This motherfucker right here…
A group of right wing extremists just decided to throw families out of their homes during a global pandemic.
This is an attack on working people across our country and city. New York won’t stand for this vile, unjust decision. https://t.co/Tw6Bt97GC9
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) August 27, 2021
Ryan Tedder: Classic songs are strangling new music
With writing credits for Adele, Ed Sheeran, Paul McCartney, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Lil Nas X – not to mention his own band OneRepublic – he’s one of the most consistent hitmakers of the 21st Century.
A walking musical almanac, he is also a perceptive analyst of pop trends. And lately, he’s become concerned at how streaming is affecting new artists.
“The frustrating thing about music is that now there’s too much of it,” he says. “There’s 62,000 songs a day uploaded to Spotify, so it’s a lot harder to get heard.”
Bands aren’t just competing with those uploads, he points out. They’re also up against every song in the streaming services’ vast catalogues.
“A large portion of the people that are streaming, they’ve never owned a CD, they may not listen to the radio, and when they hear David Bowie’s Life On Mars, they’re hearing it for the first time,” he says.
“So the source of discovery is the last 70 years of music. It’s all brand new, right now. So you’re competing with every song that has ever come out.”
Or, we can go for Occam’s Razor and say your music sucks. Produce Ed Sheeran’s shlock into something as good as Life On Mars and get back to us.
I can tell you which bisexual vampire I want to listen to for 50 years.
But I do sort of like the Children of the Damned cover:
Destined to be a defining image of the Biden Presidency.
People with no credibility to futher degrade mission and credibility…
For the first time in decades, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the nation’s top public health agency — is speaking out forcefully about gun violence in America, calling it a “serious public health threat.”
“Something has to be done about this,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in an exclusive interview with CNN. “Now is the time — it’s pedal to the metal time.”
This summer alone has seen a spree of gun injuries and deaths, and the weekends have been especially violent, with an average of 200 people killed and 472 injured by guns each weekend in the United States, not including suicides, according to an analysis done by the Gun Violence Archive for CNN. That’s nearly 3.4 people shot every hour every weekend.
“The scope of the problem is just bigger than we’re even hearing about, and when your heart wrenches every day you turn on the news, you’re only hearing the tip of the iceberg,” Walensky said. “We haven’t spent the time, energy and frankly the resources to understand this problem because it’s been so divided.”
You could also try, I don’t know… fuck the fucking fuck off, you fuckfaced fuck?
Said the Girl with the mousy Hair,
“Produce Ed Sheeran’s shlock into something as good as Life On Mars and get back to us.”
this times 111110101010101010
So times 256682?
I looked at that second video and thought to myself, “Is this for real?”
New York has only spent 2% of the money they received for rent relief.
I doubt it. There may be some off-the-books transactions not included in that 2%.
Do garbage bags of cash stuffed into Cuomo’s station wagon on his way out the door count as “off-the-books”?
If Giuliani & Co. hadn’t smashed the mob, this would literally be true.
Shouldn’t that be “rent relief?” That money was never actually intended to go to landlords. /cynic
Sorry to OT – I don’t know how often you check your forum messages so I’ll ping you here too. I may have messed up an article submission, not sure if anything needs to be fixed behind the scenes (hit “publish”, not “save draft”. Sigh). Thanks
Does the forum send notifications…?
I hope I don’t have to check manually. I asked a couple questions weeks ago.
I don’t think the forum sends push notifications.
If you subscribe to the thread, or someone replies directly to you in a thread, you should get an e-mail. If it’s a direct message, you’ll just have a notification on the forum page.
Okay, I’m not seeing anything that looks like it was published. Help me out with a title or something. Also, for you “publish” may result in moving your piece to “Pending.” Not everyone has the ability to actually publish things here and I have no way to check that.
Yes, it pushed to pending. I just can’t save a draft anymore; showed up in “pending” on 2021/08/27 at 3:00 pm. I can still edit it, so maybe just finish it up, otherwise I’ll trash it start over. Should never try to write while sober apparently.
No, please don’t start over.
When you hit “publish” it moved it to pending and locked you out because you don’t have editor-level access.
Let me go in and move it back to drafts.
Write drunk, edit sober.
It’s reverted.
Mercy Buckets. Sorry to waste your time with that screw up. I’ve actually notices that before “why are those 2 buttons so close together? No matter, I’ll be careful.” Ooops.
There ought to be a confirmation with a dialog box for that.
“Are you SURE you want to drop this turd into the punch bowl? Click Yes to embarrass yourself. Click No to try polishing some more.”
WordPress is evil. It is known.
db, I think I will propose that our IT Department add that to the “Send” button on our emails.
Tonio, all IT is evil.
It’s kinda like math. People who like math think it is the greatest thing eva! And the rest of us are generally wondering when we will ever use this, as we do not give a shit when two trains will meet when a father and son will have evenly spaced birthdays or any other fake word problem. Where we hit that level of just not giving a shit is the real point.
And most of us feel the same about IT. If it isn’t that simple of a thing to set the time on a VCR, then we probably don’t worry about it. If it isn’t a simple thing to get my printer to fire, then I am going to quickly balance the cost of replacing it. And thus it ever was. People make money in that field by either making shit so simple that anyone can figure it out or so complex that they are the only ones.
WordPress used to not be evil.
If the money is going to tenants who can’t be evicted even if they don’t pay rent, then, yeah, that money was never intended to go to landlords.
If you mean money to go to somebody, you generally pay it to them, not to somebody else.
Oh they have spent it, they just didn’t spend it on “rent relief”.
“The frustrating thing about music is that now there’s too much of it,”
How can you say there is too much music? That’s like saying there are too many flowers.
“I’m a no-talent hack that can’t compete so I’m going to whine about it instead.”
That applies in so many cases, Scruffy.
Unfortunately yes.=
He hates music and people who listen to music.
Only the wrong music.
“Too many notes…”
Unless you’re a florist.
Paul McCartney? Why would he need a songwriter?
He doesn’t, but the new kids out there sure do, even the Hard rock stuff is become derivative as fuck, and it’s all screaming,
When he needed something pretentious in a song, John Lennon was there for him.
