48 thoughts on “May 25, 2017: The Brooms”

    4. All they have to do is win every game Santana and Berrios start and then win about one out of every three started by everyone else. It's simple, really.

  2. The first sentence is soooo true (slide 2). But then, why mess with perfection?

    "Buckaroo Banzai" is already the greatest film in history, hitting all the required '80s notes. Rock band performance? Check. Aliens out of nowhere? Check. A hero who has ties to America and Japan? Check. The most style? Yup. Bring it all back. As for casting, it's impossible to think of a replacement for Peter Weller, but Ryan Gosling is an ideal Perfect Tommy Replacement. And Jeff Goldblum hasn't aged at all so just put him back in the cowboy outfit and let New Jersey return in all his giant hat glory.

    1. I was wondering who would get this out of the way. I mean, yeah. I used to put undue stress on myself to get them posted, but they're going to get posted anyway, and a variety of voices is fine.

  4. 'Forbidden Zone' SelectShow

    2. I am saddened that we live in a world where not only this happens, but on such a cool website as this, we have to mask a response behind a "forbidden zone" button.

      1. I think people use FZ out of an abundance of caution or sometimes as a signal. A lot of the things I've seen lately haven't really been Forbidden Zone material. But as we've seen in the past there are reasons for having the feature (though the world is much different now).

  8. I just watched the scene in which Officer Meow-Meow Fuzzyface tried to interview Todd (while holding a pen that wasn't actually a Bic) about the escaped chicken (named Becca whose favorite Baroque composer is Bach). Beyond brilliant.

  10. Tonight's music question: I have a particular song that sound strange when burned. The vocal elements are regular volume, but the percussion and much of the music are much, much quieter (some select musical parts seem to be normal volume). Thoughts?

      1. Don't know. But it is literally just one song that this issue happens with.

          1. Yeah... I should. But then I'm out the purchase price, and on principle I hate that idea.

            1. If downloaded, I doubt the original file is the issue. Also, you aren't allowed to download the file again for free?

              1. And if it was the problem, it wouldn't fix it.
                (However, see Phil's comments about bad internet connection maybe flubbing his cutting the opening off a track using Rhu_Ru's link.)

                1. (However, see Phil's comments about bad internet connection maybe flubbing his cutting the opening off a track using Rhu_Ru's link.)

                  Download issues would result in hiccups in playback, not a persistent issue with the background percussion. It would be like downloading an image and it turns out sepia-toned. The failure mode is impossible without an active man-in-the-middle attack.

              2. I've had the file a long time (probably ~ 10 years), so I don't recall the circumstances of its acquisition.

                1. Except to say: it was almost certainly not ripped, since I don't own a physical copy of that song anywhere.

                  1. Probably not purchased then either. (When did iTunes sales start being significant?)

                    1. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008,[2] and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

                      I would say at least since 2008.

            2. If you've paid once, go for an costless (though unsanctioned) distribution channel.
              If you need help navigating, you know my email address.

    2. Reading this, my thought is that it's related to channels. It's as if the main elements are the center channel and everything else was de-emphasized. You have to try hard to get music that contains more than two channels, so I wonder if it's where you're playing the song. It could have a single channel and the speaker system is doing a poor job converting it to stereo or surround. Too many variables so it's hard to pinpoint it on anything.

      1. I have routinely played the song in vehicles and on a relatively decent kitchen radio/CD player. So... yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense to me.

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