Roo
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Transitioning artists are generally a bit cringe till they move on. The only trans artist I really enjoy is Kim Petras, because she transitioned ages ago in a different era, and her music isn't necessarily about that or pandering to it. All the late 10s transitioners (and their transitioning fans) are still in that new wave bubble for now.
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I never realised that Uluru and Devils Marbles were Plutonians. Glorified nail clippings and dandruff. Does this make Australia the first country-continent-planet? Yeah back in the day Pluto depictions tended to be art rather than actual pictures. I've been a Neptune stan since early childhood (it has always been the lock screen wallpaper on my iPhone actually).
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The organ stabs were a bit too intense and overwhelming live not to trigger human reactions from an audience already in the dark enjoying heady grooves and maybe not expecting that alarming turn of events. It is easier to hear the nuances through the soundboards, more sensible home listening.
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It is an audience member promo from Australia's Got Talent circa 2015-ish. It looks pretty put-on (notice the more toned-down audience around him). This was the ad for the show, baiting what did he just react to? It is a great meme/gif though, got a real In the Court of the Crimson King style face. My brother has a similar look and used to clown around like that. From memory, Rebel Wilson first came to national attention for playing an Australian Idol audience schoolgirl character in about 2004. I guess they'll resort to anything to sell their shows. You could get away with things like that in the 2000s. A lot of the early viral things on YT were play-acting or overreacting, and the preference for African-American reaction videos still ties into that.
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An exemplary country with no actual declared cases? Well, I never! Easy rumour to make rn. Didn't Trump apparently correspond with him recently? Lol I imagine an overseas North Korean traveling home and its basically a Walking Dead wasteland of very fascist Lord of the Flies.
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Well The Strokes just released a new album called "The New Abnormal" They hail from the epicentre New York
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Breaking: Australia stockpiles $94M in fuel reserves, but is keeping it in the US until domestic storage capacity is ready. Still, that's a long way away, and given that administration's recent heist antics...
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Given Australia has to import more than 90% of our fuel needs, calls for Australia to now invest by buying big from the present glut of cheap oil. Apparently nations are meant to have 90 days of liquid fuel reserves to be IEA compliant, and we in 2019 only had 18, 22 & 23 days for petrol, diesel and jet fuel respectively. Just one of those Mad Max indicators where you could imagine Australia buying big shortly before global societal collapse. Even though that was '73 oil crisis inspired. Also shows how rapidly we could run out of fuel during lockdown and enter societal disarray if the supply chain had been heavily disrupted.
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The rest of the world would be made to help out, probably man the frontlines as well, and they'll expect the world's media to care about every skirmish. Puerto Ricans and Mexican aliens would be made infantry. China's imports of popcorn would skyrocket.
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Australia & NZ are looking very optimistic right now. Australia had the gradual "suppression" strategy and NZ the slightly more restrictive immediate "elimination" strategy (no schools open, no hairdressers open, less random leaving of house). Both appear to have exceeded expectations. Both are currently at single digit new cases per day (only 2 of the 8 Australian states and territories recorded new cases yesterday). NZ has 12 deaths and Australia 71, with cases generally traceable to overseas travelers, cruise ships and identified clusters rather than running wild in the community. Australia will maintain what has worked for approx. another 4 weeks whilst getting the "test, trace, isolate" in place to control any sudden outbreaks from then on and hopefully prevent the dreaded economically disastrous lockdown 2.0 cycle. NZ (which might have taken slightly more of an economic hit) is now ready to ease to more of an Australia-level restriction as of next week. Winter is a couple weeks away, and hopefully the vaccine isn't years away. Economy and international interaction will obviously be a struggle. Elderly with comorbidity will probably have to brace for a good while of lifestyle restraint.
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You could argue that WMDs in Iraq thing was just another in a long trend of fallacious speculation being used as data input for military strategy. That sort of thing goes at least as far back as the start of RAND and the Cold War, but America's imperialist corruption can be felt all over the world, from 1850s Mexico to 1900s Panama to 1940s West Papua and then all manner of proxy backstabbings.
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Exai and NTS Sessions kind of look their then-record ae length. Something chunky you might take a bite out of. Elseq is like "hey, this is more of a smodgepodge continental breakfast, nibble at will"
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I guess with the late organ and the high energy last few minutes, the end is more of a crunch than a fade.
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Further to the above, on NTS2, you have that almost darkwave progression of xflood and then 2 songs later the elephunk early on in dummy casual. 7hres also was progressively chaos-squishy. A lot of NTS Sessions tracks seem to be adjacently related. I remember riding my bike one day in release week and that violvoic-e0 section all seemed to mesh. Those parent jams are felt a bit, and you can feel that connection in the 16/18 sets as well.
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Are you talking about the screaming to a halt sound in the last twenty seconds? That part on speakers always alarms me then everything dies mouse quiet. I've come to brace for it even more than the organ. It is as if the music starts to get eaten up into an indecipherable wave of static and cries out in anguish.
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The US has gone into lockdown The rest of the world cheers and applies for it to be extended. Including the missiles and drones.
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The calling to liberate the states from the presidential office is surreal even for him. Even if a predictable electioneering strategy. Seems like the blame game and division has gone domestic again. As if this pandemic was all some wacky Reopen the Civil War master plan.
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I wonder how long before they start saying they are sick of hearing about this elite hot topic known as Covid-19 and claim it as out of touch with everyday Murica concerns. Death? Healthcare? Jobs! Right to be a dkhead!
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USA are arguably the first fading hegemony with the all or none capacity to take the globe down with them. Scorched earth vibes from them.
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Can you imagine if pangolins were scapegoated out of this as chief evil doer and the global bodies agreed to systematically exterminate them. A big surreal wtf.
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Thread has promise, as long as it keeps relative and doesn't descend into cheap snobbery and dogma. These takes aren't necessarily wrong, just bemusingly obnoxious, a funny little relatable satire which just misses the point of their appeal completely. Nice work.
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A lot of the regular WATMMers who attended the Melb show have been quiet here during this corona period, otherwise you'd like to think they would've instantly noticed such a detail mishap.
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I have both the Melb & Hob bootlegs and it sounds like Melb. Exact same runtime. But from memory the Hobart recorder had issues getting the whole set. Sydney was definitely the 20th from experience. I just assumed they took a day getting down there. Good pickup! Hobart would seem more on brand for them as it is higher latitude, more obscure and was the edgey Dark Mofo, but after the legacy of the Melb 2010 set, that cool Melb poster of Sean, and the vibrant electronic scene there I'm glad it was Melb.
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Well then you can take all the Covid-19 infested cruise ships lurking around Australia's epic coastline at the moment if you like. "Middle of nowhere" and "small" are moronic descriptors, and it is not like this virus has been walked across the globe. In terms of area, Australia is the 6th largest country, Japan is 62nd and New Zealand is 75th (both bigger than the UK), Ireland is 118th (barely a quarter the size of NZ). Australia, Japan and Indonesia are all G20 as well. I think you are projecting.
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This shows very little understanding of the modern world.