OK Martha, my Dear……
Why do you hate doggies?
Someone ought to photoshop Clint Eastwood into the picture of the empty podium.
Yes, that would make my day.
Where’s Arch Stanton when you need him?
Given the current prez is, I definitely don’t feel lucky…
The CDC is rapidly approaching ATF level in my approximation of loathing.
Still not as bad as the FDA…
We need a new virus that only kills bureaucrats.
honest work: don’t catch it !
If they can declare an eviction moratorium based on flimsy and notional authority, imagine what they could do for “gun safety.” Of course they’ll be smacked down by SCOTUS, but that takes time. And the punishment is the process. And good luck getting off that government list and getting your guns back.
CDC step one: Advocate that society be shut down for a year and everyone locked in their homes, while politicizing every aspect of a pandemic.
Step two: Wonder aloud why everyone is pissed off and violent.
And bored and destructive and self-destructive and snippy.
Step 3: Vastly overstep your authority and make weapons harder to attain to prevent the anger and violence you fueled.
Speaking of places were vaccines aren’t mandated…
https://gab.com/ZZ611/posts/106819810388141032
As if they know something they aren’t telling us.
Well, I can see the concern with most of those, but the WHO? I mean, Moon, Entwistle, and Sandom are dead already. A mandate isn’t going to help them.
“We haven’t spent the time, energy and frankly the resources to understand this problem because it’s been so divided.”
OK, let me try to explain this to you like you are five. Almost all gun murders are over illegal drug business. Almost no murders are over legal drug business — they can settle any dispute they might have in court because their business is legal. If you legalize drugs, then there is no illegal drug business. So there are no murders over illegal drug business because it does not exist.
Hmm, shall we look into differences between high gun violence areas and low gun violence areas in search of causal factors? Nah, guns are bad m’kay.
CDC deflects criticism of current failure by
inventing a newreviving an old boogeyman.“The scope of the problem is just bigger than we’re even hearing about, and when your heart wrenches every day you turn on the news, you’re only hearing the tip of the iceberg,”
Just the tip, there’s your problem. We need to be more like Australia and go full STEVE SMITH on guns.
Oh, CDC… How is that Coronavirus thing working out for you?
How the hell does she hear the tip of the spear?
“cause Lenin’s on sale again”
AYFKM? They’ve been talking about “gun violence” like it’s a “public health” problem forever.
FFS.
GGL
Yeah, I found that statement very difficult to credit.
We haven’t had a school shooting in a while so to them it might seem like forever.
Can gun violence be handled via decrees that bypass the courts and the legislatures a la Covid proclamations? It is a public health crisis you know.
A kevlar vest mandate? Maybe it should be recommended you wear two?
You’re not wearing the vest to protect yourself, your wearing it to protect others!
Your vest protects me, and my vest protects you!
*anguished lol-snort*
Maybe there could be an executive order against murder.
That’s exactly their plan. Ride the coattails of the COVID public health dictatorship.
This has probably nearly attained cliché status on this website, but COVID was a test run.
Here’s the CDC’s mask order for wearing masks on public transportation.
Note the USC referenced. Note the part I bolded.
The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession. For purposes of carrying out and enforcing such regulations, the Surgeon General may provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary.
So, the government just has to come up with a plausible way to claim gun violence is a communicable disease.
Seems to only apply to persons moving between states (incl DC and PR), and persons entering a state from a foreign country.
It does, but I think that ship sailed.
I love that Romantics tune.
I have some alternate lyrics i want to post but, maybe a bit much for (((Them)))
/What I like about Jews
I’m a bad person, because that always pops in my head too. I’ll probably burn for that.
We had a friend in college whose last name was Chu. Guess what we sang at him all the time.
That old folk song, Throw the Chu in the Well?
Adelaide’s Lament?
“Hey Chu?”
“Where you goin’ with that chopstick in your hand?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjmvfRvjTc
#metoo
Nothing like kicking ass at work late in the day on a Friday. ?
flex, you!
I took the day off. I need to burn two weeks of leave…but if I do, it means I have to work with the wife. This sucks.
Oi, OBE: Feel free to shoot me an e-mail at my handle at Google’s mail service if you want to coordinate meeting up at Viva.
Roger that. “These are free to anyone who shows their vaccination card or a photo of it on their phone.” Hmm..thinking I need to show a picture I snapped of someone elses card 😉
Also the Greek Festival is going on that weekend also if you are looking for activities…okay I mean food… outside of Viva and it is just down the street.
I figure we will meet up at the Irish Pub across the street
Good deal. Thursday and Monday are going to be the most free days for the girlfriend and I. The Irish pub works, we usually stop there every once in a while just for a dark place to let the senses recalibrate, plus whiskey!
There used to be a great Greek festival in Reno, and when my brother was still married to the cheater we went every year. Got drunk on Mythos beer and Metaxa, finished with Greek coffee. I miss that.
Hiya SF!
Life on Mars still gives me chills.
So does Starman.
Let all the children boogie.
So does Starman.
It does, doesn’t it?
Bowie is just amazing. Constantly amazing.
I was going to post that insipid rap song Sheeran did, but that was punching down.
Some people deserve it i.e. have earned it.
Five years can almost make me cry.
God, that is almost as old as me. My wife saw Bowie something like six times, good stuff.
Hey Yusef. If you don’t go back to the dead thread, that was a link to photo of the 3-string cigar box guitar I just picked up on etsy.
That’s a beautiful little piece, how is it strung, note wise?
G D g
I have two classical guitars tuned to Open G and Open D that I have been tinkering with.
I have been wanting to try a cigar box guitar for sometime.
I thought maybe Uke with no G on top, and open tuning is a blast, I like sloppy C, everything sags,
That’s really cool!
I know!
Irresistable.
I’ve never listened to Ed Sheeran before. Thanks a bunch for introducing me to that crap.
*pukes*
Palette Cleanser #1
Palette Cleanser #2
Holy Shit!
How have I never seen or heard this version before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNrAFb3I2js
Awesome
I don’t think I’ve ever watched him play the bass before. Wow. He’s tearing it up.
