Recent content by bleedsorange01

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    OT: Are You Watching Halftime Show? Also, TPUSA Show Expectedly Bombs

    Recommend not taking things out of context. Can you clarify the point you’re making? Did you read the entirety of chapter 23, in concert with those preceding and following it?
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    OT: Are You Watching Halftime Show? Also, TPUSA Show Expectedly Bombs

    I’d offer that very little, if anything, is genuinely astonishing when humans are involved, regardless of the position.
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    OT: Are You Watching Halftime Show? Also, TPUSA Show Expectedly Bombs

    Probably best to move this discussion to a separate forum, but I don’t think that’s actually the case, or at least is an oversimplification of it.
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    OT: Are You Watching Halftime Show? Also, TPUSA Show Expectedly Bombs

    Everything is a spectacle. Very little substance (without digging for it), and that’s been a societal trend for many years now. Not a surprise, either.
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    OT: Are You Watching Halftime Show? Also, TPUSA Show Expectedly Bombs

    I would agree with that. I am conservative in my views but believe mainstream music of the mid-60s and early 70s is the best over the last 60 years in terms of quality (originality, sophistication, etc. — as I mentioned previously ITT). Heck, my avatar gives that away…. For debate, though...
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    OT: Are You Watching Halftime Show? Also, TPUSA Show Expectedly Bombs

    Never heard of the guy before the halftime show controversy exploded. Zero interest in it. I’ll throw this out for debate: one of my professors once suggested that popular music turned to trash after ~1973. I agree with his premise overall. Certainly some good composers since then, but...