Saturday Jam: Toro Y Moi, “Lilly”

Beatlesque by way of Daft Punk
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Director — HARRYS

Production Company — Ways & Means :: ways-means.co
Executive Producer — Lana Kim
Executive Producer — Jett Steiger
Producer — Sonja Mereu
Director of Photography — Frank Mobilio
Steadicam — Jon Beattie
Gaffer — Lucas Pitassi
Key Grip — Zander Kroon
Production Manager — Ovidio Jimenez
Assistant Director — Ryan Lacen
Production Designer — Dominic Guidote
Production Designer — Jill Bencsits
Drone Operator - Matt Skuta
VFX - Kshitij Khanna at the Mill
Colorist - Mikey Rossiter at The Mill

Toro Y Moi’s ‘Lilly’ from his new album ‘What For?’ - out now on Carpark Records
iTunes: smarturl.it Carpark: bit.ly

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1 klys (maker of Silmarils)  May 16, 2015 2:29:45pm
2 Shiplord Kirel  May 16, 2015 2:35:20pm

To follow up on the Amtrak discussion in the previous thread, it is a well-known fact; true, confirmed; that commies (and their cousins, the Mexican Muslim anarchists) love trains:

I am going to get a train like this when I am appointed UN High Commisioner of North Texas after Jade Helm.

3 nearly-headless smith25  May 16, 2015 2:38:28pm

From C&L:

Ken Burns Commencement Address to Wash U in STL

I sure do love me some Ken Burns Documentaries, and I’m glad I took the time to watch this video.

Some of my favorite quotes from it:

Quoting Mark Twain: It’s not as if the world is full of fools, it’s that lightning isn’t distributed right.

The isolation of those two mighty oceans has helped to incubate habits and patterns less beneficial to us. Our devotion to money and guns. Our certainty about everything. Our stubborn insistence on our own exceptionalism…

…whole communities of color burdens by corrupt municipalities, that resemble more the predatory Company Store of a supposedly bygone era…

And his advice to the graduates:

Remember; Black Lives Matter

All Lives Matter. Reject fundamentalism, wherever it raises it’s ugly head.

Do not confuse monetary success with excellence.

Listen to Jazz. A Lot!

4 stpaulbear  May 16, 2015 3:01:33pm

re: #3 nearly-headless smith25

Thank you so much for posting that.

5 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2015 3:12:15pm
6 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2015 3:18:39pm

Weather problems at the Preakness race:

7 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2015 3:21:17pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

8 PhillyPretzel  May 16, 2015 3:23:29pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

Better safe than sorry in this case.

9 electrotek  May 16, 2015 3:28:22pm

As far as Daft Punk is concerned, their best album ever will always be Homework from 1997. I was in middle school when I heard “Da Funk” and the music video from Spike Jonze blew me away. Anything after Homework is not worth mentioning in my book.

10 Great White Snark  May 16, 2015 3:32:28pm

Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane

He obtained physical access to the networks through the Seat Electronic Box, or SEB. These are installed two to a row, on each side of the aisle under passenger seats, on certain planes. After removing the cover to the SEB by “wiggling and Squeezing the box,” Roberts told agents he attached a Cat6 ethernet cable, with a modified connector, to the box and to his laptop and then used default IDs and passwords to gain access to the inflight entertainment system. Once on that network, he was able to gain access to other systems on the planes.

Reaction in the security community to the new revelations in the affidavit have been harsh. Although Roberts hasn’t been charged yet with any crime, and there are questions about whether his actions really did cause the plane to list to the side or he simply thought they did, a number of security researchers have expressed shock that he attempted to tamper with a plane during a flight.

i’m skeptical. Any flight electronics wizards among us Lizards?

11 b_sharp  May 16, 2015 3:34:28pm

re: #10 Great White Snark

Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane

i’m skeptical. Any flight electronics wizards among us Lizards?

Sounds fishy, or maybe since it was in the air, batty.

12 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2015 3:35:38pm

re: #10 Great White Snark

Sounds nutty to me.

13 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2015 3:39:09pm
14 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2015 3:42:58pm

re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The mud on that horse goes all the way up to his butt!

15 Great White Snark  May 16, 2015 3:50:45pm

re: #11 b_sharp

Sounds fishy, or maybe since it was in the air, batty.

