#dinosaur act

[th3-0bjectivist]

Dear listener, I promise I’ll be back with more music in 24’. For now, let me share a personal lesson in music to all of those reading this. Sometimes, *the young* can influence your musical tastes. At the very start of 23’ I met a smart young Zoomer named Fen. Fen is my coworker for context. Before I met Fen, I thought Zoomers were completely unintelligible. Sorry Zoomers, it’s true, I judged all of you. But it was only based on the vast majority of interactions I had had with your generation up to that point. This young man was slightly different from his generation in that he could carry on detailed conversations on politics, environment, and music. In our conversations about music, he asked if I had ever heard of slowcore. I hadn’t. He played some slowcore for me in our company van. I enjoyed some of it and asked for a short-list of slowcore bands. Fen enthusiastically provided it. After listening to slowcore off-and-on for most of 23’, I can tell you I like it a lot. It’s all about quiet beginnings and then some sort of GRAND FINISH. And within this subgenre that I didn’t know existed, is a band called Low, and holy shit do they make some great music! This is a group that started off in 1993 and perished in 2022 with the death of their co-founder Mimi Parker. Starting off with some very restrained and quiet melodies to suit the bar crowds they were originally playing for; this standard band beginning was followed by their own personal boom on college radio and proceeded by a second album and a European tour with Radiohead. Suddenly, the band began to take on electronic influences to supplement their tunes and even started to take a stab at some rather thunderous post-rock jams. While the creative approach of slowcore (as a whole) is generally minimalist and relies on slow tempos to find its structure, this group for nearly three decades attempted to elegantly place as many branches on the slowcore tree as humanly possible without burning out in the process. Talented, poetic and creators of some of the saddest material I listened to in 23’, this group’s extensive catalog more than kept me going from track to track in a frenzy. Having emerged from mere nightclubs in Minneapolis, Low’s legacy is one of eventual international success as their music has been featured in commercials and movies. They also happen to bear the distinction of being one of those bands that you’ve invariably heard in passing but could never put a band name to the tune. If you smash play, you will be treated to Dinosaur Act from their 2001 album Things We Lost in the Fire. Enjoy!

Imagine my surprise when I was doing research for this post and realized that both slowcore and Low were from the 90’s... my generation. Sometimes Zoomers have the information that you just don’t, folks! Thanks Fen, consider my know-it-all millennial ass humbled! I will soon be taking a break from Tumblr to recharge my mental battery. Just wanted to stop and thank the THOUSANDS of occipital lobes that have tuned in for a taste of my personal musical library on Tumblr for the past… going on half a decade! Image source: https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/low-interview-duluth-february-2011-35017/

[rastronomicals]

10:46 AM EDT June 14, 2024:

Low - "Dinosaur Act" From the album Things We Lost In the Fire (January 22, 2001)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[neunhofferart]

I really liked drawing the pachyrhinosaurus in the opening of Chaos Theory, even though a lot of this section had to be rewritten and reworked after I rolled onto my next episode.

The second drawing of the pachyrhino zeroing in on Mike always got a laugh out of everyone

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

There is no functional difference between "avian" and "nonavian" dinosaurs. literally, scientists can't even agree on where that boundary line even should go. The distinction between the two categories is a lie.

So given that, when people say "dinosaur" and mean "evolutionary dead end / failure / dead reptile / dead monster"

they are wrong

because that's not what dinosaurs are

because such a thing never existed

like, the story of dinosaur evolution continued into the cenozoic and they are arguably doing better than ever. they are huge evolutionary successes. there are possibly up to 20,000 species of them today, three times as many species of mammals.

the colloquial meaning can never be correct because it reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what dinosaurs actually are, and reinforces a misunderstanding of evolution that contributes to environmental destruction.

So yeah, BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS. Full stop, no qualifiers, no discussion, no argument.

if you really need to talk about "classical" dinosaurs, say that. or nonavian dinosaur. but don't act like you aren't making an artificial distinction.

