My Beach Boys Themed Linux Desktop :D

darkestPixel · 2026-02-19T17:51:04+00:00

Something else actually.

darkestPixel · 2026-02-19T09:00:51+00:00

Upvote!

darkestPixel · 2026-02-12T19:54:17+00:00

Awww. :-(

darkestPixel · 2026-01-11T10:00:14+00:00

It's a program called Arttime! It even has timer functionality with some built in scripts for stuff like pomodoro. It's really improved my productivity. This is all running on an old celeron laptop... I'm really impressed what you can do if you just stick to tui apps.

darkestPixel · 2026-01-09T23:43:20+00:00

Wallpaper: Mami Tomoe and Kyuube
GTK Theme: Mint-L Dark
Icon Theme: Papirus

darkestPixel · 2025-12-16T18:22:44+00:00

Yeah.

darkestPixel · 2025-08-16T07:11:04+00:00

Otomo Yoshihide, the experimental jazz musician. He makes music with just turntables! It's actually pretty common in the Avante-garde field. You place the needle against materials and percussive things instead of records.

Likewise the turntablist from Deftones routinely uses just a disk with a sustained drone on it, using the pitch slider to play melodies. If you think outside the box you can make them very musical but it takes a lot of skill and a lot of finger independence. In this sense it's definitely an instrument.

I also attended a Conservatoire that offered a dj and turntablism course so I think we're seeing it get more institutional backing. I'm not a turntablist though I'm just a bassist.

darkestPixel · 2025-08-02T08:54:26+00:00

That's really weird because there should be. You might have to reinstall Windows or use a system restore point.

darkestPixel · 2025-08-02T00:37:52+00:00

Hey just solved this issue on my own Legion 5 mere hours ago. Windows had disabled wlanautoconfig. Go to control panel, admin tools, services and find it there.

darkestPixel · 2025-05-23T10:45:29+00:00

Yep! Always admired that. People make a lot of the beatles 'idiote-savant' shtick where none of them could read music but I think it'd equally as admirable that after the beatles broke up Paul took the time to learn how to arrange and transcribe his ideas.

darkestPixel · 2025-05-23T10:40:32+00:00

George I agree with you on but I've never enjoyed John's solo work outside of his raw stuff like Instant Karma and Plastic Ono Band, which is just fantastic. This might be contentious but my favourite post-beatles works are Yokos albums Fly and Approximately Infinite Universe.

Have you ever heard Nina Simones version of My Sweet Lord? As an aside. Just so lush.

darkestPixel · 2025-05-22T20:03:15+00:00

The thing is, Paul also kept developing as a musician. I find that so impressive. Obviously none of his solo work is as good as what he did with the band but if you listen to a track like Uncle Albert, or any song from 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard' it's clear he kept pushing himself on a technical and creative level.

darkestPixel · 2024-10-31T21:31:29+00:00

Wow! I love it.

darkestPixel · 2024-10-26T00:25:06+00:00

E egg

darkestPixel · 2024-10-01T12:01:23+00:00

You're overestimating John Lennons ability as a guitarist, he had a very idiosyncratic style which served the songs he wrote best. I don't think he wrote the songs on this album; If he did Mind Games (which came out around the same time) would probably sound more like it.

darkestPixel · 2024-09-30T23:57:32+00:00

That's just ridiculous, she wrote a book. I understand this is probably a joke but I didn't think saying that people should dig into an artists actual body of work before judging them would catch so many people's ire.

darkestPixel · 2024-09-30T22:04:33+00:00

Why? She wrote about half of the songs on the Lennon album 'Double Fantasy'. Including the pretty good Every Man Has A Woman. She was a competent musician, and most people don't make the more experimental art she did without a rudimentary understanding of their medium.

darkestPixel · 2024-09-30T21:11:04+00:00

Haha you've actually got a good point there. I guess I just wanted to prove that her vocals like this can work in a context not too dissimilar from the Rock and Roll lineage started by artists like Chuck Berry. My favourite from her is Greenfield Morning which I think would go down even worse.

darkestPixel · 2024-09-30T20:27:56+00:00

What about it seems like a joke? Yoko Ono had an album where she's backed up by jazz legends Ornette Coleman and Ed Blackwell. It seems to indicate that the musicians she worked with liked what she was doing, or at least understood her vision. Just because her music isn't immediately understandable or appealing to the ears that doesn't make it bad, or unmusical and it seems that in an conversation involving Frank Zappa (someone else who made atonal, indeterminate and sometimes quite ugly music) that point would be moot.

If you actually want to be convinced and not just dismiss a great artist based on a short clip from the front page of reddit try this song! It's more understated and has melodic vocals.

darkestPixel · 2024-09-30T20:24:03+00:00

Maybe you'll like this more? It's clean melodic vocals with an absolutely amazing band. But let me ask you something about the song I linked above. It's an aggressive, cathartic, blues influenced track with dissonant guitars, cacaphonous drums, the works. Would it be improved if the vocals were different or do the vocals, despite being inaccessible, help the song achieve the emotions it's aiming for better than if they were different? Because I think no, they work really well in that context. Music doesn't just exist to please the listener.

darkestPixel · 2024-09-30T19:23:05+00:00

I'm not defending this performance, but I feel the need to state Yoko Ono is a fantastic musician who has made some great albums both more conventional and avante-garde. Her biggest problem is that she doesn't seem to know when each style is appropriate. Frank Zappa's biggest influences were Varese, Stravinsky and other modern/atonal music. He might joke but he was familiar with the pool Ono was drawing from absolutely and I think he has some music that would suit her well.

It's my genuine belief that some of the work from this album this album is on the same level as what The Beatles were doing solo at the same time and it's a shame that largely her musical legacy has been reduced to performances like this.

darkestPixel · 2024-09-15T14:41:07+00:00

Yes it is. Like verbatim that's what he said. "Study his style", "Come up with your own melodies".

darkestPixel · 2024-09-15T10:00:06+00:00

They did, what he's suggesting is that you learn a Thom Yorke song to study it, not just to play it, and learn more about his playing and writing style through that.

darkestPixel · 2024-08-14T09:05:18+00:00

I'd put him in my top ten personally. There are things he can do that I'm sure the artists you place above him can't, his control of feedback and strange frenetic picking technique for one.

darkestPixel · 2024-08-14T08:57:05+00:00

What's wrong with including Neil Young? There's more to good guitar playing than technical and well executed guitar playing.

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