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2019-04-18 at 3:04 AM UTC in Posting Nudes on NIS really upped my self esteemPENIS
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2019-04-18 at 2:39 AM UTC in Kenny Hotz burned down the Notre Damejoo mine trix
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2019-04-17 at 6:13 PM UTC in Fuk everyone here and go dieOP makes some good points
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2019-04-17 at 6:09 PM UTC in Kenny Hotz burned down the Notre DameLiteral jedi
TotW had potential but he can't really carry a show by himself. KvS was a transcendent show though. -
2019-04-17 at 5:36 PM UTC in Anyone that likes flat chested girlsdte says I'm scawy...:(
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2019-04-17 at 5:35 PM UTC in It's a hard life being so good lookingwe should just post our names and locations so people can look through our social media without it being linked to the site. I'll start; my name is Fargo Forgetmenot and I live in Fargo
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2019-04-17 at 5:23 PM UTC in It's a hard life being so good lookinghow much do you get paid to "model?"
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2019-04-17 at 1:08 PM UTC in Your thoughts at the momentMattchew spends his life thinking about people on a dead website because he has nothing to live for otherwise and his fat ass is full of cringe
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2019-04-17 at 12:24 PM UTC in Your thoughts at the momenttiny penis huge faggot
you really should shave your dirty upper lip though
It's a company liability in case you grow your mustache out and go full pedophile -
2019-04-17 at 12:17 PM UTC in Your thoughts at the moment
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2019-04-17 at 12:02 PM UTC in I support Alexandria Ocasio-CortezShe knows about as much about politics as Donald Trump does but is far less effective.
DID YOU KNOW SHE USED TO BE A BARTENDER WHO EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED THE TIPS TO THE STAFF BASED ON THE VALUE OF THEIR SERVICE PROVIDED SO THE BAR WENCHES DID NOT FEEL DISENFRANCHISED FROM THEIR WORK? -
2019-04-17 at 11:30 AM UTC in Essay on Sandstorm
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2019-04-17 at 11:25 AM UTC in Essay on Sandstorm
Originally posted by snab_snib Ville Virtanen, who goes by the name ‘Darude’, began his musical career producing happy hardcore with tracker software. He would go on to collaborate with Jaakko ‘JS16’ Salovaara, and the first product of their efforts was what is perhaps the most important piece of electronic music of all time.
Sandstorm is an instrumental trance composition, released in Finland 26 October 1999, [1] which has evolved in its reception from a global sensation perpetuated by the nascent internet music distribution scene, to the definitive perennial techno track. Not by far the first techno track, Sandstorm may be considered the culmination of techno music into musical maturity. In its infancy, techno had not yet achieved an essential compositional style, and artists were borrowing from rock, blues, and pop, as they developed techniques for the new tools of music they had chosen to express themselves with. Sandstorm changed that; in it we find something not prefigured in earlier techno - a pure form which laid the foundations for the future of electronic music composition. It has been said that ‘a work of art is not finished when nothing more can be added, but rather, when nothing more can be taken away from it without destroying it entirely’. Sandstorm found this point of balance, and developed into the north star of electronic music, by which all later efforts would find their way.
Micheal Cui of the Steveston-London student newspaper writes, “Most songs in this genre, electronic dance, always have some vocals, but not Sandstorm. Darude knows what he is doing with instruments and he managed to make a lyricless but recognizable song… Overall, Sandstorm could be arguably the best song in electronic dance music.”[2] We are talking about a track which people recognize instantly by the very first note. However, the public reception of this track was not only positive and enduring, but eventful: more than a decade after its release, it was discovered once again by the younger generations when, possibly due to the elemental and timeless quality it possesses, Sandstorm became a capital-m Meme.
