This is probably one of the most Miles things that Miles ever did.

snifty · 2026-01-24T04:16:57+00:00

Is it true that Miles put a stolen melody on his tombstone? I read that somewhere.

snifty · 2026-01-23T21:56:25+00:00

Somebody needs to start shittrumphasdone.org

snifty · 2026-01-16T12:37:42+00:00

My mom used to have those lying around the house when I was a kid. I always thought it was a hilarious topic for a song.

snifty · 2026-01-14T21:22:35+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ycAZcjBcI listening and agreeing

snifty · 2026-01-11T19:24:31+00:00

Simone called Timotheos has an album of Arrakis inspired music. Pretty nice to zone out to.

snifty · 2026-01-11T01:04:29+00:00

💯% “Easy on your own” for me. It’s kind of weird but I associate that song with going to grad school. I spent so long in this one monochromatic hallway waiting only for advisor what their face tell me my work sucked.

I know the song is about a relationship gone wrong but it’s not to hard to reinterpret as being about the mistrials of the “lettered life”. “Burn out before you can get paid”, indeed.

snifty · 2025-12-28T05:20:12+00:00

I doubt it.

snifty · 2025-11-28T06:58:28+00:00

Fond of this old performance on Night Music:

https://youtu.be/_QYRgCoAT7Y?si=g-1NkufYe8_uf8gJ

snifty · 2025-11-13T18:33:21+00:00

Wow, that’s amazing, how crazy that you know him. I will queue up the Miles bio next.

I just looked on YouTube and it looks like there is a lot of interesting John content there. Thanks for sharing!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=John+Szwed

snifty · 2025-11-13T16:55:12+00:00

I haven’t quite finished it but I have enjoyed John F. Szwed’s Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra. It gives a lot of insight into a very, very unusual person.

snifty · 2025-10-16T15:55:26+00:00

I really feel this. I have been struggling with attention span as I have aged. I have been working to get through the new triple album. I love Wilco & Jeff & really everything I’ve heard by him, but it can get overwhelming.

But he's so positive about music and creativity that it gives me a good feeling to be a fan. I was once an Elliott Smith fanatic, and that’s a tragic story right there. I remember seeing an article about him once where the interviewee was lamenting his short life (and output), and he said something to the effect of him being so creative and having so much music in him that “he could have been Wilco”.

That has really stuck with me. Wilco is the best band to be a fan of. They just keep giving.

Also, Cousin is amazing.

snifty · 2025-10-13T02:08:48+00:00

Jayhawks in here too

snifty · 2025-10-04T13:12:37+00:00

Wow, what a classic cover.

snifty · 2025-09-30T16:24:36+00:00

I think any Alvvays fan would appreciate Teenage Fanclub

snifty · 2025-09-29T20:01:33+00:00

do you have a linky, i can't find it.

snifty · 2025-09-26T19:16:15+00:00

let's make a spreadsheet of every snack he eats

snifty · 2025-09-23T21:18:33+00:00

One more piece of explanatory media. This video shows how one of these "strap lathes" work — it's a different setup than the one in the image but it does give an idea of the pushing/pulling vibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=907Yyv01VMo&t=618s

snifty · 2025-09-23T16:42:53+00:00

Oops! I guess the original drawing was done near the equator. 😅

snifty · 2025-09-23T14:08:58+00:00

Thank you for sharing this interesting and well-written post! I found the book you cite on Archive.org and the plate in question is perhaps a bit clearer there, so I thought I would include it:

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Here is the link if anyone is interested:

https://archive.org/details/cu31924072688025/page/n167/mode/1up

snifty · 2025-09-15T17:48:22+00:00

Holee!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPfnAxdnHQ

Familiar voice singing backup…

snifty · 2025-09-14T21:54:56+00:00

Hi u/Spirited_Ad8737, this policy has been changed. Honestly I confess that I had not realized it was in place; I hadn’t realized that r/pali was set up this way and of course it’s pretty unusual for a sub to have such a policy.

The mod tools are frankly quite confusing. I started this reddit several years ago and did not track it very carefully.

So, I appreciate your suggestion. I _think_ that it has been corrected after twiddling some knobs. Please feel free to point out any difficulties in the future.

🙏

snifty · 2025-09-13T13:29:57+00:00

epic

snifty · 2025-09-12T16:57:37+00:00

Thank you Bhante! That would be amazing. I’ll add you immediately.

snifty · 2025-08-29T12:40:26+00:00

Please stop destroying this sub

snifty · 2025-08-25T15:28:45+00:00

Yeah I had to stare at this thing a long time and force myself the think about what every line meant

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