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689 Reply by George Jan 11, 2010 6:43 pm

Re: Damn you, chipmusic.com! (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Haha! bookmark fail.
I put cm.org on speed dial in Opera : I never see that goddamn couple again!

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690 Reply by George Jan 11, 2010 6:31 pm

Re: This is your brain on chipmusic (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I haven't got around to reading it, but fellow psych students read it and told me it was really interesting and well documented.

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691 Reply by George Jan 11, 2010 6:00 pm

Re: What do you say when some asks what do you do? (87 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Yeah... a friend of mine once tried to talk someone out of believing that what he was hearing (Bit Shifter) was made of samples from Megaman. And then when she switched the music to something by Nullsleep the tool argued all album long that he sampled Zelda. True Story.

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692 Topic by George Jan 11, 2010 5:46 pm

Topic: This is your brain on chipmusic (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)

McGill university's neuropsychology department has a team of searchers working on the effects of music on the human brain (check it here : http://www.yourbrainonmusic.com/ )

Though there are similarities in how humans as a whole react to music, I think the exact effects it has on someone's mind is a very personal, singular experience. And sometimes there are sounds that have unexpected influences on us : when I'm restless I listen to Olivier Messiaen's work, it helps me settle down and concentrate. God knows why.

I've been really stressed in the last few weeks, and as it is always with stress and me it affects my sleep patterns in a major way. When I do sleep I get vivid nightmares and wake up after 12-14 hours of unsatisfying sleep that leaves me tired for the full day, as if I hadn't slept at all.
But I found out recently that if I listen to little-scale's music I do not dream at all and wake up after 5 or 6 hours, absolutely rested and full of energy all day long. I absolutely don't know why, but I'm sticking to it : much better than sleeping pills!

Last summer I trained three times a week ( I had lost a couple of pounds due to swine flu, mostly muscles, and wanted to shape back up), and the only thing I could listen to while training was Bit Shifter. I tried other chipmusic, breakcore, punk, and countless other stuff just to realise that I was totes not able to train if I wasn't listening to Bit Shifter. And let me tell you that of all his fans, that summer, I was the one who longed the most for a new album! :3

Anybody else had similar experiences?

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693 Reply by George Jan 11, 2010 4:18 pm

Re: Please do me a favor (42 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Wearing my famous red lipstick today, who wants some kisses?
They're free for all members of cm.org
Love you guys! :3

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694 Reply by George Jan 11, 2010 4:14 pm

Re: Upcoming features: Uploads and stuff (163 replies, posted in Rules & Announcements)

@TRasH : would nullify a thumbs up, I guess?

I like the idea of tags : I love discovering new artists, but I'm quite busy (school, work, artistic projects, etc... and I'm sure I'm not alone in that sort of situation) and I need a way to filter tracks so I don't "waste" time downloading and listening to things that aren't relevant to my interests. I find that a "likes" system doesn't help me much in that way. As a parallel, when I go to a thrift store looking for a blue shirt I see right away what is blue, right? I'd like to be able to search for, say, "experimental +idm" and get a list of songs tagged as "experimental" and "idm".

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695 Topic by George Jan 10, 2010 4:46 pm

Topic: Calendar (9 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)

Not really a suggestion for the board itself - and maybe there is already something like that that already exists elsewhere - but I believe that the website will have many sections and one that I think would be useful is a calendar of chip related events.
I know, there is a section named "upcoming events", but I think, though it has its purpose, it has its flaws, for instance :

-While some areas of the world have many chip events ( NY, for instance) for most of us there are only a very few of them A YEAR in our part of the world. It's easy to miss on one of them when browsing the "upcoming events" section because they tend to get pushed off the first page really fast by the NY or UK events that are more numerous and get more replies.

-For the areas that are lucky enough to have many shows a month, or even a week, sometimes people will mistake one event for the other and end up missing one. As an example : NYC - Post-Blip Showcase 12/20/09 NYC - Post-Blip Matinee 12/20/09 & NYC Post-Blip Mushpot presents ... 12/21/09 - Good thing I had to build a detailed calendar of Blip related events for work and decided to share it with about 20 people because I got lots of comments like "Oh shit thanks, I was gonna miss on X because I thought it was Y". Ok this is an extreme example, and things that "bad" only happen once a year, but I'm sure you catch my drift.

-It's complicated for people who browse the boards only a couple of times a month to keep track of what is happening, event wise.

etc...

What I suggest :

Something similar to this : http://www.rave.ca/en/calendar/2010/ that we could research by date and by area. Promoters should post their events in "upcoming events" and somebody would take care of updating the calendar. I'd totally be up for helping with that.

(Also, I'm not saying that this should be done first thing tomorrow - I know you guys are quite busy and such a feature would take some time to implement.)

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