lost words
January 17th 2021 #thingaday #tattoos this is a repost
all the lovely bricks on my leg now!
this was a 'brick' done blindfolded by neobanal
this are some non-blindfolded bricks by neobanal
this brick was done by pieldeyaso
this brick was done by mayigetasebastian
angstygirl started the night off by giving me this adorable cinder block which was their first tattoo as well!
Just a little meat we found while on a walk at the florida dump.
This list isn't in order but who the fuck cares. I am not sure why I am doing this anymore. I guess seeing the view count keeps being 0 makes me a little less inclined to write. Though I am not really saying anything that interesting other then “this good” or “this sorta ok” etc
Baduizm(s) By Gavin Gamboa + Erykah Badu
“Twelve remixes of material from Baduizm (1997), Erykah Badu's debut record”
Had been meaning to listen to my friend @gavcloud@sonomu.club new remix album since we hung out in Berlin and finally ran into it again today so got the chance to listen. It was quite good. I was impressed at how experimental it was.
Ran into the following two albums just looking through the stuff BandCamp had featured. They usually do a good job of featuring a diverse selection of sounds and was happy to discover both of these jems though clicking on stuff.
This compilation #chiptune album had some killer songs on it and also some awful ones. I was working so wasn't able to ascertain which were which. I will have to re-listen and look up the artists who I actually liked another time. Chiptunes = WIN: Volume 8
I listened to the first 3 hours of the Mark Zuckerberg congressional hearing today. It took a lot of patience to listen to so many old people talk about things they didn't understand for 3 hours. Especially so many people in a position of power.
I wanted to write something about this but feel I should probably go to sleep. I listened to some other podcasts too but none of them were very good and there is not a good reason to list them here.
I didn't do as much listening today as usual. We lost power at 3pm after PG&E decided to save money by turning half of California's power off. Before we lost power I listened to Slavoj Zizek talk about Greta Thunberg
After that I listened to three lectures about geeky music stuff: Corporate Music – How to Compose with no Soul Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius Aleatoric Music: Live Looping & Chance
And finally until we lost power listened through my friend Harrison's SoundCloud likes for an hour or so.
I listened to random soundcloud rap for a long time today and was severely disappointment. Nothing that I listened to is worth linking here.
Listened to Dan Hassan interview Katze and Cryptix about tale:net on The Local Gossip (a podcast surrounding the Secure Scuttlebutt community)
Then listened to 4 hours or so of open source lore on the History of GNOME podcast
I listened to the The Computer History Hour podcast about the Elliott 803 computer and its history for an hour. They were interviewing Peter Onion about how they were making an emulator that showed off the computer in a 3d space and let you feed paper tape into it.
I finished listening to season two of Limetown, which was almost 5 hours of audio. It was ok but failed at leaving me feeling excited about it for the same reason I don’t watch most hollywood movies.
I took a listening break and ate some snacks and then listened to the first half of this mix by #SdLaika called Meshes that I very much enjoyed.
I quickly started feeling bored by my own thoughts and needed some mental stimulation so opened youtube and somehow stumbled on This Is Water by David Foster Wallace which resulted in me tearing up. I had never listened to anything by them. Actually I didn’t know who they where until they died and everyone online was talking about them for a week.
I had been thinking about language and wondering if I actually understood what semantics meant so I had looked it up on YouTube hoping to find a thorough synopses and came across a bunch of lectures and interviews with Noam Chomsky. I started with listening to The Concept of Language
I went on to Chomsky explaining what anarchism means to them and continued into an interview where they explain world politics through The Alien perspective on humanity, an interview by Tilo Jung. I ended with a bit about politics and that focused on how they would vote for Jeremy Corbyn.”)
After listening to Chomsky for hours I started craving a less male way of thinking and remembered that I had been meaning to listen to #JudithButler for a while now and listened to a whole bunch of recordings. These are the only two I listened to in their entirety.
Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor went for a walk
Judith Butler talking about anarchism
I don't know what Butler said that reminded me to look up the concept of the #kibbutz but something they said did and ended up listening to a number of videos on the matter. an Israeli boy explaining their life on a kibbutz
I then listened to a bunch of snippets of stuff about the communes in Rojava but all the stuff on youtube was subtitled and ended up distracting me from work so of course what I needed was to listen to All The Things She Said by .
Needed to get back up to speed and listen to some more music so I turned to #PussyRiot's КОШМАРЫ / NIGHTMARES and then their cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit and a bunch of other songs that were less memorable by the end of the day.
The final chapter of lecture-y stuff to end the day was #MichaelPollan's “Cannabis, The Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire” which was very good. The one thing I will mention here is their dumb intro introduced me to the word aptronym. On looking up the spelling for this wort I just discovered Wiktionary's English words suffixed with -onym
I really really don't feel like writing right now. I think I am just going to post a list of some of the things I listened to today without writing much myself.
Listened to a good mix by Human Pitch, it was sort of random this was recorded at The Lot Radio in Brooklyn as I had just been thinking about that place in relation to wondering how they got permission to have a school bus parked in the middle of the lot open to the public. Was just talking to another friend about them buying a schoolbus and was thinking about where it might go and about what the possibilities would be for my school bus.
Listened to all the new stuff by Alice Glass who used to be the singer of Crystal Castles before they called out their band mate for being abusive shitty person and left the band.
The 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980s by Stuff You Should Know In the late 1980s, the United States experienced a “Satanic Panic,” leading parents to fear for the safety of their children. But were there any real examples of Satanic ritual abuse? Find out this and more in this classic episode.
Can AI Teach You To Write Better? Students across the country are graded by artificial intelligence. But does an algorithm really know how to write?
Hey Google: scan my race Google tried to make its Pixel 4 phone better at seeing black faces. Ruha Benjamin explains why the company's means didn't justify the ends.
Biohacking: Rules of Engagement Biohacker Josiah Zayner is famous for experimenting on himself using the geneediting tool CRISPR. But when such powerful technology exists that can alter human biology, should we also have a code of conduct for biohacking?
Limetown
Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the question once more, “What happened to the people of Limetown?”
Ended up listening to almost the complete first season of this show. This is what I ended the night on.
The first part of the day I spent listening to this random podcast about the Kellogg brothers called American Innovations. It was quite interesting subject matter and a story I had already studied a bit years ago. The Kellogg empire has ties to everything from white supremacy to #veganism, industrialization of our eating habits to the demonetization of spicy foods. But this podcast was told in a hollywood style that only focuses on empire building and the idolization of making profit.
I needed a break from stories of argumentative old industrialists and remembered that I bookmarked an album I had briefly discovered when I found myself on Pandora.com last night when I was researching the developer of Nanoloop. Anyway only a few of the tracks on the album I really liked and the rest of them annoyed me.
The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel by Bop
Jad Abumrad (who I didn't know was Lebanese till today) has a new 9 part series called Dolly Parton's America and I listened to the first episode that was just released.
Clever Extra – Originality in the Age of Social Media I was out of things to listen to so I hopped on the discover page in Apple podcasts and found this one listed in an Apple curated section about design. It was such an awful conversation that I ended up listening to the whole thing because I couldn't get over how everything the hosts were talking about came off as privileged bullshit.
Took another break from podcasts for a while and then went to look at my hearts on bandcamp and decided to listen to an old favorite. #Filmmaker is one of my favorite bands for the past year or so. I have not gotten tired of listening to their albums on repeat.
The last album before finishing work was another classic that I listen to often. The Estonian irony rapper #TommyCash always makes me smile.
