So then, two mixes with the same theme as always: "stuff I've been listening to". Junction is twangy and damaged; Burnt is not.
we can eye one another's furtive goods, if you know what I mean. I'll even show you mine first.
I also have avoided T & T. I am very interested in hearing your reasons for not watching it, and what your reaction is to the clips.
I avoid it, and much else including the observation of Republicans, because I don't want to indulge the comforts of cheaply confirming my cultural superiority. I'll stipulate my own hypocrisy, but I look up instead of down.
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Watched Onna goroshi abura no jigoku (Gosha, 1992) last night. American title is The Oil-Hell Murder, but better AFAICT would be The Murder of a Woman in a Hell of Oil. Based on an a late-17th Chikamatsu, I have been watching a ton of movie adaptations of bunraku as I read Keiko McDonald's book on Classical Theater in Film. This movie impressed the hell out of me, haunting me.
Onna goroshi is all about bourgeois women's sexuality in the Neo-Confucian cage. Full-on late-Shochiku production values, it's gorgeous. Very erotic without being explicit, no female nudity but a lot of male, women's subjectivity to the max, the women are the sexual aggressors. Not a spoiler obviously, the film starts with the corpse, but the matron with two children who extremely conflictedly chases the young stud gets killed. Usually the lovers in a Chikamatsu run off and double suicide, but what's interesting here is that the matron very much feels responsibility toward her family and social position (and her age) and just wants to keep her boy-toy for weekends. Boy-toy is offended.
(Yeah, yeah, Looking for Goodbar, "sluts must die" I'm all aware)
There are two other complementary sub-plots, about boy-toy being irresponsible and about a UMC 20-year-old woman sowing her wild oats, without real consequence, before marriage. All much more complicated and nuanced than I am conveying here, and all interconnecting. Matron is envious of young woman, for instance. Her husband is terrific, and loves his wife to death, forgive her anything...just boring.
(Am reminded of The Good Wife with Rachel Ward becoming obsessed with Sam Neill. This ain't that)
How are we supposed to feel about Madame Bovary anyway, beyond what Flaubert wants us to feel? Dreams are mentioned in Onna goroshi, but Bovary is a bit of a flake, and what knocks this into the grandstands is how smart and strong our matron is, and how trapped and frustrated. Kanako Higuchi and the other two leads are terrific. award-quality performances. The younger woman won one. The movie was the Oscar submission.
I need some help here, I think, some feminist guidance. Don't know where to look for that. I assume Cougar Town is disgusting fantasy.
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If I can figure out how to record shit with my new setup maybe I'll actually do a mixed mix later today.
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I mean, ya know, if we read here today that h-g had run off with one of her students leaving her husband with the kids, is the free feminist reaction supposed to be:"Follow your heart ain't love grand don't let the patriarchy control you?" And why not, if not? And why not, if genders reversed?
I am not conservative, not judgmental, just kinda conflicted and confused. Is this stuff supposed to be easy?
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oh holy fucking christ I had no idea it was that bad. that clip is just...there are no words. you all have to watch it. there's meth in the mountain dew, really, right? no, actually, meth, but just a little bit, right? my mom drugged me plenty when it was called for, and she's way less crazy that that woman. and how come all the judges were overweight? beloved southland, what's gotten into y'all?
I was a 5th-grade beauty pageant queen in georgetown, south carolina, with a rhinestone tiara and everything. I could toss a fucking baton. I tragically lost the tiara at some point, I think out of the back of a pick-up truck on some stupid drug-addled adventure in virginia in 10th grade. but that's normal southern behavior! that shit on the video is way more foreign than whatever kawaii desune shit bob's dredged from some guy's upskirt cam on the tokyo subway. that is from, like, one of the moons orbiting jupiter. that is not america.
Maybe this is totally obvious but it just occurred to me watching the little girl in the first clip: is all the zombie apocalypse stuff coming from collective fears about the unstoppable, impossible to communicate with, ravenous encroaching threat that is children?
Probably should not comment directly upon waking.
Also I totally managed to miss the warning monday. I better hurry!
than whatever kawaii desune shit bob's dredged from some guy's upskirt cam on the tokyo subway.
Cute.
While looking up other good movies about adultery and divorce, Shoot the Moon and especially Gene Hackman/Ellen Burstyn Twice in a Lifetime this quote from Ebert made me laugh.
"This film was so sensible, perceptive and grown-up that I almost looked for the subtitles."
that is not america.
What, the T & T video clip? Sure it is.
And so is the comforting and utterly unfounded contempt.
That clip is... wow. Although, it's basically the same "wow" I would have expected. It's a crazy scene, child pageants, and of course a reality show will capture it at its most over the top.
Heh, the comments are about what YouTube comments tend to be, but one of them simply says "How genteel." Which made me laugh.
I really did not intend to be up before eight on a Saturday morning.
So if I've watched T&T before, will I gain anything from watching that clip?
The episode that I saw, what struck me most is:
1. The ugliest kid won, and won big, and she was ugliest by far - sweet enough, but dolled up particularly unflatteringly.
2. One of the older kids (age 7?) was constantly fighting with her parents, and she just seemed so sensible and likable. It made me remember that sometimes kids are resilient and arrive as adults with tons of bizarre stories, but not with so many issues.
3. If? IF I ran off with my student? When am I not banging my students, is more like it.
Hmm, 404 on the Junction link. Burnt is working, however.
8.middle: and especially Gene Hackman/Ellen Burstyn Twice in a Lifetime.
That one was a little gem, highly recommended. And speaking of Goodbar, a DVD version has never been released (nor is it available on Netflix instant).
