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offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2014-05-05 03:20 [#02470851]
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How do you feel about getting old? I find it akward, that i
listen to the same music (IDM, house, techno etc.) than
people who are 15 years younger than me. This doesn't seem
right...


 

offline wavephace from off the chain on 2014-05-05 04:15 [#02470853]
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the good news of getting old is u die and dont have 2 worry
about that stuff anymore


 

offline SignedUpToLOL from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2014-05-05 12:28 [#02470859]
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True dat


 

offline drill rods from 6AM-8PM NO PARKING (Canada) on 2014-05-05 13:09 [#02470860]
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I'm 25 which is probably about the peak. Next year I will
probably start wishing I was younger


 

offline RussellDust on 2014-05-05 13:16 [#02470861]
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Getting closer to 40 than 30 is when it hit me a bit.

I don't mind getting old.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2014-05-05 16:48 [#02470866]
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i'm 34 and i wouldn't worry about it if i had a job


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2014-05-05 21:22 [#02470873]
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Getting old sucks a bit, it's weird to know you're getting
closer to death..I do listen to more easy listening music
nowadays then when I was young..I used to listen much more
to break core, hardcore, noise..etc. I guess that is because
I'm getting older..man I even sound like my dad right
now..haha


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2014-05-06 00:30 [#02470875]
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ppl being sad about old is gay


 

offline chachmaster3000 on 2014-05-06 03:39 [#02470877]
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Music wise I still feel like one cool mother fucker, even
though I try to listen with an open mind, and not just to
feel like one cool mother fucker. Priorities have changed,
habits less so.

I think about mortality more often nowadays. I don't want to
die. I want to die. It's a cruel joke, and most of us could
give a fuck, and that's kinda sad. Because when you're in
the life for such a brief amount of time, but long enough to
experience so much, living it for yourself seems weak if you
are not making a significant contribution to humanity in the
process


 

offline chachmaster3000 on 2014-05-06 03:52 [#02470878]
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At least I won't have to feel surrounded by idiots once it's
all over. I swear to god most people are so fucking
impulsive and egocentric. They might have great experiences,
and some very admirable characteristics, but they still fall
prey to their sense of privilege


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2014-05-06 11:55 [#02470884]
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I check my privileges once in a while


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2014-05-06 15:47 [#02470885]
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I'm turning 33 this year. Luckily, I am exactly the person
I wanted to be when I was 19. Unluckily, I am turning 33
this year. If I can plan right this decade for my 50's,
then I'll be a badass 50 year old, instead of a badass
30-something year old who is aged 50 something.

That being said, I'm the healthiest I've been in my life,
generally, so that's a plus. I am actually about 25- DNA
"age" wise. But my mind is getting ancient, because I am
just getting sick of this world.

"Spread the Love", etc., though. Spread THE LOVE.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2014-05-06 20:31 [#02470908]
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When you're nearing 40, you are old as FUCK. Any hunter
gatherer of your age would be dead by now as they should be
to pave way for younger, more vigorous, more seminal life
with firmer buttocks. You would have probably been eaten by
a saber tooth tiger years ago or had your skull crushed by a
fellow hominid with a rock. But your fate won't be so swift
and just, you will fizzle out slowly and painfully, growing
weak in mind body and spirit. Soon the only time other
people will acknowledge your presence is out of pity +
social requirements such as birthday where they will visit
only because they have to then want to leave as soon as
possible, which is similar to how they treated you your
whole life which also means you will slowly decay without
even having any good memories to look back on. You will just
become an emptier and emptier shell until time rolls over
you and leaves your wrinkly husk covered bones to be sucked
into the earth's fiery center with tectonic drift until the
earth is sucked into a black hole and the whole universe
implodes. All that will occur instantly after you die since
you will no longer perceive time with no brain.


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2014-05-06 21:30 [#02470920]
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Dude, hit the gym. Kill your 20 yo self with your 40 yo
statuesque muscular and agile body. The mind cannot be
agile without an agile body.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2014-05-06 21:39 [#02470922]
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That sort of happened in the movie 'looper'. It was an ok
movie, I pirated it on the pirate bay because the artificial
economic implosion and new world order shutting down all
non-insider competition and grassroots transaction
possibilities made me too poor to buy it. Even google is
shutting down email with gmail because they know people can
try to conduct transactions with eachother under the rader
of their mega corporate ecommerce tyrannies. So if any of
your emails have words like 'payment' and 'ship' in them,
gmail will send them to spam folders, to shut down that
avenue so you have to buy form their company stores instead,
I mean for teh safety of the children. Plus the new world
order is the main group running the pirate bay in the first
place, so they want you to use it to make sure nobody can
make money creating anything digital since they are all
available 'free'. Audition is a better movie though, also
there is this movie called tetsuo where a guy turns into a
machine, I haven't seen it yet.


