#the opposite

[just-slightly-chayotic]

pretty boy

#jeff satur #PaintTheTownxJEFF #he is never beating those babygirl allegations and tbh he's not even trying #the opposite #the quality is SO bad i'm crying #sorry i don't know the sources #twitter

[karimationkat]

I really love the "Ready as I'll ever be" AvM videos but what I love even more is the people always giving Purple the "I'll save my home and family" line...

What home? What family?

Until KO/MT tried to save them, Purple saw KO/MT just as much as a tool to the means as KO/MT saw them.

It's just so funny and beautiful.

#Little lols #This is not me trying to hate it #No #The opposite #It's just so ironic #I love it just so much #alan becker #animation vs minecraft #avm purple

[overlyenthusiastic-personalblog]

#husbands #nopixel #y'all remember tattoo artist D? #well #what if #the opposite #this is also by arratasan!

[pixipoxi]

this grown ass man pulled a whole fucking temper tantrum because he wasn’t prescribed the viagra he wanted

#it’s hard out here #oh well no not really #the opposite #GIVE ME PUSSY OR GIVE ME DEATH #mine

[air-mechanical]

Catalyst Reading Continued III

Grand Vizier Amedda: You just can't stop fucking up, can you Krennic? First you get scammed and allow months of work on the battle station to be destroyed. And now your team test firing the weapon are so useless that they blew their facility up and set off a nuclear meltdown.

Krennic: None of that is my fault.

Amedda: Don't interrupt, I'm not finished. We're bending over backwards to give Galen Erso money and resources and he still hasn't joined the team. What do you expect me to give him next? The shirt off the Emperor's back? His actual shirt?

Krennic: I-

Amedda: Imperial troops aren't your personal playthings. You can't just order them about. The chain of command exists for a reason, and it's time you learnt that.

Krennic: You told me to do what it takes to get the job done and now you're bitching at me? For following your command?

Amedda: I'm sick of this shit. Focus on building the weapon. We're bringing in Tarkin to take over everything else.

Krennic: I hear what you're saying. Don't worry. I have the perfect solution to fix everything.

Amedda: Which is?

Krennic: Promote me.

Amedda: ...what?

Krennic: Rear Admiral will do for now.

Amedda: What?

Krennic: Any time today would be good, thanks. I have to get my new rank plaque coded with access codes. That takes longer than you think.

Amedda: ...you can have a promotion to Full Commander. Perhaps. And only if the Emperor agrees.

Krennic: heh heh heh

#krennic #orson krennic #star wars catalyst #star wars #krennic is excellent in this #yeah I've messed up and overseen even worse mess ups #but if you promote me everyone will think that I'm doing an excellent job and things are going swimmingly #and not #the opposite #an exaggerated summary of krennic and amedda's conversation at the end of chapter 17

[thekingofgear]

Jonny Greenwood’s Gear for The Smile’s NPR Tiny Desk Show

We’ve already posted a quick overview of The Smile’s gear for NPR’s Tiny Desk and a detailed description of Thom’s setup.

We’ll have an analysis of The Smile’s KEXP setup in the near future, but for now here’s the last post in our analysis of their Tiny Desk set:

Robert Stillman and Jonny during Panavision (youtube). Note the extra holes in the pickguard for a “tugbar” finger rest below the G string — that means the bass is from before 1974, since that’s the year Fender moved the finger rest to above the E-string to serve as a thumb rest.

For Tiny Desk, Jonny mostly used the same gear as at live shows this year, but stripped down to the essentials for guitar and bass. He played his his 1970s Fender Precision Bass on Panavision and We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings, and played his vintage Gibson Les Paul on The Smoke and  Skirting On The Surface. Jonny only used his Boss RE-202 Space Echo as a reverb on The Smoke. But on Skirting, he used his RE-202 as a delay, his Akai Headrush E2 as a looper, and his Electro-Harmonix Freeze during the solo. He brought several other pedals, but sounds like they weren’t used in the released tracks. Read on for a nice photo of Jonny’s pedal setup and lots more analysis (including an exact delay time for Thin Thing).

