Birthday AMA

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Are Vinyls actually better than CDs and digital music? is there any love for cassettes?

Anyone who believes in a certain superiority of a medium is a piece of shit. I think that the reason why people have skipped over cassettes so much is that they never fully replaced vinyl before CDs came out. I've got Dookie on cassette lying around somewhere, but it's hard to find anything that plays cassette nowadays. You can find record players and CD players, but cassette was kind of just a stop gap between vinyl and digital (including CDs under digital).

What are your thoughts on artists pulling an Outkast speakerboxxx/love below album where each person does their own thing and then mashes it together for an unforgettable experience?

I think it just depends on if the two artists are comfortable with being placed next to the other. It's an interesting concept, but I do believe more in the idea of having one unifying concept for a record. I think that's something I've lacked in my own writing and sequencing, but want to get better at. When you release music, you release music. I'd need to listen to the whole album to try to get a feel.

What was/will be your first legal drink of choice?

Jeppson's Malort. Later today.

Favorite single A baseball team?

I just found out the Chicago Dogs are not in Single A, they're independent.

I guess it's between the Kane County Cougars cause I know we've got merch from them somehow and the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers because I visit Appleton a lot cause family.

What are the differences between an Anime and a Cartoon?

I actually did my final project in my film history class about this very idea and after weeks of research, my definitive answer is that there is no real definitive answer. Definitions are created by the consensus of those who use language, so while things can vary person to person, larger definitions of abstract concepts are harder to nail down.

Of course, there's the camps of people who say something needs to be from Japan or have a specific style, but there are animations from Japan that look nothing like "normal" anime and there are American animations that look exactly like anime.

I think that you can try to look for common themes, but those are just genres. In reality, anime is whatever people want anime to be. Whether it's Bebop, Boondocks, or Corey in the House, anime is a medium with no strict limits in my eyes. It's just a feeling you get when watching something and you recognize that it's an anime. It's highly personal and highly subjective, but I'm a writer, not a scientist.

Did you wear a mask during the pandemic? did you make it, buy it, or have one already?

I haven't been outside in 68 days. Don't even need a mask if you don't go outside.

Although I have been wearing a soccer scarf over my face while mowing the lawn. Haven't been anywhere near people while doing that, but I figured it'd look weird if I was the only one not wearing anything.

Trebuchet or catapult?

Obviously a trebuchet. Can a catapult fling a 90 kilogram stone projectile over 300 meters?

If someone was flipping a coin, would you choose heads or tails?

When making a decision, I have a Chicago Fire challenge coin that I flip. It's got the Fire logo on one side and the fan-made logo on the other. I assign a binary outcome to each side of the coin and then do the opposite thing of what the coin says to do.

So the answer is tails.

Whats your favorite non-English language?

Polish.

I want to learn Spanish for soccer reasons, Japanese for anime reasons, and then Polish because i just want to learn Polish.