Combining a heady mix of folk rock, bluegrass, middle eastern psych rock, post-metal, along with a gypsy rhythm, and calling it foot stomping for lack of categorization, Brown Bird was a little known but much loved staple of the indie folk festival world.
Formed by David Lamb in 2003 as a solo project and filling out to a five piece before focusing its sound and becoming a duo with Lambs eventual wife Morgan-Eve Swain by 2011.
I first discovered Brown Bird on a Spotify playlist of Southern Gothic music. Most things on that list were middling at best, but the captivating sounds of Brown Bird, a combination of male and female vocals paired with a lilting musical style, stayed with me, and I started listening to all of their albums, quickly realizing that two of them, Salt for Salt and Fits of Reason, stood head and shoulders above the rest, which was made clear that those were the two with just the pair of Lamb and Swain.
Sadly, those two albums were to be the main legacy of the band. After touring in ill health for several months, David lamb collapsed on stage, and was later diagnosed with Childhood Leukemia in 2013, and succumbed to the disease on April 5, 2014.Â
The Saddest Song
The Sadest Song
The Sadest Song
The Sadist Song
Lunchtime reading at work means no music. I’ll try to take listen this evening.
I’m stuck in this interminable teleconference…
This damn meeting…
Whogivesacrap?
Whogivesacrap?
Whogivesacrap?
Whogivesacrap?
Whogivesacrap?
Whogivesacrap?
Whogivesacrap?
It’s just a stupid user doing stupid user stuff, who gives a crap?! We don’t need to spend a half hour speculating why the user did stupid stuff, it’s not the problem at hand!
To be honest, I don’t want to be sad right now.
Is sad worse than bored? Teleconference sounds worse than sadness
… If only it were merely boring.
At least it’s over.
Maybe this will help.
Way less sad.
My favorite Brown Bird song is Bilge Water, the theme song to Resident Alien.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqH9irCn3o
Not sad
Speaking of sad Nexstar joined Sinclair. This is 22% of ABC’s households.
Sinclair, Nexstar Wonât Air Jimmy Kimmelâs Late-Night Return
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/kimmels-late-night-show-will-return-to-air-tuesday-7450ea40?st=b8rxQS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Mine is Nexstar. Sad! Where can I go for unfunny, non-stop anti-Trump “humor”? South Park isn’t on until tomorrow and The Daily Show may or may not be on hiatus again.
Sinclair, Nexstar Wonât Air Jimmy Kimmelâs Late-Night Return
They should replace Kimmel with Barney Miller reruns. Ratings would go up.
Worth it just for the bass line on the intro.
The show evolved quite a bit over the years including phone a few seasons in.
I rewatched the first season a few years ago and one bit was Barney coming home with his f1rearm and his wife being offended of it while he carefully goes through whole choregraphed process of securing it.
That first song is not bad.
I enjoyed it. And I salute Zwak for bringing us content.
All hail the Content-Bringer!
Restored and modified s30:
https://youtu.be/Ls6XZsA3RLA
I’m usually not a fan of the race upgrades but that looks good.
Is it me, or is the site beginning to choke on the embedded videos?
Meaning in the actual post?
So far I have been OK, but they have grown to huge dimensions (as in bigger than the screen) on my PC.
For several minutes they stopped showing up and caused the refresh/stop icon to stay on stop as if the page was still loading.
Anti-sad
Happy Song
I’m suspicious of those “- Topic” channels that have been popping up. Something about them screams “YouTube AI Bot created”, and I don’t want to encourage them.
Zwak, I’ve liked all of your recommendations and this is no exception. Thanks
I had the opportunity to see this band for the first time on Sunday. I was entertained.
https://youtu.be/uBzunKKGvcI?si=UBq9ml8kKkMneaIq
I love those guys, and have had them on rotation for a while now. Great driving music, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmwmWSW3Zho&list=RDFmwmWSW3Zho&start_radio=1
Back from the Minnesota wilderness. It was great to hang out with the new and old glibs.
They didn’t try to steal your kidneys?
Turns out they needed Beans, not black market organs.
I did have to pay tribute in the form of a case of mead.
Ron and Ron’s liver really liked your mead!
Some of my close relatives conned Kinnath out of some potables, swearing that it was souveniers
Soooo sad.
By the way if Johnny Marr is in town go see him. He was excellent and was not afraid to play The Smiths songs. His solo stuff was great as well.
You, shut your mouth.
Yes, I remember you mentioned that last time. đ Nah, I had nuthing to add besides seeing an enthusiastic gig in ’19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Ro7HLmUrY
Old Grey Whistle Test always good for live sets.
Is he the person threating to kill Morrissey and causing him to cancel his concerts?
Here is one of his solo songs. The old school synth they used is great to hear live.
https://youtu.be/qeqBn3BAMag?si=9pW8QZX-EiW66Naw
He and Bernard Sumner from New Order had a band called Electronic that put out some good stuff.
