You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
For $1000, which of the following do the Princesses of Centralia NOT eat?
honestly, Allentown just makes me think of "200 Years Old" by Frank Zappa
I was sitting in a breakfast room in Allentown, Pennsylvania . . . Six o'clock in the morning . . . Got up too early . . . It was a terrible mistake . . . Sittin' there face-to-face with a 75¢ glass of orange juice About as big as my finger And a bowl of horribly fore-shortened corn flakes And I said to myself "This is the life . . . "
Allentown is a sad, sad city.
Not because of Latin Kings or whatever else old shallow people are complaining about these days. The melancholy there is much longer-rooted than that kind of thing.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
one thing I have learned how to do recently--and it's a trick I jacked wholesale from The Field--is to take very very short vocal samples, like, single syllables, and stretch them out over a whole track like you would any other instrumental riff. You can do very interesting things with them and it gives them a humanizing element.
It's also a good way to allude to other songs without necessarily referencing them overtly.
That just makes me want to visit it more. I mean, I want to visit Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, and Centralia more, but it's still a city. Though I also have no idea what's so sad or melancholic about it. Shrug
That just makes me want to visit it more. I mean, I want to visit Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, and Centralia more, but it's still a city. Though I also have no idea what's so sad or melancholic about it. Shrug
There is a pervasive sense of "long past its glory days"-ness.
Not just in Allentown but also in Bethlehem, Jim Thorpe....most largeish cities up here in Lehigh-Carbon to be honest. It's hard to explain, really. I suspect Detroiters feel something vaguely similar.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Planet Jane said: Crystal said:That just makes me want to visit it more. I mean, I want to visit Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, and Centralia more, but it's still a city. Though I also have no idea what's so sad or melancholic about it. Shrug
There is a pervasive sense of "long past its glory days"-ness. Not just in Allentown but also in Bethlehem, Jim Thorpe....most largeish cities up here in Lehigh-Carbon to be honest. It's hard to explain, really. I suspect Detroiters feel something vaguely similar.
Well that's dreary, yeah, I see what you mean. Planet Jane said:also, if you're talking about the PA city, you shouldn't go to Centralia, for a lot of reasons.
All of the Centralias, but the PA city for sure. Although I'd always had the idea that'd be a bad idea, I'm curious anyway. Maybe I've missed or forgotten something when I'd read months back.
yes, also the few remaining locals are a little out there.
Oh. I, uh, did not know about that. Yeah, I doubt it'd ever happen, but that doesn't mean I don't want to still visit it. Or toy with the idea of it, what with being a ghost town and all.
It's still just a curious... depressing sorta place.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
folks who the government has to sue to try to get them to leave a town that is literally on fire do not tend to be the most stable of folk.
I think there's less than a dozen of them now, though.
Last I heard at least some of them were convinced that the fire had "moved on" and the government was trying to evict them so they could get their greedy guvament hands on the coal beneath the ex-town
folks who the government has to sue to try to get them to leave a town that is literally on fire do not tend to be the most stable of folk.
I think there's less than a dozen of them now, though.
Last I heard at least some of them were convinced that the fire had "moved on" and the government was trying to evict them so they could get their greedy guvament hands on the coal beneath the ex-town
That just makes me want to visit it more. I mean, I want to visit Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, and Centralia more, but it's still a city. Though I also have no idea what's so sad or melancholic about it. Shrug
There is a pervasive sense of "long past its glory days"-ness.
Not just in Allentown but also in Bethlehem, Jim Thorpe....most largeish cities up here in Lehigh-Carbon to be honest. It's hard to explain, really. I suspect Detroiters feel something vaguely similar.
I think there is sort of a similar vibe in the U.P. (upper peninsula of Michigan). Not a whole lot is going on and the population of the area has declined a good bit over the years, I guess in part because the mining industry up there is far from what it once was. That said, if you like nature, it is not a bad place to visit (in the summer at least).
That just makes me want to visit it more. I mean, I want to visit Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, and Centralia more, but it's still a city. Though I also have no idea what's so sad or melancholic about it. Shrug
There is a pervasive sense of "long past its glory days"-ness.
Not just in Allentown but also in Bethlehem, Jim Thorpe....most largeish cities up here in Lehigh-Carbon to be honest. It's hard to explain, really. I suspect Detroiters feel something vaguely similar.
I think there is sort of a similar vibe in the U.P. (upper peninsula of Michigan). Not a whole lot is going on and the population of the area has declined a good bit over the years, I guess in part because the mining industry up there is far from what it once was. That said, if you like nature, it is not a bad place to visit (in the summer at least).
really I think it describes many places in America, each with its own unique take on the atmosphere
around here it's the decline of the steel mills mostly.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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folks who the government has to sue to try to get them to leave a town that is literally on fire do not tend to be the most stable of folk.
I think there's less than a dozen of them now, though.
right
I knew it was inherent but I was wondering what personality traits they had :n
you have to be on some next-level paranoia to believe that the mine fire that has been blazing underneath your town for decades has disappeared and the government is plotting to take your land.
Like they are, almost literally, living in a house that's on fire while denying it's on fire
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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There is a pervasive sense of "long past its glory days"-ness.
Not just in Allentown but also in Bethlehem, Jim Thorpe....most largeish cities up here in Lehigh-Carbon to be honest. It's hard to explain, really. I suspect Detroiters feel something vaguely similar.
Well that's dreary, yeah, I see what you mean.
Planet Jane said:also, if you're talking about the PA city, you shouldn't go to Centralia, for a lot of reasons.
All of the Centralias, but the PA city for sure. Although I'd always had the idea that'd be a bad idea, I'm curious anyway. Maybe I've missed or forgotten something when I'd read months back.
So, uh, yeah