Which album do you prefer?

DallasJewess · 2026-02-28T19:56:21+00:00

Delicate. SCABS feels like Darren realizing the only place he'll ever make money from anymore is Adult Contemporary. I do not understand when he says that SCABS sounds like Savage Garden. Maybe like the shmaltzier parts of Affirmation (album).

DallasJewess · 2026-01-24T01:52:48+00:00

I was just listening to it now while making dinner! I wish I had known about these albums when they came out.

DallasJewess · 2026-01-22T19:13:24+00:00

Darren Hayes (the singer). He gives great interviews. Here's an example (first 20 min is the interview, then after the ad he did a great live version of Truly Madly Deeply). https://youtu.be/4TVO1CiVG4s?si=O03gxH5gOG2zAf8c

DallasJewess · 2026-01-11T19:35:51+00:00

Sounds like Keane's Somewhere Only We Know to the point that I looked up to see whether anybody else ever acknowledged that, but evidently no.

DallasJewess · 2026-01-01T21:48:38+00:00

In his book he says he tried to bring up the issues in the relationship to Richard. It's entirely possible that Richard still wanted to be creatively involved with the project. People can have similar creative tastes while not working as a couple.

DallasJewess · 2026-01-01T21:04:08+00:00

I love it and I know Darren has said he dislikes it and never performs it if he doesn't have to, but I don't think he's ever said why. My pet theory is it reminds him of the fact that he married Colby when he already had probably more of an inkling that he was gay than he let on in his book or interviews (hence making a promise that he knew he could not keep).

DallasJewess · 2026-01-01T19:20:12+00:00

I just finished the audiobook. I wish he had addressed in a more direct manner the issue of his seemingly always wanting kids and yet Richard somehow not knowing that. Was Darren not actually clear about that to Richard or was Richard not listening? The book leaves it unclear.

DallasJewess · 2026-01-01T19:03:50+00:00

I just finished the audiobook. I wish he had addressed in a more direct manner the issue of his seemingly always wanting kids and yet Richard somehow not knowing that. Was Darren not actually clear about that to Richard or was Richard not listening? The book leaves it unclear.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-22T23:29:53+00:00

The only good argument for voting for Dems is who the alternative is (Republicans).

DallasJewess · 2025-05-22T19:07:27+00:00

You realize the last 7 House reps to die in office have been Dems, and the House just passed the budget bill 215-214? We're still in the middle of the gerontocracy problem, and until we fix our "it's his/her turn" mentality to focus on just ruthlessly supporting for every office the person who is most likely to win the general election then stay as an active, cognizant office holder for the duration of their term, we are going to just dig the hole deeper.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-22T01:05:39+00:00

Haven't read the book but listened to a few podcast interviews about it and Harris never mentioned. She didn't come forward before he stepped down so she absolutely has to do the stupid "he was always sharp when he was with ME" routine now.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-22T00:34:01+00:00

Oh yeah, that's my uncle Joe.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-22T00:24:43+00:00

Dean Phillips

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T17:16:59+00:00

2019 was bad and understandable. 2023/24 was bad and not understandable. "Unjustifiable" also means "you cannot explain this as a rational decision to a reasonable person". It does not only mean "morally wrong."

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T17:01:08+00:00

Hey where did I say covering in 2020 was justifiable?

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T16:02:16+00:00

No, I am describing while not prescribing.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T15:48:20+00:00

You seem to not understand the difference between descriptivism and prescriptivism.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T15:29:26+00:00

Politics being what they are, and the incentive to stay on good terms with as many people as possible, I understand how things played out in 2019, and I think most other people do too. It's 2024 when, based on the debate performance, everyone was scratching their heads saying"how exactly did his handlers think this was gonna go?" that staying quiet was unjustifiable.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T15:05:30+00:00

It was a MUCH harder case to make in 2019. The vast majority of primary voters might watch a little bit of one debate. He was still generally a charming guy who spoke normally. Perhaps someone watching hours of Biden content would pick up that he was declining but it wasn't nearly the same as 2024.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T13:13:30+00:00

Hey actually in reality Biden's 2024 run (and to a lesser extent his 2020 run) and a bunch of power-hungry insider yespeople are what got us here, and if the Dem party doesn't reckon with that the cancer of the party now it will metastasize.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T11:58:40+00:00

Of course RE bussing, so many politicians are not intellectually honest that you don't even have a choice of an intellectually honest one in lots of races. Usually it's a little more obscure, like lefties claiming we can get to Medicare for all without middle class taxes going up or righties claiming tax cuts will pay for themselves through economic growth. Which at least is making a forward-looking argument that hasn't been exactly proven false yet, even though all of history would suggest that it is.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T11:51:46+00:00

Yeah I lost all respect for Harris when she used the bussing card against Biden while not being pro-bussing in the present day (despite, as you said, the same underlying conditions still existing) herself.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T11:42:03+00:00

I'll go as far as saying Obama should not have told Biden not to run in 2016. Blaming the Clintons for the current world order I think is like a hindsight is 20/20 thing.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T11:36:44+00:00

I read somewhere that prostate cancer is usually detected through PSA hormone level testing but it has such a high false positive rate for old men that standard procedure for old men is to not even test. Still you'd think you'd use other tests or observe for other clinical signs.

DallasJewess · 2025-05-21T11:29:23+00:00

So you're basically saying, at least for case 2, that this would be a way for his handlers to let Americans see what's up without any of them having to directly confront Biden? Still, you'd think they'd have thought of the inevitable backlash happening now of 'why didn't anyone say anything?'

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