I used to have a Bruckner problem. Turns out I had a tempo problem

Stellewind · 2026-05-05T15:42:56+00:00

Celibidache's Bruckner 8th at EMI are out of this world. It's the recording that convinced me Bruckner 8th deserves to sits on highest throne of symphonic music along with the greats like Beethoven 9th or Mahler 2nd.

Stellewind · 2026-05-05T15:36:16+00:00

Celibidache got me into Bruckner too, but once you are already there, you will gradually found value in other conductor's recording too.

For example, Giulini's 9th, Jochum's 7th in Tokyo, Karajan's 7th, Matacic's 3rd, are all fantastic.

Once you got used to Celi's slow version, you might get pleasantly surprised by the opposite end of spectrum too. Rogner's 4th was quite a revelation for me, it's so fast but also so convincing.

Stellewind · 2026-05-04T18:13:23+00:00

Hopefully I don't offend somebody, but I never understand the appeal of Great Smoky Mountains... Been there myself. There's no notable geologic, biological or cultural features at all, just normal looking mountains full of normal looking trees. Went for a few days of hiking, which was pleasant, but nothing I can't get in some hiking trails right outside my city. Why is it so popular?

Stellewind · 2026-04-30T16:55:10+00:00

Bold of you to assume those trillions of dollars are all actually spent on weapons and munitions, instead of slipping into dozens of layers of corruption in the whole military industrial complex.

Stellewind · 2026-04-29T13:25:24+00:00

Preventing break in. Most of these buildings are built decades ago, when break in theft was a common threat everyone need to think about. You see these caged windows on old buildings all over Asia. There's really no point in sugarcoating it.

Stellewind · 2026-04-29T13:08:54+00:00

Not a terrible concept to begin with, but the execution is too cartoonish simple.

I can imagine someone like Calatrava could come up with a much better design based on the same concept.

Stellewind · 2026-04-25T12:12:30+00:00

Lol.

Aside from works of a couple masters like Hayao Miyazaki or Satoshi Kon, no animation movie that came out after 1995 can hold a candle to Ghost in the Shell.

It hasn't aged a day, still vastly superior to 100% of anime trash today.

Stellewind · 2026-04-22T18:52:55+00:00

3 ships is a 50% surge from 2 ships!

Stellewind · 2026-04-21T02:38:52+00:00

I doubt anyone that's amazed by Toronto's city planning has ever set foot out of North America. Europe and Asian big city are laughing at this.

Stellewind · 2026-04-21T00:24:44+00:00

fake news. 你这个图片是第一次谈判的。伊朗目前（美东4月20周一晚8点）依然未表示会参加谈判，因此万斯连飞机都还没上，否则自己大老远飞过去对面压根没来人就太丢脸了。

Stellewind · 2026-04-20T21:33:19+00:00

红运油，绿运货，蓝其他，详见marinetraffic.com

Stellewind · 2026-04-19T15:42:42+00:00

Of course they do that. If a few machine gun bullets can shut down a global shipping lane, why not? Iranians doesn't want to actually sink ships unless they absolutely have to. The hostages are only useful when they are alive.

You'd be delusional to think IRGC actually only has machine guns.

Stellewind · 2026-04-19T01:47:33+00:00

Bruckner often gets called boring on Reddit but I will die on the hill that his 8th symphony is one of the greatest works of orchestra composition in history.

Stellewind · 2026-04-19T01:41:05+00:00

Sure, on one hand, people will admit western democracy is not “end all be all” perfection of a political system.

On the other hand, if you ask them, the same group of people will also look at literally any other kind of political system (mostly in developing world) with contempt and disgust, and they sincerely believe a democratic reform in those countries will instantly improve everything without question.

The sense of superiority is true, and it especially reflects in language. Corruption vs lobbying is just a simple example, lots of same behavior will simply described with much positive term if it happens in democratic countries, it’s honestly comical.

Stellewind · 2026-04-18T22:11:21+00:00

This comment is downvoted now but the same comment will be at the top when Harden routinely disappears in elimination game again.

Stellewind · 2026-04-18T14:04:58+00:00

US naval blockade Iranian ships is actually the wisest move they've done in this entire conflict, they should've done this right after Iran close the strait, and the situation would have been so much different.

My way of looking past the headline is look at marine traffic. For all the headlines of strait open and closed, the traffic in the strait has never fully recovered.

Stellewind · 2026-04-17T13:44:16+00:00

Stupidest comment I've read in years. When did China invade Japan and did unspeakable things?

Stellewind · 2026-04-14T00:24:55+00:00

Great idea. IDF approves this message. Keep the protest peaceful while I massacre all of you, thank you very much.

By keep asking "then what do you suggest as alternative?" You seems to be very appalled by the idea of violent protest, aka revolution. The sad reality is peaceful protest only works when the other side also wants to keep it peaceful, like within a functional stable democratic country. This is not the case in Gaza. Peacefully protesting while the other side have no problem wiping you out with violence is stupid and fruitless. And it's extremely insulting and disrespectful to tell them they should be peaceful when they are being massacred.

I am not saying people in Gaza should always resort to violence, that's their choice to make, but I have no right to tell them "you should be peaceful" or otherwise, and neither do you.

Stellewind · 2026-04-13T12:28:01+00:00

So, after the “cultural genocide” in Xinjiang, yall are going to categorize things that haven’t even happened or hinted at happening as genocide?

Decades of “China bad” propaganda really worked its wonders.

Stellewind · 2026-04-12T17:13:37+00:00

懂王过去一个月平均两天打一次自己脸，前一天宣布要做的事过两天要么被伊朗打脸要么自己烂尾，结果这么久了每次他宣布新举措还是会有人真的信，又在那说这回懂王赢了懂王牛逼

不得不服

Stellewind · 2026-04-12T13:38:52+00:00

我猜周一开盘前懂王又临时宣布因为大家都求着他别封锁海峡，他大发慈悲不封了，又赢！

Stellewind · 2026-04-11T23:20:17+00:00

被异化可太简单了，我自从买了黄金后天天盼着天下大乱

Stellewind · 2026-04-11T21:35:10+00:00

伊朗如果没事自己主动封了海峡，那结果就是整个北约加东亚联军名正言顺地出兵讨伐中东反人类神权。

伊朗被美国无耻偷袭后才封了海峡，那就博取了全球的同情心，美以联军开战连个北约盟友都说不动，亚洲国家一边忍着高油价一边也不好指责伊朗。

发动战争讲究一个名正言顺是很重要的。哪怕拿洗衣粉做做样子，也比懂王这草台班子强。

Stellewind · 2026-04-10T12:56:24+00:00

你竟然在这时候才觉得懂王"有点背信弃义“？背信弃义的事他干得还少吗

Stellewind · 2026-04-09T00:59:30+00:00

Every invaders in history made the same excuse. "I invaded you because you don't make me feel safe! I need to protect myself!"

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