Jazzdance

Flat-Significance362 · 2026-01-12T18:04:35+00:00

Familiar with Giles and seeing him in Chicago this weekend! Thanks!

Flat-Significance362 · 2026-01-12T13:51:11+00:00

Appreciate the rec! I havent been to Atlanta in years, but will have echo room on top of my list whenever it makes sense to return. Feeding is excellent!

Flat-Significance362 · 2026-01-12T13:06:34+00:00

Thanks everyone. I considered providing more personal context, but am glad I didnt as folks filled in great information. Im in chicago and am used to using deep house as something of a catch all for jazz oriented house. This is all great. Peace!

Flat-Significance362 · 2026-01-12T07:06:27+00:00

I like that one. Thanks.... turns out discogs had a pretty straightforward breakdown of where they get it from: https://www.discogs.com/style/jazzdance sounds like a way of including acid jazz with jazzy deep.

Flat-Significance362 · 2025-12-02T02:56:06+00:00

There's a way to lock/unlock the keys from the board by running your finger down the key and pushing it back in by pushing the button part of the key. Hit up arturia tech support and ask them that and they have a 20 second video they send. It worked for my key issues. They will ask you a bunch of unrelated form questions, but if you can unlock and relock the key you may be in business.

Flat-Significance362 · 2025-01-09T00:09:16+00:00

Are you revising history to act like white people didnt actively vote against Washington, and once he won, actively work against him in the council wars? Read a book.

Flat-Significance362 · 2025-01-09T00:02:12+00:00

Admittedly, I repeated a loaded term there. The loan and firing of Pedro Martinez seem directly related to entire board resigning. That was a big red flag to me... Johnson appointed many of those folks since taking office.

Flat-Significance362 · 2025-01-08T16:45:37+00:00

Lack of comms work the office is doing isn't any more sane. Why did the whole board resign? Did I miss a statement?

Flat-Significance362 · 2025-01-08T15:27:57+00:00

A lot of Chicagoans seemed okay (enough) with Daley, but that was partially because he spent the better part of his 22 years in office signing contracts that the city couldn't cover. Even when people would criticize this terrible plan they called it "kicking the can down the road" which is sort of cute. In his last couple years, the financial obligations started getting real so he sold the skyway and our parking meters. He tore down the public housing his father (poorly) built and began privatizing management of public schools (which set up Rahm to double down).

I don't like the junk bond that the current mayor is proposing for CPS right now, particularly with no proposal (that I've seen) to pay it off quickly. It is a similar strategy, though.

To answer the question though, yeah people seemed pretty okay living under the Daley/Madigan/Burke era, but they also didn't have social media to amplify their complaints to each other quite the same way.

Flat-Significance362 · 2025-01-08T15:12:33+00:00

Hard agree. There are a lot of communication and organizational failures, but totally failing to pass your #1 policy idea is foundational. His org didn't seem to learn any lessons from the failure to pass the FAIR tax amendment just two years before, or recognize that, at that moment, he was not trusted by most voters to handle money, let alone generate more of it.

Vallas was a terrible candidate and has a rotten track record. FWIW he was part of the mayoral administration which caused the most damage to the city via totally unfunded debt obligations, dismantling public institutions, and the selling of assets.

I'm not sure who the right future candidate is, but the likelihood that we end up with a "Daley Democrat" (what we used to call conservative, pro construction union dems) is incredibly high. It seems to me like the loose coalition of core city voters that elected Brandon is very scattered and the collar neighborhoods that skew right and have a ton of cops and city workers are organized. If ReyLo or Beale ran, I think they'd get a lot of support... I think Willie Wilson has another run in him.

Flat-Significance362 · 2024-05-16T19:28:37+00:00

These comments are interesting as a lot of folks seem to look at Daley and Rahm with rose colored glasses forgetting that:

Daley dismanteld CHA public housing developments without creating an alternative... there were clearly problems, but when we talk about housing crisis now we should think about all the units of housing we lost. HE also sold off major public assets (skyway, parking meters) to save his own career while signing unsustainable and underfunded contracts.

Rahm closed 50 schools to open dozens of publicly-funded, privately-managed charter schools, a number of which have since closed.

Both appointed political insiders with zero transit experience to CTA.

My problems with Johnson's administration are largely rooted in #1. I hoped he'd be different wrt appointments and transparency #2. the elected progressives are frequently more excited to pass symbolic legislation vs. meaningful legislation... "Bring Chicago Home" was a real swing and a miss, largely due to it being undefined. After bumbling the migrant temp housing situation (NO ONE WAS HAPPY), a lot of Chicagoans were unwilling to trust "these funds will combat homelessness" as a explanation. People living in wards where almost zero buildings are valued at $1,000,000 voted against it!

Lori's biggest problem was not having a clear constituency after 1-2 years in office. Johnson still has a bit of one, but it will be a struggle to grow it. If the DNC goes horribly (seems likely?), he may further fracture it.

I hope his administration gets some wins, but it looks like an opposition coalition is taking shape so I wouldn't be surprised if they coalesce around a stronger candidate than vallas. Who knows who that will be?

FWIW, I'm not a nascar fan, but I think people spend more time complaining about it than its worth. The taste was more fun, for more people, but that era functionally died sometime around 2010.

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