Enjoy!! There are other tracks where the connection is much more front-and-center, let me know if you want recs!
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Enjoy!! There are other tracks where the connection is much more front-and-center, let me know if you want recs!
Right, I mean the NYT pre-writes obits all the time based on the principle of "it has to happen at some point, probably soon"
I wish to god I could have seen them live at the peak like that, insanely jealous
I am made of the dust of dying stars and I am focusing on putting negative energy into the universe
Oh this is a strong bet
It would be so sick if someone jumped a motorcycle through that
New tariffs on the Hittite Empire
Could also be announcing that he has invented a new kind of emergency that requires him to send Seal Team 6 and the Arizona Air National Guard to the south side of Chicago
If JD Vance appears tomorrow wearing an American flag pope hat we will know it's happened
Cool, well keep it to yourself next time
A very, very minor little flourish in a long and storied career but it makes me smile whenever I hear it, "damn that was cool"
Of course!
Yeah it's wild, he obviously has always had a pretty limited range vocally but damned if he wasn't able to make the most of it
It was super cool to get so many responses full of admiration for Mark Knopfler tonight and I wanted to share one more thing, which is how after the intro to Tunnel of Love, just as the beat kicks in, he revs the guitar like a motorcycle (at about 0:33)
Got to hang out with some OLD school Delmarva people this weekend and it was hilarious to hear them talking about Ceauxvid
"charcowl grull"
We’ve got a live one folks
If it doesn't work out I would listen to this guy narrate Warhammer audiobooks
Obviously because I want that to be the case I am shoehorning every new piece of information into a "Trump is dead" framework but that is my prerogative as an internet user
Oh I think that's a perfect way to put it
Just has Oscars "in memoriam" vibes
as it turns out she was watching the Mike Flanagan Fall of The House of Usher
For example
lmfao
I hate everything about the current moment in time except for the fact that everything the White House posts to convince us Trump is alive makes him seem more extremely dead
the virgin common sense rationalist: erm, everyone knows that the universe is a cold and uncaring structure of blind chaos the chad aperture of the universe witnessing itself: wow, i live here? splendid
This is silly in the grand scheme of his oeuvre but I love how when the beat kicks in in Tunnel of Love he revs the guitar like a motorcycle
I need some expensive headphones and a joint, I want to go into outer space
It's very simple, you just need to play a walking bass part and the melody at the same time
Anyway - if you've wondered where it was Knopfler started and developed his sound from, it's this guy:
Yes! I think they had that setup for Night In London and it's fantastic
I, also, need "the thing, for the fingers"
This rules so much
Oh yeah, he's a massive history geek - Sailing to Philadelphia (with James Taylor!) is great, I love his tune about Napoleon's Grand Armee
Couldn't leave that error up, I'd be murdered
And of course there was this one
By that time he'd done a few film soundtracks - *Newcastle United (sorry about earlier) fans know this one
I was convinced I was the only person who had ever heard this one, I love it
whoops!!!
He's been my favorite for ages, I'm a bit sheepish about it because Dire Straits is solidly dad rock, but that for me is the Platonic ideal of guitar playing
This performance was 13 years later, when Knopfler released his first solo record, Golden Heart - it features his iconic National Style "O"
Definitely a guitar player's guitar player
No question about it, completely different leagues
Everyone kinda hates him for it but he can reliably pay the bar tab so they keep him around
The thumbnail is extremely promising
You can't watch this and not want a red Stratocaster
Knopfler was (and is) a huge fan and devotee of Chet Atkins' fingerpicking style and one of the layers to Sultans is him showing an absolute mastery of that and recontextualizing it - it's a rockabilly song in a haunting minor key but is still upbeat and fun
But yeah - Knopfler's vocal range is pretty limited, but he adds in these transcendent guitar phrases that provide all the melody you could ever need
Telegraph Road is special to me, my grandfather moved to Detroit to work as a pipefitter for Ford, and they lived in a little tract house right off Telegraph in Taylor
The sense I got was that they were unknowns who played around local bars (Harry's got a regular day job, the other guys make it work somehow) and the narrator is just captivated by their moment on stage in a South London pub
There's a newish 8 CD set of live recordings from 1982-1992, definitely worth listening to some favorites on that!
Yeah, they really pulled all the stops out in their live shows
Nah man you're alright
Yeah! On the one hand, it's arguably low effort stuff, but it can really be heartfelt and it's fun to experience something new through someone else's eyes - harmless at worst I think
Turning on the light when you come home and your boyfriend darts under the kitchen counter
This was the one: youtu.be/mgCHl46vFW4?...
That wasn't the one but I will be watching this later!
No he's fine, look we just took this picture of him at the golf course today (photo is of a pile of sliced ham that's clearly from Christmas)
Schrödinger's stack of old pancakes president
The Sultans are hard to pin down because he talks about a honky tonk piano and switching to Creole at one point. So it's not clear exactly what they're playing!
this is very good but trust me when I tell you you need to stick through this all the way to the end www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlR8...
I don't but I can find it when I get home!
None!!!
This one guy I watched last night was playing the live Alchemy concert footage and couldn't believe what he was seeing and hearing, like how was a gangly dude in a headband and red blazer the coolest person on the planet
Everyone goes in thinking it's going to be something totally different
I know that genre of reaction video where people listen to a song they haven't heard before is mostly fake but watching people listen to Sultans of Swing for the first time is so much fun
Took me a second to figure out what's going on in the picture, but that is my left speaker slightly forward of the monitor, which is on an arm clamped to the back of the desk. Looks weird at this angle!
Rescuing* women victims of domestic violence** *Drunkenly soliciting **sex workers
It's going to be hilarious when we eventually find out what he was doing in New Hampshire Saturday night
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Not pre-emptively enough, sadly
The real Blueskyism is separating yourselves into two groups, one group to repeatedly beat the joke into the ground and the other group to still not get it
So it seems! Can't imagine why
Ok look, I didn't get to pick it www.pcgamesn.com/dxracer/craf...
Well the price was right. I got paid to review it
This is the model: www.ikea.com/us/en/p/utes...
It is a cheap crappy IKEA thing!
Just having the time of his life in simpler times
I absolutely would be interested in this kind of intel
The chair was a review unit and they did not ask me which graphics options I wanted
Spiffy. Now if I could just get rid of that godawful chair
Fully recombobulated my PC desk so that the tower is on the floor, and while I was at it went kind of into a fugue state cleaning all the dust from around the power strip and cords on the floor, scrubbed the floor protector, mopped twice - I feel truly alive
Hah, yeah, I've had it for a few years - it was a review unit
COVID revisionists lie because they’re some of the softest people alive. If they accurately described what they experienced that has them this aggrieved 5 years later, they’d sound like weak babies, and they know it.
Impossible to rule it out
"Well I guess we don't need the pig heart resonator probe anymore"
They're getting rid of various life support mechanisms that are no longer needed
Why not at this point
I could honestly go for some premium John Woo trash right now
Not a comparison I've gotten before but I can kinda see it actually!
That all makes good sense in this foul year of our lord!
Beard, I mean. The face I'm stuck with
Will probably have a new one by November or so
Thank you!!
I've been shearing it off gradually and left the stubble so I've had time to get used to it - feels alright!
🙏thank you!
Not trying to look annoyed. That's just how my face is
Within 20 seconds of logging in here I have seen someone saying that no kinds of curry can be considered British food and a different person saying that southern BBQ is the only food that is actually American and this site is cooking man we’re going to cause a new war of 1812 with this stuff
This is probably as close I've been to beardless in at least ten years
