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There's a Seeker Born Every Minute (2024)
- imafish 1y agotldr: It is not about Harry Potter.
- remram 1y agonor about The Sword of Truth
- sidcool 1y agoDamn. For a moment I read "sucker" instead of seeker. Self projection much?
- nofriend 1y agoThat's the original saying, it's hardly surprising that you'd be mistaken.
- dennis_jeeves2 1y ago>Self projection much? Or the world around you...
- thristian 1y agoI can recommend The Further Adventures of Nick Danger as a decent introduction to Firesign Theater (It's on YouTube). A lot of the other stuff I've heard is chaotic to the point of confusion, but Nick Danger does have an actual story that resolves in the traditional way.
- turdlygurdly 1y agoEverything You Know is Wrong was my introduction and I also highly recommend it. Absolutely chaotic, but for people who are patient it can be really good the first time through. After a few listens it's just plain incredible.
- genewitch 1y agoIs there a verse missing out of the song?
- throwaway81523 1y agoFrom November 2024. I didn't mis-read the title but thought had several guesses about the subject matter. None of them were close. I wasn't deeply into Firesign but I loved what I heard.
- thom 1y agoA very different time and political backdrop, but the way people talk about this as a psychedelic, collective experience reminds me of Blue Jam, Chris Morris’s deranged late-night ambient comedy show: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9818396FA36E90E&feature=shared https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9818396FA36E90E&feature...
- defrost 1y agoThanks for that .. you might like What's Rangoon to you is Grafton to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5o-AxAlHYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5o-AxAlHYM
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- blackoil 1y agoAre there enough Quidditch teams?
- lproven 1y ago"Seeker" to me means a fan, devotee or follower of the late great Ken Campbell. I discovered, with some difficulty, that this was about some US (?) radio (?) show I've never heard and barely heard of and a couple of paragraphs later, I realised I did not care and stopped reading. I do not like bits of writing that assume context and don't explain their referents. People who share that context are typically very annoyed by this and feel attacked when I point it out. Ah well.
- turdlygurdly 1y agoLiterally right at the top of the article: 'Colin Marshall reviews Jeremy Braddock’s “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.”' If that's not enough context I'm not sure what would be
- lproven 1y agoWell, for starters, you need to know that "Firesign" means "Firesign Theatre". To know that, you probably need to live in the country where Firesign Theatre performed or was heard. TBH I do not really know what the Firesign Theatre is or was. It started the year before I was born, and I'm pretty old, but I'm not American.
- metalman 1y agothis a phenominon of a niche group, tries to float something as a known thing, kind of cultic in the nasty response to any input from anyone blithly evaluating the "cannon" as distributed by the iluminati. VS, just invite people to take a look VS, groups that know they are fringe, and get on with there fun, like seeing a lifted truck, covered in stickers, and wierd accessories, plasterd with mud and debrits, and one sticker that says "if you have to ask, you wont understand" good enough!, live and let live but the line is, to posture as a universaly known and valued thing, and be no such thing at all
- lproven 1y agoI found that a bit hard to follow first time around, but on re-reading it a few times, you're absolutely right.