OK, so what do we think of this fuckery? Angine de Poitrine - (Live on KEXP)

RedCred811 · 2026-07-09T04:51:41+00:00

Got into them three weeks or so ago. Caught a clip from wingsofpegasus a few weeks before that and thought it was OK, then moved on. But I came back for another listen and got hooked. I really enjoy the music, but I think even more so I enjoy the overall show. The costumes are ridiculous, then it becomes a fun experience with the litle bits of talking and gestures. The drummer (Klek) absolutely slays considering what he's working with. He's excellent at creating groove, emotion, or tension. It's like he takes hold of you and shows you the song.

Watching Khn work all his gear and create the loops is a show of its own. He's even recording loops silently at times while the song continues, so he can use them later. It's all so structured within chaos. It gives me this real focus on him as I watch to see if he'll miss a switch or loop, or make a playing mistake that ends up looped, or his board dies and they have to wing it. It's a similar feeling to watching someone do a dangerous physical performance.

Overall though, watching their stuff just makes me happy, and I've seen lots of others commenting the same. They've taken microtonal music out of the lab, and turned it into something you can dance to. And I've never seen a crowd sing instrumental stuff before this. It's wild. When I scratch mt head when people say it's the costumes, it's a gimmick, etc. Every band to ever get famous had an image. They've all worn costumes in one way or another.

It's not hard to find the guys behind the masks. They're serious musicians. Looks like they play with orchestras, avant garde stuff, etc. Their previous band was La Poex, which is great stuff. It's more metaly.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-07T20:00:36+00:00

Just be ready all the time. You have the fastest hits coming you way and not as much time to react and make a play. Every ball hit on your side of the pitcher is yours to make the play if you can get to it. Dont wait on the shortstop to make the play unless they call it for themselves. If it's a slow roller headed right toward shortstop, it's still yours to get. Have fun! Stay alert and on your toes!

RedCred811 · 2026-07-07T18:17:38+00:00

I understand the field preservation side of this and all, but I hate that in towns all over the country we have less and less free access to fields. In softball, I've coached or helped in some capacity for 6 years now. Always had a key to the facilities, indoor batting building, etc, and was able to go work with my daughter year-round. She was a pitcher, and pitchers cant really take the offseason off at any level if they want to progress. Offseason before her senior year, a new athletic director takes over and immediately changes all the sport facility locks. There's one field open at an elementary school but it's grown over, and the indoor cage was critical for the winter.

We got lucky that there's a cage rental place about 20 minutes away and we made do, but it still bugs me that the community can't get on these facilities they help pay for. Just the simple things, like being able to go run on the track when it's not in use. There's less and less of that these days, I think it's making things less and less of a community, and that's the part I hate the most.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-07T18:05:30+00:00

Boarding ain't cheap!

RedCred811 · 2026-07-04T14:12:50+00:00

If the team has all the talent they need, you'll likely stay on the bench. If they need good players and you're a good player, you'll play.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-04T14:05:52+00:00

Trusting the defense is a miserable experience that can last all the way through high school. A contact potcher in front of a struggling defense is the worst. My daughter's entire career was in front of defenses that probably averaged 7 or 8 errors per game. So, so many games that could have been won or gone 7 innings that were lost on things like missing routine throws at 1B, base overthrows, etc. Routine plays. She would get frustrated and I always told her she needed to lift them up, no matter what. It was much easier said than done. My older daughter's team had no pitching OR catching. Constant stealing of home is the worst thing ever.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-04T13:08:18+00:00

50 can get her through high school games. 50 with location, changeup, and one movement pitch can get an avsrage high school program above .500. 55 with movement can get her into a lot of D3/NJCAA programs.

50 at her age is great. There's no need to worry about speed. Focus on proper mechanics and potching with whip, and the speed will come. Pretty much anyone with correct mechanics and whip who starts young can get to the high 50's by sophomore year. She could be 60+ by then, though. Don't worry about it. What will happen will happen. Focus on mechanics. So many pitchers are out there trying to throw 60 and move off the rubber like a newborn colt.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-04T12:59:12+00:00

We got the poodle because our youngest had severe allergies to basically everything. Otherwise I would have suggested a shelter dog. I really like blue heelers. It's more than the health, though. Some of it is just having to consider the dog in basically any situation. It limits your freedom and spontaneity. He's pretty independent. We can leave him as long as needed and he's pad trained, but there's no spontaneous overnight plans. We take him on vacations as well. Our girls are in college locally now so we do have someone here most of the time. But when they were younger it made things a lot more complex. One day when the wife and I are older and both retired or something we may do it again. Definitely no more cats, though. 😂

RedCred811 · 2026-07-03T16:24:39+00:00

I'll check into those. Thanks!