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2014-05-06 22:08 [#02470925]
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YOU ARE THE MATRIX.

Never forget...


 

offline chachmaster3000 on 2014-05-06 22:20 [#02470927]
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I hear akira in bluray is wicked cool


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2014-05-06 23:48 [#02470930]
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That was beautiful, good work.


 

offline glaase from Harrisburg (United States) on 2014-05-07 00:33 [#02470931]
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i heard that 40's the new, not as old as it used to be


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2014-05-07 01:45 [#02470934]
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I've heard around age 28 is when the body is most
proportional (mirroring a period of adolescence around age
8-9 where the same is true). However, men continue to gain
muscle mass into their 30s. Personally I'm shooting for a
peak around 45.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fanCHWsmSq4


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2014-05-07 01:47 [#02470935]
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Shit, I just replied in a Monoid thread :(


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2014-05-07 10:12 [#02470940]
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That wasn't good that was brilliant


 

offline RussellDust on 2014-05-07 12:05 [#02470941]
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That was shit, predictable and boring. You're a dumb old
fuck.

I know crazone is some fanboy but peeps.... i can see the
the little stream between us getting river-like. Whatever. I
was hoping this place doesn't die on the 15th but now i
think it's about time something happened to stop me coming
back here. Yes, i've been weak. My small addiction has to
end. 12 years... fuck! <3



 

offline drill rods from 6AM-8PM NO PARKING (Canada) on 2014-05-07 14:39 [#02470943]
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Hunter gatherers can still live a long time, there are San
bushmen that get to 80 or more. It's just less common
because of infant mortality and injuries and shit


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2014-05-07 17:44 [#02470944]
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Yeah well I always thought you were a bit twat for liking
Gorillaz.


 

offline RussellDust on 2014-05-08 13:36 [#02470961]
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Gosh i was in a foul mood there. Sorry my darling. And you
know i hate Gorillaz! I listened to the new Albarn album
though the other week and the track "Everyday Robots" is
quite nice. A lot of the album is a bit bland though.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2014-05-08 13:37 [#02470962]
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well i can't believe it's almost 10 years ago since Untilted
was released.

as far as getting old, i feel a lot better now than i used
to. it wasn't until around 2011 when i began to feel my mind
change drastically and i was more creative and had a better
handle on things. i will miss the chaotic 20s though, but
they were ultimately too unstable to use as a foundation. it
was more of a learning period with lots of lessons


 

offline RussellDust on 2014-05-08 13:39 [#02470963]
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And please don't call me a bit twat again! ,)


 

offline glaase from Harrisburg (United States) on 2014-05-08 15:45 [#02470972]
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Well it's just over 20 years since ae released incunabula
and almost 20 since ICBYD.

It was OK to like Gorillaz in the early 2000s. Dr. Octagon,
handsome boy and all of that was big and it was related
through dan and del. It got stupid later though..


 

offline yann_g from now on 2014-05-08 20:43 [#02470984]
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lol


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2014-05-09 14:15 [#02471026]
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Is that the real w M w?


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2014-05-09 17:57 [#02471028]
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If you are a deity that administers punishments, then I am
actually qrter in a w M w mask.
You should listen to this I guess, since I thought it was
made by you:
LAZY_TITLE
Since you're a music teacher, say I'm playing the simplest
mainstreamest novice child song on a piano in 'c major'
(white keys only starting on c).
So I start in the chord c (c e g). I have found by trial and
error that I can play any white key except key 'a' while in
this chord. c e g b d f, listed in order of how frequently
they can be played. Like not too many 'f's but a lot of
c/e/gs.
My question is when I move up to say, the g chord (while
still playing the same song, just the next cord of the same
song that cegbdf was playing in) (g b d), and assuming this
is a simple childlike obvious song, are the 'correct' notes
to play: g b d f a c (no es), all white keys?
Some people have told me that when you move to the next
chord you start shifting to using black keys. Its no use
someone tells me a different conflicting rule every time, I
already know about the 'steps' of the major scale, and like
c f and g are the main chords to use (1/4/5).