Prince: “Can I play my guitar?”
Yes, Prince.
Yes you can.
Wow!
Average Half-White Band?
Bliss.
Filthy, funky bliss.
Thanks, Scruff!
Apparently it’s all new to the internet which is why I haven’t seen it before. There’s more…
https://youtu.be/BGV2uN2s2uk
The LA Forum as a venue was absolutely the greatest place to watch hockey and concerts.
I have seen so great shows there. Like about twenty. Rush, ZZ Top, Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, Clapton, lot’s more.
I managed to go my whole life without listening to Ed Sheeran. I need to go back in time and stop myself from clicking that video. Except, if I do that I remove my motivation for going back in time. Hmm, I must ponder this dilemma.
I have a time portal. I’ll go back, Kill Hitler, and Ed Sheeran will never be born, relax, it’s easy!
I already did this.
Ed Sheerhan became the new Hitler, so I went back again and stopped myself.
We’re much better off.
So you’re Hitler now?
Everyone here is literally Hitler.
If they are here they are.
Thunderstorm = time to listen to some Live ATC
^^^ They have the most boring jobs when the weather is normal.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/judge-slaps-down-desantis-order-banning-mask-mandates-florida
Ah the ol’ tried and true “can’t yell fire in crowded theater argument”. Good to see a judge apply that.
This should mean, that parents should be able to use the judge’s argument that the mask order is also unconstitutional..but what do I know.
Shush, your betters are trying to govern here!
Trying being the operative word. If were going to have corrupt evil people govern us can’t they at least be competent.
I do not want competent evil people.
Amtrak is proposing to create more passenger rail service, which will provide an opportunity for some competent leader to make the trains run on time. A tried and true method of governance.
My partner is applying for a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate at work. I don’t really expect much from it. But most of his coworkers must be true Covid believers (state college), so perhaps there are not too many requests of this kind.
I told my boss that he might fail using a religious exemption. He’s Catholic and his wonderful pope endorsed the vaccines.
The government should not be in the business of vetting which religions are allowed to be cited as proof of one’s “sincerely held beliefs” but yeah I know that’s crazy talk.
That’s ridiculous to say there is too much music. I’m constantly still finding lots of awesome stuff out there. I recently found a cool website called Endless Crate that has all kinds of the best music you’ve never heard. This is one band I found on there that I really dig. It’s like the Isley Brothers meets OutKast.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vTtnevlO4
Like these bands?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cb+soundcraft
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3YpPdg2J9itRSVqR5DfOct
Me, and my bands
Cool I’ll check it out Bob. As much as I hate YouTube’s politics their algorithm is utterly brilliant at finding musical gems
I’m on a shitload of platforms now, I paid a distribution service, not Payola, just let them take care of the details.
20 years of recordings, some songs are nearly 30 years old. Pipeline is cool, but my fave is California Dreamin’, Punk at its finest!
Terrific!
I grew up in an era when AM deejays determined what got heard by the public. The availability of just about anything now is an enormous good. Do any of these morons think they’d have gotten the time of day back in the ’50s and ’60s?
And thanks for the link. My musical world has grown exponentially just from clicking on music links posted here.
Of course they do. Just back up the Brinks truck to station manager’s office and you’re on the air.
AM Radio.
I really like Everclear (the band) and I don’t care what anyone says.
Nice.
Oops. That should have gone to Sean on his vacation.
Everclear has some good songs.
No take backs!
I’m with you.
Like this one!
I know a few chicks from my youth who ended up completely respectable and living in the suburbs. They are the best, since we all know each others’ past!
“Half of kids in a California classroom tested positive for Covid after unmasked and unvaccinated teacher came into school while symptomatic with the Indian ‘Delta’ variant, CDC report finds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9933555/Half-class-caught-Covid-unmasked-teacher-infected-Delta-variant-report-finds.html
CWAA
“Tested positive.” Okay, sure. And how many of them died? Or were hospitalized? I would ask about missing school as a result but we all know about kids and sick days.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Seriously, I am going to fault this teacher. Stay home…you are probably getting paid to do so.
The only positive thing (i thought) to come out of the shitshow was that sick people would fucking stay home.
#metoo Seriously our illnesses that have occurred at our work were people coming in with fevors. Not 100deg, 102+ and hacking all over the place. Even before COVID, stay away.
“while symptomatic”
The only important words in that sentence.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Those damn Indians.
Probably wants the virus back now.
A teacher in Marin County. Almost certainly a Trumpalo. Thanks Trump.
Not disclosed:
Whether the children also had the Delta variant, which is actually somewhat unusual in this country.
And, yeah, if you’re sick, stay home, ya feckin’ morons.
I got my Greek alphabet crossed up. Delta isn’t that unusual, and seems to be more infectious to children. Of course, I’m betting a number of the little snotbubbles gave it to each other.
On de Blasio’s absurd tweet: Yahoo News screwed up and found a sympathetic landlord whose family is facing homelessness due to inability to collect rent:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/landlord-faces-homelessness-tenants-fall-235000651.html
“Despite more than $23,000 in unpaid rent, LaCasse can’t force her tenants out because of state and federal moratoriums on evictions.”
Doesn’t that bitch have a swimming pool she can pluck a few gold coins out of in order to get past this bad patch?
The swimming pool is closed because it poses a drowning hazard to kids.
She would have to dig past the rubies and pearls to get to the gold.
It’s a Friday, so once again, I’ll be kicking off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Article Workshopping at 20:00 Eastern.
“Ida strengthens to a hurricane: Storm is forecast to hit NoLa and the Gulf Coast as a 130mph Category 3 on Sunday and dump two feet of rain”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9931943/Ida-hit-Gulf-Coast-Category-Three-storm-SUNDAY-winds-130MPH.html
Yikes!
No need to guess where Jim Cantore will be this weekend…
So we should have music censorship as well as speech censorship. Censorship all around!
Just like USG burned crops and dumped milk to drive up prices, so must they ensure songwriters have a living wage by controlling music supply.
And I swear I have been listening to the CDC whinge on about gun violence pretty much constantly for decades.
