u/jrinredcar

Hear me out before you send me off to the funny farm.

I have a huge gym playlist I keep adding songs too. I keep Smart Shuffling it until sections line up with the Camelot Wheel and I'll mix those as and when. Everfew days I'll hit Smart Shuffle to try and get more accurate line ups

How I'll use it is I'll start with Shuffle to get to a random area, take Shuffle off and then that row of tracks will be my selection for the workout, or even the rest of the day

I keep experimenting by adding short interlude type tracks and recently tracks from DJ Kicks albums t see how tracks that are sort of mixed already play in , I'm thinking it'd be like having 3 decks idk. Could be fun. I can always remove them.

I want to keep updating my Frankenstein monster playlist with tracks as they come out, how many tracks can I get before Smart Shuffle says Computers Say No

Playlist here if anyone wants a sneak through what my record bag would look like

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cS2YzaJisaTk7QVRSwG9q?si=M3XApcu1RYOCwZzz9WoLLw&utm\_source=copy-link&sci=spotify%3Acard-config%3A153sF5a4KDuQLMBfQw2eEQ

Pull Day, and no pulled muscles. Result

Not sure if there's any info on this local guy. Record was in my grans collection along with Slim Whitman and other country artists Seems like he was signed to a Belfast based country label, but was local to teesside.

There's usual country and western hits, more so some Lead Belly covers which is brilliant. But his own penned song about the Cleveland Hills.

Anyone know much about this guy? If he did other music? Where he was from etc

I assume he must have had a gig at the Coatham Bowl in the 70s for my gran to get a signed record. Sadly my gran and grandad aren't here to get answers.

Here's the title track if you want to hear a local voice sing about the A19

https://youtu.be/FaFRTFvNq5I?is=Y0OpWONE5RAHwvbU

Big fan of this.

Animation isnt amazing but the presentation of it is everything ive wanted from Batman media. Sort of reminds me of Spider-Noir. It would be amazing in live action

- The suit is influenced by the very first 1937 suit.

- The setting is around 1940s-50s with an influence from film noir, horror with some science fiction (think Fleischer era Superman era tech) and golden age comics.

- Villians are more realistic, gangster based and usually the opposite of how they're presented in the comics (The Riddler is a gangster who 'riddles people with bullets for example). I really enjoyed the Conrad Veidt inspired joker too, and Clay face was fantastic.

Some criticisms i have is there's too many plots of turning people into zombies, and the cityscaoe animations aren't as iconic or well painted like Batman TAS. If anything g it feels like they're lacking budget and you can tell but I guess they're doing the best they can.

However it's got the perfect blend of a violent Saturday morning cartoon, mixed with a decent noir I'd find online that I'd put on a Sunday afternoon. Which is sort of fits what I want from comic book media.

Seen it? Love it or hate it?

Caught this on Sky Movies at 5am when I was a young in

It's just randomly popped in my head. And the full film is on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/EvkteksNJWs?is=5VNW8x8L7EknhIrG

I remember it being goofy, and maybe some gross out scenes with the giant and snot I think.

Going to have a skim through now

Anyone seen this?

I feel like these could possibly be Re:View material. But I feel like Jay has mentioned Michael Richards as the Bow Tie Killer from PC1 previously.

I used to watch these all the time as a child and never realised how dark they are. Really fun films. I think the writers were inspired by John Waters too, and because of the negative reaction to the first, they doubled down on how gross out the second one should be. Which is commendable in its own right. Qa

Mitsy - 17

Truffle - 1

Treacle - 1

Still using a terrible phone until I get a new one (hope this is ok, and I don't look too threatening with the shadows lol) Between jobs so I've hit the gym 20 times this month, I would have gone more but I injured my back and was off for a week. So on to next month.

Watched it last night and I appreciate the openness and honesty of it.

