Very Based

3y

or it was stolen met these 3 girls and they all had their phone stolen maybe a phone theif stole my phone still pretty fkd up tbh

Elric

3y

I already gotta take it easy in bed sometimes cause I guess my gf is narrow or something so I'm fine. Generally happy with what nature gave me on a physical level so I'll keep my complexes on my mental shortcomings.

Bizzle

3y

Kinda album that reveals itself more and more on repeated listens but even so I love how everything seems to just materialise from and then just as quickly disappear into nothing

Noir

3y

About to start reading:

Flowers for Algernon
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Very Based

3y

something that reveals itself over time is the measure of great music/art

Elric

3y

Yeah most my all time favourites are things that took some time to acclimate to but I didn't expect his AOTY to be so impossibly ethereal

Very Based

3y

sometimes, rarely, something reveals itself on the first listen but even then, revisiting it gives you more to think about/understand, not even necessarily in a cerebral way, more an emotional/visceral understanding. There are certain songs/pieces that it didn't take until listen 50 for me to realize how incredible they were. And some things I didn't care for at all the first few times I heard them but now make me like Beethovens later Sonatas. Wouldn't expect you to enjoy/care for this at all but now I think his final Sonatas are the supreme human achievement of any composer or musician ever.

Very Based

3y

sometimes, rarely, something reveals itself on the first listen but even then, revisiting it gives you more to think about/understand, not even necessarily in a cerebral way, more an emotional/visceral understanding. There are certain songs/pieces that it didn't take until listen 50 for me to realize how incredible they were. And some things I didn't care for at all the first few times I heard them but now make me like Beethovens later Sonatas. Wouldn't expect you to enjoy/care for this at all but now I think his final Sonatas are the supreme human achievement of any composer or musician ever.

Elric

3y

Or you could make one for each era. How many are there even ?

Koala

3y

Those Sonatas probably are the supreme human achievement of music. Composers of that time were on a different plain of existence in terms brilliance.

Very Based

3y

It's hard to really comprehend the significance of his sonatas (and symphonies of course) but the sonata imo is where his true genius lies. (maybe I'm biased towards the piano) but Beethoven tested the absolute limits of emotional and lyrical experimentation with the piano sonata. His sonatas represent perhaps the greatest distillation of the romantic ideals that classical music shifted towards in the beginning of the 19th century (the gestation of the early romantic period into its fully realized self). The natural evolution of this shift can be traced by simply listening to the 32 sonatas in order from first to last. In the later sonatas Beethoven seemingly abandons all of the traditional conventions of the classical form. Listen to those final three Sonatas They don't seem to even exist in a specific time or place. They're such a radical departure from the traditional classical form you wonder how he could ever have been a composer who had stylistic crossovers with Mozart and Hadyn earlier in his career. The final Sonata (#32) is most symbolic of that changing paradigm. It's the change from emphasis on form to the dissolution of it, towards a new musical language, now emphasizing the emotion of the self. With the Sonatas, we see not just a musical change, but a cultural one. It is the shift from the collective to the individual. It is a leap towards secularism. From the divinity beyond to the divinity within. In his own words "Mensch, hilf dir selber". "Man, help thyself".

Alright i'm sounding like chatgpt sorry for the essay

Koala

3y

@drjdeponytail @Jerry_Seinfeld

See this is why FSU once they lost their QB can’t be in the finals

Jerry Electricity

3y

Did FSU have players opt out or something? I saw the score and was like good f***ing lord

Koala

3y

Man idk haha Im sure players sat out but once the QB got injured it was a wrap

But on to bigger news the Pistons finally won a new losing streak begins tomorrow!!

Jerry Electricity

3y

Did FSU have players opt out or something? I saw the score and was like good f***ing lord

Elric

3y

Couple things you gotta see are;

1. The World At War, epic early 70s BBC documentary that has 24, one hour long episodes that go through all the important situations leading up to the war and crucial conflicts during. Amazing cause it has (seemingly) unbiased interviews with people from all sides and walks of life during the war. Japanese politicians, Russian peasants, American sailors, famous British commanders, literal Nazi generals after they served their time in prison the fact that they don't edit out a Nazi calling the Holocaust a hoax tells me it's pretty unbiased. Doesnt tell the hogwash version where America won the war and saved the world. Incredibly tasteful narration from Laurence Olivier.

2. A couple docs from Brit Adam Curtis which help explain why America (Hypernormalisation) and why Russia (Traumazone). Juxtaposing accidently comically absurd moments with horrifyingly dark historical turns while playing some of the most incredible deep cuts really capture a unique and ridiculous vibe. Almost like the creators of Napoleon Dynamite were there to knowingly observe the collapse of the Soviet Union and American Empire.

Very Based

3y

have you seen It Felt like A Kiss?

Elric

3y

no

Very Based

3y

Nice musical documentary by Adam Curtis. I think you can watch it on vimeo or youtube