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Give me an example of vaporwave?
thanks. I've been lurking off and on for a few months. Post me a link of what vapor wave is to you?
Okay, well welcome fren. I hope you can come to learn and love vaporwave as you journey with us on the road. Good to have ya.
Personally, the following is some of my favorite vaporwave/vaporwave offshoot. Its not exactly traditional vaporwave, but it is recognized as an important piece of the vaporwave genre and community.
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Care to tell us that story?
was mostly making a dry joke about the internet consisting of a packet switching network - I actually found the site when searching about how sterile and sanitized the current net feels / frequency of bots nowadays and enjoyed the smaller amount of people here.
Welcome to the Road and welcome to my inability to read humour.
Hope you enjoy your stay.
Personally, the following is some of my favorite vaporwave/vaporwave offshoot. Its not exactly traditional vaporwave, but it is recognized as an important piece of the vaporwave genre and community.
View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9kg-FT8pbhBYQKRFWyTNQrJ4dWm2BoA8
The following thread is a really good place to start if you haven't experienced vaporwave before and is actually what got me really into vaporwave and helped me find Blank Banshee.
A Starters guide to Vporwave by EARFEEDER
A starter's guide to Vaporwave : the sound of a future that was promised by a past that never existed...
Edit: corrected Blank Banshee link to full album
everyone!
Welcome! Epic to have another writer here. What sort of short stories do you write about? Lord of the Rings is great, but probably underrated among critics. I think it's one of yhe few pieces I can think of that breaches the gap between pop culture and high artHello friends good evening
What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
I can't really think of one that describes my life, but I watched a good bit of the show Soap last year and thought it was hilarious. A lot of parodies (Soap is a parody of cookie cutter 70s soap operas) get really one dimensional because they're constrained by what they're parodying, but the writers do a really good job of keeping it fresh and the actors are all top class.
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
It seems like a vestige of the old internet. I wasn't really on "the old internet" so take that with a grain of salt.
What subgenres are you most into?
In terms of music I've been really into Outlaw Country lately (I am a victim of the Dolly Parton -> Johnny Cash -> Waylon Jennings pipeline) and was on a Punk tear before that (Dead Kennedys, Agent Orange, Gang of Four).
How did you find out about this place?
I do not remember when I first started lurking here, but I got really pulled into a thread about internet radio stations. I joined up because I found a lot of great places to find new music on there.
What do you do for fun?
I enjoy reading and writing. I'm currently reading Dante's The Divine Comedy and have been really enjoying it
I would like to read more history, embarrassingly enough because I read The Lord of the Rings earlier last year and was enthralled by the sense of how "lived in" that world felt - made me realize I wasn't properly examining the world I was living in lol.
I need to practice my writing more - I kick out a short story every now and then.
I don't watch many movies or shows. I have an especially hard time with sitcoms. It's difficult to tune out the fact that these are actors reading from a script on a set. That door doesn't go anywhere. That car isn't moving. The laughs are canned and prompted. Characters, one dimensional. Storylines, contrived and predictable.
Fawlty Towers, because It's one I have actually watched.
It's that descriptor that I have recently realised many of the bands I was into in the 2010s fit into. We live in a time where it seems like movements are commoditized so quickly, that they are over before they even began. It seems Vaporwave broke that cycle by being irrelevant from the get-go. Also, to me, perfectly incapsulating that familiar sense of dread I get from walking through supermarkets and shopping malls or listening to mass-produced pop music. At the same time fuelling my fascination with the final years of the analogue age. Western culture is stuck, and vaporwave has made the most of it. In constant decline, anything before the present will look favourable.
Used to be really into Future Funk and synth-based stuff like Windows 96 or George Clanton (Esprit). Now I'm rediscovering the more sample oriented classics.
I saw an Ad on /lit/ sometime in 2021 calling it "the internet's best kept secret" and thought, "Why am I clicking on this? It's probably just some Scam site." - luckily not.
Mostly reading classic literature, going for long walks. Drawing outside and writing (allthough the latter tends toward the schizo). Love exploring nature and historical places, hearing people's stories.
