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Collected Item: “Xbox Live Shenanigans”

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Xbox Live Shenanigans

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Web page/mp3 file on SoundCloud

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This is a trap remix of Darkthrone’s “Transilvanian Hunger” that I made on my phone in GarageBand.

My friends and I usually congregate on Xbox Live every night after we get home from work for the night. With rising costs, dwindling savings, and less work available than ever before, we don’t really plan things anymore. When we do, the plans usually include cooking dirty burgers, drinking beer, and playing board games at someone’s house. That and playing Xbox together are the cheapest options for hanging out that we even have. Lately, our favorite pastime has been making beats on our iPhones in GarageBand. Someone jokingly told me that Norweigan black metal is the only un-sampleable musical genre. I set out to prove him wrong. Laughter and hilarity ensued.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

ASU, HST485, humor, quarantine, coronavirus, poverty, funny, blackmetal, music, beats, darkthrone

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://soundcloud.com/suhdudebeats/norweigan-tree

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

SuhDudeBeats (my rap producer pseudonym)

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2020-10-05
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