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  1. The VV principal was very popular so they moved her to Cedar Creek since the CC principal from the year before desperately needed a new role.
  2. particularly given that we (eanes) have already beaten aisd to the punch on consolidation. we closed one of long-standing six elementary schools (valley view) between last year and this year.
  3. i just had a moment in life where i stopped what i was doing, looked out the window, and thought to myself..."am i supposed to have a designated 'trivia partner' in life? is that a thing?"
  4. sidis

    Israel

    man, in twenty five years of reading message boards, i cannot recall a single instance that more captured the ultimate "i am a fucking bitch-made pussy that has absofuckinglutely nothing to offer whatsoever" pathetic cop out than this. absolute bitch-made pussy. lol
  5. god damn you guys could fuck up a wet dream.
  6. If Penn state has any semblance of a brain and if they have the budget for it, back up the truck for Cignetti. Beat Florida to the punch.
  7. I said it before the season and after the UTSA game at the beginning of the season, the two WR transfers they got are such an incredible addition to their team. Next to OSU, they have the best WR room in the country. Also, they are like us last year on the Oline. Extremely experienced.
  8. I really fucking hope Georgia lose every game from now into eternity. What a collection of no integrity pieces of shit. Seriously. Fuck them and really fuck Kirby. You lying piece of shit.
  9. I never had a lot of respect for Kirby but that was truly the lowest integrity move from a head coach in a game that I can remember. Legitimately one the lowest integrity move I’ve ever seen from a head coach in my watching football for thirty years. Fuck Kirby Smart forever and ever. What a colossal piece of shit liar.
  10. Hang on, isn’t this the crew that not only turbo fucked Auburn against ou but also turbo fucked us against Georgia in Austin last year?
  11. The refs in this Auburn v Georgia game should never be allowed to work a football game again.
  12. As I noted above…fuck ou.
  13. Fuck ou. Fuck them. Fuck them so hard. fuck ou.
  14. like this one a lot, g. appropriately titled '98 as the vocals very reminiscent of eddie and cornell. very nice track, good work.
  15. here's that video i was referring to.
  16. the reasons for its effectiveness are virtually the opposite of mo bamba. mo bamba is all tension and bass...brightside is melodic and harmonic drive...as well as being naturally emotional in its melodic climax. unlike mo bamba which is a super exotic key/mode of e phrygian, brightside is a classic pop chord progression in d major going I-V-vi-IV. a significant percentage of pop songs use this structure (or a small variation of it). there's a funny video on youtube that goes through all the pop songs that use that structure. the chord progression repeats through the entire song with no changes...even in the chorus or bridge. that is really unique. the vocal melody, like a lot of killers songs (and garage rock music), is right smack in the middle of the vocal register with virtually no straying into low or high registers. it's not nearly as simple as mo bamba obviously but its vocal ease is ideal for crowd singing where everyone can participate. critically, the melody from the beginning of the verse through the chorus is almost always ascending in its contour (for example, in the chorus where it starts with "jealousy," contrast that first half of the chorus with the second half starting with "but it's just") which subconsciously adds intensity. adding to the ease of singing it for the crowd is the fact that the kick drum is extremely consistent. not quite four on the floor but it is a consistent, driving metronome for the song. the snare on the 2 and 4 every bar everywhere but the bridge and pre-chorus drives the song consistently and keeps the intensity super high...as well as keeping everyone in time. one of the most unique things about brightside is it never resolves back to the d chord which leaves it with a constantly unfinished feeling for the listener. one doesn't need to be familiar with music theory to identify that unique element of the song. anyone can listen to it and identify that as a difference at the end. it doesn't end with "i'm mr. brightside." it ends with "i never" and a super unfinished chord. that is a theme through the entire track. it just keeps chugging along and keeping you engaged. there are other reasons like the cleanliness of the guitar performance, etc... but those are the real underlying reasons for its success as a stadium song...along with timing and just outright popularity. eta: one other thing about the contrast between mo bamba and mr brightside is the context for their "stadium song" use which is not a coincidence. the tension/bass/frenzy combination of mo bamba is no accident as it is used as a part of the football game strategically...most commonly on defensive third downs for the home team create frenzy/intimidation/tension in the environment. brightside is almost always at a break in the action...usually between the 3rd and 4th quarter at places like michigan and missouri in my experience. that moment has nothing to do with the game...it's an engaging environmental and shared moment to keep everyone engaged. just like jump around at wisconsin or don't stop believing at a bunch of places. so an upbeat, major scale song is more appropriate in creating a shared communal moment where you want everyone to be smiling and happy and having fun together. also edited to add: seems apropos for me to include my video from our trip up there last year...back at a time when we were good at football. IMG_7373.mov
  17. that is a bit of an irony on this shutdown. any success the dems have on this is ultimately doing the republicans a huge favor of protecting them from the consequences of their own terrible policy. the shrewder political move would be to just stand back and let the meltdown transpire and when all the rural white trash realize it was them that the new law completely turbofucks, it would strain even the most obscene obfuscation to try and blame a law that trump wanted and the republican majorities passed in bipartisan fashion to lay it at the feet of democrats. let them live with the consequences of their votes. but trying to keep people from becoming bankrupt/dying because they need to see a doctor is getting in the way of that whole thing.
  18. sidis

