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Last Active 12-26-22 12:27 pm
Joined 10-20-12
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 | kildare Oops, my "Debussey" message got messed up. I tried to use a "greater than" character and Sputnik didn't like it. I meant to write something like "So, Debussey rated better than Bach in your library?" Just a follow-up from a comment you made awhile back
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| kildare Thanks for the inquiry in my shoutout box. It was kind of final, but I run into old, disappeared users on the site and I always wonder what happened to them, so I wanted to put some...certainty out there in case I disappeared.
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 | Wasn't on my release playlist, but now I ought to hear. Cheers
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 | Sowing A little late here but looks like Koris will be covering
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 | PumpBoffBag thanks for heads up- never listened before but hopping on it now! And congrats ;)
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 | JohnnyoftheWell Hmm if your question is inclined towards perceived ethics, I'd say you're okay, but if it's based on uncertainty that your criticism can remain unclouded, I can have a peep?
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 | xxm Congratulations on Staff!
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 | Manatea Me too. Gonna be a great timeeeee
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| Manatea Indeed. We have infiltrated the hallowed staff halls together lmao. Johnny forgot to include me
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 | dedex glad to have ya on board m/
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| JohnnyoftheWell any chance of that Seer blurb making its way to discord in the quite close future
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| Manatea Indeed I did. I doubt I?ll get it but hey, worth asking, you know?
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| Manatea I hope you applied internet twin
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 | pizzamachine That one hooked me too haha, the vocals are gorgeous
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| pizzamachine Doubt that?ll ever happen again lol. If it did I?d be game
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| kildare Hey, I thanked you for all your support in the third(?) comment block from the top of my new Joplin review. Have a great winter!
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| JohnnyoftheWell Apologies for stalling - hit a bit of a slump lately. Got a few skinny writes to burn through to gather steam, will hit you up in the (hopefully) soon!!
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| JohnnyoftheWell Oooh yeah could do - not sure how balanced the dialogue would be given that my wider familiarity with Jarrett/that whole arm of jazz is probs considerably behind yours, could could still make it work ig! Alternatively, there are uh two of us and two halves of the album lol
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| JohnnyoftheWell Survivor's Suite review? Am game for a collab if we can think of a good structure
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| JohnnyoftheWell Have bloody finally gotten round to Doji Morita - your original rec was so long ago that I can't remember the specific framing (Meiko Kaji aside), but have been enjoying her debut and A Boy q a bit in the last few days. Fills a perfect middle ground between trad-leaning melodies and the trending 70s folk pop palette, great stuff
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 | Elynna I gave it another spin, and I enjoyed it much more this time around. Definitely a grower
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| Elynna Yes, I?m sorry it just wasn?t for me. I remember liking how they fused their traditional and modern sound, but it was the repetitiveness I found off putting. I might give it another shot in the future, because they?re undoubtedly very talented.
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| kildare Yeah, there's no underground music on that site, so not a real alternative to Sputnik for most of the reviews we do on here. Just thought I'd mention it
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| kildare Oops, meant to put this in first. Link to one of my fairly mediocre, but fun to write articles: https://medium.com/@Lkildare/musical-tastes-collections-concerts-and-our-lives-with-the-art-of-sound-part-i-7b08b6b69074
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| kildare This year I made resolution to (1.) learn Audacity then (2.) use a copywrite-free recording of a Bruckner or Mahler or Shostakovich (their long) symphony to snip out audio bits of it ? like the beginning and end of the Recapitulation, say -- and post them as videos. I can then (3.) elaborate on the main text in the video caption. The caption tech actually seems more powerful than YouTube itself.
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| kildare I thought you might interested in the site. It would be perfect for posting your potential Webern review. First, there?s a larger Classical audience on the site, you can apply to ?magazines? with editors. Also, I like Sputnik for a few reasons, but Medium is far more powerful multi-media wise: Embedded YouTube videos, images, pretty much anything we can do on Facebook. It?s not great for underground stuff, though. But it might get more view and comments for stuff like Webern and Lainey Wilson.
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| kildare Got it, thanks! No hard feelings if I overstep and you feel the need to defend Country with a troll-like ferocity. I'm sort of tough. I think.
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| kildare Unless you were planning to review it - I'll just recycle what I have somewhere else. You'd do the genre justice in a way I can't.
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| kildare Hey again, I'm tinkering with a Lainey Wilson review. Kenny Rogers: Butt Country? Garth Brooks: The epitome of butt-country? Kenny Chesney?
