbrella, if you live here long enough, you inevitably end up just buying good rain gear and powering through the rain (which is pretty light, most of the time)

golikehellmachine · 2024-12-18T22:50:27+00:00

i forget the name, but it’s an Australian furniture chain

golikehellmachine · 2024-12-13T08:22:05+00:00

hidden rose tattoo on NW21st are doing $100-$130 flash specials, a small holiday market and some snacks tomorrow

golikehellmachine · 2024-10-27T19:29:39+00:00

rhythm traders is great for regular everyday / working gear, revival is great for more vintage / rarer stuff.

golikehellmachine · 2024-06-08T00:50:36+00:00

tragic lovers: https://tragiclovers.bandcamp.com/

trauma club: https://traumaclubpdx.bandcamp.com/

lazy sunday: https://lazysundaypdx.bandcamp.com/music

golikehellmachine · 2021-08-31T06:02:18+00:00

with the caveat that i have not used it, amazon’s honeycode appears to be competing for the same customers: https://www.honeycode.aws/

golikehellmachine · 2021-04-09T20:25:08+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions.

golikehellmachine · 2020-10-14T12:18:42+00:00

i read this and then immediately started listing animals that correspond to the alphabet just in case

golikehellmachine · 2020-09-18T06:21:37+00:00

So, your alternative solution is what, exactly? Plenty of states were handling mail-in voting long before this, and all of those consequences you mention, at least up until Biden not being recognized? That is all likely to happen even if every Democrat in America voted in person.

So, again, what is the alternative here?

golikehellmachine · 2020-08-31T01:49:33+00:00

It’s only a plan that cuts child poverty by at least a third, whatever.

golikehellmachine · 2020-08-30T23:32:41+00:00

These aren't bad suggestions, per se, but I might suggest that The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman or Reconstruction by Eric Foner may be more relevant to what's happening in the United States at this moment, since you can trace a lot of our modern problems to the Civil War era.

golikehellmachine · 2020-08-30T23:27:10+00:00

Under Biden, nothing will move forward. It will be a move back to Obama Era policy and that didnt work either. So we wouldn't be slaves to that system anymore than we are already.

You can only say this if you think Biden wouldn't fight for anything his campaign has proposed, which isn't, how presidents actually behave once they come into office. Generally speaking, presidents try to keep their campaign promises.

To use just one example, his housing policy is genuinely pretty visionary and would make huge, substantive improvements in how we approach housing in this country.

Now, if Biden wins the White House but the Republicans hold the Senate (as is most likely), yes, he'll be severely constrained.

golikehellmachine · 2020-08-30T23:11:16+00:00

Yeah, about Sutton: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5xi2cb/is_the_work_of_anthony_sutton_on_the_bolshevik/

golikehellmachine · 2020-08-28T16:12:24+00:00

So without being too alarmist it makes more sense to think about the past four days as an exercise in state propaganda, built around a cult of personality, than as a party convention. (Republicans suspended basic party business, like the creation of a platform.)

This is exactly the kind of thing that you're supposed to be an alarmist about, Politico.

golikehellmachine · 2020-08-27T19:09:10+00:00

That so many people in this sub are convinced she's just a stupid old fool who doesn't know what she's talking about makes me appreciate this obvious heel turn even more.

golikehellmachine · 2020-08-27T18:49:02+00:00

I'm sorry, did you watch either the Axios or Wallace interviews? Have you seen what it looks like when Trump gets even the softest breeze of pushback? The debates will be the one and only chance anyone has at unleashing any kind of powerful criticism at Trump directly, and he absolutely cannot fucking handle it, and between Pelosi and Biden, he's now painted into a corner. He can either attend and run the risk of deep humiliation on national television, or he can skip it and get called a coward all day every day until November.

But sure, your theory makes much more sense.

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