The event can clearly be seen rippling across the sphere of consciousness in the google analytics reference, occurring on 22 June 2013 [3]. Why it happened at this time and not another time is impossible to say. The birth of a Meme is perfectly unpredictable, the product of a psychic cacophony amplified by instantaneous communication over the internet and emerging into awareness (see: the spike on 29 March 2015) according to chaotic principles and undercurrents beyond the ken of the human mind. In brief, whenever someone asks, ‘what song is that’, you say ‘Sandstorm’. That sounds dumb, and it is, but you might as well try to describe the Mona Lisa to someone as explain a Meme to them. We will refrain from the metaphysics of ‘a thing whose name is the name of all things’, and simply point out that corollary search terms were for the sheet music and the piano versions of Sandstorm. We can infer thusly that people recognized the significance of this track just as much a decade after its release as they did upon its arrival. And not only its significance, but that on the merit of its notes.
It’s safe to say that there are detractors by default, especially for music of the electronic persuasion. Sandstorm is an exception to this only in that there have been few vocal detractors, who seem to perceive a warmer reception for their cynical dismissal than actually exists. Gawker, always a respectable source of reason and rationality (sarcasm) published an article by an Andy Cush, on 12 September 2014 [4]. Describing it as ‘goofy’ and ‘blunt’ and referring to techno as ‘ridiculous, overhyped’, he states that “in its garishness, it provides a reassuring contrast: next to Darude's dated production, a sugary megahit like Aviici's "Levels" sounds tasteful, almost austere.” Let it be known that initial charting of Sandstorm as not hitting the ‘Hot 100’ is disingenuous considering it was released in Finland, and was in the top 10 in over ten countries in Europe. The unfortunate critic of this unfortunate review does not, apparently, discover the answer to his question, ‘why do you people like sandstorm so much?’. Andy Cush now spends his time on twitter, discussing current problems that the community of people sexually attracted to cartoon animals are having with neo-Nazism in their ranks.
Sandstorm is the jediel of techno, the paragon; one might better view it as a formula rather than a mere track [5]. In the eighteen years that have passed since its release, the respect and interest in this precious musical revelation has only grown, and the rave still goes bonkers when they hear ‘that’ high sustained tone fading in. That’s impressive, for a genre not even forty years old. What is more important, is that in comparing the musical information of Sandstorm to the electronic music that followed, you might not find a single track which did not follow the rules which Sandstorm burned into the collective unconscious. It is a musical work of that rarest sort which can only appreciate with time.
[1]
https://web.archive.org/web/20010306183715/http://www.findance.com/english/darude/index.html
[2]
https://slsspress.wordpress.com/sep-oct-2014/song-review-darude-sandstorm/
[3]
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=sandstorm%20darude
[4]
http://gawker.com/how-darudes-sandstorm-enveloped-the-web-1648636266
[5]
https://musescore.com/user/318756/scores/286911
lol gawker is not a sauce and I'm plagiarizing the fuck out of this -
2019-04-17 at 4:36 AM UTC in There is a serial flasher at large in my area.want to change the be you see
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2019-04-17 at 4:33 AM UTC in Your thoughts at the moment
Originally posted by Schplew Don't you feel like a fool when you think back to when you used to call yourself a sweet babe? Think of what everyone here would think about that…lol… Furthermore, how does it feel to be abandoned by the other two? Guess you gals were just friends of convenience, huh?
I cringed
I'm thinking about how bad Mattchews life must be. -
2019-04-17 at 4:28 AM UTC in There is a serial flasher at large in my area.change to see the want you be
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2019-04-17 at 4:26 AM UTC in There is a serial flasher at large in my area.See the be to change you want
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2019-04-17 at 4:13 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro Edition
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2019-04-17 at 4:09 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro EditionRizzo is the type of guy to say he has a bunch of money and wants a lot then you get there and he's got $6 and a bus ticket saying he's good for the rest.
But both of you know he is good for absolutely nothing -
2019-04-17 at 4:07 AM UTC in Hey mal were all drinking in tinychatbump this thread when tinychat isn't fake and gay and I'll know when to go