11.3:
It's the only way the dolts from the football team can pass calculus. Has porn taught you people nothing?
When am I not banging my students, is more like it.
But like are you all conflicted and shit? Kids today don't get that guilt and shame is what makes it fun.
6.1:Naw, kids like zombies too. Zombies are a placeholder for any Other you want, or a general Other.
I mean, you could say zombies represent mindless consumerist cannibalism, but then they are us all, and there is no conflict.
But like are you all conflicted and shit? Kids today don't get that guilt and shame is what makes it fun.
I find scheduling all the sex stressful. There seems to be 25 hours of sex for every 24 hour day. Is that what you mean?
I'll try to get my pre-56 mix up today.
My reaction to the Exploited Children & Adults Who Exploit Them and Get Away with or Even Praised for It Because, Apparently, They Are Their Mothers Something Sexism Something Jesus H. Christ What the Hell Is Wrong with People? is too predictable to describe.
and how come all the judges were overweight?
Yeah, because of course that's what stands out in that clip. Related.
19: Anorexia is a diagnosis, not a body shape.
You're welcome. Papers are due Friday. No extensions!
404 on the Junction link
Oops. Capital versus lower-case J in the URL. Fixed now! Thanks for the heads-up.
19: There is a lot that bothers me about that photo spread. The main thing is the way the skinny model is silenced and dehumanized. She doesn't have a name. She isn't allowed to show her face. They imply that she has a disease (anorexia) but she seems to be blamed for this. To promote the healthy body image, they feel the need to shame those who have the wrong body. This is actually the same dynamic as fat shaming, with the bodies switched.
The other thing that bothers is more obvious. Katya Zharkova is not a plus sized model. She is a regular sized person who is much healthier than most of us. And of course she is completely gorgeous. In another era, she would represent unobtainable glamour.
Another other thing is that the pictures are sexy precisely because contrasting body types are hott.
24.2 is rather the point of spread, I would have thought. It is all fraught of course.
I know this question is probably beyond stupid, but is there some simple way to get .zip files full of music into itunes? The process I use is slightly complicated enough (in addition to being slightly different each time)* that I assume there's something obvious I'm missing. I've downloaded a .zip file, it's now sitting on my computer... what are the next steps?
*It's roughly some variation of unzipping the file, copying each track over to my itunes music folder, then "updating" my music library in itunes, then trying to manually re-tag/re-assemble them as a compilation within itunes. Sometimes the cover art magically appears, usually it doesn't.
23: I go back and forth on whether it is case-sensitivity that sucks in digital naming systems or if it's the other way around. But what indubitably sucks is that it varies.
Katya Zharkova is not a plus sized model. She is a regular sized person
This comment is making me go into free association mode (so, sorry in advance). Of course I agree, but at the same time I'm the same clothing size as her and a similar body type -- and the societal message to me has always been that I'm overweight, from trying to buy clothes to magazines to doctors to other people in my life. I don't know what I'm trying to say, exactly; something along the lines of while I completely agree that she should be viewed as a regular sized person, a person the same size as her very likely does not view themselves as a regular sized person. (Not claiming this is a good thing.) Nonetheless, I thought it good to see her portrayed naked and sexily -- even with the problematic plus size label, and as Rob points out, the dehumanizing/shaming of the skinny woman.
As far as I know, plus-sized models are regular sized people: they don't hire women who actually wear plus sizes to advertise plus sized clothes.
25: Or at least part of the point of the spread.
I totally managed to miss the warning monday
Only noobs read the posts anyhow.
Urple, dragging mine over to iTunes will be sufficient, since the tags are already set to compilation with the cover art embedded.
Unzip the file. Look at the resulting files in a GUI. Select them all, and drag onto your open iTunes window. It will import them and copy them to its Library directory automatically.
...after you unzip the files, of course.
You mean actually dragging them into the open itunes program?
Remember, I'm mocking with you, not at you, urple.
That's not ever something I would have tried. It seems like just crossing programs like that would potentially cause something terrible to happen, like in the movie The Fly. But everything appears to be okay so far.
That's what I mean by "drag onto your open iTunes window," yes. If you're on a Mac you'll see a little green circle with a plus when it's okay to drop them.
but at the same time I'm the same clothing size as her and a similar body type
And you look great.
42: Thanks. I didn't mean to be fishing for compliments; more, badly trying to say that I wish that people were pushing more loudly for viewing her and others as 'regular person' since it's quite likely that regular people like her aren't viewing themselves as such. Or something. I am truly inarticulate lately.
40: Actually, justified confusion like urple's about user interfaces is loosely analogous to my case-sensitive or not complaint in 28--who knows what will really happen interface-to-interface*.
*Yes, yes, I know, at the heart of the Jobs/Apple vision.
Let me ask a semi-related stupid question. If I've previously burned about 100,000 CD into iTunes at whatever the default AAC import setting is, is it worth going back and reimporting them as apple lossless files? (Is there any easier way to do this than deleting what's currently in itunes and then just re-burning? I don't even know that I know how to delete something that's currently in itunes... am I right that I would have to separately delete it from itunes and then physically delete the files from my computer?)
I have no mix for you, but I can recommend some clips of the Talking Heads performing live with late of Zappa, not yet of King Crimson Adrian Belew.
If you delete files from within iTunes, it will pop up a second dialogue asking whether you also want to move the files to the trash.
One presumes urple was speaking hyperbolically.
re: 51
Heh, yeah. I have friends who have insane record collections, so 100000 seemed like an unrealistically huge (but potentially actual) number.
1: Thanks, apostropher. "KMAG YO-YO" is great. Reminds me of CCR's "It Came Out of the Sky" a little bit.
