February 24, 2020

18. Yelling Sweater

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Topics:

1:38 References dating things and/or making them inaccessible. Examples: older Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes and that Winter Wonderland song where they say a snowman looks like Parson Brown. Who the heck is that??

What color is Parson Brown? https://www.datalounge.com/thread/18081042-what-color-is-parson-brown-

"What are your favorite culturally untranslatable phrases?" https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/efee7/what_are_your_favorite_culturally_untranslateable/

9:33 How four-year-olds perceive Lego(tm)

The Game Engine Black Book: Doom. http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

Romero's Sigil Doom episode, featuring Buckethead. https://www.romerogames.ie/si6il

19:25 Watching behind-the-music documentaries and realizing all the meatheads I was judging from their appearance in music videos in the 90s are as huge music theory nerds as any of my friends.

T-Pain without autotune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyzlUUqxXYs

25:06 Groke asks: "Cheap musical instruments are cool, aren't they? Penny whistles, harmonicas, ocarinas... any personal experiences with these?"

The Thomas the Tank Engine theme played on Otamatone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugW_eU5jgIM

The Tastee Bros. play the Olympic Fanfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs5ioAc_oY8

The Tastee Bros. 300 tips for playing a trumpet really high: http://www.gibble.org/high.htm

"A dodecaphonic scream trumpet homage to Christmas the Tastee Bros and Mr Santa. X" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udvy8XYzH4U

32:35 Timberwolf/husky breeds and their incredible jaws.

38:49 Losing the ability to know when things are conventionally aesthetically pleasing.

One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age. https://blog.geocities.institute/

53:04 This CPAP machine is really putting a damper on my dreams of growing a Santa beard one day.

"Your Source for CPAP Mask Sealant Specially for Bearded Men" https://cpapbeardandmustacheseal.com/

"The 'Machine Bow' is a reality!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs5ioAc_oY8

Microtopics:

Your co-host not saying his last name so you're not sure whether he knows how to pronounce it.

Sometimes working in the same room and sometimes getting coffee together.

Living in Germany and not being able to not bring it up.

Trying to enjoy topical comedy from decades ago.

Trying to enjoy topical comedy from centuries ago and having to rely on footnotes.

Jokes that are so dated nobody even perceives them as a joke.

Liking a joke better before you get it.

Translating a text that is full of French puns into English puns.

A police officer yelling "sweater" at a lady driving down the road.

Trying to find an authoritative answer but only finding answers.yahoo.com.

Parsons being so ubiquitous that everyone must know a "Parson Brown."

Your four year old niece asking you what a Lego is and it probably being a part of a wing from a Toy Story kit or something.

A four year old wanting answers and older people having all the answers.

A giraffe staying forever in a park because you surrounded the park with a fence and it's a happy giraffe.

Playing with Legos with your uncle but not really wanting to build anything and just wanting your uncle to tell you a story about something that already exists.

Trying to evoke a feeling by doing the thing that did it thirty years ago.

Being inspired to try exciting new creative tools but as soon as you get in there it just immediately feels like work.

Games that you need to read a textbook to be able to enjoy.

Seeing something happen once and assuming it's going to happen that way every time.

A baby throwing a cup on the ground over and over again to make sure it falls downwards every time.

Most people having a much higher drive to be cool than you do.

A nu-metal punk sitting at a piano and talking about jazz chords.

Being surprised when people who look fashionable are also skilled.

Having being in your early teens when Grunge hit and that affecting your fashion sense for your entire life.

A photo of your nu-metal phase somehow not ending up in Hypnospace Outlaw.

Finding dorky button up shirts some Silicon Valley folks would've worn in the late 90s and making that be just your fashion sense.

Method acting but for video games.

Billy Idol insisting that interviewers need to have read Neuromancer but not having read it himself.

Not having time to read so insisting that interviewers read a book for you and tell you about it while they interview you.

The note getting louder when you squeeze the face.

Thinking an effect is a digital filter but it turns out to just be the mouth opening and closing.

When you put your thumb over the Game Boy speaker and slowly peel it off.

Just sticking the head of a plunger into your trumpet.

Getting a reed instrument for Christmas and not being able to make it make anything that sounds like a note before your mouth gets tired of vibrating.

Learning to hit those high notes because it's cool, not because it's particularly musically useful.

Being obsessed with claves because of Brian Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire," but not being sure how to pronounce "claves."

Finding a melodica in your wife's parents' basement.

Most dogs just looking at your hand but this one bringing its entire jaw over your arm sideways.

Noisebridge being an anarchist collective where anything can happen.

Laughing when your kid does stuff you really ought to be discouraging.

Accidentally teaching a small child to call people fat.

Your kid calling a Wal*Mart customer "fat" and trying to pretend he meant "hat" because she's wearing a hat and the kid emphatically clarifying that no, he meant she's super fat.

Writing in your first-grade journal that you don't like when your parents take you to "the dark place."

Writing in your first-grade journal that "on 911 a fire happens" with an illustration of a burning building but you just meant the TV show "911" about emergency responders.

The borrowed tribal iconography mixed with tech themes that Internet companies to show a new era of togetherness and communication.

Finding beauty in a Geocities web page with random animated images everywhere and a tiled background.

Immersing yourself in an aesthetic until you like it.

Art getting way better when the image links start breaking.

Your sense of aesthetics being your only guide for knowing how to make something.

Slowly learning to trust your sense of aesthetics when people like your work.

Not trusting your own sense of aesthetics and turning to philosophy to come up with interesting aesthetic rules to follow instead.

Trying a new pixel art aesthetic that's even more rectangular than before.

The threshold between mere aesthetic weirdness and people immediately dismissing a work as ugly.

Deliberately choosing your system palette in the way that 8-bit microcomputers and early consoles did not.

Considering yourself done after the first draft of an idea if the idea is difficult and complicated to implement, but iterating if it's simple.

Having an aesthetic plan for growing old.

Doing a cursory Google search before giving up on your dreams.

Not trusting cheapcpapsupplies.com because they probably just want to sell you their CPAP supplies -- but at least it's cheap.

Instagram figuring out that you have sleep apnea.

The potions master brewing up a snoring solution as a punishment.

Dressing up like disguised Santa and if a kid finds out you're santa, pulling open your trench coat to reveal the S emblazoned on your chest.

Having a distinctive laugh for when you're firing your longbow extremely rapidly.

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