Kind of you to say. I'm more the book version than the movie version, sadly.

Of course, those of us with a West Coast bias (Don Buchla, RIP), think keyboards are reductive.

Floyd were early adopters. Dark Side of the Moon has a ton of synth too.

I hate to break it to you, but filtering an oscillating sound source (and that's how tonewheel organs work) is the very definition of subtractive synthesis. There are other kinds of synthesis - (FM, additive, granular, etc.), but the filter, especially a lowpass filter - is what creates the classic synth sound. Of…

My pleasure!

Both fine choices also.

Westfall, the War Criminal Rises and Speaks, the Velocity of Saul at the Time of his Conversion, In a Radio Song, a Stone, a Girl in Port, John Allyn Smith Sails, Singer Songwriter, Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel 1979, Diwn the Deep River, and Okkervil River RIP.

Great song, great record. Unfortunately, it's been his last really great record, though they all have their moments.

I have a 9 or 10 song playlist of Okkervil River songs starting with Westfall and proceeding chronologically, which would be just about the best album ever made by anybody. Sadly I kind of agree with you, though. I can really only listen to Black Sheep Boy, the Stage Names and the Stand-Ins all the way through. I…

Great name!

Mesmerizingly dumb. Needless to say, I watched it all.

That's what you get for listening to your debate coach. In my experience, debate coaches are people who couldn't achieve the eminently achievable goal of becoming lawyers.

Had I said his argument was stupid because he is stupid, then the argument would be ad hominem. I said he is stupid because his argument is stupid - more of an argument from the man (ex homine) than to the man (ad hominem) wouldn't you agree? Unsophisticated and effectively similar? Perhaps, but still not properly…

He said something stupid, so I called him stupid (and I will bet any amount you care to name that this person is male): if I called him stupid without provocation, then it would be ad hominem - in this case, it was just applied logic. You are probably an idiot too, so I'm sure I'm wasting my (metaphorical) breath.

Whatever.

Rather a lot has changed. The Cold War ended, the economy improved significantly in the 1990s, we had a budget surplus, and for a couple of years - after the Balkan wars and before 9/11 - the world didn't seem unrelentingly terrible. As an easy example, had Gore prevailed, there almost certainly would have been no…

You are an idiot.

I'm sure the people of Iraq feel your pain deeply.

For what it's worth, he was a terrible Republican governor.

Funnily enough, I was noodling on an electric guitar while watching "The Civil War" on Netflix a couple of days ago. It's easier to play than you might think.