View Full Version : Random Thoughts Thread
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 04:18 PM
I mean, if some here really wanted to know where you live, I'm sure it could be found out
but, and take no offence to this, I'm pretty sure no one cares that much
canaki
May 6th, 2018, 04:22 PM
would it be very bad to reveal that we're all actually robots?
We have both bots and zombies. We're a very diverse group, aren't we?
- - - Updated - - -
Uhhhh.
- - - Updated - - -
I'm holding my shoulders.
If you're really worried, you could log onto the IRC server but not join the channel at first, register your nick, get a vhost, then join the channel.
That way, even if someone somehow was your mortal enemy secretly lurking as one of the regulars of the channel, you won't risk showing what internet provider you use.
Strife ❤️
May 6th, 2018, 04:26 PM
Or just don't worry about it, who cares about your IP address being shown lol
canaki
May 6th, 2018, 04:31 PM
If the IRC server can't resolve(?) your hostname, it shows a part of your IP address instead of your host, but that's just a part of it, something that looks like ihw-[random characters].[random characters].[3 digits].[3 digits].IP so I think that's not enough information to people to track you down just from IP.
Apple
May 6th, 2018, 04:36 PM
(She's the one telling me to explode)
- - - Updated - - -
(and being called a chad doesnt help!)
But what earned you the moniker
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 04:44 PM
just
never
ever
ask uncle I3uster for advice
the tags are a lie
mAc Chaos
May 6th, 2018, 04:45 PM
did he get you a gf zurvan
I3uster
May 6th, 2018, 04:47 PM
to have an analogy im pretty good at teaching kids to minigolf and zurvan asked me for pga tour advice
canaki
May 6th, 2018, 04:49 PM
Mini-golf, tours, they're all the same to me.
Zap zap zap.
Strife ❤️
May 6th, 2018, 04:49 PM
Is Apple good at mini golf now?
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 04:50 PM
did he get you a gf zurvan
no
he'd wish he had that power
I3uster
May 6th, 2018, 04:51 PM
im but a pale shadow before the true masters
Apple
May 6th, 2018, 04:58 PM
Is Apple good at mini golf now?
No
Although thats more my failings as a shitty performer than the instructor being bad
- - - Updated - - -
to have an analogy im pretty good at teaching kids to minigolf and zurvan asked me for pga tour advice
Aw cmon don't be so modest
SeiKeo
May 6th, 2018, 04:59 PM
golf in singapore o.o
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 05:00 PM
Perhaps you should stop lurking in the shadows, and get up on this pedestal you made
Apple
May 6th, 2018, 05:01 PM
golf in singapore o.o
Is true, it exists
It is at MBS, i used to exploit my lunch breaks to run past it
i should start again
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 05:03 PM
Why would you stop "mini-golfing"
SeiKeo
May 6th, 2018, 05:05 PM
Is true, it exists
It is at MBS, i used to exploit my lunch breaks to run past it
i should start again
wanna go back QQ
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 05:10 PM
Every starplayer needs to practice every course, just like a baseball player should practise every base
okay thats a bit on the nose
Apple
May 6th, 2018, 05:11 PM
Yeah literally home run once and never work up the nerve to do it again
Frostyvale
May 6th, 2018, 05:19 PM
Singapore has no space for a proper green.
But that merlion was the shit.
Spinach
May 6th, 2018, 05:19 PM
> "OMG im ironically a lolicon u guys xddd or am i???"
>ironically appropriating my culture
Kill HIM
mAc Chaos
May 6th, 2018, 05:20 PM
it was painful spinach
Apple
May 6th, 2018, 05:23 PM
Singapore has no space for a proper green.
But that merlion was the shit.
Since when were you in town
Frostyvale
May 6th, 2018, 05:49 PM
From 1999 to 2004. Mahjula singapura and all that good stuff.
SeiKeo
May 6th, 2018, 05:52 PM
translate the anthem to english msga
Spinach
May 6th, 2018, 05:55 PM
I didn't realize you guys wanted to learn golf. I can teach you, I'm pretty good.
I3uster
May 6th, 2018, 05:58 PM
I actually played real golf for a school sports week but never again cuz >price
SeiKeo
May 6th, 2018, 05:59 PM
I didn't realize you guys wanted to learn golf. I can teach you, I'm pretty good.
I know of it.
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 06:10 PM
Mini golfing with friends was such a blast
ah, nostalgia
SeiKeo
May 6th, 2018, 06:10 PM
Zhang Ziyi Ryougi Shiki Jet Li Araya Souren
Spinach
May 6th, 2018, 06:30 PM
I thought golf was a metaphor for getting girls nvm
Actually last time I golfed I golfed to par so I'm good at that too nvm
Snow
May 6th, 2018, 06:31 PM
Zhang Ziyi Ryougi Shiki Jet Li Araya Souren
Come again?
SeiKeo
May 6th, 2018, 06:33 PM
Ok I'm not committed to the Jet Li there
Snow
May 6th, 2018, 06:36 PM
Ziyi notably emotes in her acting so idk bout that either.
