If anyone else is wondering what the original version is like... http://youtu.be/CGyEd0aKWZE



I preferred the Postmodern Jukebox version myself

Post-post-post-postmodernism

After using a Windows Phone for a little more than a year, I can actually say that I don't like the Metro design language. I was all about it, back when I got the phone (Proof: http://braindonut.com/2010/11/20/windows-phone-7-thoughts/) and not many people can believe that I ever liked "Modern UI" or Metro, because I so very much dislike it nowadays.

I think I was just hungry for anything that was different and new. The problem was that it was like living in a dreary, international modernism, concrete building. At first, I appreciated the clean lines, the simple forms... No decoration. "Purely digital." But after a while, it started getting really boring. REALLY dreary.

Microsoft designed a set of design patterns that are made for getting in and out of your phone, quickly. They made it no nonsense - and it's elegant in that objective. But I don't want to get in and out of my phone. I want to live in that little thing. It's an extension of my daily life. And when I live somewhere, I don't want the walls all painted white and everything to be stark rectangles.

There's a big movement right now in design. Microsoft and Apple are kind of leading the opposing charges. Having existed in both worlds for a long while, I can honestly say I'd rather live in Apple's ecosystem. Sure, they could do things to make the iPhone more efficient within certain tasks, but on the whole, iPhone offers a superior experience. A lot of that is due to how much their OS is designed for an App ecosystem, while Microsoft struggles in this area. Even Windows 8 makes installed apps a pain in the ass to deal with.

So yeah, "Modern UI" is neat, different, ballsy. But I can't wait for the inevitable "Postmodern UI" response.

>> ^westy:

This is just annoying , Yes its possible for sum one to compose general music around random notes.
seems like a mastabatory celebration of the protentoise interpretation of what a piano is.


Well I, for one, completely agree with westy. Ms. Kronenberg's arrangement of this piece belies the typical human ignorance involved when trying to project the metaphysical onto the postmodern darkness of the everyday conditional object. Her lack of finesse when dealing with the emotional spectrum involved with the derivatives of dialectical emotional power is clumsy at best. At worst it becomes a maladroit nightmare of unresolved, vernal weltschmerz.

Additionally, my balls can play the key-fiddle better than this chump.

I'll have to check that out. Come to think of it, I have noticed that conservatives do sometimes tend to take obvious sarcasm, metaphor or irony literally. I hadn't noticed that as a trend before. Weird.

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
i just watched waiting for armageddon.......

1. i now understand where the sudden hysteria about nazi's came from .... the aryans persecuted the jews like multiculturalism, feminism, and atheism are persecuting the white christian male.... therefore "progressivism" is a total assault on white men because it seeks to include people of other races, genders, and creeds ... if we give pell grants and scholarships for hispanic women to go to college, there will be less room for white men.....

2. postmodernism is apparently the biggest threat to liberty... because the "postmodernist" doesn't take words literally, but rather digs for symbolism... so postmodern christians are more liberal and symbolic with their interpretation of the word of god, and literalism is dying out... these people aren't really christians... and when words lose their meaning, people die... postmodernism is killing people


all the women in this documentary seemed absolutely terrified. all the men seemed to have erections. my heart is screaming and shrinking and swelling and bleeding and leaking in the juxtaposition of all that fear and sadness and death and joy and repressed inappropriate arousal.

It must be some sort of postmodern feminism thing. Looks like the new season of Community is taking an interesting turn!

i just watched waiting for armageddon.......

1. i now understand where the sudden hysteria about nazi's came from .... the aryans persecuted the jews like multiculturalism, feminism, and atheism are persecuting the white christian male.... therefore "progressivism" is a total assault on white men because it seeks to include people of other races, genders, and creeds ... if we give pell grants and scholarships for hispanic women to go to college, there will be less room for white men.....

2. postmodernism is apparently the biggest threat to liberty... because the "postmodernist" doesn't take words literally, but rather digs for symbolism... so postmodern christians are more liberal and symbolic with their interpretation of the word of god, and literalism is dying out... these people aren't really christians... and when words lose their meaning, people die... postmodernism is killing people


all the women in this documentary seemed absolutely terrified. all the men seemed to have erections. my heart is screaming and shrinking and swelling and bleeding and leaking in the juxtaposition of all that fear and sadness and death and joy and repressed inappropriate arousal.

In this postmodern world trending towards atheism celebrities have become the worshiped and sacrificed Gods of our time. We love to see them fall.

>> ^griefer_queafer:

I dont know. I love Carlin in many ways, but this is really just postmodern apocalypticism at its worst. He's like this big fucking catastrophe maven, and it sickens me how proud he is of it sometimes.
But I get it: its not like I have to choose between enjoying his routine and caring about the oil spill in the gulf... right???


I see your point.

He was very close to the end of his life in these videos (parts 1 & 2), and I think that he could sense that the end was nigh. That could be part of it.

I think the futility took a toll on him. He had been speaking out against the stupidity for so long, and really reaching millions of people, but it didn't make any difference. He saw the sixties come and go, and lo and behold in his twilight years he witnessed the rise of the Bush regime, and two more wars we didn't need.

I think he's quite correct regarding the illusion of choice we have here in the USA, and how voting is but an extension of that illusion.

What I see is a talented, compassionate, brilliant artist who is at wit's end.

In part two he said something like "if you scratch a cynic, you'll find a disillusioned idealist" and he admitted to being such a one.

He was a man who spent most of his life trying to warn everyone that the ship was sinking, but nobody paid attention. I understand fully.

Then please explain.

>> ^Raaagh:

>> ^griefer_queafer:
I dont know. I love Carlin in many ways, but this is really just postmodern apocalypticism at its worst. He's like this big fucking catastrophe maven, and it sickens me how proud he is of it sometimes.
But I get it: its not like I have to choose between enjoying his routine and caring about the oil spill in the gulf... right???

uuuuugh....You don't get it...not even close.

>> ^griefer_queafer:

I dont know. I love Carlin in many ways, but this is really just postmodern apocalypticism at its worst. He's like this big fucking catastrophe maven, and it sickens me how proud he is of it sometimes.
But I get it: its not like I have to choose between enjoying his routine and caring about the oil spill in the gulf... right???


uuuuugh....You don't get it...not even close.

I dont know. I love Carlin in many ways, but this is really just postmodern apocalypticism at its worst. He's like this big fucking catastrophe maven, and it sickens me how proud he is of it sometimes.

But I get it: its not like I have to choose between enjoying his routine and caring about the oil spill in the gulf... right???

I am not so sure either. Crake is clearly a modernist with an agenda.

This seems to be a take on people who are happily ignorant. Ignorance is not quite the same as POSTMODERN ignorance. Like, right???

What does this have to do with postmodernism?

upvote coz it flatters my opinions about the inhumanity and the strangeness of postmodern life.