What are your favorite songs in 3/4? (Meaning waltz type beat: one-two-three, one-two-three...) Spotify or YouTube links pls.
Tom Waits — Widow’s Grove. No idea what it’s about but so pretty. I think the music itself sounds like a riff on some traditional folk melody but don’t know the lineage.
БГ — Елизавета. This one is in Russian. It gives me a similar feeling as Widow’s Grove that despite the lyrics being abstract and obscure, I feel exactly what it says.
Leonard Cohen — Take This Waltz. (Adapted from a Federico García Lorca poem.) Classic.

There’s a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
Frank Ocean — Pink + White. Okay maybe this is technically 6/8 but let’s say we count that as well.
Sparklehorse — It’s A Wonderful Life.

I’m the dog that ate
Your birthday cake
It’s a wonderful life

Caledonia by Dougie MacLean. But I like this version by @RuthNotman in particular, what a voice.
Mitski — Geyser.

Though I’m a geyser
Feel it bubbling from below
Hear it call, hear it call
Hear it call to me constantly

Shirley Ann Lee — Someday. I first heard it sampled on Ghost Town on ye but the original recording is quite something. After the intro, it decomposes into a discussion of the song structure, so meta. Even tells a kid to be quiet.
Elliott Smith — Between The Bars
Tyler, The Creator — Garden Shed

You don’t have to hide
I can smell it in your eyes
That there’s something more to say

Radiohead — Nude

You’ll go to Hell
For what your dirty mind
Is thinking

Sharon Van Etten — Afraid of Nothing

This is my airplane takeoff song (remember airplanes?) I always sweat and freak out a bit during liftoff so in the past few years I’ve been putting this on repeat to calm me down until we’re high enough.

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11 Apr
Looking for a very particular kind of *instrumental* music. Needs to be a bit non-idiomatic, kaleidoscopic in texture. But with beautiful ethereal moments of harmony when things come together. Some of Four Tet, Boards of Canada, Bibio stuff is like this. Give me more.
References Bibio — YouBoards of Canada — Dayvan CowboyFour Tet — Angel EchoesMaribou State — Feel Good
Would be cool if went into a more math rock direction but still beautiful, not just technical
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23 Mar
I’ve lived 80% of my life in Russia and 20% in the UK. Both countries have some strange or unpleasant aspects. (For example, one of them poisons its own citizens with a nerve agent.)

Neither of them has news reports every other week about some random person shooting up a store.
The most fascinating to me is that while there seems to be majority support for stricter laws, there’s also majority opposition to e.g. outright banning handguns. I’m perplexed as to what kind of experiences one needs to have to be convinced that weapons with bullets are needed.
I know some people say guns are their hobby. My thinking process is, like, maybe you could pick a different hobby? How about making bombs, is that a reasonable hobby too?

Though a designated park where people who like to shoot can hang out with each other seems like an OK idea.
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20 Mar
Every codebase eventually grows technical debt. Requirements change, things that used to make sense no longer don’t. People who came up with them aren’t around anymore.

When tech people say our world isn’t deeply messed up, I’m confused. It’s the biggest legacy system out there.
This piece is spot-on. So many harms of today trace back to stupid ideas from hundreds of years ago. Even if most people aren’t that violent, these ideas of “purity” and “modesty” and “shame” are ingrained in our societies. We get so used we don’t notice. religiondispatches.org/dont-discount-…
The same goes for “meritocracy” or capitalism. If you found a way to live within that system, and the system didn’t break you, it is tempting to think of it as a law of nature. Like gravity. But if you wouldn’t risk swapping places with someone else, are you sure that it works?
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11 Mar
My first time watching a remote live concert. Loving it.
This ending of Heart was next level smooth haha
Subdivisions is even better live wow
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5 Mar
I was asking about LED lamps a few days ago. A few people linked to “Kōnā Floor Lamp” by “Noxu Design”.

DO NOY BUY THOSE. Noxu Design is a scam company. I bought their shitty lamp and that’s what led me to asking in the first place!

Here’s a small thread about how they operate.
Noxu Design is one of those companies that come up if you search for “LED lamp” or “corner lamp”. If you visit their website and don’t look closely, it might even look legit. But there are red flags everywhere! Can you spot them?
Red flag number one: they claim to be “award-winning” but there’s no mention of what award they refer to.

“Noxu by Norita Xudia.”

Who the fuck is Norita Xudia? Perhaps, a designer? No, it’s a fake person with 10 google results. This lamp must be their life’s work!
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5 Mar
Ooof this sounds *good* The Weather Station — Robber
Holy shit. This is a classic. This made me feel 2021 for the first time in 2021. Holy shit.
The whole album, I mean. It just grows from there.
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