The Links Lounge (*** NO POLITICS/RELIGION/LIV ***)

[bscinstnct]

15 minutes ago, aenemated said:

@bscinstnct know this jam!

 

 

 

Hooooooo! 
 

Here we go

 

I met this little girlie, her hair was kinda curly
Went to her house and 😃, I had to leave real early

 

 

Nice one aen ; )

 

 

 

[TiScape]

2 minutes ago, Petethreeput said:

I tried to find a Nathaniel Rateliff but then I got busy.  Going to see them this weekend.  Pretty excited, I think they’re great.

Yeah sorry for not thinking about you Pete! You def step outside the lounge box and it’s not lost on me! 🙏🏼 

[chisag]

10 minutes ago, TiScape said:

Thanks for helping prove my point 😊

 

 

 

[Soloman1]

Y’all are crazy.

 

I like that.

[aenemated]

47 minutes ago, chisag said:

... And now for something completely different:

 

 

 

You won't ever disrupt anything to let me watch Linn swing! 

[aenemated]

44 minutes ago, TiScape said:

I’m away for 5 hrs and ONE guy comes up with something 2020 or later that they like?! 😂 Oh well, I’d be lying if I said I was surprised.

 

*Thanks aen and thanks for at least trying t! 😊

 

Man, I dropped SO much spanning all the things. 

 

Marty Stuart to freakin Ice Cube! Who does that?!

 

 

Greatest video ever. 

[chisag]

3 minutes ago, aenemated said:

 

You won't ever disrupt anything to let me watch Linn swing! 

 

 

... One thing that is pretty amazing is she seems to be all over the flag or long. I just never see her come up short, but over the green when she isn't dialed in. If she ever fully harnesses her power she could be scary good. 

[chisag]

17 minutes ago, Petethreeput said:

I tried to find a Nathaniel Rateliff but then I got busy.  Going to see them this weekend.  Pretty excited, I think they’re great.

 

 

... Right there with ya! 

[Soloman1]

@chisag

 

Let’s play golf on Monday. Only 95 degrees.

[bscinstnct]

2 hours ago, miamistomp said:

 I met Steve Martin and his then wife at the Metropolitan Museum

She was a looker- he looked like , well, Steve Martin

 

 

 

 

 

 

No way! You remember which section of the Met you were in?  I want to mentally conjure an image of you meeting SM and wife if whatever section you were in!

 

🤣

 

Was it the armor section?!

 

Armor section is dope!

 

 

 

 

Edited August 15, 2023 by bscinstnct

[TiScape]

50 minutes ago, aenemated said:

 

Figure that was the point! 

 

 

It gets political so ... troublesome. I'll say; living there I totally get it.

 

I've had a weird life, man 😂

 

I had this album and saw em twice live. Also saw Public Enemy back in the day. Rap/hip hop was a fairly big part of my diverse playlist growing up.

[chisag]

14 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

@chisag

 

Let’s play golf on Monday. Only 95 degrees.

 

 

... Are you up for some twilite golf? I have a meeting Monday but might be able to change it. 

[miamistomp]

11 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

 

No way! You remember which section of the Met you were in?  I want to mentally conjure an image of you meeting SM and wife if whatever section you were in!

 

🤣

 

Was it the armor section?!

 

Armor section is dope!

 

 

 

 

 I believe it was American paintings

  Martin is a big art collector

[TiScape]

28 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

@chisag

 

Let’s play golf on Monday. Only 95 degrees.

I’m gonna go out on a fairly sturdy branch and say, not happening! 😂 

[bscinstnct]

5 minutes ago, miamistomp said:

 I believe it was American paintings

  Martin is a big art collector

 

Nice, American paintings cool, lotta portraits but also amazing work of the bountiful lands!

 

This painting is like 10’x20’ and you can’t really see but it has a whole Native American tipi village scene. 

[aenemated]

34 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

@chisag

 

Let’s play golf on Monday. Only 95 degrees.

 

Chi and Solo. I'd drive out to AZ to join that group. 

[TiScape]

Just now, aenemated said:

 

Chi and Solo. I'd drive out to AZ to join that group. 

