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f some older popular tunes and then this made an appearance oh yes macarthur park that song written by jimmy wichita lineman webb that richard harris sung in 1968 i m being generous when i say it s a song because to a lot of people myself included that song feels like so much pretentious bullshit while introducing the piece the winds music director admitted that the song has its detractors but she programmed it anyway and much to my chagrin while the winds played there were people humming along or softly singing the lyrics including my wife okay i thought i m going to have to re evaluate a few things i got on good ol google and punched in the is macarthur park one of the worst songs query and got a wikipedia link to an aggregate list of songs across the decades that groups have considered the worst songs ever among the songs on that list were ob la di ob la da by the beatles true by spandau ballet sussudio by phil collins ice ice baby by vanilla ice what s up by 4 non blondes barbie girl by aqua nookie by limp bizkit you re beautiful by james blunt rockstar by nickelback yummy by justin bieber and of course macarthur park what no bee gees no kajagoogoo i sighed and listened once more to richard harris rendition of macarthur park searching for why that song resonated with so many people to be fair you can tell the song was written and orchestrated with an american musical in mind richard harris had just starred in movie version of camelot so he was used to singing in that manner as can be seen with his rendition of camelot on the ed sullivan show and yes the orchestration of macarthur park is overdone in a way that would resurface years later in the grateful dead s terrapin station and an orchestration that according to the liner notes of the best of the grateful dead cd the band hated so i could see how it pushed all the right buttons at the right time which catapulted the song into global popularity but to a lot of people including me the song is just pretentious bullshit and that was when it hit me all music is just pretentious bullshit to somebody it s more a matter of the reality being that you can t please everybody so what one person loves another person hates sometimes popularity breeds contempt such as how toto s africa was so overplayed in the early 80s that i simply couldn t listen to it for well over a decade other times a generation came of age hating that what the previous generation liked such as how those of us who lived through disco as kids grew up despising the stuff yet the generation after us was quite okay with disco even some of our generation came out as being fine with disco such as the foo fighters i guess i should have known better since after all i m a huge rush fan rush is one of those bands that had a cult following yet were frequently dissed by the major music critics of the day so that i liked a band that was often overlooked or dissed by the music tastemakers should have given me the clue that it s okay to like something other people don t and that maybe songs or bands i don t like do have some merit after all yes i can roll this back to gaming and pretty much everywhere outrage and dismissiveness brings eyeballs to whatever you re opining about and in this modern internet world the concept of shades of gray seems to frequently get thrown out the window this little revelation is just a corollary to the black and white we paint ourselves into because it s so much easier to view things through that lens rather than actually use our noggin and understand the shades of gray that life is populated with from xkcd 2184 a community driven wind ensemble in louisville naturally composed of people from high schoolers up through retirees it s not affiliated with the university of louisville but several students in the school of music play in the winds and that s how my youngest found out about it i knew she liked the song but i figured she was an outlier and in the strange case of deja vu weezer s rendition had the same fate good thing i don t listen to the radio that much these days or i d have been driven crazy by the same song twice in my lifetime my wife and i were at a wedding in the late 90s and one of the people at our table at the reception worked as a dj in his spare time when stayin alive came on during the reception we watched in stunned amazement as all of these teenagers flooded the dance floor oh yes our table mate informed us the teenagers all love this disco crap i put on disco inferno on request once and all of these big high school football players ran out onto the floor and were boogieing away doing the saturday night fever dances or the 50 shades of grey rimshot posted by redbeard at 11 36 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels music musings monday may 29 2023 meme monday outdoor memes as monday is memorial day the unofficial start of summer here in the us i figured that it d be a good idea to mix rpgs video games and the outdoors because why not having done a bit of hiking i can attest to watching where you re going from 9gag seriously from pinterest time to embark on that great adventure from fyxt and for those that need to go outside a bit more from imgflip posted by redbeard at 1 27 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday may 26 2023 today is the first day of the rest of your life another six months have passed and i figured i ought to check in with an update as to how ol red is doing i had a checkup in april with my cardiologist and in early may with my primary care physician and both were pleased with my progress i ve maintained a steady weight and exercise and my shoulder and knee are behaving themselves my physician wants me to begin adjusting my medication so i can start weaning myself off of the insulin and now that my son s graduation is finished i intend to start that process of course my medications occasionally kick me in the ass and i end up spending the night in the bathroom but considering the alternative i m okay with this side effect hey i take that drug from ifunny co so let s talk about the rest of it all it s been a year and a half since my life has been upended and while physically i ve done quite well my body s stubborn inability to push past this weight i ve been stuck at for 8 9 months notwithstanding my brain is finally realizing that this is going to be my situation for the rest of my life i could cope quite easily with that first year because i had to spend time learning how to deal with my new condition and being hyper vigilant to any changes now that i have more than a full year s cycle under my belt i m starting to unclench a bit but that has also allowed the enormity of the situation i m in to seep into my consciousness i suppose it s not a great surprise then that people with chronic health conditions such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension are at greater risk for depression and i completely understand this even before mental issues kicked my ass trust me on this one i d be foolish to not admit that my bout of congestive heart failure has also taken a mental toll on me with the long term survival rate of people with congestive heart failure having an on average a 10 year survival rate of 35 on the bright side the younger a person is who has had a bout of chf the greater the chance of long term survival so my having congestive