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SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
29m ago
Can't say I have.
SkoomaDentist
41m ago
You have to be willing to dive beneath the surface, long enough to find the pockets of original and specifically high quality work that the indie scene is putting out.
So, how many hundreds or thousands of hours would you say is it acceptable to use to find more than a tiny handful of such gems? Please give a serious answer with actual numbers.
I've spent a lot of time looking for good music. When I do find some I haven't run into before, it's almost inevitably tracks made 30+ years ago, some new tracks from legacy artists (who may be rich enough to keep doing much the same thing they did 40 years ago, nevermind commercial viability) or some very occasional niche stuff. The last time I found an entire new album worth of good material was when Loreena McKennitt released Lost Souls in 2018 (and she was in her 60s by then, so not exactly a "modern" artist). Finding new indie releases on the level of say Depeche Mode's Violator, Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 1 or Roxy Music's Avalon just isn't going to happen.
orthoxerox
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46m ago
How do you make the goddess of beauty look that ugly? She looks like someone drew a man and then added breasts. It's truly a remarkable feat of bad art.
Have you seen any women by Michelangelo?
orthoxerox
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54m ago
Basic weaving mass producing basic cloth isn't skilled labour. It's extremely simple and repetitive. You could be shown how to do it in 10 minutes. Furthermore, it's not physically strenuous (unlike the farmwork you describe) or dangerous and you can do it indoors.
I also this this is the reason. You can be too frail to work as a farmhand, or lame, or half-blind, but as long as you have two hands not destroyed by arthritis, you can still weave.
The little ads and bits from that film are amazing! I love Conan the Librarian and Spatula City and when the little boy wins a drink from the fire hose after finding the marble in the oatmeal! I know Is have watched that every day if it had been a Saturday morning show.
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