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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Capetan Mihali

I am going to fail Evidence.  :mellow:
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Syt

Quote from: Tyr on December 07, 2011, 08:09:37 PM
Sounds interesting.
Or rather it would be if it wasn't tool

You can also try the two Radiohead albums released ten years apart that blend into each other seamlessly as mentioned in the smae Cracked.com article. :P
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Josquius

Quote from: Syt on December 07, 2011, 11:41:10 PM
Quote from: Tyr on December 07, 2011, 08:09:37 PM
Sounds interesting.
Or rather it would be if it wasn't tool

You can also try the two Radiohead albums released ten years apart that blend into each other seamlessly as mentioned in the smae Cracked.com article. :P
Can't read Cracked at school :(
One of them wouldnt happen to be Hail to the Thief would it? It would certainly explain that unlistenable mess....
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fhdz

Quote from: Tyr on December 08, 2011, 12:57:38 AM
One of them wouldnt happen to be Hail to the Thief would it? It would certainly explain that unlistenable mess....

:mellow:
and the horse you rode in on

Syt

Quote from: Tyr on December 08, 2011, 12:57:38 AM
One of them wouldnt happen to be Hail to the Thief would it? It would certainly explain that unlistenable mess....

It's "OK Computer" and "In Rainbows".

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Radiohead's Decade-Spanning Secret Album
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Radiohead's In Rainbows came out on 10/10/2007, 10 years after OK Computer, and there are 10 letters in the names of both albums. Additionally, OK Computer's original working title was Zeroes and Ones, or "01," (the mirror image of "10" ... obviously). Even that last part alone is enough to make Radiohead fans start looking for a crazy conspiracy, as you're probably aware if you've ever had to spend a long car ride sitting beside one. The scary part? This time they'd be totally right.


This is what doing a whippet on the highway looks like.

There's a way to combine the tracks from OK Computer (hereinafter referred to as 01) and In Rainbows (hereinafter referred to as 10), to form one huge mega-album. As Puddlegum explains, "To create the 01 and 10 playlist, begin with OK Computer's track one, "Airbag," and follow this with In Rainbow's track one, "15 Step." Alternate the albums, track by track, until you reach "Karma Police" on OK Computer, making "All I Need" the tenth track on the 01 and 10 playlist." It's not that they sound nice together; it's that these songs were definitely meant to make us shit our pants when played like this. In the way that "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight" and "The End" all flow into each other on The Beatles' Abbey Road, these songs all flow into one another as well, as if they were all recorded in one big session.

Don't believe us? Just listen to it. To get the full effect, you need to set your player with a 10-second crossfade between tracks (more 10s!), but you can notice most stuff without doing that. Then shit your pants.


Is Thom York moody, or is he acting like he just crapped his pants
as a really subtle clue?

This blogger points out that the song "Nude" (10 album), starts with the reverb from "Subterranean Homesick Alien" (01 album) still lingering, and the beats at the end of "Airbag" (01) set the tempo for "15 Step" (10). There's nothing unusual about that ... except when you consider that those songs were written and recorded 10 years apart. The pants-shitting synchronicity also applies to the lyrics. Puddlegum gives some examples and says: "There appears to be a concept flowing through the 01 and 10 playlist. Ideas in one song [are] picked up by the next." In fact, one of the songs from In Rainbows was originally written for OK Computer and not used for 10 years, and the title of another seems to sum up the whole thing: "Jigsaw Falling Into Place."


Alternate way to sum it up.

Remember all that "10" stuff we mentioned up top, about the date, the time between albums, the number of letters in the titles and whatnot? Want more? Radiohead themselves announced In Rainbows only 10 days before it came out (which is rather unusual), and the announcement was followed by a series of 10 cryptic messages posted by the band on their website. That's nothing new: Cryptic messages might be the only way alternative rock musicians know how to communicate. But then Radiohead fans, being Radiohead fans, noticed that the messages emphasized the letter X (one image was titled "Xendless Xurbia"). And, say, isn't "X" the Roman numeral for 10? Plus, let's take a look at this cover art real quick.


Oh, look, two 10s. Huh.

The band has never officially confirmed any of this, though Puddlegum claims Thom Yorke was annoyed by how long it's taken people to figure it out. Come on, dude -- not all of us are insane alien geniuses.

Read more: 10 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Albums | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html#ixzz1fv7ZxKti
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Ideologue

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Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Josquius

....I need to try that, no clue how to do a crossfade though.
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Ideologue

Quote from: Ed Anger on December 07, 2011, 08:05:08 PM
Hey,the stock room at my k-mart back in the day was a pit of booze and boobs.

I don't think this is the same.  My understanding is that you do physical counts of merchandise for inventory audits or something like that.  I.e., the worst work imaginable that does not involve digging your own mass grave.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

fhdz

Quote from: Ideologue on December 08, 2011, 01:08:23 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 07, 2011, 08:05:08 PM
Hey,the stock room at my k-mart back in the day was a pit of booze and boobs.

I don't think this is the same.  My understanding is that you do physical counts of merchandise for inventory audits or something like that.  I.e., the worst work imaginable that does not involve digging your own mass grave.

Relax. It's a shorter hop than you think from that to a job in logistics.
and the horse you rode in on

Ideologue

#12069
I don't think I would have much potential for promotion in a job I lied to get.

Also, I'm suspicious this isn't an interview with me or a few and not a mass interview of many.  It's being held on the 16th and involves a "realistic job preview" which sounds suspiciously like "being trained for free."  Which I suppose is a step up from not being trained, for thousands of dollars a credit hour.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Capetan Mihali on December 07, 2011, 11:02:01 PM
I am going to fail Evidence.  :mellow:
Chin up, maybe you did better than you thought? :hug:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Marty is now only one of two Polacks I know, and as a result my opinion on him, even his Internet persona, has raised dramatically.

Ideologue

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Capetan Mihali

Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 08, 2011, 01:33:11 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on December 07, 2011, 11:02:01 PM
I am going to fail Evidence.  :mellow:
Chin up, maybe you did better than you thought? :hug:
I'm being dramatic, I have a few days left.  How do you spend several months doing all the work, feeling good about the principles and applications of the rules, and then.... have absolutely no idea how to answer a question?   :huh:
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Barrister

Quote from: Capetan Mihali on December 08, 2011, 08:43:53 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 08, 2011, 01:33:11 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on December 07, 2011, 11:02:01 PM
I am going to fail Evidence.  :mellow:
Chin up, maybe you did better than you thought? :hug:
I'm being dramatic, I have a few days left.  How do you spend several months doing all the work, feeling good about the principles and applications of the rules, and then.... have absolutely no idea how to answer a question?   :huh:

The same way you answer any law school exam - read the facts, find the issues, and then regurgitate enough law and analysis about the issues as you can manage.
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