My one complaint about SMT-V is they keep making videos that I wish I'd made first:

I am very much middle-aged at this point and Nirvana was before *my* time. I was 4 when Kurt Cobain died.

As has been the case throughout MAHA’s rise, the world’s leading health influencer is unable to simply come out and say “this is false”. Huberman has been as painstakingly non-committal and centrist on every move made by RFK. This would come as no surprise to those that listened to his vaccine ep

Controversial take but popular music peaked with the Bobby Day song Rockin' Robin.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Chuck is one of the biggest influences on my own philosophy of art, and I think he couldn't be more right here.

Bring back the unwalled garden internet in general.

For years, I lived down the street from where they filmed Jimmy Kimmel Live, so believe me when I say that it pains me to no end to be on Jimmy Kimmel's side of anything. And yet.

videos from 2019 btw

Yeah, the whole "They don't care about hypocrisy!" argument misses the fact that I still do.

One of my absolute favorite things to do is take great riffs and edit them to make them worse, and this video features some of my most cursed work yet:

Was wondering where all these new followers were coming from today and then I remembered I mentioned my Bluesky account in the video that just went up.

Video's done and exported but Patreon's taking forever to upload so I guess I'm gonna be up late tonight...

I've been working all day on tomorrow's video so I'd like to thank everyone in my feed for keeping their Silksong posts vague.

With all the criticisms of AI one I don't see as often is how it's the final form of the tech industry's 20+ year push to take computers and internet from "useful tool you can use in a vast variety of ways" to "thing that does everything for you and gives you as few options as possible for doing so"

It's easy to clown on the 1-2 dyad here, but my favorite part is the 1-2-4-5-4-3 line on a straight descending melody. Whichever hand you read it with, that's some impressive wrist work.

I can

I posit that a government consisting of one guy with unlimited power is larger in total government volume than a government comprising a large number of people with a little bit of power each. I don't know what the formula looks like exactly but the first one has an infinity in it.

The idea that Western Civilization will collapse if we let like 1% of people swap genders or whatever is so bizarre to me that I have a hard time even conceptualizing what these people think "Western Civilization" is and what exactly will happen to it in their nightmare gender scenario.

Gender is 100% a factor: I still remember, back in college, my department (vocals) was the only one whose student base was even remotely gender-balanced. And not just the students: I'm not sure I remember there even *being* a female guitar instructor. But I think there's also more going on.

Putting this out there for any of the Fantasy Cover channels: Year Zero in the style of the B-52s.

the main thing that happened to music criticism in the last 25 years is it got defunded

I've been teaching myself to code for secret-project reasons, and I recently did what I assume most programmers do for fun and wrote up an automated sudoku solver. It's not the most efficient but it's super satisfying to watch it work!

As someone who's genealogically obligated to have strong opinions on what counts as a roguelike, this video is really good.

Basing your politics on being annoyed by a random podcast is such an incredible self-report. It's like, sometimes when I click on a youtube video the presenter is overly enthusiastic to the point of inauthenticity so I guess I can't support a progressive tax rate anymore!

I keep saying this, but this is a lot of what concerns me about GenAI tools in the arts. Like, it's probably true that we're not far from generating music that's good enough to score a commercial. That bar isn't very high, but it's one that's historically provided entry-level work for composers.

if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you

I don't want to get my hopes up, but I'm beginning to think Silksong might be coming out soon.

Hey, what ever happened with L.A. Rats?

Love putting clips into a spectrogram and seeing exactly what I thought I was hearing. Very satisfying.

Gonna start a conspiracy that says temperament should actually be even *more* equal.

Got a prescription for anti-depressants, now I'm gonna be unstoppable.

Listening to the isolated bass track for my next song analysis video and learning that, 20 years ago, my bass teacher was wrong about how it goes.

Well... crap. It finally happened. Youtube occasionally recommends random songs with, like, two-digit view counts to me. The one it gave me today was a really cool death metal track, so I looked the band up. Turns out they released three albums yesterday, and... yeah it's AI.

I know it's been said a million times, but when it comes to achieving anything meaningful, "natural talent" is, at best, a tiebreaker.

New video's up now on Patreon! Check it out! Or don't! (Please do, though.)

Occasionally, while filming, I accidentally draw something extra that wasn't supposed to be there, and it's always a fun game of trying to squeeze the doodles around it into new places so everything lines up and no one notices that it doesn't make sense.

I wish there was a button that said "take this footage of me drawing things and line it up with this audio of me saying things" but not, like, in an AI way. I would strongly prefer actual magic.

Accidentally sourced a transcription from an early version of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier instead of the final one so a couple notes are off, what's the process for forfeiting my music theory credentials?

Broadly speaking, if you're trying to get people excited about your product by describing it as "pervasive", you're probably bad at marketing.

A thing I'm learning from the replies is that you all think I have really obscure tastes and already know all the cool, weird bands, and like, I'm flattered, but the last album I listened to was Indestructible by Disturbed.

A problem I've been having lately is that when I get stressed and burned out, I tend to fall back on the same comfort music over and over. I'm not listening widely, but I want to be, so... if you see this, please recommend an album you think I haven't heard.

The stuff people thinks/write/say about artworks is what turns them into culture, destroying criticism means destroying the shared understanding of our common world that is, uh, culture (and political community, and and and)

Finally had time to watch Adam's new Rollout video, which is very good, but I do disagree with him on the prosodic dissonance section. Not enough to make another video about, but enough to write a short thread, which is what this is.

Just got my first sponsorship offer from an AI company. Straight into the trash it goes.

As a professional thumbnail expert, I can confirm: There's a lot going on here.

At some point in the last couple weeks I guess I dropped my mic and it bumped the gain knob way up but I don't remember where I had it before so I guess just brace yourself to 12tone's Yelling Era.

I see it's that time of year again where we all get mad that up-and-coming artists are performing at major festivals.

Exciting to see Godot so well-represented!