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Hahahaha. 58, episode number 58. 58! Welcome to Ron Prashin's episode number 58.
We're trying Adele Barlow and Moo Barlow. Welcome. Season 2. We're just in it.
Four-track man is... I don't know what's going on with him. He sounds inspired. He sounds like he's microdosing.
Or... Okay. Is someone here microdosing? Microdosing, everybody.
Give me all your microdoses. Everybody did it. 2023. I know.
Is microdosing still as popular as it was? No. I feel like I've sort of like not heard as much about that anymore. I think people are mega-dosing now.
Apparently, this is ketamine. Okay. It's ketamine therapeutically. It involves just getting it injected, like wailed into you and then you just sit in the dark with some headphones and...
Yeah. On. Yes, I'm aware. I mean, I haven't personally taken it, but I know what they do.
Yes. I've read up on it. Oh my gosh, you guys. It's almost the end of December.
It's almost the end of 2023. What a year. That was a good one as far as I'm concerned. Yes.
Well, it... I think it had a lot for myself personally. I mean, it had... Let me just say.
It started off very unwell. Let's think of it like an illness or something. 2023, from me, started off very... I was sick.
Okay. She was sick. And then I think I had a remission or something. And then...
I mean, it's been up and down, but I feel like I'm going into 2024, healthier and stronger. Can I make a point? That was a very sloppy description. Let me say something.
When I say the 2023 was a good year, it doesn't mean that everything was good. On the contrary, many challenges arose this year. Yes. Many, many challenges.
And every year brings illness. We're in and out of illness every year. Illness is a general term for... General term.
Save the world. Save yourself. Mental, physical, viral, imaginary. All those things.
That's all of those events combined to make every year. The illness. I think 2023 overall, I would say, was a textured year. Oh, it was.
A little texture. I feel like it was a really big learning year. I feel like this was a year where... And I wish, I could say, honestly, that my past years were...
They were also learning years, but I feel like this is one where I actually took some experiences and made some shifts because of them. Instead of observing crap that happened and then going, like, I learned from that and then not maybe really changing, I do feel like I kind of made some moves. Exactly. I'll say that.
I was making some moves. 2023. It's good. I feel like I'm in a slightly better place right now than I was this time last year.
Same. Actually, maybe not even slightly. I would say maybe in a much better place. Right.
Me too. At least in comparison to this time last year. And this time last year, I have to say, was kind of like the bottom. It was for me.
Right. That was like, I had some pretty heavy conversations with myself. Circa, December 29th, 30th, 31st. Mm-hmm.
Anyway, I feel better right now. Mm-hmm. I'm a little bit of a step forward. But yeah, things are up and down, baby.
It's a roller coaster. It really is. It really is. And I feel, is it, I feel for everyone else too, because I'm feeling really sympathetic for the world, I guess.
I just, I just that I'm feeling like, I don't know, I'm holding a lot of people in my arms. Do you know what I mean? Like, I'm just thinking and sending a lot of love to a lot of people right now. But I do feel like I am as well going in definitely not a little bit stronger, stronger than last December for sure.
That's cool. Can you believe we've been doing this podcast the entire calendar year of 2023? Can I believe it? Yeah.
Sure. I'm feeling really accomplished with that myself. Yeah, so I was telling you before, that I've heard something, I heard some music that actually has really been inspiring me. Yes, that's another up thing for you.
Yeah, it is because I've been kind of like, I don't really want to listen to my old records. I don't want to listen to anything I've ever really heard before. Mm-hmm. Taylor Swift is really the most, she's just been so incredibly dominant and I've given a lot of time to Taylor.
And so I kind of don't want anything even remotely, I want something outside, like something that is truly new to me. So Hendrix played me this music from Brazil. And I don't know what it's called. I don't know if it's a genre.
I don't know anything about it. I tried to look it up. I tried to look up the artists. Okay.
But that didn't even help. I tried to Wikipedia it. Nothing. Yeah.
Mano Zafi Mano India. It's Brazilian. Is that the song or is that the song? That's the song and the band or the person.
M.C. Rose Traeta. A woman. Okay.
