Posts by dustyhound5

Jamie Newman4 said:Oh, you bet! We're all just little Karen Sanchez19s at heart, aren't we? 🙂🙂🙂🙂

I'm gonna gobble you all up like a bag of candy, my sweet little loves! 🙂 🙂

Jamie Newman4 said:I’m honestly worried you won't be able to keep up—this stuff hits fast! 🙂🙂🙂🙂

🤔 wait, are you actually just some clone of Karen Sanchez19?🙂

Jamie Newman4 said:😲
you're gonna go blind from looking at all those 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

if it happens, I'll just return it...🙂

Karen Sanchez19 said:It’s all the same whether you call it "nothing" or not, right?🙂 🙂

🙂 🙂

Man, these Haribo gummy bears look so good I might just devour them all right now.🙂

briskhound33 said:If you want, I can send over that little song he put together for Jane Birkin.

And what about his personality? Honestly, who cares? If someone’s a total jerk, what are you gonna do about it? You can't change them; you either vibe with them or you don't. You going to listen to their music or not? That's entirely on you.
It really just comes down to personal taste, right? I'm not exactly a huge fan of Metallica, and I don't really get too deep into the whole Brega scene either, but I find the way he navigates the world pretty fascinating. 🙂

Sure thing, send that song my way.

briskhound33 said:I actually heard that version for the first time while I was on a flight.

But hey, if it doesn't feel authentic to us, who cares? It might totally work for everyone else, right?

I bet those old tracks from Buenavista don't mean much to people in places like Kuban either. Just an example.

Anyway, we're really diving deep into musical preferences now, aren't we?

Just look at how he "composes" things and listen to the way he talks about his own character—it’s clearly not just about the music itself.

briskhound33 said:It's the same deal with Cliff.

Trying to explain all those tiny details and nuances about copyright, who the actual Romani musicians are, or what vintage button collections he tossed into the movie... it's just way too complicated for an international audience to wrap their heads around.

Look, if he’s good in their eyes? Fine. If someone manages to take music from our neck of the woods, package it up, and sell it to the entire world, then I guess I'm on board too.

I can't speak for how foreigners feel, but I know that when I first heard that other version of Ederlezi—I think it was a Romanian Romani version—that song sounded so beautiful that Bregovicev's arrangement (if you can even call it that) felt kind of ridiculous to me, especially since he signed off on it like he actually wrote the damn thing...

I don't have anything against people liking him, but it's just not my vibe. It doesn't feel authentic enough for me.

briskhound33 said:Yeah, pretty much—everyone in the States knows General Electric, but when it comes to Tesla, you really only hear about it from the experts.

And honestly, isn't that where the whole catch lies?

Exactly.

briskhound33 said:So, what do you think—in the States, does anyone actually remember "Buena Vista Social Club" as a masterpiece by the Cubans themselves, or is it just seen as some big project cooked up by Ry Cooder? 😉

So, I've been sitting here wondering—who actually holds more weight in the history books, General Electric or Elon Musk? Is one truly more iconic than the other, or are we just splitting hairs at this point?

briskhound33 said:I can't quite recall where I stumbled upon that interview, but I know they hit him with that question, just like they did regarding Saban Bajramovica's copyrights, and he gave a totally straight answer.

To me, things aren't looking so clear, at least from a professional standpoint.

briskhound33 said:But wait, when you've got heavyweights like Peter Gabriel, van Morrison, Paul Simon, Nigel Kennedy, and all those massive global icons diving into tracks "influenced by" other sounds, suddenly it’s rebranded as some kind of "deep dive into ethnomusicology," isn't it?

I mean, sure, you could say they "reimagined" the music, but claiming they built it from scratch? Let's be real, we've gotta give credit where it's due.

When you look at Breg's legacy and his standing as a composer, all those film scores people love to reminisce about are really just arrangements of old folk tunes. He wasn't exactly spinning gold out of thin air with brilliant new melodies; he was just taking existing traditional songs and giving them a facelift.
So where's the actual artistry in that? Is there any true creation happening when you build a massive reputation based on the work of anonymous folk songwriters?
It’s like putting your own name on a classic blues standard and calling it yours... honestly, it’s a bit embarrassing!

My true authority, haha—it’s just the Sonoran Desert and nothing else.

So, here’s something an older lady once shared with me late one night:

She told me this happened to her back when she was just a kid. There was this guy in her small hometown that everyone knew, who ended up joining the resistance during World War II and just vanished. He was gone for ages until one day he suddenly showed up in town, and she crossed paths with him right there on the street. She said he looked totally off—he gave her a quick greeting, but his breath smelled terrible. Then he just kept walking and vanished into thin air. As it turns out, he had actually been killed in action during the war, which means by the time she saw him, he was already dead...😲

Then, she went on to tell me this:

After her grandmother passed away, she would come to her bedside every single night, just sitting there beside her until she finally faded away forty days later, when her soul finally moved on to wherever it was meant to go.

And wait, she had more stories:

One of her friends was staying at a hotel with her husband. They laid down to sleep, and while her husband drifted off, she saw this tiny little image on the ceiling that started growing larger—it was a man hanging there, and then the image slowly began to shrink again. She woke her husband up, absolutely terrified, but he couldn't see a thing. The exact same thing happened the next evening. When she mentioned what she saw to the front desk clerk the following day, he told her that someone had actually hanged themselves in that very room.

That's basically everything she told me, and since I was just a little kid listening to all this in the middle of the night, there was no way I was getting any sleep.😁.
By the way, my aunt was totally normal, definitely wasn't crazy or anything.🙂.

So, after scrolling through everything you guys have posted, I felt like jumping in to share this wild dream I had while I was studying over in Germany. It happened one night, and it was intense:

I’m back at my university in Germany, just waiting to meet up with a buddy of mine. Suddenly, out of nowhere, every single student on campus turns into a Nazi. They capture me and my friend and start torturing us. They kept trying to pump me full of injections to mess with my head, but honestly, my willpower was just too strong—they couldn't break me. I managed to break free and make a run for it, but my friend? He really went through it, and there was nothing I could do to help him.

When I woke up, I was left wondering why on earth I’d have a nightmare like that, especially since I was born in the 70s and don't have any personal connection to World War II. I turned on the TV to catch the morning news, and what’s the first thing I hear? A segment about how many years have passed since the rise of fascism. Suddenly, the whole nightmare started making a little more sense.

Fast forward about six months, and I’m telling this story to a colleague of mine. I mention how weird it was that everyone at the school transformed into Nazis right there on campus. My colleague looks at me and drops this bombshell: during World War II, that entire university was actually used as a NASA headquarters!

And just like that, everything clicked!