Noble Dust

What did he call boats?

This is my favorite. May I suggest Donnie and the Trumps, or even better, Donnie and the Dumps. Or Donnie in the Dumps.

A few from the vault: Medium Dead - Stoner rock The Dythyramblers - Drunken blue grass Pat Mastelotto Plays An Ostinato - A cover band that plays song...

:up:

Added to my running list of fake band names.

I think that was my impression. It was a bit cheeky. He was known to write a lot of these novels under deadlines and on a wide variety of drugs, so my...

Excellent. Curious to hear your thoughts. The Battle For God: A History of Fundamentalism - Karen Armstrong

Oh, that's right. Duh.

You eat rocks for breakfast, so I'm not going to expend any energy as an apologist on pizza's behalf.

I just had possibly the second worst slice of pizza of my life. It was a veggie slice that fell apart; I had to wrap it up like a burrito. Complete sa...

Thank you. It's healing more quickly than last time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsAqIbJAHXM

I used to whittle sticks in the suburbs.

My left ear is currently fucked up as it is every so often, so I'm taking a break from listening to music until it heals, as I'll otherwise lose my mi...

Pffft

Past pukiciple.

Kelly Lee Owens, my discovery of 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4GvpNakBAM

As much as I philosophically oppose this thread, I've had this stuck in my head for the better part of two days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnTmt...

The Stand - Stephen King :groan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GbjesehRK4

Thank you. But I didn’t intend the thread to specifically be about music; my threads just tend to go there because it’s what I know the best and I use...

I haven't seen it, no; I'll check it out later tonight when I'm off work. Looks and sounds interesting.

I get what you're saying and don't disagree, but I think there's just a semantic issue here; I don't need to use the terms "form and function", it's j...

Yeah, it's a pretty advanced technique; not for everyone.

Is this how you do it in Ubuntu or something?

How so? What's an example?

I think you explained what I mean to yourself in your further paragraphs. But I didn't spell it out in the OP, so I'll try to here. Function is techni...

Props to you on that; that's something I'm very slow to keep up on. I find myself exploring older music from weird niche corners that I only know a li...

Perhaps.

Yeah that's what I meant..

:sweat: that's quite ok BC. I grew up listening to Vivaldi. Even as a kid I thought it was nice but never felt much of a draw to it. Gorecki I'm aware...

Oh sure; brawny heros walking away from expositions in slow motion.

You ever listen to Scott Walker's solo stuff? It gets pretty intense. This is the easy listening side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4t4gtrrngQ

I would gently counter that; current digital audio technology is pretty astounding. I mentioned it above, but the best software emulations of analog h...

I wasn't even consciously trying to lead the discussion that way, but I think this is possible. One issue with a preoccupation with form is it can lea...

I'm not sure what you mean by "thematic", but otherwise I think I would say yes. I wouldn't use the metaphor that innovation dries up, but rather inno...

All well and good. The point of departure for me is, despite all I've said, that an objective reality does, most likely, exist. So it would appear I'm...

Not quite? I don't like the binary question. I think individual human experience determines our perception of what we think is "reality"; why else wou...

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If I understand you correctly, I would counter that it's easier to analyze the evolution of form, not function. An analysis of function (i.e. in music...

Soundgarden in the heat of the grunge movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOqP3wj2x14 It's gnarly, dirty, and full of energy. Versus Breaking Be...

In further protest of disparate listening threads. Early Scriabin is almost Liszt meets Debussy to my ear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XGyWcuYVrg

Yes; he was one of the reasons I decided to start posting at the old forum, although I didn't get on much until this one.

The news was relayed second hand from a mod, if I remember correctly.

Even within philosophical discussions, I think "real" is generally just a term to describe the inner world of the person speaking. It's a projection o...

I believe he left the raft behind.

In protest of multiple "listening" threads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMDqMS319rw

I watch some British youtube cooking shows, so I'm familiar. Sounds great. That's probably true. There's a skit from long long ago involving "Shrimp S...

I would have joined in but my old specimen of a phone can't download it. Thanks. I just made this based on what I had on hand, which was cavatappi. Li...

Not with shrimp, no.

I feel like I've missed out on a lot of gems here recently. Anyway, Dinner: Shrimp scampi. 7 frozen jumbo shrimps thawed, s&p, breaded in all purpose ...