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    been playing guitar on and off since '92. all the radio popular grunge/alternative music back then is what drew me in to want to learn how to play. I peaked in high school back in like '95 when I was in a prog metal band, it's been all downhill since then I don't consider myself a great player at all. I can keep up, but am no virtuoso. I've always been of the mindset that coming up with a good melody on the instrument is more important than technical ability. coming up with 3-4 note / chord melodies and figuring out where to go from there is more fun for me than being able to solo my ass off at 180bpm. in high school I played an Ibanez with Marshall amps. later on I got a Fender Strat with a Roland Jazz chorus amp. sold it all many years ago. a few years back I wanted to get back into guitar but not spend a ton of money on it. bought an ESP EC-256 because I liked the look, and it plays fairly well for a low/mid priced guitar. have an Orange solid state practice amp that I run through a mixer. the line out on the Orange has 4x12 cabinet simulation that sounds pretty decent through monitors. got a pedal board with 9 pedals. my recommendation on pedals - since you'll eventually go there - is get a noise gate, loop, chorus, and reverb for the starters. then add on whatever else you can afford after those basic ones... I try and stay away from computers as much as possible when it comes to music making. I record stuff on a zoom multi track.
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    intelligence dance music
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    yep. being in "the zone" as it's called. a lot of it has to do with following pure instinct as opposed to intellect. right brain vs left brain stuff. no time to listen to the inner critic voice in the head, it's turned off during those intense fast paced moments...the same thing is largely the intent of breathing meditation. calm your mind down enough so that you don't hear the voice inside your head. I've heard of athletes practicing meditation in order to help train their mind to remain calm when they're out there doing their thing.
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    sounds like they were pissed off they were forced to actually communicate IRL with other humans, rather than hiding their faces in their phones. the boomer lesson to be learned here is that smart phones have fucked the younger generations ability to participate in small talk, as mundane as it normally can be. being able to successfully shoot the shit with people standing right next to you is a skill that is slowly fading away...future sociologists will pinpoint the year 2007 (iphone released) as the year when society began its descent toward the current phone addicted culture we all can witness the world over in 2024. I don't think Steve Jobs realized the extent of the damage the iphone would eventually do psychologically or sociologically to the humans on this planet when he helped launch the thing into the world back then.
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    bingo. him quitting completely at 10 films is total BS. publicity stunt for the attention. he will no doubt jump into directing TV series stuff at some point, since we know that's what most of the rest of the industry has done.
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    I'd say historical graphs showing annual rises/falls don't matter to the average red hat wearing citizen. they look at how prices are today, this week, etc., and make their Biden good vs bad determination based on this. gas is expensive. meat's expensive. mortgage rates still high. Biden's fault. shit like this. they don't take geopolitical factors like Israel vs Iran affecting gas prices into account because they pay more for gas and that's all Biden's fault! inflation also looks to be up down up down up down depending on the week right now - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/13/surging-inflation-fears-sent-markets-tumbling-and-fed-officials-scrambling.html lol I have no choice to engage with them. I don't get into a debate tho as it's not my style. a lot of people I deal with for work are between Arizona to Mississippi - hardly pro-Biden states. I probably run into more T supporters than Biden out in the wild. buy yeah... the end goal here should be to try and get more people to fall off the trump train. sadly this is not as easy as it should be. why tf anyone supports him is beyond reason.
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    I agree with the assessment that Biden and his administration have been good for the GDP and job creation. but we know a large chunk of people vote on what effects them personally - and the rising inflation isn't helping Biden - since voters will blame him for it. GDP is good for businesses, but high food/gas prices are what the majority of the voting population are more concerned with. I've heard from T supporters that they're voting for him because "he's good for the economy." there is some truth to that, if you consider 2017-2019 data linked in the article below: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-biden-economy-gdp-wages-inflation/ my response to them when they say that is along the lines of well look at the economy now under Biden - do you think this is somehow bad? look at the stock market if you need proof, since that's probably the quickest/easiest way to understand economic health. covid was an anomaly that effected global economies, not just US. Trump could be seen as the unfortunate guy sitting in the white house at the time, and the economic shit storm that it caused was not of his doing. yes Trump's handling of it here was a disaster, but since covid is gone from the news cycle, many voters I don't think really care about who or how it wound down exactly. you know I'm largely playing devil's advocate here... I will not be voting for Trump. but I also want to remind you that Biden is not some white knight that has been a home run for the entire country. I still don't understand why the democrats cannot find someone other than him within their party that has broader appeal. they should be focusing on creating Obama 2.0 if you ask me.