They have been…they ‘restarted’ this wing of the CDC and in case you want to know, “The CDC is also spending more than $8 million on 18 different studies to investigate gun violence and means of preventing injury from firearms.” We are in the wrong business.
*applies for CDC grant for “community-based educational initiatives to prevent injury from firearms”*
*opens gun range and training business*
Treat every gun like it’s loaded.
Do not point it at anything you don’t want to destroy.
Be aware of what is in front of an behind your target.
Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you’re ready to shoot.
Seems like a good place to prevent injury from firearms. Yes I’m preaching to the choir here.
A 2.25 million dollar gun range would rival Front Sight. Just sayn
* applies for position as consultant to R C’s business, charging high 6-figures
I think Yusef posted this guy earlier…
Uh…https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/08/27/this-marine-battalion-commander-probably-burned-down-his-career-to-demand-accountability-for-chain-of-command-failures-in-afghanistan-n433726
Straight, white, probably hetro, probably not real liberal… He had already topped out. Needs to finish his 20 – now it might be in the Reserves or National Guard.
Spent the day at Ponquogue beach with my wife and girls. Absolutely perfect beach day. Perfect air temps perfect water temp. The waves were even the perfect size today. Absolutely glorious. Then i come home and put the news on and get reminded of these poor bastards over in Afghanistan. Jesus Christ what a crying shame it is whats happening. Makes me feel guilty about having a good day.
Fuck that, Jerms.
You think one of those guys would want that? You know they would want you to live your life like it might not be there tomorrow.
I’m glad you had a beautiful day, brother.
Have another tomorrow.
Thanks Tundra. Ill try. You have yourself a good one too.
“The frustrating thing about music is that now there’s too much of it,”
No, no, there isn’t. The fact that I have access to these massive catalogues of music across all sorts of genres is an amazing benefit. I can access music that I never would have even known about and discover incredible things that pretentious would-be pop gatekeepers would never expose me to. And, being fair, it probably wouldn’t be worth it for the radio stations to play every eclectic genre that has a small dispersed audience.
But, this guy’s credits are a bunch of pop artists I basically have no interest in. It isn’t a contest between my listening to this guy’s music or some other guy’s music. It’s a contest between my listening to some other guy’s music or not listening.
“The frustrating thing about music is that now there’s too much of it,” I would only agree to this because they are all the same. When you can mash up 20 different songs into one song and it sounds coherent and keeps the same beat and timing, then maybe look to that.
If you can endure it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keaz5EBR2Xk
I made it 45 seconds. What do I win?
Good lord. Even more amazing, it’s been the same crap for 20 years.
No one *needs* 23 different melodies.
iI know what I need.
Only proper response to it all Probably NSFW and for the poor garage punk sounds.
Damn your nimble fingers.
I mean…it was 10 minutes. Not really that nimble.
Yeah, but it allows me to not blame myself for not reading carefully.
Just Pachelbel?
Chuck Berry didn’t.
But this cat ain’t no Chuck Berry…
To be fair, good stuff by indies is being lost in the noise, too.
Gimme noise!
Yeah, that’s the only downside but it isn’t really when you have word-of-mouth and good online algorithms.
I don’t want to be a jerk, but “lost in the noise” relative to what? I mean, it’s the indies that in a “we need to cull the music choices” environment that would be the ones that were the first to be culled. In a culled world, it wouldn’t be all these great indie bands putting out really interesting music. It would be all Adele, Ed Sheeran, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Lil Nas X. All day every day.
I think the answer is that it would be great if someone could invent a better curation system to leverage these massive catalogues to learn what mix of stuff you listen to to figure out different things you might like, including obscure genres or small indie bands. I know the different music services have it, in theory, but mostly they’ve seemed pretty perfunctory.
But, blaming the problem on too much choice seems pretty weak.
Just like speech censorship (or any laws, really), the people calling for it always assume they won’t get the bad end of it.
Agreed. And a great feature to have would be a “not now” button. Sometimes I want to hear new-to-me stuff and sometimes I just want to hear a string of songs that I know all the words to. I don’t’ want to “down vote” something only because I’m not in the mood and then never hear it (and similar songs) again because the algorithm thinks I didn’t like it.
That would make a lot of sense.
Pandora has a “Tired of this song” option that lets you keep a song liked but stop playing it for a month or so.
I’m not blaming anything on too much choice. That implies that you have all the options and you’re deliberating.
You can’t choose what you don’t know exists.
There is never going to be a curation system that can guess your tastes from what you’ve already chosen. I like Carmina Burana and Messiah, Michael Bublé and Harry Connick Jr, Miles Davis and Vince Guaraldi, Sting, the Unthanks, Amon Tobin, Morphine, Motley Crue, and Alison Krauss. I also like “All About that Bass” and “Call Me Maybe” and “Last Friday Night”. There is no algorithm ever that can predict what I’m going to like and not, and I don’t have time to go through Spotify to find another Saudade“.
That might have come out wrong. I’m not accusing you of doing that. I was trying to emphasize my point that this guy’s goal was terrible. In effect, he’s saying you shouldn’t know it exists because it shouldn’t exist.
As to curation systems, I don’t know. It seems to me word of mouth is really nothing more than just another curation system. You talk to somebody who shares your tastes in music and they tell you you might like some particular band. And you give it a try because you trust their judgement. Or not.
In theory, an algorithm might be able to do a better job than that somebody at making recommendations. Because it could take your entire history of selections into account. And, yes, there are plenty of people with eclectic musical tastes. And my guess is that there are probably some commonalities that can differentiate even between people with eclectic tastes.
Agree, but you’d have to have a HUGE data sample.
For instance, I don’t like many of the songs on Amon Tobin’s album Bricolage, but I have the whole album just in case I’m in the mood for it. Unless I am aggressively culling my list, the algorithm might not get it. This caught my ear on the commercial. I mean, Matthew McConaugheeeeeyyyyyy and all, but it was really just that the music hit all my buttons just right.
Aside: In that video, the MM Lincoln commercials, I didn’t realize that one of them featured an album I have (Miles Davis, Elevator to the Gallows).
Nobody needs 29 different kinds of music when children are starving.
I just found this band.
