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Mole

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  1. Can’t forget Harry Partch. He certainly fits this thread. The documentaries about his music might be more interesting than his music. He made his own instruments dividing the octave into 43 unequally tempered notes and acted as his own publishing company, mailing out records to fans. It’s hard listening, like the music the lizard people might make, but it’s worth a little time.
  2. Written one year prior to the Rite of Spring. I’ll direct your attention to about 1:55 in particular. I’m not saying that Stravinsky stole that lick, but it’s the same thing. This will be my last Ives post, but for most of the interesting developments in the first half of the 20th century, Ives probably did it first. And how about some prepared piano? There were some precedents for the technique, but not much for what John Cage did.
  3. Ives singing his "They Are They!" is a fun time. And how about Daniel Johnston for the Texas connection?
  4. Ives did most of the things Stravinsky did before Stravinsky: Ornette Coleman's playing around 1:10 always gets me and is sort of a proof of concept of the expressive capabilities of free jazz: There were some pretty hip things happening in the late 14th century. Like things that seem 700+ years too early: Whatever you think of Schoenberg, every composer for a generation either had to copy him or intentionally not copy him. The Nazis labeled it degenerate music, which tells me that he was doing something pretty compelling:
  5. Eye'm just hear four the grammer smack-tok.
  6. That Miles picture tells so much of jazz history in a single look.
  7. In this conspiracy (?) world, what should google return instead of whatever it returned? Basically, if this is amazing, what would be the non-amazing result? Also, since this seems to be the appropriate place, why is it so hard to get to various league standings on ESPN.com on a computer? It’s easy on my phone, but the computer version of the website is so hard to navigate. I’ll be back with more questions as things float through my brain. This thread is a real service to our community.
  8. It’s funny to read about what seemed important before the chaos of the last year. I mean, it’s important, but so much absurd and terrible stuff has happened since then.
  9. I have an audio version read by Gilbert Godfrey that I can’t recommend.
  10. It’s been a tough year for musicians. I appreciate Ted’s entrepreneurial spirit in creating work for musicians.
  11. Motto-worthy.
  12. As opposed to do-your-own-research.
  13. For an art form that values innovation so much, there are sure a lot of cats hanging around that think jazz ended in the 1960s. It seems like most of them are writing books rather than playing music though. It’s weird, because Wynton is criticized for being backwards looking yet anything after 1970 is seen as new. It sometimes seems like there’s a very narrow window of acceptable jazz.
  14. There’s something fitting about this and Biden’s quick and apolitical response in contrast with the Republican response. So many Texans despise AOC and Biden yet they still do it because doing the right thing matters. The Republican response has been to lie and politicize this or in Ted’s case, just bail. And none of it will matter on the long run. It’s our current environment in condensed form. It’s normal, decent humanity vs. craven degeneracy.
  15. You should all be thanking Ted. When it’s so miserable, having someone so unlikable to focus your frustrations at can be cathartic. He’s given up himself as the comic book villain to take your minds off of the death and suffering that surrounds you. It’s really quite heroic and may be his greatest moment.
  16. The Babylon Bee does a good job of satirizing the foibles of conservative evangelical culture. They know it well and do a good job of making light-hearted fun. Whenever step outside their comedic comfort zone, it turns into unfunny grievance politics pretending to be comedy.
  17. He was undeniably talented and wildly influential, but the praises I’ve seen for him (and some of the criticisms) look through a very short-sighted lens. His greatest influence wasn’t any set of policies or coherent political philosophy he pushed. His greatest influence was in chipping away at a shared, objective reality. Much like Trump, whether or not you like or hate his views is somewhat beside the point. This brand of conservatism made it impossible to have any rational public discourse. Making our opinion of these types of public figures as dependent upon whether or not you agree with their end result misses more foundational issues. In fact, it buys into the destructive ideology that Rush helped to spread. When reality is subservient to ideology, we can’t actually discuss our shared reality. There’s no real political discussion if there’s no shared reality, Yes, “both sides” do it, but one side has weaponized it to cause far greater harm. The body count isn’t even close. Rush was the spiritual father to a brand of conservatism that has caused massive death and suffering. That’s not a statement about policy but a statement about values and honesty, which have far more direct impact on our lives than any good or bad policy.
  18. I’m glad the SpongeBob look is back.
  19. I grew up in the north. I remember one winter when our fridge went out, we just threw everything in the snow on the back porch. It was a little weird to put on my coat to make hot pockets, but it seemed like a pretty obvious solution.
  20. Donkey is a NowThis sock?
  21. I don’t know anything about the energy industry or have much of an understanding of this situation but I have very strong opinions that coincidentally align with my political views on a small handful of unrelated social issues. Also, all energy matters.
  22. First, that’s the most Midwestern thing I’ve ever seen. Second, I’d love for his vision of the GOP to win out, but I think the current arc of history is bending pretty hard towards madness.
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