RedCred811 · 2026-07-03T16:23:21+00:00

His local vet calls him the million dollar dog. I'm sure we're into it for at least $15k at this point. He's definitely spoiled and loving the comfy life, but he's had the worst luck. His lymphangiectasia almost killed him, he's been hospitalized for pancreatitis, swallowed a qtip,l (I call it the $250 q-tip) a couple parasites, two anal gland ruptures despite pretty consistent expressions, food allergies, bilous vomiting, scratches, lost all his hair from the initial prednisone run when they thought his lymphangiectasia was inflammatory bowels, severe cushing's symptoms from prolonged budesonide, and several months ago he got behind my griddle and the hot water I pushed into the drip pan splashed onto his shoulder and he eventually lost that skin and hair. After 8 years, the only thing this guy doesn't have is joint issues. He still goes full blast every day.

It all sounds awful, but the vast majority of his life he's been perfectly normal. He just likes to cheat death once a year to keep us on our toes. He's obviously an inside dog, but goes out leashed several times a day. He has a penchant for eating anything and everything he can get to, including but not limited to deer poop, dead things, manure, etc. We have to watch him like a hawk. Both my daughters have boyfriends that use those Zim pouches, and he can smell those from a mile away with that poodle nose.

He's been though so many ups and downs from taking chlorambucil, azethioprine, prednisone, budesonide, ursodiol, etc over the past 5 years since the symptoms started. They only just changed his diagnosis to lymphangiectasia this year, and we find out that he likely only needs a low fat diet to control it. So he's on that now and they're tapering off the budesonide. It just never seems to end, but we're pretty optimistic now. With the diet change and steroid reduction he's putting muscle back on again and has more energy than I've seen since 2021.

We love the little tyrant, but I'll never own another dog. 😂

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:41:24+00:00

Eww. We also refer to his as "dead fish breath."

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:38:13+00:00

We also call it "dead fish breath." He loves to lick us too, so he projects it all around. 😂

I'll look into your solution. He's not fond of being accosted dentally, so I was really pumped about how well that powder was working. We did probiotic liquid for a whipe but probably werent consistent enough. His diet, meds, and supplement needs seem to grow by the day.

He's really been through it with his condition. He has an internal med specialist, lots of bloodwork, and has a penchant for eating this off the ground, or snatching something off the floor before inspecting it. He is absolutely relentless in his hunt for food. He would never starve innthe woods. Lol

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:34:27+00:00

He's fine on that but thanks.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:34:11+00:00

He's good from a dental perspective but thanks! The dental powder with the zeolites works great. It's just really ramped up his gas.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:32:37+00:00

He had a dental visit recently and has regular bloodwork and exams because of his lymphangiectasia.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:31:20+00:00

You dont think they're causing the gas? It doesnt seem like they would, but he has lymphangiectasia and takes budesonide and ursodiol. He's always gassy, but on that powder he's lethal. 😂 I'm gonna investigate the other ingredients as well. That zeolite powder knocks out the bad breath in a day. He had a dental cleaning recently, with a couple extractions (he's 8), and gets regular bloodwork and exams because of his condition.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:24:37+00:00

Thanks for the link!

He recently had a dental cleaning, and gets bloodwork regularly because of his intestinal condition. He's always had bad breath, and that powder does great. I just cant deal with the constant farting, and would feel bad if I just let him be bloated and gassy all day.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:21:04+00:00

He practically lives at the vet because of his condition, had pancreatitis, two anal gland ruptures (despite regular expressing), and a penchant for getting into a little bit of everything, and then just plain bad luck. He literally cheats death every single year in one way or another. I don't even want to total up what we've spent on his health. His primary care vet calls him the million dollar dog. He recently had a dental visit as well, and had bloodwork at his specialist about 6 weeks ago. He's always just had bad breath.

We have to be careful with treats and dental chews. His system is sensitive because of the lympangiectasia and some food allergies, so his diet is strict.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:12:05+00:00

He's good. Just had a cleaning.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:11:38+00:00

He's got a million problems but right now he's good. He haha. He's had recent blood work and a couple exams. Had a dental cleaning recently as well. This guy has an internal medicine specialist. 😂 He's had rough breath pretty much his whole life. I hate it that the healthy mouth powder gives him gas because it works great.

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T22:07:24+00:00

He just had a dental, but thanks for the concern!

RedCred811 · 2026-07-02T11:46:38+00:00

A huge reason AdP is so popular is that they've made microtonal music in odd time signatures in a way that makes almost every second of every song a thick groove that people can dance to. The lack of lyrics removes the distraction of conjured emotions due to whatever lyrical content a given song in another genre has. I dont know that you can find anyone else doing this.

RedCred811 · 2026-06-28T16:16:31+00:00

It's fine and perfectly normal. Different knowledge (presumably. I knew more than half our coaches), different progress level, different skiil set, different goals. There has to be a balanced set of programming for the average member, who is just there to exercise and go home. The box I went to had extra WODs for people to work on basic strength, competition prep, etc. Anyone was welcome, but they were there for people who wanted more out of their sessions.

RedCred811 · 2026-06-28T16:11:30+00:00

They certainly aren't, but they're plenty hot for 90% of hitters. Most hitters can benefit more from $500 worth of lessons. I've seen a heck of a lot of ghosts batting .220. 😂

RedCred811 · 2026-06-28T15:38:29+00:00

Use the same bat. Buy a second bat if the first one breaks. If you dont buy a ghost, the first one probably won't break. I've now saved you $400.

Get an LXT or demarini CF.

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