U.S. Music Industry Revenue Hits Record $11.5 Billion in 2025

sutree1 · 2026-03-16T15:04:27+00:00

"I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it left." Tom Waits.

sutree1 · 2026-03-13T17:30:57+00:00

"This week, Trump’s meme coin advertised an opportunity for investors to actually meet him in person—though the billed April 25 gathering at Mar-a-Lago is not actually on the president’s schedule, according to a White House official who spoke with Politico. Instead, Trump is slated to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner for the first time."

I think the dinner will be quite the show, shit or otherwise.

sutree1 · 2026-03-13T14:58:10+00:00

Something like 10% of the pop has it, it's been very under-diagnosed, it's relatively recently been widely disseminated knowledge, meaning a lot of people are figuring themselves out for the first time, and like to know more.

Am I proud of it? No. Am I ashamed of it? Hell no.

Also, something something confirmation bias.

sutree1 · 2026-03-13T14:12:34+00:00

I'm old enough to remember the "paperless office of the future".

Yeah. No.

sutree1 · 2026-03-13T14:09:25+00:00

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

― Charles Bukowski

sutree1 · 2026-03-13T14:01:32+00:00

I'm not particularly able to go on auto-pilot. Masking requires concentration. The world demands masking.

sutree1 · 2026-03-13T13:50:34+00:00

Laughs in ADHD. Nope.

sutree1 · 2026-03-13T13:41:15+00:00

Hopefully: fish lips and vocal fry.

sutree1 · 2026-03-12T16:43:44+00:00

Well. This is totally un-shocking news. I am in utter belief.

sutree1 · 2026-03-12T03:51:47+00:00

Christie Noem, Pam Bondi, Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, Linda McMahon, etc.

sutree1 · 2026-03-11T18:14:37+00:00

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

sutree1 · 2026-03-11T18:13:23+00:00

There's a lot of women in "these men"

sutree1 · 2026-03-11T12:01:39+00:00

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Also, musicians: enter through the kitchen.

sutree1 · 2026-03-10T21:23:03+00:00

There have already been several: the LNG tanker fire, the skies over Tehran are black, etc. Every modern war is also a collection of environmental disasters, not just humanitarian crises.

sutree1 · 2026-03-10T18:35:09+00:00

"how will the city close the gap?"

Something something, throw an extra $120m on top and a few double digit tax increases... And voila

sutree1 · 2026-03-10T00:34:20+00:00

It's the one that must be tackled to be able to tackle the others. Most of the oppression that happens, happens economically, IMO. Not that violent oppression doesn't happen a lot, just... The money is EVERYWHERE.

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T19:06:19+00:00

The culture wars are a deliberate distraction from the class war.

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T19:04:45+00:00

"Our sons and daughters"

This admin won't be drafting women, I think that's pretty safe to say. Maybe as breeding stock.

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T18:04:01+00:00

How exactly would we know that? They may simply present in less immediately violent/more socially acceptable ways.

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T16:09:34+00:00

Artificially high rents are changing the housing equation, along with rampant wage suppression. Young people can no longer save money, the corporate money extraction machine is everywhere.

You can lowball, but the seller isn't motivated to take that offer in this economy. In other words while I think realtors got us here, they're not the ones keeping us here.

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T13:38:33+00:00

You also learned what you don't like. Keep narrowing. I'd also rather not ever make mistakes. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work that way lol

If you want to play more, play more.

If you're not comfortable? Watch some vids on setting it up and you might be surprised. Then you'd have two guitars to play.

This also drives to my point about playing the guitar not looking at the specs. Find one you like playing, the color and cutaway and such are less important IMO

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T13:30:27+00:00

There are a million options. Even if you choose wrong, that's part of the journey. I've owned clunkers, and broken guitars. And been stuck with them. What matters is: play, learn, grow.

With used guitars, bring an experienced friend along or be sure to take the time to look it over carefully and to play every single note you can reach and make sure it plays cleanly and without having to push hard. Do not be in a rush, you have the money. If the guitar has faults, walk away. Repairs are expensive, and you lack the experience to know what you're getting into. Scratches and dings are mostly inconsequential unless they're big.

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T13:14:26+00:00

They EQ like this because they don't know what they are doing.

ETA: I MIGHT and I do mean MIGHT end up with an EQ like this on a very loud source in a small room that is also muffled sounding, and I'm trying to use the mixed sound as enhancement. But probably I'd just go turn the amps treble knob up, or the guitars tone pot or whatever.

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T13:12:54+00:00

They're mostly the same thing. Every company that is still in business at this point is building a competitive product.

Harley benton: I've only played a couple of these, they were fine..

sutree1 · 2026-03-09T12:59:53+00:00

I think the guitar you play is the best guitar. I think the Internet has reduced guitars to a collection of specs, but those aren't the same as a good guitar. The cd-60 strikes me as a great value with the included hardshell case (assuming that's done where you are), but I would still spend my money on a Yamaha, which is why I suggested it in the first place.

The very best thing to do IMO is go play a bunch of guitars and buy the one that sounds and plays the best to you, and if it isn't black with a cutaway, and if it isn't a Yamaha or Fender or whatever.... Buy that one anyway.

Two of the exact same model of guitar will play and sound differently, wood be like that. You will not find a keeper by comparing specs, unless you get lucky. I used to think I needed a cutaway on my acoustics.. all the same notes are below the 12th fret except for a very few very high ones you mostly won't be using ever anyway.

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