u/thefringeseanmachine

almost a decade ago I was in a meditation course and they were prone to playing this new age/celtic group that, quite frankly, I could take or leave. but I was talking to my mom recently and realized it's the kind of thing she'd absolutely adore. it had definite vibes of this Loreena McKennit song, but was often more upbeat. pretty sure it featured a Bodhran. one VERY distinct thing I remember was the album cover focused on the female vocalist, a white woman wearing a Sikh style turban. not something you see every day.

I tried searching YT with every combination of words I can think of, but the genre has been completely overwhelmed by AI so I can't even get close. I just hope someone is smarter than me (which, honestly, shouldn't be difficult.)

been watching Star Trek on shuffle all night and I think he's the third SG actor I've seen in as many hours.

Gotta keep an eye out for any Nokia-shaped corvettes in my area…

the issues they tackled is almost too long to list (and doesn't reflect how well they did) but here's a quick snippet from Wikipedia:

>Although Dinosaurs is targeted at a family audience, the show touched upon multiple topical issues, which include environmentalism, endangered species, women's rights, sexual harassment, LGBT rights, objectification of women, censorship, civil rights, body image, steroid use, allusions to masturbation (in the form of Robbie doing the solo mating dance), drug abuse, racism (in the form of a dispute between the two-legged dinosaurs and the four-legged dinosaurs), peer pressure, rights of indigenous peoples (in the form of the dinosaurs interacting with cavepeople), corporate crime, government interference in parenting, and pacifism.

some of my favorite quotes (that I'm gonna have to paraphrase here):

>"maybe you're a little too young to understand the finer points of race hatred." (as though race hatred was a good thing)

>"the government would never [take your TV]. television is an essential tool for making the disenfranchised feel distracted and reassured."

or some of the best from the "Nuts To War" arc:

>"The time has come for bold and decisive action! and so today we launch operation We Are Right. tomorrow we'll select a bunch of big strong guys to go down to that swamp and hiss and spit at those four-leggers until they go away. now, who's with me? [beat] naturally I'm not talking about sending productive members of society - it'll be mostly teenage boys and the poor."

(followed up by [via IMDB])

>Charlene Sinclair: [after the war is over] I heard that somebody got killed.

>Robbie Sinclair: Yeah, it was some new guy... but you know we could've won!

>Earl Sinclair: Robbie, what're you saying?

>Robbie Sinclair: Well, I'm saying it's terrible that guy got killed and all, but you know we had those four-leggers on the run, we could've won it.

>Earl Sinclair: A boy died, don't you see the fighting didn't solve anything?

>Fran Sinclair: Come on, Robbie, let's get you out of that uniform, you have school tomorrow.

>Robbie Sinclair: Forget school, a bunch of the guys were talking about keeping the army together if they came back, they'll set up a base at the swamp so we'll be ready for them next time. They're working on a WHOLE NEW line of weapons, yeah!

>Earl Sinclair: Stop it! You're not a soldier, you're a kid,

>[pulls Robbie into a close hug]

>Earl Sinclair: You're gonna go to school, you're gonna take girlfriends to dances, you're gonna drive me crazy like you always have, until it's time for you to grow up.

>Robbie Sinclair: Dad?

>Earl Sinclair: It's alright son, it's over... you're home.

I mean... shit. that's a lot of heavy shit. and I remember this being marketed to us kids! just imagine something like Kidz Bop doing a cover of Fortunate Son. people would've lost their minds, but Dinosaurs got away with it. they routinely broke the fourth wall to make us ask, "what the hell are we even doing here, watching this?" while making us challenge our morals.

unfortunately the whole show got overwhelmed and eventually shoved aside because of the baby character shouting "NOT DA MAMA NOT DA MAMA!" which relegated a lot of great work into the "Yo Quero Taco Bell?" genre of history.

it was insanely progressive, and has aged beautifully. it taught some very important moral lessons, and I'm really glad I was able go grow up watching it. 10/10.

seriously, fuck this guy.

the whole Iron Sky franchise was built upon a SUPER niche audience.

[SPOILERS ABOUND]

the first film was Nazis hiding on the far side of the moon. which yeah, of course. they totally had UFO's. just look at the bell. and we all understand why helium 3 is so important, along with space treaties. everyone knows this. moving on.

"The Coming Race" was like 30% memes, 70% conspiracy theories - which makes sense, since it was crowd funded. of course the Nokia 3310 would survive a literal nuclear winter - which happened because of the Illuminati (specifically the shapeshifting reptilian kind). it only then makes sense that the last human survivors would seek out Agartha, the legendary city located at the center of our hollow earth, to retrieve the source of Vril energy, which just so happens to be contained in the Holy Grail. then reptilian Hitler bursts into the formerly Nazi moon base riding a T-Rex to get the Grail back. like ya do. in between that there are some scenes, like when Steve Jobs cannibalizes Tom Green, the leader of a cult who worships Apple.

but honestly, if you understand even one of these references, these movies are fucking amazing. yes, they may have bankrupted two studios. yes, both were "a disaster". but holy goddamn are they an absolute delight. the third film was hinted at in both the first and second and could've been amazing, but I guess we'll never know.

things go off the rails REAL fast.

SPOILERS: a mysterious black blob from the inside of the moon attacks a space capsule and punches all the astronauts in the face. Houston immediately decides that said mysterious black blob (never seen before) is a "singularity" controlled by "AI," obviously having no idea what either of those words mean. things do not improve from there.

also, Halle Berry has long hair, which is a HUGE downgrade.

as the title says, the reality of this woman is becoming an issue between my lil brother and I. he casually mentioned sending "@athenakamii" a lot of money. like, a LOT A LOT, because "she" seems to be into him. I've tried explaining how OF scams work, and that she probably doesn't even exist, but to no avail. "she's" posted some videos on Xitter (which I can't figure out how to upload here) but they make me even more suspicious. it's all just yandere crap, which I think he's falling for.

I just want to find a way to convince him that he's being had, since he refuses to recognize that his internet girlfriend being online 24/7 is kinda suspicious.

the crowd went fucking wild. sorry it's not longer, I wanted to respect the people sitting behind me.

I got a couple D'Addario PW-CT-12TP's a while back, and they really, really struggle to pick up the low B. I had decent luck with the TC Electronics UniTune until one day my cat bit it (yeh, he's like that) and it fell into a million pieces. the build quality (especially the battery cover) was just shit.

so I guess I'm looking to balance the two things: accurate enough to tune a low B, but cheap enough to justify buying more than one and leaving them attached to various instruments. I'm sure the Peterson is great, but $60-80 across... one, two, twelve... shit, a lot of instruments, the cost adds up fast. but most every Snark I've tried has been garbage. can anyone recommend a sweet-spot in between?