Why oh why am I sucked into a stupid Facebook argument about whether or not women should have access to birth control so that they can have recreational sex?
Also I have a mix that is uploading, to share.
Rick Santorum is in your friends list?
56: Please tell me the person isn't claiming that recreational sex is bad for women, but not men.
I've got this whole bottle of aspirin, but I think I'm using it wrong.
58: She's saying that there are methods of birth control that are free, and so she doesn't want to pay for someone else's birth control, (prescriptions due to medical reasons aside).
Has she used the phrase "my tax dollars" during the argument? Because I've found with almost 100% reliability that those words indicate a person isn't worth trying to reason with.
60 Reasons I don't go within 100 miles of facebook number 476.
From a stranger in the thread:
Tired of paying for other people's choices. I refuse to accept the idea of a consequence-free society and am stymied by the general acceptance of the concept. Will now prepare to be pummeled.
62: Yes, but. I also have a dying colleague and was easily able to locate 50 of her former students and ask them to write notes about how she impacted their life.
Facebook is complicated. It can be used for amazing things, as well as this stupid thread. Which might have even occurred somewhere online, pre-Facebook.
And since "it's a child, not a choice" I guess child-bearing costs are exempt from not wanting to pay for grumbling.
Tired of paying for other people's choices.
So go live on a desert island, then.
What 10 medical procedures would you take to a desert island with you?
58: She's saying that there are methods of birth control that are free, and so she doesn't want to pay for someone else's birth control, (prescriptions due to medical reasons aside).
But if I'm following what she's getting at, she would be ok with paying for someone else's lube?
58: there is a method, really, not a whole bunch, and it involves not having sex even if this is the one time lately you've both been up for it and not tired and the kids have actually gone to sleep etc. further, it doesn't work all that well unless you get into the temperature charts and mucus tests etc. and lots of people are just not cut out to be applying science project methods to their own lives and bodies. Saying people should use this "method" is basically saying poor couples don't deserve to have a decent sex life and tough shit if they end up with an unplanned pregnancy.
I know you know, it just annoys me so.
Of course PIV-centric there but lots of people are.
There are methods of lube that are free, nosflow.
Oh, ok, I guess blood, piss, and spit are.
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Please tell me the person isn't claiming that recreational sex is bad for women, but not men.
If Viagra isn't covered why should the pill be?
I have nothing to offer you for lube except blood, sweat, toil, and tears.
Cry, cry, masturbate using the tears as lube, cry.
Viagra is not preventative medicine.
Also, frankly, I'm fine with Viagra being covered. For the same reasons. I want people to have access to recreational sex.
blood, piss, and spit
The first version of that speech really did poorly with the focus groups.
As heebie says, Viagra should and usually is covered. However, it is usually not free. The reason to make things free is to encourage the use of drugs that save money and thereby cut costs. Birth control is one of that kind of drug, but Viagra is not.
78: I want people to have access to recreational sex.
Explains your math student sexual outreach program described in another thread.
Hey, anybody who has dl'ed the Burnt mix: is the Idaho track (#16) cutting off ~15 seconds before the end, or is it just weirdness on my end?
From the perspective of so-called moralists, though, there should theoretically be no difference between covering and covering without copay - they both enable and encourage, just one somewhat more than the other; the rest is just public policy.
If blood, piss, and spit are the only free lubes you know of, and you have sex with women, ur doin' it so, so wrong.
Tangentially, I hear the Kama Sutra recommends three days of holding hands first.
One of the fixable injustices of hormonal birth control is that the benefit goes to both parties, but the physiological and monetary costs are generally borne by women.
83:Yup
I never know what that means.
Actually, the method in 27/33/34 doesn't seem to have worked very well at all. It copied the music into itunes, but only as miscellaneous individual tracks--not as "albums", named Burnt or Junction, that I can find by sorting albums. Or that I can just play from start to finish. To listen to one of them qua album, I'd need to manually make a playlist of all the tracks.
The thing is, in many ways, iTunes sucks balls.
Yes: that is the much-discussed, long-sought-after "thing".
Kind of disappointing after all this time, but there was never really any way it would live up to the hype.
Will the linked thread tell me how to write my name with a Freshette? I find the windage tricky.
87: Okay, thanks. There's a replacement for that one file up at the link, then.
Actually, no, 88 is wrong. It copied tracks 4, 5, 9, 12, 13 and 17 of Burnt as an album, and tracks 1, 8, 12, 16, 19, and 26 of Junction as an album. The rest of the songs are just scattered misc. tracks.
IME, women are just as capable of urinating wherever without special equipment as are men.
Do you have your iTunes preferences set to auutomatically organize your library for you?
In civilized circs, eg Meiji Temple trench toilets, absolutely. In oilcloth overalls, with no cover for miles and a brisk breeze, a drain tube is a damned fine addition.
Or that I can just play from start to finish. To listen to one of them qua album, I'd need to manually make a playlist of all the tracks.
There's a "Recently Added" Playlist that things go into as soon as you add them, in order. Whenever I add things, I go find them in Recently Added and change the album title or genre or whatever.
Or, more directly, the tracks that didn't copy in as albums (most easily locatable by sorting your library by Date Added): what do they have listed as the Album and Album Artist? And if you sort your library by album, do they group properly?
Anyway, having looked at the freshette page, I'd say the best way to write your name with one would be to dip the end of the tube in some ink and use it like a quill pen.
Itunes deleted many of my files & forgot about others. I have switched to Songbird. Ought to set the rips read-only, too.
iTunes* is the exception that proves that the Apple interface totally wins. (Discussed here before I believe.)