Next time i’ll take the train.
(just to riff of the news)

16 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 3:53:51pm

Tip of the tongue syndrome. Why do I recognize this picture and remember it so vividly?

17 makeitstop  May 16, 2015 3:59:05pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Tip of the tongue syndrome. Why do I recognize this picture and remember it so vividly?

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Roy Lichtenstein, Pistol

18 William Lewis  May 16, 2015 4:01:10pm

For those of you who enjoy Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler, here’s a marvelous documentary about his six most influential guitars by his former band mate John Illsley:

I found it fascinating.

As a point of reference early on, 50 quid in the early 60’s would have been about $80 then or about $600 now. So that would have been twice as much as the Squier Telecaster next to me right now…

19 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 4:02:24pm

re: #17 makeitstop

Roy Lichtenstein, Pistol

Thanks! I knew it was pop art in the vein of Andy Warhol, I just couldn’t put my finger on the artist ‘cause I knew this wasn’t a Warhol.

20 Varek Raith  May 16, 2015 4:03:43pm

re: #10 Great White Snark

Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane

i’m skeptical. Any flight electronics wizards among us Lizards?

Yeah, that sounds off.
/Not a wizard

21 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2015 4:05:20pm
22 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 4:05:46pm

re: #17 makeitstop

Ah hah! Now I remember why I remembered this.

My parents have a lifetime subscription to Time, that has to be where I saw it. I read a lot of Time Magazine in my youth.

23 ObserverArt  May 16, 2015 4:06:50pm

Roy Lichtenstein, a proud graduate of The Ohio State University.

If he had been born a little later he may have gotten his BA and his Masters at the school I attended.

24 Varek Raith  May 16, 2015 4:06:53pm

re: #21 Justanotherhuman

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25 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2015 4:06:53pm

Today I was reading a Christian Science Monitor article about the Tsarnaev sentencing. Not having followed the trial closely I was interested in reading more, especially after yesterday’s heated discussion about the death penalty. About midway through reading it I came across a rather macabre term I’d never heard before—reference to a “death qualified” jury:

The jury in the case was “death qualified,” which meant only those people who said that they could sentence Tsarnaev to death if they thought his crimes warranted it were eligible to serve. […]

csmonitor.com

That stopped me in my tracks. WTF? Alarm bells were going off like crazy, so I headed straight for Google. These were the results for “death qualified” jury. The article below caught my eye. Yeah it’s old (1980), but it was written by a “juristic psychologist” (another term I was unfamiliar with). Emphasis mine:

The Jury System In Death Penalty Cases: A Symbolic Gesture

Out of the thousands of persons who commit homocide each year, only a symbolic few are selected by prosecutors for the death penalty. The public assumes that standards have been established to assure fairness in determining which cases meet specific requirements for exposure to this penalty. This is not the case. Initially, only the subjective judgment of prosecutors determines who faces death as punishment. […]

It appears that social variables determine which persons will be singled out to receive the death penalty. Death row inmates represent a cognizable class of persons. Not only are they poor, they are young, male, and often a member of a minority group. These persons generally reside in the rural South, the nation’s death belt, and have murdered a person of high status. In almost every instance, the murder victim is white.

The legal defense provided for these “execution prone” persons is adequate at best, but usually poor.” It is not uncommon for a man to receive the death penalty in a one day trial. Spenkelink’s lawyer left the courtroom for a number of hours during the course of his trial. A Georgia death row inmate had a lawyer who went to sleep during the course of the murder trial. […]

In no other type of trial does emotionality and prejudice so control the verdict. A unique set of interrelating variables operate in the death penalty trial which, if carefully assessed, make it possible to determine which cases will lead to execution. These variables include the facts that the defendant is execution prone, that massive publicity has occurred, that the community is outraged by the crime and is convinced that the defendant is guilty, and that tremendous public pressure is placed on the judge, the prosecutor, the defense attorney and the jury.” Furthermore, the jury selection process is unfairly biased against the defendant in that the jury pool does not represent a cross section of the community, the death qualification of potential jurors results in a more prosecution-prone jury, and the voir dire is limited to the point that individual prejudices and opinions held by potential jurors are impossible to detect. […]

scholarship.law.duke.edu (PDF)

Yeah, I realize that things have changed in the 35 years since the article was written, but the existence of the “death jury” in capital cases is obviously still present, and things like human nature & emotions haven’t changed.

