The Off Topic Topic

[HVC]

P.S. what kind of retarded employment applications do they have in Canada?

As in welfare? or like for jobs?

[Syt]

For fans of Tool:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended

#7.
Tool's Epic Do-It-Yourself Song
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Three separate tracks from the latest Tool album can be assembled into a different one -- it's like Voltron, only with progressive metal songs instead of progressive metal robots (seriously, those guys had a woman pilot before most airlines). But plenty of bands do multi-part songs, so there's nothing special about it, right?


You can't spell "diVersity" without some of the letters in "Voltron"!

Well, the difference is that, in this case, you don't get the full song by doing something as mundane as playing one track after the other -- you get it by changing the order and playing them at the same time.

By themselves, the songs seem completely different: "10,000 Days" (11:13) is a long prog-rock number, "Wings for Marie" (6:11) is a quiet song that builds up into a crescendo, and "Viginti Tres" (5:02) is just a bunch of weird noises. 6:11 plus 5:02 adds up to 11:13 -- that's because you're supposed to put "Viginti Tres" and "Wings for Marie" together (in that order) and play them at the same time as "10,000 Days."


Sobriety is optional, but not recommended.

If that sounds too complicated for you, check out this demonstration at YouTube-Doubler. You'll notice that the weird sounds from "Viginti Tres" seem to be in sync with the melody of "10,000 Days." That demonstration doesn't include "Wings for Marie", though, which has the most impressive part: Near the end, the vocals from both songs alternate almost perfectly, forming completely different lyrics.

The band has never acknowledged any of this, but if you listen to the full song it's pretty obvious that they did this intentionally ... which is both mind-blowingly awesome and a little bit insane.

Also like Voltron.

The result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzTuPuq53A

[MadImmortalMan]

Yay for prog!

I'll have to check it out.

[Josephus]

Well I haven't been hired in the 180 seconds since I started doing it, no.

Obviously you're not lying hard enough.

[FunkMonk]

For fans of Tool:


The result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzTuPuq53A

Thanks. That was awesome. 

[Ideologue]

Well I haven't been hired in the 180 seconds since I started doing it, no.

Obviously you're not lying hard enough.

Actually, evidently, I did.  They want me for an interview.

Huh.

[Admiral Yi]

 

What was the lie?

[Ideologue]

That instead of going to law school, I was employed (I changed the date from August 2008 to August 2011).

Well, there's also the stretching of the truth about me being a manager at my old employer (technically true, but I was an hourly manager who didn't do much, and didn't do what I was authorized to do very much).

Ugh.  This job sounds like awfulness, too.  Inventory counting.  Pay is definitely less than $10/hr.

I have no idea why I would have moved to Columbia in this alternate timeline.  "Girlfriend" went to "school," I suppose.  Why not?  I doubt there's pussy in counting boxes.  Although it seems very sad to lie about having a girlfriend.  Father had a heart attack?  Moved in with brother to help him pay rent in wake of nasty divorce?  Yeah, that's the ticket.

[Admiral Yi]

If you're looking for shitwork paying <$10, why not sign up with a temp company?

[Ed Anger]

Oh man, I'd have fun if I was doing background checks on Ide. SO MUCH FUN.

[Ideologue]

I have.  A legal one for doc review work (which there is not much of in Columbia), and another white collar one (Randstad, for various positions).  No responses so far--although in fairness the one incoming doc review project, I did not become aware of till like the day before it started, and they "preferred previous doc review experience," which is sort of like preferring previous burrito-folding experience at Taco Bell.

[Ideologue]

Oh man, I'd have fun if I was doing background checks on Ide. SO MUCH FUN.

Yeah.  I'd be out a great deal if they caught me, wouldn't I?  The money, the women, the all-night coke jags that come with the high-flying life of an inventory associate.

In any event, this was more in the way of an experiment.  My hypothesis was correct.  Actually, I'd love to run this with a control.

[fhdz]

Yeah.  I'd be out a great deal if they caught me, wouldn't I?  The money, the women, the all-night coke jags that come with the high-flying life of an inventory associate.

[Ed Anger]

Hey,the stock room at my k-mart back in the day was a pit of booze and boobs.

[Josquius]

For fans of Tool:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended

#7.
Tool's Epic Do-It-Yourself Song
+ Share #7

Three separate tracks from the latest Tool album can be assembled into a different one -- it's like Voltron, only with progressive metal songs instead of progressive metal robots (seriously, those guys had a woman pilot before most airlines). But plenty of bands do multi-part songs, so there's nothing special about it, right?


You can't spell "diVersity" without some of the letters in "Voltron"!

Well, the difference is that, in this case, you don't get the full song by doing something as mundane as playing one track after the other -- you get it by changing the order and playing them at the same time.

By themselves, the songs seem completely different: "10,000 Days" (11:13) is a long prog-rock number, "Wings for Marie" (6:11) is a quiet song that builds up into a crescendo, and "Viginti Tres" (5:02) is just a bunch of weird noises. 6:11 plus 5:02 adds up to 11:13 -- that's because you're supposed to put "Viginti Tres" and "Wings for Marie" together (in that order) and play them at the same time as "10,000 Days."


Sobriety is optional, but not recommended.

If that sounds too complicated for you, check out this demonstration at YouTube-Doubler. You'll notice that the weird sounds from "Viginti Tres" seem to be in sync with the melody of "10,000 Days." That demonstration doesn't include "Wings for Marie", though, which has the most impressive part: Near the end, the vocals from both songs alternate almost perfectly, forming completely different lyrics.

The band has never acknowledged any of this, but if you listen to the full song it's pretty obvious that they did this intentionally ... which is both mind-blowingly awesome and a little bit insane.

Also like Voltron.

The result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzTuPuq53A

Sounds interesting.
Or rather it would be if it wasn't tool