The New York Times Shits Right Into Your Eyes

[Steve Contra]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/style/what-is-a-soul-salon.html

Tech elites who are looking for more than extra zeros in their bank statements are finding it in an unlikely place: so-called songversations, emotion-heavy gatherings that combine philosophical rap sessions with improvised music, run by a ukulele-strumming songstress who describes herself as a “heartist.”

“People forget that they are human beings rather than human doings,”

The effect is vaguely akin to Joni Mitchell performing freestyle rap at Davos.

As the music swirled, Charles Eisenstein, a proponent of what he calls “sacred economics,” talked about the unending human injury to Mother Earth. “If you knew she could feel, would you stop?” he said.]As the music swirled, Charles Eisenstein, a proponent of what he calls “sacred economics,” talked about the unending human injury to Mother Earth. “If you knew she could feel, would you stop?” he said.

“It’s Burning Man in Chelsea,” one observer said.]“It’s Burning Man in Chelsea,” one observer said.

If you see me today please kill me.

[Tasty]

ukulele-strumming

[Steve Contra]

ukulele-strumming

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The effect is vaguely akin to Joni Mitchell performing freestyle rap at Davos.

[Flannel Boy]

“People forget that they are human beings rather than human doings,”

[TEEEPO]

fucking white people

[Atramental]

Gross

[Corporal]

Ya know, back in my day, such people would have been treated from a young age with daily atomic wedgies, until they got better. 

[ToxicAdam]

fucking white people

More like, White women and the men who put up with the bullshit because they want to get laid.

[benjipwns]

As the music swirled, Charles Eisenstein, a proponent of what he calls “sacred economics,” talked about the unending human injury to Mother Earth. “If you knew she could feel, would you stop?” he said.

When his monologue wound down, Ms. Magic rose and began a Norah Jones-style ballad, picking up phrases from Mr. Eisenstein’s talk. “If we believed,” she sang in a soulful jazz scat, “that me, that me, that me and the river were the same, would it change my ways?”

way to not be inclusive of those who do self-harm CHARLES

[Joe Molotov]

This is why Trump got elected.

[benjipwns]

Despite her wood-nymph aura, or maybe because of it, Ms. Magic has found herself in some  button-down circles. In 2016, she performed at the Women Economic Forum in New Delhi and at a star-studded birthday party of her friend Ken Howery, a founder of PayPal, on Necker Island.

“I don’t know if you’d call this a breakthrough,” she said, “but I got Peter Thiel to sing along and Elon Musk to smile.”

As Ms. Magic likes to say, “We don’t sing to be good, we sing to be free.”

Andrew Hewitt, the creator of GameChangers 500, which ranks the world’s top “for-benefit” businesses, said he has “witnessed some of the headiest Silicon Valley titans be deeply touched through these experiences.”

“For people who live most of the time in their head,” Mr. Hewitt said, “this feels like magic.”

Ms. Magic is now extending her song beyond Silicon Valley, with a 10-city tour (a mix of private salons and public events, starting at $35) stretching from the summer solstice to the fall equinox.

“One of the reasons why I do what I do, and why I am, honestly, on this planet, is to show up with such a level of vulnerability and sincerity and authenticity, that it almost gives people permission to let it go for a little while,” she said.

[nudemacusers]

fucking white people

fucking white people

fucking white women

[nudemacusers]

fucking white people

More like, White women and the men who put up with the bullshit because they want to get laid.

this guy fucks white people

[Van Cruncheon]

i'm human doing yer mom

[TVC15]

Joni would take a shit if she heard her name used in reference to this nonsense.

[Kara]

The spouse of the director of one of my nonprofit clients took up the ukulele a year ago and they think it's a perfectly normal thing to have done and will chat you up about it whether or not you even feign interest . . . but wait, it gets worse: they also do the "guy no one asked to bring an acoustic guitar to the party" routine just with a ukulele instead of a guitar and at a place of business instead of a party where at least you can numb the aggravated aesthetic assault in progress with libations.

[brawndolicious]

I never met people like this when I was in school at Santa Cruz (whitest UC) but I met them when I started working at companies that had 20 year veterans. Those are the type of people who cannot say hello to a c-level exec without genuflection and then talk about how society has a "nature-deficit". And yes, they absofuckinglutely do bring guitars, amps, and I've even seen one of those foot pedals before because they need to perform for the FAMILY.

It's really shit, and it needs to be called out. It might be like bird shit where the white part really sticks out but it's still shit.

[Tasty]

Do you guys just hate other people? Let people be themselves.

People can be themselves but I reserve the right to laugh at them.

[Big Hoops]

“People forget that they are human beings rather than human doings,”



This is so funny. I can't even be mad. COMEDY

[Tasty]

That said, the world needs more weird and interesting things. So I ain't even mad.

[Rufus]

Let me just throw this here molotov into this thread

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+1 to your cultural-marxists index if you made it through the entire wank

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Balalaika bonus:

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[Great Rumbler]

Only time where ukulele-use was justified:

[SmokyDave]

Do you guys just hate other people? Let people be themselves.

You can be yourself, until yourself picks up a ukelele. Then I’ll hate you.

[naff]

An ex whom I really loved (who was a very talented violinist) wanting to take up the Ukelele was the first srs sticking point in a past relationship. Being the asshat I am I was a bit derisive and she didn't take it up. I look back now and I'm like

Sometimes you need to stand up for what you believe in brehs.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Ukuleles are good fuck you

[FatRiker]

Ukuleles are the reason Japan should have bombed more of Hawaii during Pearl Harbor.

[Momo]

https://soundcloud.com/keikotakamura/modest-mouse-float-on-ukulele

[Steve Contra]

Do you guys just hate other people? Let people be themselves.

Of course I hate other people. Why else would I make this thread. Fuck you.

[Dickie Dee]

Ukuleles are good fuck you

A ukulele is just a fuck-boi's mandolin.

[thisismyusername]

Of course I hate other people. Why else would I make this thread. Fuck you.

Newsfeed, or please let me make this my title in glitter, mods. TYIA.</Kara>