James bond and the giant peach

It's my birthday today... I only have one wish

This is a guitar arrangement of the main riff from a famous pop song that we are rearranging... can people tell what song it is just from the riff? 1. Not content farming, genuinely curious how surprised people would be if they heard it after this intro 2. Please ignore sloppiness

R/thewire is hillarious because half of the posts are"wow, this is a breath taking display of the interconnected failures of institutions with little to no concern about the lasting impacts of their cruelty" and the other half are "Omar go pew pew"

SAM ALTMAN: "I GOT YOUR NOSE"

Jazz/film nerds... did John Williams bite the two moons theme from round midnight? Obviously he knew some jazz/funk/fusion (Jedi Rock) and bit plenty from classical composers (Mars), but i haven't seen anyone talk about him biting individual jazz artists? youtu.be/z3crfXk2L1Y?...

This begs the question: what good is a phd-level knowledge of something without its depth? Millions of free phd level articles for free on jstor, but they are all 20+ pages and assume a phd level reader and interpreter. Having a source of the knowledge has never been the issue

Underlying this action is a deep seated belief that billioniares would gladly raise millions to waste on a campaign that is clearly doomed than... pay a couple million more in taxes for the good of society

Does anyone know of any string quartets/small ensemble classical music groups who compose in a manner more akin to rock/jazz/popular groups, where the shape of the music is dictated by group effort (even if certain people take larger roles in the process)?

Upon returning to Germany post ww2, adorno noted an odd phenomenon. While just years ago the streets were littered with facist supporters and antisemites, adorno couldn't find a single n*zi. Not one. As if it had just happened through no individual agency.

The thing about Ozzy is that he really was the first to synthesize everything that makes metal metal... No matter what discourse you buy into (metal is form of punk, metal and occult, metal and virtuosity, metal as performative theater, etc) you can find a lineage back to Ozzy

The Four Genders (please look at this thread, this is wild and my new favorite plotline of the season)

Me: posting about being engaged Instagram: do you want to listen to Soulja boys "turn my swag on"

Broke: G7 summit Woke: G9(#11) summit Bespoke: Ab(minmaj7)/G as a sub for an E7 chord moving to an Amaj7 summit

For a man who wants to "defend western values," he seems strangely unfamiliar with the works of...checks notes...Victor Hugo

Tricked those fools at AMS to let me spout my Sartrean Bullshit™️

Had a weird dream last night where I saw pfunk but they were all playing bassoons and complemented by an all-bassoon big band Not sure what it means Do know I want it to happen in real life

Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Taylor's Version)

The portrait of Phrygian Dominant Grey

Can someone explain why the "married in a year in the suburbs" guy is getting so much hate? I don't think the song is great, but I think it has its good qualities (I think the lyrics are better than people are giving it credit) Singing is bad, but not horrid or offensive It's just a lil cringe

Republicans understand gender is a culturally mediated performance, not a biological essentialism. Persumably, Walters doesn't think my dick falls of or my DNA changes when I enjoy a slutty bowl of soup out in public, but yet he still explains gender as such. They are all dumb hypocrites.

Dating me means getting texts like this with some regularity

One of the more infuriating things about discussing universities is that there is an analogous comparison where "congress is bad, by rep is a good one" in the same manner that "colleges are bad but local state u is good"

"Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Da

Terrified about why my mom is texting me this at 11 am on a Thursday (I do know Hotel California)

Part of this is it also frames "local music" as an unquestioned good that would be appreciated if people just listened. But that's just not true. Most local music is bad. If you want good local music you have to do work (talk to people in the scene, listen to local bands, etc)

From the Wikipedia page on jelly beans

Blog post that summarizes my dissertation research!!! humanities.wustl.edu/features/var...

Blog post that summarizes my dissertation research!!! humanities.wustl.edu/features/var...

Kenny G can do the funniest thing possible

Breaking: classical music funded by rich white people

Kareem Abdul Jabbar's christmas card to Charles Mingus!!!!

I am in hell (the Atlanta airport)

Me, engaging with art on its own terms: "While well intentioned, it would behoove the writers of paddington in Peru to read more post colonial theory"

On one hand, adornos belief that fascism represents the absence of a strong sociological father figure that produces perpetual adolescence expressed by those in charge is higly misogynistic and overly simplistic On the other, there's this

I don't think we can expect El*n Musk to get Julius Cesared... mostly because that would require Musk to have a real friend in the first place

My favorite jazz musicians... checks notes... pearl jam and Luke combs

Hollywood, making copaganda? Or military promos? Or racist shit? Never!

I would never buy a T*sla product I would, however, pay money to force *lon write a report on the central themes of "The Emporers New Groove"

I started describing Wemby to my wife and realized that between his name, physical attributes, and resume, it sounded like I was talking about an imaginary friend.

Inside of you there are two Durans, they've come undone

Interviewer: can you explain this gap on your resume? Music Theorist: It's all really a prolongation of the V chord, so we don't need any new roman numerals

Has anyone written about how ais ability to relate discrete aspects of society mirrors the (incorrect) take that postmodernism is just an infinite reproduction of signs? If (a misunderstood form of) postmodernism is the logic of late capitalism, ai is its epistemic realization

Literal V for Vendetta shit

Im all for ordering Arendt on Amazon as long as part of the conclusion is "oh, maybe I should have got this from a local book store"