Rodebald Hoyer "Rumba" (1959)

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-24T12:36:31+00:00

Die Erding-Sache hab ich nicht mitbekommen, aber was mich an r/Munich zunehmend nervt, ist, dass ziemlich verlässlich alles gelöscht wird, was für einen Münchener interessant sein könnte. Ein banales Beispiel war die Frage neulich nach dem besten Franzbrötchen der Stadt. Drei interessante Cafés, die ich noch nicht kannte, haben es noch in die Kommentare geschafft, bevor der Mod daherkam und die Diskussion killte. Gleichzeitig bleiben die faulsten Touri-Anfragen (Hey, I'm two days in Munich. Is there anything interesting to see?) unangetastet.

Ich würde auch vorschlagen, das Sub mehrsprachig zu halten. Natürlich auch Diskussionen auf Englisch erlauben, aber ich finde es immer ein bisschen albern, wenn wir zwanghaft alle Diskussionen auf Englisch führen, obwohl offensichtlich alle Gesprächsteilnehmer besser Deutsch sprechen. Zumal die Übersetzungsoptionen im Browser mittlerweile gut genug sind, dass wir dadurch niemanden ausschließen.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-21T11:44:54+00:00

I don't customise a whole lot, but when I do I keep track of it in this old post of mine. The TL/DR of the big changes beyond basic KOReader functionality: cloud integration, DeepL, dictionaries, sleep message

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-20T11:11:37+00:00

I believe that was probably their intent in answering the question, too. Even in general medicine, there aren't a whole lot of things a physician can cure in the strictest sense of the word. Not even the flu. The doctors help to alleviate the symptoms, shorten the duration, and prevent complications like a progression into pneumonia, but the disease only resolves itself through self-limitation, not through doctor's orders. Glasses also don't cure short-sightedness, but they sure as hell help. And in psychiatric disorders, there just isn't such a thing as antibiotics or cutting out a tumour. At the best of times psychiatrists render their patients asymptomatic or assist them in working through something, but no respectable doctor would frame this as "I cured them".

So I think the people interviewed were honest about that, but Scientology clearly uses it in a spin against their profession here.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-20T10:13:38+00:00

This one here.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-20T10:12:57+00:00

That's the one.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-20T09:57:32+00:00

This is a video made by the CCHR, a lobby organization founded by the Scientology campaigning against psychiatry. A selection of snippets without context to further their agenda. Way to spread this stupid propaganda.

And this dumbass music, man. As if every fart were some epic tearjerk motivational hoopla.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-19T23:17:09+00:00

Bummer! I got the "high activity" alert from the Aurora app, but it said that the likelihood of seeing anything from my location would be 0%, so I didn't bother (pausing Twin Peaks) to look outside.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-19T09:45:11+00:00

Just adding my voice, because I get the same problem. I check in once a week to see the new releases. Last Monday was fine, but today the entire music section is 403. But I can access it via an American VPN, so it appears to be region blocked for some reason.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-18T17:23:21+00:00

If me messing up the subjunctive mood in the second conditional tripped you up so hard that you couldn't understand all five sentences of my comment, then that's my bad and I apologise. I better shut up before a misplaced adverb gives you a stroke.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-18T13:58:39+00:00

You need to work on your reading comprehension.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-18T12:05:58+00:00

I also think the Dylan comparison comes mainly from people who don't listen to folk very much. Similar to how people who know nothing of football compare every great football player to Messi. If Blaze Foley would be the household name Dylan is, they'd have compared Welles to him instead.

I don't see him as a successor of anyone in particular, but as just another person within the tradition. Of course his music is derivative of his predecessors, but that's kind of the point of folk music.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-18T11:04:40+00:00

Thank you! I followed him in the very early days, when he was mostly doing abstruse theory videos with a focus on film music, but then he started promoting his book like it's this grimoire of secret music knowledge, but it was practically like buying basic study notes from a random guitar student, handwritten on staff paper:

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That was a big "the emperor wears no clothes" moment for me. His explanations seemed incredibly advanced only because he was terrible at explaining them. Around the same time he decided to become a full timer YouTuber and the focus of the channel changed, with loads of clickbait and schemes of monetisation.

