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Right, it seems to me that the amount of work done is the same. Lately I experimented -- Tokyo Metro has many stairs -- and felt I...

The reason is that people prefer louder music (until it gets too loud). Today the game is to make your pop record as loud as possible...

Actually running up stairs is easier. I learned it when I was a kid and have practiced it my whole life. It appears I am the only...

On Earth field reversal happens maybe twice in a million years. It takes millennia to complete, gradual adjustment is very possible so...

Someone told me this was the worst cover in the world. I think it's really good, the drummer especially. Shows how subjective this...

Huh. I guess the vertical supports weren't long enough and they had to do something. I confess it took me a while to figure out what...

John Denver's Country Roads on a lap steel Too bad he didn't go to the bridge. I guess key changes are beyond what it can do.

I never overloaded an operator or any of that fancy stuff. If you don't use it then it's harmless.

By gum, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that. I had no idea. That's all there is to it. Whoops, I wrote over my post! It was about...

The ebass player I like most is MISA of Bandmaid. For a pro she has ordinary skill but that doesn't matter to me. I say that the role...

The Beatles certainly popularized fancy multitracking arrangements with all kinds of instruments. Karlheinz Stockhausen started that...

Today I learned that Harvard is putting on a play about 1970s feminism. In the second act everyone is naked...

Daria Zaritskaya covers Pat Benatar. I would not mess with her.

Can't beat Daria Zaritskaya. It's almost scary.

Huh, early Jon Anderson is one of the very few lyricists that I like. I go for abstraction. Nowadays his stuff is too literal for me...