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strong Joe Pesci vibes lol mirror in a phone

The reason i hate opera is the abuse of constant reckless vibrato, its a musical plague. I like the music itself. Sadly too much for me here as well.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3167327/omicron-has-brought-hong-kong-its-knees-how-did ''With just 7,100 beds, pooled from public hospitals and isolation facilities at AsiaWorld-Expo and Penny’s Bay, set aside for Covid-19 patients, thousands of new daily cases have quickly pushed the public health care system to its limit. Based on the latest official data, the Post estimates about 11,000 infected people are still waiting in the community to be admitted to hospitals or isolation facilities. With the standing practice of sending every positive case to government-run isolation facilities, confusion over instructions for suspected cases was widespread.

I usually hate opera. This tho, perfection.

All those mask mandates being lifted all this self congratulatory ''covid pandemic is over, people are done with it'' What about vulnerable people? kids bringing back the virus home? long covid? People died by the thousands everyday in the USA because of Omicron...Wearing a mask is a very small annoyance and it helps saving lives. My heart really goes to everyone immunocompromised. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/covid-pandemic-immunocompromised-risk-vaccines/622094/

Its in his damn channel name. Every time a video is recommended with him it says Dr John Campbell. Fair enough, its not in the title,but its in every signature. So let me rephrase it for you: '' X issue'' - Dr John Campbell in the channel name. I get recommendations now and you clearly see the Dr John Campbell every time because ITS.THE.DAMN.CHANNEL.NAME. You think thats just fine? By the way im pissed at you for sharing this BS and i did watch some video believing he was a doctor, this guy abuse the public trust. He is straight up abusing the Doctor title. So fuck off. He is not a doctor. Abusing the public pretending you're a doctor is a fucking disgusting thing to do and dangerous in pandemic times. Unacceptable by all means at all times. And this aint no ''take a tylenol advices if you have a headache'' he is giving. He spits BS about ivermectin. I dont know how it is in the UK but here anyone presenting themselves when talking about health as ''Doctor'' when they are not is thought as a despicable and irresponsible thing to do.

Never said he was a medical doctor lol All his videos all called ''DR John Campbell talk about X issue'' If you're a nurse with a PHD, not a medical doctor and you still use DR for your title while talking about pandemic issue you are knowingly misleading people.

Turns out this guy is a retired nurse, not a Medical Doctor and still uses the Dr. title because he has a PHD and while making bunches of health recommendations (and making big youtube money off it) to thousands of people misleading them into trusting him... If thats not a big ass red flag. Extremely unethical thing to do. Just a warning for anyone trusting this guy. He may comes off as respectable but if he has no problem to pretend to be a Medical Doctor on a youtube channel i would never trust the fella in a million year.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figure-skating/doping-hearing-russian-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-ruling-expected-mondady-1.6350402 lol Russia sure loves doping

Was reading an article the other day about long covid. When you have the bad luck of catching that bullet on the covid roulette oh boy does it sucks. People having 5% of their usual energy, not able to read books anymore, barely can prepare meal, being so tired they cant work, no concentration, have to walk with a cane,headaches, pain etc. etc. People in their 30s,40s,50s. Really fucking sucks.

I mean...there has been long covid with every variant. Would be a bit over optimistic to think there will be none with Omicron. We may not know for sure but there is a pattern there. The virus attacks so many organs including the brain. The amount of vaccinated people will probably help tho.

I wonder if in the next few years ahead, cold season will become a time where you have to be careful by default and where there will be more restrictions and health measures by default. And when the heat comes back in late spring everything opens more. Outside gatherings are way safer after all. I can see that happening.

https://musicstudent101.com/67-hexatonic-scales.html Interesting list there.

When improvising a melody upon a chord, have a note in mind that is outside of the chord and use it as a pivot note to make the new chord to improvise into. Repeat each time you switch chord. That way you're always thinking about the chord you are using NOW and the NEXT chord ahead as well, at any one moment, at all time. That way you have 2 chords locked at all time and the switches become seemless. Ex: ( Simple Tonic-dominant progression )you play a melody in C minor upon C, Eb, G and you have Ab in mind as additional note to switch chords, as a pivot note. After that you go from Ab with Ab, B , D and additional note C as a pivot to come back to C chord. It is really cool trick both in normal scales or twelve tones.

Oh a cool thing is to fix certain notes over many octave to create a scale. Took that trick from a Stravinsky interview. Like have C, E,F, G sharp on bottom octave and then, on the octave above have C sharp, D, F sharp, A (and maybe even have a E flat and B another octave above) and make melodies with that. Split and space the various notes of the scale(or chord) youre inventing on many octaves and fix them there instead of having them behave the same way on every octave.

