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My beef is with Verizon regarding their list of movies which rotates itself in the same fashion as radio. It seems after jaded observation that a list of films are programmed into a system by a thoughtless, brainless pencil neck geek who doesn't know how to be creative. Here are the end results.......The first week of the month you might see a film like Murder By Numbers. It is programmed starting time for example will be 10:00 AM, along with the usual suspects like The Terminator, Sea Of Love, The Edge, etc;.....I can't stand the concept of this whole running process, so I go off and do something else till about 11:00 PM. Now it's back to Verizon with the thought in my head that maybe, just maybe there will be different programming late at night. But no! The list from this morning is now running once again I see Murder By Numbers is out for the kill again. There it is right in front of my face again. Congratulations for having a staff of dwistles.
By the fourth week of that month they usually rotate the same films that were viewed during the first week. Comcast has the same method. You will hardly ever see a film like Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman) even The Dead Zone (Christopher Walken)....why? Who makes the decision as to what will be programmed and how often? An interesting film like Little Children might pop up twice in a one month period. Why? Then you have VH1 with the usual suspects. Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, old footage of Woodstock, the making of Dark Side Of The Moon etc;....Such contrived rubbish. Why can't they have something different about music? Underground bands? Why is it that even when they have a prog band documentary on, it always has to be the most common well known or who sold the most records kind of band, blah, blah, blah, cisc coom ba What a grind it is to a person who is interested in the art form of things. Apparently they wanted to make a point socially that most of the world thinks the same, and by God they have done it!
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 04:11
Dean wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Dean wrote:
JJLehto wrote:
Language is ridiculous.
I wonder how exactly we just started assigning grunts to certain things, and designating squiggles and lines to represent them. Likewise, how did so many pop up!
OK, I'm burnt out from all this German HW I've had to do. But interesting/slightly annoying point none the less? I'm going on little sleep, maybe this made no sense at all...
Language is annoyingly ambiguous, and the written word doubly so, but it is a step-up from the alternative, which generally involved hitting each other with a great big sticks until the weaker combatant submitted or died.
Hell, Dean, that's still our method in this house. We've evolved from sticks to crock pots and coat hangers though.
...and rolling pins and frying pans - but I have learnt not to pick an argument when she's ironing. (she's still not getting a dishwasher though )
Mrs Syzygy has had a dishwasher for years - me !
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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
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Posted: October 18 2009 at 04:46
well ....there's much to rant about this week
from an idiot on another forum trying to persuade everybody to spray water onto their record while playing "so they sound better with no surface noise" (absolutely dangerous and crazy ) to being bombarded with news items about the death of a homosexual binge drinker who obviously had it coming to him at his age - , while our brave lads in Afghanistan who hardly get a brief mention these days "maybe we'll send reinforcements next year" are being killed while defending us from evil terrorists, and their role is being undermined by the CND - very insulting to all the men to say the least at least Pakistan troops are moving in now.
lastly Tory Clown Boris Johnson insists on building another "London" airport smack bang in the middle of a conservation area.... and Tory Boy Cameron - not the least bit interested in conservation (their only interest in wildlife "if it moves shoot or set the hounds on it, or "the law of the jungle") and can't wait to unleash the hounds - is busy promising the world how they will change it , but as we all know will of course take us back to the dreaded Thatcher years..or even further.
and support your local Postmen, don't set the dog on them! if you were being caned at work by the boss and told you would receive no overtime and threat of redundancy you'd be pretty angry too..
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Posted: October 18 2009 at 17:11
I don't know who started it, but at some point every pop/rock singer started doubling all their vocals without bothering to sing harmony, and it drives me crazy. It's such a stupid effect!
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Posted: October 18 2009 at 17:26
Haha, but I think it predates autotune, I can hear it in some Phil Collins songs too. I shouldn't bother me that much, but for some reason the fact that the two layers are just slightly different is extremely irritating.