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| xxm PS your reviews have really made my year this year. Sorry for essentially repeating myself but you?ve had one hell of a year when it comes to quality reviews and I wanted to once again thank you.
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| kildare Lol. I SUSPECTED it was butt-country! The other few on my list are probably of the same ilk. It's possible I don't have the ear for the better stuff. The music of the track is very regulation-issue; maybe I just like it because I want to see what watermelon moonshine tastes like. Thanks for checking it. My wife likes country but could care less about analysis, which I always crave
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| xxm Hey there again, just want to know how you?re doing right now. Hope you?ve had a pleasant year all things considered.
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| kildare I value your opinion even if you hate it! I value your opinion no matter what genre we're talking about, but my emotional investment in Country is not very high, so in this case it's purely out of curiosity
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| kildare Hey, so I heard a Country song over Thanksgiving that really clicked with me: Lainey Wilson's "Watermelon Moonshine." Not counting Johnney Cash, that brings my list of country songs that I "love" to around five. But maybe Lainey is part of the "rrrmusic industry" that you disparaged in your old 2013 list "In defense of country"? Anyway, adding a country song to the list is a rare occurrence for me, so I thought I'd mention it in case you were looking for a country album to review.
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| pizzamachine EZ. Pick album that you?ve been thinking about lately. OR pick an album that is something special to you. Just start writing about it. If it doesn?t turn into a full review yet don?t sweat it, write whenever you have more stuff to say
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 | Mort. huh? i have both rated
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| Manatea Close enough. Mine?s in a few weeks so i thought of it. Hope things are going good otherwise!
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| Manatea Lmao happy belated my friend. I was curious to see when it was based on our last conversation
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 | Trifolium It isssss! It's entirely beautiful, for everyone age 10 and up, definitely including adults.
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| Trifolium Lampje was translated after all! A children's classic in the making!!! https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/entertainment/books/article/3124057/lampie-and-children-sea-book-review-dutch-authors
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 | robertsona This is a good question. I don't have to deal with it much. Sometimes I'm just sardonic about something lame about the insulter, which probably isn't the best move. Lemme think.
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| JohnnyoftheWell Clutching at straws here ngl https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-27313_IN-WHICH-THE-POET-CELEBRATES-HIS-TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD-LOVER
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| JohnnyoftheWell Would not have earmarked Diamanda for porcine obliteration, but fate has forced my hand
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| JohnnyoftheWell Thanks lol, this presents a challenge. I am going to have to affect a summoning ritual. Hog portals here we come
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| JohnnyoftheWell Um is there any Diamanda Galas lore or music involving pigs or swine?
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| Manatea It was absolutely amazing. Hope you got to see some of the food pics i threw up. Yeah i got back and work has been absolutely crazy. Trying to get back in the swing of writing though, you know?
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| Manatea Hey east coast twin that was separated from me at birth. How you been?
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 | Above thx bro. love your country reviews
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 | parksungjoon ignore anything you read or may assume of this band and its genre and just check this, trust me. https://youtu.be/rStDmrTqrWs
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 | Rowan5215 love the cause, no way I'd be able to commit enough time to it unfortunately but props for spreading the word man
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| Manatea Got on it! Idk if I?ll be able to do the rest of the days but I had a bit of a break today so I threw one up. Thanks for the referral mate.
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| parksungjoon https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/87466/Manuel-Gottsching-Inventions-for-Electric-Guitar/
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| parksungjoon in den garten pharaos. that or any of the kluster albums. but tbh ur effort is too good for this site i feel sometimes
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 | Sunnyvale Hey there! The post is up, sorry for the delay. Monster writeup by the way, well-done!
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 | sevEn Glad you dug! That album really help me in my spiritual journey.
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| pizzamachine I checked the new Creeping Death and Walg, they?re both good, but I?m hoping to find more pop this year tbh
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| JohnnyoftheWell damn, can confirm that this is very much the discourse - send the boi up
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| JohnnyoftheWell sure - gonna need you to change the sharing permissions though
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 | BaselineOOO Alright. Who told you about my Corneliu Codraneau tattoo?!
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 | someone I have noticed some such upheaval. They've been consistently dropping stuff like twice a month since at least 2020. I never paid much mind, considering it's all mostly just them ducking around with improv, amplifiers, instruments, etc. Hardly sth you can consider a proper studio album.
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| Sunnyvale Awesome, thanks! Just Shoutbox me a Google Docs link when you're ready.
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 | cycosynner Thanks for your comment on my Butcher Babies review!
