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Paul Wesley

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  1. That Gillespie county story is troubling for a lot of reasons, the biggest of which is law enforcement's failure to even acknowledge that there might be a problem. I guess we'll see what happens in November, but that part of Texas has effectively chosen to no longer be a democracy.
  2. I caught a few minutes of his show tonight... which is about all I could endure without my head exploding. His audience was told repeatedly that it has turned out that there were absolutely no classified documents there, and the government's case has been proven 100% false. It was pure disinformation delivered with seething rage. I'm not sure how long a democracy can survive this poison being injected on a daily basis by the "news" network with the widest viewership.
  3. Agreed. I think it’s kind of cool to listen to demo versions of songs that turned out to be great. In one of the Stones documentaries you can watch them rehearsing “Gimme Shelter,” and it’s a bit of a train wreck. I’ve heard unused takes (probably on YouTube) of “Seventeen,” and it feels slow and uninspired. You would never predict that all those parts were about to get really amazing.
  4. So I worked night shifts at a grain elevator off 225 on the ship channel, and I was told this story as part of a warning that cars that got shoved down the tracks are surprisingly silent, so never ever walk around on the tracks. This was probably around 1990. But seeing here that a couple others heard this story makes me wonder it it’s an urban legend (?).
  5. The fab filter gates are f*cking fantastic (everything they make is arguably best-in-class). I think Eric Valentine gets incredibly energetic drum sounds, and he’s 100% transparent about what he does. It’s been a couple years since I watched this one, but it’s really interesting. Try the demo versions of the fab filter gate and the sound radix phase tool and see what you think
  6. I align the kick mics to one another and that’s it - it seems to me that the snare and kick mics are all gonna be gated, so they’re rarely triggering at the same instant. And the overheads and rooms are likely going to have some/all of the low end rolled off. I don’t bother with aligning room mics either. Of course, I’m a hack and not a mix engineer. I’d be curious to hear your opinion if you try it.
  7. I think there might be tools that analyze the whole kit (multiple signals), but that soundradix one just compares two mics and gives you the optimal alignment. You can go as crazy as you want with it. You're probably at least going to align kick in and kick out, and then use the snare top as the reference for the rest of the kit. snare bottom to snare top ride overhead to snare top hat overhead to snare top then use the overheads as reference and align each tom to its closest overhead. Once the tool gives you the optimal alignment, you can leave it on the channel, or go ahead and process/print it with its new phase. That probably sounds like a lot of work, but once you've settled on which takes you're keeping as the drum track, you can phase align a song in 10 or 15 minutes, and likely save yourself WAY more time than that when you'd be trying to make the kit sound great. It's a pretty cool tool.
  8. G650 and jimmyjazz, have either of you tried this-- https://www.soundradix.com/products/auto-align/ Obviously, it's no substitute for 1) well-tuned kit, 2) drummer who can play, or 3) great-sounding room. And it can't fix any of those three things. But it gets your mics in phase really quickly (flipping the phase of a mic is to a phase alignment tool what a horse-and-buggy is to an F1 race car).
  9. I have a dream. A tank named "muledick."
  10. It's unbelievable, right? I mean, you have to *really* misrepresent her words and then squint at them real hard to pretend they were something offensive. Even the title of this thread is misleading. She wasn't "talking about Mexicans." In a sentence where she was PRAISING the Latino community, she said it was "as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio." But rest assured that Fox News will bat this around to its talking heads every hour for several days, letting them take turns expressing their (fake) outrage, and then once they have repeated that talking point of pure propaganda enough that it has registered in all their viewers' brains, they will make passing reference to how Jill Biden is a racist for the next decade (and the audience will nod along). Like you said... incredibly weak. Meanwhile, there was a congressional hearing yesterday featuring testimony from Trump's closest advisors, and they collectively described a highly coordinated effort to gather armed right-wing white supremacists in Washington for the very specific purpose of overthrowing democracy. Fox News - America's singularly largest news media organization - might mention those hearings only for the purpose of mocking and dismissing them. This country is in trouble.
  11. "Joe Biden's open borders caused these human smuggling deaths" -- it's such a fucking illogical argument. It was jibberish when Abbott tweeted that in the hours after it happened, but then Ron Johnson had a few days to think about it and made a commercial with that message. It's so profoundly stupid.
  12. You're still fixated on that, huh?
  13. The fact that Griner's case is becoming widely discussed - it puts an incredible amount of pressure on Biden to make a trade for someone in America who was a Russian asset. None of us knows if she's guilty or not, but the Russians absolutely have us over a barrel in this situation, and public opinion will pressure Biden to make a deal that's extremely favorable to Moscow. If I were Biden, I'd try to trade her for Trump, seeing as how Trump is such a fucking sycophant to his "genius" and "very strong" and "very powerful" daddy.