*Some type of case-sensitivity in non-digital naming systems sucks as well.
The Artist tag should be the band, and the Album Artist should be apostropher. All of them should be tagged as part of a compilation, part of a gapless album, and with the album name and artwork already there. If they aren't, then I'm not sure what's going on that's wiping out your ID3 tags.
Thanks apo, and thanks for the tunes. I went to replace the Idaho from my own tunes and whoa, Idaho has released a new one after six years.
Do you have a source you listen to, a college station, Pandora channel or X satellite station that alerts and informs you as to new and good old music?
Viagra is not preventative medicine.
A little exercise for the elderly can only be good...
104: Not really. I have a regular circuit of music blogs that I read (if you're unfamiliar with ninebullets.net, I think it would be right up your alley), and I scan pitchfork's reviews pretty often. Beyond that, it's just a lot of blind link following at allmusic.com.
105: A little exercise for the elderly can only be good...
And too much can be fatal. But either way, reduced healthcare costs. Everybody wins!
106: It certainly is a public service. Even for something like "KMAG YO-YO" which I had heard a couple of times and really liked I never would have recalled the group or the song's name unless I randomly stumbled upon it later.
103: really, I have no idea, but I was able to fix it with my usual methods (first removing the tracks that had been copied in from my "downloads" folder, then physically copying the entire folder "burnt" (and "junction") into my "music/itunes/itunes music" file directory. Then I go into itunes and tell it add a folder to the library, and I add the whole "itunes music" folder to the library, which refreshes the whole thing (although it takes quite a while).
90% of the time, this method works. (Which is often enough that I assume whenever it doesn't work, it's probably something wrong with the way the files are tagged.) Although, as I said, this seems like it's more of a pain than it should be.
Anyway, I like the music. So, thanks.
109: Huh. That's a lot of dancing in circles. Make sure in your preferences, you have 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' checked. You should then be able to just drag the whole folder from your Downloads directory (or choose Add to Library from the file menu and navigate to the Downloads folder) and have iTunes do the rest for you.
I believe this is actually about the videos linked to in the OP.
When I had an emusic account, and so "needed" to buy 30 tracks a month or whatever, I used metacritic to quickly get a sense of what clued-in folks with my general preferences were Supposed to Like. It was a pretty reliable guide. I hate the site redesign, though.
Like others I have a list of music blogs I read, plus the newspaper and occasional magazines.
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Jacobin posts a long excerpt from Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex. A lot of guys approve.
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As heebie says, Viagra should and usually is covered. However, it is usually not free ...
You have a reference for this? I don't think Viagra was covered at all by the IBM plan and it certainly was not covered on the same basis as other drugs.
... The reason to make things free is to encourage the use of drugs that save money and thereby cut costs. ...
Birth control methods vary widely in cost. Making the most expensive forms free is not cutting costs.
This one's really pretty easily googled, Shearer.
OK, here goes with the mix.
The 'Elvis Was A Hero to Most But He Never Meant Shit to Me' mix.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?svn2arrs5e66q1b
All nominally pre-Elvis [although a couple of tracks are actually 55/56'ish]. I'm quite smugly pleased with this one.
Excellent. My grandmother had a version of Your Feet's Too Big by Fats Waller that we would always make her play any time we went there to visit.
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Catholic health plans may not be typical. I just checked my current plan (Aetna) and it isn't covered either (at least not on the same basis as say Nexium).
Great stuff ttaM. This kind of thing is my soundtrack.
What do you mean that it isn't covered on the same basis? That implies that it is covered -- what's the difference, and is Viagra in a category of its own, or just in a different category from Nexium?
120, 122: Same here -- I'm listening to it now as I work. I've always liked "Straighten Up and Fly Right".
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What do you mean that it isn't covered on the same basis? That implies that it is covered -- what's the difference, and is Viagra in a category of its own, or just in a different category from Nexium?
You get the following message:
Retail Message: This drug is not covered under your pharmacy plan. It may be possible to have this drug precertified for coverage. Precertification will require additional information from your physician. Please contact your Member Services office for more information. *
I expect this means if you need the drug for something other than the usual reason you might have some coverage. You get no such message for Nexium which is quite expensive and little different from Prilosec which is off patent and over the counter.
Or maybe you just have to convince them that you are using it purposes of procreation only.
Is there a generic available? Sometimes that's why drugs aren't covered.
Of course PIV-centric there but lots of people are.
Especially when discussing sex as it relates to birth control.
Will no one think of the people who need birth control for knifefight-blowjobs?
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The patent status of Viagra is a little murky . The patent for the use of the drug to treat erectile dysfunction doesn't expire until 2019. The patent for the use to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (marketed as Revatio) expires this year. In any case there is no current generic (in the US).
By the way my plan doesn't cover Revatio either, you get the message:
Retail Message: This drug will require your physician to request a prior authorization from Aetna before it can be dispensed. * PR REQ BY MD 866-503-0857
I'm only on the first track but so far I'm digging ttaM's mix a lot.
FYI: I downloaded both of apo's albums, and promptly uploaded them to my google music account; all the right things happened in terms of playlist, album grouping, cover art, etc.
I'm pretty sure even the most expensive birth control is cheaper than the cost of prenatal exams, birth, and neonatal care. I mean, maybe if you're on it for 30 years the cost might be comparable.
Health plans that cover erectile dysfunction drugs inevitably lead to socialism.
