Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Smackpixi]

A quick google search to prove I know what im talking about

That usually works, after that everyone will agree you’re right.

 

[Smackpixi]

Like the recent Weezer song,

Has anyone wanted to hear this phrase since 1995?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That usually works, after that everyone will agree you’re right.

There’s some info that simply isn’t readily available on the internet- at least, not yet.

For example, it’s easily verifiable that Richard Ashcroft’s band, The Verve, were sued by The Rolling Stones for uncredited use of samples of The Stones music in The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony”.

But unless you’re a music geek like me, you wouldn’t have learned that The Verve did likewise on the same album sampling a song by Aphrodite’s Child- Vangelis’ family’s band, where he got his big break. The song they sampled is on the 1972 double album 666, and it’s not the one song that gets played by classic rock stations. It’s a deeper cut, not released as a single, so it’s one you’d pretty much have to have listened to the album to notice.

And in part because of The Stones’ lawsuit, the offending song by The Verve never got released as a single either. If they had, I’m pretty confident Vangelis’ label would have gone after them just like The Stones’ attorneys did.

So you’d pretty much have to play the two songs consecutively to realize it. And I’m pretty confident not many people have both.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I thought I would mind it, but I really dont. Sounds funny for a vinyl guy but thats just a specific hobby for me. I ditched all my DVDs, CDs, and most of my physical books and its not bothered me at all. I am staring at a book full of burned material and cant tell the last time I even opened it. Im just not a repeat kind of guy that I worry about the thousands of pieces of media I consume. I cant take it with me either.

Lately I have been shifting back to physical books and movies. I tend to watch movies over and over. And with books if they are good I go back to them multiple times. But the main reason I have shifted back to physical books is I notice I remember content in a physical book like three or four times better than digital. Also I find it hard to get into as deep a state of reading when I am doing it on a device (same for movies). By watching movies on my TV again, I get a bit more immersed. And I have had the problem of buying a movie on a platform, and then have them put up a different transfer or version of it (which is irritating)

 

[deganawida]

Lately I have been shifting back to physical books and movies. I tend to watch movies over and over. And with books if they are good I go back to them multiple times. But the main reason I have shifted back to physical books is I notice I remember content in a physical book like three or four times better than digital. Also I find it hard to get into as deep a state of reading when I am doing it on a device (same for movies). By watching movies on my TV again, I get a bit more immersed. And I have had the problem of buying a movie on a platform, and then have them put up a different transfer or version of it (which is irritating)

Right there with you. I will actually print stuff up at work just so that I retain it better.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Right there with you. I will actually print stuff up at work just so that I retain it better.

Something I do now too is I don't read anywhere near my computer desk. I either put the book on my counter top in my kitchen and read there (especially if I am doing a lot of note taking) or I turn my desk chair around slide to the middle of the room and just focus on reading (it really makes a big difference to avoid screens)

 

[payn]

Lately I have been shifting back to physical books and movies. I tend to watch movies over and over. And with books if they are good I go back to them multiple times. But the main reason I have shifted back to physical books is I notice I remember content in a physical book like three or four times better than digital. Also I find it hard to get into as deep a state of reading when I am doing it on a device (same for movies). By watching movies on my TV again, I get a bit more immersed. And I have had the problem of buying a movie on a platform, and then have them put up a different transfer or version of it (which is irritating)

Right there with you. I will actually print stuff up at work just so that I retain it better.

Hmm, better retention with physical media seems strange to me. I am the exact opposite. Actually, now that I think about it, my job would be impossible to do with physical media. From an aesthetic and nostalgic perspective on a hobby I understand the preference.

 

[Velderan]

@Snarf Zagyg And the Cup drought for Canada continues. What's worse, getting swept in 4 games or coming back from being down 3-0 to lose 2-1 in game 7?

IMO McDavid winning the Conn Smythe just adds more to the narrative of "man, Edmonton is really going to waste the prime years of arguably the best player in NHL history huh".

 

[RealAlHazred]

I am a guy who has the same size collection as @Dannyalcatraz but with books. I literally have books in every room of my house, including the bathrooms and the garage.

Out of curiosity, if somebody wanted to be able to experience and/or convert any media into any other media, is there an economical relatively-easy-to-understand entry-level technology for, say, reel-to-reel or 8-track, or is it definitely the domain of specialists and professionals?

 

[Umbran]

. Your purchases are merely licenses.

Yep. Technically, that's always been the case. You walk into a bookstore, and buy a paperback, what you are really paying for is a license to consume the content of the book. The fact that it is in a physical medium they cannot recall doesn't change the nature of the license.