    The Mo Bamba Song

    no, i don't utilize chatgpt. knowing your proclivity for using it and the fact that you took the time to start this thread, i would have assumed you already queried it and did not get a satisfying answer anyway. that said, your question did cause me to play the key elements of the song on the piano to see if there was anything else theory wise that could explain its effectiveness and i am pretty damn sure playing along with it that...to the extent you could say it has a key and mode...it is is in E phrygian. it's key chords are b diminished, g, c, and f. if it was a class pop song, you would replace the bdim with an a minor and you'd have classic happy and resolved sound. however, the use of that bdim drastically changes everything and basically makes it an E phrygian which is not a very common key/mode signature. the bdim is effectively a vii° leading chord. phrygian is absolutely a go-to mode if you are looking to build obvious tension and darkness. again, i have no idea what thought went into this but purposeful or not, e phrygian is dark stuff. moreover, on the sung/yelled melody, where it goes from the long sustained "hoes" to "calling," that is a single semitone jump up. that is a class tension and foreboding feeling. think of williams's theme from jaws...same thing. anyway, all of it ultimately contributes to a vibe. gets boring quick though just listening to it as music...as does a lot of effective "stadium hype music."
  19. sidis

    The Mo Bamba Song

    it's effectiveness results from a blend of music theory and crowd psychology. as someone that spends a lot of time wrapped up in music theory applied to composition and to eliciting emotional responses...it's a bit of a fascinating phenomenon but ultimately, the explanation is pretty simple. mo bamba is simplicity defined with extreme repetition but built around tension building and anticipation at the very beginning with the high band twinkle melody...getting the crowd primed and lubed up for the drop. using the distorted 808 and ultimately the sub bass at the call and response of the lyric in unison combined with the simplicity creates a visceral shared experience. while i certainly don't think shek was was contemplating this when putting it together, the lyrics and vocal performance are ideal for crowd chanting. simple phrases that are simply sustained for a long time doubled with the sub-bass and not a lot of notes. participatory minimalism...there are three total notes to yell to complete the call and response. effectively, you can just yell it and don't have to sing it. also, tons of 40-80 hz low frequency emission creates a felt response in the body that gets people's adrenaline up and the sensation is force multiplied when hearing 100K other people going nuts. finally, at this point, it is ubiquitous enough that it has a shared cultural context in which the crowd is sharing the goal-oriented moment. it will eventually run its course due to overuse. the thing about penn state is they are judicious with its use. they don't play it on every third down like dumbass aggy does. that helps keep some of the hype. that said, the moment its use broke through to become a cultural phenomenon at the beginning of the michigan game should have been a penalty against penn state. once the team is set for play, the piped in music has to stop...they played it for a long time after michigan was set for play. it is odd but the simplicity combined with a very clever use of sub-bass response creates a frenzy. listen to the below at 0:25...the 40hz is so powerful but it is so low that the official recording can't even pick anything up but distorted mess. meanwhile, all those dumbass white kids were having their nuts and ovaries rattled.
  20. These threads are obviously idiotic but FWIW, Caldwell came in cold and threw the best anticipation pass of the game. Wingo wasn’t open when he released it but broke open to the pass precisely how it is drawn up. Perfect anticipation. Which stands in stark contrast to Manning needing at least six seconds in the pocket and someone to break open by ten yards before he throws it. Very frustrating.
  21. That was a truly great match. Liverpool and Chelsea both should be proud despite outcome. Phenomenally entertaining game.
