While I don’t support WiseCrack anymore, the YouTube channel is how I found him. It has his past work on it still (I believe) but his new channel by just his name is great as well and more up to date.

Shout out for Benn Jordan as I’d say similar and add in Michael Burns for philosophy and politics.

This pulls in the philosophy of what makes someone “themselves” - is it memory, body, or “soul”. Technically, twins look the same so body could be ruled out that way but I do understand what you mean. I also tend to think of body as a vehicle in this life and not me, just like a car I got given in life. I didn’t choose my body, it’s just what I got given. My personality though - my morals, my believes, etc… that I do consider myself and who “I” am. An argument could be made that as you “craft” your personality or you - it is similar to working out and crafting your body into “you” but some people can’t do that with the cards they were dealt - so I’ll digress.

I just dig the philosophical conversation to be had here.

Well, tell us who this is so we can support the real ones!

Sorry to excite like that. I remember hearing him say Apple Cider took him out for a week and I referenced that.

Good news is he’s experiencing mental issues, so hopefully people will stop listening to a man who abused drugs until his brain could only recognize fear.

And Jordan Peterson is a strung out dated talking head who got taken out by some apple cider.

I can see this comparison a bit.

I enjoyed Get Out a lot and my second favorite would be Nope. I wanted to love Us but it felt very loosely written.

Get Out is probably his best due to the subject matter, Nope is a good commentary on animal abuse for spectacle but I definitely see the repeating pattern similar to M Night’s “twist” motif. The big difference is Peele’s films hit more than M Night’s do, where a majority of his failed to stick the landing. Time will tell if he ends up similarly.

Cregger is another comedy writer turned horror director that may end up better, the new RE seems promising and I feel Weapons and Barbarian are amazing films.

I’m a novice musician, producer, and sometimes rapper because I can’t sing for shit but I agree.

An album is like a film to me, songs are scenes and they fit because it’s a piece of a bigger story. My favorite hip hop albums are The Cool by Lupe Fiasco and APOS by Cunninlynguists (it flips to their newer two sometimes) but I love those so much because they tell stories (they’re technically concept albums) and feel great by themselves too. So on the opposite side, it’s hard to make an album that is cohesive together and amazing individually. Not all artists are that impressive.

I hate the shortening of songs and even I have fallen to it but I feel good musicians try to make good albums and not just singles. Doesn’t even have to be a concept album. I really like Kendrick’s last two albums, prior more than latter as the beef will age the latter but flow is also important.

I can talk forever on this but it may just be a sign of the times changing art for the worst.

Same man who said he’d murder the entire population on social media.

Can’t play high road when the other person’s road is underground.

Sadly, I’m still trying to get to making something new. Decided to engineer a friend’s 17 track album and got distracted.

I am inspired by Jam2Go’s work with them though. So I plan to try out the hyper pop style with one soon!

So many people asked “Why not Opera?” When I jumped off the AI browsers.

This. This is why. Didn’t trust em.

Where would I start learning about this?

I’ve been wanting to stop using samples for vocals (copyright protections be damned, I just dislike jumping to a Splice sample or pack a friend shared) and I was debating on a vocaloid but also I make future garage and rap over it so my genre is already a weird mix lol

Edit: nvm, I see you did provide links. Gonna try it out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

Appeal to Nature fallacy. MAHA runs on this and a lot of thinking that leads to the alt-right, so good on calling this out.

I used to live in a very “crunchy” area with hippies and would catch weird speaking points occasionally, it picked up over the last few years and now they’re all MAHA or adjacent.

While the movement is piece of the past, I would argue that the fight for equal rights continues to this day.

What you said thought doesn’t add up to my knowledge though — Civil Rights was fought for roughly from 1950-1960s. The Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964 when Boomers were turning 18 and the last year of their generation. This would mean that the people in the streets protesting and/or voting weren’t boomers but the silent generation and their parents.

Weirdly enough, I’ve been in a few places that have different schedules. Where I’m current at, most people are out late drinking so early mornings are when the annoying people are asleep but when I moved out west, it was reverse as no one wanted to be out late due to dangerous roads at night in the mountains. So I was a night owl.

I’m just up when people aren’t because I dislike people.

Also I work with people daily.

I’m skeptical of Songtradr but BandCamp standing against AI and continuing BandCamp Fridays is still a bigger positive than any other streaming service (even though BC is more of a purchasing platform).

No PE is good but they’re not making evil moves yet compared to Spotify or even Distros like DistroKid.

Personally, Epic Games owning them was the best thing possible as they knew nothing about it but that worked? It was truly a golden era.

I’ve been ignoring my phone (I work in sales so I don’t have much outside of my outreach) and reading more. I deleted all social media in 2024. I am slowly putting music onto my phone and soon to stop streaming entirely (I stopped Spotify years ago as I make music and hate them). I do think I’ll keep BandCamp as they’re cool so far but I feel the biggest way to fight is to take your attention back.

Life wasn’t this fast and anxiety driven before they shoveled these apps and content into our faces. I feel it messed with my CNS but who truly knows.