But she's kind of the rapper. I don't even know if we call it rap. Okay. It's like this really syncopated.
So maybe we should put a link to it in the show notes. It's syncopated speaking. It's not like rap. It's definitely influenced by rap, but it's very minimal.
It seems to be coming. The rhythm seems to be Brazilian. I would say just the Rob. There's a very particular rhythm that they have down there.
I wish I could illustrate it for you. How did he come across this? Did it show up on a TikTok? Probably show up on a TikTok.
Yeah. Rory, Jason. I also knew what it was. So did you look up the artist on Spotify to see how many monthly listens they have?
Is it low? Is it high? It's high. So it's popular.
Oh, yes. Right. It's just new to you. New to me.
Right. It has millions of you. I mean millions of you. There's got to be information about it.
I know. I just can't find it. I'm sure I could if I spent more than five minutes on it. Sure.
Anyway. Okay. So you're feeling excited by this unique to you. Yeah.
Brazilian sort of semi-rap. Yeah. I guess you could call it probably in the family of rap. But it's very super repetitive and minimal.
It's almost like maybe house music. I don't even know what house music is. And it points. It almost sounds like industrial music.
Oh, I was just going to say that. It's almost sounding industrial. Yeah. It's like this stuff is almost and I say this in the best sense.
It's almost non-musical, which I really like because when you need in a traditional sense like you're I'm playing with a guitar and there's a melody. And like, la la la la la la la la. It's like it's more just like experimental. Right.
It feels experimental and cut. Outside or art. Feels a little bit like that. And I love it.
Yeah. Can't play any of it for you. Right. I will say that I'm.
We'll link to it. I love that for you. I love that for all of us because I feel like if Lou Barlow experiments with beats and sounds and textures. It's really my New Year's resolution is to figure out how to make fucked up homemade beats.
Because I feel when I hear this music that has, I mean, it's hugely popular in Brazil and apparently at football games, that's a big part of it. Oh, deep. Okay. I can see that.
Sure. Sure. I'm like, it sounds so homemade. Do it yourself.
Raw. I love it. I just stumble all over myself. Because this is possibly be like an inspiration for maybe some new solo work.
A new solo album, a new Lou Barlow solo album. Last one was reason to live. What's next? I don't know.
I think it's January. So it's time for me to sit down and come up with some new songs. And maybe I should really try to incorporate more of a rhythm excited and then try to, again, as I've always done, try to marry that with my basic intuition of guitar and melody and try to marry them. Put them together.
I think what it is is you're following a calling. It's something that's speaking to you right now. And so you're being curious about it. You're curious to know more, listening wise and also experimenting yourself.
There's an interest in you. You're wondering, where is this going to lead me? What is this going to look like? What is it going to sound like?
I want to be more, I want to examine the music that I like. Really examine it. I don't know if I've ever really done that. Really examine and dissect things.
Imitate them to a degree. But then also, because I think that's what people do. You synthesize, I want to do it more just overtly. Really fucking get in there.
Really pick it apart. Really listen. And really spend the time with my gear. Because I'm also realizing that fucked up, lo-fi gear, really fucked up stuff.
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Yes, and that is what I got. That's right. Yes. That's what I tell myself exactly with my knitwear.
only have two machines right now and they're both broken. And I have to figure out how to fix them. And that's actually on my kind of New Year's to-do list is to, you know, instead of ignoring them, I have to like sit down with them again and really just spend some time and also give myself a break about it a little bit and not be so like, this has to get fixed. This has to do this.
I want to just be like, okay, either like I'll figure this out. Yeah, or I'll just deal with the limitations that are left with this one machine. Like one of my machines, for example, I can't do Jackard on it right now. I might never be able to again.
Okay, you know, I just kind of have to then go like, well, maybe instead of having a Jackard on that machine, I instead incorporate like adding pattern with like sewing things on the front or patches or embroidery or just use the shit that I have. I have so much shit, you guys. And you know, I've been really thinking, it's what you're thinking about texture and sounds and music. And I've been thinking a lot about texture in my knitwear lately.