  14. Yeah, you get to "felony" very quickly, and the legal system treats you like a dealer and not like an end-user. In Texas (also in Russia).
  15. Props to you, hulla. A couple years ago, my wife - who is very supportive of anything I do musically - wanted to buy me a pedal steel as a gift. I had to tell her that I appreciated her confidence in my ability to pick up another instrument, but those have a pretty steep learning curve, and I'm not sure I had the grit or the hundreds (?thousands) of hours it would take for me to become proficient. I'm glad to see you taking the plunge. Bravo.
  16. All of this. Very few people have ANY idea how many mentally ill people with hostile demeanors and threatening statements (identical to “kill everyone”) come into contact with ERs, social workers, law enforcement, and mental health clinics EVERY DAY. A big % of these antisocial people say and do these antisocial things while drunk, while in the throes of a meth-induced psychosis, and while in the midst of an argument with a family member. The idea that a DA could (or should) successfully bring charges based on testimony of a cop or a nurse or a social worker… the idea that it’s remotely possible to identify which persons among this ocean of antisocial assholes is *really* dangerous and then lock those (and only those) tens of thousands of people up for years is ABSURD. It’s preposterous, and the only people repeatedly offering it as a solution are people who have already taken things off the table like: 1. Civilians do not have a constitutional right to military weapons that are designed specifically and with the utmost intention of killing humans, killing them really quickly, and killing a LOT of them very quickly. (edit: I decided to just stop at 1.) tl, dr: “Lock up mentally ill people” is a stupid distraction that has 0% chance of working. So do what the rest of the motherfucking world does: don’t indiscriminately sell military weapons to the public.
  17. “Who We Are” is on Netflix, and should be required viewing. It’s a history of white supremacy in America, told through a lecture cut with numerous real-world interactions. As a movie, it drags in a couple places, but it also has several powerful and memorable moments- like visiting the site of a slave auction and looking at leg irons designed to fit a small child (could any object be more immoral than that?). I think it is important to hear his statements at 1:12 in the trailer.
  18. It wasn't until I got old enough to travel around the country a bit that I realized that every state had their own version of white trash rednecks.
  19. One of the comedians on the last Sarah Silverman tour did a bit based on this. He was doing some crowd work, and asked a woman in the audience if she had any books at home that she bought but hadn't read yet. Then told her, "Throw them away! If you didn't read them in May of 2020, then YOU ARE NEVER READING THEM."
  20. Good analysis. They had to take something very boring (someone protested) and reeeeeaally misrepresent it in order to manufacture a story where the scary left threatens the law-abiding right... even though nothing like that happened. "Unrest Sweeps America!!!!!" It reminded me of this story which is just covered in bullshit from start to finish: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/nj-mom-forced-vaccine-family-wedding-er Actual story: Previously vaccine-denying woman CHOSE to get vaccine in order to go into New York City and attend a dress fitting. She got the expected side effects (headache). She went to ER as if this were an emergency, where I promise you the staff rolled their fucking eyes as they sent her home. And now she's fine and also far less likely to die from covid. That's it. That's the entire (non-) story. Fox story: Woman with high degree of medical training (bullshit) conferred with her doctor who agreed with her not to take vaccine (bullshit), but forced to take it by oppressive laws (bullshit), got "blazing headache" (snowflake bullshit) and high blood pressure (article strongly implies vaccine caused lifelong hypertension, which is complete bullshit), all described in the first paragraph as "medical emergency she never imagined" (you never imagined getting a headache from a vaccine? And you are somehow held up as a person with advanced medical expertise? bullshit). And then concluded with editorializing "mandates are bad," which is NOT supported by the story AT ALL. Also, let's put a picture up of a woman in a wedding dress, smiling after enduring this unimaginable horror (bullshit). If you consumed no news at all, you'd be better informed than if you drink down this manufactured-outrage nonsense.
  21. DellSeton hospital on lockdown
  22. It just kills me to read all the knuckleheads referencing Chris Simms as though Simms was a bust. Simms was 26-6 as a starter... which is #5 in all-time wins at Texas. Simms is literally up there on the list with Vince Young, Colt McCoy, and Bobby Layne. Without the Simms commitment and the momentum that it brought to our program, we likely don't subsequently land a bunch of the guys who won two Rose Bowls and a national championship. I know it's folly to speak truth into a deafening hurricane of stupidity... but it is just SO FUCKING STUPID to mock the signing of Chris Simms.
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