JohnAveryJayBeing known for one thing and trying to do a different thinghttps://jtholen.bandcamp.com/album/new-active-objectFinding instruments on the streetAccidentally arguing with sauna guyMany-Time Topic Lord John Mystery.Talking the plunge into the Topic Lords discord.An unspoken constant presence like Seymour Glass in the Glass Family novels.The Once and Future Musician.Putting a formant filter on your organ so you can play the organ on Zoom.Why pouring hot water sounds different from pouring cold water. The sound of boiling hot urine. The top rated coffee shop in San Francisco on Yelp for seven months in a row.Remaining your coffee shop after Mark Zuckerberg in hopes that he'll show up in person. Trying to open up a coffee shop in late 90s San Francisco and only realizing too late that it's 2016.ADA compliant seating. Four-person episodes of Topic Lords. A 6'5" guy trying to barter a half-used spray paint can for a cup of coffee.The Menacing Barterer.Aggressive Wimpy gladly paying you tomorrow for a hamburger today or else. Aggressive Wimpy throwing a shoe at your espresso machine. Your car accidentally becoming an art car. Letting people spray paint your car until it's nothing but spray paint. Calling 911 and explaining that the guy menacing you needs marijuana.Being detained by Mark Zuckerberg's private security force.Living near Mark Zuckerberg's house so you can do whatever your fixation with Mark Zuckerberg is. Aggressive Barter Guy trying to barter a Porsche for a cup of coffee.The $6 Porsche. Tholen or Tholen.A prog album constructed from Klik n Play samples. When someone who does I've things decides to do something else.The Mountain Goats novelizations.Leonard Cohen's terrible poetry.Thinking a song is deeply meaningful until you read the lyrics.New Active Object.Lunch Music. Doing a thing for a long time and getting good at it. Who has time to read a novel? Having Game Boys Advance but still reading books sometimes. Telling your teacher that you need to go to your job at NASA and they're like "oh you must be doing something important over there"Working in the waterslide industry. The Joy of Being the Secrets Guy. Reading too much into it is the next Frog Fractions game. Admitting to your wife that you found a digital piano on the curb. The digital piano in the background of the Frog Fractions 2 pitch video. Walking by a theremin at a party and it chirps at you like a proximity car alarm. The Moog Etherwave.Staring at your broken Omnichord.A toddler whose first word is "mandolin."Living Out Yonder.The Roland Space Echo. A cassette tape except there isn't any cassette, the tape is just kind of wriggling around in there.Buying synthesizers from thrift shops that don't know how to tell whether synthesizers are broken. The Two Organs Behind Me.Ukelins.Zither-esques.Dulcimers vs. hammered dulcimers.Looping your song and picking the notes that kind of sound like they belong. A Xylophone For Jandek.Feeling like you're taking to extremely accomplished people and you're just a weird little guy. Who Is Sauna Guy??Stuck debating sauna guy while the venerated author with similar interests to yours is holding court in the next room. Physics Philosophy guy talking about physics and philosophy. An hour into the conversation, telling Sauna Guy that you don't even like being warm and he just stares at you. The new way to joke about forum URLs.Back when the Internet was full of exciting possibilities.What topics turn you into Sauna Guy. David Byrne sitting alone at the David Byrne art exhibit in Palo Alto. We're All Sauna Guy Now.Voting each other off the podcast. Lightning round sudden death topics. When the sunscreen finally makes it onto your cornea.Not having a home page again but meaning to someday.
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