Things You Just Don't Care About

So they say.

I find that music theory people are often of the opinion that if you don't understand music theory and/or can't play an instrument then you can't really truly appreciate music and your opinion on music is therefore of less value than theirs.

I dunno, it's helped me in my marriage that my husband can explain that he likes, predominately, songs in major keys ... i.e. it helped me not immediately go to "You don't like this song?! What's wrong with you?!"

xp i'm not a carpenter but i know a wobbly chair when i sit on one

Night of the music theory people

my problem is: i have probably read a million classical record liner-notes and booklets and histories and my memory of everything i have read is about...0%. it just doesn't stick. i have never played an instrument though. (third grade violin and guitar doesn't count.)

there are about a hundred ways to appreciate music and every one adds value, grateful to any critics who get this.

i laughed reading the notes to one of the most amazing southern indian carnatic dance music CDs that i own the other night - i love the sections that remind me of kurt schwitters and din daa daa - when they said that one of the sections in the performance is relatively new to the form because: IT WAS ONLY 700 YEARS OLD! haha. so, now i just read liner-notes for the jokes.

The TV ratings for the World Series. Every single goddamn year they mention how the network execs are quaking in their boots if there’s a small-market team or they’re breathing easy if there’s not a small-market team. You never ever hear this shit for any other sport’s championship. Like fuck off and let Arizona fans enjoy their moment.

Tbf, I think the execs also threw up their hands in despair when the Denver Nuggets made the NBA Finals.

Mr Snrub otm

time for mark s to start a podcast!

first guest: scott seward
first topic: the phrase “a new york minute"

I would 100% listen to this

whatever the hell this "Beatles' last song" is

I knew someone would chime in.

Rob otm.

I just don’t care about AI generated art. Maybe I should? But it’s so ugly and obvious at the moment I can’t bother caring about it’s ramifications

AI art sucks balls

AI art should not even be called art. It should just be called illustration.

Artificial intelligence? More like real stupidity!

Counterpoint is that the technology is advancing so fast this is kind of like saying "well THIS room isn't burning at all, it's totally fine right now, who cares". Not that I'm motivated to make an argument about it aside from pointing out that any posts about the current specific state of AI (ugly and obvious) are going to age really badly by like say next week or something.

any posts about the current specific state of AI (ugly and obvious) are going to age really badly by like say next week or something

Oh, is that the cutoff for when dipshits are going to stop typing in prompts like "the Mona Lisa, but with anime girl eyes and huge tits" and paying to have the results advertised on social media?

not at all, those images are just going to get 10x sexier by this time next Friday

Go f a GPU

the AI art was the worst part of the 2022 ILM poll

AI art should not even be called art. It should just be called illustration.

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As a human illustrator I kinda take offense.

Since you've got more skin in the game than I do — although as someone who writes things I care deeply about (record reviews, books) and things I don't care about at all (draft letters to health insurance customers), I can have some limited perspective — what do you think is the right term for AI-created or -assisted illustration to differentiate it from entirely human, artistic illustration?

“Imagery”

“Dumb crap nobody wants to look at”

“Bullshit”

I gotta give AI “dumb bullshit nobody wants to look at” credit though, at least it ain’t those cursed AI animations.

Also Omar otm. It’s not polite to complain about a small part of free work being done for your benefit, but now that we are a year removed, whatever. That AI art was the worst part of the rollout

Click below for some truly disturbing content
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxIcPi1ra08/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Or don’t

I have written a lot of things that are in the public domain (by design) and historically I haven't minded seeing my words floating about without attribution. Once I was pleasantly surprised to recognize myself translated into Spanish. That stuff was done by people.

Perhaps irrationally, I have a very different reaction to someone who uses an AI that takes from a corpus of work that includes mine, then passes it off as their own work.

The AI would have no fuel in its engine without the millions of squishy human people. It is entirely dependent on us and the stuff we have done so far and been brave enough to put out there.

This is, of course, all part of the AI debate, and it's such a losing battle that I may as well shrug and just try to adapt.

Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte

Any movie Ridley Scott has made since Blade Runner

(ope, sorry, since Thelma & Louise)

The director's cut of The Counselor is really good; otherwise, I'm with you.

the martian, american gangster and a good year are all year all worth catching

Hannibal is less boring than Blade Runner

I just got out of a Napoleon screening. It's fine if you think Phoenix should play him like Commodus.

he's only got one emperor in him, is that what you're saying?

Joaquin contains multitudes.

he's commodious, if you will

Andre 3000 new age spiritual jazz

colorized photographs

Green Day changing the lyrics to their song to poke fun at MAGAs.

Poking fun at Magas in general. Low hanging fruit

Ferrari, Maestro, Elvis, Priscilla

the mid-20C can fuck off for awhile tbrr

the furniture can hang around

Whether or not Rishi Sunak has broken promises on small boats.