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  1. Comment on ”Whiplash” gets jazz all wrong in ~music

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    Thank you! The problems with the movie are so obvious to every musician I know in real life, but in online settings I often feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I try to discuss the movie (which...

    Thank you! The problems with the movie are so obvious to every musician I know in real life, but in online settings I often feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I try to discuss the movie (which is why I usually don't bother trying anymore.) It's nice to see someone else who gets it.

    4 votes
  2. Comment on ”Whiplash” gets jazz all wrong in ~music

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    Jazz drummer here. I did not care for Whiplash AT ALL, but I'm not going to go into detail because I have no desire to get worked up all over again. But I was actually angry after my one and only...

    Jazz drummer here. I did not care for Whiplash AT ALL, but I'm not going to go into detail because I have no desire to get worked up all over again. But I was actually angry after my one and only viewing.

    Ethan Iverson wrote a long piece in response to Whiplash back when the movie came out which is worth a read. It is - among other things - an extended meditation on the role of the drummer in jazz, "devotional" drumming vs. stage band drumming, and of course Buddy Rich's place in all that. https://ethaniverson.com/rhythm-and-blues/the-drum-thing-or-a-brief-history-of-whiplash-or-im-generalizing-here/

    11 votes
  3. Comment on Dizzy Gillespie for President: When politics was a groovier thing in ~music

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    Dizzy was the greatest. I used to have giant poster of him on the wall of my dorm room back in the day. Every time I read the story about his campaign I think he must have picked Max Roach as...

    Dizzy was the greatest. I used to have giant poster of him on the wall of my dorm room back in the day. Every time I read the story about his campaign I think he must have picked Max Roach as minister of war because Max was so good at dropping bombs with the bass drum (har har har.)

    Anyway, here's some great Dizzy with Charlie Parker and Max Roach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcNkCG7A558

    2 votes
  4. Comment on Brain scans of jazz musicians could unlock the mystery of creative flow in ~creative

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    Or to put it in sports terms, as Yogi Berra once said: "you can't think and hit at the same time." As a jazz-adjacent musician, I can confirm that this is very true. When I'm playing at my best,...

    The musicians who were experiencing flow while performing showed reduced activity in parts of their frontal lobes, which are known to be involved in executive function or cognitive control. In other words, flow was associated with relaxing conscious control or supervision over other parts of the brain.

    Or to put it in sports terms, as Yogi Berra once said: "you can't think and hit at the same time."

    As a jazz-adjacent musician, I can confirm that this is very true. When I'm playing at my best, I'm barely thinking about what I'm doing at all. In those moments I'm 100% inside the music, just listening and reacting. Sometimes my conscious mind will be almost turned off, but sometimes I'll be thinking about something completely unrelated while I'm sitting there playing my ass off.

    11 votes
  5. Comment on How Bluesky, the rival of Elon Musk’s X, is seizing the moment in ~tech

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    Luckily for me, I'm not the masses. I'm just me! ;-)

    Bluesky is a better product for the masses.

    Luckily for me, I'm not the masses. I'm just me! ;-)

    3 votes
  6. Comment on How Bluesky, the rival of Elon Musk’s X, is seizing the moment in ~tech

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    I work at a news organization, and at least for now there seems to be a lot more excitement for Bluesky among my colleagues than than there ever was for Mastodon. That alone makes me think Bluesky...

    I work at a news organization, and at least for now there seems to be a lot more excitement for Bluesky among my colleagues than than there ever was for Mastodon. That alone makes me think Bluesky at least has a puncher's chance.

    I still prefer Mastodon. My first impression of Bluesky is that it looks and feels like Twitter used to, and after two years off of Twitter that feels like the past, not the future. After I left the Twitter culture behind I did not miss it very much. But I'm still down with anything that gets people off of Twitter/X.

    37 votes
  7. Comment on Jerron Paxton - What's Gonna Become Of Me (live performance from Later with Jools Holland) (2024) in ~music

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    Jerron Paxton is one of the greatest performers out there doing blues and traditional folk music from the American south. This is a live performance of a song from his new album, Things Done Changed.

    Jerron Paxton is one of the greatest performers out there doing blues and traditional folk music from the American south. This is a live performance of a song from his new album, Things Done Changed.

    1 vote
  8. Comment on The best jazz on Bandcamp, October 2024 in ~music

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    There's always something worth listening to in Dave Sumner's monthly column of new jazz on Bandcamp. I'm a big fan of Svaneborg Kardyb in particular.

    There's always something worth listening to in Dave Sumner's monthly column of new jazz on Bandcamp. I'm a big fan of Svaneborg Kardyb in particular.