240Z restomod
I started watching vids from the IPSC World Shoot yesterday. I do not think I like South Africa. But I don’t know how much of that is my indoctrination into Afrikaners = evil and seeing the shooters staying in their AirBnB palaces and wondering if they’re cheap because of a (for practical purposes) slave caste or what.
The rapid descent into kleptocracy post-Aparteid is more responsible for today’s failed state status than any crimes prior to the ANC takeover.
What got near zero publicity when the anti-aparteid movement was in full swing was that the majority of the black population was screaming against it. They knew full well what would happen. Now when I ask how the country is doing the people who know all answer “Everyone who could afford to leave has left.”
*Shocking, but the anti-aparteid movement was really about….communism.
To clarify:
I learned from Lethal Weapon 2 that SA chicks were smoking hot but the dudes were eeeeeeevil. So I had a long-standing negative impression of the country.
I noticed various bits of information since that movie about Winnie Mandela, necklacing, banging virgins to cure AIDS, murdering albinos to use their body parts to cure AIDS, Zulus v. Xhosas etc.
I know that there’s a lot of bad stuff happening right now.
So when I see:
https://youtu.be/b6vNkkfl-Js?t=367
I’m reverting to “slum lords, forced labor or something equivalent keeps that affordable”
Plus the terrain is so goddamn flat. It’s like if Kansas had no fences.
https://youtu.be/J6p4QyjPubU?t=29
You’re not wrong, NA – There is a labor surplus from the rampant poverty (also rampant crime) so unskilled laborers are cheap, but might also decide to rob the property with their buddies.
https://youtu.be/EmBiSqy8ph0
Thank you for finding her, Gustave.
That is one country I have never had a desire to visit and even less so now.
Trump shooter found guilty on 5 counts, stabs himself in neck with a pen.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-routh-verdict-trump-assassination-attempt-florida-golf-course-rcna232946
Trying to prove that the pen is mightier than the sword?
(I know, he doesn’t have access to proper tools in prison)
Appears this was in the court room.
See, if he had outside counsel he might have been able to get something sharpenable.
What an impressive piece of journalism.
Some serious Gary Busey vibes in those pics.
And he has kids? Who aren’t estranged?
Guy who failed to kill Trump fails to kill self.
Was he a bankrupt exterminator?
Wait… did we find the real life Dale Gribble?
The courtroom sketch looks like Jon Stewart meets Stretch Armstrong.
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1970572961028661364
KK still has the best courtroom sketch avatar with Puff Daddy.
Yet somehow, that must become a Glib avatar for someone
You should write headlines.
Playing catch up after running pointless errands all morning. read through the morning links.
That and most of what has happened over the last ten years….thank god. I was so confused before but now I have so many people qualified to explain my sexuality to me.
What a mess
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has confirmed that production in its factories will remain suspended until next month at the earliest.
The business secretary and industry minister visited the West Midlands on Tuesday for the first time since the cyber-attack to meet JLR and firms in its supply chain.
The company has been unable to produce cars since the attack at the end of August, which forced it to shut down its IT networks, and fears are growing that some of its suppliers could go bust without support.
JLR has confirmed that its factories – including its UK facilities in Solihull, Halewood and Wolverhampton – won’t resume operations until at least 1 October.
Being connected to everything all the time might not be the best plan, in retrospect.
Good news – they aren’t selling too many Jags!
Bad news – it also effects always needed electrical repair parts availability.
I wonder if that’s part of the no rush to reopen.
I think we’ll get the Bulterian Jihad much earlier than Herbert ever imagined.
If this is proper context it’s hysterical.
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1970536472509063177
Macronâs motorcade was blocked by barricades for Trumpâs motorcade. Macron calls Trump looking for preferential treatment. Instead, Trump tells Macron to walk to his destination.
It was funnier that in the end he did end up walking.
Visiting head of state gets accidentally blocked? No way that wasn’t an intentional cock up.
Trump tells Macron to walk to his destination.
Next time, take the
trainsubway!Berlin – The Metro
https://youtu.be/cNVLRPSEVaE?si=0vEQ7TummvV-lxjh
Mystery
A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. Consider, for instance, that the number of companies with fully AI-led processes nearly doubled last year, while AI use has likewise doubled at work since 2023. Yet a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies. So much activity, so much enthusiasm, so little return. Why?
In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. On social media, which is increasingly clogged with low-quality AI-generated posts, this content is often referred to as âAI slop.â In the context of work, we refer to this phenomenon as âworkslop.â We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.
Sabotage.
Last month they were talking about companies using AI because it’s the new thing. Even when it’s not really a good tool for the job. So probably more of that.
Can AI create functional but ugly Excel databases?
The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver.
A new and unprecedented phenomenon.
Shit has never rolled downhill in the past.
In this case, shit rolls uphill too, as LLM summaries get summarized by other LLMs.