I'm grabbing a bottle of wine over you
I'm craddling a bottle of wine over you
either way... although it's not one of her best songs.
Saturday, 29 August 2015
Slow West (2015)
Beautiful western with Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Written by John Maclean. Supposedly Fassbender signed up before a single letter of the script was written. Keep an eye on that Maclean guy. Great music, great shots, great pace (yes, slow, as some of the best films are)
Great OST by Jed Kurzel.
As well as "The Minstrel's Song" by Brian Michael Mills.
The film, the story and the music: all are good for writing.
Great OST by Jed Kurzel.
As well as "The Minstrel's Song" by Brian Michael Mills.
The film, the story and the music: all are good for writing.
Friday, 28 August 2015
Kongos - "Lunatic" (2014)
Americana + African roots, the Ars Technica dude described them.
Not sure, but they have an accordeon, it is slightly punky and gypsy.
Not sure, but they have an accordeon, it is slightly punky and gypsy.
- I'm Only Joking - woooooh
- Come with me Now - nice!
Thursday, 27 August 2015
Eddie Vedder - "Long Nights" (Into the Wild, 2007)
Shivers.
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...
I'll take this soul that's inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I'll forever know
I've got this light
And the will to show
I will always be better than before
Long nights allow me to feel...
I'm falling...I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...
I'll take this soul that's inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I'll forever know
I've got this light
And the will to show
I will always be better than before
Long nights allow me to feel...
I'm falling...I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...
La Femme - "Psycho Tropical Berlin" (2013)
Nice enough songs, though not many of them jump to your attention.
- Antitaxi - instrumental, surfy
- La Femme Ressort - strange, nice
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Apparat - "The Soft Voices Die" (The Devil's Walk, 2011)
Intriguing slow song, with a nearly-irritating high weeeeep effect. Soft electronic tingles, violins.
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
Taylor Swift swallows the world
https://samkriss.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/taylor-swift-swallows-the-world/
They follow her, while Taylor Swift is one of those dangerous rarities: a person that doesn’t look like anything. Not strange-looking, exactly, not amorphous or indistinct, but vast: a trackless and uncharted infinity. Something hungry.
Taylor Swift has always resisted the crude general categories that female recording artists are usually shunted into: never quite succumbing to the coruscatingly coquettish malice of the teen icon, or steatopygous sexual auto-objectification, or modish androgyny.
...
For years now, she’s made a point of never showing her navel, carefully engineering various crop tops and swimsuits to keep it hidden from paparazzi and their slobbering navel-crazed public. Fine: I don’t tend to make a point of parading around my naked umbilicus either. It’s a revolting hole, a foetid salty lint-clogged scar, a gaping absence that’s only a reminder of something irretrievably lost. With only that hole remaining the condition of humanity must always be one of absolute disconnection; we’ve been snipped apart from a primal unity, and it’s not coming back until the day we die. Our genitals tell us that we can bring ourselves together, and even create something new; our navels whisper bitterly that we will always be alone.
They follow her, while Taylor Swift is one of those dangerous rarities: a person that doesn’t look like anything. Not strange-looking, exactly, not amorphous or indistinct, but vast: a trackless and uncharted infinity. Something hungry.
Taylor Swift has always resisted the crude general categories that female recording artists are usually shunted into: never quite succumbing to the coruscatingly coquettish malice of the teen icon, or steatopygous sexual auto-objectification, or modish androgyny.
...
For years now, she’s made a point of never showing her navel, carefully engineering various crop tops and swimsuits to keep it hidden from paparazzi and their slobbering navel-crazed public. Fine: I don’t tend to make a point of parading around my naked umbilicus either. It’s a revolting hole, a foetid salty lint-clogged scar, a gaping absence that’s only a reminder of something irretrievably lost. With only that hole remaining the condition of humanity must always be one of absolute disconnection; we’ve been snipped apart from a primal unity, and it’s not coming back until the day we die. Our genitals tell us that we can bring ourselves together, and even create something new; our navels whisper bitterly that we will always be alone.
acheiropoieta
Acheiropoieta (Byzantine Greek: ἀχειροποίητα, "made without hand"; singular acheiropoieton) — also called Icons Made Without Hands (and variants) — are a particular kind of icon which are said to have come into existence miraculously, not created by a human painter. Invariably these are images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary. The most notable examples that are credited by tradition among the faithful are, in the Eastern church the Image of Edessa or Mandylion (depending on the version of its origin story followed) and the Hodegetria, and in the West, the Veil of Veronica, the Manoppello Image and the Shroud of Turin.
