Scintilla Day 7: In My Tribe
Mar. 22nd, 2012 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonList the tribes you belong to: cultural, personal, literary, you get the drift. Talk about the experience of being in your element with your tribes.
I admit this one was tough. The word "tribe" isn't one that I normally use to describe my circles of friends, nor is it something I would use to describe a generation movement (like Generation X, for instance). It doesn't seem to fit, at least on a personal level, when describing the group of writers I know...it just seems to much of a buzzword to me, for some reason.
That said, howevever, I understand where the question is coming from. Added to that, the use of the word "tribe" immediately made me think of the Boston band Tribe, a band I loved back in the early 90s. That in turn made me think of the alternative music scene, and if anything could be called a "tribe", that there is it. I'm not really a part of the "scene" itself, though...I've never been much of one to go out to nightclubs and see bands, nor have I ever been really much of an insider who hobnobs with musicians. I know a few personally who are good friends of mine, but that's about it.
If anything, I'm part of the tribe of listeners. I'm the one who has the radio on or the cd playing or the music channel on the TV...something always playing in the background. I'm the one who, for four years straight, went to Newbury Comics nearly every single Tuesday of the year to pick up new releases. I'm the one who, after all these years, still makes mixtapes (albeit digitally in the form of playlists nowadays). I'm the character Rob Gordon in High Fidelity who makes music lists and can serve up a perfect song for any situation (and laughed hysterically when he described the perfect way to make a mixtape, because it was just so true!). There aren't too many of us who are as infatuated and obsessed with music as I am, but we're out there.
I think that's also something I treasure in my relationship with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmalyon...she's a music nerd in her own way, having majored in it. I love our conversations when a song comes on and our response is not a generic "this is a neat song, I like it" but "I love how the melody goes downwards while the bass line goes up" or "I love the polyphonic effect of the vocals here". She gets why a song does what it does, and why I'd like it as much as I do.
I admit this one was tough. The word "tribe" isn't one that I normally use to describe my circles of friends, nor is it something I would use to describe a generation movement (like Generation X, for instance). It doesn't seem to fit, at least on a personal level, when describing the group of writers I know...it just seems to much of a buzzword to me, for some reason.
That said, howevever, I understand where the question is coming from. Added to that, the use of the word "tribe" immediately made me think of the Boston band Tribe, a band I loved back in the early 90s. That in turn made me think of the alternative music scene, and if anything could be called a "tribe", that there is it. I'm not really a part of the "scene" itself, though...I've never been much of one to go out to nightclubs and see bands, nor have I ever been really much of an insider who hobnobs with musicians. I know a few personally who are good friends of mine, but that's about it.
If anything, I'm part of the tribe of listeners. I'm the one who has the radio on or the cd playing or the music channel on the TV...something always playing in the background. I'm the one who, for four years straight, went to Newbury Comics nearly every single Tuesday of the year to pick up new releases. I'm the one who, after all these years, still makes mixtapes (albeit digitally in the form of playlists nowadays). I'm the character Rob Gordon in High Fidelity who makes music lists and can serve up a perfect song for any situation (and laughed hysterically when he described the perfect way to make a mixtape, because it was just so true!). There aren't too many of us who are as infatuated and obsessed with music as I am, but we're out there.
I think that's also something I treasure in my relationship with
emmalyon...she's a music nerd in her own way, having majored in it. I love our conversations when a song comes on and our response is not a generic "this is a neat song, I like it" but "I love how the melody goes downwards while the bass line goes up" or "I love the polyphonic effect of the vocals here". She gets why a song does what it does, and why I'd like it as much as I do.