I'm hoping to get a hormone-eluting IUD soon for non-birth control reasons, but it seems like the cheapest and best way to deal with recurrent uterine polyps, which are not my favorite thing. It might be cheaper to just take pills, but I'd rather have the lower hormone level and it seems like some of the physical disruption an IUD makes would be better than pills anyway. I don't think it's going to be free just because it's birth control, but it's going to be much cheaper than my surgery a year and a half ago (and the portion of it that was just sent to a collection agency when my insurance retroactively rejected some of the costs but no one ever bothered to bill me directly, apparently, though I'm still working out the details) and there's just no way I'm going to have surgery every six months anyhow because that's stupid. Not sure what this adds to the discussion, but who cares?
135: Me too! For het birth control reasons. And weirdly, my normally very good insurance doesn't want to cover Mirena. So I have to call them and argue.
re: mix
Yeah, I love this stuff. Both the wit of the lyric writing, and the music, whether swinging hard or melancholy, I love.
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I'm pretty sure even the most expensive birth control is cheaper than the cost of prenatal exams, birth, and neonatal care. ...
So what if there are cheaper methods of birth control which also prevent childbirth costs? You are just giving the drug companies a blank check to promote marginally different but much more expensive birth control pills.
People can figure out what birth control works best for them, Shearer. No one's saying, Gee, this pill gives me the fewest side effects of all the ones I've tried, but I think I'll take this more expensive one instead!
138: Putting a Nexium between your knees.
You are just giving the drug companies a blank check to promote marginally different but much more expensive birth control pills.
If only there were a central authority with the power to negotiate prices with the drug companies, perhaps one that also leveraged the power of universal coverage to lower costs overall.
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People can figure out what birth control works best for them, Shearer. No one's saying, Gee, this pill gives me the fewest side effects of all the ones I've tried, but I think I'll take this more expensive one instead!
If they are all free why would you pay attention to the price? And what determines which ones you try? Probably mostly the drug company marketing campaigns.
Forgive me for not deferring to your experience with birth control, but different methods work differently for different people. My wife tried an IUD and it was rather painfully expelled. Different hormone mixes have various effects. Methods that ensure compliance (shot or implant every several month vs remembering daily) might be better in some cases. To get FDA approval for a new drug you have to show why it's better than the existing standard, which can include identifying a population that responds better.
And if they're not free but the more expensive one causes you less pain, well, choosing between pain and the effect on your budget is just capitalism.
You know, it's utterly crazy that the US allows direct to consumer medicine marketing campaigns. What kind of backwards third world country is the US?
I know I could never live in a country that was so nuts.
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If only there were a central authority with the power to negotiate prices with the drug companies, perhaps one that also leveraged the power of universal coverage to lower costs overall.
Returning to the world we actually live in, what big money interest wants mandatory coverage of all methods of birth control at no cost to the patient? And why would anyone believe that giving them carte blanche will reduce health care costs?
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You know, it's utterly crazy that the US allows direct to consumer medicine marketing campaigns. ...
Doctors are so much more rational? Rumor has it that drug company marketing reps are primarily chosen on the basis of sex appeal (as opposed to say medical knowledge).
Ok, I've got two mixes.
FAIR WARNING: these are the most mainstream thing ever made available on Unfogged. These were dinner and reception wedding mixes, and I wanted 75% of the people to recognize 75% of the songs.
Anyway, isn't it more fun at a party if you recognize the songs? These mixes are good for that.
They're big - 100 songs total, split into two sets. I'm still trying to figure out an easy way to cut and paste the list of song titles and artists into a comment.
Eh, yeah, I'll be honest, that's a major flaw in the US system.
NZ, while it does in fact allow direct to consumer marketing, (us and the US woohoo!) has a really cool government agency called Pharmac that handles drug purchases on a national level. It's really good, although apparently the US wants us to get rid of it, which...
Returning to the world we actually live in, what big money interest wants mandatory coverage of all methods of birth control at no cost to the patient? And why would anyone believe that giving them carte blanche will reduce health care costs?
Why does it have to be a big money interest? Why couldn't it be the U.S. government or an arm thereof? Say, something like Medicare, only for everyone?
Why would the U.S. government do something that no big money interest wants?
You know, it's utterly crazy that the US allows direct to consumer medicine marketing campaigns. What kind of backwards third world country is the US? I know I could never live in a country that was so nuts.
Not everyone may be aware of the background information for this comment, that Keir lives in the only country other than the US that allows direct to consumer medicine marketing campaigns.