So I just wanted to say that I’m no longer wavering on my support of the death penalty. I’m not okay with the process above—very not okay with it—therefore I’ve changed my mind and am now firmly against it.

26 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2015 4:07:19pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

You’re old, too? : )

1968.

27 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2015 4:12:01pm

re: #25 CuriousLurker

Typos corrected, please refresh.

28 William Lewis  May 16, 2015 4:13:34pm

re: #25 CuriousLurker

Welcome to the club.

I remember testifying at a legislative hearing (held way out of the way in wingnut country) when some far right wingers were trying to foist the death penalty on Wisconsin, which we haven’t had since 1850. I realized on the way home that night that in opposing them was when I had accepted that I’d become what I could consider a Christian. It’s still a major article of faith for me.

29 Shiplord Kirel  May 16, 2015 4:13:54pm

The death penalty?

It comes down to this: I do not trust a pack of corrupt drunkards with that kind of power, and that’s what you have in many jurisdictions.

If you want it available for the Tsarnaevs and Dahmers, you must accept that it becomes available for anyone the callous and arbitrary machinery of law enforcement might want to target.

30 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2015 4:14:40pm

Middle America is being smited again. A tornado was spotted near DeGraff, MN and some in KS and TX. Tornado season is not fun.

31 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 4:16:46pm

re: #26 Justanotherhuman

You’re old, too? : )

1968.

Nah! Not as old as some of the LGF alumni. I’m an old millenial, if that helps.

Lichtenstein’s Pistol. It was on the cover of Time in 1968, yes. It’s been republished numerous times. Hell, it’s been years since I’d even gazed on that image (thanks Twitter!) and it evoked a fairly substantial response in me. So I posted the image to LGF comments and asked some questions, and got all the answers I need about the image.

Cool! Thanks guise!

32 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2015 4:17:37pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

Lichtenstein actually produced that piece in 1964. It’s been used quite a lot ever since.

33 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 4:19:15pm

re: #30 Justanotherhuman

I’ll let Dennis explain himself in the tweet. I think humor is essential in crazy weather.

34 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2015 4:19:36pm

re: #28 William Lewis

re: #29 Shiplord Kirel

The whole process struck me as shockingly premeditated & opportunistic… consciously choosing cases in which people are most likely to feel vengeful bloodlust. I find that morally repugnant.

35 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 4:19:59pm

Whoops. #33 fixed now.

36 Great White Snark  May 16, 2015 4:20:03pm

re: #25 CuriousLurker

Ending the death penalty will rightly tip the scales to the defense in a lightly discussed way so far. That death penalty threat has surely made some plead to life without or long long sentences who should have fought, and won their cases. Think about the changed dynamic among the attorneys and prosecutors. Win!

37 ObserverArt  May 16, 2015 4:21:03pm

re: #18 William Lewis

For those of you who enjoy Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler, here’s a marvelous documentary about his six most influential guitars by his former band mate John Illsley:

[Embedded content]

I found it fascinating.

As a point of reference early on, 50 quid in the early 60’s would have been about $80 then or about $600 now. So that would have been twice as much as the Squier Telecaster next to me right now…

Speaking of guitars William. One of the guitar gurus here in Columbus is building up a very special Telecaster-styled guitar to present to Keith RIchards when the Stones hit town at the end of this month.

He has started to build his own guitar line the last couple of years putting in some really cool tricks he has learned in his many years of tech work.

I’d share some of the details of the design, but I don’t want to steel his thunder. I think there will be a video I can link up if the whole presentation comes off later this month.

Here is a link to his site if anyone wants to check ‘em out.

Bill Foley Fine Instruments

I helped publish his great little book “Build Your Own Guitar” back in 1986. He has done quite well with it. He builds a really neat sound chamber with diminishing chamber sizes into the back of the body and his guitars get some serious sustain from the chamber. He also puts in a resonator plate on the fronts on some of them too.

He is a unique individual. Many people do not know him, but many in the actual field of building guitars do.

I stopped by yesterday to drop off one of our CDs for him to check out.

If any Lizard should ever contact and buy one of his axes, please mention you heard about him from ObserverArt at LGF and mention I did his book. He’ll know the reference and then maybe I can beat him up for some extra work on mine!

