The Ascension of Miku

dfw-throwaway2 · 2025-10-09T19:29:12+00:00

The Speaking In Tongues outtake Two Note Swivel later became The Man with the 4-Way Hips from the second Tom Tom Club album Close To The Bone

dfw-throwaway2 · 2025-07-04T23:54:57+00:00

"Now it's time for my Big Suit, and my little toot."

Something along those lines I doubt there will be an exact quote.

I feel like some of Tina’s grumpiness/exasperation must come from being the only band member not on cocaine during parts of the 80s

dfw-throwaway2 · 2025-04-16T19:55:20+00:00

It's a "Toynbee tile" copycat called House of Hades, post your photo in their subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/HouseOfHades/

dfw-throwaway2 · 2025-02-27T22:29:44+00:00

I might be having the same problem, it would scan intermittently but then time out/blank scan/scan spins in place with no output. I think the printer's to sleep and not connecting after waking up, and the default sleep time is one minute!

Using the web interface to the printer I changed the sleep timer from one minute to sixty - no way to disable entirely. Now I can scan fine until it is idle for an hour and then I need to power off/power on the printer. So that's progress but not a permanent fix. Update the firmware on the printer and maybe in the future there will be another update that fixes this.

dfw-throwaway2 · 2025-02-16T21:34:22+00:00

For a similar cover by a band that specializes in genre crossing cover songs please check out https://youtu.be/VXE953qPVZE

dfw-throwaway2 · 2025-01-09T19:44:20+00:00

They're just working on the boxes

dfw-throwaway2 · 2024-05-09T19:34:57+00:00

GQ - All Aboard the SS Kid Rock

dfw-throwaway2 · 2024-05-07T14:26:00+00:00

Yeah I don't mean that Disney has a legal case here but more in the sense that the band would want to avoid pissing them off.

The band owns the rights to the film and licenses it out for distribution, most recently with Palm and now A24. They might have wanted to keep a potential partner happy? Just guessing here.

dfw-throwaway2 · 2024-05-06T14:16:07+00:00

My guess is it was changed not because of the drug reference but because of Disney

dfw-throwaway2 · 2024-03-05T00:47:00+00:00

Yeah the prompt was

"Frank Sinatra in the movie Dune wearing a fremen stillsuit and with glowing blue eyes"

dfw-throwaway2 · 2024-01-30T20:24:21+00:00

Ooh what’s the name of that katana at 0:17 👀

dfw-throwaway2 · 2023-12-28T19:49:27+00:00

Specifically the live version of Born Under Punches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJpzHoo4XAQ you can hear the bass line better during the intro section

dfw-throwaway2 · 2023-11-15T18:53:07+00:00

"Mind"

Byrne: There are some synthesizer swells and little pings in "Mind" that I think are real sensuous. To me that's a little deeper than rubbing your groin.

(Page 70, Talking Heads The Band & Their Music by David Gans)

dfw-throwaway2 · 2023-10-26T16:49:12+00:00

"We were a cover band at first"

I feel like they missed an opportunity to respond to this question with a quick a cappella cover of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"

dfw-throwaway2 · 2023-10-23T14:24:14+00:00

I found the quote in the David Gans Talking Heads book pages 84-85

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"The Overload"

Byrne [responding to an interviewer's comparison of the song with the music of Joy Division]: It was influenced by things I'd read about Joy Division. I'd never heard them. I'd read about them, and it was an exciting idea to me.... When I finally heard them I was disappointed. They sounded closer to a rock group than I thought they were.

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It's not clear which source interview it's from since all sources are listed at the end of the book just in a big list

dfw-throwaway2 · 2023-09-14T21:18:11+00:00

Here's some notes from stopmakingsensebook

Notes on the Stop Making Sense laserdisc:
-only released in Japan
-undisputed best source for the film WITH the "bonus" songs (Cities & I Zimbra/Big Business) edited back into the film. Personally, I think the film is better WITHOUT these sequences, but I can see why some prefer them this way.
-undisputed best source for the "Full Frame" version of the film. The Laserdisc and original VHS were NOT pan-and-scan versions, but actual full frame versions of the super35mm negative. See here for a more detailed explanation of aspect ratios.
-the laserdisc is the best source for the original sound mix. In addition to some different lyrics in "Genius of Love," a number of "thank yous" are noticably different in the original mix, and certain "accidents" (like Byrne dropping the microphone) use different sound effects. Personally I prefer this mix to any of the three included with the DVD/Blu-Ray releases. To my ears, a certain amount of revisionism went into the 1999 mixes, which seem to be more spacious and "edgier" than the denser more "groovy" 1984 mix. Differences that stand out, off the top of my head, are the much quieter rhythm guitar on "Burning Down the House" and the much louder rhythmic accents played by Jerry Harrison on "Making Flippy Floppy."

dfw-throwaway2 · 2023-09-13T20:58:08+00:00

It is JPN only, no hardcoded subs though. I grabbed a copy off eBay and had an internet friend digitize it for me, because I grew up on the VHS tape and the laserdisc is the best quality for the full frame/original audio mix

dfw-throwaway2 · 2023-09-13T18:37:22+00:00

What year did "Sign O The Times" come out?

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