because of this fact, "in progress" means "currently fooling around with." while it does imply an effort to understand a book's core themes and motives (ie reading the introduction, conclusion, and any standout chapters), it does not imply an effort to completely read the book front-to-back
thanky you
in progress Otessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
24-09-08 One
24-09-09 Two
in progress Three
24-09-10 Andreas Malm - How To Blow Up A Pipeline
24-09-09 Two
in progress Three
24-09-07 Taylor Swift - Style
24-09-01 Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water
love itttt
24-08-31 Tsunku, Nice Girl Trainees, Masami Yone - various Rhythm Heaven (mostly Rhythm Heaven Fever) tracks
on pause Samir Amin - Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism
24-08-27 Sandra Mihanovich - Puerto Pollensa
24-08-22 Taylor Swift (feat. Post Malone) - Fortnight
24-08-11 Lizzy McAlpine - five seconds flat
24-08-11 BLɅϽKPIИK (feat. Selena Gomez) - Ice Cream
my hot take is that this song is perfect. whatever this song's job is supposed to be, i think it does it so well that nobody ever need try and make a song like it ever again
24-08-11 Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5
every proletarian has tears in their heart. guh, after a sleepless night when i can't stop thinking about Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! and bad solidarity and the upcoming presidential election that once again tries to swallow up and delegitimize and disintegrate every single political action or speech that is more than binary, more than simply going to the ballot box and choosing which stupid prize you win in a game where you win the stupid prize whther you play the stupid game or not, this hits hard.
24-08-07 Bastille - Pompeii
24-08-06 lot of 3 bad songs
profoundly un-feminist
the chorus of this song promotes the idea that women were created specifically to appease men:
the chorus of a song is meant to express its themes. that's where they're most potent. so these 4 lines color EVERYTHING else in the song. take for example the bridge,
implying an angel (the metaphor for women in this song) can be considered fallen (ie impure, not as heavenly. having engaged in sin, even!) when she leaves a man. this bridge was almost certainly added to try and give a female perspective, to try and balance the song out a little so it doesn't seem as misogynist, but it just ends up reaffirming the chorus's conception of women. and then Wallen & Church double down. those three lines i quoted were the entire bridge. they are DIRECTLY followed by the chorus. the same chorus that outright states that God made women for the purpose of pleasing men.
the chorus of this song promotes the idea that women were created specifically to appease men:
Then God made a man, and man got lonely,
he said, "Please lord, if I could only
have an angel to hold in my arms,"
So God made a girl, His best work of art
he said, "Please lord, if I could only
have an angel to hold in my arms,"
So God made a girl, His best work of art
the chorus of a song is meant to express its themes. that's where they're most potent. so these 4 lines color EVERYTHING else in the song. take for example the bridge,
Sometimes an angel falls too hard
Loses more than just a piece of her heart
And she needs a place to go and make a brand new start
Loses more than just a piece of her heart
And she needs a place to go and make a brand new start
implying an angel (the metaphor for women in this song) can be considered fallen (ie impure, not as heavenly. having engaged in sin, even!) when she leaves a man. this bridge was almost certainly added to try and give a female perspective, to try and balance the song out a little so it doesn't seem as misogynist, but it just ends up reaffirming the chorus's conception of women. and then Wallen & Church double down. those three lines i quoted were the entire bridge. they are DIRECTLY followed by the chorus. the same chorus that outright states that God made women for the purpose of pleasing men.
bad song Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down
this song doesn't do a very good job of communicating that homophobia is not simply solved through empowerment. queerphobia, transphobia, and misogyny are structural issues within our society (not just a bunch of rednecks and hillbillies (ew poor amirite hahahahahaha). the rednecks are just the footsoldiers in this culture war), and so the structure needs to change, and change dramatically and uncompromisingly, or be destroyed. it cannot simply be lived in, tolerated, or ignored.
i really appreciate the 3rd verse in which Taylor calls out one of the primary methods of breaking up political movements: destroying solidarity by encouraging factionalism. no one person can fight the power alone.
telling bigots to shut the fuck up is a useful skillset to have. if Taylor uses her haters as target practice first, that's honestly fine with me. songs are allowed to escalate
this song doesn't belong in the company of the other two here. its worst crime is being ineffective, as opposed to being actively harmful. i might even like it more than Chappel Roan - Good Luck, Babe!! or maybe i need to go to bed
i really appreciate the 3rd verse in which Taylor calls out one of the primary methods of breaking up political movements: destroying solidarity by encouraging factionalism. no one person can fight the power alone.
telling bigots to shut the fuck up is a useful skillset to have. if Taylor uses her haters as target practice first, that's honestly fine with me. songs are allowed to escalate
this song doesn't belong in the company of the other two here. its worst crime is being ineffective, as opposed to being actively harmful. i might even like it more than Chappel Roan - Good Luck, Babe!! or maybe i need to go to bed
bad song Drake - Nice For What
if you don't know anything about Drake or who he is this song is fine. unfortunately for Drake, the child predator, the user of women as sex objects, user of women as pawns in a rap beef that didn't need to go there, the enabler, art exists within a larger context. and Drake is one of the least trustworthy scumbags around. this was true before Kendrick destroyed him and his whole career.
two examples that stick out to me:
1. In My Feelings, the "oh i'm so insecure plz make that ass pop" song
2. Girls Want Girls (feat. Lil Baby), the stupid fucking frat guy "girl you're a lesbian? me too" bullshit.
Nice For What is not genuine. it is meant to lower our guard. don't let it.
also "high school pics, you was even bad then," an actual line in the song
24-08-04 Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
two examples that stick out to me:
1. In My Feelings, the "oh i'm so insecure plz make that ass pop" song
2. Girls Want Girls (feat. Lil Baby), the stupid fucking frat guy "girl you're a lesbian? me too" bullshit.
Nice For What is not genuine. it is meant to lower our guard. don't let it.
also "high school pics, you was even bad then," an actual line in the song
24-08-02 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please
this song is really fun, especially if you choose to interpret it as me talking to myself
24-08-02 Harry Styles - As It Was
24-08-01 Olivia Rodrigo - vampire
24-08-01 Olivia Rodrigo - get him back!
24-08-01 Olivia Rodrigo - bad idea right?
