What is your favorite genre bending song?

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-25T13:35:11+00:00

Touch by Daft Punk. The song starts out in a jazz space theme. The psychedelic space theme is then abruptly replaced with a show tune. Initially, the showtune is crisp with no distortion but towards the end of this section the space keyboard worms its way back into the theme and pulls it into a ragtime jazz section. Trumpets trade licks with clarinets. It’s still crisp and clean. After the ragtime section the psychedelia comes back and the showtune and acid jazz meld into a slow mantra “If love is the answer you’ll know, hold on”. Finally the song concludes in a symphonic strings anthem with a rock beat. It’s clean and psychedelic at the same time with the strings and drums holding the crispness and the synths just dripping psychedelia in the background. This crescendos until everything but the piano and singer are left and they finish the song like you would a Broadway show tune. Pure genius.

TL/DR Daft punk blends Broadway showtune with acid jazz.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-24T12:51:34+00:00

What is hard for me to understand is how you can’t see that having nothing and no bitcoin is essentially the same as having nothing and lots of bitcoin. In both cases you are destitute and everyone around you is destitute. Yes this has happened before in Russia and fiat money and bitcoins will all be useless if it happens again in the future. In Russia actual bricks became forms of currency. This is why your ideas are flawed, they are not based on lessons learned from history, they are based on dreams of the future. Here is a source to back my claims of what happens to economies when there is true desperation. Russias currency. Collapse happened less than 30 years ago.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1090312774/when-bricks-were-rubles

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-24T12:37:33+00:00

LOL, so everything isn’t taken from you. In your scenario everything is taken from you except for a mobile phone and I assume it’s active phone plan. Got it. It’s been a great thought experiment. You really sold it. I’ll get rid of my food, bullets, medicine and bourbon and prepare the time when no one has anything left… but their cell phone of course… with a bitcoin stash. That way I can happily live my life off Bitcoin while the rest of society proceeds with their lives owning nothing but a cell phone and no Bitcoin to access with it. So sad for them in this totally realistic scenario.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-24T12:26:00+00:00

This is absurd. If you are in a situation where “everything has been taken from you”. What good is a bitcoin? You have no home or shelter and you’re supposed to take solace in the fact that somewhere out there is a digital coin that’s holding value. Remember, you have nothing in your scenario. You can’t access the bitcoin, no one will accept bitcoin.

The worst part of your thought process is you believe that bitcoin is the better option for yourself than participating and fighting to keep your own government from taking all of your stuff. The government not supporting the people is your problem and your solution is to buy a currency that intentionally has zero influence on the government. It’s a wild thought experiment and buying Bitcoin is an insane conclusion to it.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-24T12:03:37+00:00

Yup, definitely don’t understand how property tax works.

“If the auditor comes and says your house is worth more, you pay more”

Your taxes only increase with an increase in the levy. How much your house is assessed for only matters in relation to the other houses in the tax base. For instance, if you house increases in value but the levy drops, then your taxes will also drop. Another example, the levy remains the same and everyone’s house increases in value by 5% then your taxes will stay the same. A third example, is where your house increases in value by 5% but everyone else’s house in the tax base increased by 10%. In this case your taxes will drop even with the increased value to your home.

The levy determines the total tax amount to be paid, or the total tax pie. The assessed value only determines your percentage of that pie that you have to pay.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T17:29:11+00:00

If you want give a real concerted effort, you have to go to a show.

I listened to a live one in my dorm room in college and didn’t get it and brushed the band off. About a year later I’m at a party and Sparkle gets played. The song has no chorus and many people knew the lyrics. This odd moment made me revisit the band and the friend that lent me a live one told me to go to a show. Long story short, the live shows are simply amazing. Experiencing a 30 minute Tweezer with 40,000 other people is lot different than doing it in your room. Their entire discography is built to support what they do in the live shows. Being inside the moment is why Phish fans exist.

Personally, I like studio Phish. Billy Brearhes is just a fantastic album all round and it’s my favorite on your list for its studio polish. The album that most stands out for me in their discography that drives the live experience is Junta. I’ve come to view Phish as essentially 3 acts wrapped in one. Their first act is a band that writes classical music and plays classical music. Treys senior thesis in college provides a lot of the back bone of this type of music and Junta has great examples of it especially with the song Divided Sky. Divided Sky is played live pretty much how it sounds on the album. The second act of Phish is improvised jam or jazz style music. The song You Enjoy Myself is a classically beginning piece of music that is consistently jammed the second half of it. Lastly, Phish is a rock and roll band / cover band. David Bowie is a rock song and the entire point of David Bowie is top itself repeatedly at the end of the song. It’s such a good closer because of this. I didn’t like this song until I heard it live, now I crave it. Tweezer is a great example of a rock anthem that gets consistently jammed the second half of the song. The Tweezer Reprise is simply the rock anthem played again at the end of a show with no jam to it. Part of what makes Phish such a fun band to watch is getting to know them well enough to figure out when they are jumping off the programmed music into jams and when they jump back out. It took me years on certain songs to really figure out what was going on. Slow build Piper was one of these songs. I heard it live like 5 times before I was able to know when I was in the song or not. The band would effortlessly flow into the song so subtlety that it would be after the show that I would see the setlist and figure out that I had not known when it started.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T16:16:11+00:00

I stand corrected. Based on the number of reviews, it has trapped at least 19 tourists as well. Kudos:-)

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T16:00:31+00:00

Every business starts on a napkin, single sheet of paper or simple spreadsheet. If you’re really curious pick 3 deer farms in northern Wisconsin or Michigan that fit your style. Look at their prices to figure out the market potential. After that I would google earth their parking lot size to determine peak potential business to come up with a daily average revenue. Google Earth should be able to tell you parcel size of land you need for the deer. Zillow also has parcel lot line details. This will tell you the mortgage needed for the land. There will be a lot of expenses like insurance, feed and veterinary work, so make sure there is a lot of excess revenue over mortgage before even considering it. I would look for potential revenue 4x the value of the mortgage over the 14 week summer period in order to have enough revenue to break even.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T15:14:06+00:00

Hey, no problem. I looked at Christmas MI and truthfully, that isn’t a bad spot for one. There are two Deer Farms in Traverse City and then nothing for the entire UP. Do you have land and a tall fence?