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2014-05-09 18:17 [#02471029]
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Damn, this is beeyooteefull:
LAZY_TITLE


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2014-05-09 19:23 [#02471033]
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The major scale uses a set pattern of tones and semitones,
which is this: tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone --
C major is the only major scale that uses white keys only.
When you start the major scale on G you will find that
instead of an F natural (the white key) you will need to hit
the black key a semitone higher which will be F-sharp for
the purposes of that scale :)


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2014-05-09 19:24 [#02471034]
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Btw the organ music track isn't me, but the YouTube video is
- glad you enjoyed it! :)


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2014-05-09 20:49 [#02471038]
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But... isn't it normal for a WHOLE SONG to be in say 'c
major' (white keys) even though there are C chords, F chords
and G chords throughout the song? When you change chord
MID-SONG, you seriously restart the entire scale on that
chord's key? Like you don't keep using only white keys in a
song of c major, when a g chord (in the c major song) comes
along? Is it something retarded involving symantics like "oh
yes you do only use white keys, but its not called a "major"
chord anymore". I'm pretty sure it sounds pretty lame if you
transpose every single key an equal number of steps to
change to any other chord, which makes every chord a major
chord. I'll never understand this stuff, you obviously can
play, but then someone else will give me opposite
contradicting advice right after you. I remember reading
music theory pages that do say basically white keys only
when switching to a g chord in a c major song.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2014-05-09 20:52 [#02471039]
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Oh sorry I didn't realise you meant the diatonic chords (the
triads naturally found within a scale). In that case, if you
added an F to the G chord (to create a G7 chord), then it
would remain an F natural and wouldn't be sharpened - the
adding of the F to the G chord helps to reinforce the
feeling that C is the 'home' key.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2014-05-09 21:29 [#02471040]
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Well diatonic is proving to be a useful search term. So say
I'm composing simple twinkle little star type obvious novice
music in the key of c major (white keys). I think the
DIATONIC TRIADS are simple every other white key. CEG DFA
EGB FAC GBD ACE BDF. However those are just triads (3). I
want to play additional notes beyond merely 3, so is it true
that when I am playing the diatonic ACE triad (in a c major
song), I should play accompanying white keys only (for an
obvious simple song)? No black keys, just stick with the 7
notes of the c major scale, regardless of which diatonic
triad you are in?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2014-05-10 01:29 [#02471042]
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Well that is the safest thing to do and will keep you firmly
in the key of C major -- beyond that lie the modes and the
blues notes (which are the flattened 3rd, 5th and 7th
degrees of the scale - flattened just means taken down by a
semitone).


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2014-05-10 01:38 [#02471043]
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I wish i knew what you guys are talking about..


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2014-05-10 11:47 [#02471055]
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I'd be happy to help you out with anyhing Monoid :)


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2014-05-10 21:24 [#02471066]
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all 21 modes
LAZY_TITLE


 

offline ddrummondd on 2014-05-11 02:43 [#02471069]
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are you still a nihilist or have you grown up now?


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2014-05-11 23:17 [#02471098]
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i'm a druid


 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2014-05-12 08:18 [#02471101]
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gettin older ftw.

i know a guy whos 60 plus, still deejays ou, has a better
knowledge of music amd hardware than most and parties pretty
well to boot.

fear nothing jungs.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2014-06-07 17:35 [#02472144]
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I check in here once or twice a year to feel nostalgic.
Maybe that's an old guy thing to do. Like hairplugs and
fucking prostitutes in a leased Porsche


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2014-06-07 17:38 [#02472145]
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While I'm here, can somebody bump the NSFW thread so I can
achieve an old fashioned boner


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2014-06-24 03:44 [#02472768]
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The hunter gather discussion was inspiring.


 

offline drill rods from 6AM-8PM NO PARKING (Canada) on 2014-06-24 13:02 [#02472773]
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How old are you Monoid? Have you done sex yet?


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2014-06-24 23:09 [#02472786]
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I am in my early 30s and still a virgin. However, this
doesn't surprise me much, if i look at me and how i live my
life. If i continue like this, i will be a virgin forever.


 


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