24-07-30 Issa López, Jodie Foster, Kali Reis - True Detective: Night Country
24-07-25 Part 1
24-07-26 Part 2
24-07-27 Part 3
24-07-28 Part 4
24-07-29 Part 5
24-07-30 Part 6
24-07-30 Edward Elgar/BBC Symphony Orchestra - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major, Op. 39/1
24-07-26 Part 2
24-07-27 Part 3
24-07-28 Part 4
24-07-29 Part 5
24-07-30 Part 6
file this in the same folder as Iggy Azalea (ft. Charli XCX) - Fancy
24-07-28 Billie Eilish - Everybody Dies
24-07-28 Kendrick Lamar - meet the grahams
24-07-28 Ella Yelich-O'Connor/Harry Were - Going South
24-07-27 Joseph Anderson - The Witness - A Great Game That You Shouldn't Play
24-07-26 Mao Tse-tung - Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art
24-07-26 Billie Eilish - bury a friend
24-07-24 John Luther Adams - Silences So Deep
24-07-15 Prologue: Music in the Anthropocene
24-07-19 I. Between Solitude and Politics
24-07-21 II. My Own Private Walden
24-07-21 III. The End of Winter
24-07-23 IV. Out of the Woods
24-07-24 V. They Were My People
24-07-24 VI. Leaving Alaska
24-07-24 VII. Walking Home Again
24-07-24 Epilogue: Benediction
24-07-23 The Red Detachment of Women (1970)
24-07-22 Max Roach/Archie Shepp - The Long March
24-07-22 Xie Jin, Liang Xin, Zhu Xijuan, Wang Xingang - The Red Detachment of Women (1961)
24-07-21 Mao Tse-tung - Combat Liberalism
24-07-20 Community
24-07-18 How Yukong Moved the Mountains (1976)
hi i read the article on wilderness
I've been trying to write a little blurb that expresses my opinion and ig prove i read it and that i'm glad i read it and like. it's really hard lmao i'm having a lot harder of a time linking this to concrete examples and experiences than i do a lot of other things. mayb that's how the article is written (it's a critique of a philosophy as opposed to a specific work or works in that philosophy) or maybe that's just me. prob both
i'm curious to pick up this John Luther Adams memoir i've had sitting on my book pile since February or so. JLA's this contemporary classical composer whose primary interest is writing pieces about nature and stuff and i think he touches on a lot of those elements of the sublime that Cronon cites. Become Ocean, his most famous piece, certainly does lol. one time i made a thing where i mashed up Become Ocean and Ribs (by Lorde) to try and communicate the idea that like. the city IS a part of nature and is just as sublime if ur willing to listen. and so that's communicated thru the lens of Ribs and the, like, partying and going out with friends of it all juxtaposed against the Pulitzer prize winning, universally recognized by critics as sublime Become Ocean.
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the sublime shouldn't be synonymous with wilderness. bonus take: it shouldn't be synonymous with solitude, either
i wish Cronon had spent a little more time talking about cities/human settlement in general on a larger, ecological scale as opposed to just talking about this one tree in his backyard or this one puddle a couple blocks away. tbh the distinction between concrete and nature becomes more and more meaningless to me with each passing day. nowadays, the concrete IS nature, the asphalt IS nature, the humans ARE nature. the question is should they be? (answers: concrete & humans yes, asphalt no)
ok blurb finally written. thanks for sending that article! i liked it
(written 24-07-14, published bc i like this blurb a lot)
24-07-11 Mike Davis - The Case For Letting Malibu Burn
I've been trying to write a little blurb that expresses my opinion and ig prove i read it and that i'm glad i read it and like. it's really hard lmao i'm having a lot harder of a time linking this to concrete examples and experiences than i do a lot of other things. mayb that's how the article is written (it's a critique of a philosophy as opposed to a specific work or works in that philosophy) or maybe that's just me. prob both
i'm curious to pick up this John Luther Adams memoir i've had sitting on my book pile since February or so. JLA's this contemporary classical composer whose primary interest is writing pieces about nature and stuff and i think he touches on a lot of those elements of the sublime that Cronon cites. Become Ocean, his most famous piece, certainly does lol. one time i made a thing where i mashed up Become Ocean and Ribs (by Lorde) to try and communicate the idea that like. the city IS a part of nature and is just as sublime if ur willing to listen. and so that's communicated thru the lens of Ribs and the, like, partying and going out with friends of it all juxtaposed against the Pulitzer prize winning, universally recognized by critics as sublime Become Ocean.
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the sublime shouldn't be synonymous with wilderness. bonus take: it shouldn't be synonymous with solitude, either
i wish Cronon had spent a little more time talking about cities/human settlement in general on a larger, ecological scale as opposed to just talking about this one tree in his backyard or this one puddle a couple blocks away. tbh the distinction between concrete and nature becomes more and more meaningless to me with each passing day. nowadays, the concrete IS nature, the asphalt IS nature, the humans ARE nature. the question is should they be? (answers: concrete & humans yes, asphalt no)
ok blurb finally written. thanks for sending that article! i liked it
(written 24-07-14, published bc i like this blurb a lot)
24-07-08 Introduction
24-07-09 1. The Fire Coast
24-07-09 2. The Burned-Over District
24-07-11 3. Nouvelle Inferno
24-07-11 4. The Incendiary "Other"
24-07-11 5. Redlining Fire Safety
24-07-11 6. The Fire Boom
corollary listening:
24-07-08 Olivia Rodrigo - Can't Catch Me Now
24-07-09 1. The Fire Coast
24-07-09 2. The Burned-Over District
24-07-11 3. Nouvelle Inferno
24-07-11 4. The Incendiary "Other"
24-07-11 5. Redlining Fire Safety
24-07-11 6. The Fire Boom
corollary listening:
24-07-06 Adrienne Rich - Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
24-07-02 Foreword
24-07-02 I
24-07-03 II
24-07-05 III
24-07-06 IV
24-07-06 Afterword
24-07-06 Bent Knee - Illterate
24-07-02 I
24-07-03 II
24-07-05 III
24-07-06 IV
24-07-06 Afterword
24-06-09 & 24-07-05 check-in herald of free enterprise
| the basic story of the social murder of 193 people aboard the MS Herald of Free Enterprise is as follows:
demand for VERY FAST service from the higher-ups at Townsend-Thorensen ↓ increased autonomy (no time for oversight or accountability) and specialization (no time (or money 🤪) for redundancy) among crew members ↓ when the boatswain is MIA and the car deck doors are left open, nobody's willing/able to stick around and see them closed, lest they be fired ↓ boat fall over 
you must pick two: 1. autonomous1 2. large-scale with many moving parts 3. able to mobilize effectively under time pressure speaking of time pressure: every day that passes without a permanent ceasefire and complete divestment from and sanctioning of the state of so-called "Israel" is a day Palestinians are being murdered, their schools and hospitals reduced to rubble, "humanitarian zones" shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, an ever-expanding killing floor. help, please "permanent ceasefire and complete divestment from and sanctioning of the so-called state of 'Israel'" goes up to the federal government by the way. there is no way to achieve this, nor the communist revolution we need to have down the road, without functioning on a large (very large!) scale and so your precious autonomy must go.2 sry. 1it's no coincidence that capitalism's most effective unionbusting tactic, its best line of defense against socialism and communism, is scab creation & individualism. 2with some caveats, ofc. you can be trans and stuff that's fine | |
24-07-03 Admas - Sons of Ethiopia (re-listen)
24-07-01 China Pictorial 《人民画报》 - "Dazhai military and people's big-character poster column of 'Fighting Against Private Ownership and Criticizing Revisionism'" in Dazhai, taken in October 1967.