Oh man. Now it’s gotta happen! Lots of pics plz 

[TiScape]

49 minutes ago, aenemated said:

 

You won't ever disrupt anything to let me watch Linn swing! 

Saw an interview w/Gabby Ruffles on GC earlier today. She’s on a tear on the Epson tour (LPGAs Korn Ferry) and is just way too cute. Look forward to seeing more of her 😍

[aenemated]

2 minutes ago, TiScape said:

Oh man. Now it’s gotta happen! Lots of pics plz 

 

I ain't bad but them boys sound to be a whole hell of a lot better than me. Some of us have to actually work still and can't just play golf all the time 😂

[TiScape]

Just now, aenemated said:

 

I ain't bad but them boys sound to be a whole hell of a lot better than me. Some of us have to actually work still and can't just play golf all the time 😂

I honestly think you can hang. Keep in mind chi plays from the ladies tees! 

[chisag]

36 minutes ago, TiScape said:

Yeah sorry for not thinking about you Pete! You def step outside the lounge box and it’s not lost on me! 🙏🏼 

 

 

... The one thing I think you miss in your crusade to get others to like your music is, I wish I did. I really do. I have said more than a few times the wider variety of anything you can enjoy the better, but especially music. I am quite jealous of AE because he seems to love such a wide variety of music and it is pretty easy to tell he is very passionate about it. That's a real gift I think. I apologize as this involves reading but it explains why your formative years have such a musical influence on the rest of your life: 

 

 

There’s no doubt that music can have a powerful effect on us, both as individuals and on our culture as a whole. The music we listen to can influence our mood, bring people together and even tell stories that span the passage of time. Growing up, I enjoyed the music my parents listened to, mainly classic tunes from the ’70s and ’80s. In my teenage years, I was heavily influenced by the music my peers listened to. Today, I am generally not picky with my music. I like to think I listen to a wide variety of musical genres from alternative to rap, rock, R&B, hip hop and so on. Of course, there are the ‘no-go’ genres that my ears and brain just cannot process, including heavy metal and screamo. I don’t know the exact musical lingo, but I call it ‘heavy’ music. So, it got me thinking; what influences my musical preferences? And does my taste in music reveal something about my personality? How is it possible that two people can listen to the same song and have such different reactions to it?
 

In the same way, babies and children develop specific skills during a certain age, there is also a magic age when it comes to the development of music taste. It starts at fourteen and peaks around twenty-four years of age according to Daniel J. Levitin, director of the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory at McGill University. During this time, our hormones enhance our experiences and allow us to develop specific tastes. In this case, music becomes “a badge of identity”. After this time, our identity and social groups are usually set in concrete. We tend to challenge our aesthetic preferences less. But, of course, everyone is different so there will always be exceptions (like those grandparents who love EDM).

 

Whatever you blast through your speakers will most likely cause your brain to release dopamine. That’s the same chemical released when you take certain drugs, have sex or eat chocolate. The ‘pleasure’ centres of the brain are triggered the same way through all these tasks.

 

Neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor has conducted experiments using functional MRI to track participants’ brain activity while they listened to the first thirty seconds of songs they were unfamiliar with. After each snippet, participants were offered the opportunity to purchase the song. However, unlike an iTunes card, it was formatted like an auction—they could place bids from between $0 to $2. Why do this, you ask? Well, if a participant spends $2 on a song, it would mean that a lot more dopamine was released during that song, reinforcing the connection between the pleasure centre and other parts of the brain like the amygdala, important in emotion processing, and the hippocampus, important for memory.

 

According to Salimpoor, our brains create ‘musical memory templates’ based on our past experiences and exposure to different styles of music. Essentially, our brain can predict how we’ll feel from a song based on similar music we have heard. Depending on what styles of music our brains have recorded, they can choose whether to reactivate these ‘reward’ pathways when listening to new music.

 

On this note, there is also a reason why our parents and grandparents love listening to tunes that were top of the charts when they were younger. Studies have shown that people stop seeking out new music around their mid-thirties and instead gravitate back towards music they used to listen to during their younger years. This is so much so that people have reported more pleasure listening to songs of their era than any other period. Guess I’ll still be bopping along to Ari and The Weeknd when I’m sixty, huh?

