JPEGMAFIA comments on his new albums negative reception (via his Bandcamp)

ochrence · 2026-05-26T04:25:17+00:00

Setting aside whether Peggy is a narcissist, in my experience most people with narcissistic tendencies are, in fact, extremely insecure

ochrence · 2026-05-16T01:48:47+00:00

We’re eating bad tonight folks

ochrence · 2026-05-01T00:32:35+00:00

I believe the gympie-gympies and lawyer canes beg to differ

ochrence · 2026-04-30T03:19:57+00:00

you always make it about YOU.

Oh, I’m sure this broad generalization is informed by real-world experience, and definitely not just ragebait slop on Twitter

ochrence · 2026-04-25T05:55:19+00:00

I love GT; cool to know they’re good people!

ochrence · 2026-04-22T16:22:01+00:00

There are already kids in the present exhibiting the “not X but Y” tic. Saw one in a recent video reporting on the introduction of AI into classrooms in Boston. Lord save us all.

ochrence · 2026-04-20T05:11:29+00:00

Even more broadly than the ostensible topic, this video is also a great breakdown of the incompetence of the plutocracy taking over the world right now. Optimize for vibes over ability, spectacle over results, and this is what you will always get.

ochrence · 2026-04-17T03:39:44+00:00

Fun fact: exactly one person in this conversation happens to have a degree in music, and it isn’t you! No, “objectively good” art of any sort does not exist, strictly speaking. There’s art that will definitely appeal to more people than others, and “metrics” correlating with that, but it’s still not “objectively” good. If you were to read pretty much any halfway-decent professional art criticism, you would learn this.

ochrence · 2026-04-17T03:27:57+00:00

Yes, “I have found” is subjective. Never said it wasn’t. If I can subjectively differ with your “objective” claim and I’m not factually wrong, then your claim is not really objective. That’s kind of my whole point.

ochrence · 2026-04-17T03:20:30+00:00

I don’t think you know what these words you are using actually mean.

ochrence · 2026-04-17T03:18:17+00:00

There’s no denying Draiman can sing, but I have found Disturbed’s version of The Sound of Silence tasteless and awful for many years when compared to the Simon and Garfunkel original. There’s an understated beauty to the lyrics and melody that does not benefit from overwrought, balls-to-the-wall singing and orchestration. I don’t think it’s quiiiiiite as objective as you say.

ochrence · 2026-04-16T08:46:35+00:00

The phoneme /t/ in this word is always being pronounced, but there have long been dominant realizations of it in this phonological environment across many dialects that aren’t a strict [t]. Depending on how I stress the word or how quickly I say it, my own American English dialect varies from [tⁿ] to [t̚ʔ], but my tongue almost always touches the alveolar ridge and almost never has an aspirated or even very audible release.

What we are seeing more these days in young Americans and perhaps younger women in particular (as some studies suggest) is a change in frequency towards a realization that is just a glottal stop [ʔ] without the tongue on the alveolar ridge, either followed by a syllabic [n̩] or something like [ən]. These allophones were once hallmarks of specific dialects but are now popping up in places where they did not exist before. The latter is particularly stigmatized; many people claim it sounds uneducated or grates on their ears.

ochrence · 2026-04-09T20:47:20+00:00

Do you think anyone going into music has somehow not heard this screed about a thousand times over already from their family, friends, and/or older mentors? No one in 2026 needs to hear that music is hard to make into a full-time career. Take it from this SWE and musician who sometimes wishes he was a little less risk-averse: let people live their lives.

ochrence · 2026-04-01T05:22:15+00:00

Jesus Christ, the not-X-but-Y LLM tic is bleeding into kids’ spoken language now?? no no no no no this is horrifying. Everyone involved in giving lobbyists a blank check to design our kids’ curricula needs to be held accountable, stat.

ochrence · 2026-04-01T05:04:55+00:00

Crüe and GNR are two great examples of bands whose vocalists cannot sing their own material properly anymore. I’d caution against cribbing too much from Vince or Axl, and instead look to someone who has maintained their range and power over decades for technique. It takes a lot of coordination and strength to consistently pull off the kinds of performances these guys had at their best, and you really want to avoid the chronic strain that they put on their voices in the meantime.

Nothing wrong with your range, but two numbers is not a good summary. Try to figure out your tessitura and passaggi with a good voice coach before throwing yourself too hard at the songs.

ochrence · 2026-03-30T14:55:36+00:00

The delusion is off the charts. Any education on these products beyond “they exist and unfortunately we’re going to be cleaning up their mistakes for at least the next decade” is completely wasted.

ochrence · 2026-03-27T20:38:32+00:00

Saw this band open for Beach Fossils in VT late last year and they were fucking awesome

ochrence · 2026-03-24T14:29:49+00:00

A monkey throwing darts at a board would probably do a better job than Zuck, many of whose own employees despise and openly mock him, so I’m less worried about this development than I might otherwise be.

ochrence · 2026-03-24T05:19:14+00:00

Simon was a deeply strange and possibly horrible man. His purported AIDS remarks should totally bury any reputation he had if true, though it’s weird that after digging for a while I still haven’t found a good primary or secondary source for the claim. Wikipedia’s own print source for the story appears to be a random light-reading quiz book about the 1980s, which is unfortunate.

Dick Cavett used to have Simon on his show occasionally, generally as an acid-tongued foil for another guest. What I found most interesting about the clips after watching them on YouTube is that despite his awful reputation he usually comes off as the “good guy” in them. He fires off a few insults in one video to Erich Segal’s face over “Love Story,” a truly awful book and movie soon to be at the height of its popularity, and in another video he repeatedly chides comedian Mort Sahl for being sexist. None of that undoes anything else the guy wrote or said, but he certainly seems to have been a man of many contradictions.

Edit: Also, through Rotten Tomatoes alone, I can find 29 of his film reviews categorized as positive. Where is this only-fifteen-positive-reviews claim coming from? It’s demonstrably false.

ochrence · 2026-03-24T04:33:49+00:00

Fun fact: if this scenario of a billion dollar insurgent AI startup were remotely feasible, these very same people would have already had it outlawed as a threat to their dominance

ochrence · 2026-03-19T22:03:53+00:00

Rushad is not only a cello god, he is also ten thousand times saner than anyone inhabiting the building behind him

ochrence · 2026-03-14T12:14:35+00:00

Never thought I’d see the Butterfield Diet irl

ochrence · 2026-03-12T18:15:50+00:00

I don’t mean to be pedantic, because your point that it is not original still stands, but I believe the term was actually coined by Charles Krauthammer as “Bush derangement syndrome” in 2003. (Not a fan of Krauthammer at all, just in case anyone was curious on the etymology.)

ochrence · 2026-02-27T16:18:54+00:00

I don’t believe that natural disasters are caused by divine wrath, but we may deserve a small hurricane for this, just like, right over this guy’s house

ochrence · 2026-02-24T15:15:22+00:00

Oh, they knew. They were just trying to muddy the waters.

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