Bollocks. Make better, less formulated music, don't compress the hell out of it, and sell it online so people can use it in their iPods and in-dash MP3 players.
Wrong. This is exactly what the majority of consumers want. Case in point, American Idol. Lady Gaga, etc.
Sure, they spend an asston on promotion and create the hype, but people happily eat it up. No, they can't help but eat it up or feel like a loser because it's been drilled into them that they NEED to hear the next throwaway artist or risk not being hip and cast out of society.
Not just classical scales, any kind of scales (hungarian, japanese, pentatonic, you name it, he shreds it).
There is no such thing as a hard scale on a guitar. Piano, maybe. The only difference between scales is spaces between the notes.
I mean, we're talking about a guy who can sight-read impossible pieces of sheet music.
Sight reading isn't some rare archaic skill. It is to self taught guitar players, but to any serious musician that is not someone in a guitar band, it's an essential skill.
He's a stunt guitarist, the kind of guy you call when you've got something impossible to play, and that's what I like about him, the monstruous virtuosity.
Ok I guess.
But I wouldn't say that his music has no soul. His tune "For the love of God" comes to mind, he really played his heart out on this one.
The 'music has no soul' comment can't be quantified. It's a meaningless statement really. But to each, their own.
They could measure the electrical impulses of a human brain and nervous system, turn it into sound, and put it on the record so that maybe, 1,000 million years from now, some alien civilization might be able to turn that data back into thoughts.
That's like taking a couple of snapshots of the stock market and hoping a future civilization would be able to recreate the evening news.
We did this when I was in 7th grade and kept track of the sunspots. I don't remember if we saw rotation or not, but we did see some sunspots come and go.
I remember this being very profound. The sun isn't just a light in the sky, it's a huge burning nuclear reaction way the fuck out there and we can still feel the heat!
The furthest I've ever driven in one day was 500 miles and it was a torturous living hell.
Not everyone has such a low tolerance for driving. That really isn't far at all. I've driven to Florida from Wisconsin many times, and if I only drove 8 hours a day, that's a 6 day round trip just driving. Get a buddy to split it 12 and 12, and if you are tired you can bitch about it while drinking a corona on the beach when ya get there:D
10 year old 1: Want to play hide and seek? 10 year old 2: Yeah! 1: You know the rules right? 2: Yep, you're never gonna find me! 1: Yes I will, you can only hide in the kitchen and you have to talk to me while I look, it's part of the rules. 2: That's not a very fun game...
In most urban areas, gas stations are a dime a dozen, and each intersection probably has two or three. Yet, you'll find for blocks on end, every gas station has the exact same price, maybe wavering a tiny bit. And that prices always seem to jump in unison, and fall very slowly. Yet this can exist without any form of price cartel among stations.
Simply put, what happens is a station wants more profit, so it bumps up the price. Each station nearby sees that, then decide they want more profit, so they bump up their price in short order as well. There may be times when one station refuses to cooperate and keeps prices low, but the other stations get business simply because the price difference isn't worth having to drive to the other station when you're already at the more expensive station. But eventually they'll give in and raise their price too since there doesn't seem to be any harm to business.
This really cracked me up. First of all, the profit made on gas at a gas station is about 3% at it's best, the supplier gets 5%-7%. Secondly, There are laws stating that we can't be more than 2 cents away from our closest competitor, we can only change prices once every 24 hours, and there is a cap on how much the price can go up per day (I think it's 6 cents, but this isn't really ever an issue). All of this went info effect during the oil crisis.
If he would've said metal worker or carpenter, it would've worked. Mechanics fix things, not build things. But I suppose there is a bit of both involved, depending on what it is you do.
Just because you are in art school doesn't mean you're creative or a good artist. I'd bet money that there is the same percentage of shitty gay artists as straight ones in a given school.
Seriously, I love classical music, but the turn of the century(ish) atonal stuff is barely music. And the twelve tone technique is barely theory. It's more of an algorithm to churn out annoying random sounding music.
Right, but as someone above pointed out, in the snow situation, only one side (or maybe two) thinks it's a four way, everyone else is following the lights.
It will work like this, you leave your desk to assist one person and on the way there and on the way back other people will pester you to solve all kinds of trivial junk because you are handy and, then everyone will complain that you are never at your desk.
It could go like that, but remember, there are hundreds of ways to say no.
"Fill out this form and put it in my inbox, FIFO"
"Steve had a similar problem last week with his computer, maybe you can ask him."
"On my way to a meeting, I'll stop by in the afternoon."
"THE SERVER IS ON FIRE!!"
Etc, etc. On average IT staff may not be the most socially adept, but don't be a floor mat.
...or something will be after the baby boomers die off and gen X and Y are in control.
Seriously, once the people who grew up with computers have the votes and money and all the free time in the world to write angry letters, Microsoft should be very scared. Our parents couldn't adapt to new OS's, but we can. We don't need Microsoft.
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Bollocks. Make better, less formulated music, don't compress the hell out of it, and sell it online so people can use it in their iPods and in-dash MP3 players.
Wrong. This is exactly what the majority of consumers want. Case in point, American Idol. Lady Gaga, etc.
Sure, they spend an asston on promotion and create the hype, but people happily eat it up. No, they can't help but eat it up or feel like a loser because it's been drilled into them that they NEED to hear the next throwaway artist or risk not being hip and cast out of society.
Not just classical scales, any kind of scales (hungarian, japanese, pentatonic, you name it, he shreds it).
There is no such thing as a hard scale on a guitar. Piano, maybe. The only difference between scales is spaces between the notes.
