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joshuatxuk

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  1. Sesame Street is largely public funded and has cranked out literally thousands of episodes, I feel like they wouldn't have the financial incentive to pursue a band like Boards of Canada. Hair OST is an interesting one, but with musical soundtracks there are often multiple recordings and versions of the same music. I forget which one they sampled but it's also a bassline/drum break and those tend to slide by a bit more.
  2. Oh shit, I just watched the older upload of this just a week or two ago.Prince was not of this world, he could have easily had an alternative history career as a guitar virtuoso or jumped genres as much as Bowie or Bjork. I like a lot of his stuff and love a few of his classics but more so he's one of those figures I respect the absolute hell of even though I'm not a massive fan (and I totally understand those who are) Also George would have loved this and Dhani clearly did.
  3. if this was a shreds video it'd be dismissed as too over the top
  4. It wasn't until fairly recently I firmly concluded, personally, that capitalism needs to end in order for humanity to progress. I don't think it will quite be gone the way of feudalism before I die but I think the seeds of it collapsing and being replaced are planted. This era we're in is clearly a messy and unprecedented transition stage with the post-cold war and pre-9/11 90s as a weird intermission of sorts. Neoliberalism has given us progressive changes in many social and cultural ways while simultaneously gutting what already fragile systematic stability most democracies previously had. I have my issues with ML via vanguardism but I don't harp on them often because that tends to come off less as pushing back on tankies and more as feeding into liberal and right-wing misconceptions of socialism and leftism. I don't envision utopias any time soon but I do think there can be a manner in which cities and urban areas have top down centralized socialism to implement and maintain things like public transportation and energy while allowing more rural and remote areas to operate as more anarcho-communist entities. Automation should be freeing up populations and not accelerating impoverishment and wealth divides. There will always be extremism and regressive elements to mitigate but I do think if we pivot from this band-aid duct tape manner of government we have now it to one of robust socialism it would temper most reactionary populist tendencies. Left-libertarianism does currently exist in pockets of the world - Rojava and Chiapas specifically. Cuba has managed to be fairly robust despite perpetual embargos and intervention attempts and the typical authoritarian leanings and pitfalls of any beleaguered country attempting stalled out communist revolution. The other ML countries that haven't fallen pivoted to state guided capitalism. Democratic socialism is good achievable patch in the U.S. but part of me wonders if it's more likely this country will dissolve in balkanization before that ever occurs. Something is going to give here though at some point. My reading of actual theory versus skimming wikipedia, keeping up with leftists outlets (Jacobin, Zero Books) is pretty minimal. Slowly trying to remedy that - I started reading The Conquest of Bread last week.
  5. yeah he had a turbulent life and combat experience in WW2, he was also know for his litany of off color jokes and general arrogance typical of most Royals like QEII his life is more of an interesting window into history, I feel fairly neutral about his death and see it more as a bookend
  6. I dig this, vocals reminds me of Gary Wilson and the overall sounds reminds me of BMSR, OLR, and a lot of other weird lo-fi psych of the hypnagogic pop persuasion.
  7. It's great and easy to use. Ben a got to for me in cassette dubbing when playing back source .wavs and finding the peaks. IIRC @Goiter Sanchezuses it for his production. IIRC the only complaint I've seen of it is the destructive .wav editing but that can be avoided and mitigated.
  8. NFTs are so fundamentally offensive as a concept when I was reading some article giving a primer about what they are and how they work I just gave up and said "man, this is so fucking stupid." Let's give everyone basic housing options, UBI, and publicly fund libraries and web archives to store people's creations. Give me that over this final boss influencer, hyper artificial scarcity, late stage capitalism bullshit.
  9. Pretty much. Solid Tex-Mex is up there for me as well.
  10. chapo trap house and behind the bastards have both done good episodes about Peterson in case anyone wants to hear a good run down on why he's so goddamn iffy admittedly many just gravitate to his MOR academic lectures and self-help stuff and while those topics are fine but in the case of most people who deal in those niches as authors or lecturers they aren't backing it up with bizarre crypto-fascist and ultra-conservative ideology and rhetoric
  11. reminder that this godawful remix album inspired the greatest pitchfork review of all time
  12. I rememeber seeing this on some Discovery or Nat Geo program. The interior is configured to be used when flipped, so a lot of table and chairs and shelves in the research rooms and crew quarters appear at 90 angles and seemingly bolted to the walls.
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