This is another cop-out. Mixing engineers have their own version of the fourth wall, and Pensado broke it with this mix. Honest or not, the bleed reminds listeners of the technology used to record, and that distracts us from Aguilera’s performance.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Sleepless Sunday: In which Centie attempts to run on 5.5 hours of sleep in an attempt to patch her sleep schedule.
^ God I know right?
I still have to vote Obama, though, because I feel a responsibility to do all I can to keep Romney out of the White House...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Ugh, there have to have been at least a dozen of these bloody things over the past week or so. I know I rejected at least 6 myself, and I've seen at least two other mods comment on them...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I suppose I should have blacked out the email address but it's not like it matters because it obviously belongs to a spambot
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also, I never noticed before, but the clock in my tablet's status bar uses 12-hour time but doesn't include "AM" or "PM". Strange.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
So, I decided to do the I Side With thing, too.
Honestly not really surprised at my highest result. And remember how CA's said 0% Republican? Republican doesn't even show up on my results. That probably means something.
I will admit that I left a whole bunch of questions blank because I didn't know enough about the issue to comment on it. I figure it's better to be honest about that, isn't it?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
We seem to have a lot of Jill Steins here.
I wonder if that's an accurate representation of this forum's views or if the quiz is biased in favor of the green candidate.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I wonder if that's an accurate representation of this forum's views or if the quiz is biased in favor of the green candidate.
I'm thinking it might be biased, but not directly that way. There aren't nearly as many questions on environmental and science issues as there are in the other categories.
i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
I have access to your Facebook page due to the friend request you accepted from the Oscar Wilde profile I constructed yesterday. I assumed the name would hold no relevance to you and, consistency being the last refuge of the unimaginative, I typed 'Redneck wearing baseball cap' into google images to locate a photo you would identify and feel comfortable with.
Did obnoxious people go "It's like WATCHING a PUPPET SHOW" or "It's like WATCHING a COSTUME PARTY" at films before the advent of CGI when they started going "It's like WATCHING a VIDEOGAME"?
i dont think there is a green bias in that quiz. my boyfriend who is a huge Green party supporter took it and came out supporting the libertarian the most lmao
I suspect it's more that this forum mostly leans left and Stein (as a liberal) can afford to support things she knows would never actually get past Congress because there's no possibility of her actually getting elected.
Which makes sense, given that the root word is the Latin "Hispania", i.e. the area that is modern-day Spain and Portugal.
Brazil was apart of the Portuguese Empire
He's wrong, partly. The Roman name for Portugal was Lusitania; the greater region was referred to as Iberia. Hispania encompassed modern Spain. Hence, Hispanic.
Correction to my last post: Technically, Hispania did once encompass the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula. That being said, during the Republic, Hispania only really encompassed southern and western Spain as it currently exists, and the term is generally understood to refer to Spain rather than Portugal in formal parlance.
This was not the only use of the Blake-Parry hymn in such circumstances: in May 1990, Billy Bragg released his album The Internationale which included a version of “Jerusalem” as one of several songs attacking the government of the day. The comparison between the Bragg and Test Dept versions is revealing: Bragg’s is one of the simplest ever to have been recorded, consisting of his voice accompanied by a piano and perhaps the closest to Parry’s original arrangement.
The version of “Jerusalem” by Test Dept, by contrast, is an overblown and bombastic treatment of the Elgar arrangement that is most familiar to listeners from Last Night of the Proms, allowing no restraint whatsoever in its deployment of orchestral and choral effects. Without the sample of Margaret Thatcher’s speech, it would be no more than a particularly aggressive rendition of English patriotism. Yet of, course, that single intervention is what transforms the Blake-Parry hymn into a grotesque and particularly fascinating spectacle. Test Dept break the back of “Jerusalem”, split it into two parts so that the embedded nationalism of that hymn, accumulated over decades and intensified in many quarters of British society during the 1980s, is parodied by Thatcher’s triumphalism.
Billy Bragg’s aim had been (and continues to be) to recuperate “Jerusalem” as a song of the left. Test Dept’s ambition, by contrast, was to exacerbate the hymn’s totalitarian qualities, committing an act of violence to make explicit the repressive tendencies of the authorities. The combination of the first two verses of “Jerusalem” and the extracts of the Prime Minister’s speech may be read in several ways: it is possible that Blake’s text serves as an implicit contradiction of Margaret Thatcher’s words, a rebuke to her singular vision of post-imperial glory; alternatively, both work in parallel, buttressed by the swagger of Elgar’s arrangement so that the jingoism implicit in “Jerusalem” is made explicit by the Thatcher speech.
As the Prime Minister became increasingly unpopular, her moment of triumph a high-point of hubris before the coming fall, so any lingering beauty in the hymn becomes unbearable, splintered by an interruption that for the typical audience of Test Dept at the time would have provoked intensely forceful reactions. In their version of the hymn, the rhetoric of power of the state is symbolically assumed and extravagantly celebrated – taken at face value so that it cannot be ignored and, through ironic deprecation, be allowed to continue. By recasting “Jerusalem” as a nationalist hymn, there is no saving grace in hoping for salvation via an alternative (national) socialism. The atrocity is made manifest, defined as error the more clearly to be accepted or rejected.
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That is probably not good, Tools.
shit
(Answered hypothetically if I were American)
they exist + there are cool ones (cooly ones?)
topic: non videogame music that sounds like it should be in a videogame
seriously how is this not some kind of boss fight music
fake edit: lol the top comment is even agreeing w/ me
tropical island level in a platformer
i dont think there is a green bias in that quiz. my boyfriend who is a huge Green party supporter took it and came out supporting the libertarian the most lmao
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
AND did
those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.