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
The day may come when I no longer love John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads, but that is not this day.
Yes, I know that Rocky Mountain High is totally a "blaze it" song, but as John Denver is an integral part of the soundtrack to my childhood, it gets a free pass for me.
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
Is playing with Google Maps in public Too Autistic?
Neurotypicals like to play with Google maps as well, and, you know, if first person shooters are acceptable for public playing on library computers, then clearly Google Maps is.
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
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
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
Judge Princess Alice hereby sentences the next poster to one week in high school
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
It was either that or eat the chocolate. Take your pick.
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
These library computers actually have more RAM than my personal computer @_@
Whereas when I was at Tech in 1995, most of the good computers were in the CS labs. The library computers were all Macs (Quadras and I think a few early PPC machines), and they co-existed with old-even-then Hazeltine glass-ttys and TeleVideo 925s and 950s.
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
There's a sign on 18th Avenue outside Arps Hall that says "Access to A.R.P.S. loading dock only"
It amuses me that someone assumed "Arps" was an acronym. It's not; it's someone's surname.
This book is all like "The subordination of time's extent to object's persistence simply presupposes a deeper time in which they might or might not persist" and I'm all like OH SHIT YOU JUST TORE THAT ARGUMENT A NEW ONE" and then I want to hi-five a book.
Collecting samples that aren't weird whale noises for the mysterious whale-based EP I'm working on. It's going to be an EP now. Tell the peoples.
Something that Todd in the Shadows (yes, yes, I know, but hear me out) said in one of his recent reviews is that the power of a sample is in the re-contextualization of the sample. Anaconda's sampling of Baby Got Back is child's play; the true art lies in the likes of Shatner on the Mount or Unicorn vs. Gravity.
Right now, I've got one sample of Orson Welles saying "Call me Ishmael". I am not being imaginative and this is a problem.
I see no issue with citing Todd when he's right about something.
Incidentally, Simon Reynolds has written about how he could never get into MIA's "Paper Planes" because it took its main hook from a favourite song of his and, in his opinion, failed to really do more with it that would make it feel like a separate entity. It's called sample taint, if I'm not mistaken.
I still like Todd and watch his videos as soon as they're released.
For me, the fact that he doesn't have a "traditional" critical perspective on his topic is a huge part of why I like him. He's the closest you'll ever come to seeing an outsider perspective on American pop music from a relatively intelligent person without having to leave the continent. It can lead to him saying rather silly things at times, but I appreciate having any perspective around that helps to puncture the overly-reverent circlejerk that's most pop music criticism.
I realize that this would be considered a fault in the eyes of many people, though, so I can understand if they don't like him.
^^^ Most people naturally absorb the tropes and topics, both musically and lyrically, of pop music because it’s been around them all their lives. I think that explains, to some extent, why most people don’t rail against music that sounds objectively lacking to us. It’s just what they grew up with, and they aren’t intellectually curious enough in that area to search for anything different.
I get the feeling that Todd actively sought such an understanding because it was denied to him by his parents growing up, and people tend to crave what they’re actively denied, even if it’s bad for them.
^^^ To my understanding, he listened to almost nothing but country music until he was in college.
Hence, he had to teach himself how to have the same understanding of pop music that most people are instinctively raised to have.
He spent a long time listening primarily to country music, but not quite that much time; he's also being doing the writing about pop music thing for something like a decade now, although part of the reason that he started doing it way back then was because it was novel and kind of odd.
Mainly I like him because I appreciate when people don't make excuses for liking or disliking things for silly or personal reasons, but aren't asinine about other people's opinions despite that.
^^^ To my understanding, he listened to almost nothing but country music until he was in college.
Hence, he had to teach himself how to have the same understanding of pop music that most people are instinctively raised to have.
He spent a long time listening primarily to country music, but not quite that much time; he's also being doing the writing about pop music thing for something like a decade now, although part of the reason that he started doing it way back then was because it was novel and kind of odd.
Mainly I like him because I appreciate when people don't make excuses for liking or disliking things for silly or personal reasons, but aren't asinine about other people's opinions despite that.
Yeah, that is true. I keep forgetting that he was doing it back on LiveJournal, too. I've sometimes tried searching for his posts on there, but I never found them. If you know where they are, I would like to look at them.
On the topic at hand, though, his writing will always be shaped by his formative years being spent listening primarily to country music. That comes out in some of his opinions seeming rather unorthodox to most dedicated music fans.
I agree with you completely on your last sentence, however.
KnowYourMeme has turned into a weird amalgam of a really low-quality news site, a way to keep up with the latest reddit and/or 4chan fads, and recursive complaining
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
You know what I despise? Getting caught in rush-hour traffic jams.
Traffic jams at other times I can tolerate, but rush hour is for normal people. I'm supposed to be special, dammit!
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It amuses me that someone assumed "Arps" was an acronym. It's not; it's someone's surname.
However, he did introduce me to Automatic Man
remind me to never let that woman stick me again
now i am in a bad mood
Hence, he had to teach himself how to have the same understanding of pop music that most people are instinctively raised to have.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
this movie is really bad