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Guy Blackman - Live at the Echo Curio

I met Ian Mackaye and Guy Blackman within 24 hours. One started Dischord Records and the other started Chapter Music. They both made me think of ideas that scale. The music of Guy Blackman scales naturally. For certain songs, he used a backing track but could have easily sat there and sang unaccompanied. Actually, he could have sang to himself way out in the middle of nowhere to no one with no suitable surrounding objects providing back-scatter for his own listening pleasure. Equally, all of us could have picked up a thousands guitars each and played and sang the repertoire of 'Guy Blackman' (not the flesh and blood man) in unison.

The ideas of Ian Mackaye scale in the approaching limit of my own ideas, which have been expressed on this internet-writings many times. Firstly, everyone start a band. Secondly, never accept money for playing a show, unless you write songs about accepting money for playing shows. Thirdly, no visual elements.

I also want to take this time stamped opportunity to tell you my Hallowe'en costume idea. This is possibly the only original idea I've ever had. Sadly, someone will post a comment telling me about it's already been done but I will persist in believing that this was a genuine original idea and not absorbed or inherited. This year, my costume is entirely smell based. There is no visual element to the costume.