 

[TiScape]

1 minute ago, chisag said:

 

 

... The one thing I think you miss in your crusade to get others to like your music is, I wish I did. I really do. I have said more than a few times the wider variety of anything you can enjoy the better, but especially music. I am quite jealous of AE because he seems to love such a wide variety of music and it is pretty easy to tell he is very passionate about it. That's a real gift I think. I apologize as this involves reading but it explains why your formative years have such a musical influence on the rest of your life: 

 

 

There’s no doubt that music can have a powerful effect on us, both as individuals and on our culture as a whole. The music we listen to can influence our mood, bring people together and even tell stories that span the passage of time. Growing up, I enjoyed the music my parents listened to, mainly classic tunes from the ’70s and ’80s. In my teenage years, I was heavily influenced by the music my peers listened to. Today, I am generally not picky with my music. I like to think I listen to a wide variety of musical genres from alternative to rap, rock, R&B, hip hop and so on. Of course, there are the ‘no-go’ genres that my ears and brain just cannot process, including heavy metal and screamo. I don’t know the exact musical lingo, but I call it ‘heavy’ music. So, it got me thinking; what influences my musical preferences? And does my taste in music reveal something about my personality? How is it possible that two people can listen to the same song and have such different reactions to it?
 

In the same way, babies and children develop specific skills during a certain age, there is also a magic age when it comes to the development of music taste. It starts at fourteen and peaks around twenty-four years of age according to Daniel J. Levitin, director of the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory at McGill University. During this time, our hormones enhance our experiences and allow us to develop specific tastes. In this case, music becomes “a badge of identity”. After this time, our identity and social groups are usually set in concrete. We tend to challenge our aesthetic preferences less. But, of course, everyone is different so there will always be exceptions (like those grandparents who love EDM).

 

Whatever you blast through your speakers will most likely cause your brain to release dopamine. That’s the same chemical released when you take certain drugs, have sex or eat chocolate. The ‘pleasure’ centres of the brain are triggered the same way through all these tasks.

 

Neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor has conducted experiments using functional MRI to track participants’ brain activity while they listened to the first thirty seconds of songs they were unfamiliar with. After each snippet, participants were offered the opportunity to purchase the song. However, unlike an iTunes card, it was formatted like an auction—they could place bids from between $0 to $2. Why do this, you ask? Well, if a participant spends $2 on a song, it would mean that a lot more dopamine was released during that song, reinforcing the connection between the pleasure centre and other parts of the brain like the amygdala, important in emotion processing, and the hippocampus, important for memory.

 

According to Salimpoor, our brains create ‘musical memory templates’ based on our past experiences and exposure to different styles of music. Essentially, our brain can predict how we’ll feel from a song based on similar music we have heard. Depending on what styles of music our brains have recorded, they can choose whether to reactivate these ‘reward’ pathways when listening to new music.

 

On this note, there is also a reason why our parents and grandparents love listening to tunes that were top of the charts when they were younger. Studies have shown that people stop seeking out new music around their mid-thirties and instead gravitate back towards music they used to listen to during their younger years. This is so much so that people have reported more pleasure listening to songs of their era than any other period. Guess I’ll still be bopping along to Ari and The Weeknd when I’m sixty, huh?

 

You’re wrong from ur first sentence. Nothing to do w/wanting anyone to like my music! I’m no 5yo. I get everyone has their own tastes. I simply asked for some tunes ppl like from 2020 on. Plenty of genres to choose from! “My crusade” 😂 Too funny

[touch]

10 minutes ago, TiScape said:

Saw an interview w/Gabby Ruffles on GC earlier today. She’s on a tear on the Epson tour (LPGAs Korn Ferry) and is just way too cute. Look forward to seeing more of her 😍

 

 

You perhaps missed my post a few weeks ago. I've been on the Ruffles bandwagon since she played at USC. That girl gets it done, oh yeah she's way friggin cute. Her Aussie accent is a bonus! 