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 | Havey any recordings in particular? i guess one thing that has kept me from exploring them is that there's never been a complete set afaik
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| parksungjoon what prog nerds lol everyones listening to pop punk and metalcore and 3rd rate 2010s indie folk
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| JohnnyoftheWell HI thank you so much for expressing interest in Sputmix 2023! There is one (one!) bureaucracy barrier for you to overcome - please hit up this form and send your info over asap, so I can get a database going and pin down what this thing is gonna look like. Love! https://forms.gle/zkKtidhnXpgYUsUv5
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| Havey what about him? his quartets were some of the first classical i ever liked, definitely made a strong impression back in the day
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 | Pheromone father dearest do you - oh trif linked it
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| pizzamachine U can defs gets a violin feature in my new musics if u wanna
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 | ToSmokMuzyki just has more and better sustained highs imo like i said im mostly obj but still subj. is it technically better than a dozen other serenades? perhaps not but i'd listen to that one twice before i'd choose something else essentially
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| xxm You?re welcome.
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| xxm I?ve practically said this before but while Country Music isn?t my favorite genre (though I do enjoy some of the poppier hits from when I was younger and prior) you point out what?s great about it with verve and I love your reviews and lists on it (I don?t share your apperant dislike for Waylon Jennings but that?s neither here nor there). Thanks Again
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| pizzamachine Trying to review it now but the baby is pretty loud!
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| JohnnyoftheWell oh gosh i am in that boat probably tryna think of words for the new Oval. um. if we're talking new stuff, new Fire-Toolz is apparently dec (haven't peeped yet) and her stuff is at the very least always engaging
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 | Ryus https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=1037980 congrats
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| kildare Thanks for alerting me this, not to mention the kind words. I always read yours, and should comment more, but I'm far more self-conscious about my comments than my reviews. Incidentally, every time I read one of your reviews I go to Spotify and see if they?ve started streaming the Takacs quartet recording you reviewed. Still not there, but it might show up on YouTube eventually.
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| robertsona I haven?t thought about that script since I wrote it in a three day burst, but I?d like to combine the dialogue I like with a plot about teaching kids in NYC maybe mixed with the love triangle thing?Ty either way!
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 | CaliggyJack Oh Lmao! Thanks for reminding me, I still need to watch that sometime
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 | Borracho it's all yours, man. didn't have it on my radar. very sweet of you to ask though! i'll check it
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 | GhandhiLion Thanks for the rec. I had heared about it this week
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| Mort. the aforementioned edu entry https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/
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| Mort. but in general i would say that understanding the concepts of attention, void and ego hold the key to understanding weil. the very dumbed down version is our ego gets in the way of us seeing people or events how they really are (giving just attention). as the stanford edu entry puts it:the void by definition is empty (vide)?of idols, futural self-projections, consolations that compensate un-thinking, and attachments of collective and personal prestige.
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| Mort. Gravity and Grace is a very good place to start. for background reading to make it easier to understand Weil i reccomend Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good. her moral philosophy is basically Weil's but translated into a more analytic philosophy style and much more understandable. Murdoch isnt a mystic like Weil. i also reccomend any of the essays by Silvia Panizza, who translated an unfinished play of Weils with one of my lecturers, Philip Wilson
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 | unclereich That avatar review was great. Thanks a lot! Needed the laugh today
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| xxm You?re welcome.
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| xxm Hello again, just want to say that I really hope you?re taking care at the moment and that your reviews are simply stunning as I?ve mentioned before.
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| pizzamachine Haha definitely take breaks when you need to, Contributor life can wear on ya (speaking from experience)
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| pizzamachine Lots of great stuff this year :], how goes the writing?
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| Sunnyvale It's a great writeup, I just a made a few minor edits for flow and then also (for formatting) made it so 12 is in italics. It's the typical standard on Sput to make album titles italics, which you can do by typing [/i]Album Title[/i]. Thanks!
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| Sunnyvale Received, thanks! I'll pass this along.
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| Sunnyvale Thanks! I tried to view it and apparently need access. I've sent you an access request, let me know once it's approved!
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| someone Just please r e m o v e the link message after using so that others cant use it
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| someone Hello, good fellow. Any chance you are interested in joining our cult aka core sput user Discord? All the best are there and it's basically our local Casual Convo thread divided into multiple sections
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| JohnnyoftheWell Copy that, gonna wait it out and see whether I have to transfer to parannoul to save sput from katatonic embarrassment, but will probs join otherwise, PS Venice is on
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| Mort. please nominate a new album, your previous now has a rev
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| Sowing Hello! Congrats on the promotion. Please shoutbox me an email address that I can send your contributor forum invitation to (I'll remove the shout once I send the email). Thank you!
