The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • There’s no real set workflow, or agenda, or trajectory as a piece gets to its end state. It’s a whole range of different ways. Usually it starts with some kind of crystallized seed of something, like a melodic hook or some motif, or a chord change or something, that I take and then work on really physically, and push things, and improvise over and pummel and invert and use all the techniques I have of manipulating sound to push that little seed into something that blooms or transforms into something more substantial.

    Tim Hecker said this.

    Maybe I'm just being pretentious, but I sort of approach my own work in the same way, so I'm glad I'm not the only person who does it.

    Well actually I should clarify that I'm not sure if I'm interpreting "physically" the same way as he is,

    but otherwise it's quite similar.

    Granted, Mr. Hecker and I make vastly different kinds of music, but still.

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    Interesting (for AU and CA, anyway): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324616604578302400900039118.html

    In short, Time Warner wants to sell all of its magazines except Time, Fortune and Sports Illustrated to Meredith.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    It seems like Meredith is hell-bent on gobbling up every magazine out there

    (also, fucking hell I wanted to buy Time Inc.)
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Sunn Wolf keeps shouting things that I find intriguing. It's very strange.
  • Owwwwww my throat.

    I really want to eat but it hurts.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Know that feeling. Sucks.
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    Anonus said:

    It seems like Meredith is hell-bent on gobbling up every magazine out there


    (also, fucking hell I wanted to buy Time Inc.)
    It kind of makes sense; who reads actual, printed magazines anymore? I bet the major buyers are places like doctor's offices (so you have something to read while waiting for your appointment), people who prefer printed copies, and people in places where Internet access is not allowed (i.e. prison).
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Do you think the digital demand for magazines will ever get very big?

    Honestly I'm thinking that now that media consumption is converging towards "second screens", the diversified media conglomerate makes more sense now than it did 20 years ago...
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    AU: I actually don't know. I know the publishers have been pushing tablet versions of their magazines for a while now (and a few only have tablet versions, which is silly because of all the people on PCs and smartphones), but I have no idea how many people actually bother. I don't have a tablet, myself, so I guess I'm missing out.
  • edited 2013-02-13 17:14:24
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    so this game seems pretty cool 

    If anyone else can recommend other Flash games to me, I'd appreciate it. It's time I got back in the habit of playing them. :)
  • do you take recommendations for free downloads too?
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    might as well take all the recommendations I can get while people are still offering them to me
  • get Shoot First, it's a top-down shooter/roguelike hybrid and it's fun as fuck. Also there are leaderboards.

    if you have a slightly more capable computer, get Path of Exile too, it's for fans of Diablo and/or Torchlight especially.

  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    Thanks for the recommendations, Lazuli. I'll put them on my mental "to do" list.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    i just got some books

    yay
  • I gotta do stuffs and then go to work

    so bye, Heap.

  • edited 2013-02-13 18:09:27
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Super-late thoughts on Johnlock

    my feeling is that it's kind of problematic because it's a product of an earlier era, a repressive and homophobic era, while not in itself being repressive or homophobic.

    Like, keep in mind that it's a ship that predates not only Sherlock (the TV show), but also tumblr and Internet fandom as a whole.  It's a ship so well-established that it's been the subject of a not-insubstantial amount of academic criticism which is more than can be said for most ships.

    And it's an understandable ship in a way because there is no character in the original Sherlock Holmes stories that Sherlock shows more affection towards than Watson.  Of course Watson is married and there's no suggestion of Sherlock being gay in the original books, and what the books depict is a platonic/homosocial relationship with no suggestion of sexual activity, but then for a very long time there was no favourable representation of homosexual relationships in fiction, so shipping and fanfiction kind of evolved to meet that need.

    So my take would be that Moffat and Gatiss are not queerbaiting by playing to the shippers, so much as catering to the expectations of a very large segment of the existing Sherlock Holmes fandom, and they're not the only ones to do so; Guy Ritchie did the same in his adaptations, for instance.

    So the kind of arguments on tumblr about whether the characters are gay or straight and whether expressing an opinion one way or the other is indicative of bigotry or not look to me to be an ugly byproduct of a deliberate ambiguity in the way that the characters' relationship is written, which is itself a product of a clash between two cultures, the queer culture of the oppressive, repressive 20th and late 19th centuries on the one hand and the modern social liberalism of Moffat/Gatiss/tumblr on the other.

    idk, just my thoughts on that.

    Largely unrelated to the above, it is a pretty catchy ship name, although i don't ship it.
  • Just beat Link's Awakening. I'm surprised how legitimately sad that ending was.
  • edited 2013-02-13 18:35:08
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    It was surprisingly bleak, as well.

    Did you get the perfect ending?  (It's different on the DX version, and hits harder imo.)
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Just a note on something from the previous conversation: "Yaoi fanbitches" is an excellent slam.
  • Headache. Burnt throat.
  • 2, 1-2-3-4.

    The only girl I ever loved
    Was born with roses in her eyes
    But then they buried her alive
    One evening, 1945
    With just her sister at her side
    And only weeks before the guns
    All came and rained on everyone
    Now she's a little boy in Spain
    Playing pianos filled with flames
    On empty rings around the Sun
    All sing to say "my dream has come"

    But now we must pick up every piece
    of
    the
    life we used to love,
    just
    to
    keep ourselves, at least enough to carry on
  • so there are like three girls at my school who like me

    how do i deal with this information
  • start a harem
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    do what I do: nothing
  • but i want a girlfriend

    i think???
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    image

    How is it that I feel spergier looking at my twitter followers than I do looking at me friends on HH
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Kexruct said:

    but i want a girlfriend


    i think???
    in that case, you can do something, I guess.

    (romantic pursuit is not my natural inclination, you can probably guess that)
  • i'm confused

    i've never known of a girl who liked me before and i don't think my personality is suited to the subtleties of romance
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    http://www.wtop.com/1228/3224193/Heart-Attack-Grill-fan-dies-of-heart-attack

    I don't think I need to explain the irony here...
  • i don't really think that even counts as irony
  • edited 2013-02-13 21:14:49
    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."
    Speaking as someone who eats a lot junkier than he really should, that food sounds a little too heavy for me even for just one visit. I couldn't imagine eating there every day.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    image

    Awesome.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    "welcome to New Jersey, population: your face"
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    New Jersey

    The western part of the state is in the Delaware Valley
  • edited 2013-02-13 21:43:51
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    image

    This is beyond any definition of awesome there is.

  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    image

    20 STALKS
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    I wonder why there's so many cheap local-insert ads for "tax help" places now. As in, "Are you in trouble with the IRS? We can help!"

    Are there that many people out there that haven't been paying their taxes? 
  • 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'm gonna do it

    I'm gonna watch Madoka

    wish me luck
  • edited 2013-02-13 22:32:04
    Good night everyone. Strange to say, but with any luck my fever will stay.
  • image


    holy


    shit


    i need to see this
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    Also, the latest Scroogled ads make me wonder if Microsoft has hired the same assholes that do Comcast's radio ads. :P
  • Kexruct said:

    so there are like three girls at my school who like me


    how do i deal with this information
    Option 1: Kidnap them, drag them off into the woods and have them fight each other to the death for the honor of your love. Great if you want to improve your supervillain status.

    Option 2: Take their pictures, put them on a dartboard and throw a dart. Whichever one you hit, you date. Very avant-garde.

    Option 3: Use your system of surveillance cameras to monitor them for a week. This'll allow you to make an informed decision.

    Option 4: Find out that you're not a good match for any of them. Respectfully tell them that you're not interested and cry yourself to sleep. A personal specialty.
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