Lux Aeterna

"He joined NAMBLA"

Definitely not a mark in his favor.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 29 August 2008 00:13 (4 years ago)

There was some kind of Steampunk party in Atlanta a few weeks ago (sadly i didn't get to go). I don't know how it turned out but some hip local bands played and it sounded like some kind of cool thing. It seems to sort of fit into Etsy DIY culture and "The Dream of the 1890s" etc. Next time i hear about a Steampunk party i really need to make a point to check it out.

I do wish there were Cyberpunk-themed parties though. Maybe that's what raves are like (I've never been to one).

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 January 2013 05:28 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have a thesis about altered-scale Western music: it sucks. But it sucks kind of deliciously, these lesser geniuses trying to create a school of thought that rivalled Second Viennese School -> musique concrete & Xenakis, and basically coming up with a lot of "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy"

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/cite/

fundament666

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USA, just like Iran, except with more choices for fast food.

Strummered fundament666

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Or Just like East Germany, but with worse beer.

I have a thesis about altered-scale Western music: it sucks. But it sucks kind of deliciously, these lesser geniuses trying to create a school of thought that rivalled Second Viennese School -> musique concrete & Xenakis, and basically coming up with a lot of "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy"

― Gregory Bateson is always appropriate (sarahell), Monday, 29 July 2013 22:12 (2 days ago)

gonna give Owen a pass coz of y'know Heartland and that, but yeah this is a bit flip

This is anti-intellectual, smug conservative challops in the extreme. No passes.

?? I write altered-scale Western music, it was a comment of self-indictment.

Also if you listened to the examples posted on that thread you might agree? idk. Don't call me smug. :)

I was talking about that post, as a discrete thing. You probably redeemed yourself in my eyes later in the thread.

And sorry, I have no idea who you are or your musical background.

Think the point was that even in self-indictment you shouldn't deign to speak for everyone; perhaps your biggest crime (in my opinion) was to not elaborate on "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy" because I think that while *perhaps* a lot of this music does stem from a subconscious desire to push beyond, to transcend the meagre palette conventionally available, in manifesting experimentally this conceit, perhaps genuine and sincere expression is found. I suppose that would be your thesis, which would be very welcome on the altered scale thread. I'm also perturbed by "lesser geniuses" - subjectivity is permitted, of course, but it's a really loaded term regardless. Anyway, it's a fucken great thread and you've posted loads of awesome stuff there, which is the real reason you get a pass (from me at least)

@ sarahell, a few posts later, I explained: Just to be clear, I am posting on this thread to be proven wrong. I love extended scales, my own new music uses 24-tone tunings, primarily for saturating the colours of essentially diatonic music. I've spent the last five years buying up as many records by famous scale-doctoring composers as I can find and what I've heard has been either

great! gold star!

Anyway I thought I was posting pretty good in that thread, allowing myself a rare moment of "this sucks!" cause usually I'm always "this person is a blessing and an inspiration" on these boards :) 8) :^) :D

Again, it's just that first post that put me off!

:(

Is there a place online where i can hear your music flamboyant goon tie included?

ruining nilmar's thread and watching a fight between my bezzie m8 sarahell and a dude who wrote one of the best albums of recent years, this is toooorture

lol treeship

Wait, I figured out who flamboyant is. You used to follow me on twitter!

Used to follow? Are you Everett True?

sarahell you are a blessing and an inspiration

No my twitter name is @IWouldPreferNot. Idk why you followed me. In any case, I'm going to buy a copy of your album next time i'm at the record store.

dpurpz haf bttr live ablumz + spinoff groopz
― a-33, Monday, April 15, 2002 5:00 PM (11 years ago)

Street-Prep, w/ a dash of artpunk.

― Leon Septamost, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 08:29 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1 month passes...

7 dead

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/27/us/ap-us-apartment-shootings-florida.html

― schlock corridor (WilliamC), Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:11 (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck

― fervently nice (Treeship), Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:11 (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

3 weeks pass...

"Freshly cracked pepper?" A Poll for Culinary Finishing Touches

Drugged out teddy bears not really typical sexual fantasy. This performance seemed more about selling the effects of drugs to kids.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 16:26 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the racial dynamics of the performance were depressingly typical (i cosign everything in that article posted above), but other than that i think it was authentically weird. the teddy bears, the unflattering outfit... it seemed like a lynchian approximation of the lolita teenpop aesthetic sold so effectively by britney spears a decade ago. and i think this uncomfortable, dissonant quality was both intentional and, as adam said, related to drugs.

― Treeship, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 16:31 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There were several posts in between those two in the ot.

n.b. or whatever

Lol

That's because it was portraying a drug binge. The stoned teddy bears and black dancers were there not to titillate but to illustrate how far out she is. They are hallucinations, solely existing on stage as objects of 'the other'.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is stupid and depressing

― Treeship, Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:29 PM (9 minutes ago)

Most people are stupid. Outrage gets you attention. Attention feels good, especially when you're stupid. Most people are stupid.

― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:44 AM (Yesterday)

So I'm helping to promote an event which will 'demystify mental illness via the medium of hip hop lyrics' (couple of American neuroscientists / rappers using Mobb Deep etc) and we need a catchy, punchy tagline for the posters and Facebook pages etc.

I'm thinking that ILM can help with this on a Friday afternoon...

