Good guess, and great musicians, for sure.
2 Aug 23, 2014 9:00 pm
Re: i want to thank you (46 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Gram Parsons.
3 Aug 23, 2014 5:44 pm
Re: i want to thank you (46 replies, posted in General Discussion)
You don't know that!!! Maybe it is!
4 Aug 23, 2014 6:12 am
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Psychobilly is not alt country.
5 Aug 23, 2014 5:49 am
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The originator of Alt-Country was DEAD 23 years before Munly put out his first album.... 0 points for gryffindor.
6 Aug 23, 2014 4:38 am
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meanwun wrote:
I read through this whole thing not knowing what had happened. I still don't know exactly, but from what I have figured out I know you got royally messed over. I hope things get better for you.
I would also love a p about alt country. I haven't delved too deeply, lucero is about it really. Thanks.
http://www.koco.com/news/oklahoma-man-a … 82#!bIA85h
at least that's my favorite. The reporter, Bryan Shlonsky was really amazing and told more of the actual story than anyone else, despite doing the shortest interview. he really knew what was important. but there are articles you can find from any OKC news site, the denver sites, Jezebel, Doucheoftheweek, The National Inquirer and many many more.
and absolutely, i'll be happy shoot you both private messages here in just a bit. I named my son after the man who is generally considered the father of Alt-Country. Extra points for anyone who guesses correctly. 
7 Aug 22, 2014 4:52 pm
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Great Song!! Unity, family and respect are definitely core values. A really amazing punk memoir i highly recommend is called Dharma Punx. SOCAL punk Noah Levine"s, son of stephen levine, eastern philosopher/poet/teacher, journey from an 80's drug addicted punk kid to world traveled Buddhist Guru. If you ever want to really be inspired by punk culture and how easily it translates into such beautiful spirituality, you should check it out.
but yeah, she bailed him out. he spent a little over a week in jail but then was bailed out. it wasn't a happy day. he has also found a lawyer stupid enough to take his criminal and Civil cases. The DA laughed at the lawyer and told him he's a moron. The evidence is simply overwhelming.
8 Aug 22, 2014 5:08 am
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Imaginary wrote:
Anyway, you've chosen not to be a victim and instead you've owned your situation with as much grace as one could expect. Honestly, you've already won. Think of all of our bitching and railing against this world class assclown as a sweet victory lap. You've earned it.
I've torn both my ACL's due to punk shows, i'll do a victory lap eventually, but i'll save it till after he's locked up for good.... 15+ years of going to punk shows has left me listening to music while sitting on the couch drinking a beer or standing in the back of the venue nodding my head rather than jumping violently around my living room while chugging out of bottle of Johnny Walker or bashing into strangers while still wearing a knee brace only 2 weeks post surgery.... i have reserve all things like "running" or "victory laps" for the truly important moments. i don't live anywhere where i might run into a wild bear and at this moment, marty is sleeping comfortably next to his poor wife who still is allowing herself to be a victim (my heart breaks for her, i truly understand how/why she's standing by him. i wish desperately i could help her break away from him, but before he was bonded out we tried to reach out to her and she wasn't having it) so yeah, i'll take a mini one this weekend with two bottles of red wine that i am NOT sharing and Over the James on full blast, but when sentencing finally happens, i will stretch out my old, worn out knees and pump my fist in the air and "not worry about tomorrow's pain tonight".
9 Aug 22, 2014 4:47 am
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sandneil wrote:
i hope he reads this thred and thinks back to the days when he had a cool car like the one from back to the future
At that time he was driving a VW Bug that he essentially stole from his ex. The delorean was just on display somewhere.
and the ex, i'm on the phone with her now, she thanks you too and thinks you're all amazing.
and she showed me this: https://myspace.com/tribalastronauts/music/songs which is apparently another "project" he had at some point.
10 Aug 22, 2014 1:05 am
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Yeah, I am 100% sure that I don't have it. Its been 4 years, antibodies would be detectable by now. Trust me, it feels like a miracle. I fear for other people who only found out when watching the news and are having to go through 6+ month testing series. I can only imagine how scary that is.
11 Aug 21, 2014 7:09 pm
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an0va wrote:
projectinformtheworld wrote:i must be missing something, i only read the 3 page thread that was from earlier this month. was there another one? if so, can someone point me to it?
Heh, he's having a laugh - he's referring to how we always seem to be bitching about somebody/something on here
HA, okay. i understand that completely.
12 Aug 21, 2014 6:57 pm
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sandneil wrote:
also what a disgusting man i really hate the kind of manipulative narcissistic creeps who are both more hurtful and more charismatic than myself simultaneously well i hope he dies soon anyway and hope Chiptune Will Never STop Fighting Misogyny
All of your responses have but a smile on my face, but this one especially. i can tell you just from this message alone that marty isn't a fraction of the man you are!
Edit: (i say "man" but a) i'm just assuming your male based on the sentiment of your statement, but i could be totally wrong. if i am, i apologize and b) the idea of what makes a "man" is a really terrible social construct that is based deeply in misogyny and is extremely harmful to men and women. so i say that he isn't a fraction of the "man" when really i should say "he isn't a fraction of the human being" you are, but i didn't think that through before i posted it, so i'll leave it the way it is with this disclaimer. even when we understand how damaging an idea of "manhood" is it's so ingrained through our entire lives that we still sometimes fall into it without thinking it through.)
