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#4 tom cruise in The Dumpster

(tom cruise tom cruise tom cruise)

posted about 2 years ago
#3 tom cruise in The Dumpster

whoever this guy is he nd asshole

posted about 2 years ago
#1 The Beatles - A Day In The Life Theory in The Dumpster

Huge nerd-essay incoming. Posting it in the dumpster cos I guarantee fuckin nobody actually cares about this.

The song A Day In The Life is the closing track on The Beatles' most iconic record Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I have a very good reason to believe, as I'll explain shortly, why The Beatles are bringing forth issues of postmodernity, hyperreality, and alienation with this song/record.

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I do not think The Beatles are marxists/communists lol
I'm uncertain as to how much of this was actually premeditated by the composers of this song themselves, however, given how deep the metaphors seem to run, I feel confident in saying that they were generally pointing in this direction themselves. Even if they had no idea about any of these concepts and were just really high, I think this'll prove to be a fascinating way of understanding the world through art

The Song's Place in Context of the Album
So first of all, the song takes place at the end of the Sgt. Peppers album, but more precisely, it plays after the fictional Sgt. Peppers band play their outro. So A Day In The Life is seemingly the album's epilogue; It's no longer playing along with the "fictional band" idea, but is lifting the mask off, and we see The Beatles performing as The Beatles themselves. This is just the first of many layers of irony/hyperreality.

John's First Two Verses
John is mixing up and interweaving different narratives/perceptions of events as perceived through media - particularly the news, a film based on a book, and the book itself. Yet even still the narrative is confusing and the crowd seems to play into this confusion - They stare at the horrific accident but turn away at the sight of the English army winning the war in the movie. John is precisely depicting a higher level conflict between his reality and the "crowd's" reality, but both/all conceptions are ultimately confused and ambiguous.
Then the famous "I'd love to turn you on" line, obviously in reference to the idea of turning on a television - again, another form of media consumption and source/cause of alienation.

Waking Up - Paul's Verse
What follows is the orchestral build-up, followed by the sound of the alarm clock and Paul's verse. Paul's verse is meant to be straightforward - He just got up from the confusing dream depicted in John's first two verses, and gets on with his daily routine. Here, everything is perfectly normal until the very last line in his verse "somebody spoke and I went into a dream" and the bridge back to John's third verse - Even in our day to day routine when we are seemingly dealing with surface-level reality, we are sucked into a confusing, almost transcendental hyperreality.

You get the deal at this point - John's third verse is the same thing; Depiction of nonsensical hyperreality. The "I'd love to turn you on" and orchestral build up come back once again, signalling that, not only have we not escaped this encapsulating simulation, we're seemingly in search for more alienation from this same alienation.

The Outro - Is The Song Ever Really Finished?
My favourite bit. The song ends, instead of with a dissonant orchestral improvisation, it ends with a perfectly harmonious piano chord, signalling we have seemingly escaped the cycle, are at peace, and that the song is over. Yet this is far from the case. The irony here kicks in on multiple levels.

  1. You, as the listener, are consciously going through reality enjoying a song about alienation and hyperreality. By simply listening to it, you are a further layer deeper into this simulation than the narrators of the song themselves.
  2. After the piano chord drowns out, the vinyl pressing of the album has a locked grove at the very end, with the sound of a TV being turned on and looping infinitely. The irony here is multiplied - You as the listener have no choice but to endure the alienation of postmodernity for the rest of time (represented by the locked grove which plays out infinitely). When you chose to turn off your turntable and switch off the record however, you go back into your daily routine, and continue on with the simulation nonetheless.Switching off the music is not an escape from hyperreality, but an escape into it.