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| JohnnyoftheWell HI your contrib application is LATE by which i mean i want to READ it !
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| JohnnyoftheWell it's a lot innit :[ gonna get something up for that soon - feels like a rough album to write on even though the things to be said are mostly crystal clear
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| Mort. glad you enjoy, im a big fan of their track Iwm. shame they never made it really. lots of good bands on hydra head that just never made it
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 | Pangea Hey DadKungFu, do you have a discord or email or something where i can message you for secret santa later?
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| someone that burns em quick tho. butter adequate amount?
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| someone one third cup of butter, no oil
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| Sowing Will have to check that, thanks.
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| CaliggyJack Can't go wrong with anything Kinji Fukasaku
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 | PitchforkArms Dude that's tragic. He was such a positive influence on everyone here. Tough loss :(
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| CaliggyJack All six lone wolf and cub films, Kill!, Zatoichi (1989), when the Last Sword is Drawn, Zatoichi (2003), The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor, 13 Assassins, Legend of the Eight Samurai, all of the Ruroni Kenshin films, Sword of Doom, Red Lion.Start with those.
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| Mort. lol yeah plato is a strange one because he can be extremely straightforward and down to earth, the best introduction to philosophy you could ask for (literally just some guy going 'what is x concept?/what does x mean?) and on the other hand can be incredibly esoteric and mystical. I havent got round to Parmenides yet but if it involves a discussion of Parmenides' philosophy im not surprised. read a book on the pre-socratics a while ago and it was incredibly difficult.
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| Mort. if you havent read any simone weil it sounds like you would find her interesting tho. she was continental and her philosophy/take on mysticism is at its core ethical
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| Mort. 'essay on Heidegger's Philosophy of technology' god kudos to you for attempting that, i find heidigger (and a lot of contintental philosophy) really difficult to understand. all ive read is a little bits and pieces of most continental authors, its a massive gaping hole in my reading(along with eastern philosophy). pretty sure ive read heidigger on technology and understood probably 10% of it lol. Im currently reading Plato's entire corpus which has been slow going but very satisfying.
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| Mort. was getting my masters a couple of years ago with plans to go onto a phd but covid forced the course online and i was struggling with mental health issues/family stuff so my marks were dropping pretty drastically. i plan on going back and getting my masters at some point in the future. You have a philosophy background or just an interest of yours?
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| Mort. mainly analytic philosophy with a pretty heavy focus on language, logic and ethics. Specific philosophers-wise I studied a lot of Wittgenstein, Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch. im also decently well read in Plato. the uni i went to specialised in wittgenstein studies. also took some one off modules on other areas of philosophy such as environmental philosophy, a module on Nietzsche, philosophy of religion.
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| xxm You?re welcome. Cheers to you as well in spite of everything.
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| xxm Nicely said on Sorrow Tears and Blood.
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| JohnnyoftheWell I moved back in April, so you're close! Miss it a whole lot though :[ And yeah - real dent for the country. Really hope this isn't turned into some twisted logic bs by gun lobbyists elsewhere ("if shootings can happen in countries with the strictest acquisition laws in the world, they can happen anywhere so what's the point" -type beat). what an awful day
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| JohnnyoftheWell yeah jfc, am still reeling from that. feels awful to put it this way, but you hear about that stuff happening in the US so often that as a non-american it's horribly easy to process it as just another headline - but in japan, it's totally unthinkable. i don't live there anymore, but i can't imagine what a shock it must be to people there. also, while i was never a fan of Abe and he q rightly got considerable flack for cronyism, he did a lot for his country and deserved a better end than that
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| parksungjoon https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mHnvEGAWIj3F1MR_dyCFa2fu58FH3Tl1c ---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HTNaqEMOgk
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| pizzamachine I will take other recs too if u want and I?ll get back to you
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| pizzamachine Dang it, I forgot to check that out but I will now thanks matie.
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| pizzamachine What?s that? Miley Cyrus?s song? Lol could you be more specific
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| xxm You?re welcome. Looking forward to it!
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| xxm Wonderful Emmylou Harris review.
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| CaliggyJack Not yet. I need a specific atmosphere for Silent movies haha so it might be a while
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| sevEn Thank you so much for your comment!. Yeah, I got review-bombed by parksungjoon. He keeps spamming the same comment in my reviews for some strange reason, but I just ignore him
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 | Pikazilla oh nice! hammock have a ton of awesome stuff in their discog :3
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 | butt. just wanna say thanks for being the only one to review all the country classics. somebody gotta do it
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| Trifolium Ha you're absolutely right, I've been slacking once again for this. Too busy to keep up aaah! But I usually rate all of them in one or two sittings, so I'll catch up in a week or so!