They’re pretty good if you like laid back country.
Rick Beato: Why Jimi Hendrix is disappearing.
He accidentally went back in time and interfered with his parents’ first meeting?
Ye olde time travelle paradoxe.
I’ve been thinking about the ephemeral nature of life lately, and the above video about Jimi Hendrix is a prime example of how I am starting to view fame, which is that with few exceptions (Shakespeare, daVinci, Bach, Hitchcock), fame’s greatest reach is 3 generations. Maybe.
I was thinking about this in terms of my work and that by the time I die, maybe 3 people will remember it ever existed. As depressing as that is, I think about the great romance writers of my youth, and their legacy (as in, they pretty much built the genre definitions) is already lost. Current romance readers don’t even know their names, much less what they wrote. That was only one generation ago.
I’ve seen the names “Ed Sheeran” and “Billie Eilish”, but don’t have a clue what they’ve done and I’m not interested enough to find out.
Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin will eventually fade into nothing, too. The comments on the video I linked above have all the commenters thinking that the movie Bohemian Rhapsody is keeping Queen alive. They have no clue that it’s Wayne’s World that put Queen back on the map and kept them there.
People my age are still quoting Real Genius. Meanwhile, girls my daughter’s age and younger are still sighing over Labyrinth 35 years later. That, too, will fade, but not as fast as Real Genius.
I watched the Beato video. Honestly I had not even heard of some of the more recent artists he mentioned. I have spent a lot more time in the last several years listening to new stuff I would not have heard of before, but that’s mostly because of links I see here, or youtube rabbit holes. But the stuff I mostly hear is things that are chosen by their algorithms based on previous listens (which get reset all the time because I’m not logged in to Youtube and my browser clears cookies when I close it). But the starting point seems to weigh heavily on what you hear later on.
As far as fame goes, it’s a terribly ephemeral thing, difficult to attain, easy to lose (now more than ever, possibly), and dubious in value in the first place.
Dubious in value? If you achieve it, you win big. But calculate the expected value of writing or performing a hit song and it is probably quite low, because of the extremely low probability of it happening. It’s like winning the lottery.
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack
But yes most of the 7 billion people on this planet will not accomplish either. Certainly not past the 3 generations you mentioned, even with the recordings we have now.
At least we’ll always have Lou Reed.
What would be interesting to know is what stuff from our contemporary world won’t fade. Shakespeare was renowned in his time, but did anyone think the plays they were watching would continue to be performed four centuries hence? What, if anything, from our time will still speak to people in the far future?
Joemala.
Hendrix was awesome but also cacophonous. His particular style doesn’t jibe too well with the polished preferences of today maybe. Restricted access plays a part too I’d imagine but the times they are a changin’.
Both of those points were made in the comments. 1) Hendrix is a more niche sound and 2) his estate blocks everything that even hints of a Hendrix note. Even on Andre 3000’s Hendrix movie, he wasn’t allowed to use any of Hendrix’s music. That’s not the way to attain immortality.
In Beato’s “Why does everyone hate jazz?” vid, he said of Pat Metheny that because he doesn’t allow any videoing at his concerts, nobody’s there and the crowds are dwindling because nobody knows he exists anymore.
Sounds like his estate is penny wise and pound foolish but also, as The Who said they said, rock is dead (not actually I know but is is on a ventilator).
For me all Jason Isbell tunes sound the same, but
Voodoo Chile Little Wing
A Day in the Life Day Tripper
Fame Major Tom
Gimme Shelter Paint It Black
Rain Song Ramble On
The great ones don’t have “a sound.” (I’m just picking obvious, solid Boomer examples as broadly accessible references, not necessarily as endorsements).
The majority might pigeonhole an artist, miss out, decide to forget him; we can’t help what the dirty masses do: they will forget everything but Night Fever and YMCA in their casting about; how they operate or think isn’t a useful consideration (except when they are swing voters).
But critical listeners will probably write history.
FWIW, Tolstoy suggested that his grandchildren would not remember him.
ugh, my symbols were eaten by squirrels
Voodoo Chile is not Little Wing
A Day in the Life is not Day Tripper
Fame is not Major Tom
Gimme Shelter is not Paint It Black
Rain Song is not Ramble On
My kid loves Hendrix. He even tried to play guitar left handed for a long while before realizing he was right handed. He has a montage poster of Jimi and I guess wanted to emulate him.
I’m stuck in O’hare reading Glibs on Glib Prime Time. It’s good but not the transcendental experience I was lead to believe.
Ah if I was at work I would inappropriately get your flight moved up
I like the cut of your jib.
I like the cut of your
jibaileron.Ooh, I’m going to remember this.
Usually weather delays or metering I can get a flight moving with a couple of calls. Maintenance of course is out of the question.
Got it. I don’t really want them to move up maintenance. I am amusing myself imagining someone over hearing such a call.
“Hey OBE, we’re stuck due to metering, can you help? It’s flight [redacted]. Thanks, you’re the best!”
Then the flight boards and takes off way sooner than the announcement said.
What is Glibs Prime Time? I’ve been away.
Central Time.
Ah. I read it as you were reading Glibs on a device or aPp or something called Glibs Prime Time
I’m not nearly that clever.
*steals name for mobile app project*
Do *NOT* develop his app!
Do you want to develop an app?
Not transcendental? That’s cause Q hasn’t yet posted his NSFW for the day.
So you’re saying there’s hope?
DeBlasio and the head of the CDC can both go fuck themselves.
“Write drunk, edit sober.”
Vishnu H. Christ, thats genius. Wont work for Mojo, tho. Unless she’s amped on lexapro.
Im going to bed.
Thanks, but it’s not original to me. Unfortunately, I can’t remember where I saw it.
Nobody really knows who said it.
Went looking and found this funny passage dug up from a 1964 article in Writer’s Digest:
Sorry…context:
I only read interviews conducted with Hemingway after his death
He gave interviews from the hereafter? Cool!
I collect tautologies and other idiotic constructions.
Public speakers seem to need volume and speed, so they say all these silly things . . . as if they were sports announcers.
All day I’m appalled. Or in TVspeak: all day I’m constantly appalled.
