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hbombgraphics wrote:

dubkitty wrote:when i was a little boy in Chicago we lived six or eight blocks from a fairly broad railroad bridge/underpass at 83rd and Vincennes that had at least 12 tracks on it and overhead signal lights and stuff, so when i was small i literally had that Woody Guthrie thing going on of laying in bed seeing the red and green lights far away and hearing the trains and wondering where they were going and imagining where all the things on those freight cars would end up. because rail freight was (and is) still such a part of the transportation system in the US and so much of it hubs through the Chicago area, i always had the sense that the place i lived was linked to this vast world of places along that web of rails and wires and roads, and that you could see and go to these places someday. mysterious places you saw glimpses of on television, New York and Miami and Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Grand Canyon and the Alamo, all out there on the rail lines...the Interstate Highways were still being built then, with huge gaps of two lane roads out in the Plains and a stretch in Northern Idaho that wouldn't be finished until well into the 1980s, and airplanes were for people who traveled in suits, people with credit cards. for kids at the end of the 50s, it was rails that still carried the dream.

This is so flipping cool.
and more proof that this is the best gear forum ever

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ[/youtube]

I know you said Woody Guthrie, but it still seemed so relevant.

But I really think that listening to trains is what built me up to later appreciating noise music. Something about the sound of pure mammoth power careening steel-on-steel across the ground just has such a fantastic depth to it. Every train car sounds a little bit different. Some rattle, some shake, some bump, some creak, creep and crunch, some just sound displace a lot of air, but either way you can sit in the dark and hear each one go past.

EDIT: Also on the subject church bells, I don't consider it a tradition in many instances. Often times they ring their bells on the hour to, y'know, tell you what time it is because people didn't used to all have watches (which are even outdated now with cell phones). Ringing them at 9am on Sunday morning would be maybe a little annoying but there's plenty of other noisy things you can't control and I'm not a grumpy old man so I don't really care. I also have enough self respect to not be the guy who wastes his life calling in noise complaints.

alexa. wrote:

IEatCats wrote:The apartment that I'm looking at now, is apparently one house away from a church.

I hate living near a church, but I'm hoping this one doesn't have bells going off all the damn time.

one guy here has started an initiative against churches to ring their bells cuz of disturbing the public peace.
hell, if it's disturbing your peace, perhaps you're not alone and can change it. make an email like stopthebells@gmail.com and print out flyers.
if enough people contact you, go public.

(a principle not just applicable to this case )

It's shit like this that got the only decent concert venue in the area shut down. Some people built houses right across from it knowing full well that loud music was being performed all summer long there, but got it shut down because they didn't like the noise. I love the church bells from our local Catholic church but I can't hear it from my house which is about 10 blocks away. Anyways I guess my point is I hate how we can be so choosy about who gets to make what noise just because it might be a minor inconvenience to some. If there is any noise that should be banned its my damn neighbor mowing his lawn at 6 AM on a Sunday (my only day I can possibly sleep in but can't since that douchenozzle won't hold off until 9).

They ring at 8am here, and wake me up every fucking morning.

Jeff-7 wrote:

alexa. wrote:

IEatCats wrote:The apartment that I'm looking at now, is apparently one house away from a church.

I hate living near a church, but I'm hoping this one doesn't have bells going off all the damn time.

one guy here has started an initiative against churches to ring their bells cuz of disturbing the public peace.
hell, if it's disturbing your peace, perhaps you're not alone and can change it. make an email like stopthebells@gmail.com and print out flyers.
if enough people contact you, go public.

(a principle not just applicable to this case )

It's shit like this that got the only decent concert venue in the area shut down. Some people built houses right across from it knowing full well that loud music was being performed all summer long there, but got it shut down because they didn't like the noise. I love the church bells from our local Catholic church but I can't hear it from my house which is about 10 blocks away. Anyways I guess my point is I hate how we can be so choosy about who gets to make what noise just because it might be a minor inconvenience to some. If there is any noise that should be banned its my damn neighbor mowing his lawn at 6 AM on a Sunday (my only day I can possibly sleep in but can't since that douchenozzle won't hold off until 9).

Chronofascism = the philosophy that persons who go to sleep/wake up earlier are somehow better or more entitled than others and that this ideal should be enforced through social and/or public means.

If you were to mow your lawn at 1 AM, do you think your neighbor would be fine with it?

Or you could mow HIS lawn at 4AM...

Lol guyz, changed my avatar again.

Schlatte wrote:Or you could mow HIS lawn at 4AM...

That would be so awesome.

It's like, "Hey, I'm helping you out! Why are you getting pissed, bro?"

You know what boys, that's not a bad idea

IEatCats wrote:They ring at 8am here, and wake me up every fucking morning.

that explains shit

This is just too good to not put here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mYbLFD_BwE[/youtube]

Perfect indeed!

Definitely better than I expected

"His tongue is as long as his dick."

"Look, his nose is in her clie-toris."

"The end is purple"

"Two hands with space in the middle"

Fuck, I enjoyed watching that

Ashahalasin wrote:Not worth it's own thread but does anyone know what typetext is used for EQD pedals/Dunwich Metropolitan?

acadian

Jeff-7 wrote:It's shit like this that got the only decent concert venue in the area shut down. Some people built houses right across from it knowing full well that loud music was being performed all summer long there, but got it shut down because they didn't like the noise. I love the church bells from our local Catholic church but I can't hear it from my house which is about 10 blocks away. Anyways I guess my point is I hate how we can be so choosy about who gets to make what noise just because it might be a minor inconvenience to some. If there is any noise that should be banned its my damn neighbor mowing his lawn at 6 AM on a Sunday (my only day I can possibly sleep in but can't since that douchenozzle won't hold off until 9).

Did I say anything about building houses next to something that's going to annoy you? That isn't working is it?
But if I had a concert hall in the middle of a crowded area, I would make sure it's isolated properly and that I could have loud concerts without usurping everybody. The same applies for everyone. People should be able to choose what noise they want to hear. We had a local incident when they wanted to shut down a great place, only cuz of 2 people that said they were hearing noise. The people didn't allow anyone with db meters close, so the club is still open (actually, the whole town had to take initiative, cuz they were actually going to shut it down only for 2 assholes without any proof, yay fucking authorities). Point being, the club invested ten thousand dollars (or even more, I'm not that sure) to isolate everything and to get new gear; cuz they had complaints, and they worked it out.
There are churches that are not banging their bells like Jesus just walked in, but there are some that are just being blown-up idiots that have heads up their ass and act like they own everything. Like, people reporting rather usual headaches cuz of how loud the nearby church slams the bells.
If a venue is too loud, isolate it or shut it down. If a guy built a house across a venue, it's his problem (and you guys should have taken initiative if he was the only problematic person). If a church is being an idiot, talk to them. If a neighbor is being an idiot, do the same.
If talk doesn't work, see how much people think alike and then go to talk to the problem makers together.

To put things in context a bit.