I mean, we're talking about a guy who can sight-read impossible pieces of sheet music.
Sight reading isn't some rare archaic skill. It is to self taught guitar players, but to any serious musician that is not someone in a guitar band, it's an essential skill.
He's a stunt guitarist, the kind of guy you call when you've got something impossible to play, and that's what I like about him, the monstruous virtuosity.
Ok I guess.
But I wouldn't say that his music has no soul. His tune "For the love of God" comes to mind, he really played his heart out on this one.
The 'music has no soul' comment can't be quantified. It's a meaningless statement really. But to each, their own.
Absolutely ridiculous. Live in your toilet, it's green...
Having been to Barbados, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic I'm fucking speechless.
until something comes out that I like
The only reason you like it is because you've heard other music. You're still standing on the shoulders of civilization.
They could measure the electrical impulses of a human brain and nervous system, turn it into sound, and put it on the record so that maybe, 1,000 million years from now, some alien civilization might be able to turn that data back into thoughts.
That's like taking a couple of snapshots of the stock market and hoping a future civilization would be able to recreate the evening news.
We did this when I was in 7th grade and kept track of the sunspots. I don't remember if we saw rotation or not, but we did see some sunspots come and go.
I remember this being very profound. The sun isn't just a light in the sky, it's a huge burning nuclear reaction way the fuck out there and we can still feel the heat!
nooooooooo
The furthest I've ever driven in one day was 500 miles and it was a torturous living hell.
Not everyone has such a low tolerance for driving. That really isn't far at all. I've driven to Florida from Wisconsin many times, and if I only drove 8 hours a day, that's a 6 day round trip just driving. Get a buddy to split it 12 and 12, and if you are tired you can bitch about it while drinking a corona on the beach when ya get there :D
10 year old 1: Want to play hide and seek?
10 year old 2: Yeah!
1: You know the rules right?
2: Yep, you're never gonna find me!
1: Yes I will, you can only hide in the kitchen and you have to talk to me while I look, it's part of the rules.
2: That's not a very fun game...
I too, have told my kid that the sun rises in the morning because hot things rise, and sets in the evening as it cools.
Actually it sets in Flagstaff, Arizona. That's why the rocks there are so red.
In most urban areas, gas stations are a dime a dozen, and each intersection probably has two or three. Yet, you'll find for blocks on end, every gas station has the exact same price, maybe wavering a tiny bit. And that prices always seem to jump in unison, and fall very slowly. Yet this can exist without any form of price cartel among stations.
Simply put, what happens is a station wants more profit, so it bumps up the price. Each station nearby sees that, then decide they want more profit, so they bump up their price in short order as well. There may be times when one station refuses to cooperate and keeps prices low, but the other stations get business simply because the price difference isn't worth having to drive to the other station when you're already at the more expensive station. But eventually they'll give in and raise their price too since there doesn't seem to be any harm to business.
This really cracked me up. First of all, the profit made on gas at a gas station is about 3% at it's best, the supplier gets 5%-7%. Secondly, There are laws stating that we can't be more than 2 cents away from our closest competitor, we can only change prices once every 24 hours, and there is a cap on how much the price can go up per day (I think it's 6 cents, but this isn't really ever an issue). All of this went info effect during the oil crisis.
If he would've said metal worker or carpenter, it would've worked. Mechanics fix things, not build things. But I suppose there is a bit of both involved, depending on what it is you do.
That's a terrible analogy. It's like saying a novelist is a book mechanic.
On behalf of everyone in the service industry:
Put your phone down when you are being checked out! It's rude as fuck!
Just because you are in art school doesn't mean you're creative or a good artist. I'd bet money that there is the same percentage of shitty gay artists as straight ones in a given school.
The US constitutional amendment forbidding unreasonable searches and seizures is well settled in regard to the physical world
Electrons in computers ARE part of the physical world.
Stop conceding that is it different!
IT'S NOT!
You're a musician? ;)
No kidding, it's like bragging about your 5th of scotch a day habit. If you need it to function, you have a problem and should cut back or quit.
His post doesn't at all suggest that music theory is a new thing, I don't know where you got that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_tone_technique
Seriously, I love classical music, but the turn of the century(ish) atonal stuff is barely music. And the twelve tone technique is barely theory. It's more of an algorithm to churn out annoying random sounding music.
Shut the fuck up, one hospital means all hospitals in the UK are dirty? I don't know how you can even be serious.
Right, but as someone above pointed out, in the snow situation, only one side (or maybe two) thinks it's a four way, everyone else is following the lights.
It will work like this, you leave your desk to assist one person and on the way there and on the way back other people will pester you to solve all kinds of trivial junk because you are handy and, then everyone will complain that you are never at your desk.
It could go like that, but remember, there are hundreds of ways to say no.
"Fill out this form and put it in my inbox, FIFO"
"Steve had a similar problem last week with his computer, maybe you can ask him."
"On my way to a meeting, I'll stop by in the afternoon."
"THE SERVER IS ON FIRE!!"
Etc, etc. On average IT staff may not be the most socially adept, but don't be a floor mat.
...or something will be after the baby boomers die off and gen X and Y are in control.
Seriously, once the people who grew up with computers have the votes and money and all the free time in the world to write angry letters, Microsoft should be very scared. Our parents couldn't adapt to new OS's, but we can. We don't need Microsoft.
Your comment about the Aztecs is BS. We don't know how the game was played and to assume the losers were killed is idiotic.
Soap, ballot, ammo. So are you guys in the UK on ammo yet? Pretty goddamn close here in the US (for me anyway).