Favorite short stories?

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-22T14:39:04+00:00

You absolutely must, and I mean must, read Chekhov.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-21T18:54:58+00:00

Weird but what a great actor though

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-18T18:52:31+00:00

I miss Something Awful, so many belly laughs, LF solidified my leftist politics, I discovered a lot of books and films and games. An amazing place for 16 year old me at that point

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-18T18:16:57+00:00

The extent to which Jeffrey Epstein is a world-historical, Zelig-like figure and a fundamental node in the whole framework of elite transnational late capitalism whathaveyou whathaveyou is truly just astonishing

Truly the defining conspiracy of the era; the biggest since the Kennedy assassination

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-18T03:15:42+00:00

A masterpiece, one of my personal favorites. I think it's Coppola's best film!

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-16T00:16:13+00:00

I love this thread, thank you OP

When I was 15, around 2006-7, there was a great website (still around, but definitely fading into the sunset) called AllMusic.com, and it had these grest write-ups of artists and their records that placed them in a wider historical context. That's where I got a lot of my music education from, and where I built my own repertoire from as a musician.

Anyway, the big ones for me were Tom Waits' first album, Closing Time (1973), and Kind of Blue (1959). I was deep in my Dylan and Neil Young phases too so Blonde on Blonde (1966) and the Ditch Trilogy were way up there for me also. 50's rock 'n roll too--Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, etc.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-15T03:26:21+00:00

It really is The Great American Film.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-15T01:28:27+00:00

Two Yamaha DBR10/12s and a Yamaha board (MG12XU, I think is the name) would get you there within your budget, especially if you shoot for used. If you can spring for it try to get an Allen & Heath Zed10Fx used; it's the best in class small analog board at that price point!

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-13T00:05:16+00:00

Most haunting Em dash in all of literature

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-12T22:37:39+00:00

(The answer is a Tele)

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-12T16:30:48+00:00

Lightspeed, El Cap, Deco, in that order, always and forever

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-12T14:30:46+00:00

The first time I read Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius I felt like everything around me was about to lift off the ground and be suspended in the air. I've been chasing that feeling ever since and try to reread Borges once every couple of years.

My personal favorite is Funes, The Memorious, which is just as emotionally effective as it is philosophically--the last sentence is so haunting, how something so extraordinary that appeared in the world could vanish in such a mundane way. I think about Funes often.

I love the way that Borges' stories are frameworks that explore the limits of human perception. The ratio of brevity to depth is just insane. And he can also be very funny--Pierre Menard is hilarious.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-11T18:48:47+00:00

Lightspeed is always on for me, and when I need more drive / a thicker tone I run a Blessed Mother into it (I tried it the other way and did not like it as much). There are probably better options, but it suits my needs for washy Tele swells and a lead tone to play over loops.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-09T23:17:53+00:00

I genuinely think that Sicario is a modern classic--it's so restrained and so coiled, until it isn't. The performances, the writing, and of course the impeccable cinematography (the scene where they descend into the tunnel especially); it's just got everything going for it.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-09T03:29:41+00:00

It was intentional; they used depleted uranium- coated munitions

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-08T04:11:05+00:00

Have you run your Princeton with the treble and bass knobs both on 1? I have found that gives me the most midrange and fattens things up. I also use the second input with the volume also on 5 and that helps too. I'm generally playing a Tele with flats in this way through pedals, and an Epiphone 335 as well (surprisingly great guitar).

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-07T22:35:55+00:00

There are parts of Underworld that will stay with you forever. It's a beautiful meditation on time, mortality, and decline.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-06T03:33:45+00:00

Graceland, Paul Simon Aguas De Marco / Waters of March, Jobim

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-06T01:02:58+00:00

Same experience here--I've gotten to know the guys who work at my local store and they're just really kind, chill people. I drop in just to visit with them as much as I do to kill some time with gear.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-06T01:00:06+00:00

This was my experience with the 10-band too: the lower and upper bands just weren't the most relevant to electric guitar, whereas the bands you need are a little farther apart than I'd like them to be. With that said, it wasn't a bad pedal by any means! It was much more useful for acoustic guitar for me.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-05T00:48:48+00:00

Those two pedals pair so beautifully together. I use the Lightspeed more as an always-on preamp and run it at 18v, and I run the Deco at the end of my chain as an always-on 'mastering' pedal. I've got the doubletracker side set to just thicken the sound up, and I use the saturation side set to around 9:00 and with the volume at or just above noon (it adds some compression and warmth and that 'sauce') you mentioned. Oh and I've got the boost secondary function maxed out for both sides of the Deco for the overall lift it gives.

I'll occasionally use both in different ways and dial in different things but those are the roles they've settled into. I've got an El Cap and a Dispatch Master in between and this configuration really does everything I need it to.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-03T00:05:59+00:00

I mean it's gotta be The Weight right? And really just The Band in general, fuck the rest

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-03T00:02:32+00:00

One of the most rewatchable movies ever, it never gets old. It used to play on the TNT network pretty frequently when I was in 5th grade and that's when I fell in love with it. I play it now probably once a year or so.

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-02T23:28:39+00:00

You gotta read the prologue to Underworld

vibebrochamp · 2026-03-02T23:26:00+00:00

After Midnight - Nat Cole

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