In Conclusion
This shit blows my fuckin mind bro. The fact that all of this is at the end of a concept album where The Beatles pretend to be a fictional band; The entire albums metaphor is recursively presented once again in the album's closing track

posted about 2 years ago
#144 gush your happiness in Off Topic

Honestly today is something special. So much good music being released today that I'm having difficulty figuring out where to even begin. New Isaiah Rashad single dropped, as well as new albums from Squid, Ziur and Skee Mask, the last of which released one of my alltime favourite albums last decade. Super excited to chug buckets of coffee and listen to all this great music :)))

posted about 2 years ago
#6 Describe Yourself in One Article in Off Topic

https://i.imgur.com/ciXCT9H.jpg

posted about 2 years ago
#3 My cat's last day in Off Topic
krollicvery tough. had to put down my 15 y/o dog some months ago

https://imgur.com/a/Zw83XHs

Absolutely sucks :( I'm sure he was a very good boy! Licorice is such an adorable name too :)

posted about 3 years ago
#1 My cat's last day in Off Topic

Today, after a beautiful 17 year long-life, we made the difficult decision to put my cat, Blue, to sleep, after seeing that his kidney problems worsened and were having a sever impact on his quality of life with no prospect of getting better.

https://imgur.com/a/aD7rwSl

Blue was an absolutely amazing companion. After practically being raised together, we understood each other intimately. He could read me like a book and I the same with him :)
Thank you for joining me in wishing Blue a good farewell <3 Make sure to do what you can in order to cherish those around you, animal or otherwise :)

Everybody wants to be a cat.

posted about 3 years ago
#39 Useful stuff to buy? in Hardware

Get some rolls of hook and loop tape/velcro. Solves so many tiny everyday inconveniences.

posted about 3 years ago
#13 Classical Music thread in Off Topic

Glassworks by Philip Glass is one of the greatest albums of all time. Full Stop.

posted about 3 years ago
#3 Looking for some movie guys :) in Off Topic

I'm not a huge movie buff, but my favourite movie is probably Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance. Uncut Gems is also a movie I saw recently which I loved from start to finish. Watch Citizenfour if you're in the mood for a brilliantly produced documentary =)

posted about 3 years ago
#21 anyone listen to any new good music lately? in Off Topic

absolutely do check out the new Black Country, New Road album. It's brilliant. Imagine a fan-made sequel to Slint's Spiderland but it's actually kinda better than you would have imagined how Slint would have done it.

posted about 3 years ago
#1 Daft Punk fucking disbands in Music, Movies, TV

F

posted about 3 years ago
#21 best series of all time? in TF2 General Discussion

i58 LBF - Full Tilt vs Froyotech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lccl0Cys_2s

✅ b4nny vs. Thalash beef in the months prior to i58 put a lot of pressure on both teams to turn up
✅ alleged drama with Muma at LAN (iirc he wanted to quit playing for Froyo halfway through the series but wasn't allowed to and started throwing just to piss off b4nny)
✅ Mike.
✅ Muma unveils Muma Rollouts

This was one for the ages. Doesn't matter that FT went on to lose Grand Finals. They already won here.

posted about 3 years ago
#49 $GME in Off Topic
mustardoverlord2) ordinary people might be 'coming together', but most of the elites are just paying lip service to the most egregious example of a systemic problem, just like with martin shkreli or bernie madoff or any other scapegoat. most people don't have the vocabulary to actually express why they're being fucked- half of them say "this isn't true free market capitalism!"

I'm not sure if I've understood your point here, but I think you make a lot of sense.
To be fair, I don't think this one event marks the end of late capitalism, nor am I optimistic that any significant, positive changes will come out of this, and I think even WSB know this. I'm fairly certain their highest aim is to win this battle, not caring if they lose the war. I am encapsulated by this event because the form of class protest itself in this instance is unlike anything we've ever seen before.

posted about 3 years ago
#46 $GME in Off Topic

The only thing that irks me about this whole situation is the romanticist sentiment for Gamestop some people seem to be putting up. I distinctly remember Gamestop as the bad guy when it came to video game retailers, with most people looking forward to them going bankrupt.

With that being said, I'm swept off my feet with what's happening. A class revolt not in the form of a riot or an online petition, but an online community coordinating to exploit the market the same way wall street does. This is not something I think anyone pre-internet could have even fathomed taking place. On top of that you have people from all ends of the political spectrum coming together against Robinhood's decision to stop day-traders from buying GME, on the basis that equality means equal rights to exploit the system. This is history in the making.

posted about 3 years ago
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