SeiKeo
May 6th, 2018, 06:41 PM
They gave Shiki a budget of one emotion per movie
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 06:44 PM
I didn't realize you guys wanted to learn golf. I can teach you, I'm pretty good.
I believed in someone that told me this once
are you different?
Snow
May 6th, 2018, 06:45 PM
I like the OV emotion
Mcjon01
May 6th, 2018, 07:18 PM
I didn't realize you guys wanted to learn golf. I can teach you, I'm pretty good.
My dad tried to force me to golf with him but I never had the patience and just ended up resenting the experience. Mini golf is cool, though.
- - - Updated - - -
Oh, but the time I went golfing with scotch whisky and weed was pretty fun.
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 07:41 PM
was the second golfing golfing, or "golfing"
LegalLoliLover
May 6th, 2018, 07:42 PM
Had my first sake, but I'm a slow drinker, so I'll probably be going through that bottle for a while... When do the horned people come?
I3uster
May 6th, 2018, 07:52 PM
thread already full of horny people
LegalLoliLover
May 6th, 2018, 07:57 PM
ed not y
Zurvan
May 6th, 2018, 07:58 PM
what if they're both ed and y
Five_X
May 6th, 2018, 08:06 PM
what if they're both ed and y
What if they're Ed, Edd, and Eddy?
LegalLoliLover
May 6th, 2018, 08:24 PM
what if they're both ed and ySo... Shuten?
Spinach
May 6th, 2018, 08:32 PM
I believed in someone that told me this once
are you different?
Yeah
Mooncake
May 6th, 2018, 10:49 PM
Talk to each other and try to reach a meaningful conclusion to the conversation before your pants come off
well
Spinach
May 6th, 2018, 11:08 PM
I cannot cast a stone of blame upon you, brother
Mooncake
May 6th, 2018, 11:45 PM
praise be unto thee
- - - Updated - - -
for thy understanding and acceptance
Five_X
May 6th, 2018, 11:50 PM
Let he who is without Spin cast the first stone.
You
May 6th, 2018, 11:53 PM
Let he who is without Spin cast the first steel ball.
fixed
Mcjon01
May 7th, 2018, 12:00 AM
was the second golfing golfing, or "golfing"
Let me tell you about the time I scored a hole in one (but in the wrong hole)
Arashi_Leonhart
May 7th, 2018, 12:05 AM
nathanfillion.gif
Sunara
May 7th, 2018, 12:10 AM
They decided to try to hide a corner of the break room behind a curtain....
Its bad enough as it is....
without the jokes that will follow....
but through a co-worker's Freudian slip, it is now known to me as the "Gender Appreciation Room"
- - - Updated - - -
Had my first sake, but I'm a slow drinker, so I'll probably be going through that bottle for a while... When do the horned people come?
Ssh. They are already here but they hide their horns. Because it is uncivilized nowadays to show your horns in public.
mAc Chaos
May 7th, 2018, 02:22 AM
mac watches konosuba.png
mAc Chaos
May 7th, 2018, 02:32 AM
mac watches green cheek conures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9a5Ybo4BA
Apple
May 7th, 2018, 02:36 AM
The worst part about having professional artists who know your face linked to your social media is that your brain starts ringing internal alarm bells every time you want to do some mighty public shitposting
mAc Chaos
May 7th, 2018, 02:37 AM
i havent been able to shitpost for like 10 years on my real accounts
we corporate now
Zurvan
May 7th, 2018, 04:21 AM
And that kids, is why you have secrets
Spinach
May 7th, 2018, 06:24 AM
So damn thirsty that I woke up at 5 instead of my intended 6:30, feels like I just ran a gauntlet through LA in July.
Mcjon01
May 7th, 2018, 07:02 AM
Don’t go to Louisiana
Spinach
May 7th, 2018, 07:47 AM
I agree
Mcjon01
May 7th, 2018, 09:17 AM
I cleaned one room up real good yesterday, and another today, and only now — far too late — do I realize I was never cleaning at all and all I’ve accomplished is moving all my garbage into a pile in the kitchen.
Spinach
May 7th, 2018, 09:33 AM
My suggestion: put the pile of garbage in a garbage bag of the appropriate type and get it outside of your house and into a dumpster
Dullahan
May 7th, 2018, 09:40 AM
Never have a face.
Mcjon01
May 7th, 2018, 09:41 AM
Good advice thanks
Canon
May 7th, 2018, 10:10 AM
My suggestion: put the pile of garbage in a garbage bag of the appropriate type and get it outside of your house and into a dumpster
For some reason I always forget the second stage and the garbage bag then sits there until my next cleaning when I move it into a bigger garbage bag along with new garbage
Five_X
May 7th, 2018, 10:13 AM
Never have a face.
Steal them instead.
Strife ❤️
May 7th, 2018, 10:14 AM
Never have a face.
You've got one.
Dullahan
May 7th, 2018, 10:24 AM
I wish I didn't
Historia
May 7th, 2018, 10:37 AM
yay, freetempo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqmhdcHsSeY
Spinach
May 7th, 2018, 06:41 PM
Guys how do I GF?