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    I'm a few episodes into this new adaptation of Talented Mr. Ripley - film noir fans take note - this is beautifully shot. I haven't seen the Matt Damon version in ages, so I forget a lot of the details about the story. this version goes into extra detail on everything, maybe a little too much that is slows down the plot a bit. the actor playing Ripley is excellent.
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    well there's also the whole live performance aspect when it comes to music that the computers haven't yet quite figured out. so I'd say they are still far from "winning." I mean this shit is p cool but c'mon
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    ironic I know... if only more of these events happened lol in the "it'd be nice" category - it'd be nice if celestial occurrences like this would make people think more on the fact that we humans are all just evolved animals living together on this big rock floating through space. religion / cultures / politics - all of it is moot in the long term, since the flow of the universe dictates the wave we're all riding known as reality...but yeah, now this eclipse thingy is moving out of the news cycle, the collective we in this country can all get back to disagreeing over man-made bullshit systems that were invented a long time ago in order to keep the peasants from revolting against the few who think they are actually in control of the way things are.
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    saw it. was cloudy on and off up until totality, then we got a clear view during those few minutes. one of my neighbors was playing some trumpet dirge as it got really dark, definitely made for a cool vibe. all the bugs started coming out when it got dark.
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    bunch of places in TX did this too. they even cancelled schools today for the eclipse, worried about afternoon eclipse tourist traffic. hotels jacked up their rates. local news going crazy talking about it non-stop...so much HYPE that gets everyone riled up for nothing. they forgot about clouds tho. it's cloudy here today.
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    this whole thing could've been avoided if Russia had NOT sent their military into Ukraine and started indiscriminately massacring civilians and destroying infrastructure. all in the name of a BS false flag "de-nazify" operation. or Nato involvement. or land. I can't remember which story they used to justify this...remember that Vlad was given BS intel by his yes men that they'd be welcomed with open arms, and the whole thing would be over by the weekend. Russia could have very easily backed off once they realized this wasn't the case, but due to Vlad's massive ego, had to keep marching on, killing more people in order to save face (and he would've more than likely been assassinated if he backed off so soon). ask yourself the basic question- who's fault is this exactly? is Ukraine to blame for Russians coming into their country and killing their people? did Ukrainians somehow deserve this? if you believe that is the case, i.e. there is justification for one country's military to go into another and start killing people (civilians!) and blowing shit up, then brother, you are wrong... war is wrong, period. killing people is wrong. any arguments in defense of killing others are wrong. delusional human beings believe they have a reason for killing others. Putin is definitely one of those. and I wouldn't rest your laurels on that 2022 Turkey negotiation meeting. depending on what website article you look at - western media or pro-Russia - both sides may/may not have been at fault for not coming to a ceasefire pact. Ukraine blames Russia for sending low-level delegates with no authority to end the war to the talks, and Russia blames Ukraine for not accepting their home run of a deal. if you ask me, just more grey area bullshit that causes people to not accept the truth of the matter...classic Russian tactics. "could be this, could be that" is the grey area psychological zone that has been drilled into the heads of the Russian people for a hundred plus years. manipulate and brainwash the population in order to control. can't let them know the truth about what is really going on.
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    I'd imagine there will be deaths related to the outcome of this election no matter who wins. violent protests, police clashes either way...with the level of societal chaos and domestic terrorism threat that swirls around him, I'm surprised some special op lone gunman hasn't tried to take him out by now.
