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Celery Man

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  1. I don’t know when I decided i didn’t care that much about guitar acrobatics, but it was high school at least. It can be fun but I don’t care that much, and I’d pick songwriting talent over instrumental talent every time. playing in a band, I think we fed off of our lead singer’s insecurity - he’s a shitty musician and a shitty singer so he’d go crazy and climb the rafters and swing the mic and come out in a Halloween costume and OK that’s the deal - we’re putting on a show whether the music is good or not. I think we did have enough talent to come up with parts and duct tape them together into songs with very little idea of what we were doing. The first time we worked with a real producer who pointed out where our hooks were and applied labels to the different parts we repeated and made suggestions about why did things a certain way or why are we even doing this part (…. yeah we all hate it, it’s just that’s where we play it? We don’t have to?) was a revelation. I’m all about the little tasty hook nuggets and getting the proportions right. Not saying I’m great at it, but I love little melodies and counter melodies and trying to find a way to always have something you could whistle happening somewhere.
  2. new dale sounds like dale doing a comic book store guy impersonation
  3. I tried a few different things before settling on wayfarer style frames back in college. My first pair of actual ray bans were buried at sea in Lake Travis, although it's possible that wherever that was is no longer underwater. The next pair (black, green lenses) is 10 years old and are in my glovebox as my backup shades. I bought a pair of tortoiseshell/brown lens wayfarers maybe 2 years ago when I temporarily misplaced the other pair, they remain my primary sunglasses. I think I slightly prefer the brown lenses, although really you just adjust to whatever you're used to. I think we're supposed to hate luxotica and feel strongly about the corporate structure about sunglass manufacturers, but I don't really care. I can perceive no difference whatsoever other than color between my old pair and my new pair.
  4. I always want to do YTTV because it is so much better than Sling. And then Sling has some stupid deal that makes it much cheaper. So, I'm hoping that Sling in fact does not have a deal this year.
  5. Saw it today with no awareness of what it was at all. They could have taken 40 minutes out and it would have been better. I enjoyed it but won’t think about it nearly as much as Midsommar etc. for the above, I did think they did a good job of having her continue her psychotic rambling to nobody in particular back at the house - yeah it’s a stretch but as a joke, the idea that they simply take the crazy online lady and put her in makeup and a skirt and she’s a Boebert is a good gag. And it did seem very clear to me that Lou’s dad was her abuser.
  6. It’s also an issue that “facts have a liberal bias” has gone from some smug asshole thing to say to a real problem where you can’t present both “viewpoints” while adhering to any of the core principles of journalism.
  7. Effortless fit man we had some great weather today. Impromptu park picnic, I can’t wait till fall
  8. This season to me has felt pretty close to classic Sunny.
  9. Now do just a little bit of critical thinking, you are so close.
  10. If you’ve never viewed any of the Crash Course series, they are really great. I always mean to use those in an annual resolution, or just start chunking through them until I’ve watched them all. This computer science one is particularly great for “non-technical” folks working in tech or tech adjacent roles. https://thecrashcourse.com/courses/
  11. Moved the strap up from the base of the headstock to between the 1st and 2nd set of tuners. The balance is a bit better for me.
  12. I hope she plays tot to go.
  13. I’ve started doing this and I think it might be the equivalent of an old man hiking his pants up to his nipples
  14. Exactly, which of part of the insanity of the idea that PBS is somehow harmful to poor people. It’s a free public benefit, it is the least biased source of reporting, it is arguably the only free educational media where your child is not the product. I don’t see why HBO or Netflix or whoever can’t do Frontline, and I guess they make some similar content, but PBS does that thing better than anyone and the lack of a profit incentive is surely part of it. It’s important and it is good, unless your definition of good has been so heavily corrupted that you put child rapist stickers on your car or you espouse libertarianism as if it comes from a moral high ground. Let’s tear down the libraries too. And of course the schools and universities, which is the plan. Welcome to Costco, I love you.
  15. If Ana listens to KUT in the car alone, does him explaining how much smarter he is than other people even make a sound?
  16. PBS kids is the kinda one refuge of “if you need to pull the screen lever, at least it’s safe”. We really don’t iPad except on planes or long car trips, but we uninstalled YouTube - you get them set up with whatever innocuous thing and then 2 seconds later who knows. On PBS Kids you can at least buy 20 minutes without someone trying to sell your 2 year old corn syrup.
  17. Exactly. It’s a whole philosophy.
  18. It’s almost as if capitalism run amok in the media and the church has created an environment where millions of people look to an atheist rapist of children to learn what Jesus wants them to do. But at this point sure let’s do this and continue free marketing the schools, get real weird with it.
  19. because the idea that free markets bring the best solution or even a solution to every problem is fantastical silliness. the government has a role in promoting the public good.
  20. Victories like this make it easy to forget that you voted for a child rapist.
  21. \m/ just popping in for Correa excitement
  22. Jesus Christian or American Christian?
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