Brendan Landis
slownames.bsky.social
Brendan Landis
@slownames.bsky.social
Vox in Receive, drums in Star Card, half of Glifter. I also make web sites and read tarot. Used to play noise / ambient / etc. as Hey Exit

https://slownames.bandcamp.com/
https://ampwall.com/a/receive
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4AgJmiFlddeh05VlXuObLy
I feel ya, ya gotta push through
October 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Brendan Landis
Check out the original New Abrasions, available digital and on cassette tape!

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New Abrasions cassette from Receive
c90 cassette (program repeats on side B)
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April 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Maybe if I get the SeatGeek I'll have a web site or a plastic box with a bunch of controls on it, and like e.g. if I turn one of the knobs up all the way then it'll buy 127 XBoxes or jars of pickles or packages of adult diapers from amazon?
April 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
But then the first made-up-word-plus-either-plural-noun-or-verb throws the whole thing into fucking chaos. What the fuck is going on. Is there a thing called SeatGeek that has some knobs and dials, which buy a bunch of shit for you or something? Or does SeatGeek exert control over... what? Man...
April 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Damn this is tough. So... "spend like a rock star" seems common enough, maybe we can use that as a starting point.

So then we can read fwd from there: "spend like a rock star with Brex." And we see the made up word on a credit card, so ok. "Get the credit card and use it a lot you fuckin idiot." ✅
April 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Example 2: I will write about having no new favorite albums later because I hafta do some other stuff now. (Spoiler alert, it's my fault, not the music's fault.)
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Still, we all want those lightning moments of hearing something and being like "omg THIS! wtf!" But that's a real elusive thing, the same way clicking with someone IRL is rare.
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
So of course it's no wonder I didn't find it in on some silly corporate phone app. Hearing something in your headphones is not the same as time spent living with that thing.
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I realized that in the group chat, the itch I was trying to scratch was for that long-term relationship with music, whether personal or more broadly cultural.
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Anyway I was never a crusty kid, but I have a lot of memories attached to Choking Victim. Hearing them with my high school friends as an intro to non-radio punk, learning to play their songs, seeing em on tour. Great memories, and when I say I listen to this band, these memories are what I think of.
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Or a friend telling me recently about being at a show and seeing some HC dudes fight with some death metal dudes because of their diff pit etiquette. I see these as real lifestyle & worldview differences coming to a head, not just a narcissism of minor differences (tho maybe there's that too).
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This dynamic bears out even today. Just a couple months ago I saw a fight break out at a black metal show when these two crusties showed up and were doing the aggro arm-wavey dances (I know these dances have like five different names, whatever).
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We all came to realize that wasn’t true, of course - that memorizing band names didn’t equate to real lived experience in the subcultures to which those bands belonged, that there’s oftentimes a certain tribalism about “listening to” this or that. Especially in the underground.
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Later on I thought back to the Napster days, when the boundaries between mainstream and underground music first started bending & shifting. “Instant access to all the music in the world, now everyone’s an expert,” as the narrative went.
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM