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[Chef Matt]

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Took tomorrow off cause I'm tapped out on PTO. Going to fish a new spot after the gym.

Suppose this should be in the pleasures of life thread.

[RockinDaMike]

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Ripping my mom's cd collection to mp3 on the new computer. Wondering if I should rip them to the best quality or save space. I have a tb to use on this comp and won't put movies on it so space should be ok I think. There's about 500 cds. I'm also gonna copy them over to my master drives

I been listening to them and man I forgot how great cds sound.

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[ubernoob]

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320 should be more than enough, both for size/sound quality factors.

[RockinDaMike]

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Yeah thats the quality I'm doing now. It sounds great

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[RockinDaMike]

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Man, love early Chicago when they used big band in their music.

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[gopher_guy]

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Will Smith's kids are insane.

They were reading portions of this interview on the radio this morning. What 14 and 16 year olds talk like this? Might be one of the most pompous interviews I've ever read, haha

A few "highlights"

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/tmag...int-interview/

I’m curious about your experience of time. Do you feel like life is moving really quickly? Is your music one way to sort of turn it over and reflect on it?

WILLOW: I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.

JADEN: It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

WILLOW: Because living.

JADEN: Right, because you have to live. There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.

WILLOW: It’s the action of it.



How have you gotten better?

WILLOW: Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

JADEN: Exactly. Because your mind has a duality to it. So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple. It’s a tool for understanding mathematics and things with two separate realities. But for creativity: That comes from a place of oneness. That’s not a duality consciousness. And you can’t listen to your mind in those times — it’ll tell you what you think and also what other people think.

WILLOW: And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.



You mentioned breathing earlier, and it’s also an idea that recurs in your songs.

WILLOW: Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

JADEN: When babies are born, their soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy is coming through their body, up and down.

WILLOW: Prana energy.

JADEN: It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.

WILLOW: When they’re in the stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.

JADEN: By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…

WILLOW: As they grow up, they start losing.

JADEN: You know, they become just like us.




So is the hardest education the unlearning of things?

WILLOW: Yes, basically, but the crazy thing is it doesn’t have to be like that.

JADEN: Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end. The school that we go to every single morning, we will continue to go to.

WILLOW: Forever, ‘til the day that we’re in our bed.

JADEN: Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

WILLOW: They never want to do anything, they’re so tired.

JADEN: You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

WILLOW: I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, “Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.” But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.

[jeremym480]

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*Snip. Interview

Spoiler

[RockinDaMike]

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Seems like they been learning from yoga or spiritual people. I get into conversations like that from yoga people around the world. Had super deep convos with a monk and this expert about yin and yang. Flipped my world around.

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[dsallupinyaarea]

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My guess: Drugs.

[ImTellinTim]

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My guess: Drugs.

That does sound like some LSD-trip ****.

[TheShizNo1]

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My guess: Drugs.

I was gonna say I want some of what they've been puffing.

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[Bmore Irish]

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They probably just got done watching Interstellar.

[gopher_guy]

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They probably just got done watching Interstellar.

When I initially read it, I thought it sounded like a rough draft of stuff that Rust Cohle would have said in True Detective.

[Mabster]

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Yogi teachings or drugs, different paths to the same enlightenment.

[fatleg3]

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I laughed so hard after reading that...