What are you listening to?

[billy rubin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgnQKQnwLQ

i don't like this, so im listening to it to find out why

well some of it i like. the first parts seem discordant to me

[hermes2015]

classic Big BoomBox music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4w4_W30aQ

i ve alwaysliked this

dunno much about the resto f his stuff

arabian nights was really racist if you actually get around to reading it

a period piece for a subset of humanity

shit ill be listening t opeer gynt next

Rimsky-Korsakov was Stravinsky's early tutor in composition, so very important in my eyes!

[Randy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgnQKQnwLQ

i don't like this, so im listening to it to find out why

well some of it i like. the first parts seem discordant to me

Humans amaze me. We can do things like this, something no other creature in the animal kingdom can do. Yet we are only, what, 2% different in our DNA from a chimpanzee?

[billy rubin]

Rimsky-Korsakov was Stravinsky's early tutor in composition, so very important in my eyes!

heavens

i did not know that

maybe there's something im hearing in that. he was a character



Neil Gaiman sez, "In 1940 Igor Stravinsky re-orchestrated 'The Star Spangled Banner' for the Boston Symphony. Someone alerted the Boston police, who arrived at Symphony Hall, confiscated the instrumental parts to the Stravinsky orchestration and arrested Stravinsky for 'tampering with public property.'"

https://boingboing.net/2010/05/23/igor-stravinsky-arre.html

dunno whether this is true

[billy rubin]

full version of the end, with scenes from coppola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgkIqU15WO0

i was one year too young to go to vietnam as a GI, although i recall one steamy afternoon on the airport runway in saigon in 1968, headed god knows where and waiting for a plane

the destruction we generated there was immense, but it was nothing to th edestruction we created in our coporate soul. we were lying to americans every day about this war, s but iwas living inn southeast asia, where nobody lied to protect US sensitivitiaes

i remember the photographs of s the my lai massacre when they appeared in the singapore straits times, and the bombing of cambodia reported in malayan papers before americans stopped lying about it.

nothing changes

[hermes2015]

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dunno whether this is true

From what I've heard, it's an apocryphal story.

[Icarus]

The movie was dramatized. The reality was not at all artificial.  Would that we could forget that stupid war but we cannot. 

I was too old for that one but was involved in the Korean war ("police action" as Truman called it)

[billy rubin]

the malay emergency wasCDC still going on when i was in high school. machine gunnings and grenades downtown.

i was pretty naive about it

[billy rubin]

i've always been fascinated by tesla coils, and want to build a big one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snibt3CNqBA

this application is fairly uninteresting, but the construction itself is still a goal

[Icarus]

illy you can get a start by finding an old neon transformer.  They are made in various voltages in the region of 10,000 v.  I had great fun with them as a kid. Electrocuting ants was one of the more cruel uses.  A fluorescent lamp can be made to glow by bringing only one of the output leads near the tube and lots of other fun things too.  The transformer can be made into a most effective rodent eliminator if that is your aim.

The transformer is not as nifty a toy as a legitimate Tesla coil system but it will be cheap and ready built.

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[billy rubin]

illy you can get a start by finding an old neon transformer.  They are made in various voltages in the region of 10,000 v.  I had great fun with them as a kid. Electrocuting ants was one of the more cruel uses.  A fluorescent lamp can be made to glow by bringing only one of the output leads near the tube and lots of other fun things too.  The transformer can be made into a most effective rodent eliminator if that is your aim.

The transformer is not as nifty a toy as a legitimate Tesla coil system but it will be cheap and ready built.

ive nevr thought about that

they do not appear to be expensive used on eBy

i remember people who used to use old model T magneto coils to make miniature electric fences to do small mammal bioassays. instant death

[Bad Penny II]

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