But I’ve made this observation before, and we certainly don’t want my repeating myself over and over.
I don’t see how that passage fit into your collection. Unless the reader is supposed to know Hemingway died in 1961? What am I missing here?
I always say Wellbutrin wrote my first book.
Posted this in the morning links as it died:
Well, I am a contractor for the Navy, apparently the Norfolk area just went to Health Condition Charlie.o we will be teleworking AGAIN. I told my boss yesterday I am close to buying an RV and taking off.
Also got to hear from a lady at work”If people would just do what they’re told and get the vaccine this would be over” Squack! Fucking COVID parakeet.
“That’s bullshit ” slipped out of my mouth before I realized I was going to say it.
“Well how did we beat polio?”
“Was polio an airborne respiratory virus that mutates?” That was the end of that, I’m sure she had more to say, and I was happy to let it drop.
Although the amount of vitriol she had for unvaccinated people was a little disturbing.
Many people are scared shitless. Is it any wonder: today the headline article in the local newspaper said Delta variant is both “more contagious and more deadly” than the original variant that shut down much of the country last year. Masks are the magic talisman even though virus particles go through them like mosquitos through a cyclone fence.
“and more deadly” is it though?
No. That’s just a flat-out lie.
”If people would just do what they’re told and get the vaccine this would be over”
This has already happened. Get your vaccine shots and you can have your life back!
Spoiler: It’s not over.
I thought I was cynical about government before.
Last year I would never have guessed they could keep it going this lon.
I ruefully look back at the predictions that I made last March that this wouldn’t last past Memorial day (2020).
/looks at Labor day (2021) coming up…
*sobs*
Predictions are hard. Especially about the future.
I overestimated the American people, and will probably do so at least a couple more times before falling into a full pit of despair. At least I got to talk cocktails and spirits with some guys who run a small distillery 10 miles south of my house. I’ve got a full bottle of Strawberry Maltshine and some rhubarb simple syrup that should work quite well together. I did give them shit about not making a gin.
Yeah…about that…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/new-israeli-study-finds-fully-vaccinated-people-greater-risk-hospitalization-13-times-likely-catch-covid-19-recovered-natural-immunity/
Shush….that isn’t SCIENCE! You will awaken the Fauci!
You don’t get it: every human on earth must do this thing in lockstep before we reach utopia.
I know that sounds familiar but trust them this time.
The Greatest Action Story Ever Told!
And just like that, I’m on vacation. ?
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Nice!
No pictures of said noose…
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/disgusting-and-vile-act-noose-found-at-msg-sphere-construction-site/
Odds it’s a cable loop?
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/us_world_news/parents-must-pay-30-441-for-getting-rid-of-sons-porn-cache/article_07cbf8ed-b088-50bd-a536-f6b09c7576b6.html?block_id=1002221
I am not sure what is happening here.
Eh…fuck it
Very, very high.
Didn’t know Bubba Wallace was working construction in Vegas now
Yawn.
Click-bait harder, the media.
Pelosi is squawking about the rent issue. What’s sad is all the Supreme Court said was CDC can’t do that. What she’s really complaining about is being told to do her job. If Congress passed something, they’d let it stand.
Indeed. Even though paying rent is perhaps the clearest example of purely intra-state commerce you could find.
Claude Wickard would like a word with you.
This is why they used a line-of-business under the NIH to do it. Thanks Trump! If Congress were to attempt to legislate, they would have to rely on some constitutional authority to do it and while the 9th/10th Amendment are sorely ignored, it most certainly applies here.
So I am not sure if Congress passed anything they would give it the rubber stamp.
“So I am not sure if Congress passed anything they would give it the rubber stamp.”
I know what you mean. Thomas has bemoaned USSC’s reluctant to rule in declarative, broad, and constitutional terms. They seem to prefer this busy nonsense:
a: a law or an action happens
b: rule on it or strike down something on some minor, discrete, convenience, but not terribly germane point
c: new law is written
d: maybe strike it down on some new and interesting bit of tangent . . . or maybe not
Tossing out laws and regs wholesale because the branch offering them is constitutionally bankrupt seems rare anymore.
I learned something today.
When I got gas, I saw the certification sticker on the pump looked different. I read the text, and it mentioned a “privatized certification program” and a RSA.
I was intrigued.
After some digging, back in 2010 NH privatized the people that go around and check gas pumps to see if they’re “correct”.
Huh.
Gonna admit..I am a damn sucker for Dolores O’Riordan but I love modern music mixed with orchastras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv89TpYri6I
Fuck you there isn’t too much music, there isn’t enough.
Hits those ASMR buttons just right.
Well that took me down a rabbit hole and now listening to the Schindler’s List main theme and I need a break.
I will help you: https://youtu.be/BGtrnRlNbrw
Excellent! Thanks Mojeaux! Wife always comes home and says “you were listening to sad songs again weren’t you?” This should provide cover
Dude, that song will get you laid.
Reminds me of this. Which is my favorite anime
Oooooh, THAT got me where I live and breathe.
Save this for sessytime: https://youtu.be/IEfA9GccfWI
I like Lykke Li for the bow chicka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTPGAy5H_E
Gives a good idea of what you two ladies like in the uh…dark.
This is what got me laid in high school. Not sure if it would work anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FlBVPfiP_I
For me, it depends on what time period I’m writing in. That was in heavy rotation while I was writing the Prohibition book.
OBE– I appreciate that song far more now as an older adult than I did when it first came out.
Alright some trooofs coming out. First girlfriend in 1996?, this was ‘our song’. We screwed up IYKWIM and made a really adult decision and then eventually grew apart afterwards. Years later after the military, we came together again, and while we didn’t hit it back off, spent the night together as friends with this song along with a ton of tears.
Sexytime song
Trust Ted’S to pull out the Barry White.
You know I have impeccable taste in music.
Try a sad song.
This is my favorite pop/symphonic mashup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irqRht0Qy_8
Pavarotti does a lot like that..
Mine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaB9F3R9cIY
Yabut Simon Lebon!
Holy Mother with Clapton.
I love this one.
