it's even got a fancy sweeping second hand ooooooh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 10:21 (three years ago) link
oh shit!!
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 10:52 (three years ago) link
I remember when I finally noticed that
― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Rrose (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
If it was a snake it would have bit me.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
I probably only became aware because the time displayed at the top of my POS iPhone will get hung up and then suddenly jump 2-3 minutes ahead to the correct time so I stopped paying any attention to it.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
Both the clock app thing and the Tre/Trey/Trip thing are blowing my mind. And I'm a third, though my preferred name has little to do with my legal name.
I've known one or two Chips...short for Charles, is it not?
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
Juan is a name traditionally used for the first born.
― Alba, Thursday, 22 April 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
Joseph Smith never actually made it to Utah.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 22 April 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
Hugo Boss is not a contemporary guy. He got his break making uniforms for the Nazis and then died in 1948.
― Josefa, Friday, 23 April 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
Super Fly (1972) was directed by the son of the man who directed Shaft (1971). If only Gordon 'Trey' Parks III could've directed a seminal blaxploitation film in 1973 to complete the circle of life.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 April 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
Are those pun names for bands still popular? Because Trey Parker Jr. would be a good one.
― pplains, Friday, 23 April 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
The "taka taka taka" dance that Dr. Evil does in the first Austin Powers movie is the macarena.
― peace, man, Saturday, 24 April 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
that shit band KONGOS is made up of four sons of John Kongos
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
Hiding in plain sight
― Alba, Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
that Elmlea isn’t cream.🤯
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:55 (three years ago) link
cool i can start eating it again
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link
I always thought it was kind of strange that we have a metal door that goes from our kitchen into our garage, until last week when some friends car spontaneously caught on fire in their garage and the metal door prevented the entire house from being destroyed.
Everywhere else I've lived were outfitted with wooden doors, probably before this was part of the building code
― joygoat, Sunday, 25 April 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
That happened to someone I knew and it wiped out the animal sanctuary next to the garage, ouch. Luckily the garage was away from the house. Did any US houses ever actually have a set-up like Dan Tanner's in the stupid cop show Vegas, where he'd essentially park the car in the kitchen?
― john p. coltrane in hot pursuit (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 April 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
ooooh. i didn't know this either about the metal door thing
― Nhex, Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
Oh man. We don’t have a metal door but we also don’t have a car.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
Slapstick comedy gets its name from a thing called a slapstick which is used in theatres to make a slapping sound.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 26 April 2021 10:11 (three years ago) link
The etymology of the word 'cockpit' is thus (leading on from a conversation with someone about the origin of 'dashboard', which I think is detailed upthread somewhere):
The word cockpit seems to have been used as a nautical term in the 17th century, without reference to cock fighting. It referred to an area in the rear of a ship where the cockswain's station was located, the cockswain being the pilot of a smaller "boat" that could be dispatched from the ship to board another ship or to bring people ashore. The word "cockswain" in turn derives from the old English terms for "boat-servant" (coque is the French word for "shell"; and swain was old English for boy or servant)...From about 1935, cockpit came to be used informally to refer to the driver's cabin, especially in high performance cars
― john p. coltrane in hot pursuit (Matt #2), Monday, 26 April 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link
I can't remember where I read this now, but further upthread... That 'cockpit' originally referred to a space reserved for cockfighting and was adapted to denote the area of a ship where injured crewmen were taken (and which was often a bloody mess, resembling its linguistic forebear).― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Wednesday, October 3, 2018 6:13 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 April 2021 11:10 (three years ago) link
Maybe I need to recall the things I was shockingly old when I learned, although re-learning them over and over again is quite fun
― john p. coltrane in hot pursuit (Matt #2), Monday, 26 April 2021 11:30 (three years ago) link
And every high school symphonic band's percussion section needs one so that they can play "Sleigh Ride" as written.
See also the vibraslap, which is used exactly once in the score of "Godspell" and then languishes in the closet the rest of the time.
Specialty percussion instruments have a bittersweet air to me because they could someday cease to exist physically. It's easier to just trigger the samples, rather than lugging a cuica and berimbau and surdo and afuche-cabasa around town.
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 12:11 (three years ago) link
Likely my least-favorite bit of any song ever.
― pplains, Monday, 26 April 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
bada duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh DUHSH-MACKduh duh
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
I always thought they just slapped someone's face really hard during that part.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
whhhhhhiiinnnNnNNYYYYCLoP cLOp CloP clOP CLopSH-MACKduh duh
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
I have always wanted to have someone in an Indiana Jones costume, using a bullwhip, for that part
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfasru1i9I
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
"Specialty percussion instruments"... a recording engineer I know has a closet of these, and calls it 'the money maker' because bands waste so much time messing around with vibraslaps and shakers and triangles and whatnot
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 26 April 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
ngl, I loved it when bands like REM threw a bunch of random percussion shit into their tracks back in the 80s
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 26 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
it was very much a thing in college rock at the time
the finger cymbals in "In Your Eyes" are dope af
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
Cuica in "The Obvious Child" too
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
I found a Vibraslap at a thrift store for $3 a year or so ago. It's in my collection of stuff I used once or twice then put away.
― nickn, Monday, 26 April 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
I am pretty sure I have one somewhere. Behind the bouzouki, underneath the autoharp, or perhaps next to the spare bodhran.
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
I learned what a cuica was last summer when I finally googled "beastie boy straw sound lighten up" and the second result was an ilx thread: songs with the straw going through the plastic lid sound
― joygoat, Monday, 26 April 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
I tend to forget every ten years or so and google "drum that sounds like a monkey."
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
Someone around here once started a thread about those kinds of percussion instruments.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 April 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
Hate that thing; I said this a while ago "(a horrible Brazilian instrument that sounds like a rat trapped in a tennis ball can; Airto Moreira polluted several early 70s Miles Davis albums with this thing)" and I stand by every word.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 26 April 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
(Now I feel dumb because I said "Obvious Child" above; I should have said "Me and Julio" instead. My penance is that I will now go lash myself with a rainstick)
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
Lou Bega's real name is David Lubega
He was born in Germany, and currently lives in Berlin
He is half Sicilian, half Ugandan
He actually sampled 30 seconds of an 40s instrumental mambo called "Mambo No 5"
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
wut @ all of that, thank u 4 breaking my brain
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:52 (three years ago) link
One of the classic blunders.
Never get into a battle of wits with a half-Sicilian/half-Ugandan when death is on the line.
― I said maybe, you're gonna be the one that shaves me (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:11 (three years ago) link
or a even a battle of half-wits
Chrysalis Records was named after its founders, Chris and Ellis.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
There have got to be a lot of things like that. Like Ikea, et al.
See also the vibraslap
I was driving around with the windows down last week. I wish I could remember the song, but whatever I was listening to, as I passed a crew working on concrete with a jackhammer, the jackhammer (rapidly fading in volume as I passed) synched up *perfectly* with the song like a giant, loud vibraslap.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link
For a long time i used to think that whenever someone said the weather was humid, I just thought they meant it was too hot. I blame this on my actual belief that these people also thought that humid just meant hot.
And if I'm totally honest, even though I now know what it means, I wouldn't be able to tell you if the weather was ever too humid or not.
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link