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sidis

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  1. i was just cruising around starkville on street view on google maps checking out just how shitty it looks and i came across the ulysses s. grant presidential library. THE FUCKING ULYSSES S. FUCKING GRANT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY IS IN THE HEART OF FUCKING STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI?!?!?!?! who is trolling who with that?
  2. holy shit, i can't believe they can get away with charging you $25 fucking thousand dollars for a tent and a couple of parking spots for six saturdays against five shitty opponents. that's fucking bonkers. they better hope the oline and arch get their shit together.
  3. what the ever loving fuck are you talking about?
  4. hmm, his volatility is getting more heteroscedastic with the kentucky game. he was on his way to a damn near perfect predictive regression data sampling there until uk.
  5. sidis

    Task (HBO)

    twas a smidge tidy and nicely wrapped up all around but i very much enjoyed the season. good show.
  6. I get the point that, as a fanbase, it’s a toxic place to be when winning ugly is so negative. I really do. The SEC is a one possession league. Auburn-Mizzou, Florida-MSU, Agro-arky, ole miss-UGA were all one possession wins. We won, it goes down as a win. That is far less humiliating than the alternative for the program. Now, which games would you bet money for the rest of the way that we will win? If you really think we are going to win more than maybe one or two (if we get lucky and Arky and MSU shit their own pants like UK did last night) from here, you’re delusional. This offense is undoubtedly the worst I have seen at Texas since the 2014-2015 run and if Arch remains the starter, it may achieve even worse. I genuinely do not know how PK has not Buddy Ryan’d Sark on the sideline by now. What a complete and utter fucking waste of incredible defensive talent. 84 fucking plays and 40 minutes on the field last night. Everyone on the defense should be allowed to fuck everyone on the offense’s girlfriends for the entire week…including the coaching staff.
  7. I checked. 172 yards at the end of regulation is not the worst since 2000…I thought it might be. 153 yards against ou in 65-13 loss in 2003. Scored the same number of points though!
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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?"
  11. 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
  12. god damn you guys could fuck up a wet dream.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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?
  18. The refs in this Auburn v Georgia game should never be allowed to work a football game again.
  19. As I noted above…fuck ou.
  20. Fuck ou. Fuck them. Fuck them so hard. fuck ou.
  21. like this one a lot, g. appropriately titled '98 as the vocals very reminiscent of eddie and cornell. very nice track, good work.
  22. here's that video i was referring to.
  23. 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
  24. 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.
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