for me as a kid taking music history etc classes, things didn't make any sense at all til the 1900s, and I worked backwards from there.
the dude who broke my brain was Charles Ives.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkaO...
Sure thing. Lots of old muscle memory here, happy to use it for once.
One last thing: Don't mistake the stuff on the lunchtime classical radio station for The Point - that's the stuff that pays the bills.
Formal music is supposed to show you something new. Keep looking til it does.
lol stupid typing fingers don't listen sometimes.
In general, if you want something cohesive like an album, you can look into CDs from conductors who put thematically related works onto programs together. Bernstein was great at this, and is accessible.
if you like "minimalism" in the sense of airy but impactful harmonic joy over rigid structural / logical satisfaction, my personal favorite is Hindemith.
if you like the idea of Bach but hate harpsicords: Glenn Gould fixes that problem.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHCC...
if you like Big Works: Beethoven's first 3 symphonies (1800) are orderly like the music that came before it (mozart etc) but more Impactful like Romanticism.
If you want ephemeral and pretty, I like the early 20th century. Try Debussy - the Sunken Cathedral.
but I keep hearing how she was "right about everything" and America would be paradise if only we'd Pokemon Gone To The Polls for Chillary?
weird!
why specifically did you struggle in the past with this? Knowing what you bounced off and how would be helpful to know what to offer now.
Can’t wait to be a really ripped alcoholic
i am one of those people. got it from my grandfather since he was the person who literally taught me how to answer a phone.
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
a kind of weird but concrete evidence of progress:
I realized I was good enough with my pizza dough and process to upgrade from a 12" to 14" pan with the same quantity of dough.
where does one get quality thumbholes these days?
Then you don't support trans equality you Nazi fuck
People are so upset about the price of gas as if you can’t just run a car on racial slurs
There is a timeline here where the entire Maghreb and South Asia completely falls apart within a decade due to this stupid war
They’re bombing desalination plants back and forth, the US started it and now Iran is doing it too
The entire region is dependent on those to have water
I've been expecting to see this shift for a while and it is interesting to see it actually starting to happen.
Ever have a poem punch you in the soul? (You might be about to.)
WE MADE IT GUYS
the thing that is so wrong about this (and he is mind-bogglingly wrong) is that the ass-to-toilet interface is standardized by infrastructure and culture. He has never encountered a seatless toilet in his life.
Weird thing to do, but borderline worrying that he thinks he's in the majority.
Every single person going hard for AI is either a boss, a bootlicker, a Nazi, or was kicked in the head by a horse.
The Fargo Woodchippers. It’s like a baseball player was fed into a woodchipper but not really its an animated logo style.
Some of the Minor League promo team names are ok but sometimes they nail it.
The Fargo Woodchippers.
ryan grim furiously trying to rotate a peace sign so it looks like a swastika
the weird thing about this platner guy is i have yet to see a normal regular person supporting him? it's a handful of addled-brain political nutters and..? the entire thing feels astroturfed
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL. kristi noem is doing a live speech right now and doesn't know she was fired. 🚨
he had an actual nazi symbol tattooed on his chest. The word is in play because of his own actions.
You seem to really have a stake in this fight, so defend it.
Defend the nazi tattoo.
Why are you fine with it?
...platner is not a nazi just because people label him a nazi, he's a nazi because he got a nazi tattoo, was fine with it for a decade, covered it up under public pressure, but was still irked enough to leave some of the original tattoo poking out.
Pick someone else, it isn't difficult.
the shadow of a person at a railing cast into the snow covering a canal.
for me it was the nazi tattoo, but we all have our Last Straws, I guess.
if you go around behaving like you may as well be a mechanical tool of a disinformation machine, what difference does it make if you're actually real?
You've got far too much of your self-worth tied up in Winning a game you're playing alone.
