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  • Had to jump in and put a kid back on a wall during a lesson, closest I had to doing an actual save. Also had to call 911 once, but it was for someone out of the pool. This was over a three year period, but it was a pretty small pool.

    But doing lessons there were countless times where you’re righting kids floundering or helping people back to the wall, but you’re already in the water and it was very hands on. Or you’re a second guard and sitting on the wall observing the lesson/keeping an eye on the rest of the pool. The lowest level of swimmers especially, you’re probably having to make a few assists a class.

    Surprisingly never had to do anything at a birthday party, but they were the worst simply because you’d just get a lot of wildcards you don’t know and there’d be a lot to watch. The vast majority of our time was spent watching over regulars so it was pretty relaxed with regards to having to feel out the swimming ability new faces all the time.




  • Dubstep is just as much a recycled genre/subgenre as anything else?

    If you’re after something new to your ears it really shouldn’t fit neatly into any genre, right?

    Listen to OPN’s R Plus Seven. Electronic in its production, yes. But it’s got a ton of orchestral structure/texture to it…on top of chopped vocal samples.

    Or how about some Floating Points? Again, electronic for sure. But there’s definitely a fluency in the conversation between electronic dance and jazz that wasn’t there a few decades ago.

    Murlo

    Photay. Seriously who was doing lush layered multi instrument compositions like this over electronic music pre-2000 not named Bjork?

    All leap from genre to genre effortlessly enough while also having a ton of electronics sensibilities. Maybe it’s recycling genres, but I think in some instances mastery in disparate areas leads to a greater sum than the parts.