Mcjon01
May 7th, 2018, 07:02 PM
Just don’t overthink it, I’m sure you’ll be a wonderful girlfriend
Spinach
May 7th, 2018, 07:08 PM
Thanks your advice worked
mewarmo990
May 8th, 2018, 05:24 AM
993660250963111937
you've been hit by
you've been struck by
a smooth striminal
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 05:30 AM
aniplex are you okay
I3uster
May 8th, 2018, 05:35 AM
cuz im a striminal
way before the rap shit
Dullahan
May 8th, 2018, 05:39 AM
all these striminals are gonna start a youthquake
I3uster
May 8th, 2018, 09:22 AM
I'm actually surprised it went down to 69% because I'm pretty sure when I was a kid it was closer to 99
Mattias
May 8th, 2018, 10:20 AM
That was before iTunes gave everyone an easy template to steal.
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 01:31 PM
Hey FGO fans call me when your game looks like THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ivBktSZ8yQ
Strife ❤️
May 8th, 2018, 01:41 PM
Good name.
- - - Updated - - -
Actually, hey, I like this song.
Historia
May 8th, 2018, 01:53 PM
needs more jazz
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 01:56 PM
Nothing needs jazz, the Great Ruiner.
Strife ❤️
May 8th, 2018, 02:17 PM
needs more jazz
No.
mAc Chaos
May 8th, 2018, 02:19 PM
jazz
is good
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 02:20 PM
I like jazz that has a normal song structure but I can't with hours of turu doo dooing.
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 02:27 PM
Nothing needs jazz, the Great Ruiner.
There has never been a more offensive post on the forum.
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 02:28 PM
Thank you I do try.
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 02:29 PM
I've noticed.
Zurvan
May 8th, 2018, 03:19 PM
Thanks your advice worked
Congratulations?
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 03:21 PM
*washes ur dishes and makes u dinner*
Ehehe I'm such a good gf
Zurvan
May 8th, 2018, 03:33 PM
but do you wait inside with just an apron on?
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 03:46 PM
A denim one, but yes
canaki
May 8th, 2018, 03:51 PM
Do you ask the classic question of "do you want dinner, a shower, or... me? (〃∇〃)"
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 04:05 PM
Do you ask the classic question of "do you want dinner, a shower, or... me? (〃∇〃)"
I've been rehearsing it all my life just for this.
SpoonyViking
May 8th, 2018, 04:08 PM
Hm, people must be thirsty!
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 04:22 PM
I cured my thirst, I only have hunger.
Zurvan
May 8th, 2018, 04:36 PM
Hm, people must be thirsty!
I'm not sure why the thread isnt called Thirsty Thoughts
Five_X
May 8th, 2018, 04:41 PM
There has never been a more offensive post on the forum.
No post has ever hurt me right in the hurtiest part of my heart like that did, I'm actually upset.
Time to listen to jazz to soothe my wounded soul.
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 04:44 PM
I just don't like the rambly sort of jazz.
Strife ❤️
May 8th, 2018, 04:47 PM
Team no Jazz: Me, Snow
Team Jazz: Spin, Five
Join the cool kids
Nikiri
May 8th, 2018, 04:51 PM
Jazz is good
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 05:07 PM
I have never been more giga tilted than when someone called me a hipster for liking jazz.
IT COMES FROM MY FUCKING STATE
THERE ARE A MILLION JAZZ BARS DOWNTOWN IN MY CITY
Zurvan
May 8th, 2018, 05:08 PM
Good thread name mod
mAc Chaos
May 8th, 2018, 05:11 PM
im hungry
mAc Chaos
May 8th, 2018, 05:12 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pudD3Pm_mf4
good jazz
SeiKeo
May 8th, 2018, 05:17 PM
I have never been more giga tilted than when someone called me a hipster for liking jazz.
IT COMES FROM MY FUCKING STATE
THERE ARE A MILLION JAZZ BARS DOWNTOWN IN MY CITY
Just because you live with hipsters doesn't make you not one.
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 05:18 PM
HIPSTERS JUST PICKED UP MY WAY OF LIFE FUCK YOU
SeiKeo
May 8th, 2018, 05:21 PM
Oh yeah and I bet they just 'picked up' BBQ too right, what a coincidence
Mattias
May 8th, 2018, 05:27 PM
Jazz is great. It always has the most fun sax parts.
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 05:28 PM
https://i.imgur.com/GMyfSA2.png
Nikiri
May 8th, 2018, 05:29 PM
lol
rip leo
Rafflesiac
May 8th, 2018, 05:33 PM
I was looking for Leo's Unironic Saxophone for a bit
- - - Updated - - -
Also Jazz is Good.
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 05:33 PM
You can't just banish a human!
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 05:34 PM
You can't just banish a human!
He's a cat, not people.
Five_X
May 8th, 2018, 05:34 PM
Jazz was rapidly and thoroughly adopted by the Japanese, and like all things thus produced, is immanently excellent.
Second only to blues.
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 05:35 PM
Second only to blues.
Another invention of the powerful South, you're welcome. Tennessee exports the strongest American culture. Jack Daniels and those honey-sweet Blues.
