I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
ALAN PALOMOYou start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.
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There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
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But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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The way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.
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You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.
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But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
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You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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