Suggestions thus far include:

Mentally Ill Communication
Insane In The Brain
Beats, Rhymes, and Bipolar Disorder
Straight Outta Broadmoor

There's gotta be something punnable in Eminem's ouevre, or from Roots Manuva....

Help me ILM, you're my only hope.

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 30 August 2013 13:23 (1 hour ago)

I thought the trailer was terrific...you realize that guy in it is supposed to be a douche, right?

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:10 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

[Started by how's life in June 2013, last updated 9 minutes ago by oedipaul mccartney (bends) on I Love Everything]

Breaking Bad Death Pool Poll - Season 5 - Episode 13 (Sept 8 2013)
Poll Closing Date: Saturday, 7 September 2013 01:00 (in 7 hours)

Which character is the first to die in Breaking Bad Season 5, Episode 13 airing Sept 8 2013?

Walter White Sr.
Skyler White
Walter "Flynn" White Jr.
Holly White (the baby)
Jesse Pinkman
Hank Schrader
Marie Schrader
Walter White Jr.
Saul Goodman
Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
Todd Alquist
Badger
Ted Beneke
Steven Gomez
Jack (Todd's Nazi uncle)
Kenny (#2 Nazi)
Skinny Pete
Huell
Kuby
Someone else
Nobody dies in Episode 13

― brio, Friday, 6 September 2013 17:47 (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pop is a moving target. for a period that sound and aesthetic were coming from some pretty explicitly teenpop stuff after the backstreet/britney wave left the charts. then k-pop started to be where that aesthetic ended up -- and this isn't just like a 'vibe' thing, but you can trace the producers and their careers. now we're in a place where what radio disney plays also looks like 'pop' in general -- britney, katy perry, avril, maroon 5, taylor swift (i know this because i just checked their top playlist, which i haven't checked in _years_ [if ever], just for the sake of this discussion). so of course you're not going to have as much of pop fans looking to odder places when there's plenty of straightforward pop in the heart of the charts. (in fact, at the moment, what k-pop has going for it is more its roots in 90s R&B, and the american fanbase, as i understand it, skews v. nonwhite).

can't speak regarding the thread b/c i didn't really pay attention to it except occasionally to see what ppl were excited about. but its fun to get excited about things! so if ppl seemed enthusiastic about stuff that wasn't your speed, i mean, why is that offensive? are they failing your standards for their taste? ffs.

but yeah if telling people what real music is and isn't makes you feel like a serious person then be my guest

the more I listen to the album the harder time I have deciding which song to pick

I'd like to see a poll for the 8.0+ non BNM albums of the year.

^^^

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Hey Bends, I don't know who you are, but I find it kinda weird that you decided to copy my list and comment from this thread as if they were yours:

The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

― Tuomas, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:20 (Yesterday)

Revolutions are hard...

― Ma mère est habile Mais ma bile est amère (Michael White), Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good Head - flavored lube that my girlfriend likes to use during blowjobs

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, September 9, 2013 11:43 AM (Yesterday)

oh and i have a dope ass down jacket from their j collection

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:55 (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So Breivik secures a place at university. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/12/anders-breivik-university-oslo

He did so on merit? I can't imagine his ramblings of racist lunacy were up to much.

― mmmm, Thursday, 12 September 2013 22:37 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a symbolic gesture. the poli sci department will be in contact with the prison staff, and he'll be given access to study materials and tests, after which he earns 30 credits and no degree. the key point here is that norwegian prisons are only allowed to limit the right of free movement, and other than that life in the prison complexes has to be as similar to the outside world as possible.

i thought the bump was going to be the "breivik's party part of new government" story they've been trotting out recently in foreign papers, which is ridiculous.

― et rottent land hvor nisser bor (chilli), Thursday, 12 September 2013 23:40 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If there's anything this guy needs education on, it's politics

― Ma mère est habile Mais ma bile est amère (Michael White), Thursday, 12 September 2013 23:44 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for a while I was a really big nerd, I was in band, I read lots of books, I damaged my eyesight beyond repair and broke the home computer dozens of times playing around with the resources in the system folder etc. etc. homebody geek all that.

Then I grew to 6' and found out I could run faster than a lot of people and do lots of pushups and situps and have sex for very long periods of time. Now I just read comics and watch action films.

(I also compose the occasional 15/4 drum and bass tune but don't tell my girlfriend)

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 07:20 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is this????

― twisted sister hazel dickens (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:27 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's "smang it"

― J0rdan S., Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:28 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

straight fire beautiful post

― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:33 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Record labels with female names.

lol - i feel like the aspect of the semantle thread where people c&p their results is kinda the low bar for lux levels (there are interesting things in that thread, but there is a lot of lux that is comparable to the thread map linked above)

I think I'd be more excited for a Kendrick Lamar album if I was still listening to any new hip hop, which I have stopped about the time of Untitled Unmastered. I don't think I remember anything from Damn except the annoying "Bitch, be humble" line. His number of features was also ridiculous at some point. But will be happy to listen to the new one about 15 weeks after everyone else because I still love everything he did up to TPAB.

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RIP Person I heard of but can’t remember reading at all.

Is George Santos neurodivergent?

sorry i'm late
― unknown or illegal user, Sunday, June 16, 2002 5:00 PM (twenty-one years ago)

bump

We all have a personal connection to this conflict because our governments are spending billions on arming one side of it.

― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, February 21, 2024 2:47 AM (nineteen hours ago)

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