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gigastasio

@ gigastasio @sh.itjust.works

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  • Whose opinion do you trust most?

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  • No one’s. Not even mine. Everyone is an idiot. Especially me.

  • Whats the most disgusting thing you've ever put in your mouth?

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  • Cat treat. Ate it on a dare. It was fucking foul. 0/10.

  • Is it okay to express your feelings for someone even if you don't think they reciprocate

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  • Okay here’s an alternative route:

    Rather than trying to express this with words, do it through meaningful action. Go out of your way to spend time with this person. Suggest things you can do together even if it’s just going out for coffee or shopping or whatever. When they open up and share, listen in earnest and express empathy. This will allow your feelings to show themselves organically without you having to concoct some awkward-ass monologue about it. This will also provide you with nonverbal feedback about how they feel, and you can proceed accordingly.

    Took me decades to figure this out myself btw.

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    With Heatwaves and Climate Change becoming more and more materializing, how long do you think we have until the heat death of the universe?

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  • I give it an hour, tops. Wish we could have gotten to know each other better OP, but imma sit on my porch and have an ice cream sandwich and wait for it all to blow.

  • Cliffhanger

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  • “Take my paws! I can save you!”

  • Reddit's auto-moderation

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  • So, honest question, if creators want to ditch Reddit, where do they go besides here? Fediverse ain’t that big yet.

    For comic artists, there already seems to be a decent and growing community here. I’m a musician. There is (used to be?) a vibrant community on Reddit for songwriters, home recording enthusiasts, amateur producers…and it was a good place to network. I won’t go back to Reddit for any reason, so where do I go? Those communities here don’t have enough users to be active. I’ve tried.

  • How is father's day for you?

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  • It’s an ordinary work day but I let myself sleep in a little. Kid and the baby mama are out of town today but I’ll get to hang out with the kid tomorrow and baby mama promised me a hookup as a Father’s Day present. Can’t complain lol.

  • What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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  • VH1

    Also known as “rich trashy people being rich and trashy.” Who the actual fuck watches that garbage?

  • What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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  • Would you be so kind as to share a few of those artists?

    See, I caught my ex listening to country yesterday, and I know she’s just doing it because her new gf is into country, and it sounded like your aforementioned Nashville schlock. I figure if she’s going to force herself to listen to country to impress her gf, least I can do is suggest some real country artists.

  • Which is worse: Friends or Seinfeld?

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  • Two Broke Girls: “Hold my beer…”

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  • My hopes and dreams…

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  • What is still considered a rivalry, even though it is one-sided?

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  • Jon Stewart intensifies

  • Who is/was the biggest jerk in your life?

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  • I used to call him my brother. In reality he’s a half- brother and after what he put me through I will not acknowledge any relation to him.

    I always knew he was insufferable, ill-tempered, a know-it-all. But I finally got to see him in full form after my dad died and he and I had to administer the estate. A short list of things he did to me during that time…

    • Broke a promise to split all estate expenses 50/50 until the property was sold, sticking me with mortgage payments and the property tax bill.
    • Offered zero help in cleaning the house, choosing instead to show up once a week and loudly criticize the job I was doing, in addition to insulting me every chance he got.
    • Took pains to belittle the fact that I took time for myself, played in bands around town, and otherwise looked out for my mental health.
    • Once I got an offer on the house, demanded that I play head games with the buyer to get a better offer, including not replying to messages. The buyer backed out and we lost the sale. Threw several temper tantrums about the price of the house the whole time, despite the house being listed for exactly its fair market value.
    • Assisted me with a very expensive car repair after I got in a wreck. I made every attempt I could to pay him back over time, and he eventually got impatient and threatened me to pay him in full immediately or he’d take me to court. Proceeded to launch into a tirade over how I was to blame for all his financial problems.

    There’s more but I think you get the picture.

  • What do you want most?

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  • I want my ex to get her shit together. For the sake of our kid. Get your drivers license already, get a job, stop sponging off me, and kindly show him that he can have two stable parents instead of one stable parent and one who’s a hot mess.

    And I want to get put on salary at work but that’s a pipe dream.

  • Finding a new favorite food [Jake Likes Onions

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  • Music education: thoughts and experiences?

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  • Rock on brotha. 🤘🏻

  • Music education: thoughts and experiences?

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  • Your suggestion that I create a competing music education system is kind of hostile and defensive and weird.

    I probably misread what you were saying up there. No hostility intended.

    I’m retired out of music now. I work in the industrial sector and do music on the side. And I’ve learned a lot more about music since escaping academia that I’d never have gotten, and encountered people who have similarly broken away from the formalized, conservatory educational attitudes and grown as performers.

    Regarding your question about samba and bossa nova, I’m not very experienced with those styles. You’d likely find instructional videos or articles out there that can explain what’s going on harmonically better than I could. I’m mostly a rock guy lol.

  • Music education: thoughts and experiences?

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  • but I think the theory should follow the music.

    My friend, it does. That’s has always been its purpose. That’s one of the points I’m trying to make. If your teachers never made that clear to you, they owe you an apology. And yes, I’m fully aware that there are musicians who place theory above practice. You don’t have to take them seriously.

    I get it - if I’m reading you right you’ve come to the conclusion that ear training isn’t being given the focus it deserves. Which may be your experience but I feel like in the larger musical world aural skills are highly valued. Yeah, I’ve seen many “highly trained” kids who can sight read their ass off but freeze when you take their sheet music away. It’s common. Their teachers failed them. The music education system at large is a very fragmented thing. It’s filled with microcosms created by short-sighted instructors who value X over Y. In the performing world that I lived in, we were all ear people. We had to be. That was the way you survived on our stage. There’s lots of that happening out there. If you think you can devise a system that doesn’t currently exist that hammers that home, I’d be the first person to encourage you to do so.