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have you guys been influenced in any manner by or in other non-musical ways...i dont know just this year ive been more outdoors, having fires, discovering new ideas, enduring weather phenomonons...but i am also interested in what you think of their fashion, hoodies, beanies, kinda the reclusive clothing, ive been discovering more lately

Slightly, I guess...I was already a nature-y kinda person, it comes from living In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country. Hahah..But yeah.... Hoodies/tuques ('beanies') rule...in the winter.

I actually can't think of anything I haven't been influenced by. A short list though: a lifetime of camping, numbers stations/general radio noise, field recordings, overheard conversations, cryptography, Forteana and other mysteries, travelling, people and their ways.

I am very appreciate of the life I've lived so far, the places I've been and people I've met. Even the crappy parts have served to inspire me. I definitely feel like BOC are a lot like a lot of the people I know and there's a nice feeling of distant kinship.

kiki wrote:Forteana

I have no idea what this thread is about but...

WOOO FORTEANA! One of my favorites subjects (and magazines).

Charles Fort was the man. Awesome legacy. I could read Fortean Times all day.

Also re: the original topic, maybe it's not influence so much as recognition. When I first listened to BOC it brought back a lot of my old interests.

A toque is neccessary for me though man, Washington state uniform.

I need a good tuque.

Tuques help control my ever-so-long hair in the winter months.

I'm wearing a "tuque" right now, and have to at work^^ (I'm so happy with that job)

Running treadmills. I don't know why. I think it's just the way the human body moves that fascinates me and having it run in one place looks cool. Fish-eye lens are also neat.

People give me inspiration. Certain words also give me a small level of inspiration when constructing music.

Hanging around getting stoned in the abandoned boatyard and derelict train station in my town at 4/5 am during the summer, watching the sun rise.

I know that sounds posey as fuck, but I don't care . That's some of the weirdest, most beautiful atmosphere I've ever experienced: It's full daylight but nobody's awake except you... surrounded by broken down boats, broken down buildings and train carriages. I'd love to visit far enough north to see season-long days (I live on the East coast of Scotland)

Kaini Industries wrote:words also give me a small level of inspiration when constructing music.

I had that today with the word "aquarium"...but it turned out to me to much of a "aquarius"

I coulda sworn this thread was in the other forum..ahaha.

harpoon dodger wrote:I coulda sworn this thread was in the other forum..ahaha.

You are right about that, I didn't spot this non BoC related topic in the wrong section before, so I moved it... No worries, the content remains untouched

I don't make music but when I like to sew and write stories and poems and I make movies in my head. Mostly people inspire me, strangers and family. I love riding the city bus and watching the interesting, and crazy, people.
The weather also inspires me.. this is me in my thinking hat-


It doubles as an excellent warm hat for our cold Wisconsin winters!

Cupz wrote:

Kaini Industries wrote:words also give me a small level of inspiration when constructing music.

I had that today with the word "aquarium"...but it turned out to me to much of a "aquarius"

Yes I get it quite a lot. If someone mentions a certain word or sentence sometimes it triggers memory's.

bulletsoflove wrote:I don't make music but when I like to sew and write stories and poems and I make movies in my head. Mostly people inspire me, strangers and family. I love riding the city bus and watching the interesting, and crazy, people.
The weather also inspires me.. this is me in my thinking hat-


It doubles as an excellent warm hat for our cold Wisconsin winters!

Those hats are cool.