dw i have the Khalidi book (courtesy of Keaton ty) and i WILL read it. but you might as well get the brief summary first (also so i can hand this out to ppl who aren't gonna read a bunch)
24-06-24 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
if you're gonna talk about compulsory heterosexuality in a song your chorus aboslutely CANNOT be this victim-blaming "good luck, babe!" shit. i promise the "i told you so" is not worth it (and, in fact, active poison). whoever this woman you're singing about is, lift her up and help get her out!
it's a real shame bc i really like the melody n production n stuff. "you'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling" is a really good line. but it's completely nullified by everything around it
24-06-24 Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
it's a real shame bc i really like the melody n production n stuff. "you'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling" is a really good line. but it's completely nullified by everything around it
Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl has this weird, "i tried being straight (normal) and hated it" framing of queerness that is not good. lesbianism is not second-class. it is, in fact, wonderful and i love it soso much and nothing is ever going to change that. i'm sure Chappell feels this way too so idk why she wrote that song like that
i used to think Femininomenon fit into this category too but ig i forgot what the word "phenomenon" means. so i would like to correct that now and say that that song is good, actually
my personal opinion is that Chappell Roan is cool. i rlly like Casual n Red Wine Supernova
24-06-24 The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
i used to think Femininomenon fit into this category too but ig i forgot what the word "phenomenon" means. so i would like to correct that now and say that that song is good, actually
my personal opinion is that Chappell Roan is cool. i rlly like Casual n Red Wine Supernova
24-06-22 Cabaret (1993 London Revival)
24-06-22 Chappell Roan - Femininomenon
corollary listening:
Bent Knee - Garbage Shark
idk i just think these songs work really well together somehow
24-06-21 Charli xcx/Lorde - The girl, so confusing version with lorde
idk i just think these songs work really well together somehow
24-06-21 Bent Knee - It Happens (Live at Big Nice Studio)
24-06-20 Ron Angel - The Chemical Workers' Song
24-06-20 Great Big Sea - The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)
24-04-27 & 06-16 Charli XCX - CRASH (Deluxe)
24-06-14 & 15 Charli xcx - Brat and it's the same but there's three more songs so it's not
24-06-14 Friedrich Engels - On Authority 24-06-13 Well There's Your Problem - Episode 127: Rana Plaza Collapse
a large section of this episode is dedicated to the first of the following two articles:
written 13-04-24, the day of the collapse Matthew Yglesias - Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That’s OK
written 13-04-26, two days later Matthew Yglesias - Further Thoughts on the Bangladesh Factory Disaster
and for good fucking reason. this guy is a piece of shit who took the deaths of 1,134 people and severe injury of around 2,500 more to evangelize about the very economic system that led to this.
his basic argument, expressed in a column the same length as a modern-day twitter thread (about as low-effort too), is "you gotta risk it for the biscuit. if u wanna move up in this world u gotta accept mass death events like this"
juvenile. you should not need to risk being murdered every day just to barely make ends meet.
(and the promise of upward mobility Matt makes here is a total lie btw. if there's one thing to know about capitalism, it's that it's a zero-sum game. so capitalist nations in the imperial core simply cannot allow those in the periphery to attain higher status. because that would mean the core is less alpha now)
honestly all you need to know about this fucker comes from this quote, from his similarly short follow-up, just two days later:
written 13-04-24, the day of the collapse Matthew Yglesias - Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That’s OK
written 13-04-26, two days later Matthew Yglesias - Further Thoughts on the Bangladesh Factory Disaster
and for good fucking reason. this guy is a piece of shit who took the deaths of 1,134 people and severe injury of around 2,500 more to evangelize about the very economic system that led to this.
his basic argument, expressed in a column the same length as a modern-day twitter thread (about as low-effort too), is "you gotta risk it for the biscuit. if u wanna move up in this world u gotta accept mass death events like this"
juvenile. you should not need to risk being murdered every day just to barely make ends meet.
(and the promise of upward mobility Matt makes here is a total lie btw. if there's one thing to know about capitalism, it's that it's a zero-sum game. so capitalist nations in the imperial core simply cannot allow those in the periphery to attain higher status. because that would mean the core is less alpha now)
honestly all you need to know about this fucker comes from this quote, from his similarly short follow-up, just two days later:
"I think it’s appropriate for rich countries to have more stringent [safety] standards than poor ones, and I absolutely stand by that conclusion."
just tell them you think their life is worthless, why don't you
24-06-07 Charli xcx - B2b
24-06-07 Land of Kush - Sand Enigma (re-listen)
24-06-07 Well There's Your Problem - Episodes 98, 100, & 102: Penn Central
24-05-30 Episode 98: Penn Central (Part 1) with guest bsquiklehausen
24-06-04 Episode 100: Penn Central (Part 2) with guest Uday Schultz
24-06-07 Episode 102: Penn Central (Part 3) with guest Sean KB
24-06-05 Dick Swanson - Railroad Switching Yards Just West Of Center City, Along The Schuykill Expressway, August 1973
24-06-04 Episode 100: Penn Central (Part 2) with guest Uday Schultz
24-06-07 Episode 102: Penn Central (Part 3) with guest Sean KB
24-05-31 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO!
24-05-31 Righeira - No Tengo Dinero (1983 Maxi)
corollary listening:
24-05-27 Kishi Bashi - Penny Rabbit and Summer Bear (Apartment Sessions)
24-03-18 & 24-05-15, amended + revised 24-05-24 check-in keaton 5 (final)
| in my old car in the rain
in Durango with your friends i find things better left unsaid | |
| DROP THE CHARGES:
today, may 15th, on the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the mass displacement of Palestinians past and current is all that is in the air. it is all i and my comrades can think about. today is the day the state police came and dismantled the UNM Palestine Encampent. they arrested 7 of us. brutalised, dehumanized us. two of those arrested were journalists, 2 were students. 23 people total (7 on Nakba day, 16 at the Student Union Building) have been arrested for showing their solidarity. a disproportionate amount of them have been queer and trans, facing extra discrimination. today. Nakba Day. what a fucking travesty. free Palestine, end imperialism, end capitalism. | |
| we will not stop. we will not rest. we aren't going anywhere! | |
| i wish you could see us today. i wish you could be here. | |
| yesterday we needed some extra posterboard so i brought over your old signs from Durango city council. i don't know if they ever got used for anything. through no fault of our own they're in a garbage truck now.