heart failure at age 52 being less than age 65 works in my favor kinda sorta but i feel like it all evens out in the end people who are over 65 might not live that long but if you re under 65 you do but that gets you caught up age wise to about the same age as the over 65 person kicking the bucket for example someone aged 55 has a better chance of survival and they live another 20 years that gets them to 75 then someone aged 65 lives only 10 years and they live until age 75 so like someone who is diagnosed with parkinson s disease i do have a time limit on my lifespan it s not a question of if but when all of that knowledge doesn t exactly help with this uh thanks i think but is the sindorei the person i m supposed to have a fling with knowing elves i m pretty sure she s not younger than me from this etsy site i m seriously impressed yeah helluva time to have a midlife crisis although i suppose you could argue that it might not be a mid life crisis but a full blown rest of your life crisis you have my axe from 9gag as i pointed out in the links above this is not an unusual situation to be in and i totally understand that that doesn t exactly make things easier but it makes it understandable from there i can cope in a bizarre way playing wow classic era has been a panacea because i don t have to worry about any external pressure to perform to a standard that i can t maintain without a lot of effort if at all without any existential fear of letting the raid down or worse getting the talk i can at least hang out and just be me for a while not you again okay i ll pretend to be someone else for a while happy now card anyway i now have yet another thing to keep track of going forward barring any other surprises however my cardiologist expects to see me on a yearly basis and my primary care physician concurs carry on carrying on i suppose occasionally my weight drifts upward and an extra diuretic pill takes care of that before you ask yes my cardiologist told me to do that if i have weight gain without any changes to my diet or exercise and that excess water will get flushed out it s only if that isn t working then i m to give her a call okay we all have a time limit as the old saying goes we start to die as soon as we re born still the direct knowledge that i know what will kill me in the end isn t exactly comforting eta replaced older with younger older younger same difference right posted by redbeard at 4 00 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes self thursday may 25 2023 they actually did it part two preach ing to the converted okay excuse the bad pun preach of preach gaming came out with a video that does a pretty good job of explaining why some of the wow classic playerbase has gone ballistic over the introduction of the wrath classic wow token of course if you are part of a progression raid team and don t partake in gdkp the introduction of the wow token won t have an impact on your ability to play wrath classic myself for example however there will be inflation in the prices found in the auction house and that might just have an impact on me after all i d like to do the quel delar questline on linnawyn at some point but i do realize that given my history of getting that battered hilt to drop i d expect the ah to be selling said hilt for well over what i paid for it back in the day then the question becomes do i want to farm for the gold to buy the battered hilt on the auction house or do i want to buy gold via the wow token or maybe a better question is is it worth it to try to recapture some magic from the old days when i know it s destined for failure at this point i m starting to think that it s not worth it era has been a shot of adrenaline to my system and i d be foolish to give that up narrator it didn t drop for quintalan in original wrath and q had to pony up 5000 gold on the auction house for the battered hilt posted by redbeard at 7 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wow classic wrath classic wednesday may 24 2023 they actually did it well madseasonshow was right in addition to the return of joyous journeys to wrath of the lich king classic there was this little ditty hidden below the top of the news section woah the wow token has come to wotlk classic which means you can pay money to buy a wow token for wrath classic and in turn sell the token to buy gold in game you don t need to go spend money on a third party site just give it to blizz instead the details upon clicking are this so the token is for wrath classic only for now but i guess you can go out and buy your way into ulduar runs legally via in game gold you purchased by selling said wow tokens to say there are some unhappy people is an understatement reddit s r classicwow has suspended their rule banning promotion of private servers and it wouldn t shock me if blizzard gets classicwow suspended shortly for promotion of basically pirated content this won t end well i kind of presume that blizz is adding the wrath wow token to not only boost their bottom line but they figure that people will come back when icecrown citadel opens and they ll want to gear up as quickly as possible or to be blunt about it to pay people to get them geared as quickly as possible or to put it a third way the kingslayer title is now officially for sale via gdkp runs and carries with blizzard approving for blizz to keep the random dungeon finder out and bring the wow token to wrath classic i have to wonder who blizz was listening to most of the heat generated over wrath classic was from the rdf not from any lack of the wow token but the token directly generates profit for activision blizzard and the rdf does not oh well posted by redbeard at 8 00 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wrath classic tuesday may 23 2023 a big problem of epic proportions there are only so many times the characters can save the world before it becomes old hat ad d 2nd edition dungeon masters guide 1989 page 123 that little quote from the 2e dmg highlights a big problem in a lot of consumable media today every conflict has to have bigger and bigger stakes and each movie or book or game s conflict has to be earth shattering to draw your attention and give the protagonists something to do while i realize that some might blame this on the success of the marvel cinematic universe or star wars for that matter this issue of constantly raising the stakes has been a staple of sf f for decades works such as lord of the rings dune and michael moorcock s eternal champion stories have all had epic consequences that result in a heightened form of dramatic tension even michael moorcock s elric short stories while typically not so epic in scope over the course of the cycle build toward a world shattering conclusion in the sixth collection stormbringer you could even make the argument that stories that may not have such dire circumstances such as isaac asimov s original nightfall or the martian way still present a conflict epic in scope yes yes i know it s right there in the name epic fantasy duh the thing is the sf f genre and the media industry as a whole movies television video games has a big epic problem everything needs to be epic in scope or in conflict and to borrow that oft used term from the incredibles if everything is epic nothing is yes this one is back again i didn t realize just how 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