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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 27, 2021 6:13:10 GMT -5
I'm not going to lean over them under any circumstances. They could contain facehuggers.
I got a shudder from that mental image. I'm guessing the three pods(?) are only maybe lemon-sized right now? Even little bitty-sized alien face-huggers would be absolutely horrifying.
The biggest one is less than the size of my last thumb joint. Just the right size for a facehugger to ram itself up a nostril and start growing...
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 30, 2021 21:13:09 GMT -5
OK, someone mentioned the Stranglers tune "Golden Brown" and to get it out of my head I played it on YouTube. Fine, but there was a vid listed right underneath it of the same song -- minus lyrics -- played by the Dave Brubeck Quartet lensed in 1965, when the Stranglers were in elementary school. But all over the Net it says the Stranglers composed the song. I have been wondering since: can you call yourself the composer if you just added the lyrics? And did they even do that much. Maybe someone else wrote it even earlier, including the lyrics, and Brubeck just played an instrumental version for that vid.
So today I'm reading a bio of Bobby Fuller and it mentions a song called "Miserlou" by Dick Dale, a surf rock guy, that Fuller surprised by playing one night onstage because surf rock was so out after the British Invasion. I pulled that up on YT as well and it was very familiar, although I never heard of Dick Dale in my life.
Just to see, I pulled up the song it reminded me of -- "Surfing In Siberia" by the Red Elvises. They're identical.
How is this not actionable as shit? How is this not copyright infringement?
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 30, 2021 21:26:49 GMT -5
OK, someone mentioned the Stranglers tune "Golden Brown" and to get it out of my head I played it on YouTube. Fine, but there was a vid listed right underneath it of the same song -- minus lyrics -- played by the Dave Brubeck Quartet lensed in 1965, when the Stranglers were in elementary school. But all over the Net it says the Stranglers composed the song. I have been wondering since: can you call yourself the composer if you just added the lyrics? And did they even do that much. Maybe someone else wrote it even earlier, including the lyrics, and Brubeck just played an instrumental version for that vid. So today I'm reading a bio of Bobby Fuller and it mentions a song called "Miserlou" by Dick Dale, a surf rock guy, that Fuller surprised by playing one night onstage because surf rock was so out after the British Invasion. I pulled that up on YT as well and it was very familiar, although I never heard of Dick Dale in my life. Just to see, I pulled up the song it reminded me of -- "Surfing In Siberia" by the Red Elvises. They're identical. How is this not actionable as shit? How is this not copyright infringement? Theoretically actionable --in some cases. And expensive to do. 1) There's an interesting little rule about songwriting called "change a word, take a third" --if the artist wants a piece of the songwriting royalty action, all s/he has to do is modify the lyrics, therefore legally becoming a "co-writer". 2) Recording covers of a song are relatively simple and inexpensive to license --there's one place you send the payment and done. Performing LIVE is more complicated and expensive. 3) Dick Dale got absolutely and utterly fucked by his record company iirc. He ended up not even owning his own music and literally performed until he died --of bowel cancer. His last couple years of gigs he was going onstage with an ostomy bag... I used to have a document with a rundown of all the legalities. It's buried on a disk backup somewhere... Lots and lots and LOTS of fun ways to get fucked over as a musician/songwriter...
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Post by Deeky on May 30, 2021 21:39:26 GMT -5
I'm stunned you've never heard of Dick Dale, to be honest.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 31, 2021 7:03:07 GMT -5
I'm stunned you've never heard of Dick Dale, to be honest. You probably should be. My level of erudition is limited by my exposure to American culture. Which goes only so far and then stops.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 31, 2021 12:56:50 GMT -5
OK, here's another. I was taking empty mulch bags to the Dumpster just now and a mail truck pulled in. The mailman waved at me merrily. I noticed he was not the usual guy. Then I saw him do something else strikingly odd: he went to Danny's door with a bubble mailer and rang the doorbell. I thought the letter carriers of Brighton were in raptures because we now have a single array of mailboxes for everyone, on a stick, with a package locker, so they don't have to find the right doorstep any more.