sometimes i feel a sort of survivor's guilt |
24-05-23 Dimension 20: Fantasy High Junior Year
24-05-22 Well There's Your Problem - Episodes 88 & 89: Titanic with guest Kyle Hudak
24-05-21 Bent Knee - Black Tar Water
24-05-21 Justice Cow - Black tar water
24-05-21 Bent Knee - Black Tar Water (Apartment Sessions)
24-05-21 Ben Levin - House and Roof
24-05-12 Lowkey (feat. Kaia) - Ghosts of Grenfell 2
24-05-12 Lowkey (feat. Mai Khalil) - Ghosts of Grenfell
24-03-18 & 24-05-11 check-in keaton 4
this is the angsty one
24-05-09 Justice Cow - my dad died
| this song is my measuring stick for the amount of bitter you're allowed to be about a break-up. anything more bitter than this becomes dangerous, i think. in other words, this song is lead but for self-destruction instead of radioactivity | |
| 🖤 | |
| 🖤 | |
| on 24-03-22 i said that this song is the soundtrack to going out and partying and ignoring all your problems. i would like to add another fun interpretation i like: this song is good for wishing, more than anything, you could see someone again and that things could be good. | |
| 🖤 | |
| weminuche | |
| myth without struggle, babe. it can't fill your heart | |
| "I’m so glad I found this one. It’s a spiritual successor to a bizarre little Japanese fighting game called Neo Aquarium. If you want an idea of what that game was like, just imagine realistic crustaceans that blast the living hell out of each other with neon lasers. The moment I discovered Ace of Seafood in my Steam queue, I knew I had to try it, if only for the novelty of playing a crab armed with phaser cannons.
Before I dive too deep into this one (ha, ocean puns), I’ll admit I played it ahead of time. I planned to give it a test run before my Birthday Backlog Bonanza day, but I got swept up in the current of a joint playthrough with my little sister. We took turns playing and finished the game early." -Keaton, 17-07-18 context here is that California Roll is the final boss music in this game. we took turns playing but i was the one who beat the final boss! i win! i'm winning! i'm a winning woman! :( |
cried tonite
24-05-09 Victoria Monét - On My Mama
24-02-??, retracted 24-05-09 ann - 26
24-05-09 Eliot Bronson - We Don't Have The Words (Apartment Sessions)
24-05-08 Rebecca Sugar - Time Adventure (Apartment Sessions)
24-05-05 Ben Levin - Life and Back (re-listen)
not corollary listening, but still really important to me specifically:
24-05-03 Jon Bois - REFORM!
24-03-27, retracted/rewritten 24-05-02 kqa - kqa
hi. i gotta retract what i said here. it's too long and too mean and i think a month out i can give a much better summary of my feelings:
every time i try to express my feelings about the thematic/moral material of this album i find myself coming back to the relationship between "learn to code" as a piece of life advice and "go to therapy" as a piece of life advice
i think both of these are individual-level solutions to society-wide problems.
in the case of "learn to code" it's that the highest-paying jobs do not overlap with the ones that are most useful to society
in the case of "go to therapy" it's that the high level of anxiety among today's youth (myself included here) is in large part due to the system of capitalism and its manifestations (genocide in Palestine, climate change, private healthcare, etc.) that constantly opress us.
some people really need therapy though. and some people really like to code and enjoy doing it. so there's also that i guess.
both of these, as pieces of widespread and popular advice, are just extensions of the American Dream. and the American Dream has never been on the side of the working class. its sole purpose is to try and create scabs.
now. how much does any of this has to do with this album specifically? i dunno. will have to think on it and listen a lot more times. this is just a concern i have.
24-04-30 Taylor Swift (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco) - ME!
every time i try to express my feelings about the thematic/moral material of this album i find myself coming back to the relationship between "learn to code" as a piece of life advice and "go to therapy" as a piece of life advice
i think both of these are individual-level solutions to society-wide problems.
in the case of "learn to code" it's that the highest-paying jobs do not overlap with the ones that are most useful to society
in the case of "go to therapy" it's that the high level of anxiety among today's youth (myself included here) is in large part due to the system of capitalism and its manifestations (genocide in Palestine, climate change, private healthcare, etc.) that constantly opress us.
some people really need therapy though. and some people really like to code and enjoy doing it. so there's also that i guess.
both of these, as pieces of widespread and popular advice, are just extensions of the American Dream. and the American Dream has never been on the side of the working class. its sole purpose is to try and create scabs.
now. how much does any of this has to do with this album specifically? i dunno. will have to think on it and listen a lot more times. this is just a concern i have.
god this song fucking sucks (and not just because of the SPELLING IS FUN! section)
24-04-28 jaimie branch - FLY or DIE LIVE
24-04-28 Bent Knee - Leak Water (Live from Nowhere)
24-04-27 Charli XCX - Boom Clap
24-04-27 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
24-04-22 Bent Knee on Audiotree Live (Full Session)
two things Courtney Swain has taught me (so far):
1. pay attention to your dynamics (especially when it comes to changing ranges. some areas of your voice will be naturally louder than others and you gotta account for that. also finish phrases i'm sure you know)
2. have fun!
24-04-22 Bent Knee - Leak Water (Audiotree Live Version)
2. have fun!
24-04-22 Bent Knee - Leak Water
24-04-22 Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean
24-04-22 jaimie branch - FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise
24-03-18 & 24-04-06, amended 24-04-21 check-in keaton 2
another playlist. a lot more songs about drifters in this one.
i dunno jack shit. i will probably make 1000 more of these playlists and they'll all clog up this page and it will be a good thing for us both
amendment 24-04-21: added Bent Knee - Lawnmower and changed Route 209 to night instead of day.
this playlist is really weird for me because the vibes are pretty spot on but a lot of the lyrics don't really match with my or Keaton's experiences. i've become a vibes girl now. "so what?" i hear you say. I DON'T WANNA BE A VIBES GIRL! i don't vibe, this is my entire schtick. i am the straight woman to 🫵your🫵 antics!
| the result of the contradictions between "love is easy, like coming home or an inside joke", "i need my lover to help me get myself over me," and "i can't be of use to you when i'm in just as bad a place," all wrapped in a setting where every single friend and family member wants the hot goss on your newest breakup | ||
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| maybe one day | ||
| i still cannot believe i went through Durango late in January and didn't think to even shoot them a text. and for what? so i could get back home before sundown? bullshit. there are things more important than that. | ||
| speaking of very good but very awkward, | ||
| there aren't a lot of "my older sibling committed suicide" songs out there, so i must grieve through skin grafts from love songs and i think this donor is both very fitting and extremely good at reminding me that this is a love song and not that other kind i was saying. | ||
| that^ song assumes i could've done anything about it. this one doesn't | ||
amendment 24-04-21: added Bent Knee - Lawnmower and changed Route 209 to night instead of day.
this playlist is really weird for me because the vibes are pretty spot on but a lot of the lyrics don't really match with my or Keaton's experiences. i've become a vibes girl now. "so what?" i hear you say. I DON'T WANNA BE A VIBES GIRL! i don't vibe, this is my entire schtick. i am the straight woman to 🫵your🫵 antics!
24-04-21 Bent Knee - Lawnmower
24-04-20 ann/kqa live show
listen. i have said a lot about ann - 26 & kqa - kqa on here. let it be known that i do this because i am invested in these people (i say, burying the lead that they are, in fact, my friends). i want the stuff they make to be really good, and the both of them are more than capable of that (and have already made a lot of really good music, too!) whether or not this saves my soul i will leave to the jury to decide but. at least you know my motives
24-04-19 & 20 check-in cassandra
"cassandra" as a title is a refernece to this piece of lore from Fantasy High: Cassandra is the goddess of doubt and the twilight. awkward, right? i love it.
