The worst is after the fourth of july, when I have a fight with myself whether to buy the discounted red, white & blue M&Ms.

Haven’t you noticed just about every immigrant-run businesses can be identified by the profusion of American flags on displa’?

My dad was just around less because he was commuting to and from manhattan

You mean he just happened to have a long commute and it didn’t have anything to do with the only social expectation of fathers was to earn money?

Other than the chef in Little Mermaid, does he have any French-speaking roles?

“Zut alors! I have missed one!” is permanently lodged in my head.

No it isn’t

Sounds a bit like the movie Good Morning Vietnam. where the supervisor is raking Robin William’s character for not following the rules of comedy.

My thing is that the music should follow the lyrics of the song. There’s a beatuiful spanish song about forgetting. I’ve heard a lot of wonderful versions of it, but they all finish normally. Why not, I thought, since it’s about forgetting, just abandon the verse in the middle and drift around a bit out of key and finish on a suspended chord somewhere? Nobody’s going to stop me.

There’s also something I’m seeing in a lot of different walks of lifes. Learning “knowledge” is how a lot of people gain their legitimacy; in order to make themselves more important, they need to make their knowledge more important than it ought to be.

This video will explain both the joke and why you never play this type of game.

https://youtu.be/34RPwDfLpKg

Any modern games scratching the same itch? I’ve tried Far Cry and a bunch of others, but there is something uniquely charming about JC2.

I’m not autistic, but this sounds like a good way to get out of a conversation. Would this be cultural appropriation?

What if you slipped a pair of sunglasses over the telescope?

Can you do anything uniquely fun in them? They’re so damn slow, they’re a last resort when there’s nothing to grapple.

War… war never changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars?wprov=sfla1

This one tempted me, but I spend enough time troubleshooting electronics to have it cut into my music time.

https://warbl.xyz/Store/index.php?route=product%2Fproduct&product_id=54

I just used it to get over a hump. There’s a key that’s a little sticky, so I’ve stopped playing it. It’s an Aerophone Mini that’s mostly self contained, but you can plug it into an app via bluetooth, not sure if it’s also a midi controller. Probably not the best choice if you’re looking for a bare bones reporter of your wind velocity-there’s cheaper stuff out there for that (maybe a separate input alongside the keyboard?)

People are buying water right now as we speak.

I’d rather use a grappling hook in combination with a stunt parachute than a tuktuk la

I’ve had plenty of music teachers that focused on reading music to the exclusion of transcription. It’s a pretty common problem. I’m not basing this opinion on a one-off exchange with my clarinet teacher, but it’s just my last run in with music education, and I’m pretty confident that little girl is never going to transcribe anything with him.

As for your exercise, it sounds interesting. I might have to try it. The explanation component really is more on the academic side than the musical side. Music is a conversation, but first and foremost from the musician/composer to the audience, though it can also certainy be among musicians.

You sound like you’ll have (or have had) a sterling career in academia.

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Yup, I’m realizing that merit and hard work is for suckers. The pathway to success is kissing ass. Unfortunately, I’m constitutionally incapable.

I’m learning not to be honest in interviews by being rejected after interviews where I’m honest.

You’re an objectively better candidate than I am. Not only do I lack recent experience, I’m also have gaps and some very unrelated low-level jobs. I’m applying for close-to-entry level work in a field I’m actually highly critical of in ways employers definitely don’t want to hear. With all my “red flags”, it’s best to be as normal and not threatening as possible.

Which does shake my confidence, a bit, going in feeling like I have to misrepresent myself, but it’s something I need to work on as a cynical manipulation of the process.