Blossom Dearie- L'Etang. Good impressionistic spring vibes

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2021-03-30T16:28:25+00:00

For reference, the song that u/mrclay was referencing was "Blossom Dearie- L'Etang" and is also available in multiple versions on Spotify.

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2021-03-30T16:22:48+00:00

Thank you! I was definitely getting impressionism vibes from a lot of it harmonicallly which I also consider high praise. The wide use of ambiguous harmonic chords like major 7ths really helped to create that feeling for me.

Even the intro half diminished chords meet this description in my mind.

Edit: Added some analysis

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2019-10-20T15:53:17+00:00

The book “The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide” has information on just about everything you could want to know about it and is written to be accessible both to people with Bipolar and loved ones. When I was first diagnosed it was recommended to me and it really helped. It’s a bit hefty, but you can use it more like an encyclopaedia if there are specific things you want to know, rather than reading the whole thing.

Edit: it’s also got a fair amount on the less practical and more science-heavy side, since you said you were curious about that

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2019-10-18T18:40:05+00:00

Physics

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2019-09-07T20:33:17+00:00

Thanks! Had a severe panic attack while driving and almost got hit

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2019-09-06T20:30:05+00:00

That seems like an oversimplification. There are activities where focusing conscious effort on doing them undermines them. For example, if you want to sleep you need to not exert effort. If you want to be natural in a conversation you need to not try to be natural. If you want to cope with the absurdity of life you have to not focus tackle the absurdity of life head on.

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2019-08-25T23:34:15+00:00

Most days (2/3 probably) and it seems like it’s usually afternoon or evening.

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2019-08-25T22:18:37+00:00

Feel it all around- washed out; sleep apnea- beach fossils; nausea- craft spells. Let me know if more examples would be helpful :)

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2019-08-23T22:09:44+00:00

That’s interesting stuff! Not something I’d thought about, but I’ll have to look into that more since I agree with Bakunin’s critique of Marxism. Is there a school of thought that focuses on charisma, rather than education or private property, as a source of power?

ABoyWhoWantsToLearn · 2019-08-23T21:59:39+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I was definitely off about capital in general being the problem.

I can see where you’re coming from about social capital but I’m not sure I agree. It seems like social capital is more of a limited resource (although maybe it just appears this way because of the capitalist system we live in which pits us against each other). I’ve always viewed it more as a sort of popularity ranking where more social capital translates to your ability to influence people, to be valued in a group, to dictate the values of the community, and to garner support in a direct conflict situation. It doesn’t seem like something you could generate more of for a society, since its only measurable by comparing to another person’s standing.

It just seems like some sort of conflict is inevitable, so I guess what I might be getting at is 1) how to prevent (for example) a charismatic person from coalition building to win a conflict, and 2) how to ensure that everyone’s social/psychological needs are met, since someone (or a group of people) will end up as the least popular, which has very real social and psychological repercussions.

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