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 05:37 PM
Kpopalypse oppar is my religion I trust him
SeiKeo
May 8th, 2018, 05:40 PM
Another invention of the powerful South, you're welcome. Tennessee exports the strongest American culture. Jack Daniels and those honey-sweet Blues.
hopefully your music is better than your booze lmao, got ya
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 05:41 PM
Kpopalypse oppar is my religion I trust him
Not gonna lie I read about 2/3rds of that article and realized my palms were bleeding from how tightly I clenched my fist
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 05:43 PM
He's dreamy...
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 05:46 PM
hopefully your music is better than your booze lmao, got ya
left gave me the worst avatar on BL for a while there but I appreciate you saving me from that
- - - Updated - - -
who renamed thred
SeiKeo
May 8th, 2018, 05:47 PM
Can't bant your way out of Paitent Zero
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 05:49 PM
who said that was bants i lowercase and drop punctuation to make the point that im serious
Historia
May 8th, 2018, 05:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD1WwCWFmLw
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 05:54 PM
https://youtu.be/kowfLIRpQaU
Get edumacated
canaki
May 8th, 2018, 05:57 PM
Wow I wasn't expecting Tokyo Jihen on BL. \o/
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 06:00 PM
Hm, I always thought TJ were quite well known
- - - Updated - - -
Demo did play them in a review. Demo reviews, a relic...
SpoonyViking
May 8th, 2018, 06:22 PM
I like blues, but I'm very much a layman. I'm not sure what's the difference between blues and soul, for instance.
Five_X
May 8th, 2018, 06:25 PM
Realtalk that article is really bad and misinformed, though. It over-emphasizes music as being necessarily for a broad audience, and very particularly one that enjoys dancing. Just like blues has always been a musical form emphasizing collaboration, jazz has always been an ensemble style. Jazz and blues are really fun for musicians, because you play with and for each other as both entertainment and art form. Music doesn't have to exist for the sole purpose of appeasing wide groups of people that want to dance.
The article also has a very teleological, inorganic understanding of the development of (specifically, in this case; I can't speak for more broadly) jazz as form and genre. Jazz didn't unilaterally shift from one mode, to another, eliminating its descendants and predecessors as it went along; instead it branched out, with new styles emerging according to different popular tastes. Different types of jazz existed for different people; swing remained and still does, as did ragtime, bebop, bossa nova/Latin jazz, and even smooth jazz. Counter to the article, jazz isn't and never was a monolithic genre, defined entirely by one method of playing, popular or not.
It also has a very strange summary of the social/cultural history of jazz, seeming to portray it as typically 'new-fangled' music that "stuffy conservative types... and parents didn't like" because it was New and they were Old. The truth has much more to do with American race relations and (African-)American musical history (something virtually swept under the rug in the article) than simply being wholly 'music' without any cultural background.
Jazz is a varied, dynamic, organic genre and musical form that, as with anything else, one can enjoy or not. However, the problem in the article lies in how it attempts to rationalize an opinion about music into a material fact. It does so with faulty evidence, uncritical bias, ad a general desire to reach a stated end and bend truth to fit that mold. There's nothing wrong with simply saying, "I don't like jazz." That's an opinion, and it's fine to have. Unless you come from a family with deep traditions of jazz, the music itself doesn't have any impact on you, personally, and how you live your life. Enjoying jazz or not enjoying jazz is not a moral or historical stand to make. The deep, and not uncommon, problem is in trying to justify opinion through pseudo-academic evidence-building. This never ends well, because it isn't a critical, open-minded attempt at furthering knowledge, but a direct attempt at bringing facts together in a haphazard way that 'proves' a point already decided on.
If you think jazz is boring, you think jazz is boring, that's that. If you try to construct an academic-styled defence of why jazz is inherently bad and in doing so deliberately misinform people, you become the bad thing. It's really, really not good. Being open-minded, thoughtful, and critical is good.
Historia
May 8th, 2018, 06:37 PM
I like blues, but I'm very much a layman. I'm not sure what's the difference between blues and soul, for instance.
Soul is funkier.
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 06:39 PM
Okay first of all it's called THINGS KPOPALYPSE DISLIKES IN MUSIC, so that should make it clear enough that he writes his own opinions, and he's not here to educate anyone. He's a dude with extensive musical background, both academic and performing, so his vocabulary in expressing WHY he doesn't like the things he dislikes is much broader, but that doesn't change the fact that it's his opinion and if anyone is high-horsey about it it's definitely not him, that's why I like reading his stuff. Idk why you expected an academic article on a dude's kpop blog where he writes about things he hates and enjoys freely but kpop in general is the sort of scene where you either learn to not take everything so butt seriously or you drown in standom with little chance of recovery so his audience is on the same wavelength as him.
- - - Updated - - -
And where did he say it's a monolithic genre he mentions like at least five different subgenres??
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 06:40 PM
But we can all probably agree that techniquefagging segment of the blog is just retarded, right
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 06:45 PM
expecting your own, correct jazz article, warmly
SpoonyViking
May 8th, 2018, 06:47 PM
I don't have a dog in this race, but that he's expressing his personal opinion and apparently doesn't take things too seriously doesn't really excuse misinformation and lack of knowledge, if those did indeed happen.
Soul is funkier.