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    Carter of course came up with the idea for the show, largely influenced by '70s B-horror TV show Kolchak Night Stalker. he also lucked out finding some very gifted writers/directors early on (Howard Gordon, James Wong, Vince Gilligan, Frank Spotnitz). and obviously Duchovny & Gillian Anderson nailed it... but IMO, Carter didn't have much in the way of talent outside of that. the eps he wrote/directed weren't as good as the others, and the shows he launched thanks to his X-files fame all tanked. they need to leave the show alone at this point. it was a mid '90s gem that has been rebooted twice with horrible results. the story line has run its course. but that's not the way the money machine operates... I also don't know Coogler, but an easy comparison point would be what Jordan Peele did with the recent 4th or 5th reboot of Twilight Zone, which was absolute garbage. and then there's the subpar track record in terms of quality for all TV reboots in general. not a good omen. of the S10/S11 eps, I remember there were probably 1-2 decent ones each season. the "funny" eps I remember were p good, largely because they brought back Darin Morgan to write those. he wrote some of the '90s classics like Jose Chung's from outer space (the one with Alex Trebek) and Clyde Bruckman's Final repose. incredible stuff.
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    that article is from 2015...and we all know how those reboots turned out - dog shit I did find this more recent somewhat relevant article. was announced last year the powers that be are in fact trying to reboot it, sans Chris Carter: https://www.thewrap.com/x-files-reboot-ryan-coogler-chris-carter-blessing/
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    +1 we're the last of the Mohicans here bro...a dying breed.
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    lol this is the same CIA that has gone on record saying they were forced to withhold sensitive information from trump because of what a threat to national security he is. creating "bogus" internet persona's to try and somehow undermine the Chinese govt. sounds exactly like some sort of scooby doo kindergartner chewing on crayons low ball shit the CIA would actually feel comfortable letting trump claim as his op. the adults need to let him wear the big boys pants every so often.
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    I'm also a fan. I like reading a few "chapters" every so often in between other things I'm reading. he's great at pointing out really obvious stuff most of us probably have a good idea of, but have difficulty articulating about the creative process. it actually inspired me to start recording music again, as opposed to constantly noodling about.
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    Deep Sky. documentary on the JWST. saw it in IMAX and found it quite emotional. starts off with a history of the project, short interview clips with the scientists who helped make it possible. then it launches into those incredible magical images from the telescope itself, displayed in all the glory of IMAX...I'm just sitting there like
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    my bad on saying O replacement planning. after hillary went down is what I was thinking. anyway like you said, the lack of young blood in both parties is worrisome. that's why we got who we got right now. 70/80 year olds who both are from generations past. this is not the direction I think the political leaders in this country should be heading. but there are no worthwhile alternatives. old dudes lead to voter turn off and apathy. that is, of course, unless you're a maga cretin, who wants the country to go back to white bread evangelical tent revival segregationist bullshit.
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    yeah one thing I never quite got was how they ended up with old man joe. he was obv chomping at the bit to jump in the ring, since he's a career politician, Obama's #2, and all that. but ffs...was there no one else semi-competent in the dem sphere ready to step up? I would think the democratic party could have had better O replacement game planning. IMO it's entirely their fault we are at this neck and neck BS with Biden and orange dickwad. that's what is so depressing about all this...and by all this I mean looking at a T comeback. the dems, a.k.a the other party not tied to a racist con man piece of shit, can't get a decent candidate that would actually be able to swing the swing states. fuckin grandpa Joe is a throw back old guy. and a lot of people out there don't want that. so that says to me that anyone still semi youthful in the dem team doesn't want to become US pres, because of how shit show'd the oval office has been reduced to, partly thanks to donald and the current state of things all political... the dems are looking weak. R's are a party of racist ego maniacal insane buffoons. this is what we have to choose from this election. it's like humans just never learn from their mistakes over and over again, and we are getting dumber at this governance shit.
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    a lot of it stems from judgmental belief systems forced into their heads by their parents since they were kids. once those beliefs are baked in and turned into undeniable truths, it's really hard to ever see things in a different light. and I mean not just these humans in the middle east, but all over. it's been going down the shitter for thousands of years because of humans. a quick browse through history shows how horrible groups of people have been to each other when they don't agree on something. now we have the unfortunate luxury of witnessing it all in real time thanks to internet / phones / media. that's it man. try and spread positivity in your daily interactions and relationships. helps to keep in mind there's a lot of stuff in the world you can't control. a lot of bad out there, this is fact. but you can control your own head space and actions. best to focus on that before trying to throw the weight of the world on your shoulders.
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    next they ought to ban all those vile heavy metal albums. I mean look at this shit - it's the devil's work!!!!
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    ah ok, gotcha. that "it." for a sec there I thought you meant the it referring to the destruction of the entire human race. glad we got that sorted.
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