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amatt - 2005-03-15 11:46:50
Yes indeed on that distortion.
I learned that years ago on recordings I made in 'another band'. We would go through vintage outboard equipment, and always seemed to capture a small amount of distortion on various tracks. When listening back recently, they all sounded wonderful. Cannot put it into technical terms.
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2fs - 2005-03-15 12:05:37
So at one point did that "Free Will Astrology" (yurk) site mention Ben Lee? I couldn't find it. Anyway: that FWA guy bugs me. First, there's the astrology thing - then there's the doofy "free will" modifier, giving this shoddy patina of "thoughtfulness" to the whole astrology BS-platter...and then - oh hell, he's just boring and pretentious, and goes on and on and on. Not like anyone *I* know...
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Paula - 2005-03-15 13:38:03
I like astrology and all the occult arts. Whether you "believe" in any of it or not (and for the most part I don't), it functions as a metaphor, it keeps the mind open to new possibilities, and it's a nice reminder that no one has cornered the market on truth, and no one can explain everything. That is the official IHOP stance on the issue.
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Baby Party - 2005-03-15 16:23:29
Mr. Sharples can explain everything, though. Or so I'm told. I was raised by my father to believe that astrology was true. When I was about 30, I started thinking, "hey, this stuff is sorta stupid." But I think it's too late for me: when someone tells me their sign, I still think, "wow, you ARE such an Aries!" I am sorry, though: numerology is stupid.
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Baby Party - 2005-03-15 16:28:25
Some math wizard can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that rockin' formula needs an equals sign and some kinda "rock quotient" so we can determine if, after plugging in all our variables, we do, indeed, rock.
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dc mathematician (ex) - 2005-03-15 20:09:28
If it comes out =1 you rock, but just barely.
If it comes out >1 you rock.
Lotsa smart people poked lotsa holes in my formula, and in my defense I can say only that I took all of about a minute to come up with it -- so if it seems one-cheeked, it is.
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2fs - 2005-03-17 13:30:13
Re astrolocologicalisticalisms: Back in college, a good friend was really into Tarot cards and all that. Thing was, she was also a very perceptive and intuitive person, and so when she did readings of me, they invariably told me things about myself that I might not have realized w/o hearing them from someone else. But none of that is "in" the cards, the stars, etc.: it's a matter of interaction and perception, with the process acting as a sort of angled mirror through which you view yourself differently. The problem I have is with people who really believe in these things - or worse, who don't, but sucker others into paying money because they believe in them. I'm highly mistrustful of the rampant irrationality in American life today - although I'm equally mistrustful of anything calling itself "rationality" that refuses to understand that people have emotions and fails to take that fact into account.
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Paula - 2005-03-17 13:33:08
...or worse, who don't, but sucker others into paying money because they believe in them
I was with you all the way (and after) til this line. How do you know who those people are? Do you mean like 900-numbers?
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Bob - 2005-03-17 16:52:29
Regarding what Baby Party said about raisin', I heard something interesting in college once, from a young black woman (who had been in ROTC elsewhere with my chinese roomate just before he'd gone to jail for armed robbery, become a muslim "to get by", and yet stuck with it at our school), who had come down from north Philly and crashed on our floor for a week. She did a lot of drinking and musing, and told me that she'd been an atheist for a couple of years, but could not keep herself from going back to believing in God, just because of the way she was brought up. And I don't know if that was the most sincere or least sincere declaration of belief in something I've ever heard, or both.
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2fs - 2005-03-18 13:30:47
P: "How do you know who those people [who "sucker others into paying money," in my words] are?" The ones who charge money, I'd say. Sorry, but I don't think astrological, palm, tarot readings, etc., are a way to make a living. At least not unless they offer an ironclad money-back guarantee if the customer's dissatisfied in any way...and even then I'd be dubious...
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Paula - 2005-03-18 14:11:10
Sorry, but I don't think astrological, palm, tarot readings, etc., are a way to make a living...At least not unless they offer an ironclad money-back guarantee if the customer's dissatisfied in any way
But how would you define "dissatisfied"?
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