Subj : Re: Ok .. Tyson or Jake?
To   : The Godfather
From : Adept
Date : Thu Dec 05 2024 12:27 pm

 TG> though that the blu-rays don't have a distinctive smell to them.  Movies
 TG> are also less memoriable for me these days too though, so there is that

I think I saw something from the Angry Video Game Nerd about how much blu-rays wind up using the default menu and lack extras.

And also that it's super weird that we wound up with a standard controlled by exactly one company, and the format it worse because of it (e.g., because of rather high fees to make one of them).

As for movies being less memorable... Well, I'm sure there's some truth to it, because of all the various pressures on movie making that exist now, but didn't in previous decades.

But there's also a huge quantity of forgettable films that were made in the past, too.

 TG> The organ seems like it would be an instrument someone could pick up
 TG> more at any age and learn more so than say the Guitar?

Why would guitar be a challenge?

Though, with the organ, I think the biggest challenge is probably access to an instrument to practice on.

Even for me, where I'd like to explore the concept (though, really, my skills with a piano keyboard are not great, and it would likely be better if I got better with various aspects of that. Even if playing an organ is decidedly different in style.), since I don't have connections to a church organ, and am not particularly good with the local language, the most reasonable option for a practice instrument would be to make a hack of a setup.

And it's _expensive_. The _cheap_(ish) part would be not-quite-purpose-built keyboards and something to hold them up. The cheap-to-moderate part would be the software, and the expensive part (probably $1k or lots of shop tools that I do not have) is the pedal board.

And saying, "okay, I'd like this sort of complete solution delivered to me" is not really an option, unless paying maybe $4k for an impressive piece of furniture.

Learning guitar? Probably have a variety of choices under $100, even if it'd be easy to spend lots more.

 TG> The organ seems like it would be an instrument someone could pick up
 TG> more at any age and learn more so than say the Guitar?

....that said, thinking of the idea of picking up instruments later in life, the one I imagine being... challenging, is a violin (or any of its larger cousins).

I tried that a bit, as an adult, but the amount of, "this sounds _dreadful_" required before you can get to more than a moment of, "Ahh, that actually sounds like music" is... a lot. How can an adult press through that kind of torture?

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