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Sun 21 Jun 2020 11:20

@RealPCDonaldT well at least half of my friends are around that age, and that’s the thing that surprises me. No. I did not discover an equivalent. As I pointed out, advertisers are not producing new jingles, they’re recycling old pop tunes as jingles now.

Sun 21 Jun 2020 11:12

so they have no need to encourage the equivalent of start-ups, at least to produce catchy theme music, jingles, movie background music, pop hits, etc etc. Or, alternately, if I’m just missing out on the good stuff because I’m not cool enough. 7/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 11:09

presumably not. The question I’m trying to figure out is, has the artisanal production of music (i.e., actual bands) retreated into a more artsy or genre space where hooks & catchy stuff is frowned on, while the industrial music users have all the material they need already 6/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 11:07

but crucially, I don’t see contemporary equivalents of the Get Smart or Munsters theme song getting played by ska bands or any bands, as a joke, because everyone knows them. Breakbeat is all playing with ’60s, ’70s, ’80s stuff. Will we be playing with it forever? 5/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 11:03

it just seems strange that you still go to, say, a restaurant in and they’re playing a tape of ’70s American pop tunes, half of which I hated at the time, but I don’t notice anyone with equivalent cheesy pop tunes with hummable tunes from, say, the ’00s. 4/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:59

one could argue the key move came in the ’80s w the invention of “Classic Rock”, i.e., recycling ’60s & ’70s stuff for a new generation, then of course Hip Hop w sampling was the first “postmodern pastiche” but there was still lots of new tunes for those who sought it out 3/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:56

even advertising jingles, which were evil & designed to get caught in your head, seem to have been abandoned: I think in the ’90s they started just recycling Classic Rock tunes that were already caught in your head & tried to piggyback 2/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:54

RT @OldManTypes: Just read this ebook called ‘what are kings?’ By @nikadubrovsky and @davidgraeber It’s like this really fun kids book H…

Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:54

trying to figure out if I’m just old or there’s a real cultural transformation. The ’60s on seem to have produced an endless stream of tunes: movies, TV shows, pop music of endless varieties, that people still remember & hum to themselves. Do we now? 1/.

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:49

RT @ColSilverUK: @davidgraeber The life of Herodotus would make a great movie. So long as Terry Gilliam didn’t do it.

Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:46

@geeceevee I know, the modern “maverick cop” movie didn’t exist before the early ’70s, it was a transposition of the Western, Clint Eastwood made the transition with Dirty Harry. It’s about redemption through sovereign violence.

Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:44

RT @alpashah001: Thank you @MillenialTweet for this appreciation of my #DSA2020 lecture highlighting the possibility of democracy by sortit…

Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:43

@chunkymark I was thinking of reading a book. Haven’t done so in what feels like generations. Yourself?

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:41

RT @lightacandleOTM: Hey @MickJagger – Can you follow the example of the family of @TomPetty who have informed Trump that his music is not…

Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:39

RT @LeftieStats: “From what you have seen or heard recently, to what extent do you support or oppose the Black Lives Matters (BLM) movement…

Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:39

RT @SamuraiElf: @nikadubrovsky Sounds great! It’s is simply amazing how it’s all playing out. I personally think they should make a park o…

Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:38

RT @nikadubrovsky: @SamuraiElf Every new monument that knocked down immediately becoming a new piece of art ”knocked down monumen.” Soon we…

Sat 20 Jun 2020 23:37

@SamuraiElf @TewksburyIan Unless they shoot the I F Stone version – which would be kind of neat.

Sat 20 Jun 2020 20:51

@ztarasj it’s a very interesting question, no? Americans sort of saw themselves as Romans in the ’40s-70s. Maybe the sort of people who identify with Greeks don’t make movies?

Sat 20 Jun 2020 20:10

RT @thcphilosopher: @davidgraeber I’ve tried to get funding to film the dialogues in dramatic order (Parmenides comes first in the fabula)…

Sat 20 Jun 2020 20:04

So why are there no movies about Plato or Socrates? Aristotle? Diogenes? I mean in the first case we already have dialogues even. (Movies about the death of Socrates don’t count.)

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Sat 20 Jun 2020 18:53

RT @JereneDildine: 👉🏼“Police are bureaucrats with weapons.” 🗂🔫@davidgraeber is so brilliant #amreading #TheUtopiaofRules https://t.co/C0qIL…