Gewerkschaft Musik
This link is in German. Very important as it lays out how musicians and everyone else involved in the culture around music could organize as there are massive funding cuts ahead that would take much of the music landscape in Germany apart. One can dream right?
Ghost Killer
Oh this was pretty good. Akari Takaishi plays a college student who gets possessed by the ghost of an assassin. It is a simple and straight forward movie. The rules are pretty clear from the start, everyone is able to do the stunts and Takaishi is perfectly on the line between unhinged and angry for the way people are treating her. A different movie would have gone much bigger. I like that this one did not.
After watching I found out that there is a Baby Assassins TV Show! So cool! That is where I saw Akari Takaishi first, in those very entertaining Baby Assassins movies. There is three of them and they are cute and wild as heck.
the void and some books, also links
- an essay about all of those special editions that are coming out from what seems to me a really cool outfit. So if you have some dollarinos lying about, give em some
This is an excellent video essay about parasocial relationships, long RPGs and what happens when those games end and leave you longing. Which is a feeling I personally can remember having had. But I understand how it happens. Really well done! And a second one is also out.
- collective governance for AI
- author Naomi Alderman writes about reading a lot
currently reading
- Molly Crabapple – Here where we live is our country
- Natasha Pulley – The Mars House
- Michael A. Stackpole – X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
Who knows when I'll finish any of those. Dr. Kate Listers Flick is waiting for me.
Bandcamp Friday!
Today is bandcamp friday. So all money spent on bandcamp goes directly to the labels/bands you bought anything from. It is neat! I have a budget to spend on music every month and the event makes that really easy. Here's what I got!
Now to put them into the music player and ROCK OUT!
a day
Spent the day looking for clothes to wear to a wedding. I am too wide for the suits at the second hand shops. But I ended up with two nice pieces that fit and will work just fine.
Shopping for clothes may never not be weird for me. Oh well. Here are some drawing resources, thoughts about third spaces on the web and an essay about new forms of Luddism.
A question that is always worth asking about stories of social change is where they begin and end. Does the story of the French Revolution end with Napoleon, the independence of Haiti, or the fall of Vichy? Did the civil rights movement begin with Rosa Parks on a bus, or with the strikes of sleeping-car porters, or with the songs and whispers among slaves? Have we heard the last, really, of movements like the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street? When we draw and redraw those lines, movement histories impart very different messages.
Recently a friend asked if I was writing a newsletter again. I am sorely tempted, but I can not do what I did back then. Time does not permit.
Two hits
Wolves Like Us
I do like rediscovering bands. It brings back memories. Way back in 2014 or even earlier I interviewed the singer of Wolves Like Us a band from Norway. It was a cool interview. Seasoned people making music for seasoned listeners. Songs about child induced sleeplessness and disconnection from family members.
Listened to them while doing deadlifts today. Worked just fine.
A band that stayed with me and on my music devices. Looking for their music now I can only find their most recent record: Brittle Bones. And that one is new to me! What a find!
Friday is another bandcamp friday and this is earmarked.
some proxies
This made me spend some time with glue and blank cards. I've had my sights on some Prince Valiant Knight Tokens for a while.
I do really like they way these turned out. A nice thing to spend an evening on.
got weak
I moved more than a month ago. Spent a lot of time losing books, sorting and putting away. Bringing them to the little free libraries around the place. Now I went to St. Georges in Berlin and brought home two new books. One because it is beautiful and one because it is one I've always wanted to read.