Hm! I think I get it. Is "Son of a Preacher Man" a soul song? What about "Shake a Tailfeather" or "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"?
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 06:49 PM
Oh jesus christ
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 06:50 PM
expecting your own, correct jazz article, warmly
I'll get super for real right now.
I'm not invested enough in music as a whole to write an article on this, but I think anyone can take a moment to agree that artists becoming more technically proficient with their instruments or composition does not make music worse.
SeiKeo
May 8th, 2018, 06:53 PM
I'll get super for real right now.
I'm not invested enough in music as a whole to write an article on this, but I think anyone can take a moment to agree that artists becoming more technically proficient with their instruments or composition does not make music worse.
Look, you can't just give me an opportunity to ask what is good music wholeheartedly, and not expect me to ask what is good music.
Snow
May 8th, 2018, 06:53 PM
I think you're all taking this humorous article a bit too seriously. The blog is not for everyone so next time I link something off of it keep in mind that it might not be up your alley.
SpoonyViking
May 8th, 2018, 06:54 PM
I'm not invested enough in music as a whole to write an article on this, but I think anyone can take a moment to agree that artists becoming more technically proficient with their instruments or composition does not make music worse.
While I personally agree with this, there was that whole "three chords and the truth" thing back in the 70's and early 80's, if I'm not mistaken.
Historia
May 8th, 2018, 06:56 PM
don't want to join in on this, but, i find kpop music videos more appealing than the actual music itself, and that's just a no-no to me
tho,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgnjnNI5ktQ
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 06:56 PM
I mean obviously it's a huge shitpost, the guy is from Australia apparently
But who says I can't call a shitpost retarded
Where's the rule
Rafflesiac
May 8th, 2018, 06:56 PM
Sounds like this guy's just bad at his job
Five_X
May 8th, 2018, 07:11 PM
Okay first of all it's called THINGS KPOPALYPSE DISLIKES IN MUSIC, so that should make it clear enough that he writes his own opinions, and he's not here to educate anyone.
I can respect that, but that isn't how the article is positioned. It makes objective statements without reservation in-text of them being opinions and summarizes them as fact.
He's a dude with extensive musical background, both academic and performing, so his vocabulary in expressing WHY he doesn't like the things he dislikes is much broader, but that doesn't change the fact that it's his opinion and if anyone is high-horsey about it it's definitely not him, that's why I like reading his stuff.
Someone can have an extensive background and still be wrong, there're plenty of these in every field. Also, "Stravinsky’s dull modernist twaddle" is a pretty high-horsey and bizarre statement. Again, this article goes forward to the end of explaining why jazz is lesser as music, not as opinion. I can't speak for the history of KPop and jazz because that's not anything I've ever been curious about, and I trust the writer's understanding of that insofar as I lack knowledge to critically contradict it.
Idk why you expected an academic article on a dude's kpop blog where he writes about things he hates and enjoys freely but kpop in general is the sort of scene where you either learn to not take everything so butt seriously or you drown in standom with little chance of recovery so his audience is on the same wavelength as him.
I don't take things deadly seriously, but I do enjoy reading things critically inside and out of my actual job. More importantly, regardless of enjoyment or non-seriousness or fun or anything, this article is misinformed and makes unsupported statements of fact. People download their opinions a lot on the internet, you can't get away with that. With this sort of thing it's easy for people to read an article like this and decide to share the view expressed in whatever they're reading/watching even if it's not substantively supported and is just a pseudo-factual opinion. That leads to people spreading ideas and opinions uncritically as though they're absolutely correct, without regard for further evidence. This is a problem in published writing too, for sure, but the internet exacerbates these things.
And where did he say it's a monolithic genre he mentions like at least five different subgenres??
"By the 1960s, rock and pop music was moving into all sorts of new directions that actually made some degree of musical sense (plus a few that didn’t), meanwhile jazz was well and truly masturbating itself to death as it had mutated into “free jazz” where they didn’t even have proper chords and structure anymore" is a chiefly relevant example: contrasting rock/pop as evolving, becoming new things, with jazz which - allegedly, here - was not. This is another thing that can be noted as being factually incorrect by bringing into the argument Latin jazz and bossa nova.
I'm not writing this because I'm Serious and Upset on the internet, I'd probably be playing video games or something kinda dumb and inconsequential if I wasn't typing this. I don't get upset at things so much as I get sad at misinformation. Regardless of the title of the blog or article, in its language and structure this article positions itself as being factually authoritative. I've pointed out how it isn't, because being open-minded and critical of things you read is more valuable than just accepting them. If it's an opinion it's an opinion, there's nothing wrong with that. If you say, "I really think jazz got pretty stagnant and didn't go anywhere as a genre" then that's okay because you establish the perspective (yourself) and the proceeding relativism of the given statement.
I'm writing this because I'm a fucking academia nut nerd and also I like helping people better understand things and avoid misinformation.
Historia
May 8th, 2018, 07:18 PM
academia nut nerd
Naisu.
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 08:01 PM
While I personally agree with this, there was that whole "three chords and the truth" thing back in the 70's and early 80's, if I'm not mistaken.
That's country music.
