You’re fucking joking, right? A two hour old account, and you want to pretend that you didn’t make it just to fuck with someone.

Look, everyone tries to fuck shower spider at some point. It’s a rite of passage

The tyco one?

I loved that thing.

Okay, so I’m a very recent passenger on the jazz train. Went most of my life not enjoying it because the stuff I was hearing didn’t work for me. Then I ran across a gentleman, Abraham Laboriel that changed that. This video is of of the first I watched that flipped the switch in my head.

This is another favorite

See, I figured out after hearing that stuff that it was mostly jazz horn I wasn’t a fan of, though that’s slowly changing. I definitely like bass, drum, and piano forward stuff the best.

Just gonna drop a few links for your perusal at leisure. There’s no way to tell what you’ll like or not, so I’m just picking a handful of stuff that makes me groove with it.

https://youtu.be/gjDrEdEzfQc

https://youtu.be/dNXS7Zyda6Q

https://youtu.be/G4XhXVCF-oE

https://youtu.be/PHdU5sHigYQ

https://youtu.be/yHKl0euhZI0

But I think it’s important to note that jazz is a pretty big umbrella. The kind of smooth jazz that’s closest to the down tempo stuff you’re already into is even pretty broad in itself. My take is that jazz is less about clear delineations of style and more about the relationship between the player, their instrument, and the audience. When it’s a group, they sink in and follow each other around a theme, and that’s when jazz gets great.

When you find stuff like that where a group is in sync and flowing, I think you’ll eventually find that it calls to you even if it doesn’t fit what you already like.

For me, it’s disgust and rage, not fear.

Yup. It’s weird, but that’s the way. When I first saw it in a book as a kid, I didn’t connect it to the word as it’s said for years.

I only discovered them a few months ago, which was utterly disappointing that it took so long. But I’m looking forward to even more :)

That’s my concern too. People jumping or trying to push into using it before the possible consequences are fully known.

Word!

I’m glad I learned the basics on film. I very much enjoy the convenience of digital, but I think that if I had started there I’d still be struggling to cut a reliance on that convenience. There was a lot of pleasure in using a fully manual camera that I would have missed as well.

My first was an old Pentax, with just one lens for months. Trying to get a good shot, fiddling with light and aperture and fstop was frustrating because of the delay in results, but it was rewarding when it paid off.

With a good time

Yeah, I could legit use one for sure. Using a plastic bin for chicken feed storage currently, but I’d prefer a vertical option. A good wooden barrel will last decades with no issues at all on a porch like ours. And not get thrown around when empty and a giant numpty of a rooster slams into it because he’s a giant numpty that can’t be bothered to watch where he’s going.

Also, the giant numpty could stand on it while demanding biscuits and/or pats.

That’s a great fucking track!

It’s pretty cheap already. Metformin. One of the least expensive options for diabetes

I think you misread their comment.

In reality, nothing, that isn’t my vibe.

But, when messing around with my wife? I’ll tell a simple joke. Then I’ll exaggerate the fuck out of it. Then I’ll do a personalized version of it ala walking dad. Then I’ll wait fifteen or twenty minutes and do it again. And again until she’s almost ready to punch me.

Then I’ll wait a day, and start a normal conversation, go with it and then segue right into the joke again. Then go through the whole cycle until she’s ready to scream. Then stop and say I’m done. Only I’m not, and she knows I’m not after over a decade together. She knows it’s going to come back, and she’s waiting for it, only I’ll wait longer, until she thinks I’ve forgotten and drop it out of nowhere in the middle of something else, sometimes while there’s people around that I know have never heard the joke, and now she’s glaring at me, but trying not to laugh while everyone else is laughing because it’s new to them.

Eventually she accepts the absurdity of it all and gets that it’s all about committing to the bit.

But the reason it works is that she can never tell which joke it’s going to be. It isn’t every joke, every day.

Like, why didn’t the toilet paper cross the road?

Because it was stuck in the crack.

