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I love this simple, melancholic sound. :3

Man, I cannot say enough about this album. I especially love "Speaker, Speaker," the title track, and "Romantisme de la Souffrance." Definitely my favorite release of the year so far.

I'm sorry for you.

I actually liked it, regardless of the fact that everyone's done this. It was executed and produced really well.

30:45 to be specific. Still love this thing, though. :3

I completely disagree. Gender/sex issues are important, but I've always just viewed the person creating the music I listen to as a musician, genderless and sort of removed from me. Gender, sexuality, race, etc. are interesting but unimportant to me when it comes to artists. I totally understand trying to find other female artists, but saying that ignoring personal attributes when enjoying art is "missing out a lot of issues" is, in my opinion, applying too much importance to the same stereotypes and classifications you are (might be?) trying to move away from.

Similarly, I disagree with this personally. I'm not afraid people will find out I'm not straight, nor am I afraid people will find out that I'm a guy (and all the potentially negative stigmatisms that come with both labels). I can see that others in less open-minded communities would be afraid, but I really don't see the importance of gender, sexuality, etc. beyond pure curiosity, and even then those attributes can be detrimental to or fundamentally shift someone's enjoyment of a work.

Oh yeah, that's been the majority of my experience, too. As I said, the few negative encounters I had were isolated. I guess it's a bad example. I do agree that most people are nice as hell to new people in person, especially if they're not assholes, no-it-alls, or egregiously awkward. Those are just standard social problems no one puts up with (except for the last, which a few nice people look around).

If you went to a show, I doubt anyone would be mean to you unless you gave them a reason. Also, when you've (through no fault of your own or otherwise) made a bad name for yourself online, I wouldn't introduce yourself by your internet/artist alias. Just saying. Other than that, taking the initiative to talk to people at chip shows (or even look up "famous" people or people you want to talk to beforehand /stalker style) helps immensely. Established scene members tend to stick with their friends in the scene, but that's not really a bad thing unless they act stuck up, and wiz and I just talked about how, by and large, most people aren't like that.