    2 votes
  9. Comment on Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in five games in ~sports.baseball

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    Mets fan here too, but not too petty. It was a great and crazy year for us. Although it's always nice to see the Yankees get wrecked.

    Mets fan here too, but not too petty. It was a great and crazy year for us. Although it's always nice to see the Yankees get wrecked.

    3 votes
  10. Comment on Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in five games in ~sports.baseball

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    The Yankees' long-time radio announcer John Sterling (seen 10 seconds into the video) ends every Yankees win with an exaggerated call of "The Yankees win! THEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN!" David Ortiz is a...

    The Yankees' long-time radio announcer John Sterling (seen 10 seconds into the video) ends every Yankees win with an exaggerated call of "The Yankees win! THEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN!" David Ortiz is a hall of famer who played for the Yankees' main rival, the Boston Red Sox, and is now an analyst for Fox. He was having fun with Sterling's catch phrase here. Also, a bit of "New York, New York" is in there because it's played in the stadium after every Yankees home win.

    5 votes
  11. Comment on NYPD officer lands $175K settlement over ‘courtesy cards’ that help drivers get out of traffic stops in ~news

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    I had one of those cards from when my sister was briefly with NYPD. I also had a small badge in a wallet type of thing that said "officer's brother," presumably meant to be kept in the glove...

    I had one of those cards from when my sister was briefly with NYPD. I also had a small badge in a wallet type of thing that said "officer's brother," presumably meant to be kept in the glove compartment of my car or something. It definitely felt scummy to even have them, but I did keep them for a couple of years in case they ever might have come in handy. For me it wasn't so much about getting out of tickets as it was about defusing any encounter I might have with a cop having a bad night. Anyway, it eventually became a moot point, as I got rid of my car a couple of years later.

    7 votes
  12. Comment on A tool to determine which US city you should live in in ~life

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    I got New York, which is not surprising, since that's where I grew up and currently live. I guess I'm where I'm supposed to be.

    I got New York, which is not surprising, since that's where I grew up and currently live. I guess I'm where I'm supposed to be.

    3 votes
  13. Comment on "Tildes as community radio" examples of hybrid social media? in ~tech

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    I don't have much to add to the discussion, but I wanted to say thanks for mentioning WFMU. I do a weekly show there. :-) https://wfmu.org/playlists/N0

    I don't have much to add to the discussion, but I wanted to say thanks for mentioning WFMU. I do a weekly show there. :-)

    https://wfmu.org/playlists/N0

    7 votes
  14. Comment on I am sick of "providing feedback" in ~life

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    It's not just feedback emails - I also dislike being added to marketing lists every time I buy anything, whether I ask for it or not. Sometimes even when I already opted out ... I immediately...

    It's not just feedback emails - I also dislike being added to marketing lists every time I buy anything, whether I ask for it or not. Sometimes even when I already opted out ... I immediately unsubscribe to every single one of them. And if there isn't an option to unsubscribe, I report it as spam and move on.

    9 votes
  15. Comment on Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks in ~tech

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    I saw the great Brazilian jazz composer Hermeto Pascoal perform last year and he was still using a synthesizer with a floppy drive in it.

    I saw the great Brazilian jazz composer Hermeto Pascoal perform last year and he was still using a synthesizer with a floppy drive in it.

    3 votes
  16. Comment on Man sets himself on fire near US courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial in ~news

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    There's another post on that substack link about how "NYU is a mob front," FWIW.

    There's another post on that substack link about how "NYU is a mob front," FWIW.

  17. Comment on Man sets himself on fire near US courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial in ~news

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    Wait a minute, I think I saw him too! When I was walking to work yesterday there was a guy with a Ponzi Papers sign by NYU. I think it said something about NYU itself being a ponzi scheme. I don't...

    Wait a minute, I think I saw him too! When I was walking to work yesterday there was a guy with a Ponzi Papers sign by NYU. I think it said something about NYU itself being a ponzi scheme. I don't know, I just took a quick glance and then went on about my business, because (as you know) in New York there's always something weird to look at.

    8 votes
  18. Comment on Man sets himself on fire near US courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial in ~news

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    This might be his manifesto. If it's the same guy, then he's not a Trump supporter, just some nut who took advantage of the circus being in town. EDIT: Do not read the comments on that link, there...

    This might be his manifesto. If it's the same guy, then he's not a Trump supporter, just some nut who took advantage of the circus being in town.

    EDIT: Do not read the comments on that link, there is some vile stuff in there.

    33 votes