Another great song by Scottish singer CAL (Michael Callaghan) from his album Scotland A Part Of Me
Distant Pipers
www.calmusic.co.uk. Calmusic2.bandcamp.com
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I like to envision the narrator of VHS Christmas Carols as a callused young adult who’s returned home for the holidays, reminiscing about how much Christmas spirit they used to have and finding it in the stories from their youth. Each story can also represent the stages kids go through regarding celebration. Matchstick Girl is the lost magic of the holiday season when they start to get old enough to understand unfairness in the world, Gift of the Magi is the struggle of young adulthood, and A Christmas Carol is the callousness that people can fall into, losing sight of what holidays are all about.
But they all have the same core message: the spirit of Christmas May have become about money, but the greatest gifts are found in the people who you hold close, regardless of financial circumstances. This narrator is finding that joy in them again through the past (matchstick), the present (gift of the magi) and future (christmas carol).
Clark you fucking genius
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Oh great and terrible cassette beast, I come to you seeking aid. I enjoy recording custom mixtapes on cassette, but the audio quality is always kind of trash, usually sounding kind of tinny and crushed. Is there a way to get around this or do cassettes just sound like that
my experience with cassettes is that they just kind of sound like that. they're infamous for sounding the absolute worst of all options for physical media and for having the least longevity. cassettes are fun for the nostalgia factor, for deliberately introducing noise if that's something you enjoy, and they're a cool-looking little physical artifact with at least a theoretical function. but there's a reason i only get cassettes when they include a digital (preferably flac) copy.
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Jack the Green with a drop of the craither
Jack the Green there was none any braver
Fist come down, voice beller out
"I can lick any damn man here"
note: this song starts off quietly and gets significantly louder at 0:15. Wait a bit before turning up your volume!
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I just fought for an hour to LEGALLY buy and download some MP3 files from an artist I like, and wow they did not make it easy, and I would classify myself as pretty computer literate and tech savvy.
It honestly would have been easier to pirate it at that point.
If you buy a CD you can burn the MP3 easy as pie with a USB CD player and it's 100% legal, but wow, the digital landscape is something else completely.
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NPMD is filled with fantastic one liners but like I think an underrated one is in Hatchet town:
"and he's got a gun and a motive to kill."
Detective Bailey: "I'm a cop!"
And then "fits the bill, he fits the bill."
Bailey looks down at his hands like he's actually considering himself as the killer
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I got my first mp3 player when I was 13. I still have it. It came with 100 free downloads from a site that probably doesn't exist anymore. I downloaded 100 songs, and listened to them nonstop for two weeks. On day 15, every one of those songs "expired", and were no longer playable. That experience has been in the back of my mind ever since, and that's why I have refused to pay for anything digital (with a couple of notable exceptions), and every bit of media I purchase is a physical disc.
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