***May Low Content Thread***

[Roy]

the funny thing is the quality of music in the pop star song basically matches that of the nickleback song.

[Doorbread]

I know, right?

[Roy]

not that i listen to nickleback or anything.

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[chinaski101]

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200...061016fa_fact6

This is an interesting article by Gladwell that concentrates on a company that predicts how to make high grossing movies. The part I found most interesting was the music company Platinum Blue(page 2) that essentially all popular music hits have the same components, no matter the genre.

"McCready didn’t care about who the artist was, or the cleverness of the lyrics. He didn’t even have a way of feeding lyrics into his computer. He cared only about a song’s underlying mathematical structure. “If you go back to the popular melodies written by Beethoven and Mozart three hundred years ago,” he went on, “they conform to the same mathematical patterns that we are looking at today. What sounded like a beautiful melody to them sounds like a beautiful melody to us. What has changed is simply that we have come up with new styles and new instruments. Our brains are wired in a way—we assume—that keeps us coming back, again and again, to the same answers, the same pleasure centers.”

[napsus]

mindcirkus sounds like ray liotta....thanks for the video!

[SoCalQuest]

Won two seats to the 1500 rebuy tomorrow. Was very excited. Then lost 25k, unregistered. Sad face.

[Mig]

Originally Posted by dickkemp

this needs as much love as possible no?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSlqI1AVUk

Thanks for the link ! Wasn't aware of about half the scandal in that vid. Just to show u how much I care about these pop "stars"

[dickkemp]

Originally Posted by chinaski101

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200...061016fa_fact6

This is an interesting article by Gladwell that concentrates on a company that predicts how to make high grossing movies. The part I found most interesting was the music company Platinum Blue(page 2) that essentially all popular music hits have the same components, no matter the genre.

"McCready didn’t care about who the artist was, or the cleverness of the lyrics. He didn’t even have a way of feeding lyrics into his computer. He cared only about a song’s underlying mathematical structure. “If you go back to the popular melodies written by Beethoven and Mozart three hundred years ago,” he went on, “they conform to the same mathematical patterns that we are looking at today. What sounded like a beautiful melody to them sounds like a beautiful melody to us. What has changed is simply that we have come up with new styles and new instruments. Our brains are wired in a way—we assume—that keeps us coming back, again and again, to the same answers, the same pleasure centers.”

man dont even get me started on modern music! ironically this actually makes me accept it a little more. i love hip hop but think 95% of the lyrics are complete trash. (i have decided to solve this problem by listening to rap in languages i cant understand.) it is all the same old crap over and over again same with the pop singers ugh. but now i know why it is catchy at least.


and as for the popstars, i really hate them unless they are doing something really stupid, so i guess i like them a lot LOL.

[kutty]

Originally Posted by chinaski101

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200...061016fa_fact6

This is an interesting article by Gladwell that concentrates on a company that predicts how to make high grossing movies. The part I found most interesting was the music company Platinum Blue(page 2) that essentially all popular music hits have the same components, no matter the genre.

"McCready didn’t care about who the artist was, or the cleverness of the lyrics. He didn’t even have a way of feeding lyrics into his computer. He cared only about a song’s underlying mathematical structure. “If you go back to the popular melodies written by Beethoven and Mozart three hundred years ago,” he went on, “they conform to the same mathematical patterns that we are looking at today. What sounded like a beautiful melody to them sounds like a beautiful melody to us. What has changed is simply that we have come up with new styles and new instruments. Our brains are wired in a way—we assume—that keeps us coming back, again and again, to the same answers, the same pleasure centers.”

Pretty sure John Mayer is famous for perfecting this in school and making his pop songs simply based on the formula

[wazz]

How does this fit into your neat little formula, eh? Bwahahaahahaha

[Syous]

played like a madman today

sustainable?



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[RandALLin]

Originally Posted by BigCityBanker

hmm, i wonder how well this hypothesis would stand up to scrutiny from some HSMTT'ers. I think you should cross post and see if you can start some debate. I'd be interested in following it.

Depends on what tournament it is. Online, shorter stacks mean big open shoves and reshoves. Live, depending what continent, will vary from super nitty to retarded loose spewy.

As for the buying pieces topic, online it is pretty tough. Live, depending on the tournament, is just whatever Clayton said.

[donkey_king]

Originally Posted by cts

hm if you want to crossbook all of your action at par=140% in any online PLO mtt > $100 i am happy to take it! (i know nothing about your game) =)

I'd be willing to bet $5k or somethin for fun. I'd like it to be over at least 20 tourneys.

[Adiprene1]

lovin this structure in the rebuys scoop didn't play the high though

[donkey_king]

the high one was very soft fyi