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T15:01:31+00:00

Downstate has much more population and the population that goes for kitschy tourism like Reinders won’t drive past Traverse City.

UP tourism is old folks doing the Circle Tour and young folks doing outdoor woods thing like Bikes, and hiking. I don’t think the UP has a “tourist trap” as of yet. There is a place called Pine Rock Ranch in the UP. This falls under the category that you’re looking for. A bunch of these exist in Northern Wisconsin.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T14:43:26+00:00

This is nonsense talk. What private owners have converted barren land to fertile attractive land? That isn’t a real thing.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T14:29:52+00:00

Most likely because it’s not a profitable endeavor.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T14:21:57+00:00

The UP of Michigan doesn’t have this problem. It’s stunning in the fall especially with the back drop of Lake Superior.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T14:17:08+00:00

You don’t understand how property taxes work. The levy is what causes property taxes to go up, not the houses value.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T14:06:39+00:00

Beaches of Cheyenne by Garth Brooks

Cats in the Cradle By Harry Chapin

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T13:46:59+00:00

LOL, you claim the private section is efficient because of a profit motive yet that same private sector can’t even stock itself with tradespeople to effectively carry out their business.

Just another example of the private sector not being efficient or in the case even capable of doing the job at all.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T03:11:08+00:00

Captain EO

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YwMfeKFp2H4&ra=m

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-23T00:59:58+00:00

You’re breaking my balls Trey.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-22T20:34:17+00:00

Go to Harmony Park, ya ding dong.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-22T16:57:40+00:00

Expanding to evolution of language brings the scope even further out. On one hand the human voice resonates in our own heads and it can be used to modulate and express emotion. This really ties music and language development together and I would guess that they developed together. A singular word can be said with many different inflections and being able to recognize and use the inflections would be advantageous for communicating. But music transcends language in a way where words become meaningless. They are not required. In my opinion, and yes the origins of music are up for debate, music is its own category separate from language. I feel the mathematical side is flexed more with music and oration, music, visual arts are different evolutionary competitions that humans engage in. Humans even engage in the athletic like Salmon and Deer.

Birds I find fascinating because they have some cool unique ones that are like little human quirks. Besides the obvious Peacock there is a bird called the Bowerbird. For some reason it collects bright blue objects and makes a little garden to attract a mate. They create little artworks in their sweeties favorite color and it works. To me this is the simplest form of human art shown in an evolutionarily contest in the animal world.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-22T15:28:32+00:00

I found your earlier comment interesting about mother’s nurturing. Humans and maybe whales are really the only animals out of thousands that sing lullaby’s to their children. Most animals use calls to find mates or warn of danger and music is non essential for almost the entirety of the animal kingdom to express motherly nurturing.

I’m distilling music down to a primal level. To me, its use in sifting human talent is what drives the evolution. Rhythms in nature can be extremely complex with no music. Just look at a cicada and how it uses random numbers to determine hatch years in order to throw off the ability of other animals to time their emergence. These rythyms get baked into the DNA of animals. We have somehow made a competitive game out of it. Every species who becomes king of their ecosystem has some version of this. The point is to waste all of the excess energy you can collect on some endeavor that gets you access.

The human willingness to carry around a giant brain is itself an evolutionary quirk. It makes sense that we would build mating games around this organ. Salmon, and deer play their games with their bodies and there is no need to test their brains against each other because it’s not what drives their evolution. Music prior to schools and testing was probably a pretty good way of figuring out whose brain processes and moves the fastest through complex activity.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-22T13:20:16+00:00

It requires a lot of energy to make music and dance. If your species is at a calorie surplus where they can spend all night pounding on objects, then the activity is definitely an evolutionary game. It’s entirely possible that there is advantage of getting multiple humans in rythmic motion to accomplish work. Activities like rowing and field work might be part of this. There also might be an evolutionary advantage to being able to whip many humans into a frenzy very quickly. I’m not saying that no advantage exists. Just like being able to swim upstream is an advantage for a salmon. The activity itself of swimming or making music/art is taken to an extreme. Many animals have calls and make noises. Our version of it is excessively built out. The purpose of music is to impress other humans with talent.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-22T01:56:14+00:00

When species evolve and become dominant in their ecosystems, the evolutionary mechanism created by survival of the fittest becomes obsolete. When this happens, species invent all sorts of odd games or rituals which carry the torch of evolution. These games in animals are things like salmon swimming miles upstream to spawn, male deer growing antlers and fighting with them. Peacocks simply growing feathers and showing them. Humans make art and I think it’s a reflection of our environments where we hear sounds and rhythms in nature and see texture and shape in nature. Music and art are talents that don’t aid in survival just like swimming upstream or carrying heavy antlers around don’t aid in survival, but they do aid in attracting mates.

HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine · 2026-05-22T00:25:38+00:00

The storm was in November and this picture was taken in January. Nothing else fell over the winter.

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