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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/shane-macgowan-dead-latest-tributes-pour-in-to-the-pogues-singer-after-wife-announces-death/ar-AA1kMDKq

Shit. Shane MacGowan just died. This is probably the most bummed I've been with a musical passing.

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Putting it out there, I find Piero Scaruffi's album guides immensely helpful when exploring unfamiliar artists.

https://www.scaruffi.com/index.html

For example, Sun Ra:

https://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/sunra.html

<quoting=OppositeKeith postID=1743 threadID=225> listened to sun ra for the first time today with his album Lanquidity. ill be frank i thought it was going to be a lot more than i thought from ive come to know of jazz fusion and prog as this point but ...

<quoting=OppositeKeith postID=1736 threadID=225> yeah i can imagine. a lot of that is what makes the experimentation of jazz so interesting and challenging at the same time.

yeah i can probably dig this. its reminding me of a slower version of billy ...

<quoting=OppositeKeith postID=1731 threadID=225> man i really need to listen to sun ra. i have a habit for listening to stuff outside of the more famous acts and albums that people are aware of first. dont know how i would tell people that i never listen ...

<quoting=starbreaker postID=1725 threadID=225> I keep trying to get into Sun Ra because his work defines "far out". He was doing Afrofuturist music decades before Parliament dropped Mothership Connection.

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Not a jazz aficionado, but love these guys, and these tracks in particular. ⬇

James Blood Ulmer claims to have gotten his guitar tunings in dreams. Also, his music has been known to precipitate spontaneous out-of-body-experiences. So, if you start feeling ...

<quoting=forks postID=1713 threadID=207> also, semi-unrelated, finally figured out a way to get my little crt tv to work so i moved my playstation to my desk. i really wanted to see what the game looked like on a screen that it was actually intended to ...

Nice read. I played FFVII as a 15 y/o, and while I do remember loving it, my recollections ...

<quoting=starbreaker postID=1682 threadID=147> I pay for shit on the internet all the time. But if I want to get nickeled and dimed I'll go to the doctor. If you're charging me a monthly fee for a streaming video service, and want to paywall certain videos ...

No. There can be only one.

A trailer, in case ...

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I also don't want to be too down ...

<quoting=Eternity postID=1663 threadID=147> This might be of interest to you if you haven't seen it: How Far Back in Time Can I Take My Website's Design + [orange site discussion ...

Speaking of crazy HTML shit, does anyone feel like offering free advice to someone who hasn't done serious web stuff for over 15 years?

If so....

Okay, I'm writing up a little personal site at the moment. At the same time, I've developed a mania about ...

See, muddled. Oh for a steady-state mind.

Though I might ...

<quoting=starbreaker postID=1649 threadID=147> You might be thinking of HTML imports, which had only ever been implemented in Chrome and was kinda worthless on its own; [you needed to use JS to take full advantage ...

<quoting=starbreaker postID=1647 threadID=147> I just bashed out [a post about how it sucks that HTML doesn't have an element for loading snippets of HTML containing commonly used shit like nav menus, footers, etc.[](https://new.starbreaker.org/blog/webcraft](](https://new.starbreaker.org/blog/webcraft) ...

Am I the only one who thinks he looks like a cross between Liberace and Christian Bale in American Psycho ...

<quoting=NobodyFix postID=1549 threadID=197> At this point there's no stopping the train, it's not great now, but you can at least enjoy things before it gets much worse and the man made horrors beyond our comprehension become too blatant to ignore.. ...

You might be right. Not that I'm happy about it.

<quoting=Devastatia postID=1530 threadID=197>

Here's a catch phrase for you: "industry plant." That's a term used to describe manufactured culture.

*An industry plant is an individual or group persona manufactured by a commercial entity and promoted ...

<quoting=starbreaker postID=1513 threadID=197> At risk of sounding like a Republican, this isn't a technological problem. Our culture is fucked because it privileges audio and video over text. We live in a post-literate society, where people are encouraged ...