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Posted: October 19 2009 at 02:14
Henry Plainview wrote:
I don't know who started it, but at some point every pop/rock singer started doubling all their vocals without bothering to sing harmony, and it drives me crazy. It's such a stupid effect!
it is a very basic recording technique called double tracking, they've been doing it since the 60's, virtually all vocals are double tracked, simple but effective..
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 19:46
Deserts. Honestly if you live in a desert, leave. There are few reasons to live in a desert. The deserts of Southwestern US should never have been settled. It's not like the rest of the country was filled up and the only place left was the desert. People actively decided to set up camp there and stay. It makes no sense.
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 19:52
mystic fred wrote:
Henry Plainview wrote:
I don't know who started it, but at some point every pop/rock singer started doubling all their vocals without bothering to sing harmony, and it drives me crazy. It's such a stupid effect!
it is a very basic recording technique called double tracking, they've been doing it since the 60's, virtually all vocals are double tracked, simple but effective..
Well then they got worse at it, because it didn't use to be this annoying.
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 20:35
JJLehto wrote:
Language is ridiculous.
I wonder how exactly we just started assigning grunts to certain things, and designating squiggles and lines to represent them. Likewise, how did so many pop up!
OK, I'm burnt out from all this German HW I've had to do. But interesting/slightly annoying point none the less? I'm going on little sleep, maybe this made no sense at all...
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 21:12
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can autotune do harmonies?
What is the point of autotune anyway? It just proves the fact that today pop stars are less singers and more performers. I think it is the reason Susan Boyle surprised so many people, they all assume that beauty= good singing because that is what they see on the tv, unlike many of my favorite vocalists, who are far(very faaar) from what is considered handsome(except Gilmour?)
If you can't sing or play an instrument you should try harder, not erase your mistakes.
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 21:20
A Person wrote:
Dean wrote:
can autotune do harmonies?
What is the point of autotune anyway? It just proves the fact that today pop stars are less singers and more performers. I think it is the reason Susan Boyle surprised so many people, they all assume that beauty= good singing because that is what they see on the tv, unlike many of my favorite vocalists, who are far(very faaar) from what is considered handsome(except Gilmour?)
If you can't sing or play an instrument you should try harder, not erase your mistakes.
Stylized autotune has infected nearly every song on the radio, and I think it's a legitimate use, even if the results are annoying. You wouldn't be able to create a song like Life After Love by Cher or I've Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas without the use of it.
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 21:28
Henry Plainview wrote:
A Person wrote:
Dean wrote:
can autotune do harmonies?
What is the point of autotune anyway? It just proves the fact that today pop stars are less singers and more performers. I think it is the reason Susan Boyle surprised so many people, they all assume that beauty= good singing because that is what they see on the tv, unlike many of my favorite vocalists, who are far(very faaar) from what is considered handsome(except Gilmour?)
If you can't sing or play an instrument you should try harder, not erase your mistakes.
Stylized autotune has infected nearly every song on the radio, and I think it's a legitimate use, even if the results are annoying. You wouldn't be able to create a song like Life After Love by Cher or I've Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas without the use of it.
I understand using it for that, but I have heard some pop/country singers live and it is amazing how much worse they sound. Also, I don't care if Cher uses autotune or not because she is actually a good singer. However, it sounds horrible when every single song has constant pitch perfect vocals.
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I see Murder By Numbers is out for the kill again. There it is right in front of my face again.
Congratulations for having a staff of dwistles. 
What a grind it is to a person who is interested in the art form of things. Apparently they wanted to make a point socially that most of the world thinks the same, and by God they have done it!
Dean wrote:
(she's still not getting a dishwasher though 
!
, while our brave lads in Afghanistan who hardly get a brief mention these days "maybe we'll send reinforcements next year" are being killed while defending us from evil terrorists, and their role is being undermined by the CND - very insulting to all the men to say the least 
at least Pakistan troops are moving in now.
and Tory Boy Cameron - not the least bit interested in conservation (their only interest in wildlife "if it moves shoot or set the hounds on it, or "the law of the jungle") and can't wait to unleash the hounds - is busy promising the world how they will change it , but as we all know will of course take us back to the dreaded Thatcher years..or even further.
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can autotune do harmonies?