And I also have been really intrigued by wanting to use layering of things. I've been really wanting to, I don't know, just kind of like layer knitwear with woven things. And one of my goals is to really get back into my sewing skills again, because I really, really enjoy sewing as well. And I want to do more marrying of the two with a sewing and the knitting.
And so I'm going to try to, one of my goals is going to be to do two sewing projects a month. Those are just going to be for pleasure, you know, not for work for the store necessarily, but just just for learning purposes. Yeah. I want to do things just for learning purposes too.
That's what I was thinking. I need to learn more. Yes, exactly. Now's the time to learn.
Right. And the great thing about music is you can learn and write at the same time. Mm hmm. I can learn and write and actually writing helps me learn like if I'm in songs and songs tend to like push the issue a little bit.
Like I just, as long as I don't get bogged down in any one side of it, if I don't get too bogged down in the quality of a recording, I'm like, oh, trying to perfect recording. And then I don't get too bogged down in like perfecting melodies and lyrics. If I let either both of those things kind of slide a little bit, but together, together, if you let, you know, that's one of the things that I'm kind of the most proud of or the things where I really was kind of just letting the flow happen and dealing with limitations. You know, it's not about the stuff that I'm proud of is not are generally not things that I spent tons of time perfecting.
They're generally things that like kind of came together quickly, where I kind of let myself, where I gave myself a pass where I'm like, well, maybe that lyric doesn't totally have to make sense. Maybe this maybe I can go with the fact that you don't even have to sing. I do, I do. Yeah, yeah.
A lot of stuff that I'm the most proud of is kind of because I let things go to a degree. Well, and that's also a cup of thread. Yes. And that's funny you're saying that because I think that sometimes you might be able to hear Izzy in the background, you guys, she's, I don't know, she's maybe having a conversation with her baby, a life, Opal, newest addition.
Are they out of the ring? What? She's in the hallway. She's in the hallway.
I think Izzy and Opal are in the hallway right outside of the studio. Do you want to tip for dads? Yeah. Tip for dads.
Okay. Day before Christmas. I mean, something happened this year. Izzy, this is important.
She's noticing. Izzy knows there's no Santa. The Santa myth has been removed. She now knows that it's Adele and I, and mostly Adele.
She said Mummy Santa. And the other day, she said, did Daddy get you get any presents for me? Did Daddy, you know, like did Daddy choose any Santa? Well, because she was looking at things that I had already wrapped and put under the tree.
And it would say like, too Izzy from mommy and daddy. And she very astutely said, why is Daddy's name on here if he didn't pick this out? She just was assuming that you didn't correctly so. She's like, why are you getting him credit?
It's just funny, huh? Yeah. So Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve.
Izzy and I, Izzy and I hit target. And she chose her present from me, which is Opal. The newest addition to the baby life family. newest addition to the baby's alive family.
Okay. Wait, what, Izzy wants to correct me? She's here. What?
Tell it talking into dad's microphone. What is it? It's summer. Oh, well, summer too.
I also bought Izzy a baby alive for Christmas, but that was summer. She's going on a technicality right now because Lou gave, Lou gave her Opal on Christmas Eve and she unwrapped summer on Christmas day, but. So she's out in the hallway with summer. Are you out in the hallway with summer or with Opal?
She's with Opal. Yeah. She's named both of them herself. I think those are very good names.
I was really impressed by Opal. I mean, I'm into Opal too. Yeah. She came up with that name on our.
Opal hasn't caught on with the hipsters and the babies yet. Like where's the Opal? Are they in Brooklyn? You never forget an Opal.
That's true. I don't think I've ever met an Opal. I know somebody who knows an Opal. Okay.
Yeah. And just knowing that they know an Opal. Uh huh. Like that person, Opal.
Just I don't know who she is. I don't know where she is. But somehow I think about her because her name is Opal. Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh. That's funny. Oh, yes. Christmas day is, oh, are we still recording?
Um. Oh, I was having breakfast right now. Thanks. I'm glad you're feeding her.
It's 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It's 4 20 baby. What was that one thing you said? It's better to do a podcast.
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