Rafflesiac
May 8th, 2018, 08:12 PM
AKA the South's second greatest sin.
SpoonyViking
May 8th, 2018, 08:16 PM
That's country music.
I was thinking of punk rock, but I guess country also fits that.
Five_X
May 8th, 2018, 08:35 PM
As much as I despise country music from the bottom of my Canadian soul,
and this is very painful to type, okay
I
can't call it objectively awful
LJ3
May 8th, 2018, 09:50 PM
I just want to throw my hat in for Jazz bois and god bless Five and Spinach for white knighting muh music
SeiKeo
May 8th, 2018, 09:59 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx8r0wUh39o
mewarmo990
May 8th, 2018, 10:17 PM
For my first food of the day how about these mashed potatoes that have been sitting in my car for 2 days
SpoonyViking
May 8th, 2018, 10:39 PM
Sure, if you don't mind spending 2 days on the toilet.
Mattias
May 8th, 2018, 10:42 PM
As much as I despise country music from the bottom of my Canadian soul,
and this is very painful to type, okay
I
can't call it objectively awful
I can call it incredibly bland however. The only thing that sets a good country song apart from a bad one is the singers talent, since it's has such a generic melody and the lyrics are often focused on losing either a girl, a truck, or a dog.
It's not all bad, but the gems are few and far between (and often Johnny Cash).
Mcjon01
May 8th, 2018, 11:08 PM
I can call it incredibly bland however. The only thing that sets a good country song apart from a bad one is the singers talent, since it's has such a generic melody and the lyrics are often focused on losing either a girl, a truck, or a dog.
It's not all bad, but the gems are few and far between (and often Johnny Cash).
I mean I don’t want to imply that you don’t seem to know much about country music, but
Spinach
May 8th, 2018, 11:09 PM
My favorite country song I know has the lyrics "God is great, beer is good"
LJ3
May 8th, 2018, 11:10 PM
Not a joke
Sunara
May 8th, 2018, 11:34 PM
Even though I grew up here, I still find things that America (US) does weird; like inventing foods (& other things) & then claiming someone else invented them.
Shouldn't you take pride in your stuff? I understand some of it was done to make it appear exotic & thus more exciting but still...
Also, traveling light is hard when you're prone to over-packing.
Mattias
May 8th, 2018, 11:46 PM
I mean I don’t want to imply that you don’t seem to know much about country music, but
No, it's fair, I don't. After running into so much of that stuff I just stopped trying.
Five_X
May 9th, 2018, 12:05 AM
I can call it incredibly bland however. The only thing that sets a good country song apart from a bad one is the singers talent, since it's has such a generic melody and the lyrics are often focused on losing either a girl, a truck, or a dog.
It's not all bad, but the gems are few and far between (and often Johnny Cash).
No country songs about dog girls though, I see how it is
mewarmo990
May 9th, 2018, 12:35 AM
is this jazz, I don't know
but it's a pretty good trumpet boy meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn6LJl1Gnm4
Sunara
May 9th, 2018, 03:39 AM
Hmm... its probably best that we don't do office party mixers here. We have enough dirty jokes that we could get in trouble for without mixing in drunkness & management.....
But perhaps it'd help morale....
I3uster
May 9th, 2018, 04:02 AM
yesterday the world fucking ended
i wanted to just get out and chill in the sun and then the worst thunderstorm in a while had to go right over my district when i met up with a friend of mine
why this
Five_X
May 9th, 2018, 09:50 AM
That's God sending you a message, I3uster.
Specifically, to swap weather with me because I 100% love thunderstorms and the sun and heat kills me to death
Zurvan
May 9th, 2018, 10:43 AM
The weather here is actually good, get rekt I3
DarkMAN
May 9th, 2018, 11:34 AM
I have storms too! I don't mind them as long as my connection doesn't die because of it.
LJ3
May 9th, 2018, 02:56 PM
Yoooo fucking Babymetal is in Charlotte this weekend.
Spinach
May 9th, 2018, 04:27 PM
Wtf do I need to road trip to Charlotte
LJ3
May 9th, 2018, 04:45 PM
8 pm showtime at the Fillmore this Saturday
ooooh, do I have the time off work
Strife ❤️
May 9th, 2018, 05:16 PM
I've seen them in London, was pretty fun.
mAc Chaos
May 9th, 2018, 05:24 PM
new jobs -> acquired
now to choose
Sunara
May 9th, 2018, 05:24 PM
yesterday the world fucking ended
i wanted to just get out and chill in the sun and then the worst thunderstorm in a while had to go right over my district when i met up with a friend of mine
why this
There was a freak thunderstorm here too....
Sure you don't live in north cali? J/k
Sorry to hear that but there will be better days.
