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Big mess of stuff I haven't had energy to list here because the semester is ending:
-Ghostride the Drift - Ghostride the Drift. Huerco S + Exael + uon collab -- murky, dubby techno that would fit right in on Acting Press. A1 is beautiful.
-Green Fuse. This is really just very well-done midwestern emo from a bit before music like this was popular early this decade.
-Throbbing Gristle - Live at the Factory (Manchester). Probably the best live album I've heard from Throbbing Gristle -- the versions of What a Day and See You Are here are great.
-Birchville Cat Motel - Cranes are Sleeping. Feedback-heavy drone par excellence. The last track, Love Lies Bleeding, deserves special mention.
-(V.E.G.A.) - Cocaine. One of my favorite black metal albums -- don't want to try describing too much, so have Kill Me.
-Juan Belda - Juan Belda (1986). Odd, sorta fusion-y album with a few tracks harsh and strange enough my first thought was how well they'd work mixed with older Godflesh.
-Asmus Tietchens & Arcane Device - dbl.fdbk. More feedback-heavy drone as the name indicates. Cold, tense stuff with a pretty different feeling to the BCM album and more intentional structure.
- 7038634357 - Love Unbound. No clue what to say here either. Probably the only album I own with art from Furaffinity (pay for it if you like it, Genome deserves your money more than almost any other label right now). Part of the recent wave of "experimental club" stuff. Bedchamber feels strangely like my experience of that scene in Howl's Moving Castle with Howl stuck in bird form at 9 or 10. I guess that's a good thing?
-The Golden Sun soundtrack. No explanation needed here, I assume. |
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| Posted on 05-18-19 09:22:13 PM, in Maine |
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| Some of the more remote areas look quite nice. Maybe I'll get to visit since I live near enough to drive there now... |
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| I'm still around, though I've been extremely busy lately and not had a lot to say. I've seen a few posts float by, but it does seem pretty dead compared to last year... |
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Right, just going to dump everything here like old times. Today was:
Lensman - Event
Dreamworld - Blackout
Emo Yardii - Forever(Never) [i should probably feel guilty about this, but instead i keep thinking how great it'd be if the sound was 3x more blown out and it meandered along for 4m or so like the first minute]
Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles
Edit: I also gave Brave LIttle Abacus' second album another shot and it's really pretty good. I hate the cover still, but the first half is better than anything TWIABP ever did. |
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Allergies suck. I had pretty bad ones as a kid -- particularly to cedar (and guess what was all around my parents' house back home...)
I should be packing to vacate my apartment right now, but I'm kind out of it. Hopefully that backs off soon.
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Still plugging at HxH -- finished 37 earlier procrastinating packing. It's still great -- the major characters are much better written than any shounen I've ever seen. With a few reservations, I'd say this is a better thing to show to people who dislike shounen than JJBA.
Other than that, I tried Beastars, but it didn't grab me all that much. Felt like it tipped its hand too fast and a lot of the drama didn't mean enough -- too much direct exposition as well.
Apparently Kaijuu No Kodomo is getting a movie -- I'm afraid it'll end up as some maudlin Ghibli-esque thing (not that I dislike most Ghibli films, it just feels massively inappropriate for the source material) based on the first couple trailers. Joe Hisaishi is not a stellar choice for the soundtrack on something like this either, big name or not.
Still reading Dead Dead Demon's Dedededestruction -- still very on board with where it's going.
Not sure I've had time for much else... Can't find a lot I enjoy, either. |
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| That kind of retreat is sad. Are people really so much shittier now public communities aren't viable in the same way? Not that I'm good at evaluating such things... It just sucks having to play endless status games just for the privilege of talking to people you were barely acquainted with in the first place. I liked being able to drift around forums or IRC or whatever until I got to know the place a little. |
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I recently bought a dreamcast and burned a ton of games for it. Jet Set Radio is incredibly fun. I also played a bunch of the Phantasy Star II port but lost my save file. Some of the lesser-known stuff in the Dreamcast's library like Elemental Gimmick Gear looks promising from the little while I've spent with it too. I've talked a bit about this elsewhere, but I still have long-term plans to try and make a G2 to PCI bridge for use with the NIC in the Dreamcast BBA (since the standalone PCI card is cheap and easy to find) -- hopefully targeting Lattice ECP5 or similar once NextPNR support is a little better. Any of the rest of you have favorite games on this or the Saturn, have done modding projects, etc.?
