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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 2h

this is how most people experience social media

The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 2h

one of my anti-conspiratorial beliefs is that searching a phrase and finding a bunch of ideological fellows saying some version of that phrase doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s some payola or marching orders, since we’re on a social media site where ideas spread, you know, memetically

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 3h

a take that I like that I’m sure makes some people mad is that, though I’m not making a comparison of overall quality, Dylan sings very similarly to Billie Holiday

The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 3h

I have a half-formed take that neither Dylan nor Hendrix sing “out of tune”, which is to say, a badly-controlled version of conventional singing, but rather that they just sing in the slidey style of early jazz and blues musicians

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 3h

you’ve heard me say this but I also don’t believe that “Bob Dylan has an enjoyable singing voice” is even all that unpopular of an opinion, as evidenced by his career as a best-selling recording artist

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 3h

dozens_of_us.jpg (although maybe more, idk) who don’t believe the conventional wisdom that Dylan covers are always better

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3h

Gonna be incredibly brave and iconoclastic and say Bob Dylan.

But with a caveat that “greatest lyricist” almost doesn’t make sense as a category. So much meaning comes from the performance, how Dylan snarls or wails them out. Covers with pretty, perfectly in-tune delivery never land as well.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4h

[galaxy brain] Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol because all of that happened to him in real life

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 5h

anticipating a lot of “I would pull it” and I like you guys but no you wouldn’t

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 5h

it’s upsetting hypothetia but that’s what it is, it’s not worth losing your shit over

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 5h

you can safely assume that nobody on here would *actually* pull a trolley lever for “people die -> erode GOP rule” if it was presented to them in real life and that, much like we do every day, every notion posted is from a position of reasonably upset helplessness

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 5h

it just intuitively seems extremely wrong to try to use an inflation calculator to compare 1840’s London and 2020’s America

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 6h

biggest possible Fuck Yes to Craig Taborn on his MacArthur Grant — man can play *anything* and his album “Avenging Angel” and his work with Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth is some of my favorite shit

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 7h

because we didn't do any playback in the studio, I haven't heard any of the takes yet, which does make me a little anxious, but he also sent me a spreadsheet with the takes he thought were good, which helps me be confident that we have release-ready material without worrying about small mistakes.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 7h

in consultation, his suggestions streamlined a lot of my music to get more at the heart of what it was going for, make it feel less "anxious". on the recording day, he made sure we got good takes and moved on, made suggestions, not get bogged down in details.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 21h

I would be curious to hear more about this! What did they bring that you felt added so much?

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 7h

excited to put it out! he was great and looking forward to what you guys are working with too!

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 7h

I hope to god that Michael Ironside has, at least once in his life, used the most perfect dad joke where someone asks him, “is that your real name” and he responds, “no, my first name is actually Frederick”

Wikipedia: Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. A prominent character actor with over 270 film and

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, I’m still more bearish on his chances than I’d like to be — he’s young, really good on social but hopefully wouldn’t run a terminally online campaign, I think Jeffries has a lot of institutional buy-in. but god I’d love to see it.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 8h

give it to me give it to me give it to me

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 21h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 18h

hater behavior — show your haters up by not writing about them. write a song about Dracula instead

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 18h

really the main takeaway is “Denise Richards [wolf whistle, awooga sound effect]”

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 18h

not that I know exactly what the discourse was, but — yeah, I’m pretty much in agreement that all of it is meant to be a propaganda film

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 21h

NW (first time — I plan on formulating The Perfect Take that will finally end the discourse):

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 22h

the comparison to The Zone of Interest pissed me off so fucking much and I saw it *everywhere* — Shani Louk as a conscientious objector to IDF service, she was not a fucking architect of a concentration camp

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 22h

who wins

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