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  1. That freaking sucks. They were awesome. Great post modern ambient music.
  2. Won’t be able to do anything musical for the rest of the week but I did slide in some paradiddles, seven strokes, and Swiss army triplets for about 20 mins tonight. No Morello or Art Blakey.
  3. I tried that…didn’t go so well. ohchaucer already scolded me for it.
  4. me listening to myself yesterday afternoon (starting at 5:15): anyone else listening to me yesterday afternoon:
  5. would love to. i have to be in portland, maine for something soon and just wanted to confirm that wouldn't be an opportunity.
  6. yeah, i recognize that going from hitting youth coach pitch to facing justin verlander is a bit of a jump but one of my biggest challenges in music is patience. and i will sometimes use a mount everest as a good way to keep me patient...meaning, i know i can't do this but if i am making progress, it will get better each time and i will see it/hear it/feel it. playing something like take five feels like a good way to check in on progress for myself. but it is not...it is too ambitious...that's not a check in. that's a discourager. i need to find something else that's not achievable in my current state but is eventually which i'm not sure morello is unless i dedicate my life to it which i'm not. fwiw, i did do ten mins of flams to start. i can't help but wonder what it takes to get my legs and arms to work independently enough to play polyrhythms like that...particularly on a 5/4ths time sig. crazy.
  7. Nuge, are you in Portland, Oregon?
  8. So I did like a 2.5 hour session yesterday because my wife and kids were busy with some stuff out of the house all afternoon. I spent the first 2:15 playing along with a variety of pop and indie rock songs with fairly basic 4/4 time and some easier fills. Reasonably slow tempos like something in the way, etc. Towards the end I was like “fuck yeah man, I got this stuff. I’m making really good progress and don’t just sound like complete beginner shit.” so I decided I was ready to take on Joe Morello and Take Five by Brubeck. Gave up after about 90 seconds and thought seriously about selling the kit for ten minutes. I don’t know what it takes to get to a point where you can jump to true polyrhythm playing but I’m pretty sure I never will.
  9. as for suggesting prompts, no particular story jumps to mind but i would love it if we could do one at some point through this that requires a non-4/4 time signature. maybe 5/4 or something to force me to do it.
  10. i had to wrap this up a little early due to restraints on time this week. i did not do a songwriter submission on this one but instead, "scored the scene" per my typical style of composition. i will take a swing a songwriting in next month's prompt. i effectively envisioned the last half hour or so of rust's effort...descending through the thick clouds over moscow with a sense of peacefulness building up to a dramatic climax touching down despite expectations. but instead of it being from rust's perspective, it is from some unsuspecting person on the ground's. the early chords are intended and choir are supposed to connote a very eastern european feel...someone minding their business being miserable in the ussr. then the tremolo violin starts to build, representing the flutter of the engine and plane piercing through the cloud deck and catching the attention of our bystander's perspective...all the way down to the triumphant landing...with a small epilogue of "oh shit, we are still in russia after all the excitement." this was obviously done in logic...primarily with spitfire audio's bbc symphony orchestra. anyway, paul said we could do inside the box and this story just screamed dramatic scoring sound to me. i'll put my bob dylan hat on next month. regardless, here it is... looking forward to hearing everyone else's submissions next week.
  11. I would be pissed if Austin fucking Fc signed that scrub ass underperformer Havertz. Go run intramural track brotha. You ain’t shit as a soccer player. I really don’t understand klopp’s thinking on personnel sometimes. Unless Diaz is in the ICU, I don’t understand any moment of live play that he’s not on the field.
  12. Westlake in the house for an ND td. Not a bad way to get your first career catch.
  13. so refreshing to encounter people with reading comprehension on the football board.
