creepy / swing / cabaret / piano

nice playlist on spotify This Way To Egress - "Rogue Trip" (like a slow sad Gogol Bordello)

The Bullfight - "The Death of Martin van Dongen" (La Chasse)

Wonderful honkytonk piano piece.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

www.anceintmarinerbigread.com

Tara Westover - "Educated"

Immensily gripping rooted in autobiography story of a girl growing up in a conservative Mormon family. Particularly how her dad assigns every action to God and his angels, how he hurls iron bars and other heavy objects in the junkyard towards the pile where his daughter stood, not caring whether the thrown junk would hit her "because angels guide us". Or how she got pierced by metal and fell down. How twice they crashed with their car after driving at night. The feeling I had when she described how she didn't know the word "holocaust", or how her brother kept dominating the family. It was gripping until the very end. For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook's dense passages, but terms like "civic humanism" and "the Scottish Enlightenment" dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them.

Ewun - "Phone Tap"

industrial with phone sounds.

DEVS

Enjoyable scifi series about a super-magicky Googly-ish company that developed a quantum computer able to simulate basically everything, thus being able to see both backwards and forward in time, all because its founder (played by Nick Offerman, him of Parks and Recreation and the best "There's only one thing I hate more than lies, and that is skimmed milk. Which is water lying about being milk.") lost its daughter. Lots of discussions about multi-vs-single world. Nice, but... geeks don't all know fibonacci sequences by heart. That's not what coding looks like. There's technical illogic (why can't she reinstall dead boyfriend's phone from the cloud *again* after it has been wiped?) Where are the Russians? They don't care one of their operatives & handlers just disappears? (oh they do. sorta) I didn't like the end. Suddenly they run simulations as a world? And why is there no DEVS machine in the simulation? That would make it really interesting, and make the jump to "we are living in a simulation" ourselves. 6 out of 10, I'd say. Also, had a bit of a Utopia feel to it. And I did like some of the visual tricks to show multiple worlds.

Lucio Battisti - "E penso a te"

The original of Tanita Tikaram's "And I think of you". That one was from 1996. The original from 1970...

"Contemporary British Short Story" (edited by Philip Hensher)

Mr Philip Hensher has strong opinions when it comes to short stories. I liked some, but have not properly kept track of which ones. Except that I remember Lucy Wood's "Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, Derelict" as beautifully haunting and melancholic, about an elderly couple living close to the beach where more and more waste keeps turning up.

the Dead Don't Die

Typical Jim Jarmusch film. Bill Murray, small role for Iggy Pop. Enjoyable and as strange as to be expected.

diary

glansrijk verpatst. Alles waar ik uit klom. Ik proost op troost... maar niet op herbegin. Wende - "Gin" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iy-AQ2rMkQ Serge Reggiani / Ramses Shaffy / Wende - "Laat me" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFSlSsldk94 Jacques Brel - "Voir un ami pleurer" / "ne me quitte pas" Stef Bos - "Wodka" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU

to try to play piano

Amanda Palmer - I want you but I don't need you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IpiAt3JXt4 Amanda Palmer / Dresden Dolls - "Missed Me" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o53x9DBwU2I Dresden Dolls - "Coin Operated Boy" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLmT4cWGQw0 Jean Ferrat / Wim Sonneveld - "La Montagne" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4LTGBTha14 (TERRIBLE)

videogames / trailers

That took me too long to find this one. Archive - "Bullets" used in the trailer for the game "Cyberpunk 2077"

sleep / dreams / imagery rehearsal therapy

Some interesting articles on sleep health https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-we-dream-sleep-stress-anxiety-insomnia-a9470686.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/how-to-sleep-better-9226717.html

kink 1500

random songs from the kink 1500 playlist on spotify. * Rage Against the Machine - "Bombtrack"

random shit i should listen to

A perfect circle Quimby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_UFqw3vm0s&feature=youtu.be Post modern jukebox Lorn - "Anvil" French 79 - "hometown" I am Kloot - "To The Brink"

dance/ dnb

bladerunner -intensity bladerunner & nectax - the fall

"Your name here"

short video on Aeon about a spoof of self realization from the 1960's that rings too eerily true. https://aeon.co/videos/from-dream-to-reality-the-1960s-spoof-that-marked-the-dawn-of-self-aware-advertising

Frank Stallone - "Far From Over"

Sylvester Stallone's brother! If you need an 80's pick me up, this is it.

Ozark

Good series about a guy whitewashing the Mexican mob's money, having to flee to the Ozarks with his family while continuing his business.

God's Kingdom

Intriguing short about a pastor and girl fleeing from what seem to be the devil's men. Great credit song by Michael Malarkey, him of the Vampire Diaries, "scars".