It’s a shame they decided not to share We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings, as it would be interesting to hear a stripped down version of the track. It looks like Jonny didn’t bring his Studiologic MIDI pedals, so they must’ve played it without his extra synth lines (and without Thom’s intro synth lines).

Jonny’s Instruments:

Gibson Les Paul in Natural finish (late-70s)

Fender Precision Bass in Natural finish (early-70s)

Jonny’s Amplifiers (shared with Thom):

Tiny Desk’s Fender ’68 Reissue Deluxe Reverb combo amplifier

Tiny Desk’s Ampeg RB-110 combo amplifier

Jonny’s Effects Pedals:


Guitar ->

Boss TU-2 tuner

Electro-Harmonix Freeze

Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive

Boss DD-200 delay

Akai Headrush E2 delay/looper


Boss RE-202 Space Echo

-> Amplifier

GigRig Generator and Distributor power supply.

A photo of Jonny’s 1970s Precision bass and the shared amps (joshrogosin). The mic on the Ampeg RB-110 bass amp is an AEA R84 ribbon microphone. The mic on the ‘68 Custom Deluxe Reverb is an AEA N22 ribbon microphone. The amps and mics belong to Tiny Desk, and the same ones can be seen in various performances on their channel.

The blue jewel lamp shows that the Deluxe Reverb is the ’68 Custom reissue, not a vintage silver-panel Deluxe (which had red jewel lamps). Jonny plugged into the Deluxe Reverb’s "vintage" channel, using input 1. On the ’68 reissue, the “vintage" channel is based on the original black-panel Deluxe Reverb (despite the silver design), but without the bright cap on the volume control. In contrast, the “custom” channel is based on a modified Bassman circuit.

A photo of Jonny’s guitar pedals for the Tiny Desk show (joshrogosin).

The Akai Headrush in this setup has a bunch of stickers indicating a multi-head delay setting, but it is set to "Looper" mode. It also has a piece of foam(?) to prevent the mode switch from being hit accidentally. The Headrush on Jonny's pedalboard doesn't have those stickers, so it seems likely that these pedals are the backups for Jonny's main board. Jonny might also use these pedals to play on the band's tour bus or at their hotels. That would explain the extra strikers.

Jonny's DD-200 has some tape listing his presets:

1 - Thin Thing

2 - Opposite

3 - Just Eyes and Mouth

5 - Pillows

Presets 4 and 6 are unreadable, but they are almost certainly for the unreleased songs Read the Room (previously called either “IT” or “Flangers”) and Bending Hectic. Jonny uses his long rhythmic delay technique on both tracks.

For more ambient delays on songs like Skirting On The Surface and Open The Floodgates, Jonny instead uses the Boss RE-202 Space Echo. That’s why the DD-200 has no presets for those tracks

In the image above, the DD-200 is set to preset number 1, and the digital display shows a delay time of 779ms. But if you’ve even tapped along to a live version of that song (on every fifth eighth note), you probably figured that out already.

For power, Jonny just has a GigRig Distributor without any Isolators for his high-draw digital effects. As usual, it seems Jonny isn’t too bothered about that kind of thing, at least for a one-off gig at low volume. GigRig power supplies come with long (1.5 meter) power cables so the user can cut them to size. Instead, it looks like Jonny (or his tech) left them uncut and simply wrapped up the extra length with some black zip ties.

#The Smile #Jonny Greenwood #Radiohead #Thin Thing #The Opposite #Just Eyes and Mouth #Pillows #We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings #Panavision #The Smoke #Skirting On The Surface #NPR #Tiny Desk #NPR Tiny Desk

[the4chambersofmystery]

"Can we have the next contestant, please?

In this logical absurdity

While quitting unexpectedly

Opposites attract

In ash and dust and pockets full of emptiness"

#the smile #the opposite #vibe tunes #Spotify

[bpdohwhatajoy]

Me: I’m fine

Also me: [17 hour fp playlist on repeat]

#ryan.txt #bpd #borderline personality disorder #fp #favorite person #yeah I’m not fine #the opposite

[bluesadansey]

objectively insane to equate a one night stand that may or may not have happened (but probably did but okay) with a whole emotional affair that spanned years?