Mooncake
May 9th, 2018, 11:14 PM
Another invention of the powerful South, you're welcome. Tennessee exports the strongest American culture. Jack Daniels and those honey-sweet Blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtDlZdhHRCI
We'll pick one people are likely to know from him
- - - Updated - - -
listening to his songs helps a lot
LJ3
May 9th, 2018, 11:20 PM
Me and the Devil Blues
LJ3
May 10th, 2018, 12:18 AM
Wtf do I need to road trip to Charlotte
Messed up date, same time same place but on the 17th
http://www.fillmorenc.com//EventDetail?tmeventid=0&offerid=77812
FFFF sold out, wait a minute
check ticketmaster
SpoonyViking
May 10th, 2018, 01:26 PM
Rewatched "Akira" after many years. It still looks as gorgeous as ever (and the soundtrack! So good!), but I've never realised how pro-military it is. Interesting to note.
Laserman
May 10th, 2018, 04:37 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4P2N5fyqbo
mAc Chaos
May 10th, 2018, 05:17 PM
brb becoming gilgamesh irl
mAc Chaos
May 10th, 2018, 05:28 PM
hm
so this is what its like to become insane with power
Historia
May 10th, 2018, 05:34 PM
Rewatched "Akira" after many years.
Watching old stuff reminds me that I should pick up a copy of End of Evangelion--I got everything else already.
Asuka and Shinji is better than Rei and Shinji any day.
Walnut Sparks
May 10th, 2018, 05:38 PM
Kimochi warui.
Historia
May 10th, 2018, 05:50 PM
https://78.media.tumblr.com/a3c92c3cc18bdd1099942820c28a9dce/tumblr_moz4i02FzP1swjg9ao1_400.gif
Tobias
May 10th, 2018, 07:04 PM
And today, once more I learn that there is plenty of nudity to be had working the high psychosis unit of a psychiatric institution.
It is just not nudity anyone would want to see.
Mattias
May 10th, 2018, 09:06 PM
And today, once more I learn that there is plenty of nudity to be had working the high psychosis unit of a psychiatric institution.
It is just not nudity anyone would want to see.
Public nudity almost never is.
Tobias
May 10th, 2018, 09:42 PM
It is in porn! And my animus!
Historia
May 10th, 2018, 10:10 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TISVubPMeM
More anime scenes should be drawn with crayons while Asuka calls you stoopid.
EDIT: On an Evangelion marathon currently. It's been fun.
Mcjon01
May 10th, 2018, 11:55 PM
It is in porn! And my animus!
Literally the only person on the internet that actually meant to say animus and wasn’t ironically misspelling anime
DarkMAN
May 11th, 2018, 01:06 AM
It is just not nudity anyone would want to see.
I had a co-worker whose brother became a gynecologist and realized that healthy and young women are not the ones that usually show up.
mAc Chaos
May 11th, 2018, 01:13 AM
ugh god
i was eating
Historia
May 11th, 2018, 02:37 AM
what were you imagining
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 07:00 AM
reminds me of fun talk with my cousin because he also did paramedic instead of army
"so what was your first emergency buster"
"oh mine was an epileptic seizure, what was yours"
"you know what an uterine prolapse is"
"...sadly yes"
Five_X
May 11th, 2018, 10:54 AM
Wasn't there another paramedic guy you knew who had to go to a horrific motorcycle accident for one of his first emergencies or something?
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 11:01 AM
Yeah he got a guy who speeded in the inner city and got his head halved.
Good, fun work can recommend
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 11:49 AM
You know whats not fun
going golfing
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 11:53 AM
whats the problem with golf as long as you dont have to pay for it
Mattias
May 11th, 2018, 12:15 PM
Golf is great. Fresh air. Sun. Hitting things. Hiking. Making fun of your friend for his inability to get over the water hazard. Alcohol. Occasional assault on local wildlife.
Good Times.
Five_X
May 11th, 2018, 12:42 PM
Golf is good when it's not golf but indoor funtimes minigolf and you're going around the course while little kids look on in awe.
mAc Chaos
May 11th, 2018, 01:08 PM
g o l f
Historia
May 11th, 2018, 01:21 PM
when i was younger i played minigolf like competitive golf
mAc Chaos
May 11th, 2018, 01:23 PM
g o l f
SeiKeo
May 11th, 2018, 01:25 PM
g o l f
Golf.
Nikiri
May 11th, 2018, 01:31 PM
VW Golf
Historia
May 11th, 2018, 01:31 PM
gouf
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 02:05 PM
ive listened to like 4 hrs of wild boys by duran duran only interrupted by one hour of anime watching send help
SpoonyViking
May 11th, 2018, 03:16 PM
Sure thing, Buster! Just tell us, who do you need?
Who do you love?...
...When you come undone?
Snow
May 11th, 2018, 03:52 PM
I have been summoned.
Historia
May 11th, 2018, 04:40 PM
Begone.
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 04:59 PM
whats the problem with golf as long as you dont have to pay for it
My chilvarous spirit won't stand for not paying. Or at the very least offering to pay.
- - - Updated - - -
g o l f
"golf"
- - - Updated - - -
Begone.
alright
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 05:07 PM
i NEVER CHOSE THIS WAAAAAY
Snow
May 11th, 2018, 05:33 PM
My DD standom went through many ages, for the longest time I was convinced bsides were mostly better but nowadays I can see their entire opus is good.
- - - Updated - - -
They didn't do Reflex at the concert :(
SpoonyViking
May 11th, 2018, 05:38 PM
i NEVER CHOSE THIS WAAAAAY
You know, it's a cool song, but it's not even one of their best.