  22. The biggest one from more recent times that just genuinely pisses me off...despite being a fan of the overall movie is Interstellar. And it is not even the sci-fi tesseract bullshit inside the black hole that bothers me but the mechanism for getting there by entering the black hole in a physical state inside an earth made "ranger" made of elemental materials. For a movie they tried to sell as science-y based and "oh look, we hired one of the world's foremost experts on black holes to consult," that part was unbelievably offensive. MM just rides an earth-made spacecraft for like 90 seconds into the accretion disk of a black hole before "nosing down" across the event horizon. The temperature of an accretion disk around a stellar-mass black hole depends on the black hole’s mass, the accretion rate, etc... but generally, the outer regions of the disk have temperatures that are relatively “cool,” about a few thousand to tens of thousands of Kelvin similar to the surface of stars. However, the inner regions of the disk reach millions of Kelvin. For stellar-mass black holes like the one in interstellar (say 5–20 solar masses, being nice here and assuming it wasn't supposed to be a supermassive black hole), the inner disk often reaches around 10⁶–10⁷ K...this is hot enough to emit strongly in X-rays and incredible radiation. Step 1, temperature...if we took the best refractory solid materials we know of such as TaHfC...they soften/evaporate/fully ionize at like 4,400 K. At 10⁷ K, all bonds are gone and matter is a plasma, not a solid. But let's say we pretend there's some bullshit that is a billion orders of magnitude more refractory, the radiation flux and pressure anywhere close to an accretion disk has luminosity 32 orders of magnitude greater than when steel would be instantly vaporized. Even if one assumes some sort of magnetic field stronger than the strongest forces in the universe to protect it, the x-ray/photon energy would cause all the elemental electrons to ablate since photons aren't impacted by a magnetic field...also creating a particle environment problem. the ship would be getting rammed with dense plasma ions and electrons moving at near the speed of light with ram pressure that erode any physical surface immediately. Assuming you could move at precisely the right speed at near the speed of light, and somehow avoid being in the midst of the disk itself's materials, the tidal gradient is only millions of G's that no material would frustrate structural failure and not pulverize a human body. There is simply no way around the thermodynamics. putting aside most of the above issues (as well as time dilation issues) of getting close to the accretion disk, the reality is that the closest any earth made material could get to even the outer accretion disk of a stellar black hole is based simply on passive heat rejection would be 28 astronomical units (28 times the distance from earth to sun) before even active, multi-sided and stable radiator coolant systems could simply balance the absorbed flux. Meanwhile, Matthew and his ranger with the afterburners go from that to entering the black hole in like 40 seconds and aren't ionized and then turned into plasma. It took them a couple of years to get to Saturn which is less distance than that. Completely insane bullshit that is an offensively stupid mechanism for Nolan to even get to his sci-fi tesseract to go full-blown idiotic. fun movie though.
  23. challenge coins are common in various organizations. they have a militaristic origin but have become common in other organizations as well like education. we were issued them when i graduated from mba school at ut. the idea being that if you encountered a fellow ut mba grad in the wild and then hit you with the challenge coin, if you did not have yours, you had to buy them a drink. but ours were the seal of the university on one side and the mccombs insignia on the other side. not a fucking douchey ksh money punisher skulls. what a pathetic and sophomoric perspective on the role. largely idiotic...particularly these.
  24. "oh shaudie...you're just so cute and don't you know it."
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