24-04-19 jaimie branch - Fly or Die
| OOIOO - SOL | |
| fun. - Some Nights | |
| Kimbra (feat. Tommy Raps & Pink Siifu) - LA Type | |
| fun. - All The Pretty Girls | |
| Ween - Captain | |
| The Format - If Work Permits | the result of the contradictions between "friendship is easy, like coming home or an inside joke", "i need my friends to help me get myself over me," and "i can't be of use to you when you keep ignoring my advice," all wrapped in a setting where I insist on posting every single little thing I write, glaring flaws included, to this dumb fuckin' website |
| Kimbra - Gun | |
| XTC - That's Really Super, Supergirl | |
| Bent Knee - Pause | |
| Ben Levin - Preach to Me | |
| Bent Knee - Ermine | |
| Ween - If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All) | i like to imagine that this song is being sung to me, from whoever. |
| Ornette Coleman - Civilization Day | no saving yourself without saving (or at least trying your damned best to save) us all. the two must happen simultaneuously.
this playlist is the "saving myself" part of it all, i guess. |
| Billy Joel - Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) | |
| Bent Knee - Fighting All My Life | |
| Bent Knee - OMG | |
| fun. - Stars | at what point does this album about, as Nicole says, "getting better," become escapism fantasy (the bad kind) and not intensifying fantasy (the good kind)?
is it when all of my social problems are self-made? is it when i have difficulty relating to the problems being alluded to here? |
| Nate Ruess - Harsh Light | have i always been this far behind? |
| jaimie branch - fly or die | is it when i feel like you're ignoring your setting, your world?
the struggles we face are not merely personal. not just the asshole mom or the friend who won't shut the fuck up. there's the societal element, too. there's the fact that the profit motive has never been compatible with the creation of a healthy society. this hot trend, this therapyspeak: its goal isn't to help you out. it exists to make pawns of us all, it exists to remove us from the board. to make personal salvation, and not societal health, the main aspiration of one's life. fly or die. either we fly, together, united against the oppressor, or we all die. |
| jaimie branch - theme nothing | |
| Bent Knee - Not This Time | free Palestine. end imperialism. end capitalism. |
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24-04-15 training/execution for 2(~16mi.) Weminuche hike
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| 24-04-08 xtra hill + bagels |
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24-04-11 foothills EX + mall |
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24-04-14 fuck this shit i'm going to durango and getting it all over with | |||
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24-04-10 Taylor Swift - Blank Space
corollary listening:
24-03-17 & 24-04-09 check-in keaton 3
hi keaton. i wanted to do a little thought experiment for this one:
what if you hadn't succeeded and you were still here? what's the good ending of all this look like? who were you? who could you be? who could you have been?
god, it was the decision to end up in Pecos, wasn't it? you didn't mention it at all. not even the note. was it? it's never just one thing, isn't it?
24-04-07 Ween - Quebec
what if you hadn't succeeded and you were still here? what's the good ending of all this look like? who were you? who could you be? who could you have been?
| oh, sweet summer child: | |
| where has the desire for silence led us? | |
| abandoned, loveless, | |
| confused, desperate, | |
| stuck in a rut, in a grave whitey dug long before you were anyone or anything, | |
| wishing you could leave, be something, someone else, somewhere better. | |
| ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ | well... |
| in with the outro and out with the old, i say! | |
| turn your ambition outwards, into the streets → | |
| to overthrow the genocidal, the union-buster, the sinking-ship capitalist → | |
| to unite as a city among true peoples → | |
| in solidarity, forever, never to be defeated → → → ... | |
| if we're going to engage with this good ending, i figure it might be a good idea to see the bad one, too. lucky this album exists so i don't have to spend more time in it than i need.
and "i need" is not a lot of time, either. by my count, the totality of this ending has been avoided since 2015 or so, whichever summer it was we watched Steven Universe together in your room. and thank god for that. | |
Ween is maybe the sketchiest mainstream (they're mainstream enough for me, okay) band ever. i think if i ever met a "real" Ween fan, the type that thinks that Pure Guava is their best album or that 12 Golden Country Greats deserves another listen (it does not), i'd immediately wish i hadn't. so that's the preface i want to give before i say: yeah i like this album. maybe my hobby in the midst of all this playlist-making and hiking-training will be having more opinions about Ween than my old buddy john would probably want me to. because fuck Ween. they suck. a lot. but how much? and when do they suck the most? (it's 12 Golden Country Greats. fuck you for making that.) have they, through sheer and total dumb luck, taught us something? maybe
24-03-18, 26, & 31 check-in keaton
| fun. - Be Calm | |
| Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain | |
| fun. - Walking The Dog | |
| Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me | a good song for heartbreak because, like Inches and Falling, it's actually fun to listen to and sing. and is also not shitty (unlike, say, Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better). lighten up a bit! |
| Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash | |
| fun. - Walking The Dog II | |
| fun. - One Foot | |
| Nate Ruess - Moment | |
| Go Ichinose - Opelucid City (White) | |
| Gabriel Kahane - Ambassador Hotel (3400 Wilshire Blvd.) | |
| The Format - Inches and Falling (I Love, Love) | in a similar situation to Walking The Dog & Walking The Dog II, this song has a lot of words and a lot of them make me feel a lot of things |
| Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Cowboy Boots | |
| Rebecca Sugar - Time Adventure (live at San Diego Comic-Con 2018) | this is the song they put in their will |
for some dumb reason this was my first ever attendance at one of these marches instead of, like my 30,000th. anyways i'm very glad i finally managed to do some actual activism. here's to way, way more in the future!
FREE PALESTINE!
END IMPERIALISM!
END CAPITALISM!
24-03-29 Cornelius Cardew - Stockhausen Serves Imperialism :)
FREE PALESTINE!
END IMPERIALISM!
END CAPITALISM!
24-01-29 Chapter 1: A History of the Scratch Orchestra 1969-72 (by Rod Eley)
24-02-22 Chapter 2: Criticising Cage and Stockhausen
24-02-0? John Cage: Ghost or Monster?
