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    Definite commander-in-chief material. a real hoot at those diplomatic gatherings
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    me Local and state is more important anyway. Im actaually skipping a local prop election regarding the city of austin versus uber/lyft (its over background check regulations) because neither side is really in the right 100% and im not wasting my time over something im indifferent over it's a fine line though and easy to point at recent US history of Gore Vs. Bush and see how the world might have been different if things went a different way.. sure probably lots of things would've stayed the same but perhaps we'd have jumped into some environmental changes a little sooner and maybe the EPA wouldn't be a toothless bag of shit.. and perhaps just maybe we'd not still be in afghanistan or invaded iraq at all. lot's of what ifs.. but w.o ralph nader and perhaps w/fewer vote fixing douchebags in florida we'd have not had to endure that nimrod Bush at all... which would mean no cheney.. no rumsfeld etc.. so, while in the big picture it's easy to say "voting doesn't matter".. and in some states it really doesn't when it comes to national election.. but in some it really really matters.. primaries are one thing though.. the election in november is when we'll have to choose between Douche and Turd for preisdent. local though.. yeah.. always vote local.
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    the RNC is just going to throw ten pounds of shit in the air at the convention and see where it lands. if the convention is "contested" they can nominate whoever they want.
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    third party?
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    Hodor's first name is Willis??? ok. Willis Hodor 2016 Make America Hodor again!
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    i bet a presidential historian could split the hairs for us and tell us who is closest to that "awkward weirdo" with great ideas. there must be one in there... and probably some people who think it was Nixon! lol.
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    ignatius replied to a topic in General Banter

    new Delillo.. gotta grab that one ASAP.. shit.. to read pile is gonna fall over and kill me in m sleep.
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    this song is going to require a lot of editing. just became long term project. ok fine.
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    I bought it first on vinyl without hearing it and was convinced it was supposed to be played at 45 rpm.. it was a long time before I learned it was supposed to be 33! i love it when that happens. see autechre we r are why/are y are we, yeesland (so much better at 33 imo). there's a bunch of vibert's stuff that is pretty happy at either speed as well.
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    i've had the vinyl since release and a while ago i was in a record store and found an unopened copy of Brown Out on vinyl for $12 :) score. it's nice to be able to pitch up/down some of those tracks. if can get it on vinyl you should.
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    nope. it was just leaked on soulseek. link shared via the IDM mailing list..
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    most of trump voters think putin is a great powerful president.... it's true.. they see him as a strong leader because he doesn't get along w/obama on this or that. they hate obama so of course putin is admirable.
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    the only corporation on his team is.. JESUS. screw that guy.. he's nuts.. wants christian sharia law. mike FUCKABEE. he's awful really. he's also full of shit. it's easy to sit an criticize when you get a big contract from Fox News to be a talking head. Of course he's not gonna run any more.. he's pretty comfortable. why would he risk that? they're all politicians. they all.. even bernie.. have some stuff in the closet. they all can play politics and have in their careers... some more than others.. i think bernie is more on the up and up at least for now. obama had a similar campaign in regards to raising money from lot's of small donors vs big money through slush funds of pacs etc but as soon as he got his foot in the door he didn't exactly shun banks etc. of course there was a financial crisis of massive proportions to deal with and he had ample opportunity to put his foot in someone's ass but we know how that turned out... edit: if you want to know huckabee go watch his comments on anything over the last 5 or 10 years. he's a fucking religious fascist.
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    that's some deep nasty for sure. if the media grabs on to it and there's some shred of something then there's a ding in his orange.
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    ^^^ jesus.. rush.. what a load of crap. the clintons have taken it on the chin since forever. how long did the lewinksy shit last? impeachment hearings? c'mon. he's an idiot. and wtf is trump going to 'expose' that people don't already know? $225,000 a speech? big deal.. ask how much reagan got.. more and that was many years ago. people have no memory of this stuff.. short memory if at all. blah.. rush.. what a fat tub of pig grease that guy is. but it may come down to "i both of them but i hate this one more! so i'll vote for the other one" which is awful really. american politics at its finest. trump. wtf. he's got plenty of skeletons in his financial closetbut he has plausible deniability etc. because he just licenses his name and uses subcontractors etc etc.. ugh. we're fucked.
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    TIDAL

    ignatius replied to klore's topic in Music Discussion

    that's some grade A snark : Beyoncé Quickly Releases New Song About How Buying Tidal Subscription Most Empowering Thing A Woman Can Do
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    ignatius replied to a topic in General Banter