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 | Point1 dear God is this site broken on mobile
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| Point1 I appreciate it, I'm in the Hague for the summer and spending lots of time writing REM reviews there is exactly the kind of thing i would normally do so I'm making an effort. I'll resume soon though.
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| unclereich https://www.sputnikmusic.com/images/members/817683.jpg
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 | user your name change is adorable. congrats on becoming a dad!
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| Sowing Here's your chance to let it grow as much as you want: Name Your Price: https://mewithoutyou.bandcamp.com/track/julia-or-holy-to-the-lord-on-the-bells-of-horses
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 | Nikkolae hey! i dig it quite a bit, i gave it a few spins and it gave me mad BBNG vibes except maybe less sax heavy i would say, its a pretty sweet album
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 | butcherboy eventually, but I've got at least three reviews I'm going to put up beforehand and a collab review as well, so if you want to take a crack at it, be my guest..
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 | pbass0 What happened to your grind list? I really digged that list. I have been meaning to get into grind for a while
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 | GiaNXGX can't post the entire message here some weird bug doesn't allows me to, left a comment on your test dept. review.
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 | silentpotato in your defense, neither does most of the rest of the site so i think you'll get away with it pretty good ;]
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| silentpotato very glad you enjoyed man look forward to your review
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| silentpotato your album is Love Is Colder Than Death-Teignmouth
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 | wabbit I got spoiled. I grew up in an area of rural ontario where a lot of the Vietnam draft dodges ended up/ became hippies/ my dad befriended. So I spent a lot of my childhood hearing all of the songs being preformed by amazing musicians. I know all the songs as a result, but not the album's as much.
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 | MisterTornado it's one of mine too, so good. yeah sure, it's streaming here http://totallyfuzzy.blogspot.com/2013/01/daniel-romano-come-cry-with-me-album.html
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 | Brostep Thanks man, I try. Did you end up liking the EP?
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 | jmnewcomer18 haha dude check out. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=45717
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| GiaNXGX :zoviet*france:, foetus, god, vampire rodent, spk, non, cabaret voltaire, clock dva, test department, klinik, coil.
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 | idkpokeit Yeah those Grimes and feels threads seriously make me lose faith in humanity.
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| idkpokeit Did you start the thread? Yeah I don't really know why I still browse that s***hole either haha.
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 | slipnslide hey saw your electronic section list and didnt want to bump it. If you click on a section of a pie-chart itll bring the charts and related reviews for everything tagged with that genre. sites a bit disorganized but yeah, dont have to type a link in. The pop section on the top is utterly pointless and should be replaced with Electronic though.
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 | Trebor. umm Bluebird is the best poem ever and the guitar riff is catchy damn good song
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 | alachlahol if i were to pick one swedish band youre missing it would be totalitar. overall you were pretty comprehensive with your choices though so thats cool. youll need to delve into some of the eps and other releases put out by bands like dystopia, iskra, doom, stormcrow, and his hero. too good to overlook
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| alachlahol also a lot of the swedish bands like martyrdod, s***system and disfear i lost interest in a while ago. i still put them on essentials lists simply because theyre great for accessibility though their discogs get pretty weak when you run through them. id exclude stuff like teen chthulu, leper, chokehold, left for dead (more hardcore than crust) and then some of the others i just consider to be lesser crust bands like warcollapse and appalachian terror
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| alachlahol im pretty stingy with my crust taste nowadays! never was a fan of aus rotten regardless of their influence and then a lot of those bands that throw in violins and crap dont do it for me (except madame germen) so that means i wouldnt include oroku or fall of efrafa (decent band though)
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| alachlahol hmmm let me run through it and get back to you in several minutes
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 | XingKing I just found out about that Holy Mountain band the other day too and was like this is not the Holy Mountain I know! THE Holy Mountain is great though, very Tragedy like.
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 | Aids right on man, glad you are enjoying it. the guy who made it is my best friend in real life (I introduced him to the website) and it's been amazing to see him grow. He started making wub heavy songs that were an awkward combination of brostep/dnB and ambient, but he's found a sound completely his own with this LP (if you ask me). All we do together is chill and listen to deep dubstep so it's awesome to see him making this sort of stuff.
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| Aids yo you spelled iNTRiKeT wrong on your aoty list in the forums, it won't get counted unless you edit it. also take out the bracket bit cause that could mess with it too. haha sorry I just really want that album to make the list and you're one of only two votes for it so far.
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