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1234.mp3
Baby-Baby-Baby.mp3
Chemical Calisthenics.mp3
Dashboard.mp3
Dirty World.mp3
Even The Losers.mp3
FM.mp3
He War.mp3
I Say A Little Prayer.mp3
Island In The Sun.mp3
Les Boys.mp3
Life In A Glass House.mp3
Maps.mp3
Midnight Train to Georgia.mp3
Mrs. Robinson.mp3
Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line.mp3
Pancho and Lefty.mp3
Peg.mp3
Peter Droge & The Sinners - Beautiful Girl.mp3
Punk Rock Girl (Album Version).mp3
Rehab.mp3
Shakedown Street.mp3
Show Biz Kids.mp3
Sugar_Bear.mp3
Sultans of Swing.mp3
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Ween - I'll Miss You.mp3
What's Going On.mp3
You Better You Bet.mp3
Ziggy Stardust.mp3
All The Young Dudes (2003 Digital Remaster).mp3
American Boy (Feat. Kanye West).mp3
And She Was (Remastered LP Version ).mp3
Bad Reputation.mp3
Bay City Rollers_01_Saturday Night.mp3
Been Caught Stealing.mp3
Beercan.mp3
Big Poppa [Explicit].mp3
Boot Scootin' Boogie.mp3
Break My Stride.mp3
Calabria 2007.mp3
Chantilly Lace.mp3
Come On Eileen.mp3
Crazy Little Thing Called Love.mp3
Cupid Shuffle.mp3
Glamorous (Featuring Ludacris).mp3
Going Back To Cali.mp3
Gossip Folks.mp3
Heavy Metal Drummer.mp3
Here comes your man.mp3
Hey Ya!.mp3
Higher Ground.mp3
Hotel Yorba.mp3
I Just Want To Dance With You.mp3
I Like It, I Love It.mp3
I Like You So Much Better When You`re Naked.mp3
I Walk the Line.mp3
I Wanna Be Sedated (Remastered Album Version ).mp3
I wish.mp3
If I Had No Loot.mp3
Jolene.mp3
Jump Around [Explicit].mp3
Kids In America.mp3
Let Me Clear My Throat.mp3
Let My Love Open the Door [E.Cola Mix].mp3
Let's Hear It For The Boy.mp3
Loser.mp3
Million Dollar Bill.mp3
Motownphilly [Original Version][Mix].mp3
My Maria.mp3
No Diggity.mp3
One, Two Step.mp3
Punkrocker (Feat. Iggy Pop).mp3
Roll To Me.mp3
See You Again (Rock Mafia Remix).mp3
Shake [Explicit].mp3
Sold [The Grundy County Auction Incident].mp3
Somewhere Over The Rainbow.mp3
Suds In The Bucket.mp3
Tha Crossroads [Explicit].mp3
That's Not My Name.mp3
The Chair.mp3
The Humpty Dance.mp3
The Way I Are.mp3
Tight Fittin' Jeans.mp3
U.N.I.T.Y..mp3
Video Killed the Radio Star.mp3
Walk of Life.mp3
Walk This Way.mp3
Weak.mp3
What A Man.mp3
Whatever You Like (Explicit).mp3
White & Nerdy.mp3
Wild Wild Life (Remastered LP Version ).mp3
Word Up.mp3
You Be Illin'.mp3
You're Pretty Good Looking [For A Girl] (Album Version).mp3
And right now, a med I take is not working so well for me, probably because it's generic. Other generic ones were fine, but this one sucks. I actually called the tel-drug pharmacy to find out if I could request a specific generic. I can't.
They are, however, willign to give me a 3-month supply for $25 (versus $10 for generic). I am very lucky, because this is a pretty expensive drug brand-name, but if I wound up in the hospital, it would be way more expensive.
(The science of generics and the testing on bioequivalence in healthy volunteers really fascinates me. I wish we had better data on how various fillers react to individuals etc. Because I feel very guilty asking to go back on the brand-name, but I am falling apart on this shit. (probably only 20% of my problems are med-related), but it's enough.)
Please keep your judgmental comments to yourself. I'm half embarrassed but still I like these songs. Everybody knows I'm a radio junkie anyway.
153 & 154: While those track lists look great, neither link works.
I say that in the non-judgiest way possible.
157: just delete everything before the "lazyj.net" in the URL
Why would the U.S. government do something that no big money interest wants?
I wish that wasn't such a good question.
I appreciate the choice of pop-country songs. The more beats per minute, the more tolerable the pop-country song.
Whoops! Should be fixed; let me know if they're still broken.
Whoops! Should be fixed; let me know if they're still broken.
I believe it works, but neither the playlist numbering nor the fact that it is a mix has been inserted into the metadata, so they just show up as an undifferentiated mass of songs, tagged as belonging to whatever albums they originally came from, with whatever track numbers they originally had. So one would have to look over your listing in the comments here and manually organize the playlist in order to get the desired effect.
I'm sure ttaM or somebody could write a script to fix this, but I can't off the top of my head.
I mean, it's pretty easy (in Clementine, but probably in whatever program others are using) to create a playlist by dragging the folder, and then change the Album metadata for the whole collection, but I'm not sure how to get the numbering right.
Oh, also, many of the songs also have the Amazon.com Song ID embedded in the Comment tag, so anyone who gets the mix could rat you (or whoever bought the songs from Amazon) as a dirty pirate, subjecting you to like a zillion dollars in liability. It'd probably be wise to batch-remove those Song IDs from the metadata in the future.
Gah: "could rat you out as a dirty pirate", is what I meant to say.
Hey Apostropher,may I get your real email address again? Sorry that I have lost it. I am m/n/k/e/e/c/h/@/g/m/a/i/l dot diddly com. Thanks,
Tripp
Other generic ones were fine, but this one sucks.
I had this experience with BCPs once. The pharmacy switched to a different generic, and it made my eyes completely unable to tolerate sunlight. I'd step outside and immediately have tears running down my face. It was shocking how extreme the reaction was.
I'd step outside and immediately have tears running down my face.
Or as most people call it, vacation in Newark.
That seems weird: aren't they all generics of the same thing?
Nothing is generic in a generic way.
Yeah, the biochemists among us can explain it, but a Diane Rehm show recently focused on this, and no, generics are not identical. Certainly I've been advised by my doc that should my pharmacist switch to a different generic from the one I normally get, I should let her (the doc) know.
apostropher -t apostropher d-t c-m.
You could just facebook message me too, amigo.
169: The active ingredient is the same. But there may be different ingredients in the coating, maybe what the capsule is made of, or whatever inactive ingredients are part of the drug.
Yeah, I guess I just assumed that those things would all be, you know, inactive.
Coatings make big differences in how quickly drugs are released into the body.
Then they should say "less directly active ingredients that are still kind of fucking importantly contributing to the pharmacological effect" instead of just "inactive."