I'm currently between jobs so hammering the gym quite a bit and enjoying pre workouts like I did when I was furloughed back in COVID, and watching more fitness youtubers

For context, I was made redundant and the process and job made me not want to go to the gym so I've been slacking until recently. (I also hurt my back on Sunday on decline bench press so step forward)

Two things I picked up on that ive seen in other videos, which I'll link.

YouTube stifling smaller creators.

https://youtu.be/JgFS35gU1-s?is=vsak0SOBtDNviU0U

I've been enjoying Gobtu's videos on British culture, but he dropped a video recently on how videos from creators are going to be de-prioritised for main channel videos. This could be a reason why RB are seeing less views. Very frustrating.

Instagram, TikTok etc are to blame too. It's impossible for smaller creators to, get a leg up now. Plus I don't even use Instagram anymore because I just get shown stuff I don't even follow or want to engage with. I enjoy different things, so if start liking videos of jazz music, all the fitness stuff I like goes to the algorithm black hole.

Josh Brett's videos on the kids hopped up on juice and the influence of gear tiktokers. Im really enjoying his content and he used to be a stim junkie. There's even a clip of GGH in his PWO video. Maybe one of the few who talk about the historic dangerous ones.

There's that other YouTuber I forgot his name. He does clips from idiots in tiktok and has good breakdowns. He's British. Quite deadpan

https://youtu.be/H9b9IhzL0Vs?is=rbmsBgyQrndJTP9T

I think this shift is moving new gym goers from pre workout, enjoying their workouts and the postitve gym culture of self improvement to wanting to be like influencers who cheat in the gym, especially at a young age.

I agree with Aaron when he said the gyms are full of teens necking Monster drinks. Which baffles me because they barely touch the sides now in terms of energy.

What's the solution? No idea. Is it a cost thing with the cost of living going up? Possibly. £50 on 20 servings is steep but still better bang for buck on Monsters. But that's instant gratification than actually investing in something that ce get you lifting for 2 hours than a monster which tapers off after 45 mins

PED Sellers start doing PWO bundles?

We move to a less is more sort of culture? Reviewers do less reviews but creative eye catching videos?

I don't think it should be the end but an opportunity to watch how the landscape changes and gradually react, even if it means taking a step back to move a few steps ahead.

I hope a new social media platform comes out with less ads and promoted content tbh. Less reels/tiktoks/endless scroll nonsense. There was BlueSky but it's just a bit too up its own arse for me

Obviously I'm in the UK like the Bros, so not sure what it's like in the states and other places.

Anyway just my thoughts. Thanks again for Aaron and Craig for sharing. I hope we can get back to the Golden Age. This is a great community. It's be a shame if it went!

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Hello,

I've got some time in between jobs at the moment and I had an idea to make a Moby Dick/Leviathan/bibilcial sea monster themed plundeephonic project.

I've got a few bones of tracks sorted. I made a nice ambient piece yesterday of David Suchet reading Job 41 with some bass tones.

But I'm trying to expand my listening to music that I can sample that gives an ancient nautical feel. I'm thinking maybe some classical or 50s and 60s here's slowed down.

Is there any music you would associate with Moby Dick, the Old Testament KJV, general nautical themes etc that could be sampled.

I'm going to try and do it DJ Shadow style and just really try and challenge myself.

I'm trying to get my head into a place of being at sea and finding musical ways to express that via sampling, audio manipulation. There will be drums but I'm going to try and keep them lower in the mix and really keep things focused on the feeling of music. Or music from the time (sea shanties, classic, folk) older the better I love textures

Audio of readings isn't hard to find. I'm trying to lift verses from the book too much, rather things that may have influenced the book or other sources to give the same feeling. The passage in Blood Meridian of the kids looking am out to the whaling ship is one example

I did something similar with a biblical prophet and sampling to give an idea of what I'm going for

https://jackrae.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-enoch

Influences:

The Caretaker

DJ Shadow

Madlib

The Avalanches

DJ Screw