subgeek's Journal: citay is really good and i'm ridiculous

important! records sent me something a while ago that i ignored because i don't always read their email updates even though i signed up for them. then amazon sent me something about this as well, and for some reason i did read that. this is a band called citay. check this out (just keep clicking on the images until you get the mp3. ok, if you're too lazy for that, here's a direct link).

it's not like most of the music i'm into, but i can't deny that this is really good stuff. fantastic musicianship. it's like everything that was good about 70's rock with something intangibly contemporary thrown into the mix.

and now a ridiculous bonus poll:

imagine that you work in a paper mill and you're there at the paper mill talking to some of your pals on a coffee break when someone lets a floating air biscuit/squeazes cheese/cuts one/insert your favorite euphamism. is this:

• a. particularly bad form because it already smells terrible
• b. unnoticable because it already smells terrible
• c. as bad as anywhere else because it adds a different dimension of stench to a place where it already smells terrible

you're diqualified from this poll if you already know the answer from personal experience. man, paper mills do not smell good.

both

[ryanr]

Music is interesting. I wasn't loving it right away, until they kicked in the solo. Nice.

Re: extra smells. Bad. Because you may have reached agreement with your nose for ignoring the mill smell, then along comes additional bad smell which you're not prepared for, and it might throw the whole arrangement out of whack.

Poll

[arb]

Technically I'm disqqualified, 'cos although i haven't worked in a paper mill, I have worked in a chemical plant where the first thing that greets you as you walk through the gates is the delightful small of sulphur and coal-slurry. I got to the stage where i could tell if the plant was operating normally by the smell - got damn good at estimating the sulphur content in fact.

But extra smells stand out, even in a smell-riddled environment. 8-/

d. "what are these "smells" you speak of?"

[Randle_Revar]

I can't smell most "normal" smells. I probably could smell a paper mill if I was in one, but I don't know that I have ever smelled a fart. If I have, I don't remember it, so it must not smell any worse than a strong-scented flower (when I do smell something, it either seems neutral or reeks - I don't know what a good smell smells like). On the other hand I can smell seasons and rain and heat, so I guess that's something.

Re:d. "what are these "smells" you speak of?"

[subgeek]

interesting.

since smell is such a large part of taste, i'm curious about how and if things taste to you.

you could have added, "you insensitive clod."

Re:d. "what are these "smells" you speak of?"

[Randle_Revar]

I can taste things just fine (IMO), but I imagine it must be at least a little different than for people that can smell.
I can taste sweet, sour, bitter, salty (I don't really know about umami). My likes and dislikes in taste don't seem to be any more different than you would expect of different people. I am a bit of a picky eater but that has more to do with not liking to mix things and being very sensitive to texture (no slimey things!). I don't really _understand_ it when people say taste is linked to sme