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I thought Crazy Heart was a really good film, but I'm not sure how they wanted the audience to feel about when Bad Blake lost the young boy at bar in the mall.

First of all, I've worked in bars and restaurants, I've seen this happen to parents who were stone sober. They look away for a second and the kid's gone. I've seen parents set their kids in the bathroom and then forgetting that they're there and leaving. Blake was a bit tipsy but he was far from wasted in that scene and it could happen to anyone.

I understand why Maggie Gyllenhaal's character would be upset because it took several hours to find her son again and she wasn't there when it happen, and in the end I suppose it was go

As the title says, I was reading a black metal blog post about flaws in the genre today and what needs to change for future. Agree or not, it was well written and well argued. That same blogger had a post arguing that black metal was at it's peak between 1991 and 1997 in the norway. He recommended Kvist - For Kunsten Vi Evig Vike (1996) as an example of overlooked albums from this era.

I just can't find that blog again for the life of me. I'd love to read more by the same writer.

I remember that Anthony Fantano promoted this song on the Cymbal app while that was still active. It was instrumental, electronic song with a fairly orchestral "epic" feel too it. I think it was released in early 2017 or late 2016, but it could be earlier. Still quite recently I'm sure.

I think the band/artist was quite recognizable, I knew I'd heard of them before I saw it there. I'm certain it had something to do with the name "Wolverine" but as you may understand googling "Wolverine" gives me nothing but X-men results.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

I've been a fan blues music recently and I'm trying to understand the chronoly of the genre. I've heard recordings from the 20s and 30s being labeled as "pre-war" blues, and I understand that most of them - such as the work of Robert Johnson - are pretty scrambled together and we don't really know who wrote these songs or when for the most part.

Did this change at any specific time? Did artists like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker achieve commercial success first after ww2 because the economy allowed for music to boom in general again, or was there some particular change in the music when it moved from folk to pop?

For those of you who don't know, "Zero Hour" was a documentary series that aired on the History Channel back when it was still a history channel. It was basically about showing the last hour of an important event with all the context provided (9/11 and the Columbia space shuttle were two other episodes for example).

It contained reenactements of the events discussed and from the first few scenes in the control room from this show I was instantly thrown back to that Zero Hour episode. In the control room, Dyatlov yelling at them, their actor even looking like Dyatlov in the show, and in the final episode when they explain that Dyatlov would ruin their careers if they refused I remembered

So I can't install the add-on in firefox and get this as an error message. In Icecat on the same laptop everything was fine though. I tried turning of uBlock and Ghostery but nothing change. Clearly I still have internet access.

So we know where they came from and what they wanted. They were created by the children of the forest as a weapon against humans but they got out of control (fair enough) and they just wanted to kill everyone (really?).

But what we don't know is

1. How were they defeated the first time? Especially seeing as they didn't do that by killing the Night King, and
2. Why did they come back now? What's different this time?

A lot of stuff goes into this, where did Coldhands come from, what's up with the magic of the wall, what's the connection to dragons and the "awakening" of magic, etc. But these are the main two questions that the show did not adress at all.

I guess the best thing to come ou

I've been studying bass with the help of Ed Friedlander's "Building Walking Bass Lines" and it has been an absolute joy. I'd really like to get into guitar on the same level, and I really liked the book format of self study. Do you have any recommendations?

I haven't listened to Sabaton much since high school, but I've seen them live twice and used to consider myself a fan.

Now I listened to Fields of Verdun when it came out the other day. I listened to it exactly once, thought to myself "this was alright" and then did other things. But yesterday morning, and this morning I woke humming the tune in the refrain (DUH DUH VERDUN, NOWHERE TO RUN, THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN).

I mean, I don't care all much about Sabaton these days, but i'll be damned if Joakim Brodén doesn't know how to write catchy tunes!

I had a discussion with a friend of mine who bought a google home about being listened to at home. He said ti doesn't matter what technology you have, if you own a - or are in the proximity of a - device with a microphone you're being listened to no matter what, and he points to my phone as an example.

Now, my phone is a Samsung GTS5610. I know he's just rationalizing his own laziness, but it did get me thinking; how much info can really be shared by a phone like mine? I know Stallman refuses to own a cell phone at all and police thrillers show people being tracked with simple flip phones, but how much of that is true?