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3 hours ago, DDD Dad said:
Not as embarrassing as even a single nomination for The Gorge.
no fucking way...are you serious? that colossal piece of shit got nominated for an award?
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2 hours ago, ImNotMarkinson said:
i think movies were just more awesome in the 90s than now. it wasn't nostalgia. i knew i was watching greatness at the time. i remember walking out of shawshank and going holy shit. i remember walking out of fargo and going holy shit. i remember walking out of sling blade and going holy shit. i don't really do that any more. i'm no longer the target audience, but i don't think anyone comes out of movies like that any more.
something something, username.
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4 minutes ago, honolulu horn said:
He did three shows at the Bowery Ballroom earlier this year, capacity like 500. The guy just loves being on stage.
not in texas, apparently.
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man i love 5 star linebackers.
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south austin pretty much nailed it. bono truly is insufferable in his need to make it seem like everything he says 100% of the time in every setting and every context is somehow profound and transcendent. it's performative and exhausting as he seemingly has no chill. i genuinely would have no interest in spending any time with him in any setting because my eyes would get exhausted rolling into the back of my head. it is a testament to the other three guys' patience and tolerance that they endured and held it together so long.
i disagree with g650 obviously...edge is undoubtedly an inferior "player" to knopfler, gilmour, etc... but his sonic experimentation with what he can do with the guitar and constantly reinventing it from unforgettable fire through all that you can't leave behind - which while it all seems inevitable now - was amazing. i honestly think of him more as a producer than a guitarist. unlike bono, i would happily spend weeks in a studio with edge messing around with sounds.
moving on from u2...
some other classic intros that i haven't seen or overlooked in here - "voodoo child," "little wing," and "purple haze," "let's go crazy" and the drums on "take me with u," "angel" (massive attack), "carmina burana" (orff), "california love" (very few songs can make you immediately move like that one), "under pressure," "rhythm of the heat" (peter gabriel), "don giovanni" (mozart), "whiter shade of pale," "levee" and "going to california," "upper hand" (pearl jam), "mayonaise" (pumpkins), "block rockin beats" (chemical bros), "play that funky music," "come together," "welcome to the jungle," the underutilized bass only start to "lovely day" (withers), probably doesn't count as an intro since the motif is the whole song but the beginning of "every breath you take" can't be denied, "throw it up" (lil jon), "also sprach zarathustra" (strauss) "let's stay together" (al green), outshined (soundgarden), half the shit by metallica, "crazy train," also s
winner of best intro under three seconds long: "let's get it on" by marvin.
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2 hours ago, South Austin said:
Yeah, but those Mackovic years.
it will never cease to amaze me that texas fans - when pointing to the shittiest football years in history - always point to mackovic instead of mcwilliams. objectively speaking, while the teams were not elite, the 94-96 teams were somewhat fun to watch. mcwilliams was way shittier. way, way shittier. like so shitty that charlie strong's teams were the only ones that were competitively as bad since ww2. even the one decent season in 90 was a complete fucking farce of unbelievably shitty opponents that miami put on full dispaly to cap things off.
but because he was a texas guy (and i guess the gardere outcomes against ou), mcwilliams gets off the hook while everyone points to mackovic. to me, mcwilliams and strong are the co-presidents of the texas football makes you suicidal club. mackovic won the last swc, the first big 12, and was responsible for my favoite horn ever in ricky. mcwilliams got abused by everyone except gary gibbs.
sorry for football'ing (the single shittiest board on this site - kind of like mcwilliams) the cr.
just needed to say that.
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19 minutes ago, South Austin said:
Probably not much. I think that song has been a mainstay on the setlists for all of their tours going back to 1987.
for sure he's played it a billion times live but even for him, i suspect it takes a little practicing to get it nailed. if you watch closely in the video i posted, he looks extremely focused and is rocking back and forth to keep his tempo (he never really looked like that the rest of the show...he just walked around the stage completely loose and chill like it was a rock concert) because, as i figured out when i learned to play that riff, that 8th dot delay can really screw up your perceived tempo as you get deeper into it despite the left hand being extremely simple and the right hand not being too terrible.
but then again, i'm me and he's edge so yeah...you're likely right.
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3 hours ago, South Austin said:
Would have posted this one.
The song has been overplayed since its release. But when you see it live, like I did when the band opened with it in Boston in 2015, it's pretty fucking awesome.