24-02-10 Introduction to Cage's Music of Changes (by John Tilbury)
24-02-16 Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
24-02-22 On Criticism
24-02-10 Introduction to Cage's Music of Changes (by John Tilbury)
24-02-16 Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
24-02-22 On Criticism
24-03-10 Chapter 3: A Critical Concert
24-03-29 Chapter 4: Self Criticism: Repudiation of Earlier Works
24-03-29 Chapter 4: Self Criticism: Repudiation of Earlier Works
24-03-29 Problems of Notation
p.81 roping in your audience is really important. you can't just make art for yourself.
note 53 fantasy must be an intensifying force, not an escapist one (looking at you, 99.999% of dnd players)
note 53 fantasy must be an intensifying force, not an escapist one (looking at you, 99.999% of dnd players)
24-03-29 Additional Material Presented at the Notation Symposium
24-03-29 Criticism of The Great Learning
24-03-29 Criticism of The Great Learning
p.102-103 last passage. so goddamn good. this entire book does its job sososo well and right at the end Cardew pulls out the emotion and you know what? he got me. he got me good. 15/15 no notes (a lot of annotations, though :))
24-03-27 Will Wood - Against the Kitchen Floor
corollary listening:
abandoned Elizabeth Kolbert - Field Notes From A Catastrophe (2006, updated 2015)
24-02-11 Preface
24-03-04 Part I: Nature
24-03-04 Part I: Nature
24-02-14 Chapter 1: Shishmaref, Alaska
24-02-20 Chapter 2: A Warmer Sky
24-02-27 Chapter 3: Under the Glacier
24-03-04 Chapter 4: The Butterfly and the Toad
24-02-20 Chapter 2: A Warmer Sky
24-02-27 Chapter 3: Under the Glacier
24-03-04 Chapter 4: The Butterfly and the Toad
in progress Part II: Man
24-03-26 Chapter 5: The Curse of Akkad
god this and chapter 3 are just. not fun to read. in a bad way that, instead of making me want to go out and do activism, make me want to write about how much i hate this "here is this scientist, here is them saying some stuff nonchalantly about the biggest disaster to ever happen to humanity, and then going back to looking at some fucking ice or whatever." and then Elizabeth Kolbert going like "so i went to this glacier that's melting and i held this piece of pottery from the ancient abandoned-cuz-drought city... and then i went back." NO. you have not earned your "i turned around and headed back." where's any activism? i am on page 122 of 278 and we haven't met a single person who has gotten angry about this. NOT ONE. but we've run into the US gov't about a half-billion times, and each time Kolbert lets them off the hook.
on pg. 117 she quotes this paleoclimatologist (paleo. ugh. the only time i've actually seen any issues affecting real ppl in this book so far was chapter ONE.
now. this book was mostly written before Hurricane Katrina. mostly, it was published in 2006 and UPDATED in 2015. and from looking in the index, do you want to guess how many times Kolbert mentions Katrina? ZERO. not fucking once. ... .anyways,) who says the political system can't listen to climate alarms. can't??? you mean won't. just two sentences before you said "we" won't prepare, though. buddy. i can barely do shit about climate change. i can do activism, sure, but in the end it's the political system who takes bribes from oil companies, it's the political system who ignore scientists, and it's the POLITICAL SYSTEM who left people dead and homeless in New Orleans after Katrina hit. god.
24-03-22, check-in Nate Ruess cinematic universe
on pg. 117 she quotes this paleoclimatologist (paleo. ugh. the only time i've actually seen any issues affecting real ppl in this book so far was chapter ONE.
now. this book was mostly written before Hurricane Katrina. mostly, it was published in 2006 and UPDATED in 2015. and from looking in the index, do you want to guess how many times Kolbert mentions Katrina? ZERO. not fucking once. ... .anyways,) who says the political system can't listen to climate alarms. can't??? you mean won't. just two sentences before you said "we" won't prepare, though. buddy. i can barely do shit about climate change. i can do activism, sure, but in the end it's the political system who takes bribes from oil companies, it's the political system who ignore scientists, and it's the POLITICAL SYSTEM who left people dead and homeless in New Orleans after Katrina hit. god.
been listening to a lot of fun. so much so that i can reliably figure out how well i'm doing by which song i relate to the most at any given moment
| at my best | |
| fun. - Why Am I the One | |
| fun. - Benson Hedges | |
| fun. - At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) | |
| Nate Ruess - Harsh Light | |
| my belief is that Harsh Light & We Are Young are fundamentally the same song about the same thing, which is going out and drinking and ignoring all your problems. the reason i put Harsh Light as being slightly healthier than We Are Young is because Harsh Light actually understands the depths of the problems facing Nate. that song knows it's unhealthy. We Are Young does not (or, if it does, it makes a point to ignore it until tomorrow, ignoring the fact that tomorrow you'll probably be hungover. the actual healthy thing to do would be to start fixing all your problems RIGHT NOW.) | |
| at my worst | fun. (feat. Janelle Monáe) - We Are Young |
if you realize that Harsh Light used to be a fun. song before fun. split up, you realize that this list is all fun., which i feel kinda bad about given how much Nate seems to hate fun. (or at least where he was at while fun. was still active) nowadays. no The Format songs on here, either. I just listened through Dog Problems and am still obsessively going through fun. stuff so
yeah. sorry Nate
24-03-19 The Format - Dog Problems (Bonus Track Version)
yeah. sorry Nate
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24-03-18 Rebecca Sugar - Time Adventure (live at San Diego Comic-Con 2018)
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24-03-16 The Format - Snails EP (Bonus Track Version)
24-03-14 The Format - Interventions + Lullabies
24-03-12 Justin Timberlake (feat. Jay-Z) - Suit & Tie
24-03-12 The Format - Your New Name
24-03-11 Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger
24-03-10 Falco - Falco 3
24-03-09 The Format - EP
24-03-06 Clueless (1995)
24-03-06 Starship Troopers (1997)
24-03-05 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Cowboy Boots
one day a lot ("a lot") of years ago a friend and i were sharing guilty pleasure songs. mine was Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me and his was this. needless to say there's no need to feel guilty about either of these songs (because they're very good and i like them a lot)
24-03-05 The Disruptors (2024)
don't watch movies often and this one was well worth it. holy shit can Grant O'Brien & Ally Beardsley act
24-03-05 Iggy Azalea (ft. Charli XCX) - Fancy
problematic fave
24-03-05 Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
24-02-28 theaudience - theaudience
Sophie Ellis-Bextor's voice is perfect, i think. i cannot find a single flaw in it (even when maybe there should be). i love her
24-02-27 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Read My Lips
24-02-25 P!NK (feat. Nate Ruess) - Just Give Me a Reason
24-02-24 Kimbra - A Reckoning (Deluxe Version)
24-02-23 Nate Ruess - Grand Romantic
24-02-22 Katy Perry - Smile
24-02-19 Baby Keem/Kendrick Lamar - family ties
24-02-16 fun. - Aim and Ignite (Deluxe Version)
24-02-13 Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat
24-02-13 Katy Perry (ft. Skip Marley) - Chained To The Rhythm
this song is good because it just radiates bad vibes. (some of those bad vibes are indeed intended by Katy, Sia, and the rest of the people who helped make it. a lot are strays.) it is impossible to listen to it and not feel a little sick afterwards. songs like this are good to keep around
24-02-11 Dimension 20: Burrow's End
24-02-07 fun. - Some Nights
24-02-07 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
24-02-04 Todd in the Shadows - TRAINWRECKORDS: Katy Perry's "Witness"
24-02-02 fun. (ft. Janelle Monáe) - We Are Young
24-02-02 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
corollary listening:
24-02-01 Rebecca Jennings - Everyone's a sellout now
24-02-01 The Proclaimers - There's a Touch
24-02-01 The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
i really like this song.
