Tag Archives: music
Genius of Aretha: Share your love edition
I’m in the middle of translation hell and not posting much because of that, but I’ve just seen that Aretha Franklin has died. I have to admit she was never my personal subjective favorite singer (always high but never quite … Continue reading
The Sudden Unbearable Darkness of Hanson
I think if I had to choose a single favorite internet page it would be youtube, certainly no content provider has brought me so much fun and entertainment. I especially like how youtube allows people to take apart music and … Continue reading
Cheikha and the Groove
I’ve always loved listening to music from different places and cannot for the life of me understand people who think that the best thing to listen to is what 80 milion or more other people like… Youtube has become my … Continue reading
Internet Getting Worse Dept, File #34 Finding Songs Through Their Melodies
This is just more proof of the internet getting worse with each new update and every iphone sold. A few years ago I wanted to know the name of a piece of classical music. I googled something like ‘find song … Continue reading
This is MY Grist for the Consumerist Mill
One of the ways that Polish people dealt more effectively with the collective trauma of communism during the communist era than they have afterward was the extreme political nature of much popular art and the cat and mouse game that … Continue reading
Watching Scotty Regress
One of the foundations behind manipulation is manipulated regression. That is, the manipulator regresses the target into a state of childlike helplessness at which point the target relinquishes control. Some of how this is accomplished is laid out in Douglas … Continue reading