Simple, silly joke. Fucking hilarious though, it’s utter genius joke construction (and I wish I had been the one to create it). But when you start exaggerating the way you tell it, doing the whole “do ya get it?” shtick, then switching over to "it got stuck in the crack Coral! Only with Coral replaced by her name, it starts building into this absurd snowball that grows with every repetition until it’s bigger and more ridiculous than a simple bit like that can do on its own.

It’s shorthand for “I love you enough to look like a jackass for days or weeks just to give you a laugh”, and it’s utterly annoying, it’s groan inducing and sometimes “Jesus fucking Christ, South, how many times are you going to do this?!”. But it always pays off in the end because once the ride is over, and the theater of the absurd plays out, all it takes is starting the joke, and she’s laughing, and happy. That’s because she knows damn good and well I wouldn’t put the effort into it for just anyone. She knows it’s going to build a shared joy in a way just telling a joke can’t.

But it still annoys her during the process, which just makes it funnier.

Not universally, no.

People absorb different things in different ways.

Where filmed media excels is cutting the description into pieces and showing it on screen. That doesn’t necessarily make it easier to understand for everyone, and certainly not for every book that get turned into a show or movie.

For folks that have issues with picturing things in their head (aphantasia or disphantasia), movies are going to be a major boost in understanding. For folks that don’t have that issue, it comes down more to preference.

I can’t say either is better, or even easier to understand, in and of itself. I actually run towards hyperphantasia; I can read a book and once I sink in, it’s as vivid as it gets. Sometimes, it’s a movie in my head and the words on the page are just there in the background (and that’s despite dyslexia, if only a fairly minor expression of it).

There’s book versions of movies as well, with the most interesting example being the E.T. novelization from way back when. The book changed things that were in the movie, to the extent that it was very noticeable. But both the movie and book had their own merits in terms of understanding the story. One example is the scenes with the plastic barriers and such while ET is being examined by the government. A deeper sense of dread and horror was possible in the book via descriptions. But the movie conveyed the claustrophobic, invasive feeling of it better because you could see all the alienness of what the government was doing, how all the lights and airlocks and such became more apart from the family than the family was from ET.

But, if the author fucks up the descriptions, no picture in the mind will come close to what film can do. So there’s a lot more craft needed in writing visuals than there are in most video footage. The barrier between understandable images on screen and conveying information is lower. Conversely, film has to work harder to convey emotion via craft; you can just say that a character is scared in a book and get the basic idea down.

So it isn’t cut and dried. There’s a lot of factors between the mind of the creator/ and the audience’s minds that make it complicated

Got dayum, ain’t that the truth!

The biggest benefit of digital vs film in my mind is speed.

A good film camera, if you want a really great picture, you better be set up already and know what you’re shooting. Digital shifts gears faster, so you may not get the absolute best shots, but you’ll get something, and sometimes that’s the best you can do.

Yeah, film is likely going to funnel you towards taking better pictures overall, even with the fully auto cameras. But, I’d say that once you get the basics down, the ability to just move one dial and handle the rest later is a massive benefit that can’t be ignored.

I still shoot both, though not as much on film what with the added expense and time of development. I like film better, and I think I always will for my purely amateur purposes. But damn, I have gotten more good shots with digital overall, and I can still pull off great ones when I have the freedom of time to set things up manually.

Edit: I figured I should state that this comment wasn’t a direct response as much as it was just putting the thoughts that surfaced because of the post in general. So a tangent rather than fully on topic

Yeah, it is usually better at gaming. Same with bazzite. But older machines can be so damn finicky that it’s rolling the dice if it isn’t something known to work on the same or similar hardware.

Good thing is that it’s relatively easy to switch back. A pain that it’s necessary, but easy enough

Five finger death punch.

Tbh not all of their lyrics read like a jr high aged edge lord, but a lot do.

Same with Texas Hippie Coalition, only add redneck to the descriptors.

But both of them have a great sound as bands. Crunchy as fuck.