24-01-31 Ariana Grande - yes, and?
24-01-30 bill wurtz - where i've been
24-01-29 Todd in the Shadows - POP SONG REVIEW: "7 Years" by Lukas Graham
again, i can't (and won't) post every single thing i watch or listen to on here, but this video is special. i've watched it like a billion times and it gets better every time. sometimes you just gotta watch a guy rip into something, you know?
24-01-28 Well There's Your Problem - Episode 149: Ghost Ship Fire
normally, i wouldn't just put a podcast episode on here, for the same reasons i don't put every single youtube video i watch on here. but this is important. this episode of my fav stupid little engineering disasters podcast hits really close to home for me (and a lot of other people, as evidenced its comments section). a fire breaks out at a party at a DIY venue in Oakland, a city with housing prices so ridiculously high it's hard for FIREFIGHTERS AND TEACHERS to live IN THE AREA THEY SERVE; 36 are dead. Some of those 36 killed were musicians, artists, people who give a city its culture, people who are then forced into squalid living conditions, homelessness, fire-disaster-waiting-to-happen-level-sketchy housing and communal spaces. a number of these alternatives, people cast out by the rest of society, would've been queer. been trans. been like me and you.
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just. listen to the episode. it can be difficult in places but i promise it's worth it.
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24-01-27 bill wurtz - i'm best friends with my own front door
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just. listen to the episode. it can be difficult in places but i promise it's worth it.
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24-01-25 Plains - I Walked With You A Ways
24-01-25 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer
24-01-21 bill wurtz - might quit
24-01-21 bill wurtz - at the airport terminal
24-01-19 Susan Reed - I'm Sad and I'm Lonely
24-01-17 bill wurtz - i'm scared
24-01-16 Henyrk Górecki - Symphony No. 3, "Symfonia pieśni żałosnych" (performed by London Sinfonietta & Dawn Upshaw)
24-01-12 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
24-01-09 bill wurtz - at the corner store
24-01-08 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
24-01-08 bill wurtz - 9 8 7
24-01-04 Todd Hido - Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interieors, and the Nude
24-01-03 Kate Bush - A Sky of Honey
24-01-02 bill wurtz - i'm a princess
24-01-01 Andrew McIntosh - Tom Johnson // correct music
24-01-01 John Oswald - brazilianaires
23-12-31 bill wurtz - La de da de da de da de day oh
23-12-31 bill wurtz - new canaan
23-12-31 ABBA - Under Attack
23-12-28 Brian David Gilbert - Under Attack, performed by a murder robot (feat 2winz²)
23-12-26 Tantacrul - Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music
23-12-23 Steve Reich - Reed Phase (performed by Jon Gibson)
23-12-22 hbomberguy - RWBY Is Disappointing, And Here's Why
23-12-18 Waxahatchee - Silver
23-12-18 Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
23-12-18 Vi Hart - The Window
23-12-07 The Westerlies - Hard Times Come Again No More
23-12-06 hbomberguy - ROBLOX_OOF.mp3
23-12-05 hbomberguy - Plagiarism and You(Tube)
23-12-04 Charlemagne Palestine - DINGGGDONGGGDINGGGzzzzzzz ferrrr SSSOFTTT DIVINI TIESSSSS!!!!!!!!!
23-11-27 been in nyc on vacation. a lot of crepes and chop cheese. some bagels also
23-11-26 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You
23-11-23 Charles Ives - Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" (performed by San Francisco Symphony)
23-11-14 Kate Bush - Aerial
23-11-12 Paul Williams - Songs About Girls
23-11-11 John Luther Adams - Sila: the Breath of the World
23-11-06 Anything That Moves - Anything That Moves
23-11-04 BobbyBroccoli - Sinking in Scandal: The Death of Nortel
23-10-30 Carly Simon - You're So Vain
23-10-27 Tyondai Braxton - Uffe's Woodshop
23-10-24 Klaus Weiss - Into The Wind
23-10-23 Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory - Portal 2 Soundtrack
23-10-22 BobbyBroccoli - The Company that Broke Canada
23-10-21 dodie - Arms Unfolding
23-10-11 Portal 2
23-10-07 Two Hearts - We're Pregnant And The Baby Is Music
23-10-01 Paul Williams - Jungle River Adventure
23-09-27 BobbyBroccoli - How to catch a criminal cloner
23-09-27 BobbyBroccoli - The man who faked human cloning
23-09-18 John Oswald - Plexure
23-09-15 Colbie Caillat - Fallin' For You
23-09-08 Jon Bois/Alex Rubenstein - The History of the Minnesota Vikings
23-09-08 Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
23-09-?? Picross 3D
23-08-21 Kevin Volans - String Quartet No. 1 "White Man Sleeps" (performed by Kronos Quartet)
23-08-18 John Adams - Common Tones in Simple Time (performed by San Francisco Symphony)
23-08-17 Margaret Leng Tan - She Herself Alone: The Art of the Toy Piano 2
23-08-01 Oppenheimer
23-07-23 Joan La Barbara - Sound Paintings
23-07-20 Barbie
23-07-09 Paul Shapera - Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret, The Ballad of Lost Hollow Act 1
23-06-20 Gabriel Kahane - emergency shelter intake form (performed by Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmer, and Alicia Hall Moran)
23-06-08 Gabriel Kahane - To Be American (oxblood glow edition)
23-05-26 Marilyn Crispell - Rhythms Hung In Undrawn Sky
23-05-25 Marilyn Crispell/Doug James - And Your Ivory Voice Sings
23-05-24 ABBA - Arrival
23-05-08 Manfred Hölzel/Peter Fürmetz - Jingle Box 1
23-05-08 Pokémon Black
my team:
Lv. 61 Drac (Leavanny)
Lv. 57 Polly (Seismitoad)
Lv. 58 Skitt (Scolipede)
Lv. 55 Adelphos (Crustle)
Lv. 58 Snow White (Escavalier)
Lv. 60 Bubbles (Galvantula)
Lv. 58 Swiftie (Accelgor)
Lv. 57 Obsidia (Basculin (Blue-striped form))
