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  1. On 7/8/2023 at 4:06 PM, Draft78 said:

    it seems that gamelan is not the only Indonesian space trip.
    Kecak dance (Bali):

     

    For me, this is a mnemonic echo to this obscure vinyl that my brother bought from some thrift shop back in the late 90s, which had both gamelan and kecak recordings from 1964. All I remember is that it was titled "Monkey Dance" or something.

    This video also invokes a similar hypnotic vibe to the ending of Apocalypse Now!, as well Koyaanisqatsi and the Sardaukar homeworld scene from Dune: Part One (2021).

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  2. 17 hours ago, hoggy said:

    Can someone please explain about half the memes in this thread? I don't follow 4chan and the ironic post meta sub-irony gets a bit confusing

    For example:

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    The contents of this thread aren't something you can really explain, let alone rationalize. They're more like a state of existence.

    It took me at least three years from when Colunga fathered this thread on the 13th of February, 2015 to even begin to learn how to swim in this pool, if that makes any sense. You can't really force it. The Dank Dimension subsumes you over time with a natural flow, if you're willing to commit.

    (And for the record, I don't use 4chan.)

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  3. 26 minutes ago, Wunderbar said:

    I have been making music for  a while yet i have never actually made anything i think is good. I find it really weird how making music leaves me frustrated and it takes a lot out of me yet i keep going back to it ?

    Anyone else like this ?

    I've technically been doing the same on and off for about the last quarter-century. I think my latest stuff from the last two years has been overall satisfactory, but I'm not nearly as prolific as I used to be. I guess the motivation just isn't there lately.

    Maybe it's the realization that there's no way I can make a viable career out of it this day in age, despite the experience. Had I started in like the late 80s or early 90s like some of the legendary Warp artists did with whom we're all familiar, that'd be a different story.

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  4. I received a custom coin at work today directly from the chief director. It was basically a micro plaque with a hole inside of it that allows it to be used as a bottle opener. It's the first time I received official commendation at work for acting as an unofficial ambassador for visiting JASDF air crews during an annual joint military exercise.

    But yeah. Me good boi, me get prize.

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  5. Twidder is trash, and I haven't touched in over a year. And now Elongated Musk Ox is single-handedly killing the platform.

    Read-It is only viable for memes. Still full of idiotic shit-monkeys and edgy teens, but there's still the occasional quality comment by a distinguished scholar.

    I stopped using Instant Graham Crackers nearly three years ago, so idk.

    Facetracking Book 'Em is the reason I was able to reunite with old high school classmates last weekend after 20 years, so I guess I owe a bit of gratitude for that. Otherwise it's boring af and a reminder that most of the friends I've made in life I've pretty much ceased communication with.

    And MySpace...Tom, mah bruddah...we have abandoned thee. You were the one true paragon of collective sanity on this realm bestowed upon us by Tim Berners-Lee we refer to as the Innernet.

  6. 5 hours ago, Hugh Mughnus said:

    Nice! Was hoping you’d go and it wouldn’t be too bad. Man mine is coming up in… 3 or 4 years now?

    Did you run into anyone you might stay connected with or reconnect with a bit?

    Yeah there's a few I'm still connected with on FB but haven't seen since the previous reunion in 2013. It's kinda weird to see one dude gone mostly gray and one girl with wrinkles on her face, yet there was one couple who look like they haven't aged since I last met them.

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  7. I've already decided that I'm just gonna dip out early if I'm not feeling it. I'll probably be the only one there who doesn't have kids nor has ever been married. I just hope it doesn't end up being some kind of quasi-Victorian bullshit where I get asked what I do for a living, my salary, etc and get lowkey judged for it.

    Good call on Hail to the Thief BTW. I still love Backdrifts.

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  8. 6 minutes ago, zero said:

    yeah for sure. but here's hoping vladdy boy gets "the Gaddafi" treatment...bayonet up the ol arsehole. or maybe that'd be letting him off too easy. he needs a good old fashioned torture chamber to hang out in for the rest of his existence.

    what that mofo has done here, and I mean this entire fuckin quagmire mess, is so stomach churning, so incredibly pointless, all these innocent people dying for a deluded man child, deserves punishment I don't even have the evil minded brain power to conjure up. he has fucked his entire country for no reason, other than he thought he could play god, and do whatever he wanted. I know he's always been a snake, but I sorta gave him some mental props at one point long ago, thought he was a skilled chess player. thought his power over Trump was well played. but once again, we see how having too much power has corrupted the human mind. he has lost complete touch with reality, and doesn't seem like he'll ever be back. mad king syndrome. 

    I hope he gets a one-way ticket to the moon via an RPG-7 up the bunghole

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