[chisag]

6 minutes ago, TiScape said:

I honestly think you can hang. Keep in mind chi plays from the ladies tees! 

 

 

... True, without my Humana make up I am an old man in his 70's channeling Steen's Glory Days while creeping up to the most forward tee box. Stiff back? LOL, nobody wants to hear it old timer, just bunt your Stealth2 HD with a $350 shaft out there just shy of 200 yds and hit your #4 hybrid just short of the green from 159yds. At least The Beatles will be playing from my JBL and with my hearing aid on HIGH, I should be able to hear it. But I will need some notice so I can buy a pair of joggers that won't quite grip my skinny ankles. 

[bscinstnct]

3 minutes ago, TiScape said:

You’re wrong from ur first sentence. Nothing to do w/wanting anyone to like my music! I’m no 5yo. I get everyone has their own tastes. I simply asked for some tunes ppl like from 2020 on. Plenty of genres to choose from! “My crusade” 😂 Too funny

 

This one! 2014!

 

Closest to 2020 I got! 🤣🍻

 

 

[TiScape]

10 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

 

... The one thing I think you miss in your crusade to get others to like your music is, I wish I did. I really do. I have said more than a few times the wider variety of anything you can enjoy the better, but especially music. I am quite jealous of AE because he seems to love such a wide variety of music and it is pretty easy to tell he is very passionate about it. That's a real gift I think. I apologize as this involves reading but it explains why your formative years have such a musical influence on the rest of your life: 

 

 

There’s no doubt that music can have a powerful effect on us, both as individuals and on our culture as a whole. The music we listen to can influence our mood, bring people together and even tell stories that span the passage of time. Growing up, I enjoyed the music my parents listened to, mainly classic tunes from the ’70s and ’80s. In my teenage years, I was heavily influenced by the music my peers listened to. Today, I am generally not picky with my music. I like to think I listen to a wide variety of musical genres from alternative to rap, rock, R&B, hip hop and so on. Of course, there are the ‘no-go’ genres that my ears and brain just cannot process, including heavy metal and screamo. I don’t know the exact musical lingo, but I call it ‘heavy’ music. So, it got me thinking; what influences my musical preferences? And does my taste in music reveal something about my personality? How is it possible that two people can listen to the same song and have such different reactions to it?
 

In the same way, babies and children develop specific skills during a certain age, there is also a magic age when it comes to the development of music taste. It starts at fourteen and peaks around twenty-four years of age according to Daniel J. Levitin, director of the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory at McGill University. During this time, our hormones enhance our experiences and allow us to develop specific tastes. In this case, music becomes “a badge of identity”. After this time, our identity and social groups are usually set in concrete. We tend to challenge our aesthetic preferences less. But, of course, everyone is different so there will always be exceptions (like those grandparents who love EDM).

 

Whatever you blast through your speakers will most likely cause your brain to release dopamine. That’s the same chemical released when you take certain drugs, have sex or eat chocolate. The ‘pleasure’ centres of the brain are triggered the same way through all these tasks.

 

Neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor has conducted experiments using functional MRI to track participants’ brain activity while they listened to the first thirty seconds of songs they were unfamiliar with. After each snippet, participants were offered the opportunity to purchase the song. However, unlike an iTunes card, it was formatted like an auction—they could place bids from between $0 to $2. Why do this, you ask? Well, if a participant spends $2 on a song, it would mean that a lot more dopamine was released during that song, reinforcing the connection between the pleasure centre and other parts of the brain like the amygdala, important in emotion processing, and the hippocampus, important for memory.

 

According to Salimpoor, our brains create ‘musical memory templates’ based on our past experiences and exposure to different styles of music. Essentially, our brain can predict how we’ll feel from a song based on similar music we have heard. Depending on what styles of music our brains have recorded, they can choose whether to reactivate these ‘reward’ pathways when listening to new music.

 

On this note, there is also a reason why our parents and grandparents love listening to tunes that were top of the charts when they were younger. Studies have shown that people stop seeking out new music around their mid-thirties and instead gravitate back towards music they used to listen to during their younger years. This is so much so that people have reported more pleasure listening to songs of their era than any other period. Guess I’ll still be bopping along to Ari and The Weeknd when I’m sixty, huh?