That, and it's Memorial Day. What did I just see, a drug delivery?
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Post by Deeky on May 31, 2021 13:12:55 GMT -5
The USPS has last-mile deliveries with other carriers, so he was likely delivering a package for FedEx or UPS.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 31, 2021 14:23:41 GMT -5
The USPS has last-mile deliveries with other carriers, so he was likely delivering a package for FedEx or UPS. We've gotten a number of those.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 31, 2021 16:03:10 GMT -5
The USPS has last-mile deliveries with other carriers, so he was likely delivering a package for FedEx or UPS. And they'd be running on a national holiday using Federal employees?
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Post by Deeky on May 31, 2021 23:33:28 GMT -5
Sundays, too.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 1, 2021 0:15:56 GMT -5
While we're on the subject of the USPS, I'd just like to add that I hope Louis DeJoy contracts leukemia. Or suffers a fatal brain aneurysm. Thrombosis. Whatever. Long as it gets the job done. Because he sure isn't.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 1, 2021 11:05:52 GMT -5
Talk was they were getting very close to ousting him.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 3, 2021 22:17:24 GMT -5
What the heck have they done to my IMDb?!?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 4, 2021 21:06:46 GMT -5
What the heck have they done to my IMDb?!? AGAIN, you mean. They did it AGAIN.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 7, 2021 0:41:34 GMT -5
What the heck have they done to my IMDb?!? AGAIN, you mean. They did it AGAIN.
It's probably a more smart-phone friendly version or something.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 7, 2021 22:41:54 GMT -5
AGAIN, you mean. They did it AGAIN.
It's probably a more smart-phone friendly version or something. No. No, it isn't. They dead-ass fucked it up beyond recognition. I tried to bring up a list of Alec Guiness movies yesterday because I thought he was in A MAJORITY OF ONE, but IMDb kept showing me several different lists of movies that didn't include it. So I doubted more than ever that I remembered the title right. I finally just used Google Images and immediately found a poster showing that I had the title right and that it did star Alec Guiness. If IMDb can't do that much for me, it can fuck itself sideways in the ass with a Ginsu knife.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 26, 2021 8:34:15 GMT -5
Today I turned on the car radio and was happy to hear them play a song nobody else ever does that I like. But the sound was sputtery and inconsistent, as if the station were a long way off instead of 5 miles away. Then a DJ said I was listening, not to WHMI, as I supposed -- but to WRQM. I kept listening, and they finally said they were broadcasting from Toledo. That is in fact almost 85 miles from here according to Google Maps.
What happened to the Howell radio station, I wonder?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 28, 2021 20:13:48 GMT -5
So I was chatting with our way cute psychiatry resident before someone's appointment and he told me the damnedest thing. He said that Congress just passed a bill funding more residency openings for MDs who need to finish up their hands-on training before they can start practicing. Apparently all medical residents' pay is directly funded by the Federal government and one reason you have to wait upwards of 6 months to get an appointment with a specialist is that there are thousands of doctors who have been waiting for years to get fully trained before they can see you.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 1, 2021 10:01:24 GMT -5
https://www.reddit.com/r/theyknew/comments/pfrhlr/dont_be_afraid_of_them_just_grow_up/
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 11, 2021 15:32:34 GMT -5
I saw the oddest thing on my way to a home visit. I was driving on M-59 and saw a procession of firemen, 20 or so guys marching 2 abreast towards a white SUV with the hatch open and what looked like the legs of a home-movie dummy -- pants stuffed with cleaning rags -- hanging out the backseat window. Halfway back in the group, one of the firemen was holding an American flag. There were 2 police cars at either end of the SUV, stopped, both pointing at the vehicle with the dummy, with their bubble lights flashing. It was some kind of ceremony for sure, but what could it have been about?
My first thought that it had something to do with the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, but this happened September 9th.
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