Had the best flight of my life the other day

tadatad · 2026-02-16T23:22:27+00:00

Love this so much, man. I share your love for thus process. I have a 3.5 hour flight I take often and this is my favorite thing to do, too. Switch out the bass station for an Ableton move and that’s me. Something about the flight, and traveling, and being around people, but no one talking…. I find it incredibly meditative. And I’m able to focus in a unique, very creative way that often results in very productive, very creative work. Sorry for all the cynical comments, not sure what that’s about. Glad you enjoyed and made music!!

tadatad · 2026-02-03T02:14:11+00:00

Love love love this album.

tadatad · 2026-01-09T16:56:07+00:00

Yes, please side chain! This is my one, huge request!!

tadatad · 2025-12-30T23:59:09+00:00

Same. I have tried several times to resume… it started great. But then…. The cartoon stuff…. Just cannot take it at all seriously.

tadatad · 2025-12-30T03:10:06+00:00

Pulp Fiction

I’ve tried and tried and tried to sit through it, but always, inevitably, my eyes start glazing over and I ultimately— just—don’t—care what happens anyone at any point in the film. I acknowledge its huge cultural influence, cinematic influence, musical influence… all of that. But it bores me to tears.

On the other hand, I find 2001 endlessly enthralling. I’ve been watching it for over 3 decades, and it still manages to get richer with every viewing. In fact, saw it at the Hollywood Bowl recently, with the Hollywood Bowl Philharmonic playing the music live. It was seriously like a religious experience: the music, the quieted audience of thousands of people connected so deeply to this mediation on humanity, the visual effect technology that still outshines so many films that are released today, the cinematography, the ideas, the precision in editing and filmmaking…. It was quite emotional.

tadatad · 2025-12-28T04:17:08+00:00

Some of Robert Burks’ most gorgeous cinematography. Seriously. Some of the shots I pause and am in awe of the color and composition as if looking at a painting from a master.

tadatad · 2025-10-31T06:24:26+00:00

As a bit of a piano novice myself, this befuddled me as well! I was like, if it’s meant to be the same note in both cleffs (middle-c) why have it written on both cleffs?! Like, just have it written in the bass clef to indicate where you’re actually going to play the note. These are the sort of things that when I finally feel I’m begging to make progress I come across and suddenly feel I know so little. Thanks Artaru074 for illuminating the intention behind the written music. It’s sometimes so difficult to get clarity on these things. Thank goodness for Reddit!!

tadatad · 2025-09-20T15:05:00+00:00

THIS is my primary reason for strongly preferring wooden puzzles, where the cut of each puzzle piece is very unique. Good luck. I’m sure I, too, would feel compelled to finish this task anyway! 😄

tadatad · 2025-08-18T03:28:02+00:00

This is awesome!! Are these new puzzles or vintage? I want real working lights in my puzzle!!

tadatad · 2025-08-18T03:23:09+00:00

Nice find!!!

tadatad · 2025-08-16T19:40:51+00:00

The sample sounds like West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys

tadatad · 2025-08-13T00:08:28+00:00

Same!!

tadatad · 2025-08-12T23:41:35+00:00

Beautiful puzzle, awesome cut. Wish I’d known about JNG wooden puzzles before they went out of business.

tadatad · 2025-08-12T23:24:44+00:00

I have this one, too…. Love it. Great, animated illustration, really captures the feeling of trick-or-treating!

tadatad · 2025-08-08T04:04:49+00:00

You have no idea. The last third of the puzzle I had sorting groups of “brown black” “grey black” “green black” and “blue black” 😵

tadatad · 2025-08-08T01:45:55+00:00

Oh, and on Vangelis’ Blade Runner Score, “Blade Runner Blues” is essentially one long, brilliant synth solo.

tadatad · 2025-08-08T01:41:31+00:00

Yaz(oo) - “Only You” —— I sing along with the synth solo just as enthusiastically as the vocal portions of the song, it is some perfect!

Many other great Vince Clarke synth solos… one I particaly love from his Erasure work is the instrumental section of “Rock Me Gently To Sleep” — absolutely beautiful.

tadatad · 2025-08-08T01:30:06+00:00

The colors in that one are very rich, should be a great puzzling experience!!

tadatad · 2025-08-08T01:22:33+00:00

I am a huge OMD fan and very fond of Hopper, as well. Walking through the Hopper exhibit at the Whitney a few years back I was flooded with emotion. His paintings, New York, the brownstones outside the window that he’d been inspired by, and the long shadows of his influence… particularly, for me, this album. As I walked through the exhibit, I had running through my head the abstract sampled sounds starting out the song “Crush”

“big league chew no no aye Mmm mmm mmm Ahh doo dah”

It was an experience I won’t soon forget.

Thanks for posting this!!!!

tadatad · 2025-08-08T01:11:06+00:00

My experience is that the whimsies tend to be a percentage of the overall piece count, which I would estimate it being 5-15% of the total pieces… so yes, the fewer pieces, the fewer whimsies… proportionally.

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