 

Happy to report this is yet another box I don’t fit in. At 51 I still enjoy exploring new music! A big percentage of what I listen to today isn’t what I listened to when I was younger. Love being above average! 😂 

Edited August 15, 2023 by TiScape

[TiScape]

2 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

 

This one! 2014!

 

Closest to 2020 I got! 🤣🍻

 

 

I see that and give you these Oakland natives. 

 

[Double Mocha Man]

8 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

 

... The one thing I think you miss in your crusade to get others to like your music is, I wish I did. I really do. I have said more than a few times the wider variety of anything you can enjoy the better, but especially music. I am quite jealous of AE because he seems to love such a wide variety of music and it is pretty easy to tell he is very passionate about it. That's a real gift I think. I apologize as this involves reading but it explains why your formative years have such a musical influence on the rest of your life: 

 

 

There’s no doubt that music can have a powerful effect on us, both as individuals and on our culture as a whole. The music we listen to can influence our mood, bring people together and even tell stories that span the passage of time. Growing up, I enjoyed the music my parents listened to, mainly classic tunes from the ’70s and ’80s. In my teenage years, I was heavily influenced by the music my peers listened to. Today, I am generally not picky with my music. I like to think I listen to a wide variety of musical genres from alternative to rap, rock, R&B, hip hop and so on. Of course, there are the ‘no-go’ genres that my ears and brain just cannot process, including heavy metal and screamo. I don’t know the exact musical lingo, but I call it ‘heavy’ music. So, it got me thinking; what influences my musical preferences? And does my taste in music reveal something about my personality? How is it possible that two people can listen to the same song and have such different reactions to it?
 

In the same way, babies and children develop specific skills during a certain age, there is also a magic age when it comes to the development of music taste. It starts at fourteen and peaks around twenty-four years of age according to Daniel J. Levitin, director of the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory at McGill University. During this time, our hormones enhance our experiences and allow us to develop specific tastes. In this case, music becomes “a badge of identity”. After this time, our identity and social groups are usually set in concrete. We tend to challenge our aesthetic preferences less. But, of course, everyone is different so there will always be exceptions (like those grandparents who love EDM).

 

Whatever you blast through your speakers will most likely cause your brain to release dopamine. That’s the same chemical released when you take certain drugs, have sex or eat chocolate. The ‘pleasure’ centres of the brain are triggered the same way through all these tasks.

 

Neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor has conducted experiments using functional MRI to track participants’ brain activity while they listened to the first thirty seconds of songs they were unfamiliar with. After each snippet, participants were offered the opportunity to purchase the song. However, unlike an iTunes card, it was formatted like an auction—they could place bids from between $0 to $2. Why do this, you ask? Well, if a participant spends $2 on a song, it would mean that a lot more dopamine was released during that song, reinforcing the connection between the pleasure centre and other parts of the brain like the amygdala, important in emotion processing, and the hippocampus, important for memory.

 

According to Salimpoor, our brains create ‘musical memory templates’ based on our past experiences and exposure to different styles of music. Essentially, our brain can predict how we’ll feel from a song based on similar music we have heard. Depending on what styles of music our brains have recorded, they can choose whether to reactivate these ‘reward’ pathways when listening to new music.

 

On this note, there is also a reason why our parents and grandparents love listening to tunes that were top of the charts when they were younger. Studies have shown that people stop seeking out new music around their mid-thirties and instead gravitate back towards music they used to listen to during their younger years. This is so much so that people have reported more pleasure listening to songs of their era than any other period. Guess I’ll still be bopping along to Ari and The Weeknd when I’m sixty, huh?

 

 

Nouveau flamenco

Classical

Cuban/Latin

Big band swing
Blues
Tejano
Reggae
Outlaw country

[chisag]

7 minutes ago, TiScape said:

“My crusade” 😂 Too funny

 

 

... You found the trigger words!  👍

[TiScape]

1 minute ago, chisag said:

 

 

... You found the trigger words!  👍

You kept my calm Memoji! Awwww 🥰