#this is what I mean by people who are surprised show Billy is Like That need to read the book again #he was like we were equals in this marriage we both got things we needed from people who weren’t each other at a point #hers being what he suspects is a one night stand with her ex his being what he knows was a whole emotional affair with someone he admitted #to being in love with 😔 yes those have the same weight they’re both human flawed lolz #s speaks #It felt kind of right for Camila to be the one positioning things as ‘we’ve both done things’ in the show though I can see her justifying #his treatment of her to herself that way. #because I think she does a lot of narrativizing there #I think it’s interesting that they are similar in their interest in narrativizing themselves and their relationship while Daisy is so #authentic and unapologetic. even though In general Daisy and Billy are so much more alike than he and Camila that’s an area where it’s #the opposite

[peculiary]

Saga #14

#peace #the opposite #opposite #war

[formeraemo]

lol twitter is decaying I left here pretty much when the nudity went but I’m back now I guess

#so much has changed #im still bi #but my gender is like #the opposite #transmasc #nonbinary #trans man #ftm #trans #transgender

[seeminglydark]

The prompt was ‘detention.’

#crust punk #original characters #cheerleader #opposites #shipping #Highschool au

[rastronomicals]

10:16 PM EDT March 29, 2024:

The Smile - "The Opposite" From the album Mojo Presents The Best of 2022 (December 2022)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Free giveaway with issue number 350

#The Smile #Mojo Presents The Best of 2022 #The Opposite

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Ship trope I'd love to see more of: "Are we in love? I mean, yeah, probably, but that's a problem for future us. Right now we're just trying to make it through the Plot."

#exact opposite of the 'making out in the middle of a life or death situation' vibe #otp prompts #writing prompts #i speak #fandom life #otp prompt #writing prompt

[thekingofgear]

Thom's bass tone when he plays bass in The Smile sounds very different from the way Colin's bass tone sounds usually and also different from when Jonny plays bass in The Smile. It's very dark and super warm and still punchy. Do you know what gear might be involved in creating Thom's The Smile bass tone?

Jonny bowing his Fender Precision bass during the intro to A Hairdryer at Luxembourg's Neumünster Abbey on June 27, 2022 (essceeohteetee). Note the pick stored in the pickguard for when he finishes bowing. His Ampeg SVT Classic amp head and Ampeg 8x10 cabinet can be seen behind him (the Fender behind him is his Super Reverb guitar amp).

Thom and Jonny's bass setups for The Smile are described in detail in our post about their 2021 Glastonbury stream. Since then, Thom has switched up his bass pedals and bought a couple new bass guitars. Jonny has also switched from a smaller Ampeg B15 combo to a Ampeg SVT-CL head and large SVT 8x10 cab.

But the key differences between their setups remain the same. Thom mainly plays finger-style, and mainly uses short-scale basses with single-coils into a Fender Super Bassman. Jonny mainly plays with a pick, and only plays a Fender Precision bass into an Ampeg.

Thom's bass sound has remained consistent on The Opposite even as he's switched from his old Fender Mustang bass (Glastonbury 2021) to his Guild Starfire II (Magazine 2022) and then to his Gibson EB0 (current tour). That just goes to show that, as always, the fingers make the biggest difference.

Playing style also explains the difference between Jonny and Colin's bass sounds. Their setups are basically identical: they both almost exclusively use vintage Precision basses and modern Ampeg amps. But Jonny's choice of a pick for a post-punk sound is in stark contrast to the jazzier finger-style sound that has become Colin's signature.

Thom finger-picking his vintage Guild Starfire II bass during The Smile's show at Luxembourg's Neumünster Abbey on June 27, 2022 (essceeohteetee). His Fender Super Bassman amplifier and its cabinet can be seen behind him.

#The Smile #Thom Yorke #Radiohead #bass #The Opposite #Glastonbury 2021 #Jonny Greenwood #Colin Greenwood

[the-elf-draws]

Asking for directions

#art #my art #original art #astronaut #its space babyyy #i thought the idea of an astronaut asking for directions was a cute concept :'^) #it's not fanart which means it wont get as much attention but thats alright I had fun! #edit: that last tag is too funny in hindsight omfg #whats the opposite of hubris