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    Maggie's Plan - a film about people with too much money to have any real problems, written by Arthur Miller's daughter who's married to Daniel Day Lewis, and so the plot and casting and acting all feels like a circle-jerk, like a ponzi scheme that nobody actually believes in but hey the paycheck and networking and bleck
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    I really am of two minds re: psychiatry/psychotherapy, and I'm quite sympathetic to the Laing/Guattari view that, very often, psychiatry is merely enforcing behavioral norms, addressing societal problems by medicating individuals, etc, all while harboring very 'American' presuppositions about mental health/illness in a capitalist society... However... None of this precludes you from finding an actual, real-life psychotherapist that will help you fine-tune yourself, understand yourself in ways you couldn't do otherwise. I've yet to hear any criticisms entailing actual people going to actual therapists. Anyone who thinks psychotherapy would either do them no good or do them harm, imho that person has been led astray by 'theory'.
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    The neck was crazy out of whack. Cold nights. It's better now that I tweaked the truss rod, but I suck at that kinda atuff (technical guitar-setup stuff, all of it.) I still gotta Google, every time: clockwise or counter-clockwise?
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    Some days I pick up my guitar and can't make it sound good no matter what I do. (Possibly the sudden dip in temperature warped the action, dunno)
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    Yeah totally. This post made me think of how many of my favorite songs have bold/bizzare mixing decisions, where the vocals are way louder than usual, or like 70's/80's Bowie tunes where the snare is twice as loud as everything else, or like (trying to think off the cuff) Daft Punk's "Digital Love" or stuff that's kinda surprising when you hear it via headphones. Or "When Doves Cry" which originally had synth bass but Prince liked it better without so he muted it during mixdown.
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    Look I was just trying to give my two cents after you voiced your distress in FWP, I thought psychotherapy could be really helpful for you, but my thoughts are officially on the record now so I'll shut up.
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    Fetishism oh god that reminds me of the last time I did adderol where i was was trying to eq some hi-hats for a tune and finally looked at the clock and realized i'd been doing it for 5 hours straight lol
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    Now Reading

    LimpyLoo replied to a topic in General Banter

    Just bought: -Life Sentences ::::William H. Gass:::: -The Kristeva Reader ::::Julia Kristeva:::: I've channelled all of my addict energy/money into buying books (far faster than I can actually read any of them)
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    Yeah i've heard from alot of analog synth addicts (mostly on yt) that some of the classic synth (prophets, jupes, moogs, etc) are impossible to fit in a mix because they take up so much space, and so they end up sounding tiny after getting hi-passed or like you gotta use ducking (e.g. with the kick/snare) or hella automation to make them sound as huge as they do on their own. .
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    I almost entirely agree.* *The only exception I can think of is the sound of certain older hardware samplers, where the whole character of the sampler comes from the homogenous boominess, from how the drum break is a single sample that gets eq'd as a whole, so you sometimes get snares and hats with lots of low-end, and if you try to scoop out like 200-300hz the whole vibe disappears.
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    I dare you to go to a psychothapist for 3-4 weeks straight--as a complete pisstake of course--and report back on how awful and Orwellian the experience was. How it made your life worse, how farther out-of-tune-with-yourself it made you, how they didn't/couldn't tell you anything you didn't already know, how naive they were compared to your learn-ed cynicism, how the fact that when you wake up in the morning you're filled with dread and apprehensiveness but hey that's the *appropriate* way to feel in this world amarite...
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    1) I used to wonder how certain tunes could have multiple snares or layers of percussion (or even kicks) that didn't interfere with each other. Answer was that they occupied different frequency ranges. So I used to mess around with like two sets of hi-hats that were bandpass-filtered at different frequencies. 2) some eq's are clinical, some are vibe-ier. Oh god it's been so long I forget the types of eq, but for (e.g.) making kicks thumpier and more resonant, the console-type eq's (knobs-not-slidèrs where you set frequency, set width/'q', set cut/boost) are much smoother.
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    Sometimes(e.g. tonight) I just listen to this on loop
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    Blue Ruin (8.6/10) -beautiful revenge flick, with one of the best unconditional friendships i've ever seen lol. There Will Be Blood (9.7/10) - For whatever reason I hated this the first time I saw it. No idea why. But damn so good.
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    birds

    LimpyLoo replied to dingformung's topic in General Banter

    There's a really cool app (Birdnet? I think, not sure) where you can record a birdsong and the app'll tell you whodunit. (Sorry this post isn't better lol)
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    Six Feet Under s01 (8.5/10) - good.
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    After Freud, the Object Relations folks de-literalized the Oedipal stuff: "Father" = superstructure of norms, laws, punishments, traditions, expectations, etc "Mother" - Nourishment, intimacy, acceptance/validation, boobies, non-neglect, etc
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    Drill, have you ever done any psychotherapy? Also, weren't you the one who was afraid you were having a stress/anxiety-enduced psychotic break? Or that you had schizophrenia? (You posted that in first world problems )
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    Please keep in mind that Artuad's schizophrenia caused his much suffering, (internally, that is, completely apart from Society and the State, etc.) And anyone who references 'thorazine' or 'psychoanalysis' in relation to schizophrenia(Land, in this case), well that's kind of a red flag that suggests that the data they're working with is like pre-1970 or thereabouts.
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    Dude, literally everything I say and do is cringe. I've made my peace with that. You ever watch like a Tears for Fears or Depeche Mode video and their un-embarassed sincerity is like 'whoa this is kinda cringe lol' and then maybe you watch it the next day and it makes sob like an idiot and then you realize maybe you're a chronically sarcastic person who's allergic to sincerity and maybe that's worth thinking about? I do that alot.
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    What's up?
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    currently rewatching: Frances Ha (9.999/10) - "I'm so embarrased...I'm not a real person yet..." So good, so good. I think Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig are both geniuses, and this is basically them passing a Word-documentt back and forth via email, pitching punching-up and fine-tuning it until they had a script where every second is obsessively crafted. And yet the film's pacing/tone/energy feels almost improvised. So good.
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    I saw The Endless--grabbed it from the library--and loved it. Next day: went to grab Resolution...no dice. I don't have Netflix or anything so I'll prolly have to buy it to see it. But it's really cool to see such ambitious sci-fi being done at that budget-level.
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    Synchronic (8.2/10) - Cool, well-executed independant sci-fi.
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    I can't speak for every therapist in every healthcare system in every country of the world, but generally: therapists don't traffic in Reality or Worldview, at least not directly. When you walks into a therapist's office--from all that i've seen--the therapist will ask you what your goals are in coming to therapy, and if you don't yet have tangible goals, they will 'put a pin in it', and part of continued therapy will be creating such tangible goals. (Fwiw, one of subgoals in therapy is to not replay in my head over and over every little micro-mistake I make on a day-to-day basis, not to self-sabotage at every opportunity, not to spend my life looking backwards instead of forwards, stuff like that). Now, therapists will ask you about your week, recent life events, stuff like that. They are.(among other things) ooking for opportunities to grow that you might not be aware of. If they notice that you (e.g.) always expect the worse, you constantly insult yourself, you're stuck in self-defeating loops, certain topics are a source of pain/anxiety... Anyway, therapists are kinda 'open source': you can ask them 'meta' questions like "what do you do when patients come in with chronic anxiety?" or "What does a 'healthy mind' look like in psychoherapy?" or literally like "what did you write down?" or "so do you think i'm overly neurotic in such and such a way?" Unless you live in a Kafka story or like a Charlie Kaufman story, they will tell you that stuff.
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