Although the most famous acheiropoieta today are mostly icons in paint on wood panel, they have been in several other types of technique, such as mosaics, painted tile, and cloth. Ernst Kitzinger distinguished two types: "Either they are images believed to have been made by hands other than those of ordinary mortals or else they are claimed to be mechanical, though miraculous, impressions of the original".[1] The belief in such images becomes prominent only in the 6th century, by the end of which both the Mandylion and the Image of Camuliana were well known. The pilgrim Antoninus of Piacenza was shown a relic of the Veil of Veronica type in Memphis, Egypt in the 570s.[2]
Although the most famous acheiropoieta today are mostly icons in paint on wood panel, they have been in several other types of technique, such as mosaics, painted tile, and cloth. Ernst Kitzinger distinguished two types: "Either they are images believed to have been made by hands other than those of ordinary mortals or else they are claimed to be mechanical, though miraculous, impressions of the original".[1] The belief in such images becomes prominent only in the 6th century, by the end of which both the Mandylion and the Image of Camuliana were well known. The pilgrim Antoninus of Piacenza was shown a relic of the Veil of Veronica type in Memphis, Egypt in the 570s.[2]
the Fifty Dollar Band - "one Hundred Years of Grace"
Wonderful spaghetti western music.
- Where Do You Go (ft Teus Nobel) - trumpet, female voices...
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - "S.O.B."
Funny enough, read about this in a sort of op-ed on Minnesota's "The Current" (MPR) radio station's website, referenced via an Ars Technica article about how/where their editors get their injection of new music.
Knew it already, just not consciously.
Knew it already, just not consciously.
Friday, 21 August 2015
Thursday, 20 August 2015
coding playlists
breakpoints-on-spacetime
"The speed of light exists because that's the maximum speed this simulation can buffer environments for rendering and collision detection."
nice instrumental playlist
http://8tracks.com/pingfromheaven/breakpoints-on-spacetime
void Focus()
http://8tracks.com/legnus/void-focus
with Saltillo - "A Necessary End" - violins and beats
slowly it moved to more uptempo playlists without my explicit doing
running-life-in-music
"The speed of light exists because that's the maximum speed this simulation can buffer environments for rendering and collision detection."
nice instrumental playlist
http://8tracks.com/pingfromheaven/breakpoints-on-spacetime
void Focus()
http://8tracks.com/legnus/void-focus
with Saltillo - "A Necessary End" - violins and beats
slowly it moved to more uptempo playlists without my explicit doing
running-life-in-music
- Thomas J. Bergersen & Nick Phoenix - "Heart of Courage"
uptempo film climax music - Shaka Ponk - "Palabra Mi Amor"
near punk song, almost gypsy! Cool!
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
Shirley Jackson - [unknown]
Still on 2read list, better get it out here:
Tell me about your sister, the little boy said. Was she a witch?
Maybe, the man said.
The little boy laughed excitedly, and the man leaned back and puffed at his cigar. Once upon a time, he began, I had a little sister, just like yours. The little boy looked up at the man, nodding at every word. My
little sister, the man went on, was so pretty and so nice that I loved her more than anything else in the world. So shall I tell you what I did?
The little boy nodded more vehemently, and the mother lifted her eyes from her book and smiled, listening.
I bought her a rocking-horse and a doll and a million lollipops, the man said, and then I took her and I put my hands around her neck and I pinched her and I pinched her until she was dead.
Tell me about your sister, the little boy said. Was she a witch?
Maybe, the man said.
The little boy laughed excitedly, and the man leaned back and puffed at his cigar. Once upon a time, he began, I had a little sister, just like yours. The little boy looked up at the man, nodding at every word. My
little sister, the man went on, was so pretty and so nice that I loved her more than anything else in the world. So shall I tell you what I did?
The little boy nodded more vehemently, and the mother lifted her eyes from her book and smiled, listening.
I bought her a rocking-horse and a doll and a million lollipops, the man said, and then I took her and I put my hands around her neck and I pinched her and I pinched her until she was dead.
