I made a thing in Adobe Illustrator that used a shit ton of brushes and effects. Now I can open that thing in Affinity Designer and it looks fine but I'm not having much luck adding to it and matching the brushes and effects.
Did Michelangelo have problems like this?
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On the one hand, skiing is more expensive on the weekend (and cheapest on Monday and Tuesday) but on the other hand there's new snow and tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday so we'd have the mountain to ourselves. Hmm...
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I watched Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music last night not entirely sure what to expect.
For sure there have been many musical performances on the show that were meaningful to me, but by and large they've been pretty accessible and are very familiar. But Questlove's name being attached as a co-director gave me hope and, given the material there was to work with, the doc exceeded my expectations.
The second best part was the discussion of the relationship between music and comedy. And that's been a through line from the beginning, first primarily as impressions and eventually the inclusion of original comedic songs. There's a lot of interview material, but at least everyone interviewed has a direct connection to what they are being asked to talk about. Even Dave Grohl, whose inclusion in every documentary about any form of music was made mandatory by an act of Congress in 2014.
But the best best part is the opening montage, which Questlove worked on for a year. He frikkin' DJed 50 years worth of musical performances and introductions, smoothly mixing and transitioning them into a visual club mix so stunning that after finishing the documentary we went back and watched the start again.
Perspective on some infamous performances came from people like Fear's Lee Ving and Elvis Costello as well as SNL staff. It hurts that Sinead O'Conner couldn't speak for herself and there's some awkwardness around her in the doc but I can let it pass.
It's worth watching.
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That day I listened to all that Buck Owens continues to have repercussions.
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I once had an online conversation with someone who was at the taping of this show at the Marquee when David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull dueted on "I Got You Babe."
He was 14 at the time and vividly remember the moment at the end of the song when Marianne turned around and revealed to the audience that her nun outfit was completely backless and she was wearing nothing underneath it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OX2nelvhIE
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“Broken English” was edgy and stripped down enough to be hip, but it still stood out when played alongside other late ‘70s and early ‘80s AOR fare. Faithfull’s voice was far lower and raspier than it was in the ‘60s, and along with spooky keyboards and echoey guitars, she gave this song about a German terrorist group an added layer of menace. While bands like Blondie and Talking Heads were already getting rock fans acclimated to punk and new wave, “Broken English” was one of the more dangerous-sounding representations of those genres to reach mainstream radio.
Behind the Album: How Marianne Faithfull Remade Her Legacy with ‘Broken English’
https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-album-how-marianne-faithfull-remade-her-legacy-with-broken-english/
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Sometimes I marvel at the amount of confidence it took to rhyme "Dinosaur Victrola" with "Listening to Buck Owens."
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And meanwhile the people who live in that house have no hot water. I hate this.
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Yesterday I installed a water heater. Then when I turned it on it sparked and tripped the breaker. Nothing I did should have caused that. So this morning I get to go troubleshoot it and try to figure out if the brand new water heater is defective.
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Not my unsecured research laboratory. Not my monkeys.
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I've learned far more about water well regulations in the last 12 hours than I expected to.
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Just noticed in the credits for this episode of 100 Years of Solitude that Amaranta is played at this age by Loren Sofia. That's a heck of a name.
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We had the first "Uh oh, he's pushed the big red button that hangs around his neck" moment today. He'd fallen and, as the saying goes, couldn't get up. The Wife headed straight there but by the time she arrived the EMTs had come and gone. She went and got him some orange juice for the morning.
She came back home and a flurry of copying documents ensued so she'll have the ones giving her Power of Attorney in her purse in case it becomes necessary.
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I've ended up on beaverdeceivers.com, reading out loud to the Wife about their product to prevent beavers from blocking culverts under roads with a mixture of true interest and juvenile snickering. The straightforward, sensible tone in the copy is really striking and I had to pause after reading this paragraph about why killing beavers doesn't solve the problem:
"Humans often seem unable to recognize good long-term economics, especially when there’s a weapon handy. With guns and traps allowing for a 'free,' short-term remedy, people often develop a false sense of security. They forget that the dead beavers are not the only beavers."
The point is that beavers know where the good places to build ponds are and if you kill the ones blocking your culvert every night because it's letting water out of their pond, all you've done is invite the next generation of beavers who've left home to build a pond of their own to move into this prime, unoccupied location.
I can't quite put my finger on what about this resonates so much with me, but it feels like an insightful metaphor for a lot of willfully short-sighted and repetitively futile, approaches to problem solving. Humans excel at those.
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Be the change you wish to find on the sidewalk.
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The Cloaca Maxima was constructed sometime around 500 BCE and was still in use as Rome's main sewer over 2000 years later. Parts of it are still connected to the city's modern sewer system.
The Cloaca Maxima is also my new band name.
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Just thinking about things and one of the things I'm thinking about happens to be printers that sneak their serial numbers onto every page they print so that the person who printed it can be identified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
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Yesterday I ordered plants.
If I don't get a grip soon I'm in serious danger of becoming a hobbiest farmer, which is exactly the boondoggle of a lifestyle I fled 40 years ago. But on the other hand, it wouldn't be too hard to be better at it than my mom was.
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TIL the scientific name for llamas is lama glama and dammit now I need to rename my nonexistent band once again.
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