38 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2015 4:25:58pm
39 EPR-radar  May 16, 2015 4:26:38pm

The Cameron Todd Willingham case has been discussed here before en.wikipedia.org

In that case, a man was sentenced to death based mainly on testimony from a fire ‘expert’ who was basically an idiot. The complete inadequacy of this testimony was made known to Gov. Perry as part of the final appeal. TX went ahead with the execution (of course).

My main point in bringing up this case is that it is impossible to view it (and other documented egregious executions) as being somehow anomalous.

Instead, this kind of travesty is normal and to be expected, once capital punishment is accepted.

IMO this corruption is exactly the same kind of corruption of institutions that made the abuses at Gitmo and Abu Graib inevitable once torture was accepted.

40 William Lewis  May 16, 2015 4:30:32pm

re: #34 CuriousLurker

The whole process struck me as shockingly premeditated & opportunistic… consciously choosing cases in which people are most likely to feel vengeful blood lust. I find that morally repugnant.

Yep, that’s exactly what they do.

It’s also common in places like Texas to use every trick in the book to inflame the jury no matter what the evidence actually says - leaves you with someone innocent of arson executed for it anyway for example…

en.wikipedia.org

Perry, of course, knew exactly what he was doing but let him die anyway. If there really is a hell, he’ll be in it with the rest of the quartet (Franco, Pinochet, Reagan & Thatcher) someday.

41 William Lewis  May 16, 2015 4:31:53pm

re: #37 ObserverArt

Beautiful work! Thanks for the link.

42 wrenchwench  May 16, 2015 4:31:59pm

17 year old learns something.

The young organizer of a petition drive, placard protest and Facebook page to keep the “Indians” mascot at Skowhegan Area High School had a change of heart during a public forum on the issue Monday night, drawing praise from tribal representatives who say the nickname is offensive and should be changed.

Zachary Queenan, 17, a senior and one-time Skowhegan track and field athlete at the school who is home-schooled, said he saw the pain felt by Maine’s Indians and their supporters and he had an epiphany.

The Facebook page originated by Zachary Queenan of Cornville, a home-schooled high school senior who participated in track at Skowhegan Area High School. Queenan said Tuesday that statements by Native Americans about their feelings toward the name Indians for school sports teams have convinced him to change his mind.

“I just started seeing some of the testimonials from the people and talking about how they felt about it, how they feel we should continue, and it just started making sense that how I was feeling before was really wrong,” Queenan said Tuesday. “I believe that if the minority says that it really bothers them, that we should take that heavily into consideration and proceed forward in a respectful manner.”

[..]

43 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2015 4:33:58pm

re: #39 EPR-radar

And John Woo and the entirety of the Bush admin who approved his memorandum remain free and prosperous.

PDF:

44 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  May 16, 2015 4:36:40pm

My biggest beef with the death penalty is that “beyond a reasonable doubt” is too weak for a life and death decision. The sort of begs the question, and I really can’t think of a high enough standard of proof.

45 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2015 4:37:40pm

Looks like some perverted galaxy.

46 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 4:38:12pm

re: #36 Great White Snark

Ending the death penalty will rightly tip the scales to the defense in a lightly discussed way so far. That death penalty threat has surely made some plead to life without or long long sentences who should have fought, and won their cases. Think about the changed dynamic among the attorneys and prosecutors. Win!

That’s an interesting point.

The death penalty in Colorado will be of much focus in the coming years. There’s James Holmes on trial right now for the massacre at the movie theater, prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. And there’s Nathan Dunlap.

Nathan Dunlap was 18 or 19 when he killed four people and wounded several others at a Chuck E. Cheese in Aurora, CO in 1993. He’s been incarcerated ever since, sitting on death row while his case has been endlessly appealed. Gov. John Hickenlooper gave Dunlap a reprieve last summer, essentially delaying Dunlap’s execution indefinitely. It was a reckless political decision in my mind (right before an election!) but our governor has taken a definite stance on the death penalty (he’s against it). He was reelected in 2014 and he has sole power to grant clemency to Dunlap, commuting his sentence to life, and he could do that in the next four years, if he wanted to.

One more thing about Nathan Dunlap. Over the years it’s been determined that he is seriously mentally ill, schizophrenia. He takes medication daily to control his symptoms and is regarded as a model prisoner. He has also expressed great remorse for what he did 22 years ago in a schizophrenic episode.