  14. you seem to either a) be discussing this with someone else in your head you have constructed; or b) failed to consider the contextual basis of the conversation to which i was participating. the discussion from a couple of pages back was whether or not a ten win season was a reasonable expectation for a floor for the upcoming season. a number of posters - who apparently believe that posting useless bravado on this message board sufficiently conveys the toughness and vigor of their character - stated that anything less then said 10 win floor was a ridiculous expectation for the upcoming season. at no point did i say that we would "suck" this year. you are mischaracterizing what i said in order to project it as an extreme position. i don't know what your motivation for such a thing would be and i suppose it does not matter. but there is a significant couloir between saying that we will suck and saying that the typical preseason stupidity from the usual suspects of koolaid doused idiots (who will also be the ones who act hysterically shocked when we drop games like tech and okie state last year) is not based on anything tangible besides hope and ignores some key, specific variables at plays such as losing a game changing running back. quinn was not a true freshman. and while i hope he makes a great leap forward from his redshirt freshman year to his sophomore year, the presumption that he will do so that seems to be so popular here is purely speculative based on him finally grooming himself and losing the white trash dildo look. that's a joke by the way in case you need it spelled out. my speculation is not based only on bijan and quinn, it's on the offensive line showing no ability to dominate in run blocking, a few games of really poor pass blocking (like the baylor game discussed ad nauseam above), the defensive line's inability to convert pressures into sacks, the defensive backfield's struggles in coverage, and our head coach's long career of underperforming and consistently dropping games he shouldn't...and a consistent inability to make adjustments in-game after the first quarter. i agree with you that i will take an elite line, qb, and receiver group than an elite rb. i would take an elite oline over all of those other ones combined. you are presuming we have those things. i'm simply not yet based on the evidence. what i do know is that we did lose an elite rb and a really good rb who both made a difference quite a bit last year. hopefully those other units do become elite and it mitigates the impact of losing them. also hoping that some of the super talented guys from the last two recruiting classes can convert it to play on the field. an anthony hill or a derek williams coming in for and making major impact right away can change shit really fast. but ultimately, i can't agree that anything fewer than ten wins is an unreasonable expectation for this team. until games like at tcu, at iowa state, at houston, etc... can become presumed wins like they were from 01-09, that's not really sensible. and i have no reason to believe they are just yet.
  15. Damn, I sometimes forget how hard some people took the Falkland Islands war.
  16. It’s cosmic at this point. For them to not get a goal out of the really good play for a lot of the game is beyond frustrating. That header should have gone in and their goalie made an unreal save on it. The late goal that had the offsides was such a pretty build up and a great finish with just bad luck on the millimeter offsides. Very frustrating but they just can’t finish.
  17. We are definitely going down this year. There is no recovery…they literally are incapable of scoring.
  18. fuck everything.
  19. crazy that this fucking baby is going to make it to every single mls venue on the continent by the time he's two. congrats, koopa!
  20. no way. even a poorly made manhattan wouldn't have that foam on top despite the glass being a match. probably some randomly themed whiskey cocktail of the bar.
  21. i'm pretty sure that eric nahlin and justin wells said some unbelievably stupid shit that idiots are using as ingredients for their koolaid. i suspect the terms "grown ass man" and "now that he's healthy" were used. it is. the oline pass protection was probably the worst of the year but for most of the year, it had been better. and some allowances have to be made when you're lining up against an aranda team. i'm not putting it all on quinn but he was not very good imo. a ton of his yards came on two wide open passes to sanders by himself. but, from memory... panicking into intentional grounding/safety on the first drive. launch the ball out of bounds a mile downfield. don't dink it where there's no where close. horrible pass that missed a wide open sanders up the seam for an easy td with like 6 mins left in first half on third down that leads to settling for a fg. was a big one because that would have made it a two score, 9 point game instead of a 5 point game. he took a really, really bad sack imo in the two minute drill right before the half that killed the drive before it even started on the play hutson got hurt. with any vision on it he rolls to the right and at least gets an incompletion. i definitely won't fault him for the sack on the next play if i remember it correctly as he never had a chance but the first one could have been avoided with any effort or vision. and that first bad sack allowed them to stop the clock and get a td and the lead right before half. the really bad sack/fumble/scoop and score that was his last involved play discussed ad nauseum. they were so, so critical and other than the third bullet, they were not really objectively debatable. but i agree that the oline false starts and ridiculously bad protections did a lot to undermine his chances for success, and whittington really fucked it on one of his better plays. but it is a good example of a game that when i imagine a team without bijan robinson playing savior for the good guys, i have concerns which was my original point. and sorry to all the people on here that don't enjoy football discussions. i am certain there are some threads where you guys can trade some memes and twitter embeds about how we are unbeatable this year and shit. i will post this again to satisfy your koolaid needs.
  22. jesus fucking christ.
  23. "what's past is prologue...until the first missed check-down read against rice" -shakespeare
  24. now i'm just getting angry thinking about all that shit but the guy that got held was schematically responsible for the zone vacated by the cb. ultimately, the biggest key was the whiff. i do feel like we had have set a record last year with whiffed cornerback blitzes in which we got there but didn't get the result.
  25. do not disagree with the protection issues. but good qbs don't allow themselves to take a 17 yard sack a mile outside of the pocket on FIRST DOWN in the fourth quarter on your own 35 and a four point lead...much less do they cough up the ball for an easy scoop and score that completely smashes all the momentum you had. that is not a good game and the type of terrible decision making i was describing as tempering my koolaid.
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