Here, listen to this, maybe it will cleanse your head and put some hairs on your chest while it's at it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoIeHtoy1YY
mAc Chaos
May 11th, 2018, 05:39 PM
im going golfing today
its a nice day out
lots of golf
Snow
May 11th, 2018, 05:53 PM
It actually is one of their best.
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 06:02 PM
im going golfing today
its a nice day out
lots of golf
enjoy golfing
SpoonyViking
May 11th, 2018, 06:02 PM
It actually is one of their best.
Really? Off the top of my head, I'd put "Planet Earth", "Come Undone", "Ordinary World", "Hungry Like the Wolf", "Rio", and "A View to a Kill" ahead of it.
Snow
May 11th, 2018, 06:08 PM
They're all best that's the kicker.
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 06:44 PM
i will listen to your duran recommendations as i fall asleep
i made elderflower spritzer out of this 10 yr old wine but i guess its better than using it to cook
SeiKeo
May 11th, 2018, 06:50 PM
sigh
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 06:54 PM
look she opened the bottle might as well use it and i dont drink white straight unless i have food so im really out of options here
SeiKeo
May 11th, 2018, 07:02 PM
what do you mean straight that's how you're supposed to drink wine
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 07:05 PM
i drink almost all my white as spritzer it tastes way better
the elderflower juice is just cuz i feel fancy and its a time tested combination
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 07:08 PM
what do you mean she?
SeiKeo
May 11th, 2018, 07:11 PM
i drink almost all my white as spritzer it tastes way better
the elderflower juice is just cuz i feel fancy and its a time tested combination
wait this is what you mean by spritzer
you people are a degenerate culture of the magnitude of old white women asking for white with ice cubes
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 07:12 PM
my mom opened a bottle of 10 year old wine for me to make pasta with because in her mind it made sense to use that to cook before we let a pack of mushrooms get just a slight bit worse
im p sure i told this on notes you must not have been around
SeiKeo
May 11th, 2018, 07:13 PM
Buster when was the last time I was on IRC.
mAc Chaos
May 11th, 2018, 07:13 PM
> she
> not golfing
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 07:14 PM
wait this is what you mean by spritzer
you people are a degenerate culture of the magnitude of old white women asking for white with ice cubes
motherfucker were made of wine, it mixes with sparkling water just fine
also that rhymes
the elderflower thing is still more or less traditional though technically a girly drink so im breaking the glass ceiling over here
- - - Updated - - -
Buster when was the last time I was on IRC.
that was for zurvan
mAc Chaos
May 11th, 2018, 07:15 PM
buster become a rapper
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 07:18 PM
> she
> not golfing
hey I3uster what does your mom think of golfing?
- - - Updated - - -
Buster when was the last time I was on IRC.
why did you stop
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 07:18 PM
my mom is married u sick fucks
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 07:22 PM
Don't lewd golfing my guy
mini-golfing with friends is fun and its best I meet my mother-in-law soon dont you think
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 07:24 PM
i lost track of where this golf metaphor went
SeiKeo
May 11th, 2018, 07:24 PM
the elderflower thing is still more or less traditional though technically a girly drink so im breaking the glass ceiling over here
elderflower is as dude as a g&t, my spritzer
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 07:25 PM
i lost track of where this golf metaphor went
Its exactly what you think I'm afraid
mAc Chaos
May 11th, 2018, 07:26 PM
I Just Wanted To Play Golf, But Now My Mom Is Pouring One Out For Me
I3uster
May 11th, 2018, 07:28 PM
this is payback for all the ur mom jokes i have used on blers over the years
i must accept my fate
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 07:34 PM
We can switch places if you want
Arashi_Leonhart
May 11th, 2018, 08:40 PM
you want to be with buster's mom?????
Zurvan
May 11th, 2018, 08:51 PM
as with all mother jokes
no, no I dont think so
Strife ❤️
May 11th, 2018, 11:13 PM
https://i.imgur.com/hfALipR.jpg
SeiKeo
May 11th, 2018, 11:15 PM
I'm back.
Rafflesiac
May 11th, 2018, 11:16 PM
you forgot the last quote: "Evangelion."
RoydGolden
May 12th, 2018, 12:11 AM
Anybody here play Checkers?
Historia
May 12th, 2018, 01:11 AM
you forgot the last quote: "Evangelion."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2plA37we8
mewarmo990
May 12th, 2018, 02:01 AM
Yeah he got a guy who speeded in the inner city and got his head halved.
Good, fun work can recommend
ditto
Snow
May 12th, 2018, 04:28 AM
I'd like to point out that it was the so called barbaric peoples coming in from the east that drank wine straight up. Romans attributed their bloodthirst to it. Roman drink of choice was the bevanda. Wine and water.
mewarmo990
May 12th, 2018, 05:16 AM
I like sangria. that makes me vaguely Roman, right?
Snow
May 12th, 2018, 07:21 AM
Speaking of good things HAVE YOU HEARD OF DREAMCATCHER, THE ANGELS OF ANIMETAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CMCnhaUKmQ&t=8s
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.3 Copyright © 2019 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.