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Bring and Brag / Another way to pass the time

« on: January 08, 2021, 08:18:03 pm »

I spent the winter holiday break staying the fuck inside, and finally got bored enough to re-explore some of my music school lessons.

I ended up writing some neo-modern chamber music.  Enjoy.


https://earfatigueproductions.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-chamber

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Apple Talk / Truly, a wonderful time of year.

« on: December 22, 2020, 09:45:17 pm »

https://youtu.be/qGwludVZ4jo

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Aneristic Illusions / Bad Apples

« on: June 16, 2020, 04:54:52 pm »

Before I go through the grueling, depressing, and somewhat Quixote-ian leg work, maybe I should ask.

Does anyone know of a database that tallies all of the awful stuff the cops do, and has a running list of "Bad Apples"?

I'm just thinking it would be handy when someone uses that useless phrase, you can turn around and say, "we're up to 10,000 bad apples, Karen.  You think we should start shopping at a different grocery store?"

Obviously, some rounding will need to be done, like "all the cops allowing the use of tear gas in Seattle after being prohibited from doing so" will need more of an estimate.

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Bring and Brag / "Exquisite Corpse" music project

« on: May 18, 2020, 07:25:55 pm »

Hey all,

I was involved in an online music project where one person posts a basic track online,  then musicians add a track without listening to anything the others are doing, and finally several different people try their hand at mixing the tracks together.  Here's the Round One results.  It's fun, because the first two are reasonably representative of each person's contributions, but the third one "(Eno Lawsuit Mix)" really manipulates the source tracks.  I'll let you guess who did that one

https://soundcloud.com/user-580155380/sets/round-1?fbclid=IwAR0HY2F7RQKOI_PfHRCYpGxfA7P1sGKVp-GtzlTMICtT7SC-boDcNpqQz4A

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Apple Talk / DSPN Presents: World Cup 2018

« on: June 14, 2018, 04:18:25 pm »

Welcome to the World Cup discussion thread!

(for those of you who care)


First up, Saudi Arabia vs Russia.  What a conundrum of who to root for!  The election meddlers and Crimean annexer vs the oil barons and supporter of Wahhabism.

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Propaganda Depository / NSA Propaganda Art

« on: June 06, 2018, 02:58:30 pm »

Check out these recently declassified propaganda posters from the NSA.

I see no reason they couldn't be remixed/repurposed.



PROCEED WITHOUT CAUTION.

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Apple Talk / Futuristic Troll Bait

« on: April 06, 2018, 02:25:14 pm »

Transhumanism is the only way to resolve the abortion debate. When gestation can be separated and a pregnancy occur separate to the body there can be an anti abortion pro-choice movement. Granted the child would not have parents, but it can pull itself up by the bootstraps or whatever.

That's me trying to create things for the people of tomorrow to be outraged over.

You get the picture. 

"It doesn't matter what they're doing, calling it 'grey goo' is nano-shaming.  Don't be an AIdoomsdayphobe."

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Apple Talk / Opinion time!

« on: February 27, 2017, 08:21:36 pm »

I got a bunch of these BLM patches made, and I'm not sure if "Black" being presented in white letters is a faux pas. Thoughts?

LMNO
-most likely overthinking this one.

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Aneristic Illusions / Political lyrics

« on: January 26, 2017, 12:42:52 am »

Ok, maybe wrong subforum.

But, I'm in a political punk band. We're against Trump. Duh.

I want to make a song that is about gerrymandering. But I don't want to be preachy, and I don't want to be sardonic.

I want it to be catchy, and informative, and pissed off.  Not sure where to start.

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Apple Talk / A New Theory Regarding The Fermi Paradox

« on: December 02, 2016, 04:31:46 am »

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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Turning Purple

« on: November 10, 2016, 08:36:04 pm »

If someone says something offensive about an idea you have; and you tell them they're offended; and they respond by being offended that they're being called offensive; then what?

Added degree of difficulty: What if you want to convince them to help you with your idea?

Big Boss: What if it's half the voting public you're trying to convince?

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Apple Talk / Pagan or Racist?

« on: August 22, 2016, 08:38:51 pm »

So, the first temple to Odin since Christianity rolled in was consecrated in Denmark.
http://spangenhelm.com/valheim-hof-denmark-dedicated-odin-gods/

I have a couple of pagan friends who are really excited and want to go.  However, they're most likely completely oblivious to the whole White Power/Odinism connection.  I can't find out much else about the temple, so I don't want to bum them out just yet; however, if it is a WP front, I feel I should really let them know.

Anyone hear anything about this?

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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / I wanna be a student, too!

« on: June 16, 2016, 03:46:44 pm »

So, after much hemming and hawing, I've registered over at www.complexityexplorer.org and signed up to take a course in Dynamical Systems.  Supposedly, it only requires high school algebra.  We'll see.

Looking to get the feel of this under my belt, then taking more advanced courses.  Not sure what it will lead to, but it'll look pretty bitchin' on my resume/CV.

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Aneristic Illusions / Guns and Guns and Guns

« on: June 16, 2016, 02:29:36 pm »

So, I know that PD has a minor split over gun control.  I'm conflicted about it myself.

Anyway, I kind of loved the Democratic filibuster.  Only took 8 years to find their balls.

But the bills the GOP agreed to hear sort of underscore my conflict.

I think closing the gun show loophole is a good idea.  But the one about barring people on the terrorist watch list from having guns bothers me, for the main reason that the watch list is horribly maintained.  Cain would probably have the most relevant links on that one.

What also bothers me is that a lot of people on my FB feed are like, "we won!"  No you didn't.  The Dems forced congress to hear and debate and vote on the bills.  Which means a party-line vote, which means the bills will most likely not pass.

But still.... progress?

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Aneristic Illusions / ITT: We take complex ideas and accurately meme them.

« on: June 15, 2016, 05:09:41 pm »

Like so:

via Imgflip Meme Generator

(h/t QG)

So the idea is to start with a complex, nuanced truth, and then work it so none of the complexity is lost, but it still works as a meme.

Please note that no single person needs to have the idea, the complexity, and the reduction.  Any one of the three will work.

Aaaaaand, go!