I agree in many ways, but I think that "weaponizing" is not the best metaphor. The problem with this situation is that, basically, it's pretty much the logical result of what's come before. People think the way that they do, in large part, because of their circumstances (the closest and most constant source of…
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The Terrorist #4 bit slayed me. That whole show was a great time.
Double Indemnity is just about all that comes to mind.
Ha! I shouldn't be surprised, but that's kind of hilarious. Poor white knights without a damsel in distress anywhere to be found.
Basically, I think that people need to realize that armies are just that. Specific religions don't make armies somehow scarier or more powerful because they're window-dressing. Islam has as much to do with this as Christianity had to do with the Third Reich. They're just symbols being used as a way to rally people…
My perspective on this is definitely not the mainstream legal perspective. I see pretty much every suit of this kind as specious. Nobody owns a musical trope. That's the long and the short of it. "Similar" is not good enough. It would need to be exact, which this is not.
My sincere condolences. Don't let anyone tell you how to grieve.
"Aren't you supposed to bring two kayaks?"
As I've gotten older (32 here), I've found that all of that folderol about the sex lives people were and are supposedly living was and is mostly just smoke and advertising. Forty-year-old virgins, it turns out, are not so singular and unusual as that movie made them out to be. I suspect that the people who talk…
Therapy is starting to get me addicted to the pleasures of honesty. After you hit certain definitions of rock bottom, there's a dangerous thrill in finally just telling people the truth sometimes. I figure that's part of the reason why one would want to be emotionally naked; another is that, in a sense, it's…
It's tricky. I've discovered in the past that my family starts reading themselves into every song of mine that they hear, no matter how oblique and elliptical the lyric. I'd suggest that you consider it as just another hurdle. I'm working on getting over it myself and I think that it's a useful challenge for an…
If that's where it would die, then it's fucking dead. A relationship that can't handle that (after communication and counselling) is over.
Yes, let me clarify: we're a sideshow in the sense that we're not where the conflict is really happening. The heavy fighting is all going on elsewhere.
This is foolish, but it dovetails with a deeper truth that I think has gone missing from discussion about ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. If you think about it, they're an army in an odd position. Forces don't usually need to recruit globally over the internet. Why not attack that recruitment drive by substantively making them…
Well, yeah. It's pretty similar to a lot of things. My point is just that it doesn't matter if another song already had a bass playing the root notes of a I-V-vi-IV progression in eighth notes. Shitloads of songs do that. It's one of the most common chord progressions paired with one of the most common ways of…
Well, modern guitars are built for equal temperament. A and E keep showing up as tonal centres largely because they're the two lowest strings and guitarists often want to play the root on the bass strings. Alternate tunings and capos and such change the notes that fulfill that role.
Wikipedia claims that it's especially characteristic of 17th-century opera. It's ridiculously common. As far as I can tell, the judge seemed to think that it mattered that they were in the same key, which makes no damned sense at all.
The bass line of "With or without you" consists of playing the root notes of the chords in eighth notes. The chord progression is incredibly common in popular music of the latter half of the 20th century (if you ever see a video of some people doing a bunch of songs with four chords, it's probably that progression). …
It's very close to the same progression. "Runaway" uses what's known as the Andalusian Cadence, which can be considered a subset of what's sometimes call the Lament Bass. Runaway employs it with a diatonic/harmonic minor variant (see "The Cat Came Back", which was originally published in astonishingly racist form…