There's already eight pages of worth of text that comes with every bottle of pills, so it isn't like the extra words will get them into trouble.
so they just show up as an undifferentiated mass of songs, tagged as belonging to whatever albums they originally came from, with whatever track numbers they originally had. So one would have to look over your listing in the comments here and manually organize the playlist in order to get the desired effect.
Mmhmm. There's a secret pattern to the playlist given in 153 and 154 that you may be able to crack.
I missed the memo, and am out of town until late tomorrow night. Will anyone still want a mix on Monday?
179: I was going to make an early night of it, but can't do that now that I have a secret pattern to crack.
179: None of the song titles are in my kitchen.
I did it for Moby's beauty sleep.
good morning everyone! getting in my brief daily allotment of looking at words this morning. it's me, judgy mcjudgerson jerkface! ok, talk to you when they give me more oxycontin.
Can someone point me to a step-by-step guide to creating and uploading a mix?
185: Finally! I'm going to see that girl again tomorrow for brunch* and something arty. Gimme some advice! And a glazed donut! To go!
* Nobody give me any trouble.
Paint you own pottery places are arty and make for good dating.
If at all possible, involve a kiln.
She's not some sort of hippie, Moby.
If it's a make-your-own pottery place, you should definitely attempt to reënact that "Unchained Melody" scene from Ghost.
191: She's apparently Marlo Thomas.
192: or the one from that episode of Community.
So when does tonsil hockey season start anyway?
[Don't mention neb's mom. Don't sink to his level.]
195: Flip's of an earlier generation, nosflow. I believe they still use the term "necking".
I believe they still use the term "necking".
It was always others who were necking, right? One would never suggest to a girl that "necking" commence or say "We missed the last reel of The Blob because we were necking"?
As if one ever actually used the term "tonsil hockey".
But that's not important right now, back to Marlo.
Canadians like hockey, I'm surry to say.
Don't make me come all the way down there and rip your face off!
Ben knows a thing or two about necking.
Horses like a stable relationship...yeguaz.
But only Bob knows what it's called.
Some neck, some fist. (More goodness from the ur-thread.)
And a glazed donut! To go!
In high school, I was once interrupted in the act of cunnilingus by my gitlfriend's parents. After explaining the events of the evening to my dude friends, I was known for the next two years as "Glazed Donut."
Hey, so I bought one of those Multi-Gym things today. Preliminary testing indicates that I can't do a pull-up.
Urple,
1. Arrange the songs in a playlist.
2. Select them all in the iTunes window, and drag them to a folder on your desktop.
3. Use a tag editor (MP3IDX and Tagr are free Mac apps) to change the album name on all the tracks, and whatever other info you want there*.
4. Drag the updated files back over to iTunes and finish updating the tags as you see fit. I put myself as the album artist, set the artwork, and check Gapless Album and Part of a Compilation.
5. Navigate to the album in your iTunes library directory (will be in Compilations if you set that option), right click and zip it.
6. I ftp mine up to my website, but I'm sure mediafire.com or rapidshare.com have simple instructions for putting files up there.
*MP3IDX doesn't allow you to set the Album Artist or cover art, so things like that I change after I re-import it into iTunes using iTunes' editor. I haven't actually used Tagr before, but I just downloaded it and it appears to do more than MP3IDX, which also has a few minor bugs.
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In case anyone here hasn't seen it, Ryan North (the Dinosaur Comics guy) has been doing a Tumblr of page-by-page commentary on the Back to the Future novelization and it's all kinds of awesome.
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Got home from a very busy evening out to find that ttaM's mix goes just right with a late-night egg sandwich. Marinara, cheddar cheese, over easy, toast. The new All-Clad 8" frying pan.
Alas, I'm on a bus home this very moment, but I have nothing to cook when I get there. Except eggs. Wait, wasn't this a classic Mineshaft situation?
Re generics - birth control pills/hormones are large molecules and difficult to manufacture reliably. My impression is J&J dominated the market for a long time after it's patent expired because others couldn't catch up with it's manufacturing processes. This is broadly true in biotech, which involves large molecules.
Oh, and this probably belongs in here.
trapnel: do you have salt and pepper? butter? olive oil? really, as long as you have salt, you're fine. put the eggs in cold water in a pot. bring to a boil. turn off the pot and let it sit for 4 minutes (british people say less but they like revolting, translucent, jelly-like whites. and they are planning to stab you and make off with your meagre winnings on santorum at intrade). then take the eggs out of the the shells with a spoon into a bowl, put salt on them, and eat them. some president french unsalted butter would be nice about now.
in the original urple "choose your own adventure" there was nothing to cook with but a microwave. and I think there was some concern the eggs might have gone bad. and the only condiment in the house was lye. and french butter that doc slack used to drive buck off the blog by being such a little bitch about how it was the best kind. (maybe I'm misremembering that part.) if you actually do have some form of fat, of course you can fry, scramble, turn into omelets, etc. the world is your oyster, egg-wise, so to speak. dammit, buck should have nutted up and stood his ground for lurpack's slightly nutty flavour. oh well, one sets out to drunkenly to cook eggs with the tragic angry threads that drove people off the blog that one has, not the tragic angry threads that drove people off the blog that one wishes one had, and president unsalted butter.
ok, no more hilbilly heroin for this girl for like 12 hours, y'all won't be seeing me till I get my go-juice!
Mmhmm. There's a secret pattern to the playlist given in 153 and 154 that you may be able to crack.
I think the complaint isn't that you can't preserve the particular order (which, yeah, alphabetical), but that you can't even preserve the selection. If I look through your list and think, "Wow, heebie's a genius, I want these songs playing at my next dinner party," I'll have to print out your list and then create a new playlist all on my own.