From Wiki: ''The major hexatonic scale is made from a major scale and removing the seventh note, e.g., C D E F G A C.[1] It can also be made from superimposing mutually exclusive triads, e.g., C E G and D F A.[2] Similarly, the minor hexatonic scale is made from a minor scale and removing the sixth note, e.g., C D E♭ F G B♭ C.[1]'' Yeah, so its some form of hexatonic scale but not the classic major minor ones it seems (minor hexatonic removes 6th note, major one does remove the 7th but its in major)

Remove the VII note from the scale. Dont use it at all. Try it out you'll see what i mean.

Every chord is usable. Context/relationship is everything. Do not only think in triads and roman harmony (like C chord, G chord etc.) also think in added notes over a fondamental. Ex: C as fundamental/lowest note in the chord + add notes at various interval on top for free harmony. Every single combination is useful. Experiment with that and you'll have develop a feeling for chord colors in full 12 tones.

Natural Minor scale without using the seventh note (leading tone ex: G in A natural minor) gives you a deeper contemplative dramatic vibe because youre not using the major chord vibe of the G natural ( that can sometime give you cheesy pop harmonies) and you avoid the the more ''classical'' vibe from the Harmonic Minor that doesnt work well in electronic. Extremely good for electronic and also usable in any other context. Probably a mode/scale name for it but i dont know it.

Long Covid is quite worrying. It has been brushed to the side but studies like this remind us that this bloody thing is full of surprises.

I certainly do! You seem interested in things like time and art and their relationship, i think you would dig it. here is a quote: ''Turning now to the film image as such, I immediately want to dispel the widely held idea that it is essentially 'composite'. This notion seems to me wrong because it implies that cinema is founded on the attributes of kindred art forms and has none specifically its own; and that is to deny that cinema is an art. The dominant, all-powerful factor of the film image is rhythm, expressing the course of time within the frame. The actual passage of time is also made clear in the characters' behaviour, the visual treatment and the sound—but these are all accompanying features, the absence of which, theoretically, would in no way affect the existence of the film. One cannot conceive of a cinematic work with no sense of time passing through the shot, but one can easily imagine a film with no actors, music, decor or even editing. The Lumiere brothers' Arrivée d'un Train, already mentioned, was like that. So are one or two films of the American underground: there is one, for instance, which shows a man asleep; we then see him waking up, and, by its own wizardry, the cinema gives that moment an unexpected and stunning aesthetic impact. Or Pascal Aubier's'8 ten-minute film consisting of only one shot. First it shows the life of nature, majestic and unhurried, indifferent to human bustle and passions. Then the camera, controlled with virtuoso skill, moves to take in a tiny dot: a sleeping figure scarcely visible in the grass, on the slope of a hill. The dramatic denouement follows immediately. The passing of time seems to be speeded up, driven on by our curiosity. It is as if we steal cautiously up to him along with the camera, and, as we draw near, we realise that the man is dead. The next moment we are given more information: not only is he dead, he was killed; he is an insurgent who has died from wounds, seen against the background of an indifferent nature. We are thrown powerfully back by our memories to events which shake today's world. You will remember that the film has no editing, no acting and no decor. But the rhythm of the movement of time is there within the frame, as the sole organising force of the—quite complex— dramatic development. No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components rather arbitrarily, dividing it up artificially for the sake of theoretical discussion. Nor can I accept the notion that editing is the main formative element of a film, as the protagonists of 'montage cinema', following Kuleshov and Eisenstein, maintained in the 'twenties, as if a film was made on the editing table. It has often been pointed out, quite rightly, that every art form involves editing, in the sense of selection and collation, adjusting parts and pieces. The cinema image comes into being during shooting, and exists within the frame. During shooting, therefore, I concentrate on the course of time in the frame, in order to reproduce it and record it. Editing brings together shots which are already filled with time, and organises the unified, living structure inherent in the film; and the time that pulsates through the blood vessels of the film, making it alive, is of varying rhythmic pressure.''

Music is probably my favorite artform because it seems to me it's the artform that relays the most on pure abstraction and pure imagination. It's a whole universe in itself. It does not depend as much on anything else from the outside world like cinema, painting, writing and other artforms are. Always found that to be a fascinating, astonishing thing. Miraculous almost. It's a whole universe of self-contained expression, of highly abstract relationships between sound and our psyche.

Hahaha yeah, of course. It's all good fun. It's just to remember words are in the periphery and cannot fully grasp something like music. Bacon himself talked a lot about painting, knowing it's hopeless to do so. Because it's still interesting and arguing about it has a gladiatorial charm i guess haha