Re: Go gold and come back when you're done.

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I think it would be simpler if all music was in the same time signature. Just put everything in 16/16 (probably nobody can play faster than an eighth note in 16/16 time) and then use longer notes. To translate 4/4, just turn the quarter notes into whole notes. If you had 3/4, then turn the quarter notes into one and a third notes.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 5:53 AM
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I also think the flat/sharp note is an unnecessary complication, but that doesn't apply to drumming.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 6:04 AM
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I think they should get rid of measures. Also, there should be sharp/flat fusion. Yeah, lemme shat it girl.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 6:36 AM
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When it comes to piano, we should paint all the white keys black and all the black keys white. Because racism.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 7:23 AM
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Also, why are they all keys? I mean, obviously it's naive to hope for 50% locks, but you can't even find a single one!


Posted by: Awl | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 7:28 AM
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That song isn't nearly as good as this one.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 7:35 AM
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Also it's been 90 seconds and no drummer at all, what the hell.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 7:35 AM
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It's all very static, innit? I mean no dynamix.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 7:36 AM
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Especially the last 35 seconds or so.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 12:32 PM
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I liked neb's liveblogging.

6: Can he really do that with his eyes, or is it some sort of digital devilry?


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 12:36 PM
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6: Can he really do that with his eyes, or is it some sort of digital devilry?

Some of what happens with his eyes is clearly digital devilry, but there are many people in the video looking up with one eye and fluttering the other eyelid.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 12:51 PM
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For example, at 1:43, he probably can't do that himself.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 12:55 PM
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2:33 also.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 12:56 PM
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there are many people in the video looking up with one eye and fluttering the other eyelid.

That made me more suspicious. How many people would show for that casting call?

Is Oldham somehow known for doing that, which would make having other people in the ad doing it kind of funny? Like having a bunch of people stand on one leg during a Jethro Tull video?


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 1:04 PM
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That made me more suspicious. How many people would show for that casting call?

Maybe it's an easy skill to learn.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 4-12 6:25 PM
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This is good.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 11:35 AM
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The song, I mean.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 12:25 PM
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I'm usually very bad with names but very good with faces. Today at lunch, a woman I don't think I've ever seen before saw me, smiled, waved "hello", and approached. "Hi! How are you doing?" she said warmly. I'm sure I had a look of confused nonrecognition, but I thought I needed to play along, so I said, "Oh, fine, how are you?" I honestly expected her to sheepishly apologize, and say that from across the room she'd mistaken me for someone else. But instead she jumped right into small talk--and not the small talk you'd have with someone you met once somewhere in the past, but small talk you'd have with someone with whom you're very familiar and friendly. She was with a man (who I've also never seen before), and he walked over and she then turned to him and (addressing me) said "Do you know Mike?" I said, "Uh, no, I don't" (thinking all the while "Mike? I don't even know you, crazy lady"). And I introduced myself to Mike. The woman then invited me to join the two of them for lunch. I said, no thanks, I've got to run back to the office--just getting a sandwich to go. She seemed genuinely disappointed. She made some more friendly small talk and then I got my sandwich and left. Never at any point in this interaction did I have even a faint glimmer of recognition. I still can't figure out if I'm losing it, or if she was. I only hope that, whoever she was, I never ever run into her again.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 1:59 PM
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Next time you run into her, you'll know who she is: The woman who said hello that time.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:09 PM
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And I introduced myself to Mike.

If you used your first and last name while doing this, I think maybe you're losing it.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:13 PM
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I did. Why? Is this a scam?


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:16 PM
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Googling "people introduce themselves to you scam" (without quotes) isn't turning up anything obviously relevant. They didn't try to sell me a timeshare.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:22 PM
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I just mean that if she heard your full name and didn't say she was mistaken that the knew you, it is likely that she knew you. Lots of people look like other people but to look like somebody and have the same name seems a bit rarer. If you have a twin brother or something, that's different.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:25 PM
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Oh, wait, you just meant because the woman would have heard my name, and so presumably would have said something if she's had me mistaken with someone else? Yeah. In that case I agree.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:26 PM
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24 without seeing 23. Yeah, we're on the same page.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:27 PM
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In descending order of probability, the possible explanations for this are:

1. You know her but forgot
2. She wasn't actually listening when you said your name
3. She's psychotic
4. Some guy is impersonating you
5. Some guy who looks like you has your name and lives in your city


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:28 PM
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6. Aliens
7. Time travel


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:30 PM
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Although, to preserve my sense of sanity I'm going to assume that she's got a very unusally calibrated small-talk filter, and although I have probably met her somewhere it probably was just a random meeting somewhere in the past, and so she had no business talking to me with such familiarity. At least, I hope that's right. (She sort of implied that we are co-workers.)


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:31 PM
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8. Profit


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:33 PM
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I once had an experience like urple's. It turned out to be a guy I knew fairly well for a school year who lost over 100 pounds.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:36 PM
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I suppose it is rare to just say a friendly 'please, remind me how we've met'?


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:40 PM
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Or just saying "It's Mulva, right?"


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:42 PM
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"Oh shit, it's you! Give me my money!" usually works to send them on their way.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:43 PM
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31 is what I do usually, but (1) usually that's a natural reaction, because I recognize the person but can't quite place where or how, whereas here I just got no sense of recognition at all, and (2) I'd still probably have gone for that reaction, if she'd been making normal met-you-once-somewhere sort of small talk, but she just dove in like we were great friends and so any variation of "wait, do I know you?" seemed out of place. It was really all I could do not to just do a frozen deer-in-the-headlights stare, because my instincts all seemed off.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:47 PM
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The reverse has been happening to me quite a bit since I got my hair cut short. Just casual, "Hey, how's it going?" chit chat on the elevator or at the coffee machine, the sense that the colleague is being unusually standoffish, and then as I walk away, "Di! You got a haircut!"


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:52 PM
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It's either the haircut or the t-shirts from Norwegian death metal bands.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:55 PM
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35: They realize it's you once they see your butt?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 2:58 PM
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37 is just great, unless it makes DK mad, in which case peep said it, not me.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 3:05 PM
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9: Alternate-universes.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:21 PM
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18, 26:

#7 Did you ever take up that country lawyer to stay at his place and do that deal? Did you experience any lost time from that episode?


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 7:31 PM
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40: No, actually that deal fell apart before I met the guy, which is probably the greatest disappointment of my professional life.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 5-12 8:49 PM
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that SUCKS urple, because that was going to be the greatest story ever told, especially when they made you a lunch the next day our of leftovers.

this song is awesome, thanks stanster. it made me realize a) neutral milk hotel is like the band that sold x copies of their cd and started 10x bands, b) there is a theremin on aeroplanes over the sea pt 1 and I didn't know what it was before. on the song, I mean.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 11- 7-12 7:42 PM
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