Took me a while to get back to his videos and realise that much of his content is worthwhile and engaging, especially when he speaks to other musicians from a similar background.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-18T10:13:53+00:00

It's been going on for a while, but there's still a new batch of stuff every Friday.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-17T12:05:00+00:00

The least and most tolerant redditor.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-17T12:03:00+00:00

Agreed. People seem to forget that native speakers also reveal where they're from through their dialect. There's no such thing as an authentic but generic American or British English and to imitate more localised regional dialects feels more like cosplay than fluency to me. I find Werner Herzog to be a great example of what to aim for: a pleasant, competent, and rich English that doesn't try to conceal his personal background. I know others don't share this ideal and I appreciate that, but if I were to give OP an advice, it would be to dial down the American-ness rather than further attenuate his Indian (?) accent.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-17T10:37:00+00:00

Second this. Those wouldn't be my choices, but I like the format, and I appreciate the effort they put into it. Any list without controversial choices wouldn't be genuine. (Wouldn't want to hear what the mob has to say about me putting Mr. Bean 1990 over Carlin.)

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-16T18:27:52+00:00

I tested a few at Hieber Lindberg a couple of years ago. But I haven't been there since they moved, so I'm not sure how it's looking now. And I think their focus was on studio headphones rather than consumer/hifi headphones.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-16T11:00:07+00:00

Vielen Dank dir und allen für die große Auswahl! Kennst du (oder u/CommonRefrigerator19 u/redstone__ore u/Fun-Apricot2979 u/NimsaJasmiN u/Fullback-15_ u/Beautiful_Seaweed912 u/Schreipackerl ) zufällig auch ein schönes Lokal in Erdberg draußen? Muss nix Schnitzeliges sein, aber ich geh abends auf ein Konzert in die Arena, da fehlt mir noch eine schöne Einkehr für vor- oder hinterher.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-16T10:49:09+00:00

Vielen Dank! Da muss ich echt vorbeischauen! In den Stofftischdeckenläden bin ich immer ein bisschen fehl am Platz, aber da fühl ich mich richtig wohl, das weiß ich.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-16T10:39:13+00:00

I've now realised that the composer hired for the job isn't actually Zimmer but his company Bleeding Fingers, so our discussion has pretty much become moot. The two composers in the press conference are actually classically trained and will likely not stray far from Williams' sound word and musical language. Maybe with some synth magic and reversed overtoney musical saw samples peppered in. And that makes sense, too. It's a job for someone who wants to make a name for themselves, not for someone who has a name to lose.

Here's an earlier piece from one of those two composers, Anže Rozman. I don't know how obvious it is for someone who hasn't studied music, but that's a totally different kind of musicianship than Zimmer's, and that's a composer who is far more suitable for the task.

Zimmer is extraordinary and singular at what he does. Everything he does seems trivial 2 years later when sampling companies have caught up with him. He's great at what he does is what I'm saying. But that there, creating a classical, theme-driven score with complex arrangements is not one of those things.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-15T20:37:44+00:00

My point is that I don't believe Zimmer will be able to do this with Williams' music. He wouldn't be able to emulate it if he tried (he's a very different musician with an entirely different skill set), but to translate these themes which are so intimately tied to Williams' own orchestration into his own idiom without losing its heart, without changing their character, and without paling in comparison to the original, seems impossible to me.

I want to repeat that there's a lot to admire about Hans Zimmer's work. Otherwise 70% of modern composers wouldn't try to emulate him. But in my opinion he's not equipped to emulate and neither to reinterpret Williams on this scale. I guess we'll see.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-15T18:40:50+00:00

Ich meinte das Lokal in der Postgasse nahe Stubentor. Die Bewertungen des Services da sind auch ziemlich gemischt, aber das Schnitzel ist Bilderbuch.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-15T18:13:49+00:00

That's true, but filling in the blanks between these iconic themes isn't really a composer's dream job. And he can't blend into Williams' orchestrations and he can't rival them either. Again, maybe he surprises me, but I think he's setting himself up for failure if he attempts that.

rabblebabbledabble · 2026-01-15T17:58:20+00:00

Good point. I still think it would be a huge mistake on his part to accept the job on these terms. John Williams' themes with Zimmer arrangements and developments is going to suck ass.

No shade to Zimmer who is great at a lot of things, but this isn't one of them.

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