I was gonna say the Book Exchange. You can feel the air quality decreasing the further in you go.

Our politicians look at Ireland and see nothing of value, it’s pathological

A bee landed on me in that church and clung on to my leg until I let it out the door

Ya that’s a big part of it, especially when you get to hip hop where a song is basically written produced and recorded in a single session. You kinda need a neurodivergent person on stimulants in the room.

different drugs have different ranges of output too like LSD has a relatively narrow predictable result on music whereas ecstasy and speed you might expect to return high energy love music but in reality you can end up making any kind of music if you stay up all night on those drugs

I used to go to this songwriting group until one day the guy who ran it stopped promoting his songwriting books and started promoting this guy with an Indian sounding name promising peace among men or whatever.

He’s so good and he’s always mixed nice n loud

Skrillex plays loud burp-like noises to room of partygoers

Pretending to play an electric guitar that’s not plugged in always looks terrible

wish we didn’t have him! sucks

Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson is deadly

It gets advanced and Hyman goes a mile a minute, but he has a holistic view of jazz and boogie piano that’s really interesting.

As jazz evolved, piano players tended to lionise certain players so you have this parallel evolution of solo piano which borrows freely from many different time periods.

Dick Hyman’s A Century of Jazz Piano is great as well. the accompanying videos are on YouTube and the first couple lessons are stride, early jazz and boogie woogie.

The way the fingers are used is so different from classical playing. Locking your hand position. Sliding, rolling and glissandoing.