The crime rate and especially the murder rate compared the the US is shockingly different.

One of the highlights of my life was having a chance to live with a family in the Tokyo suburbs - in Akitsu Higashimurayama. Miss them so much. お母さん に 会いたい な～

It’s not as refined as reddit but the content is better and the community can improve the UI/UX over time… At first it was a little awkward for me coming from reddit but it didn’t take long for me to adjust and the diversity of people and ideas I’ve found on here is well worth it.

re-builder in Emacs works really good for this because I’ll usually have the text in a buffer already that I want to match or replace or adjust or select - I’m constantly using it.

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I’m interested in finding ways to use it but when if I’m writing code I really like the spectrum of different answers on stack overflow with comment’s on WHY they did it that way. Might use it for boring emails though.

Cold Fact - Full Album

Rodriguez what an awesome human being…just watched this interview with him.

“And what about all the those years of back breaking labor, was that hard on you? … well physically it was hard but there is no shame in hard work…There is no shame in being poor. Poor doesn’t mean dirty. Poor doesn’t mean stupid and poor doesn’t mean, mean”

Rodriguez: The 2012 60 Minutes Interview

I think that also happened…and maybe the royalties issue wasn’t as black and white as I thought.

What Likely Happened to the Royalties for “Sugar Man”?

It’s a tuff biz. I don’t think you were wrong, luck has a lot to do with it and the bootlegging certainly helped.

It was good…might have been 2012 or 2015…Jeff had a lot of musicians helping him out on stage to reproduce the sound. Got the feeling he really wanted to give the fans a good show. I think i remember the guy from elf power getting out the saw even… Just read on his wiki that “Slate described Mangum as the “Salinger of Indie Rock.”” So kind of cool that he gets out there and does it at all, I was grateful.

Saw a version of NMH at the Moore theater in Seattle… I think several people from Elf Power were helping out. Such a classic album!!! Never thought I’d get a chance to see them.

Hopefully music is still happening like this somewhere in American

I never posted on reddit…but luked for a very long time but I want this place to be better the reddit so bad and so…

Interestingly an other band that went to insane length to get around the US music system was a band that found an audience in Germany. :-) Dead Moon LIVE at Stuttgart (‎Germany) 23 08 1990

BUT, the “record deals” often were so bad that they didn’t have to hide anything they just structured them in a way that wasn’t very advantageous to the artist and Pay to Play and access to distribution channels meant you you didn’t have a lot of other options. Some tried to work around the system but you probably have never heard of them. A good example that comes to mind is Greg Sage of the Wipers. Youth Of America - The Wipers (1981)

Based on my memory, like a lot of musicians in the “good old days”, the record label cut him out of everything and actively hid royalties from him. The documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” goes into more details. As i recall they find the producer but can’t find the money. Great Doc check it out. Also found this " One of the dramatic highlights of the film is when the interviewer confronts Clarence Avant, the label’s owner. “What happened to all of the royalties?” the interviewer asks. Avant becomes visibly agitated and is unable to offer a satisfactory answer to the question. "

Classic tail of an great artist who got fucked by the music industry…