I think the Rattle and Hum tour was the best they ever did with it live but it was pretty solid at the sphere a couple of years ago. My seats were last minute so not great but still gives a good idea. I wonder how long Edge has to re-rehearse the riff to get back up to speed whenever they go out
eta: actually, i just remembered the super bowl halftime show right after 9/11 where they did mlk right into it...that was pretty fucking amazing.
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5 hours ago, stc said:
pussy gillette- power trio. entertaining for a few songs but then you realize every song sounds the exact same. lead singer's schtick also got a bit tiresome.
i'll be honest, i looked them up to see if there songs were all protest songs against bushy cooch.
it was even worse than that. holy shit, what a shitty lords of acid ripoff.
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and of course, very few songs throw their dick on the table with a bang after a crazy sonice start like sledgehammer.
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lots of good ones in here already...some of my favorites that have not yet been mentioned.
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24 minutes ago, hornian said:
And that's how we (as Texans) got into this mess in the first place. People like Paxton thrive due to low information voters who blindly pull the lever for the (R) candidate, even if they would blanche at what that candidate is/does/stands for if they actually took a little time to educate themselves.
But, it won't change. Go read the LBJ biographies by Robert Caro. This has been going on in Texas since reconstruction.
While your point is 100% valid and applies you at least 90% of Texans (I.e., idiots), bateshorn lives in Maryland or Virginia.
though given his career, I still find it surprising he’s not that familiar with Paxton’s general awfulness given the national profile he’s tried to cultivate in being on the vanguard of the race to the bottom.
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this isn't really the right thread for it (there is no such thing on this site) but over the last few months, due to a lack of creativity on the original songwriting front, i worked on my production and post-production skills doing some HZ mockups from ear. i did one for time from inception, a suite from interstellar, a track from the dark knight rises, and a small section of the pirates of the carribean suite. all done from scratch with midi with a few exceptions (i recorded acoustic and electric guitar for the end of the inception mockup as well as interspersed in the pirates mockup). anyway, not my music to share but my production and they were really fun to make.
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there seems to be some significant confusion as to the sonic profile of the oboe in this thread and the prominence of its use in the inception score/cues.
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8 minutes ago, Celery Man said:
One time at the old Redrum I was singing into a 58 and saw Leslie's asshole at a 90 degree angle.
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1 minute ago, Guadaloopy said:
Like you, I have come out the Church of Christ tradition, which is exceedingly focused on doctrinal orthodoxy derived from reasoning and rational examination using New Testament scripture as a proof text. The focus has always been on gaining certainty of God's will and God's plan, which sadly has left very little room for faith and grace.
I have not abandoned the CoC and still attend regularly in an effort to be an instrument for change.
My faith journey over the past 15 years has led me towards the realization that the Bible is a multi-vocal collection of stories and writings documenting God-seeking people's experiences with God and the truths (their truths) that they took from those experiences. Realizing that the Bible is multi-vocal and not a word-for-word from dictation from the mouth of God (something it never actually claims) has been exceptionally freeing for me which has challenged, yet ultimately deepened my faith.
I find that I don't really sweat the details and now have very simple filters now for whether or not I accept a particular view or reading of scripture. What are the manifest fruits of this interpretation, and does it prevent, hinder, or otherwise get in the way of me or another person loving God and others?
I believe in Jesus and the saving power of his sacrifice. I believe in the power of Jesus' blood and the nature of God being love so strongly that I find myself drawn to belief in universal salvation. To me, being a Christian means that I choose to live in response to that sacrifice by loving God and loving others as Jesus loves me.
I believe that Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, all religions, all peoples, and the entirety of creation are all redeemed and reconciled to God through the power of Christ's blood. I believe that the Spirit leads other cultures and traditions towards loving God and love others within their culture and tradition. People, cultures, and traditions will get it wrong along the way - we always do. But there's something in all of us that nudges towards reverence for something more than ourselves and to live in peace and harmony with those around us.
I came across the theological concept of amipotence a couple of years ago, and I find it very compelling. It flows from an acceptance that the defining characteristic of God's entire being is love. And from that flows the idea that perfect love is perfectly uncontrolling. Therefore God's perfect love for His entire creation constrains Him from acting in a controlling manner upon His creation. Human free will and the physical laws of the universe are allowed to proceed without interference to their own conclusions.