13 Aug 21, 2014 6:52 pm
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sandneil wrote:
i knew that 10 page threads of pure slagging on chiptune forums would make the world a happier place somehow someday
f*ckings to marty kramer & his apologists!!
i must be missing something, i only read the 3 page thread that was from earlier this month. was there another one? if so, can someone point me to it?
14 Aug 21, 2014 3:13 pm
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I can't express the twisted joy I'm getting from reading all of your responses and the disgust you all express. I don't know if marty cares about anything other than himself, but i really do think he actually cares about chiptune music/community. i remember when he would talk about it and play stuff for me that his face would light up!! I mostly listen to punk and alt-country (yes, i know it's a weird combination, don't judge me!), so chipmusic isn't something i would have probably listened to on my own. but he had so much joy when talking about it that it really made me enjoy listening to it. he would play the stuff he at least claimed to be his and other people's music for me and i definitely enjoyed it. I've listened to the interview he gave on some podcast about the whole plagiarism thing, and i know that voice so well, even with all the truths I've learned about him over the last 9 months, i can tell that if he's ever been sincere about anything in his life, i think he was when he talked about chipmusic. Not that i think he actually felt bad about stealing someone else's music, he didn't give a shit about that, that i know, but he felt bad about getting caught and how that made him look to a community he desperately wanted to be apart of. I think that's the extent of how capable he is about caring for anything other than himself. but for him to once again look so terrible to this community after having done something that he could never talk his way out of to garner any respect from any of you ever again, makes me unbelievably joyous. Like almost giddy! yeah, giddy. it makes me fucking giddy.
And again, thank you. I agree, victim blaming is never okay. should people do things and make smart, informed decisions to protect themselves? absolutely! but even if you forget or willfully refuse to do things to "protect" yourself, that doesn't resolve any blame the person who actually did the terrible thing to that person. the comments that really bothered me the most were on the jezebel site. Sex-positive feminism is suppose to be extremely anti-victim blaming and anti-slut shaming. Had the article been about a man forcibly raping people he had met online, none of them would have ever said anything negative about the victims. but there was lots and lots of "what do people expect when you met someone off craigslist for casual sex?" "how can anyone be stupid enough to trust a guy who they met off craigslist?" all i can say to that is "spend 20 minutes in a room with this guy, i dare you!" I refuse to ever talk to him one on one ever again. why? because he's so manipulative. I am strong, intelligent, confident person (clearly, right!?!), I don't get manipulated and used easily. I'm educated, especially when it comes to sex/std safety. I am over-protective of my body. I have a very firm grasp of my values and ethics. But even today, armed with all of the knowledge that I have about Martin Edward Kraham, I would not trust myself to not be manipulated by him again. I THINK I would be able to see through his bullshit now and not buy a word he said, but I don't know that. I certainly wouldn't ever put myself in the situation to find out for sure.
15 Aug 21, 2014 4:38 am
Topic: i want to thank you (46 replies, posted in General Discussion)
You guys don't know me. and i'm not in the Chiptune community. but i read your thread recently that was closed down (otherwise i would have just posted this as a comment there) about TV Death Squad AKA Marty Kraham, who both tried to rip off someone else's music and call it his own AND knowingly tried to infect me, personally, over a long period of time, with HIV.
I set out on a mission several months ago to, as my handle here states, "inform the world" of what Marty was doing. This mission really began when i found a recent victim of his. This including police reports, posting dozens of warnings on the local craigslist with his picture in case he was still posting (HE WAS. his last post on CL was 2 days before i started posting those warning ad's. he averaged a post every 3.4 days, he never posted again after that), and talking openly about the very personal and very traumatic experience I've had due to this jerk. See, this wasn't just a random guy i hooked up with from time to time. i knitted this asshole hats!!! i trusted him. i cared about him. i loved him dearly as a friend. i thought i knew him. He told me that he was HIV- and was tested regularly. All this was also going on while the whole plagiarism thing was happening and i had no clue. He would play me "his"music and we would sit and laugh after he had just exposed me, knowingly, to HIV. Now i know that music wasn't even his and that he was actively trying to kill me.
Anyways, to the point, since he's arrest this has been reported and talked about over many different sites. I've read a lot of the comments on it. generally speaking most people realize what a douche bag this man is. but there have ALWAYS been victim blaming in every single comment section on every single article (even on jezebel, a sex-positive feminist site) or news story I've seen.
EXCEPT FOR HERE! you have no idea how much that means to me. I was truly amazing to read and discover what a wonderful community you all really must be (sorry, party marty has tainted my view of pretty much anything i ever associated with him, which certainly did include chipmusic). Today has been rough, last night I learned that a very personal matter in my life made it into the National Inquirer.... it's so terrible that all you can do is just laugh. if i didn't laugh at it, i would cry. but then i read your thread tonight and it seriously made my day so much better. You all have restored a tiny little bit of my faith in humanity right now and that really means a lot considering how shattered that faith is.
SO AGAIN, from the bottom of my heart.... THANK YOU!!!
Anyways, i know you locked the other thread and i completely respect that. if you want to lock this one as well, that's fine. I just wanted, needed to express my thankfulness in the way your community has addressed this issue.