Gyroscopic Investing

If anyone, for whatever reason, has to read Pride and Prejudice in the future for a class, I found a very faithful TV miniseries adaptation online.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6a0k2s

This has made understanding the story arc much easier. Although I do still prefer the zombies version as per below. Fight scenes make ANY movie better!!

https://youtu.be/xs8jGY2dnCg

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:28 am RAY DALIO was on NPR just now but I missed it. (Cat wanted a drink from the sink).
If anyone finds the audio, maybe you can post it, here. I’ll look for it in the afternoon.

Dalio on restructuring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxYhv2O3wU#

shekels wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 1:14 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:28 am RAY DALIO was on NPR just now but I missed it. (Cat wanted a drink from the sink).
If anyone finds the audio, maybe you can post it, here. I’ll look for it in the afternoon.

Dalio on restructuring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxYhv2O3wU#

Thanks! Btw, I found the audio above -- only 3 minutes -- and posted it in a new thread.

Hungry?

The last dinner menu from the Titanic's Fist Class dining room...
https://youtu.be/wQgt1Bgb2xM

A Final Warning!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXm5hklbBsA

Tonight Alive - Little Lion Man orig. Mumford & Sons
Sleeping With Sirens - Fuck You orig. Cee Lo Green

Two punk covers.

Some new music from The Districts
https://youtu.be/adkv2n5sJRA

The bassline alone deserves a Grammy.

Some old music from Jean Baptiste Lully
https://youtu.be/ZGplC6L7dFM

No Grammy for him.

Ad Orientem wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:37 pm Some old music from Jean Baptiste Lully
https://youtu.be/ZGplC6L7dFM

No Grammy for him.

Looks like he has been in quarantine for quite some time (based on his hair).

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:38 am

Ad Orientem wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:37 pm Some old music from Jean Baptiste Lully
https://youtu.be/ZGplC6L7dFM

No Grammy for him.

Looks like he has been in quarantine for quite some time (based on his hair).

I think the image is of Louis Le Grande Dauphin. That said, I always wondered where bow ties originated.

Some bass for Dualstow (along with an excellent female guitarist):

Ana Popovic - Long Road Down - 2/20/2020 - Paste Studio ATL - Atlanta, GA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGGE5zC19s0

Vinny

Adam Schlesinger, late of Fountains of Wayne and fountains of coronavirus, wrote the song That Thing You Do, from the eponymous movie. You can hear the similarities with their song Stacy's Mom, especially in the backing vocals.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:59 pm

Adam Schlesinger, late of Fountains of Wayne and fountains of coronavirus, wrote the song That Thing You Do, from the eponymous movie. You can hear the similarities with their song Stacy's Mom, especially in the backing vocals.

Love both the movie and the song. I can listen to the song at least five times in a row. After I finally finish doing so, I'll listen to that other song.

Vinny

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:59 pm

Adam Schlesinger, late of Fountains of Wayne and fountains of coronavirus, wrote the song That Thing You Do, from the eponymous movie. You can hear the similarities with their song Stacy's Mom, especially in the backing vocals.

I did listen to "That Thing You Do" as I predicted I would. I'm now on the four listen of "Stacy's Mom". I'm surprised I'd never prior heard it.

I'm not hearing any similarities at all.

"That Thing You Do" succeeded in making it sound like it WAS a hit song from the 60s.

"Stacy's Mom" seems to have it roots starting with the Cars (early 80s) and continuing with the music somewhere into the 90s.

I'm going to put both songs in front of the former vocalist in our band who is a great analyzer of music to see what similarities he hears.

Vinny

The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.

By the way, one of my favorite songs, by Brand New, is strangely appropriate for the Wuhan.

The fever, the focus
The reasons that I had to believe you weren't too hard to sell
Die young and save yourself
The tickle, the taste of
It used to be the reason I breathed but now it's choking me up
Die young and save yourself

It's also a beautiful music video.

Speaking of Brand New and beautiful music videos, they made two of them.

Tonight Alive - Little Lion Man

Apparently, this Aussie band was in a comic book movie. Their cover remains excellent.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.

Thanks for providing room for the following comments:

1) Passed both songs on the two vocalists in our band to see what similarities they saw. Have not yet heard back from them.

2) I did hit it on the Cars!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy%27s_Mom

"In writing the song, he was hoping to take influence from new wave and power pop music: "I was thinking a little bit about "Mrs. Robinson" and sonically I was thinking about The Cars, a Rick Springfield sort of thing." He acknowledged that stylistically, the song "owes a debt" to the Cars' "Just What I Needed"; its opening guitar riff is similar.[7] The Cars' frontman Ric Ocasek thought that the intro was a sample from "Just What I Needed"[8] but the band says they performed it in the studio and just "got it right." "

3) "Stacy" in real life is a fellow Italian also from Rhode Island.

4) Over the decades I've many times read Rachel Hunter's name in the context of being Rod Stewart's wife but I don't know if I'd ever seen her prior to tonight. The thing I always thought about her was Rod Stewart in his live Unplugged MTV performance introducing one of his songs by saying it came out before his wife was born!

5) The movie came out in 1996.

VInny

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.

Here is what I got back after asking if our former vocalist saw any similarities between the two songs:

"First, the chord progression and melody are very similar. The vocal harmony is also.
These songs are basically formula pop tunes."

Vinny

I think I just found my new favorite full contact sport.

https://youtu.be/gyrpPe96uvU

Twenty One Pilots - Level of Concern
(written, recorded, and released during the Wuhan pandemic)

Waffen-SS Soldiers Guarded The Nuremberg Trials

*Insert Jeffrey Epstein meme here*

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:59 am Waffen-SS Soldiers Guarded The Nuremberg Trials

*Insert Jeffrey Epstein meme here*

Thanks Kriegsspiel - talk about a no win situation.

On that theme, stumbled across this site. Pity I can't read German
https://bdmhistory.com
https://bdmhistory.com/wp-content/uploa ... etzaff.pdf
(many photos at the end of the pdf)

Ad Orientem wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:09 pm I think I just found my new favorite full contact sport.

https://youtu.be/gyrpPe96uvU

or maybe this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6HDpurWKF0