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Paul Wesley

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  1. We can agree/disagree on whether or not we like him, sure. But he is, IN FACT, lending credence to Powell (and to election conspiracies in general) throughout the video you posted to show how he's *not* doing that exact thing.
  2. Did you actually watch that video? I'll grant you that the headline sounds like Tucker is calling out Powell. Keep in mind that at the time of that piece, pretty much EVERY news organization was mocking Giuliani and Powell for their unhinged and completely unsupported claims of a vast anti-Trump election conspiracy. Everyone, that is, except the right-wing media bubble, which at that moment was surging toward OAN and Newsmax thanks to the seemingly irresistible lure of having your own world view reinforced and feeling like *you* are special because *you* know the real story. So yeah, the headline looks like he's calling them out, but if you watch it, it's pretty much Tucker being Tucker. I only made it through the first 5+ minutes (which is about 4 1/2 minutes longer than I can usually tolerate his firehose of bullshit), but he REPEATEDLY defends Russia. Paraphrased: "social media is more dangerous than Russia ever was," and also "Look at the silly news media saying that Giuliani was targeted by Russian operatives... Those morons are so stupid to see Russian conspiracies everywhere." He also FLAT OUT STATES THAT WE DO NOT HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY, explaining that a "billionaire class" controls the media (which is a head-exploding level of hypocrisy). Anyway, just fucking stop with the idea that Tucker is anything short of a Goebbels-styled propagandist who relentlessly 1) undermined faith in American institutions (as he does in that video), and 2) inexplicably and almost invariably repeated pro-Russian talking points (as he does in that video). edit: he also repeatedly gives Powell and Giuliani credit for "raising questions" and he repeatedly legitimizes their fucking lunacy. In other words: That video most definitely does not vindicate Tucker Carlson in the way you seem to believe.
  3. It's crazy, right? The most popular host on the most widely-consumed American news media was - for YEARS - a mouthpiece for America's geopolitical enemy. But a third of Americans will either never get that fact delivered into their bubble. Or if they do, it will be "both sides!" in the same way that they get all their fucking news... just pulling a random hypothetical example here, but say maybe the wife of a Supreme Court justice takes an active role in overthrowing American democracy while her husband flat-out lies on his financial disclosures, fails to disclose some shady real estate deals, and does this while claiming decades of 5- and 6- figure yearly incomes from a corporation that doesn't really exist. BOTH SIDES!
  4. Y'all sound fantastic.
  5. Same chord shape in "Man on the Moon." Also: proof that you can get 2.7 million subscribers despite one of the worst-sounding acoustic guitars I've ever heard.
  6. It would have been interesting to see what happened to the Centaur prices (my guess: nothing).
  7. Looks nice, Celery, though I like your pics more when you just sort of accidentally have the Matchless there in the background, like “Oh, *that* old thing?”
  8. Here's a custom shop Thinline from an era when they were putting out some magnificent instruments. Nice color. Birdseye maple neck. Only 12 made. Seems like a competitive price. https://reverb.com/item/51054528-fender-custom-shop-thinline-candy-apple-red-1994 DAMN that is tempting. I have a Wurlitzer 200A that might sell for close to that, and that would be a no-brainer upgrade in my book. Looks like it was separated from its Strat mate. Here's a still-together set of those 12 pairs of identical guitars for 30K: https://reverb.com/item/67053528-fender-custom-shop-matching-set-thinline-strat-and-tele
  9. Good looking instrument. I love P90s on a semi-hollow guitar.
  10. Never seen that before, but it made me smile... Axl had exactly *one* dance move, and by God, he was fucking doing it... mid tempo, rocker, barn-burner, slow ballad, whatever... Here comes the Serpentine, people. In fairness, it was exactly one more dance move than Tom.
  11. sidis turned me on to "What makes this song stink," which is a pretty great series. He did an episode on Train, and had a hard time picking which song to feature...
  12. Bill at Austin vintage has always done me right
  13. I remember seeing him sometime in the early 90's - maybe it was an ACL taping. I told the person I was with, "There's really no reason for me to own a guitar."
  14. Have you considered a cheaper hobby, like breeding quarter horses or climbing Everest?
  15. Yeah, K&M makes higher quality stuff, IMO.
  16. I mean, that could be a flagrant and Nunge is doing his "who, me?" Jabbar act
  17. Yeah, 5 fouls to 1 this half is some bullshit.
  18. Looking like we're gonna need some quality minutes from the role players - Morris, Cunningham, Mitchell.
  19. Carr has to settle down and quit forcing wild shit with 15 seconds left on the shot clock
  20. As a sound, it's just a muted attack and then instant decay, so that the notes have no body. I think they're getting used more for modern pop - Harry Styles, Taylor Swift - and a ton of indie bands... making guitars sound like plucked harps or like less obnoxious banjos or even just putting enough delay/verb on it so that it seems like a synth patch. It's appealing to me because anything that forces me away from familiar chord shapes and chord sequences -- it's a great way to come up with something new. So I'm anxious to try to write some modern pop stuff with it. I'd like to hear what an envelope filter would do with those little plucked notes, I'd like to see what it does if you played a really gooey, wet part that's heavily modulated like Duran Duran "Come Undone." I'd like to see how it takes delay pedals, especially those that degrade the original signal with multiple repeats. I want to hear how a POG octave pedal treats those body-less transients. I'd like to try all of those things that I just mentioned into a talk box. I don't know what it would do into a muffroom cloud, but I'll bet it's a sound you haven't heard a lot of. Here's the thing: It might be an experiment where every dish turns out to be a big shit sandwich. I still wanna live with it for a few days.
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