NEW: DOD employees are being pressured to volunteer to help with DHS's immigration crackdown. The work includes things like: “developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border”
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Punk instrumentals have a peculiar relationship to soundtrack music:
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/me nods
I’ve been paying close attention to these lately:
John Carpenter’s soundtracks. He’s a great communicator. Like the Ramones his stuff has clarity and catchiness and it’s dead simple.
Also, David Lynch’s curation has so much personality and charm that you rehear the originals through him.
Do you mean availability or quality, Marc?
I listened to “Girlfriend” so many times, with so much pleasure, but when I went back to it recently it felt clumsy and obvious. The only part that aged well was the fantastic guitar playing by Robert Quine.
One thing Paglia wrote that always sticks w/ me: when the shuttle Columbia broke up over Texas as GWB was ramping to invade Iraq, she pointed out that any Roman ruler would have called off a planned war if a disaster happened in the sky above their home province
Yngwie tells Rick Beato he was already a virtuoso at age 8, his first day with a guitar. Total nonsense. But it shows his real talent: absolute confidence from the start. Precocious egomaniac energy is what made him a shredder.
Every player is a mouth to feed! Not just arrangements but also rehearsals, personality, pay...
Still, I kind of like the sound of the ad. It’s hard to not be an asshole when you write something like that and they got the vibe ok.
The difference in the take when I finally got it was believing in myself. Not technique, not talent, not practice. Just confidence. Which is the most annoying lesson possible. Fuck a duck. There's no place like home, says Dorothy.
I've been struggling to record this guitar part. The timing needs to be clean and I haven't been able to get it right. Days of trying, take after take. I started thinking I just don't have the talent. My time tends to be skunky on the best of days.
Check out this monster fungus
#fungusmonday
Like, is it even used? Being good at translating raw data into IRS-speak is what a tax specialist does.
Angels giving fly-by had skritches.
Regretting going with brasstaxes.com - their questionnaire is so detailed that it would have been less work to file my own taxes.
The scene was an opposition party (Tisza, Péter Magyar) campaign event in Pécs (filling its main square) ahead of the April national election, which is surely too many details for engagement hunters.
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The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.
This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.
youtu.be/QYEC4TZsy-Y
The internet sucks because of passwords
2FA
3FA
MOR FA
Holy whaaaaaaaa
Enjoy - I did:
youtu.be/sB4RYBpwV0A?...
I hear Altamont is hiring
Your competition is Hells Angels
Imagine computers with no passwords
No, really. And that’s what it was like in the olden days. You’d sit down at your green monochrome monitor running the world’s nastiest version of MS Windows just start typing.
Maybe you can spin up platform VMs as MCP servers to run tests. I realize that at best that would only cover unit tests.
The speed of this style lets creativity flow.
There's a photo of Hahn and her monkey Punk in Wikipedia. Strange how I never heard of her...
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Your productivity on this is amazing.
Christopher M Jacques is an artist in a completely unexpected medium. I have at least four of his patches, if not ten. So strange and wonderful, especially the generative stuff.
I was surfing scifi soundtracks and came across this fantastic generative patch, “Dystopic"
www.youtube.com/live/61on2ji...
You need one more rule for rock harmony: solos in blues pentatonic always work. Clashing with the chords is not a thing.
Like this?
1 minor or major
2 minor or major
b3 major
4 minor or major
5 minor or major
b6 major