    me too. two bookmarks. there's a lot of great stuff in the footnotes.. some of them are quite long detailed side stories that are really relevant. especially near the end. i'd also recommend that when you get to the end of the book to go back and read the beginning again as it kind of closes the loop a little bit. the Pale King had its moments and i'm glad i read it but it was also hard to read as it was so promising and painful. also, the entire section about the podiatrist's neon sign that points one way or another and the people living in the apartment across the street would see it out their window and check before leaving the apartment to determine if indeed they should go out or stay in etc etc.. well.. that's pretty much what Beck said in an interview he gave to a magazine in the 90s. exact same fucking story about beck's life in LA. he lived next to podiatrist neon sign he could see out his apartment window. i even wrote DFW's editor to ask about it being in the book but got no response. if you like DFW it's worth reading all his stuff. Supposedly fun thing i'll never do again, Consider the lobster (has some of the most amazing non-fiction in it.. i was just glued to it and amazed that one of my fav things in it is a review of a book on grammar and usage), Oblivion (though it's pretty damn dark at times and kind of fucking floored me as it gets weirdly meta feeling at times especially reading it after he hung himself and knowing about his depression and the failure of his medication to work again after he tried to switch to a new medication with less side effects), Girl With Curious hair (aces really.. some really great short stories in this) yeah i'm kind of a DFW nut. his work really got me early on. "end of the tour" is actually pretty good movie as well. the book it's based on is good too. blah!
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    ignatius replied to a topic in General Banter

    2 months later 200 pages in lol, oh boy. It's because of college though. This summer I'll read the whole thing. one of my fav books :) i'll probably read it for a 4th time this year. only gets better imo
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    I'm a bit retarded I spelled in a previous comment "wattmers" instead of "watmmers". Why the posts only allow a limited number of edits? read the mf'n rules I read the rules already, but they do not explain "why" there is a limited time for editing only for members, they only states that but there isn't any particular explanation why It's a paid feature for EKT and EKT+. So capitalism is the reason until someone convinces ISP + web hosting companies to offer all their services for free.. yes. capitalism is the answer.
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    ^^^ it's so perfect.
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    ignatius replied to a topic in General Banter

    i was big kerouac fan for a while in my 20s and read a lot of his stuff. On The Road to me was more interesting later in the book but when i read it a 2nd time many years later i was pretty bored.. but it's one of those books that's more about what i thought about after reading it than what i thought about while reading it. fwiw i liked Darma Bums way more. something about the meditative nature of it appealed to me at the time. i haven't re-read that one though.. it's been a long time. Vanity Of Duluoz is very autobiographical and more or less a personal history of kerouac's life or at least a chunk of it. the language is fun and it's an interesting era of american history. if you want to get the vibe of the beat generation read the Neal Cassady biography The First Third about his first 30 years and you'll see where all that energy comes from (other than speed) cassady was the muse. btw.. the movie of On the Road with Kristen Stewart as Mary Lou is actually pretty decent. I thought it would totally suck and be just awful and who the fuck is this guy playing kerouac he sounds nothing like him etc etc.. but it ends up delivering the futile sadness of the friendships and the wanderlust vibe pretty well and kristen stewart to her credit goes for it pretty good as mary lou and it's a time when kerouac was younder and more optimistic than sullen alcoholic so is less dark. blah blah blah.. currently reading The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano. great at times. i read 2666 last summer and liked it but was blown away my the whole middle section which is 300 or so pages of retellings of police reports about women being murdered in mexico. wtf. read neal stephenson's SevenevS a while back. really loved it as is usual for me w/his books.
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    clinton would hopefully beat drumpf. the media.. well, Fox news. is already saying drumpf is more "presidential" and pivoting a bit to widen his appeal.. they said this after one stupid speech where he didn't insult ted cruz by calling him lyin ted. yawn. what a bunch of assholes. a lot of republicans hate drumpf and would stay home or write in a 3rd candidate... but the election is a ways off still so we'll see what happens at the conventions and news drama between now and then. there's still plenty of time to fuck up.
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    verbs tho my whole life is a lie. i can't remember ever feeling less of a grammar snob than this moment. edit: leaving up original post for shame.
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    i'd recommend something on your shirt that doesn't end in a preposition. for example: "please don't tell me who the american president is, bitch"
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