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Most films should be 90 minutes or less.
Most albums 10 tracks/45 minutes.
Most books 200 pages.

what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, 15 April 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link

> Most albums 10 tracks/45 minutes.

autechre

koogs, Monday, 15 April 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link

Exceptions are permitted. Their track counts are usually pretty tight!

what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, 15 April 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link

https://www.discogs.com/Gescom-Minidisc/release/43153

koogs, Monday, 15 April 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link

Most films should be 90 minutes or less.

god i long for this

peter jackson, so much to answer for

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 April 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link

Pretty sure the only controversial opinion along these lines is 'video games should be shorter and emphasize quality over quantity'.

pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link

Jazz albums should be 5-6 tracks/40-45 minutes.
Autechre would be better if their albums were only 45 minutes long, and I say that as someone who bought that 8CD NTS Sessions box and loves it.
Books can go as long as 300 pages; after that, you're mostly just jerking off.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 15 April 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link

Most films should be 90 minutes or less.
Most albums 10 tracks/45 minutes.

OTM on films. Albums should be under 40 minutes or GTFO.

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link

I tend to gravitate to long books. But books worth reading are extreme outliers, and so what's true of 'most' doesn't necessarily apply.

jmm, Monday, 15 April 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link

OTM on films. Albums should be under 40 minutes or GTFO.

I almost put 40 but Violator is my idea of a perfectly timed album and it's 47, couldn't go too far under that.

what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, 15 April 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link

xxp
tell that to Anthony Braxton whose latest release is almost 11 hours long of "Ghost Trance Music" - weird experimental vocal music in plain speak!

calzino, Monday, 15 April 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link

Ach I hate these hard-rules for running times
Books films albums can be as long or as short as they need to be but their length (or brevity) should always be justified
In general most albums longer than 40 minutes feel too long to me, for sure

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 15 April 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link

Ach I hate these hard-rules for running times
Books films albums can be as long or as short as they need to be but their length (or brevity) should always be justified

I'm not advocating for cutting down Godfather II or anything but good christ fuck LoTR and Harry Potter for every comic book movie w/an hours worth of plot being bloated up to 2.5 hours

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 April 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link

yep

fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 15 April 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link

"Night mode" is useful and worthwhile in the context of coding in an IDE or text editor and utterly masturbatory in every other app/website/entire OS.

Dan I., Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link

Dang, white on black is so much more pleasant to me.. can't imagine ilxing without it

brimstead, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link

Most films should be 90 minutes or less.
Most albums 10 tracks/45 minutes.
Most books 200 pages.

― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, April 15, 2019 8:45 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most of these things just straight-up shouldn't exist in the first place, is my controp.

A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link

Roasted root vegetables are played out. I’m sick of that shit. Bring me a tomato for god’s sake.

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link

Fuck a tomato

don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link

Who wants to eat a whole ass tomato

don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link

it’s true 9 out of 10 tomatoes kinda suck

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link

or even half of an ass tomato

Mordy, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link

Roasted root vegetables are played out. I’m sick of that shit. Bring me a tomato for god’s sake.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 9:20 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure but what will i do for the other 10 1/2 months of the year?

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link

We need some winters vegetable disruptors

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link

Bring me a tomato for god’s sake.

otm

mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link

yes, the best vegetable (fruit) after fresh picked corn

Dan S, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link

Corn is trash. Love good tomatoes.

Yerac, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link

We need some winters vegetable disruptors

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:00 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do some quick pickling to freshen things up

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link

I've heard the disdain for corn, but I can't erase my childhood memory of the corn my father picked from the garden that we ate within minutes

Dan S, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link

the corn hybrids that he cultivated were amazing

Dan S, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:33 (five years ago) link

Pls explain pickled root vegetable, I do not understand

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link

Like pickled sweet potato? Brussels sprouts? Parsnip? I don’t think so.

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link

xpost Corn has too much post-eating maintenance. I also don't favor sweet vegetables. Or chewing things off something that I am not eating. I do like things made with cornmeal though.

Yerac, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link

Hmmm maybe this is also why I don't like popcorn.

Yerac, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link

Pickled carrots rule

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:59 (five years ago) link

re: pickling, idk if you slice any veg really thin you can probably quick pickle it. it's not like i've tried them all but i'd be open to it as an approach

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link

I’ve tried pickling a lot of different vegetables and they've pretty much all come out amazing - carrots, red/yellow onions, turnips, unwaxed cucumbers, jalapeños, green beans, okra, beets, bell peppers, cauliflower…

Dan S, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 03:59 (five years ago) link

Were the pickled jalapeños spicy?

Mordy, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:00 (five years ago) link

tomatoes are great, peaches are better. they also are the only fruit with greater disappointment potential than tomatoes, since great peaches are greater than great tomatoes, and terrible peaches are way more terrible, and also peaches have a higher failure rate.

peaches, people. this post, it grates.

Hunt3r, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link

my favorite fruit is peach and my favorite vegetable is eggplant if u know what i mean

cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:07 (five years ago) link

xp the best tomatoes from sun-drenched gardens can't be beat, but I agree that the best peaches are amazing. those sold in supermarkets today seem to be some kind of hybrid with nectarines, without the taste, the juiciness, peach fuzz on the skin, or fruit clinging to the pit

Dan S, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link

the spiciness of jalapeños is tempered by the pickling

Dan S, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link

Peaches are delicious but they've got nothing on apricots.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 08:31 (five years ago) link

Pickled beets, turnips, carrots and parsnips are awesome. Nothing like some good pickled beets.

Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link

Pickled tomatoes, cauliflower and watermelon are criminally underrated outside of Eastern Europe.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link

Let us not forget that I was disparaging ROASTED root

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link

Root vegetables. Also Rusted Root while I am at it.

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link

beaten to the rusted root ref, smdh

Boris Bronfentrinker of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link

actual lol at kitteh gag (tho, poor kitteh)

Hunt3r, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link


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