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@TheKro16 I know nothing about how any of this works but he said they were playing larger venues to keep costs down? That makes no sense if the venue is mostly empty. Sadly, lots of tours look like this right now.

I literally said this would've been better to go back to Meadowbrook like he did the year before and pack that out which he easily would. Definitely less overhead cost there too. This feels bad, man.

I was excited to see what Jony Ive would do with Ferrari but sadly, I think this interior is a mess. I mean, he’s one of the world’s best designers and I’m not but it reminds me of my mom’s last Ford - so many unnecessary dials and buttons, just a bunch of visual clutter. After the simplicity of my Tesla, I’d be physically uncomfortable in this car. x.com/cleoabram/stat…

I think many have forgotten about buying digital music when physical isn’t available. When one of my favorite, tiny following, artists had their most popular album wrongfully removed from streaming, I remembered the iTunes Store existed. I’ve since made it a point to buy at least a digital copy of everything I think I’ll listen to more than once. IDK how much of that gets to an artist but it’s got to be more than streaming.

This is why I buy directly from the artist when I can because I truly appreciate their music. Not everyone is fortunate enough to do this, but there are a ton of people who can support their fav artists and they just choose not too because they are apathetic. Bummer.

@RichOToole I’m curious, how much of a return do you see if someone buys the single (iTunes, Bandcamp, wherever it might be available)?

To give y’all the insight of the music business.. 30k streams pays out around $90. I have about $2100 invested in this 1 single. So the ROI on this is sitting around 3%. It will take me around 1-2 years to fully see a return on my investment.

Ew. X just put this AI refuse in my “for you”. I will now and forever block any accounts like this. I love AI for some applications but music is not one of them.

Lots of catching up to do after the long weekend. The Statler Brothers seem like good motivational music.

Seeing the Pink Panther main theme performed live is unreal. Henry Mancini conducting, Plas Johnson on sax like the original recording, and the Terry Gibbs Band locking in behind him. Film music history happening in real time.

@Smuphy There ya go. Good Monday music, right?

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Maybe my favorite Jason Isbell song The Grindstone - Dress Blues (@jasonisbellmusic cover) youtu.be/hEvG60fKHHs?si… via @YouTube Memorial Day

One of cinema’s absolute icons

What are you listening to right now? I’m playing Corb Lund’s Agricultural Tragedy reissue because I’m a sucker for clever, often humerous lyrics.

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

Marty McFly’s introduction in Back to the Future (1985) is such a perfect character intro since in about thirty seconds you completely understand who he is. The scene does all the work without ever stopping to announce it.

When you really want to be a farmer, but you also have an HOA

Rick Rubin on being addicted to the miracle of creation: “I like the moment of revelation. So we're working on something and it's just okay. It's boring. I'd rather not be there. That's how it feels. But then something happens and it's like magic. Something appears. It's not like we made it. Something comes up in the process. It's conjured in the process. It’s like a miracle and that's the thing that's addictive. That feeling when it's like it's not good, it's not good, it's not good, it's not good. We try something and it doesn't work. Try something else and it doesn't work. But then all of the sudden what we're listening to is really cool. That's the [addictive] feeling, that moment of discovery where it goes from nothing to something really good. And then the whole rest of the process after that is protecting that because it's super delicate. When it happens it's like this miracle happened and this magic thing happened and now we have to protect it through the rest of the process to not ruin it. It's scary because you don't want it to end. You don't want it to stop because we know if it stops, we can't control it. We can't do it again. It's not like that. It's this moment in time where something magical happens. So we spend a lot of time waiting and I can't say that's fun. Waiting is not fun.”

I was in college when this came out. I had never been more stunned by a song. I am as moved today as I was when it was new. Truly one of the great moments in art.

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@AgChainCowboy That’s a good idea! 🤣

@myfluffypants You should try giving Colter Wall a listen. Think you’d like him