[also apologies if there was a prior thread about this, I don't think I managed to dig one up...] |
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| Going on a trip pretty soon and am interested in other PSP JRPGs people are into. I have the Dept. Heaven stuff -- sadly the PSP version of Riviera was easier than finding a GBA cart a couple years back. Objectively flawed or not, I had some fun with that game. I've tried the Valkyrie Profile games -- as good as they are, games where you end up squandering large chunks of gameplay if you make the wrong decision just aren't my thing. |
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Another couple since someone else revived it without me.
Brave Little Abacus - Please Don't Cry, They Stopped Hours Ago:
"But I can't seem to put my glass down, maybe because soon I'll be inside -- drowning in its confines, pounding on the glass like I were five"
The way lyrics on some ATDI tracks like Winter Month Novelty slowly distort is fun too -- "We drank ourselves to sleep 'cause the papercuts hurt (sure enough as)" -> "These papercuts hurt, yet sure enough as, sure enough as" -> "These papercuts sure hurt -- sure enough as"... This is probably going to turn into me posting half of Acrobatic Tenement and Vaya's lyrics if I'm not careful, so I'd better stop there.
Intersystems - Lately is worth a mention too (maybe I have before), though I'm not transcribing it at all. Deeply unsettling, especially for something from the late 60s. |
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Tornados are terrifying, and not something I miss about MO. I'm glad we never got hit when I was a kid -- we definitely came close.
Eastern WA is incredibly hot, and the people I'm living with don't seem to believe in air conditioning. I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually, but for now it's sorta miserable. |
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| I bought a bike! It's an old red Specialized Allez Comp, 58cm with 105, from the days of downtube shifters. Condition is absolutely pristine -- new Specialized seat and mavic wheels. I am ecstatic -- I had hours left to get transportation for my new job. |
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Anothre round of stuff in hopes I feel like moving once I finish. No links for now because I'm lazy and have limited time, though it's all on YT and Soundcloud.
bod [包家巷] – 'Stellar Star Sky'
Isis - Hym (Thomas Köner Remix)
Graham Lambkin - Dripping Junk
Shinichi Atobe - Heat
Smackos - A Vampire Goes West
Organ Tapes - Hunger in Me Living
Hive Mind - Elemental Disgrace [again -- beautiful drone, especially at high volume]
Oh yeah, and Greenland shark album (SÄHKÖ-030) above -- apparently by Kevin Drumm -- is now mine in vinyl form. |
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| I made bibimbap, then completely forgot I had kimchi for it. At least I improved my tofu crisping skills a fair bit... |
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| "trying to do too much" is a pretty relatable feeling, heh. I'm not so good at picking things to axe though -- everything in my life would feel bad to leave behind right now. |
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| The problem for me with leaving twitter is that no one else will. And beyond leaving, will -not- make themselves consistently available through other means no matter how much I beg them. I don't know where this distrust of anything but 2 proprietary platforms came from, but it is immensely frustrating. |
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| Yeah, art is the other big reason I don't just pack up (permanently anyway). Half of the SideM artists I follow don't even post to pixiv -- same for HxH. I wish I'd been more appreciative of what I had 10-15 years ago before all this shit started. Not that I could have done anything, probably. |
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Sleep is difficult as more and more of life gets taken over by things that are utterly foreign to...well, just about anyone, honestly. Exercise I've been doing much better about, and had almost immediate mental benefits in consequence.
Aging is horrific though, and it's a shit realization that so many people are too compromised to do or be very much meaningful in the latter half of their life. Bodies really aren't fit for habitation, I don't think.
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I'd take just about any robot body as long it let me be in something like steady state -- give me that Jameson thing from Ghost in the Shell SAC that's just a glorified metal box, even. Metal box sounds pretty good.
Biking is the most agreeable form of exercise I've found, because you go so fast that it just turns into exploration if you cover any real distance. Swimming second for that feeling of severed connection with the world I think. |
