rant · moment 11 of 28
Redefining Friendsgiving and Corporate Music Festivals
from #225 - Friendsgiving | The Tim Dillon Show · #225
5 min
Tim explains his disdain for sanitized "young professional" Friendsgivings and corporate music festivals, preferring broken-down bar musicians, then reflects on wasting his cocaine years selling mortgages instead of partying.
- Tim hated friendsgivings and still does because he dislikes other people.
- Real friendsgiving in New York should be transgender or gay people kicked out of their homes doing cocaine in East Village bars, not young professionals talking about corporate music festivals.
- Young professionals following a paint-by-numbers life—checking boxes, going to the right schools, doing what everyone else has done—has never appealed to Tim.
- Corporate music festivals corral people onto Governor's Island to see a predetermined list of twelve acts, which Tim dislikes.
- Tim's music preference is for broken-down performers bleeding while singing one sentence over and over in Austin bars, not curated festival lineups.
- Seeing James McMurtry at midnight on a Wednesday at the Continental Club in Austin is the kind of unplanned, authentic music experience Tim seeks.
- Tim sobered up before corporate music festivals became designed activities for young professionals to do drugs at—he had to do cocaine in offices next to delusional middle-aged men.
- His drug use was doing lines in an office while fat guys ate chicken parmesan they could barely afford, not partying at themed drug events.
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