Neil Gaiman - "The Graveyard Book"
Had this for a few years, never bothered to read it. I noticed I have become a bit... less interested in his writing. It's great writing, don't get me wrong, but... maybe I read too much of it in too short a time. Two books I would reread: "Neverwhere", that one never fails to amaze me, and "American Gods", which I am not sure I understood completely.
The Graveyard Book, besides some wonderful drawings, is nice. Finished it in two days. It bothered me a bit though. it was... too simple. Why is Bod that special one? How does the Honour Guard and the Jacks relate? Jack Frost I got... but are the other Jacks famous Jacks?
But, the writing was well crafted and it was a lovely little story.
The Graveyard Book, besides some wonderful drawings, is nice. Finished it in two days. It bothered me a bit though. it was... too simple. Why is Bod that special one? How does the Honour Guard and the Jacks relate? Jack Frost I got... but are the other Jacks famous Jacks?
But, the writing was well crafted and it was a lovely little story.
Wanderers
short film, words and voice by Carl Sagan. Very well done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6goNzXrmFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6goNzXrmFs
Sunday, 16 August 2015
In Bruges (2008)
Great fun film with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson (remember that name) and Ralph Fiennes (small role). Feel good in semi Guy Ritchie style. Good soundtrack, too!
Carter Burwell created the original score: somebody to look out for.
Carter Burwell created the original score: somebody to look out for.
- Carter Burwell - "I Didn't Want To Die"
- Townes Van Zandt - "St John The Gambler" (melancholy)
Saturday, 15 August 2015
the King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters
Documentary about two world's (well, America's) top classic gamers. Mostly focussed around Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell. Didn't like the latter, found the former a bit awkward at times (seriously, his kid screaming "dad! stop playing donkey kooooooooooooong!".... but dad was on a winning streak, ...) it was amazing. Think "Room 237" but for computer game nerds. Classic computer games.
Loneliness, solitude, desolation, alienation, disaffection, estrangement
Loneliness, which refers to a lack of companionship and is often associated with unhappiness, should not be confused with solitude, which is the state of being alone or cut off from all human contact (the solitude of the lighthouse keeper). You can be in the midst of a crowd of people and still experience loneliness, but not solitude, since you are not physically alone. Similarly, if you enjoy being alone, you can have solitude without loneliness. Lonesomeness is more intense than loneliness, suggesting the downheartedness you may experience when a loved one is absent (she experienced lonesomeness following the death of her dog). Desolation is more intense still, referring to a state of being utterly alone or forsaken (the widow's desolation). Desolation can also indicate a state of ruin or barrenness (the desolation of the volcanic islands). Alienation, disaffection, and estrangement have less to do with being or feeling alone and more to do with emotions that change over time. Alienation is a word that suggests a feeling of unrelatedness, especially a feeling of distance from your social or intellectual environment (alienation from society). Disaffection suggests that you now feel indifference or even distaste towards someone of you were once fond of (a wife's growing disaffection for her husband), while estrangement is a voluntary disaffection that can result in complete separation and strong feelings of dislike or hatred (a daughter's estrangement from her parents).
First of all, Concise Oxford American Thesaurus, I love you. I want to have your babies. All of them.
Secondly... I love your long explanations. It's how I came to learn and love (all at once, it was a bang for sure) "sempiternal".
Also... curious how it's "you" here, instead of "one" ("one now feels indifference...") A Thesaurus thing? I wish a Concise Oxford American Thesaurus employee would read this and tell me why the tone is different from the New Oxford American Dictionary.
But, just to drive the point home, I did not have a car at the time of buying this and it was absolutely worth every penny cycling up the hill with these hundred thousand pounds of words in my backpack. As well as the shipping costs when I moved.
First of all, Concise Oxford American Thesaurus, I love you. I want to have your babies. All of them.
Secondly... I love your long explanations. It's how I came to learn and love (all at once, it was a bang for sure) "sempiternal".
Also... curious how it's "you" here, instead of "one" ("one now feels indifference...") A Thesaurus thing? I wish a Concise Oxford American Thesaurus employee would read this and tell me why the tone is different from the New Oxford American Dictionary.
But, just to drive the point home, I did not have a car at the time of buying this and it was absolutely worth every penny cycling up the hill with these hundred thousand pounds of words in my backpack. As well as the shipping costs when I moved.
Thursday, 13 August 2015
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