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An extremely dumb guid to “Which famous 60’s/70's Jazz man is that?”

1, Is it Piano lead or Bass lead? If piano go to question two. If brass question three.

2, Does the Pianist sound like he’s taken all the acid, or is there a guy making love to a clarinet?

Oh yeah: he’s taken all the acid alight. Is… is he okay? Thelonious Monk.

Oh yeah, some guy is going ham on a clarinet. Dave Burkbeck Quartet.

Neither of the above: Duke Ellington.

3, If brass lead: is it Louis Armstrong? If Yes, it’s Louis Armstrong. If no, question four.

4, Does the Trumpet player make you feel sad? Even, dare I say, Blue?

Almost? Chet Barker

Kind of? Miles Davies.

If no, question five.

5, Is the trumpet player trying to blow your face clean off? Like, actively trying to kill the first row of the audience? Dizzy Gillespie.

It’s brass led, but Sax not Trumpet.  

Okay, question 6, isolate the stings: is Charles Mingus doing what he’s actually paid to do in the back of the ensemble, or is he dicking around and seeing how far a man can take a double bass before his band-mates kill him?

Seems to be playing normally: Charlie Parker

He’s fucking around in F minor, and also that Bari sax is filthy! The Mingus Big band, with Ronnie Cuber on the Sax.

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I think more people need to play around with Damian's speech. Don't get me wrong, I love the antiquated Victorian child style of speech, but also he's a teenager that swears plenty in the comics. We really need more scenes like:

Damian: Father, I regret to inform you that I have been assigned in-school suspension for the next three days.

Bruce: What, why?!

Damian: My classmate Kevin was disparaging a female classmate for turning him down, so I called him 'a rizz-less, basic-ass neckbeard bitch' and said I was going to fuck his mom and give her a son she'd actually love.

Bruce: *is completely speechless*

Damian: That is all I needed to tell you. If you will excuse me, I have homework to complete before dinner and patrol.

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A Mountain Goats song that is, on its face, about cultivating sweet potato vine to feed a herd of wild deer: *exists*

The Mountain Goats Wiki entry > Comments by John Darnielle About this Song section:

“This song is about killing a man in Iowa City in 1993…take it away Peter.” — 2006 - 10 - 17 - Taft Ballroom - Cincinnati, OH

“In Isaiah 54:10, I believe, Jesus says ‘but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed.’ Anyway this one’s about collective bargaining power.” — 2011 - 2 - 21 - The EARL - Atlanta, GA

“When I was 14 I slammed my index finger in the rear passenger door of a 1972 Ford Galaxie and I’ll be terribly honest that hurt like a motherfucker.” — 2019 - 5 - 8 - Columbus Theatre - Providence, RI

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You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

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i think every mountain goats fan has at least one unreleased song that they think about all the time. mine is 02-75 i need it on spotify soooo bad

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Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

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All Stephanie Brown Nicknames for Cassandra Cain in Batgirl (2000)

B.G (Batgirl #20)

Elvira (Batgirl #26)

Spookygirl (Batgirl #32)

Batghoul (Batgirl #38)

Cassie (Batgirl #54)

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We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

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Me seeing the new Superman content we’ve been getting and realizing that we’re finally healing from the “Evil Superman” era:

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Stephanie and tim are the most Queer Besties ever. They're exes. They're besties. They're narrative foils. They're messy af. They understand each other better than anyone and would never make the same decision on an issue. They violently swung between friendship and lovers for years. He tried to keep her from being a vigilante. She faked her death and broke his heart. He helped her through a whole pregnancy, went to classes and everything. She pulls him out of his shell and makes him communicate and ask for help more often than not. He talks about her to his boyfriend. She's dating his sister. In a room full of others, they'll seek out each other. They have this knack of being simultaneously so good to each other and so bad for each other. The most besties of all time

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terry: i used to make really poor choices about my life, so now I'm redeeming myself by being batman

dick, who is always five seconds away from killing himself when he has to be batman: what an... interesting way of seeing things

tim, who can not EVER be allowed to be batman: huh.

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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

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Bill and Ben | Tom Cardy

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best depiction of the batfam will always be "You grew up to be the person who would have saved you" but it applies to them each respectively and that's why none of them can see eye to eye and also get up their own asses about things and go to such great lengths to defend their personal brand of justice. Because they can never stop trying to save themselves from their own history.

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I love it when a non Gotham superhero meets Steph and goes from "Oh great another one of Batman's chirpy kid sidekicks" to "Oh wow your life is horrible how the hell is everyone OK with you being treated like shit."

Bonus points to Dinah for doing something about it: