Hey guys! It's basically what it says in the title. I just want to expand my music taste, so feel free to comment your own bands aswell!
I know: Bloc Party, Early Arctic Monkeys, Everything Everything and The Maccabees...
I was wondering why D-Block & S-Te-Fan - Dreams is listened so little compared to the other songs in the album, because i really like the song. What makes it so bad compared to the others songs?
Lately, or perhaps always, there have been posts by women in their thirties bemoaning their age and having missed their chance. And I get it. I totally have age freak outs too. But also, sometimes, it seems like such a mindset and a destructive one.
Today, I saw in the New York Times an article about two record setters this past weekend. Sara Hall, 38, set the best American female half marathon time at 1:07.15 and Keira D'Amato, 37, set the new best American marathon time at 2:19.12 shaving 24 seconds off the previous record holder time set in 2006.
Amazing! Especially because I pat myself on my back for running three miles at like 11 minutes a mile. Ha. I am a turtle. But actually, amazing, because the very common idea is that age would prevent such accomplishments. Just a nod to perhaps not take age as such the barrier we make it out to be.
Sam recently tweeted out this video response to Joe Rogan recently having Dr. Peter McCoullough on
https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/1471991180233625602?t=5_eigUeXvx6aOUOh8RXzvg&s=197
Astroworld was the most anticipated album from Travis yet and the one we were all looking forward to. It was the album that was supposed to define Travis sound and bring it back to his home of Houston. It’s sad to see his biggest hit on the album had to be sicko mode. There’s so many great songs on Astroworld. There’s so many songs that are far better than sicko mode but the drake effect kinda ruined it. It’s not a bad song by any means, but I just wish a song that’s true to Travis sound could have been the main single. The song has everything the mainstream wants right now, drake, and a tay Keith beat. To me it feels like a drake song with a Travis verse at the end. I don’t feel like people really listened to the song for Travis, but rather for drakes parts. In a way I feel like it’s hurting Travis potential rather than pushing it by being overshadowed by drake. Basically, I just wish we could have gotten a TRAVIS sounding hit like antidote was back in the day. Stargazing would have been the perfect one but I tell ya that drake effect is really something else.
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Edit: There are TWO versions of this band that currently exist, OG Antidote and Antidote NYHC, the band involved in this incident was OG Antidote.
Edit #2: The rest of the tour is canceled and their singer is no longer in the band.
TL;DR OG member of Antidote called a young showgoer the n-word in Milwaukee
Antidote played in Milwaukee tonight, and tensions were high when the opening band called them out onstage and asked them to not play "Foreign Job Lot," a song with some shitty, xenophobic lyrics. One of the OG members was really confrontational about it, and it came to a head outside the club when a kid was walking out the door and didn't hold the door for said OG guy. Dude comes up to him and calls him a py and a n*r. The kid, who is a POC, socks the old dude in the face. Show got canceled and the band cleared out. Their excuse? "We've been in the van for a long time and are really stressed out." Fuck Antidote, don't go to their shows on this tour.
What a difference a day makes. The Fed releases minutes saying exactly what everyone expected— they're going to slow their mad money printing in 2022 (analysts already wrote publicly about an expected 3 rate hikes so no surprise there.)
And *boom* the markets tank. Why? Risk-off.
Big money read that move as bad for the US economy (rates go up, borrowing becomes more expensive, growth slows.) That can mean company profits get squeezed because of slowing demand. So they all pull out of what are now considered riskier assets (stocks) and rush to the bond and treasury markets.
Note: this isn't a sure bet. The economy may do just fine without the Fed liquidity pumping non-stop. Consumers are sitting on piles of cash because they've mostly been stuck home due to Covid and not traveling as much, eating out, etc.
Turns out crypto gets sucked into that downward vortex too, even though institutions don't play nearly as large a role as they do in traditional financial markets.
And he we are as fear clenches its icy hold over crypto for another day.
I'm steadfast against any kind of price prediction because I'm not a time traveler and I have no idea what will happen in the future. So let's put that aside. But what is interesting is the continued strong correlation between traditional financial markets and crypto.
Either it's the same group of people investing and when the risk-off siren sounds all the money scampers off to their hidey holes and "safer" assets, or, crypto is way too "centralized" in dominant wallets that continue to manipulate the market.
There's just no way the average crypto investor cares that much about Fed policy, so I'm hanging on to the dominant wallets theory.
Unfortunately there's not much anyone can do about it in the short term. Until crypto has enough mainstream support for retail investors to significantly dilute the power of these big players we're all at their whim. One thing is for sure, those stock market crypto derivatives aren't looking so good right now.
Hang in there folks, it's going to be a wild ride. . .
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Just saw this CoinDesk article that might be of interest (related to note above)
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