Laibach covering a Sound Of Music tune? Yes. The world makes sense. All of the yes. "Life is Life" got me through more LSD bad times than I can count so - Yes. I am into Marshmello right now. I taught a couple of math classes today but really, inside my head, I only had this song. He's a dumb little masked EDM dude. But. One of his videos has over a BILLION-with-a-B hits. This song reminds me of Bach-with-a-B. Feist is going to be at the Oregon Zoo and I could pay $150 to see her, but I probably won't. If I go to anything there it'll be the Indigo Girls because I'm not sure I can sell my wife on the B-52s, OMD, and Berlin. And Lizzo just dropped - like, two hours ago - a bunch of stuff onto Youtube. That's where I get all of my music from - Youtube, I mean. Getting all my music from Lizzo will be a viable choice in 20 years once she's got that kind of cred. I haven't listened to any of it enough yet to know what's good but I don't miss Prince anymore. I mean, damn. I suppose I'll vote for Sanders when he gets the nomination but I'd rather vote for Warren because she's the closest candidate to Lizzo.
Currently on my phone's repeat: This one reminds me of my current D&D character. Jaxom's a 5th level Inquisitor - we're playing Pathfinder, and just finished the first book of Wrath of the Righteous: The video to this one makes me cry because I have a dog and a daughter who could totally do this. I'll miss them when they go to Mars: This one is for driving at MAXIMUM VOLUME:
I just turned my 5-year-old onto Lightning Man. "Daddy - can we hear the song about daddies and babies again?"
Here are three - warning, some of these videos might be NSFW. They are all good to drive to for different reasons. Here is on the way to the caper (think like a shadowrun run, not a pickled flower bud): Warning: Scarlett Johansson might be triggering for some folks. (Bassnectar - The Future) Here is during the caper: Warning: there is a naked lady, and then some nipples. That might be triggering for some folks (Gesaffelstein - Pursuit) And this is what to drive to on the way back from the caper when you want calm focus: Warning: there are several white people playing stringed instruments. That might be triggering for some folks. (JS Bach - Brandenburg Concerto #3)
Hey! Do you like mashups? Well maybe not. Most of them are crap. But let me ask another question - do you like Daft Punk, or Bill Withers, or Steven Universe? I mean if you're still on the fence I just don't even. Anyway. Here is 'Just the two of us are harder better faster stronger than you'. It is best for the singing along with I think.
I was inspired by the World Cup. I've always liked soccer - showing my 'murica right there - and this year I vowed to watch more of the games than just half of one in passing. But FIFA is a corrupt nightmare - Sepp Blatter is just the most public of that. Most of the FIFA decision makers from the last 20 years are either in jail, awaiting trial, or can't come to the US for fear of being arrested for corruption. So I wrote some friends - most of whom are on here! - an email about each day of the cup, adding some weird dark elements and a gradually more horrifying narrative. It was fun! I mean, with a certain specific definition of fun. I've also discovered a whole shared narrative of the SCP foundation and a modern way of talking about monsters and ghost stories - I've stayed up until dawn a couple of times this week falling through a rabbit hole there. World Cup and Internet Monsters will forever be entwined in my heart, now.
I love unreliable witnesses - I like how it plays with narrative and adds another sort of level to a straightforward linear narrative. I've been playing around with this in a story where the unreliability reveal comes at the end, and so the story can be read in two ways; what is told, and then what is inferred by hints from the environment and other character's dialog. I'm not sure it's possible to pull off and I'm certain I don't have the writing chops for it, but it's a fun exercise.
Well but that's the thing, right? Who gets to decide what the artist's intentions are? Pornography is what THEY like. Erotica is what WE like. It's difficult to decontextualize the artist out of the art, I think, and until the artist's generation of critics is dead their product seems more about the context than the actual product.
Allow me to paraphrase Dr. Mark: Truly the haiku The Most Beautiful Poem You should write one now
My heart was broken years ago by e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0, Steve. So beautiful!
The derivative of the Zeta function is tough for me to wrap my head around!