I award best thumbnail to @Wosret because it constantly changes, despite their never posting.

har har

I don't really remember the difference between late 2019, 2020 and 2021. I think I've just been in survival mode.

Oompa loompa doompety doo
I’ve got an obvious puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doompety dee
If you aren't dumb you’ll listen to me

What do you get when you split semantic twine
Batting strands about like a hair-brained feline
What are you at, it's misogyny you idiot
Why do you think you should bring it up, that

I don’t like the look of it

Oompa loompa doompety da
If you’re not pedantic you will go far
You will live without misogyny too
Like the Oompa Loompa Doompety do

What if he rises again in three days? Has it been three days yet? :chin:

I agree people hear different things in music, and not even just musicians vs. non-musicians. If you take an album like Laughing Stock by Talk Talk, as a musician, I still hear something new each time I listen to it (that has more to do with the endless layers than anything, I guess). Another interesting thing I've noticed is that I sort of log songs I hear casually into "like" or "dislike" categories, but subliminally. I'll hear a song in a store or something and either immediately be like "ah what is that, I like that song", or the opposite. When I realize what it is, I might be sort of embarrassed at myself, if it's, for instance, a Katy Perry song I was enjoying. This is apparently based on the social acceptability of certain music within certain circles, which goes into another topic, but the point is that apparently I don't even always hear the same song the same way; i.e., I may not realize I instinctively like a song or piece until I hear it in a new context.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

My new ambient record, Pink Logos, is out now on Aught/Void Records. Recorded in April 2020 while quarantined at home with Covid symptoms. Dark, weird, but with a light at the end of the tunnel. Levels Of Compression is the must-listen track, although it's not for everyone.

https://aughtvoid.bandcamp.com/album/pink-logos

One of the best things I've heard in a long time (this is just the intro):

https://wildup.bandcamp.com/track/prime

@jamalrob

Thanks, glad you liked it. It's also supposed to begin in relative "silence", one word, and grow and grow, as a way to emphasize the ideas in the poem.

I like the Carl Dennis above; I like the style. From that poem I get the theme of what I would describe as "social taboo" or something, or uncomfortable realities that no one wants to admit; I've never come up with the right phrase. Lines like this:

The strollers out on the street today
Don’t have to believe all men are created equal,
All endowed by their creator with certain rights,
As long as they behave as if they do, — T Clark

"I live in salads" :ok:

Here's one of mine from a few years ago:

Maybe
The silence
Of no applause
For the subway singer
Speaks louder than feigned
Appreciation, than fetishized fawning:
The standing ovation of the deaf sheep herd.
Maybe true feeling is only met with silence, the silence
Of no return to the question of why the silence brings a silent feeling.
Like when the inner flame of thought is quelled by the outer frame of discursive judgment; the embarrassing lisp of the inner infinite first feeling; the apologetic laugh, crafted to avert the penetration of an eye; coital fumbling blocked by the self-preservation of an unknown inner kingdom -

:up:

Both tracks are very similar. Music copyright law is very weird. I think the Coldplay track counted as being a copyright violation, even though I guarantee you Chris Martin from Coldplay never listened to Joe Satriani in his life, so in that sense, Coldplay kind of got fucked.

Edit: the idea being that they both wrote similar melodies independently from one another totally at random.

Rip it out and put it in a bottle, then it's of no interest, unless you're a pathologist — Wayfarer

We're sifting through a sea of pathologists here.

Any insight is personal by nature; the only question is to what extent a personal insight is perceived as having value at a universal level versus at a personal level. This is true across all disciplines, whether hardcore philosophy or Gnosticism. The only difference seems to be the acknowledgement of mysticism (including Gnosticism) of this fact, versus the inability to realize this fact in traditional philosophy.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
— T Clark

Of course this is Kafka's original thought not T Clark's. I wonder why Kafka thought that. Was he recommending avoidance of literature? Seeing is one thing; if you want to be good at communicating what you see, then obviously some familiarity with the ways other's have expressed their seeing will no doubt be helpful — Janus

I think you're overthinking the Kafka quote. I read it as a description of a sort of meditation. I've certainly had moments in life where the world was writhing in ecstasy at my feet. Today, in fact. I went to Chinatown in Manhattan and ate a pork chop over rice and some wontons doused in hot chili oil. It was almost dusk, and I was sitting outside on a closed off street, watching the sun slowly set over the tenement buildings. I call that philosophy.

Crack cocaine:

Oh yeah?

Let's play a game: what's my IQ?

You have to comb back through all of my 4.7 thousand posts to figure it out. The winner doesn't get banned. The loser is banned.

Would you chill out? Whether Banno gaslighted you or not, this adds nothing to the thread, it doesn't belong here. — Hermeticus

He did, so it does belong here.

In this thread I'm only interested in @Banno's gaslighting.

I'm only interested in gaslighters like @Banno

Gaslitghing

But not really, though.

Yes, gas lighters do what they can by gas-lighting. Surely.

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I'M SMARTER THAN THESE FUQKS dammit

If anyone reading this thread is unsure, I'M MENSA-LEVEL IQ

I am too, but thankfully I'm Mensa-level.

Yes.

Nice catch; I deleted that comment but now it's forever there in your quote; I like the poetry of that. I deleted the comment for the sake of avoiding confusion. I'm against stupidity, but not in the way @tim wood seems to be.

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measure

All good, I don't really either. Uh...think...I don't know, I can't think of any more clever ways to suggest that intelligence is (ironically) complex and not unidimensional, and that there's no one way to measure it. I stayed coy as long as I could.

Think Jerry Seinfeld

I probably already posted this, sorry

Interpret that as you will

Thank g()d I'm mensa-level but choose not to join.