The end.

[albino-parakeet]

YIIPPEEE! I got to set it!

Look at them! I kind of want to see if I can keep it lol. Hate to to see it get thrown out later. It's so cute!

[silverthelovebug]

You guys remember DinoSquad?

Just me?

Look, it even has its very own Kenji !!

(Dumbass who cares about social status and his looks)

[too-many-blorbos]

Remembering that "broody" refers to mother birds' behavior with their eggs and thinking about the implications of that.

That edgelord blorbo brooding in the corner? He's grumpy because babies appeared and his parenting instincts are kicking in with a vengeance. There are three or more sidekicks hiding under his cloak and he glares death at anyone who looks at them.

[makenna-made-this]

Brooder's Gate 3: Choose Your own adventure part 3 - >>Bribe her with food

Persuasion Roll: SUCCESS!

[vincent-marie]

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[frogspawned]

pet peeve is when a story tells us something is aberrant, but it seems to matter more about who does the behavior than the behavior itself. rorschach in snyder's watchmen isn't going too far; we watch nite owl and silk spectre ii snap necks and arms with gleeful, loving abandon, in slow motion no less, while they lecture the audience about rorschach's violence. heroes frequently torture the plot contrivance out of a villain and then moralize to the camera when the villains do the same. indominus rex's killing spree doesn't shock or appall me; all the jurassic world dinosaurs act like mindless killing machines, and the camera lingers, rapturous, on their cruelty. it's not an outlier. there's nothing interesting about it beyond as a set piece.

in a better script, the indominus rex would have had pathos; a chimera made for entertainment, for profit, stitched together with no regard for itself and placed in a lonely box. a freak among freaks. of course it would be mad. but the film wasn't interested in it as an animal, or a character, only as a moving piece of scenery for people to scream at or breathe tensely while it can clearly smell and reach them but doesn't, because it isn't a character and doesn't have motivations.

it's just sort of boring, i suppose. it tries like all other empty drab things do to cover it with bombast and roaring and soaring brassy scores but it's just sort of dull. a sprawl of nothing.

conversely peele's nope is a transcendent monster movie, imo, because it thinks about the the whys and hows, how jean jacket perceives the world, how the world perceives her, and lets that shape the narrative as much as jupe or emerald or gordy. they consulted biologists and behaviorists, digging into the meat of it. the creature as a camera as an animal as a device. nope has layers. it takes its own insane premise seriously, and has something to say, and is a goddamn good movie. i forgot where i was going with this.

[frizzdotbizz]

ppl ask why im into gortash sm and the truth is that im so sick of conventionally attractive looking characters at least gortash (and the rest of the dead three’s chosen to an extent) looks and acts like a freak and i can appreciate that

[rastronomicals]

9:32 AM EST February 2, 2024:

Low - "Dinosaur Act" From the album Things We Lost In the Fire (January 22, 2001)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[sbd-laytall]

[i-belong-to-too-many-fadoms]

I’ve been noticing a trend recently...

Anne and Luz:” We sure love to have our non-human buddy on our heads/shoulders!”

Lunella: “Well, my non-human buddy is to big for me to have him on my head, so, usually, I am on his head. and it’s great.”

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Rewatched Moon Girl season 1. This show is so good. Now, I recommend just watching the show linearly BUT if you want specific episode recs I got you covered.

My personal favorites are Like Mother, Like Moon Girl, Roller Jam!, Skip Ad...olescence, and both of the season finales (keep in mind season 1s is a 2-parter). All of these are just really cool, beautiful, and have my personal favorite third-act song numbers.

Some others I'd recommend are Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, Suit Up!, In the Heist, and The Great Beyond-er! all for pretty much the same reasons.

And if you haven't watched the show, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GO DO THAT NOWWWW!!!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im sorry im rewatching Dominion and its so fucking funny. they really brought dimetrodon & lystrosaurus' Permian Asses into it