Prayer provides one path of connection to God's perfect love, and the true power of God's love is the peace and acceptance we receive while in relationship with Him. That time of connection can calm our frazzled nerves, ease or at least provide a limitless outlet for the pain of our broken hearts, unlock our intuition about a problem we are dealing with, or release the unknown mechanisms of placebo or some other type of holistic healing.
however, it unfortunately won't make fsd or robotaxi work.
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Just now, wildcat09 said:
Anyone else notice he hasn’t posted since this?
i had not read the thread of the rains thread in quite some time but saw the series of exchanges in this thread and thought they were simply strange. after going back and reading the separate thread of the rains through the weekend and seeing how emotionally he was pushing back on the notion that the camps were not sufficiently monitoring the conditions through the night given the proximity to the river from the absolute get-go, he clearly has more than just a passing interest in this notion.
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16 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:
COMMISSIONER MOSER: The cost of that whole thing is going to be like 976 thousand dollars. That's a lot of money. All of it, and the reason we're here today and moving so quickly is that there is a FEMA grant that's available until as long as we apply by January the 20th.
JUDGE POLLARD: Which is when President Obama goes out of office.
(Laughter.)
JUDGE POLLARD: Well, the reason I mention that is because he authorized this particular thing, and it's going to --
MS. KIRBY: It's a coincidence.
COMMISSIONER MOSER: Going on the record with that it's a coincidence. And so there has to be a presidential declaration of disaster to be able to have these kinds of funds available. So it goes away just so happens to be when he leaves office.
COMMISSIONER MOSER: So we've talked about, you know one of the things we said sirens and we said we don't want sirens, too many many people said they did not want sirens when they had these -- when we had these gatherings. Code Red, and I don't know if Dub wants to chime in on this, but Code Red is the same that's going to get information to a lot of people; not to everybody, okay. One of the things that we'll do is identify a point of contact in all of the camps, we won't communicate with everybody in the camp, but we have a point of contact at the camp so that they can disseminate people within -- to people within the camp, like during the summer when kids are there, or to RV parks. Now, if the RV parks want to have a siren themself when something goes up that's up to them. That's not part of our thing. So getting the information to the public is the end item of this whole thing. The first thing is sense a flood, then communicate that information to the local authorities, to the right authorities, and then for them to have a system by with which to disseminate the information to the public.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: The only thing I have to remind people, unfortunately, I guess I'm one of the ones that – Harley maybe has been around here to see some very devastating floods and quite a bit of loss of life. No matter what we do it's going to be up to the public, okay. The notification is great. I think the -- just the markers, the posts at the crossing is one thing, but it actually oughta state that at that level that your car may wash off, get people's attention at that crossing. The only other thing is, and as Bob can attest to, most of the time it has been informal where we call people. Unfortunately, the time we had the most devastating one down on the east end of the County down at the camps, I was working that night, spent 72 hours pulling kids out of fences. But we call people, we called camps, they made the decision that they thought they could beat that ride, and then that no matter what we do and no matter what we install there's going to be loss of life. It's educating people.
COMMISSIONER REEVES: And I will say and, Sheriff, you can correct me if I'm off base on this, the camps have had a very good system of letting down river if there's a rise, they're phoning their competitors or colleagues down river and letting them know what happened. It's informal as you said, but it's been a very good system to let them know over time.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: Right. The camps and they do, they notify each other, we notify them, they notify -- there's a lot of informal things that really do work real well. It's not totally those unless they try to get them out too quick in trying to beat it. Because this river can come up in a instant, we all know that with the drainage. But it will go down just as quick if they just hold tight with what they've got. But the whole key is just getting people that are traveling up here from somewhere --
COMMISSIONER REEVES: That's my concern is ones that don't live here.
COMMISSIONER MOSER: That's everybody's concern.
JUDGE POLLARD: So this is kind of an offer, or to see if it's accepted by and also agreed to by UGRA and the City.
COMMISSIONER MOSER: Correct.
JUDGE POLLARD: And if they don't then where are we with this?
COMMISSIONER MOSER: If they don't then we just forget the whole project.
JUDGE POLLARD: Just dead in the water.
COMMISSIONER MOSER: Dead in the water, right. It's dead in the water.
COMMISSIONER REEVES: Question --
COMMISSIONER MOSER: Or the pun for the Flood Warning System.
