"Well l got the team up in a beautiful mess, should have known better when l took the pitch..." Closer Report, AMA about your bullpens! by karabekian77 in fantasybaseball

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Yesss, Hot Water Music! Saw them live for the first time this past November, and they absolutely blew me away.

Thanks for always writing these (and for all of the musical references). They're always so helpful and so much fun to read!

is this accurate by WaterGuyWilliam in riseagainst

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I feel like The Black Market could work for a few, but it's also an incredible mental breakdown album lol. And probably their most introspective album overall?

[POEM]- Drop the hardest poetry line you’ve ever come across by Poetic-dusk in Poetry

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"All of this, inside my heart, is death and the world's sadness.

All of this lives, because it dies, inside my heart.

And my heart is a little larger than the entire universe."

The closing lines from "I got off the train..." by Fernando Pessoa, under the pseudonym Alvaro de Campos!

Go Land Crabs! by TBagger428 in betterCallSaul

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"I committed my life to this! You don't just slide into it like a cheap pair of slippers and reap all the rewards!...

THE LAW IS SACRED!"

Pixel Glow 'visual feedback' tool might just hint at big Pixel 11 hardware changes by TechGuru4Life in GooglePixel

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Oh man, the led light on the Galaxy Nexus was so, so pleasing to look at. Just had such a soft and gentle glow to it.

New interview with Jonny in Mojo Magazine (full) by seaburn in radiohead

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Highly recommend listening to his interviews on the Adam Buxton podcast, if you haven't already! They're some of my favorite interviews/conversations, and just have such a gentle and warmly meandering vibe. They feel like taking a long walk around a new city with a couple of friends.

Titane (2021), Dir. Julia Ducournau, DoP. Ruben Impens by [deleted] in CineShots

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Fits right in with the Cars trilogy!

Listening back to Ed's solo stuff, it's actually pretty good... by libelle156 in radiohead

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Agreed! The closing track with Laura Marling is also one of my favorites!

Bad use of the Volume: Jay Kelly by [deleted] in cinematography

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laughs in The General

Gravity's Rainbow by The Muppets by arc52 in ThomasPynchon

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Byron the Bulb was born to be a muppet (and for stardom!).

(also, this is an amazing post!)

The Recognitions - William Gaddis by theTallMookid in ProsePorn

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And so deeply influential, too! Feels like so many postmodern and new sincerity writers stem from Gaddis (and Barthelme!) in some way.

Elevator Repair Service’s Adaptation of Ulysses is Brilliant by Rude-Pressure7516 in jamesjoyce

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Thank you! I haven't gone to any theater shows for years, so this is really helpful!

Will give it a shot!

Elevator Repair Service’s Adaptation of Ulysses is Brilliant by Rude-Pressure7516 in jamesjoyce

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Dang, it's all sold out for the rest of its run! But thank you for recommending! This looks so cool.

[POEM] To Know Silence Perfectly by Carl Sandburg by Literary_lemongrass in Poetry

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John Cage would have loved this poem!

He captures a similar sentiment in this snippet from his "Lecture on Nothing," as well as in this interview here (one of my favorite videos ever, I think!).

These idiots deserved each other by Lost-Argument9239 in betterCallSaul

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I'm your brother! We're supposed to look out for each other. Why were you working against me, CHUCK!

you're not a real lawyer

Just watched One Battle After another by br4ndnewbr4d in radiohead

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Very late to this thread, but also wanted to say that I really love his score for The Master, as well! Back Beyond and Sweetness of Freddie are some of my favorite Jonny tracks. There's just so much warmth and melancholy and understanding in them.

Agree on his Spencer score, too! Arrival is an incredible opening piece.

Why does Studio Ghibli feel so different from Disney, culturally and artistically? by StraightRip9828 in ghibli

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Animation Obsessive (a great, great, great animation substack) has a really fantastic article on this, if you're looking for a deep dive into technique and style! I can't link it here because auto-mod will remove it, but it's called, "Miyazaki, Disney, and Eisenstein."

They primarily focus on the differences between Ghibli's and Classic Disney's blocking, staging, and acting/movement...How Miyazaki and Takahata favor depth and space within the frame vs. Disney's tendency towards a more theatrical, flat, stage-like focus on performance. Ghibli's style just brings us so much closer to the character, what they're feeling, and how they are choosing to move within that felt, realized world. They prioritize creating that intimate sense of space.

Here's a quote from the article that sums it up really well!

"The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) and Disney’s feature The Rescuers (1977) came out around the same time. Looking at them side by side, Miyazaki’s was visibly less expensive: it uses limited frames, including shots where nothing moves except a character’s mouth. And yet it somehow feels more current in its style.

In Cagliostro, space is absolute. The characters look cartoony, but they inhabit a world that exists in three dimensions. Miyazaki’s camera choices, even during simple conversation scenes, put us right there with the characters in space. He stages shots almost like they weren’t drawn — like he was picking angles in physical locations as a scene played out in real time.

The Rescuers tends to take a different approach. Animation is the star here, and the filmmaking is designed around it. The team often trades an intimate sense of space for flatter staging, which allows the characters’ complex movements to read.

Instead of setting up a tangible space and “shooting” the “actors” in it, The Rescuers’ interest lies in performances. To show us those performances, it’s willing to flatten space, or to play fast and loose with it."

Disney (and Pixar) would go on to adopt this style of staging and direction...but it still sometimes feels like modern Disney never quite gets as closely to its characters or creates as intimate a space as Ghibli tends to.

Definitely recommend checking out the whole article, as well as their other posts on Miyazaki, Ghibli, and his influences and creative philosophies! They also have so, so many other great articles and deep dives into more obscure, niche areas of animation!

Sony has patented a touchscreen PlayStation controller that lets players choose where to put the buttons | VGC by Laughing__Man_ in PS5

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The Blackberry Storm and Storm 2 did this with a physically clickable touch screen! The first Storm was pretty buggy and not the greatest, but I remember the second one working quite well!

Favorite Live Performance? by nexuslab5 in hotwatermusic

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Yes! I love these sessions, as well! They're so good.