Random Raves 54: You will succeed. It is inevitable.

[Gori the Grey]

Buy two. And every person you meet between now and March, ask "Are you into Chelsea Wolfe?" As soon as someone says "Yes," instead of "Who?" say "This is your lucky day." It'll be a conversation starter for six months. And you may well make a friend.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Buy two. And every person you meet between now and March, ask "Are you into Chelsea Wolfe?" As soon as someone says "Yes," instead of "Who?" say "This is your lucky day." It'll be a conversation starter for six months. And you may well make a friend.

I'll have "I'm Your Boogie Man" cued up on my phone. If they like Chelsea Wolfe and K.C. and the Sunshine Band, I'll just ask them to marry me.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Ooh. Ooh, ooh, ooh.

Spotify just sent me an early access code to buy Chelsea Wolfe tickets for next March, downtown.

March is ridiculously far away, but I have no idea how quickly these are likely to sell out. I don't think I know anybody who's into her, and I don't mind going to concerts alone, but should I buy 2 anyway, just in case? Hmm...

OK after watching the video, I agree that $50 is way too to pay. I might pay $10 if the ticket came with noise cancelling headphones.....

Not my kind of music performance.

 

[EgonSpengler]

OK after watching the video, I agree that $50 is way too to pay. I might pay $10 if the ticket came with noise cancelling headphones.....

Not my kind of music performance.

Aw, she's a sweetie. Just your ol' fashioned, 'girl next door' type.

I think this one's my favorite.

 

[Birdjaguar]

She seems like a Marilyn Manson throwback. But hey, my musical tastes are 50 years past their expiration date.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

She seems like a Marilyn Manson throwback. But hey, my musical tastes are 50 years past their expiration date.

Yeah, for me it falls into the category of "noise."

It's said that whatever music you enjoyed most in your teens is likely going to remain your favorite genre/style.

I grew up on folk, older country/western, and old-fashioned waltzes/polkas type of dance music. It's what my parents and grandparents liked, and the first time I ever heard rock music in the '70s, I didn't know what to make of it.


I still don't for the most part, though there are particular songs I like. Don't ask me which subgenre of rock they belong to, since I don't have a clue what they are and what the criteria for each might be.

 

[EgonSpengler]

But hey, my musical tastes are 50 years past their expiration date.

No expiration date on music. I regularly listen to music from 50-80 years ago. I recently discovered a wonderful YouTube channel by a historian who's some kind of amateur sound engineer and has been restoring music from the 1920s-30s.

It's said that whatever music you enjoyed most in your teens is likely going to remain your favorite genre/style.

I think that's true for a lot of people. My appreciation for music has broadened as I've gotten older, but I think I'm unusual in that regard. I think I only really started listening to jazz about 15 years ago, although I was into some 'jazz adjacent' stuff before that. And I listen to music from the '80s now that I didn't even like when I was a teenager.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My appreciation for music has broadened as I've gotten older, but I think I'm unusual in that regard.

I've had a few expansions in my musical preferences over the years. I got into Yanni and Enya in the 1990s, Ecuadorian music about 4 years ago, and less than a year ago I was puttering around on Pinterest and YouTube doing research on medieval/Renaissance musical instruments. This led to some clips of David Munrow playing the shawm, which was apparently popular in Italy in the 1400s.

Oh, and if you want an absolutely adorable combination of Sesame Street and opera... Andrea Bocelli singing a lullaby to Elmo:

I've noticed something in this video besides the song... Elmo has a Russ Berrie teddy bear. I have a green one and a purple one, but not one that's a more traditional teddy bear color. I'm jealous.

 

[Kyriakos]

2/3 chapters of the new seminar, sent.
1 to go.

 

[Gori the Grey]

A while ago, when we were asked to list our 5 favorite songs, Juke Box Hero nearly made it on to mine.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I just got an email from Domino's. They're apologizing for my last order being late, and sent a code for a large 3-topping pizza for $8.99.

That's more than half-price, so I guess I know what's for supper tonight.

(And I didn't even complain about them being late... just worried that they wouldn't make it before the outside door is locked here; after that time, only residents with keycards can get into the building.)

 

[Zardnaar]

Aussies make sheep jokes about NZ.

Herd of Sheep Eat 100kg of Cannabis in Greece - GreekReporter.com

Sheep grazing in the semi-flooded plain of Thessaly, Greece "invaded" a greenhouse that cultivated medicinal cannabis, and ate around 100 kg

greekreporter.com

@Kyriakos o7 epic sheep

 

[Birdjaguar]

Aussies make sheep jokes about NZ.

Herd of Sheep Eat 100kg of Cannabis in Greece - GreekReporter.com

Sheep grazing in the semi-flooded plain of Thessaly, Greece "invaded" a greenhouse that cultivated medicinal cannabis, and ate around 100 kg

greekreporter.com

From your link:

Investments in pharmaceutical cannabis have taken off in Greece in recent years. While many Greek farmers initially adopted a “wait-and-see” attitude to the cultivation of cannabis, it soon became clear that its cultivation would solve many problems facing farmers.

Shifting the world's food crisis from wheat, corn and rice to Doritos and chocolate chip cookies!

 

[Farm Boy]

Which are cooked up from clouds and dreams. Naturally.

 

[EgonSpengler]

A fascinating website, recreating images of Tenochtitlan, c. 1518 CE.

a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

Random notes, things that struck me:

• I knew that Tenochtitlan was built on water, but with my own bias, I imagined the land looking something like Boston, more or less completely filled in. But according to this website, the whole city was crisscrossed with canals, large and small. Waterways were roads and streets. I don't know if Venice has so many waterways.
• In modern Mexico City, the National Palace, the Plaza de la Constitución (aka Zócalo), and the Metropolitan Cathedral are built on the site of the Imperial Palace, the Templo Mayor, and the public square between them. The palace today is larger than the Emperor's palace, the modern Plaza is a little smaller than the Aztec square was, but the Catholic cathedral is dwarfed by the Aztec/Nahua temple district. Civ players might know the Huey Teocalli, the biggest temple. Wikipedia says that the two cubes at the top are shrines to Huitzilopochtli, god of war, and Tlaloc, god of rain and agriculture.
• I really like the view of the city at night.
• Tenochtitlan had lots of trees. Mexico City appears to have none.

 

[Takhisis]

@Kyriakos o7 epic sheep

The word ‘cannabis’ is of Greek origin!

/BigFatGreekWedding

Tenochtitlan had lots of trees. Mexico City appears to have none.

After the Spanish came in, various maladministrations ended up with Lake Texcoco drying up.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Awesome site @EgonSpengler !!

 

[Ajidica]

Made a very tasty chicken tikka masala for dinner. Its weird, I get better results when I use onion powder instead of real onions - minced or pureed.

 

[Takhisis]

That must be an accidental discovery, so why did you use onion powder in the first place?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's surprising what benefits can come of accidents. Boil the peanut butter, and the Rice Krispy squares stick together much better.


My actual rave... a forum friend on another site vanished 7 years ago and we had no idea what happened to him. He turned up yesterday, alive, well, and okay.