Category Archives: Polls

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart

I AM STILL getting over the passing of Burt Bacharach. (I know I know… GET OVER IT CHAD!!!)

This has always been one of my top Burt songs done over by Herb Alpert. Today I found that the original, which I love so much, he had redone in the past few years. It’s such a yummy song, that I like them both. Here they are for comparison.

This is the first time he did it. This is off my favorite Herb Alpert and the TJB album, SRO from 1966.

From Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, SRO (1966)

Here is the re-do from his 2016 album Human Nature.

From Herb Alpert, Human Nature (2016)

Which do you prefer? Vote below in this crappy old poll plug-in I’ve had in WordPress for a million years.

Which "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" do you like better

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Automation Eludes Me, So I’m Out of Sync & Out of Time

cat psychedelic 6 keyboard

Two slapped together bits.

The first experiment uses a repeated note on the Volca bass then the LFO rates and intervals are tweaked manually.  It creates a skippy bass pattern that I noodle with using the Cutoff knob.  The Volca beats is playing some random pattern in one of the 8 memory slots.  It’s a bit Out of Sync although everything is at 97bpm.  Once again the Kaossilator Pro is the timekeeper and does some little loops.  The MicroKorg does solo arpeggio notesy padsy crap on top of the whole mess.


The second experiment messes with the MicroKorg patched through the Mini KP (red box) to add a third hand in holding notes/arpeggios.  Problem here is ANYTIME I use the tape delay effect on the red box (which I love) things, level wise, get really out of hand.  They literally run away from me.  With the levels getting so high, as they run away from me, I sometimes fall Out of Time on the track (also 97bpm).

So here we are… Experimenting again.  Reason?  Because it’s fun!

And for interactivity sake, which do you prefer?

Out of Sync or Out of Time?

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New $20 Ideas

Here are some fresh “inclusive” ideas for the screwing over of Andrew Jackson and our history. Vote for one below.

20 snoop
Spend a Twizzle my Nizzle

JJ 20
This 20 is DYNO-MIYEEET!

20 george jefferson
WEEZY!! Who spendin my 20?!?

20 marion barry
20 dolla will keep it weel for Ward 8! That bitch set him up!

Which should be the new $20

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BREAKING NEWS:

Candidates considered as an afterthought:

  1. Rerun from Whats Happening
  2. Shirley Q. Liquor
  3. The complex and multitalented Miss Latoya Jackson.
  4. The “Aint nobody got time for that! I got bronchitis” lady.
  5. Nell Carter
  6. Oprah

If you can think of anymore, leave them in the comments.  I may get to them and start a whole new round of polling.  I could make a whole separate poll for the ladies.  We could nearly consider this to be the “primary”.

Gay Pride Reality Check

“Gay” is a sexuality.

IT’S THE WAY YOU HAVE SEX! It’s not dressing as a woman and lip syncing.  It’s not dance music.  It’s not spending money on frivolous travel and fashion and bullshit.

It’s HOW YOU FUCK!  That’s it!  All this other stuff is just bullshit.

I think gay pride sends the wrong message to people who feel they might be gay, but don’t enjoy dance music or drag queens or all that bullshit.  This could cause someone to be ashamed or offended by their own sexual identity.  What about the people who do not enjoy that bullshit and do not appreciate being represented by these popular culture “gay” things (drag queens, dance music, consumerism).

 

Is this a sensible, fair, and valid argument?

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