214: isn't step one "re-burn files in a higher quality format"?
Oh, and re "100,000 CDs?!", no, not literally, but literally hundreds. So a real nuisance.
y'all won't be seeing me till I get my go-juice!
See ya, honey booboo chile.
222.1: If you feel like it, I guess. What are your files currently?
If I look through your list and think, "Wow, heebie's a genius, I want these songs playing at my next dinner party," I'll have to print out your list and then create a new playlist all on my own.
Oh, I see what you mean.
Sorry everybody. Oops.
you can't even preserve the selection
You can at the time that you import them, actually, one of two ways. You can create a new blank playlist, and then drag the files from your Downloads folder directly onto that playlist in your iTunes window. That will copy them to your library and populate the playlist simultaneously. Alternatively, drag them to the library, then sort your Recently Added folder by Date added, so that they're all together at the top, and give them a common album name.
Maybe go to "recent downloads" and they'd all appear in order there, and be able to tag en masse?
I mean, sort according to date added.
If ttaM's out there, any chance of a bit of discography on your mix?
143
... To get FDA approval for a new drug you have to show why it's better than the existing standard, which can include identifying a population that responds better.
I think this is wrong, you just have to show a new drug is safe and effective not that it is better than existing drugs. There are expedited approval tracks for drugs that represent major advances but also :
Standard Review is applied to a drug that offers at most, only minor improvement over existing marketed therapies. The 2002 amendments to PDUFA set a goal that a Standard Review of a new drug application be accomplished within a ten-month time frame.
213: I was just giving this advice elsewhere, but you work up to being able to do your first pullup (if you don't have one of those assisted-pullup counterweighted machines, which you don't, because you're not a gym) by doing negatives. Jump to a bent-arm hang with your chin over the bar, and let yourself down as slowly as you can.
The best way to let yourself down slowly is to drop hints about seeing other people while avoiding being alone with yourself for long enough periods that yourself can ask where things are going.
iTunes has been defying me today by just not copying the albums I want over to my phone, despite trying manual sync and drag from library. It did copy some albums which were put into iTunes today but not the stuff that was already in iTunes on the laptop. No idea what the problem is.
220.2: You know, al, if you're unwilling to spell this stuff out more explicitly no one's going to know what the hell you are talking about.
214, 222: Slightly related question--not concerned as much with overall quality* but there are a few songs where for my digital version the overall volume is either noticeably high or low. Can the gain be adjusted on the way into the mix? (I realize some of this can be constrained by the dynamic range in the song.)
*Although I do have some real crap, ripped off of old vinyl that I did not necessarily treat with appropriate audiophilic care. (And I balk at re-buying**, or in some cases, not available).
**I've already bought them.
|| I agree with the tea leaf read here, and hadn't thought of the role that Holder/Verrilli might play. Might be worth encouraging him to get involved.|>
235.1: eh, not exactly. Usually the problem is one of changing mastering standards, so just upping the gain isn't really going to buy you much.
237: OK, understand that in general, just had a couple (and one classical album in particular) where the overall volume seemed lower than even specific mastering would explain (it sounds decent when I just crank the volume when it comes on--but it gets (first-worldly) tiresome to do that).
Ah, and I see that it least in iTunes there is a volume adjustment you can set per song via the Options tab on the Get Info menu.
231 is correct, and good advice for more than just exercise.
231, 240: Yeah, that's what the little booklet that came with the thing says too. I did a couple negatives like that last night when I was setting the thing up, mostly to make sure it can in fact support my weight (it can), and that's what I'll be starting with whenever I start a serious exercise program with it. Plus push-ups and sit-ups, because it's a Multi-Gym!
At your age, sex, and weight, it shouldn't take you any time at all to get to doing pullups for real.
Yeah, I was actually pretty close to one even just going in cold, and I've been able to do them in the past. I'm not too concerned about it.
241: The negatives LB suggested to me are helping. Not as fast as I'd like, but then nothing is as fast as I'd like.
I disagree with 237.
Sometimes it's mastering choices, but sometimes the peaks are way way below clipping because someone did a shitty job of digitising the original and the whole thing is really quiet. You can normalise the tracks in an audio editor. I do that for my mixes, as there's usually a track or two with wacky volume levels. So yes, you can adjust the volume level of a track that way [within certain bounds]. There's also ReplayGain.
I have an entire box set of vinyl where the volume levels are fucked up. Which seems to be a pattern with DeutcheShiteophon. As in, for most other albums the pre-amp set at say, 3 on an arbitrary scale of 1 to 10 is fine. For these they needed to be cranked up to more like 7, by which point noise is an issue. That's not a mastering choice, except if chosen by an idiot.
We always send our albums to some mysterious guy in Canada to get mastered. He's just the guy everyone uses, I'm told. I don't really even understand what the process entails.
For levels here I just mean tracks that have a really quiet peak level, like Stormcrow said. And by loud, those where the peak is closer to clipping, which is still compatible with long quiet passages and big dynamic ranges. I'm not referring to loudness in the 'loudness wars' sense, where the mastering process bumps up the relative volume levels within the track.
heebie-geebie: By the way, a belated thank you for your other mix - the Red State one. It was so great and now my boyfriend and I discuss whether it would be appropriate to play "Luckenbach, Texas" as our wedding song.
Really? I'm so pleased! Yes, it would be appropriate.
Part of the reason I would be terrible at putting together mixes is that I'm so out of touch with popular culture that it would never even occur to me that there might be people who've aren't familiar with a song like "Luckenbach, Texas".