Lords:
* Danny
* https://nightbrunchband.com/
* Walker
* https://nightbrunchband.com/
Topics:
* You Probably Think This Song is About You
* The Perfect r/crappymusic Post: An audio tour of Archetypes
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/0291r0zf.jpg
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
* Sample-based film scores in the 80s
* https://www.tumblr.com/mogwaipoet/786937779224461312/terminator-2-1991-and-the-princess-bride-1987
* Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, by Clare Harner actually
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoNotStandatMyGraveand_Weep
* Being a Video Game Newb in Your 40s
Microtopics:
* Is it a Topic or is it Just Banter?
* Cleaning Lords, Lunch Lords and Cat Lords.
* Have you heard the good word about the Gaylady?
* Night Brunch.
* Wearing your own band's t-shirt.
* A thing that could happen for a while and then was no longer able to happen.
* Hi Cindy!
* Motivating yourself to work harder via self loathing.
* Feeling the need to act all angsty so that people take you seriously as an artist.
* A Touch of Grandiosity.
* How many tracks get uploaded to SoundCloud every day?
* Continuing to discover music from the 1970s.
* It's called "Topic Lords," not "Correct Lords."
* Once it becomes impossible to make new music, and we go back and start listening to all the SoundCloud uploads with 0 listens.
* All the kids at Rock & Roll Camp getting excited about Lofey.
* Pretending a topic is about one thing when it's actually about something else.
* Canadian Actor Dave Coulier.
* Tuesday at 3:01pm.
* Learning a new chord on your Electric Tenor Guitar.
* Bringing Pokemon Puzzle League characters into your love song.
* Having a whole week to dial in that wub wub patch.
* What art is for and what art should be for.
* Fun is our only reward.
* The objective best pitch wheel range.
* The Funky Worm preset.
* Synthesizers that can save and load patches but only when plugged into your phone.
* Coming up with a Rube Goldberg machine to upload patches from a web server to your CZ-5000.
* thisdx7cartridgedoesnotexist.com
* In a convex optimization problem, there is no gradient to descend.
* Fiddling with the synthesizer sliders until you reach a corner of the parameter space that doesn't make any noise and giving up.
* Camp Counselor Grant hastily drawing all the synthesizer waves on the board.
* Ask any Geometer, the triangle has three sides. Love triangles are actually just two love segments.
* The All Topic Fakeouts episode.
* The gulf between how an artist thinks they're presenting themselves and how they're being received.
* A Beautiful Rainbow of the Human Experience.
* Elderly rappers with excellent flow but terrible drip.
* Piling onto propaganda music.
* Someone doing their own thing with confidence and authenticity.
* Graffiti with immaculate copyediting.
* With improved access to art tools, taste is one of the only things left to get wrong.
* Only the best crappy music.
* Promoting your music in r/crappymusic.
* Tori the Clown Rap Gal.
* The audacity of extreme autotune.
* All Youtube thumbnails converging on the same cognitive attention hacks.
* Singing the comments on your last video.
* Situations where echo chamber amplification is fun and good for the world.
* Obscure Music That Slaps.
* Serbian Kolos.
* The Ketron Event Chrom.
* The Nightmare Klaxon that Represents Dread.
* All the Fairlight CMI presets used in the Terminator 2 soundtrack.
* Growing up playing samples at every possible speed in Impulse Tracker.
* Slowly sucking dog food out of a can to simulate the sound of a mimetic polyalloy passing through steel bars.
* It's been a long day and you're ready to go home but you need to slam 1000 more inverted glasses into bowls of yogurt, let's hurry it up guys.
* That one sample library squeaking metal door sound that everyone uses.
* Calling out comb filtering whenever you hear someone exhale deeply while sitting down at a desk.
* The sound guy instructing all the actors when to breathe to minimize comb filtering.
* Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers.
* All the things you are after you die.
* The purpose of suffering. (So we can write cool poems about it.)
* Making art about how trauma used to exist.
* Why wireheading will not solve our problems. (Because everything uses bluetooth now.)
* Who needs trauma when we have CRISPR?
* Shepherding noobs.
* Play Any Video Game Day.
* Complicated goose controls.
* Trying to play Portal as your first 3D game.
* Learning video games vs. learning board games.
* Trying to get into video game series that don't change.
* Looking at the screen and/or ants until it coalesces into an image.
* Video games filled with really gross blood squirt sounds.
* Jumping on and off of buildings.
* Playing Breath of the Wild and just collecting mushrooms and herbs.
* Grass simulation in Breath of the Wild vs. in Horizon Zero Dawn.
* Putting yourself in the head-space of the protagonist in order to do protagonist stuff.
* Spelling brunch the secret way.