47 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2015 4:39:51pm

re: #34 CuriousLurker

The whole process struck me as shockingly premeditated & opportunistic… consciously choosing cases in which people are most likely to feel vengeful blood lust. I find that morally repugnant.

This man has built his political career overtly on his execution rate, compounded by all-white juries. We live in the most death-hungry county in Alabama.

eji.org

48 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  May 16, 2015 4:40:24pm

re: #18 William Lewis

I was thinking about the guitar Brain May uses (the “Red Special”). He and his father assembled it themselves in the early 60s. There’s no way they could have known the role that guitar, and Brian himself, would play over the next forty years. And that guitar isn’t the kind of thing that he used here and there, or on such and such album, he used it almost exclusively throughout his career.

49 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 4:43:42pm

re: #45 Justanotherhuman

Looks like Sonny Corleone’s car.

50 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  May 16, 2015 4:44:32pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

Looks like Sonny Corleone’s car.

If Sonny got hit by a 20mm gun

51 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  May 16, 2015 4:47:19pm

re: #48 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Brian: Wow, I think this guitar is really neat. It looks like everything works and is in tune.

Mr. May (under his breath): This kid’s a guitar geek, he’s studying astrophysics. He’s never gonna move out.

52 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2015 4:48:38pm

Certainly, there is a lot more of this out there, even if not outright as obvious as what this guy did. Throwing money around a university should not be allowed to interfere with academic freedom.

This Billionaire Tried To Get University Scientists Fired For Doing Their Job

thinkprogress.org

53 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2015 4:50:20pm

Sounds like there’s a storm coming, thunder & lightning. I guess it’s time to go snuggle up with my iPad and watch videos/movies.

Later, lizards.

54 makeitstop  May 16, 2015 4:50:42pm

re: #37 ObserverArt

Speaking of guitars William. One of the guitar gurus here in Columbus is building up a very special Telecaster-styled guitar to present to Keith RIchards when the Stones hit town at the end of this month.

He has started to build his own guitar line the last couple of years putting in some really cool tricks he has learned in his many years of tech work.

I’d share some of the details of the design, but I don’t want to steel his thunder. I think there will be a video I can link up if the whole presentation comes off later this month.

Here is a link to his site if anyone wants to check ‘em out.

Bill Foley Fine Instruments

I helped publish his great little book “Build Your Own Guitar” back in 1986. He has done quite well with it. He builds a really neat sound chamber with diminishing chamber sizes into the back of the body and his guitars get some serious sustain from the chamber. He also puts in a resonator plate on the fronts on some of them too.

He is a unique individual. Many people do not know him, but many in the actual field of building guitars do.

I stopped by yesterday to drop off one of our CDs for him to check out.

If any Lizard should ever contact and buy one of his axes, please mention you heard about him from ObserverArt at LGF and mention I did his book. He’ll know the reference and then maybe I can beat him up for some extra work on mine!

He makes some nice stuff! That reliced blue on the offset-style is a finish I want to try on my next build.

Speaking of which - I’m taking my last build out tonight to sit in with a friend’s band. And I’m taking along the new Fender as a backup - because anything can happen on a shakedown cruise. :)

55 ObserverArt  May 16, 2015 4:54:10pm

Oh look! Someone keeps sending me unsolicited emails trying to hit me up for bucks. I don’t know about all of you, but this rings of desperation and/or a scam to get money.

And check it out, he is saying people are sick of playing by the rules. What are you admitting Ricky?

I also have a feeling he is going to do whatever he is going to do whether he hears from me or not.

Political Spam Email #2
56 teleskiguy  May 16, 2015 4:56:10pm

re: #55 ObserverArt

Dan Savage did humanity a solid back when with his Google Santorum thing. It still works today. Type into Google “Santorum.”

57 danarchy  May 16, 2015 5:02:06pm

re: #56 teleskiguy

Dan Savage did humanity a solid back when with his Google Santorum thing. It still works today. Type into Google “Santorum.”

Unless you happen to be one of the poor saps who just happened to share his surname.

58 Great White Snark  May 16, 2015 5:31:26pm

re: #45 Justanotherhuman

Looks like some perverted galaxy.

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Honestly at first glance i thought police shooting. Yeesh maybe it’s miller time.


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