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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I don't see why figure skating men don't wear dresses. They look cool when you twirl. One would think that would be a (possible) artistic aspect of the performance. It would definitely get noticed as well.
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
well, my doc is head of bariatric surgery at nyu, so I'll pass on what you said. Btw, I do weigh and log everything.
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Yes, the problem is (i am someone who was put on a VLCD of 800 calories a day- and didn't lose that much weight from it) that your body has a set metabolism that keeps slowing down as you lower calories over the years. I had no problem
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
It would be interesting if the cure for/long delay of cancers was in an early and vigorous exercising of our immune system with respect to viruses---if the solution was a kind of continual vaccine for colds and viruses that needed to b
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Apart from the wishing boomers to hurry up and die-- I don't want that-- (I'd rather we all learn from each other, but I hear you) I agree with your frustration here. But it isn't Boomers who are at fault, not really. They st
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Absolutely. 100. Do you have any revolutionizing ideas about how to change this for the better? I think you could start a movement right here.
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Yes,perhaps it depends a lot who and where and the year it started to turn. Around 8 years ago, NYC was more open. The free and easy "hey, apply in whatever language you know, we will pay you while you learn ours", etc...this whol
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Molly, you are so right. And this is why internships are a bunch of hooey too. ("hooey" only in the supposedly merit-based on-ramp sense- of course they're valuable for teaching and learning and building a great team) The ent
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
They have fewer great candidates (if that is even true) because the hip candidates are looking for the ladder somewhere else-- they can now see they will never get hired based on skill alone, however well developed for a beginner.(and if th
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Are these just basic junior devs, or are they specialists in another field with multiple advanced degrees from top tier schools ($$$) and professional experience in that other field? (law, medicine, the arts) and (Yale, Princeton, Juilliard
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Not sure what the better argument is- just saying that first- but "specialist" mentioned "higher moral authorities" than the bill of rights. Since the US uses these higher authorities to sell patriotism, I get why someon
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
As to your #8: Murakami and Nabokov do/did well with their wives as "most important reader/editor" And before Michael Pietsch came on the scene (and after!) David Foster Wallace gave his drafts to his sister and Mom, whi
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Good point. Classical training aims to make the player as invisible as possible-- jazz training (one hopes, anyway)aims to train a player to value and enhance their personal idiosyncracies. It is difficult for a classically trained player t
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
definitely
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
It's "elevatorized" Stevie don't you think? I blame Seinfeld for making everyone so cracked out on the slap bass back then. I feel like people would re-record tunes just to throw slap bass in there. It felt like popular
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I hear what you are saying. But isn't it interesting... If I play a solo over "Ask Me Now", the Monk estate doesn't own it, but I don't think I "own" it either. But if I did it on a recording made by Monk,
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
no, it isn't, because that piece is unconscious- it is meant to be what happens without any intention. A crank up to noise is a definite intention of the performer. In 4'33", the performer does nothing but open the score and
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
no, it would not be silence. I don't mean to be all snooty here-- but since we are talking about it-- it would be whatever sounds occur during that time. He was inspired by those Rauschenberg paintings ( that appear to be blank canvass
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I'm pretty sure John Cage's works are under copyright, which is interesting since he made such a big show of erasing himself from the work and embracing the random. It never occured to me how obtuse that was. I'm thinking par
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
pseudo random
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
This is an excellent point. I've been looking into blockchain as used in supply chain integrity. Here is a company currently doing it: https://www.provenance.org/whitepaper I have been wondering about how this will cir
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
there is a lot that isn't about "the earnest citizen" in the US. Yes, we taxpayers aren't pleased about it. Canada is lovely-- you will get good healthcare there even if you lose your job. A lot of us Americans wish the
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Ok! I put the clip out to my many professional musician friends, and we discussed it. Everyone agrees that it's probably a clip from a Dvorak imitating composer or a wedding gig book. None of us has played it. Everyone was stumped. We
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Glazunov is an excellent guess! I remember playing a student quartet by him when I was a student, and it totally had that modal parallel melodic/harmonic movement in 4ths and 5ths. It is so Dvorak though, minus his noodly viola jamz un
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I'm now thinking early Shostakovitch-ish. Very "inside" for him though. Why do you want to know? You could probably transcribe the passage... but if you like it, you know who else you'd like too now. ?
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
wait... you contacted the cellist???? wow, ok. I'm impressed with your research! Who was the cellist? That might help me. If it was something he had with him, it was more likely for a gig or a student. I did a quick check of all Dvorak
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
It sounds like a Dvorak or Martinu trio or quartet. I'll look into it today. Brings up a pet peve for musicians-- why aren't musicians often credited in other media that uses their work? Sheesh!
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Actually, the probation period I mentioned that all major professional orchestras require of audition winners regardless of their accumulated fame or lack thereof, deals very thoroughly in the mysician's ability to collaborate. They ar
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Well, there's this data: http://som.yale.edu/news/2017/04/in-new-york-times-prof-jaso... but it doesn't seem to be reaching the right ears. The thing is that a staggering lack of every kind of diver
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Perhaps a blind audition would to for tech what it did for music: there aren't any "junior" orchestral musicians. If a musician makes it through to win the job (no matter their age or time spent as a professional) they don&#x

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