Awesome. Never seen that one before. All of Freddie’s flair too.
And Montserrat practically upstages him just standing there.
Here’s mine.
Watching the orchestra try to keep up was hilarious!
Now that Sirhan Sirhan is paroled, maybe he’ll shoot Beto O’Rourke.
Please steer him toward Gavin Newsom.
Did he try to pretend he was Bobby Kennedy?
Anyway, I’m content that Trump’s son is banging his ex-wife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9qLfyLowjg
South Park was right…taking my wife to broadway shows gets me blowjobs.
Again..not enough music in the world and Antonio can hold his own.
Many people are scared shitless.
At this point, I really don’t think they are. I’m increasingly convinced that the bulk of the people acting this way are acting this way because they get a thrill out of being a bully and a thrill out of looking down on other people. And the media is happy to help them justify their bullying and sense of superiority. Look at the people you see these idiots sneering about the most. “We’d all be fine if it weren’t for those ignorant, redneck, Republican Trump voters!!!”. Not a word about minorities. Or about PhDs (who have one of the lowest vax rates by educational demographic). Or about secular youth (another low-vax demographic). Nope. It’s just that one demographic. And, gosh, golly, surprise, surprise, surprise!! It’s the same people that mostly these people have have sneered at and vented their contempt toward for the last twenty years.
My husband and I were talking about it last night, how nobody’s talking about the black community giving the vax the side-eye, and for good reason, and that nobody’s saying a word about it.
It always boils down to “those icky people”.
When they do talk about it, it is framed as a problem of inequity.
You’re right. They aren’t.
The funny thing is it’s just the same dynamic with a different target group. It goes throughout history. People like to take their frustrations out on an out group.
I remember hearing stories about how, in medieval Europe, communities would respond to plagues or disasters by blaming the local Jews. Or Gypsies. Or “witches”. And I remember thinking “How could people be so superstitious and backward.”. I wonder now if that wasn’t just an excuse.
An excuse to make people do what you want them to do, yes.
No, I was thinking more an excuse to justify letting people do what they want to but know to be wrong. People want to take their frustrations out on some “other”. And the authorities coming up with some justification for them to do just that probably builds some sort of group loyalty. If only out of shared sin.
There are some out there who are genuinely scared. Last week I went halfway across the country and bumped into a friend I hadn’t seen in years. He was terrified of contracting covid. He’s fearful of his four-year-old son getting it (you know, the demographic not affected by it). I avoided the subject and let him carry on with his Woody Allen-esque hypochondria. The thing I don’t understand is, the folks I’ve encountered who are fearful just assume I’m one of the “clean” ones based on nothing. I guess because I don’t play banjo or washboard in a non-ironic jug band or drive a giant, truck nutz diesel or something.
The young son ended up whacking his head on a piece of furniture and getting a bunch of stitches. No covid, though.
Speaking of music, while I was on the old treadmill today, I decided to play an album I don’t think I’ve listened to in 20 years: Steppenwolf’s “Monster.”
My God – it was released 43 years ago and the words still ring true today. Dammit, we’ve learned nothing. Except for a few Libertarians, for whom Monster was almost their national anthem, all the rest of that crowd from 43 years ago has signed up with the Blues or the Reds and fed the monster.
Steppenwolf was my first concert, Princeton 1967. And yes, most of my contemporaries fly those colors you mentioned.
“For the first time in decades, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the nation’s top public health agency — is speaking out forcefully about gun violence in America, calling it a “serious public health threat.”
What that means is for the first time since ten minutes ago. Those shitbirds have been bitching and whining to disarm the American People since Carter from what I remember. The answer is no. I am not giving up my guns. No one ever wanted to make us helpless for our own good. They have plans for us, I promise. That has never been more obvious.
Hey DeBlasio, when we get a pass on paying our Netflix bill and all other prescriptions I will believe you are not a bunch of commie fucks barely worth the bullets it would take serving the interests of big business, crushing small competitors. Ok, that’s not true. That is what you are.
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to panic buy today. ?
Blue Origin toy rockets
Ammo?
I did that last weekend.
Zing!
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/08/27/jen-psaki-left-wing-journalists-engage-in-mockery-as-another-white-house-scandal-emerges-n433859
Ain’t wrong. If you can’t answer simple questions, why do we believe you on complex questions?
Also pets act like their owners, as I am told. If dog is asshoe….
Two years in a row? Really? I am well stocked up and ready.
Food, water, ice, first aid, battery radio..batteries of course.The only item I am lacking is a battery powered external phone charger. In a pinch I can use the car.
The hot tub is a water reservoir for toilet flushing, a couple of 0.01 water filters. I topped off the car and the jeep.
Hmmmph. People are scared of hurricanes. I just find them inconvenient.
Stay safe and dry Suthen.
+1
Be safe – it looks…not so great.
Please be safe, Suthen.
I’m not in quite as hurricane-prone a location and I just put the deposit down on on a Generac.
Clear skies & YOOGE KPIs forecast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwriDd8STdI
Speaking of YOOGE, look at these bears! Fat fucks!
(sorry, Tonio – it’s not what you think)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnGoErFdtoc
Tough life they have.
Those bears lose and gain weight like Luther Vandross. Come spring, he’ll be able to be a Victoria Secret model.
I had heard Victoria’s Secret had loosened some of their criteria recently.
I’m feeling a little less agitated at the moment over my employer’s latest COVID decree. (See tail end of “What We’re Reading” comments one post/thread back.) It helps to have come home to cute, comfy new shoes, my Friday glass o’ wine, dinner prep underway by TT, and a fuzzy black cat who demanded to be on my lap. Only one problem: said cat is keeping me from going to get seconds.
Here is a <a href="https://youtu.be/8XJtCQhVAmo?t=42"song for that.
Edit fairy! Hallp!
The link seems to work if I delete “song” at the end.
Lovely vocals, but with C&N singing backup, I’d expect nothing less. Thanks!
cat just wants you to stick to your diet 😛
He’s gonna be mooching like a Democrat voter when the tilapia comes out from the broiler!
Ooooh, fish.
He just about goes nuts when we have salmon fillets.
Sounds like a loooovely evening!