Lv. 63 ☂=) (Volcarona)
Lv. 57 Sheets (Durant)
23-04-27 FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid
Lv. 61 Drac (Leavanny)
Lv. 57 Polly (Seismitoad)
Lv. 58 Skitt (Scolipede)
Lv. 55 Adelphos (Crustle)
Lv. 58 Snow White (Escavalier)
Lv. 60 Bubbles (Galvantula)
Lv. 58 Swiftie (Accelgor)
Lv. 57 Obsidia (Basculin (Blue-striped form))
Lv. 63 ☂=) (Volcarona)
Lv. 57 Sheets (Durant)
23-04-27 Moose Loose - Elgen Er Løs
23-04-25 Various Artists - Sandra Boynton's Dog Train
23-04-24 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
23-03-24 Pokémon SoulSilver
my team:
Lv. 63 Timbits (Meganium)
Lv. 63 Sugarplum (Glaceon)
Lv. 58 drnkyBRRD (Porygon2)
Lv. 55 Ganymede (Yanmega)
Lv. 70 Twister (Absol)
Lv. 68 Frieze (Girafarig)
Lv. 56 LosAngeles (Lanturn)
Lv. 59 Kayy (Tropius)
23-03-19 Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain
Lv. 63 Timbits (Meganium)
Lv. 63 Sugarplum (Glaceon)
Lv. 58 drnkyBRRD (Porygon2)
Lv. 55 Ganymede (Yanmega)
Lv. 70 Twister (Absol)
Lv. 68 Frieze (Girafarig)
Lv. 56 LosAngeles (Lanturn)
Lv. 59 Kayy (Tropius)
23-03-17 Silje Nergaard - A Thousand True Stories (Remastered 2022)
23-03-15 Edward Vesala - Lumi
23-03-13 Archie Shepp - Four For Trane
23-03-12 Harry Partch - And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma
23-03-10 The Pitch - Frozen Orchestra (Amsterdam)
23-03-10 Albert Ayler - Spirits
23-03-09 Margaret Leng Tan/Somei Satoh - LITANIA
23-03-08 Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out Of Something
23-03-07 lorelei k - Swimming Pool Eternity (Live Album)
23-03-07 Pikacyu-Makoto 光宙★魔呼斗 - PikaMako’s Lather Gather Together!! ピカマコの大興奮！全員集合！
23-03-03 John Luther Adams - Red Arc/Blue Veil
23-03-02 sunflower - The Simple Life I Lead
23-03-02 awl - glyphs
beyond this point dates denote when an item entered my mp3 library (and not when i listened to the item in question.) i will take this moment to again remind the reader that how much stuff you listen to doesn't matter all that much. what does matter is how well you listen to the stuff you do have
23-03-02 Pokémon Platinum
my team:
Lv. 64 twiggy (Torterra)
Lv. 66 luvBRRD (Staraptor)
Lv. 65 ruNawAY (Luxray)
Lv. 66 Callie, the nameless (Froslass)
Lv. 66 /NEO-TWINK (Roserade)
Lv. 56 eggFRIEND (Togekiss)
Lv. 60 poolGRRL (Floatzel)
Lv. 59 Gira (Giratina)
23-03-01 Dave Liebman - Lookout Farm
Lv. 64 twiggy (Torterra)
Lv. 66 luvBRRD (Staraptor)
Lv. 65 ruNawAY (Luxray)
Lv. 66 Callie, the nameless (Froslass)
Lv. 66 /NEO-TWINK (Roserade)
Lv. 56 eggFRIEND (Togekiss)
Lv. 60 poolGRRL (Floatzel)
Lv. 59 Gira (Giratina)
23-03-01 Lorde - Melodrama
23-02-24 Sun Ra/John Gilmore/Michael Ray/Luqman Ali - Disco 3000 (Expanded)
23-02-22 Sun Ra/John Gilmore/Michael Ray/Luqman Ali - Media Dreams (Expanded)
23-02-22 Lorde - Solar Power (Deluxe Edition)
23-02-10 Brian Eno - Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (Expanded Edition)
23-02-07 Charles Dodge - Charles Dodge: Synthesized Voices
23-02-07 David Bruce - Undula (performed by Sequoia Sounds)
23-02-02 Cecil Taylor - Air Above Mountains (Buildings Within)
23-02-02 Lisa Papineau - Blood Noise
23-02-02 Einojuhani Rautavaara - Works for Piano (performed by Laura Mikkola)
23-01-30 Mal Waldron/Marion Brown - Songs Of Love And Regret
23-01-28 John Luther Adams - Houses of the Wind
23-01-28 Vanessa Carlton - Be Not Nobody
23-01-26 est!est!!est!!! - Kyburz, Stahnke, Boulez & Crumb: est!est!!est!!!, Vol. 1
23-01-25 Labyrinth
23-01-24 Andreas Koch - Jingle Box 2
23-01-19 Gary Burton/Chick Corea - Crystal Silence
23-01-16 McCoy Tyner - Fly With The Wind
23-01-03 Paul Shapera - The Room Beneath New Albion
23-01-03 Paul Shapera - An Atompunk Opera, The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness
23-01-03 Paul Shapera - The New Albion Radio Hour, A Dieselpunk Opera
23-01-03 Paul Shapera - The Dolls Of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera
22-12-31 Gabriel Kahane - Haircuts & Airports
22-12-31 Paul Shapera - Janissary, A Balkan Rock Opera
22-12-31 Gabriel Kahane - MAGNIFICENT BIRD
22-12-19 Paul Shapera - The Posthuman War Act 6: The Battle
22-12-18 Paul Shapera - The Posthuman War Act 5: The Pursuit
22-12-15 Paul Shapera - The Posthuman War Act 4: Red River
22-12-13 Paul Shapera - The Posthuman War Act 3: A New Dream
22-12-10 Paul Shapera - The Posthuman War Act 2: Caravan
22-12-10 Paul Shapera - The Posthuman War Act 1: The Playhouse
22-12-09 Raw Poetic - Space Beyond the Solar System
22-12-09 Nicole Di Bisceglie - Songs from the Stairwell
22-12-08 kqa - down goes the sun // cracks in the stucco
22-11-29 Ween - Caesar
22-11-19 Terre Thaemlitz - Die Roboter Rubato: Piano interperetations of Kraftwerk titles
22-11-17 Laszlo Bencker/Cyril Sorongon - High Tech Communication 2
22-11-13 Oskar Sala - Electronic Virtuosity
22-11-13 Max Roach - M'Boom
22-11-09 Jon Bois/Alex Rubenstein/Seth Rosenthal/Kofie Yeboah - The People You're Paying To Be In Shorts
22-11-06 OOIOO - Gold & Green
22-11-06 Masayoshi Takanaka - AN INSATIABLE HIGH
22-11-06 Miss Murph - ɱяяяωяℓ∂
22-11-06 L u k a - love & self destruction
22-11-05 OOIOO - nijimusi
22-11-05 Nora Nygard - The Ghosts Beneath Our Feet
22-11-01 Nora Nygard - Stardust
22-10-24 Nora Nygard - Bubblegum Chimney
22-10-22 Nora Nygard - Sheyenne Smoke
22-10-21 Gal Costa - Índia
22-10-21 Enrico Intra - Momento Intra
22-10-18 Alphonse Mouzon - The Essence of Mystery
22-10-18 Luxury Elite - World Class
22-10-17 The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra - The Thornhill Sound
22-10-17 Big Top Orchestra - Under The Big Top: Clown and Circus Music
22-10-06 John Luther Adams - The Mathematics Of Resonant Bodies (performed by Steven Schick)
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and that's as far back as i can resonably go