JUDGE POLLARD: Dead in the water.
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5 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:
Typical blue state/blue city experiences.
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51 minutes ago, Texas Fight said:
How do you know Camp Mystic leadership was not awake at 1am or actively monitoring?
dude.
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Our kiddos are at Camp OTX outside of Bandera this week. They aren’t near a river…they have a little man made lake that dams upstream of a tributary (at best). They are communicating that everything is fine there and I believe it knowing how it is situated but reading about these other camps is making me sick to my stomach.
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14 minutes ago, Celery Man said:
I forget, is that a D18 like Taylor Swift’s?
Indeed. It is glorious. Very mellow, much like Taylor Swift’s voice on the song “tolerate it.”
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Trying to get guitar porn thread back on track by:
1) I don’t think anyone believes that TS has an iconic or even “great” voice. That said, she is extremely effective at using it to do white girl tricks in conveying different tones in her songs. Her first two albums have a very nashvilly sound vocally, 1989 is the definition of teeny bopper, while reputation is quite strong in conveying bitterness and anger, and then a very mellow and pretty sound for folklore/evermore. Creating those different album feels is not as easy as she makes it look, despite the fact that she’s not a technical or pitch perfect iconic voice. But at the end of the day, the chick can write some fucking hits and is a very good instinctual musician. She’s also quite smart in her collaborative choices. While being an attractive white girl may have given her a “leg” up in the beginning, her talent and songwriting is plenty organic is is ultimately undeniable. The stadiums of 90,000 people singing along every word for THREE AND A HALF fuckkng hours in every city around the world out front should have told you and I’d sell all of your guitar collections combined in a heartbeat to have 25% of that ability. She’s been wildly oversaturated for the last five years so I get the pushback and it’s time for something different but she’s an all time songwriter and a very talented musician and it’s silly to say otherwise.
2) thanks to consulting you guys, I didn’t do something idiotic and drill a hole in the Martin. Got a really nice strap from them to connect to the neck and it’s working out great so thanks to all for stopping me from doing stupid things.
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On 6/26/2025 at 12:49 PM, Paul Wesley said:
I think you should start with a vast arsenal of high-end instruments and gear. Everything else flows from there.
you know, sometimes paul...sometimes...you make me feel like a narcissist because i read your posts and i can't help but think you are talking about me.
18 hours ago, Celery Man said:I’ll fight anyone I don’t give a fuck. I legitimately like Taylor Swift and have mad respect for both her talent and her work ethic, and I think she gets way too much shit for dating like 7 guys in her twenties. My daughter loves Tay Tay and I think she’s a great role model.
her cousins got her this shirt and I’ve tried really hard to explain how badass of a gift it is -
her loog is in her closet and I heard strumming and singing - “Disney WOOOOOrrRrrRrLD! Disney Woooorld, oh Disney…..
WORLD”
I talk to her about how her songs are great and that she can write songs and sing them on stage like Daddy or Taylor Swift if she keeps it up.
she's obviously great as a collaborator, can write a hit like very few people have ever done, has some really good songs, and is a force of nature in terms of being prolific and the magnitude of her tours. deej is obviously way off base saying her isolated vocals are bad as he's just being a hater. that's insane. i have stem split about 40 of her songs for my girls to study...her vocals are incredibly good at connoting different emotions of songs. she's not adele, whitney houston, or maria callas but she's a plenty good singer to go along with songwriting ability.
that said, i sent my wife and older daughter to one of the shows in houston and my wife and younger daughter to one of the shows in new orleans and in retrospect, i probably would have rather used that same amount of money to buy out the entire town of tremezzo and build a house on lake como. lifetime memories for them though. and they both have that shirt.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
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one of the more amusing things about this circus is the delusion the maga dipshits betray when they all claim they want bondi's head on a pike and to replace her with someone that will release the epstein names...as if bondi is not doing trump's bidding by refusing the release the information in order to clearly protect a guy that was known to have a very close relationship with epstein for decades, is a known piece of shit adulterer who has been found civilly liable for rape and who was convicted of 34 felonies stemming from paying off a porn star that he fucked.
they genuinely don't understand that replacing bondi would not change the outcome because she's not making that call. they truly are that delusional and cannot see the plainest of plain realities slapping them in the face. it's so naked and obvious...and yet, here we are.