Sorry about work, but it sounds like you got it dialed in tonight.
Cheers!
Random happy music. Remember, folks, 2 links per post or it goes into moderation.
https://youtu.be/Q-gcfQhR_9c
https://youtu.be/1eDvtvdoxJE
Both good happy songs.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9zC1jxXsAUZYdr.jpg
LOLOLOLOLL
They are fucking this up on purpose. The more death, the better. That will keep us in dumbfuckistan another 20 years.
At what level of income and/or wealth does it become feasible to a person to own private aircraft? (this is really just trying to get an idea for fictional characters, I know I can’t afford it)
*paging db* Honestly, you could probably do it at 100K/year if you don’t have too many other obligations.
easily.
What about if your character had a share in one? I heard it said that Vanna White has a plane she rents to others.
How nice of an aircraft? There’s a huge spectrum of private aircraft one could potentially own, from models for the middle class all the way up to the luxury billionaire class models. Also, you can rent them, which opens up an even larger array of options.
I think it’ll depend on what’s considered an aircraft. Prop plane, jet, blimp, hot air balloon, lawn chair and weather balloons?
It’s not as unattainable as you might think. Lots of used trainers or some out-of-vogue classic aircraft can be had in the $40k-$70k range. Some cheaper, but they usually need some work. As far as financing goes, the loans are more like mortgages, so you can get a 20 year loan on an aircraft, so if you have some cash saved, you can own one for the cost of a decent monthly car payment. Add in hangar rental (varies widely by region), and annual inspections and maintenance… maybe between $300 and $700 a month for an affordable airplane, more of course the newer and higher performance they get.
that plus fuel costs, which are of course variable based on how much you fly.
Thanks.
I should have specified type of aircraft, I guess.
so, what kind?
This sounds like ‘how much would it cost to own a sports car’?
Can you provide a little background on the character?
I’m trying to get perspective. the question started from a character who is a billionaire, but I started wondering where the lower bound was. I figure that first character is easily in the range to afford it, but was still curious.
Yeah, you could live pretty large well below billionaire status. You could pick a really cool plane and back into the numbers.
If not a Lear jet, shouldn’t be too hard to have a small plane. One of my BILs, a retired airline pilot (and former ‘Nam flyboy) has a small plane. And a good-sized boat that’s too big for the lake down the street, so they dock it at the east end of Lake Erie. Certainly not rolling in it – they’ve always had a nice, but modest home. Priorities. (They’re very outdoorsy.)
Since my question was too vague, I’ll refine it.
What wealth/income bands for owning an airplane that is a luxury jet where the owner is not the pilot.
Again, depends on whether it’s used or new, and what you mean by “luxury jet.” Are you talking a repurposed 767 or an Embraer Phenom 300 (or 100)?
Most of the people who own the bottom end of “luxury jets” (by which I expect you’re excluding anything smaller than 8 seats or so–like the Phenom 100, which can be flown single-pilot) are still earning at the level of CEOs or are quite successful business owners. But you mentioning that they have a pilot puts it into another range of expense entirely.
Big enough to have a separate cockpit from the passenger compartment and a restroom
A separate bathroom is the next level up.
A funny story about using the “toilet” in a small business jet:
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/the-most-embarrassing-private-jet-flight-of-all-time/?fb_action_ids=10200881266696504&fb_action_types=og.likes
https://compareprivateplanes.com/articles/cirrus-vision-jet-sf50-ownership-operating-costs#total
That’s interesting; I wouldn’t expect people buying a Cirrus Vision to also be hiring a pilot.
Some do. Most are owner-flown.
Not sure if I trust their numbers (they mention engines (plural) in their description – an SF50 has a single engine) but its a ball park number
$326,000 per year
Yeah, but that includes “pilot salary” and expenses related to having support staff. I’d think most people buying a Vision are intending to fly themselves.
Have you considered fractional ownership ala NetJets. Smallest fraction is 1/8th (at least it was a decade ago). I not sure what their smallest aircraft is.
https://www.sherpareport.com/aircraft/aircraft-overview/costs-embraer-phenom-300.html
Cost of Ownership
A new Embraer Phenom 300 has a list price of $8.76m. The cost of a used plane ranges between $7.0m and $8.7m.
The total cost of ownership per year of the Phenom 300 is $1,505,487, including market depreciation of $350,200 or $2,030,787 including book depreciation of $875,500. Both figures include fixed costs per year of $343,380.
Compare that to a 1/16th (50 hours) fractional ownership purchase price of $562,500 through FlightOptions and $580,000 for a share through Executive AirShare. The monthly management fee at FlightOptions is $7,532 and the occupied hourly rate is $1,566, which gives an annual cost of $168,684 (or $3,374 per hour) plus fuel surcharges and taxes. NetJets also offers the Phenom 300 in its fractional fleet.
Soo, able to burn a quarter to half a million a year without fretting (or able to fake not fretting over the rate of burn).
Yup.
You don’t have to be a billionaire. Just need to be in a business where owner’s time is more valuable than travel costs. And make sure the jet is an business expense.
Oh for fuck’s sake:
White-tailed deer in Ohio first in the world to test positive for COVID
So we need to mask the deer now!
That’s it! Shut the planet down. Bambi has the vid. It is all over.
I know this is the Guardian Angels dude and all that, but this was really well done.
I liked when he waved the cop away.
I wonder how a guy with severe mental health issues migrates from Guyana to the US (assuming it was legal and all). Also, it’s tragic to see a grown man weep, knowing he is in such trying circumstances.
Yes, well done. That was essentially my job at the mental hospital. Even if they got violent we responded by restraining them, not fighting them.
One thing….the red berets always made me more than a little suspicious.
How many people who find themselves suddenly evicted will DeBlasio offer to let live with him rent free?
DeBlasio is a true commie.
“What is mine is mine, what is yours is mine.”
In local news, at the start of this whole COVID thing thing a local woman was killed while giving out packages of food at a local school. She got crushed between a Tesla and a BMW as the cars were waiting. The real working poor. The husband is now suing the school because there weren’t enough safety precautions. I dislike everyone in the story except the dead lady.