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That is how the theremin makes its sound, except we call it heterodyning. By detuning on of a pair of high frequency oscillators these beats produce the sound of the theremin.
Does it make you go crazy?
Have you ever talked to a thereminist?
Once I realized what was going on I ceased playing the instrument except while performing lest its baleful effects drive me insane. I joined levnet and checked out the posts at thereminworld.com to check out my theory and see if there was any substance to the theremin induced madness. Go ahead! Don't trust me, after all, I have played the damned thing for maybe up to 40 hours over the course of 9 years. Join levnet and read the posts at thereminworld. These fools will play for up to 40 hours a week. It is like working in an unshielded reactor chamber except that it only attacks the brain.
Thereminists are the nastiest and craziest of all musicians. One of them got all indignant and insulted Simon Cowell, which resulted in his efforts NOT BEING TELEVISED! Can anyone imagine for one moment that Simon Cowell would like the theremin? It is MADNESS! That is why that saw player only got 7 seconds of play - because he reminded Cowell of the THEREMIN.
J Edgar Hoover new how dangerous the theremin was and while under its BALEFUL influence, musicians made weird music and the inventor himself became so deranged that he married a black woman and invited her to dinner with his rich friends and celebreties at high class New York dining spots at a time where such activities could lead to jail and gave socialites the vapors and heebe jeebies. So J. Edgar had poor deranged Leon Theremin shipped back to Russia where he invented the Martini Olive bug to spy on the west who had betrayed him and his invention. What madness would cause a scientist to put a radio in an olive and use the toothpick as an antenna? Why, the theremin, but of course.
Well, I quit levnet and was banned from thereminworld due toa dispute with the teenager who dissed Simon Cowell - I had the temerity, the nerve, and the UNMITIGATED GALL to suggest that his rants against me sounded like they came from a spoiled teenager. Well, he WAS and STILL is a spoiled teenager, so they cut me off.
They are all quite mad. Just read their posts!
I haven't played the instrument since june, and I only played it once, so you see, I am not one of them. I am not mad! THEY ARE! Do not go down the path that I had explored lest you become one of them.
I sense that some of you think that perhaps I did play too long, but you are wrong. I knew when to stop. I saw the best thereminsts of my generation destroyed by practice, starkly hysterical rigid, dragging themselves through the ham fests at dawn looking for an RCA tube, angel gowned ingenues burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of twin oscillators, who capacitance and RF and glaze-eyed and in the Rockmore stood perfectly still in the supernatural darkness of an melody played slowly floating across the twin antennas contemplating violins and opera singers, who waved their hands to Heaven under the spotlight and saw Saint Saen's Swans gliding on electric waters amplified, which passed through echo delays with radiant tone ears hallucinating Hoffman and Rockmore - sounds unwelcome among the scholars of music, Burma Shave.
But I AM NOT ONE OF THEM.
I am sane and whole due to my prudence and caution.
But there is something far worse than the theremin - have you ever used a CELLPHONE?
/cue eerie theremin music from a cellphone reingtone
Organized S&M doesn't impress me in the slightest. Identifying with someone who has been trained for the Olympics is nonsense. Nationalism on parade, people who will do anything to win, people who become nothing but a sports machine, freaks who will pop their elbow out of its socket for entertainment, children having their ages raised because younger and smaller means tighter spins, turns and higher leaps, all so some corporations can pretend to be all civic minded while they merchandise their products for the glory of the second worse nation in the world.
Guess who is number one!
Shop at Walmart, eat a Big Mac and have a Budweiser - IT'S THE FREAKING OLYMPICS!
So where was Mark Spitz?
All that gold didn't mean a damn thing.
However, "Cool Runnings" was a swell movie.
What would be more interesting is something other than the stereotype.
Isn't anyone bored with the fashion model stereotype?
Do women really welcome unfair competition for men or former men who have an advantage for approximating the stereotype with thin hips, small breasts and low body fat?
Are not other stereotypes just as beautiful and desirable?
Are not those who are not stereotypes just as beautiful and desirable?
Pretty soon robots will be able to do the jobs cheaper and with more precision.
Then we can start selling high fashion to robots as well. It will just take a little programming. Just like with people.
"Both Carter and Clinton ran as New Deal-style liberal populists, then, once in office, reneged on their campaign rhetoric"
Well isn't that the problem? No matter what they say, they will deliver the same crap.
You cannot beLIEve any of them.
So you want them to tell you lies that you want to hear so you can feel good about voting for someone who lies to you and has no intention of changing anything and who will then lie to you again so you will vote for them again so they can get elected and so on until they are replaced by another liar.
Carter and Clinton - more republicans pretending to be democrats.
Show me a member of the political class and I will show you a megalomaniac and a psychopath.