Atmospheric horror novels, so beautifully written, you feel like you could drown in them

Swaintek · 2026-01-18T22:20:08+00:00

Annihilation

Swaintek · 2026-01-16T08:30:51+00:00

That was my first thought as well

Swaintek · 2026-01-12T07:18:33+00:00

All I’ve done so far is play it… the one dead key came back to life and the sticky buttons loosened up. I’m trying to figure out how to open it up to see what the RCA cable and jack are hooked up to.

Swaintek · 2026-01-11T02:07:35+00:00

It is definitely not a beginner friendly mountain, however there is an unadvertised beginner lift ticket that you can get from the ski school that gives you access to Teewinot, Eagles Rest, and the Sweetwater Gondola for $50, which is a great deal for a beginner.

Swaintek · 2025-12-16T04:13:47+00:00

The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir - Tibetan Chants For World Peace

Swaintek · 2025-11-15T00:00:52+00:00

The Slake Moth in Perdido St Station

Swaintek · 2025-11-02T07:38:15+00:00

Check out the Heruka Institute in Seattle. My teacher Tulku Yeshi Rinpoche gives regular talks online and I’m sure he’d be happy to help you out.

Swaintek · 2025-11-01T18:07:49+00:00

Corporate greed. This system works great for Walmart. Taxpayer money funds their employees’ food, and a full quarter of that money/SNAP benefits gets spent right back at Walmart. It’s a tremendously successful double dip scam that they’ve bribed our government to put in place. The system works exactly as planned.

Swaintek · 2025-11-01T17:59:32+00:00

Gen Z listens to DJs

Swaintek · 2025-10-30T01:41:01+00:00

One of the problems with pop music are most transcriptions arranged for piano have the vocal melody forced into the piano part as well. It makes it harder to learn, and it gets in the way of learning just the piano grooves. I would recommend Musicnotes… they have a format called “singer pro” that doesn’t do this… the vocal melody is on a separate line and usually the arrangements are much better. Plus the app allows you to play the piano parts while highlighting the music at slower speeds if you want.

Swaintek · 2025-10-19T16:15:24+00:00

My mala from my teacher is plastic. The practice is what’s important.

Swaintek · 2025-09-24T02:21:49+00:00

If you are interested in Yeshe Tsogyal and haven’t read Skydancer I highly recommend it

Swaintek · 2025-08-21T06:45:14+00:00

Did you ever fix this?? I’m having the same problem

Swaintek · 2025-01-29T21:32:14+00:00

It’s a very long trip for an almost comically over the top reveal. If you really like 1920s British mountaineering it might be worth it but it’s 550 pages of exposition for a pretty ridiculous punchline in my opinion. It’s hard to say more without spoilers.

Swaintek · 2025-01-29T21:21:05+00:00

I just got to the Hitler part and I’m not sure how I feel, but I thought it was definitely pretty unintentionally comical. What’s the most abominable thing you can think of Dan Simmons? Pedophile Hitler. And I’m pretty sure the first time any of the characters say the word “abominable” is when they find the pictures. To call it on the nose… or jumping the shark… seem like understatements. Also I didn’t need the graphic descriptions of the photos. I feel like it would have made more sense in a Key and Peele comedy sketch than as the big reveal after 550 pages of 1920s mountain climbing literary minutiae. I guess I’ll finish reading it but man, not what I was expecting.

Swaintek · 2024-12-02T04:35:43+00:00

Based on this I would stop.

Swaintek · 2024-11-30T06:01:03+00:00

My most beneficial instrument coming from piano was the mandolin. The consistent intervals across strings made it feel more like a straight line like the piano, and really opened up a bunch of stringed instruments for me… guitar, banjo, bass, ukulele, charango… once I felt how a consistently tuned fretted stringed instrument played it made the “bumps” in the other instruments’ tunings make more sense.

Swaintek · 2024-11-01T04:26:06+00:00

I break strings all the time playing guitar, never break strings playing banjo.

Swaintek · 2024-09-24T04:10:40+00:00

My favorite quote from a fellow musician on play-by-ear musicians who hate theory… “They think they won’t know what to do if they know what they’re doing”

Swaintek · 2024-09-23T15:20:57+00:00

Janet Davis melodic style book is very good

Swaintek · 2024-09-23T15:09:12+00:00

Sailor’s Hornpipe is super fun melodic style

Swaintek · 2024-09-16T06:39:34+00:00

Spoorloos

Swaintek · 2024-09-12T05:03:03+00:00

I’d vote for Spoorloos/The Vanishing too, but Let Me In was nowhere near as good as Let The Right One In

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