bbc6 / gideon coë

• comet is coming - "summon the fire"
  again great saxophone, power!  this is a live bbc6 recording so the actual song might be different

DARKSIDE - "Liberty Bell"

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqhNWR5OOk

Gunship - Drone Racing

 great videoclip of bad guys drone racing, both stop motion and vc

sean keanney

• Julia Stone - "Dance"
  at it again with an amazing half-parlando half-sung sad song
• the Stokes - "Heart in a cage"
  a big like Siouxie and the banshees / Iggy Pop's "the Passenger"
  

Gideon Coe

 music, Gideon Coe, bbc6, they are equivalent. But as my brain keeps shrinking with 2 grams per year, I better tag them all.  He's a hero.  Plays the best stuff.

I *think* I'm listening to the Left Outsides.... a bit like Loreena McKennit

Cillian Murphy's Limited Edition

• Serengeti - "Universe" (the Gentle Fall) - spoken word, he's a rapper but this is way different. Post-folk?! Amazing stuff.
• BC Camplight - "I Only Drink When I'm Drunk"

Atari Teenage Riot - "Revolution Action"

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8JBUktSxvQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plAr3adKbyc

The Lighthouse

 intense, gripping black and white paranormal mystery. Great film.

Kunststof

 aardig interview met Joost Prinsen (raakt soms de draad een beetje kwijt)

Ook, prachtnummer "Zing Dan" van Jenny Arean.

Leo Blokhuis.

Instrument dat gebruikt werd is de trautonium; decennia geleden door Scala (?) ontworpen in Berlijn. Is ook gebruikt voor de vogelgeluiden in Hitchcock's The Birds.

Ook: Manuel Göttsching - voorloper van techno, maakte in '81 "E2-E4" in Berlijn.

R.F. Kuang - "The Burning God" (part 3 of the Poppy War Trilogy)

We Are The Champions

 Strange series on the craziest of competitions: running down a steep hill after a cheese, eating the hottest chillies in the world, dog dancing, frog jumping.

Enjoyable to watch (most of it: I skipped the fantasy hairdressing)

making of "Take My Breath Away"

 Composed by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by "a car mechanic".

He also did Scarface.

Terry Nunn auditioned for princess Leia!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/16/giorgio-moroder-take-my-breath-away-top-gun-how-we-made-berlin-tom-cruise

the comnments are gold

apophasis

 Apophasis (/əˈpɒfəsɪs/; Greek: ἀπόφασις from ἀπόφημι apophemi,[1] "to say no") is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony.

The device is also called paralipsis (παράλειψις) – also spelled paraleipsis or paralepsis – or occupatio, and known also as praeteritio, preterition, or parasiopesis (παρασιώπησις).

As a rhetorical device, apophasis can serve a number of purposes.

It can be employed to raise an ad hominem or otherwise controversial attack while disclaiming responsibility for it, as in, "I refuse to discuss the rumor that my opponent is a drunk." This can make it a favored tactic in politics.

Scooter - "Fck 2020"

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu3k2PJumfI

This made me laugh out loud.

spooky playlist spotify

 * Echo and the Bunnymen - "Nocturnal Me"

George Lakoff - "Metaphors we live by"

Corresponding to the fact that we act as if time is a valuable commodity - a limited resource, even money - we conceive of time that way. Thus we understand and experience time as the kind of thing that can be spent, wasted, budgeted, invested wisely or poorly, saved, or squandered.
TIME IS MONEY, TIME IS A LIMITED RESOURCE, and TIME IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY are all metaphorical concepts. They are metaphorical since we are using our everyday experiences with money, limited resources, and valuable commodities to conceptualize time. This isn't a necessary way for human beings to conceptualize time, it is tied to our culture. There are cultures where time is none of these things.

 

In allowing us to focus on one aspect of a concept (e.g., the battling aspects of arguing), a metaphorical concept can keep us from focusing on other aspects of the concept that are inconsistent with that metaphor. For example, in the midst of a heated argument, when we are intent on attacking our opponent's position and defending our own, we may lose sight of the cooperative aspects of arguing. Someone who is arguing with you can be viewed as giving you his time, a valuable commodity, in an effort at mutual understanding.

These examples show that the metaphorical concepts we have looked at provide us with a partial understanding of what communication, argument, and time are and that, in doing this, they hide other aspects of these concepts. It is important to see that the metaphorical structuring involved here is partial, not total. If it were total, one concept would actually be the other, not merely be understood in terms of it. For example, time isn't really really. If you spend your time trying to do something and it doesn't work, you can't get your time back.

I'm thinking of ending things (2020)

 Based on the book by Iain Reid.  Follows most of the plot, but takes a different ending.  

I  missed Kaufman's logic of the fantasy, the girl, having agency, fighting her creator. 

Quite good.

Geoff Manaugh - "A burglar's guide to the city"

Interesting book, although a bit dry at times. Starts great with history about Leslie and architecture, meanders a bit. 

[George Leonidas] Leslie was so dedicated to detail, so confident in his abilities, that he would often case the interiors of banks both during business hours and long after: before his gang robbed the Manhattan Savings Institution in October 1878, Leslie had already broken into the bank twice, stealing nothing, simply checking out the building for himself and verifying that he had the correct combination for the vault door. This gives Leslie the air of an addict, seemingly unable to resist the lure of an uninhabited architectural space emptied of its workers, unable to turn down the illicit thrill of a bank interior that temporarily belonged to him alone, having realized long ago that the best way to commune with an architectural space was by breaking into it.

Here in Northampton, Leslie's gang turned their attention from space to time. [...] Anticipating the watchman's future narrative of the heist, which would naturally include details of when the perpetrators arrived, how long they spent in the vault, and, most important, what time they fled into the shadows of the New England night, they also tampered with the watchman's clocks, stopping or breaking them.

... his extensive, homeschooled expertise in the city's fire code, explaining how the city's own regulations can be read from the outside-in by astute burglars, turning Toronto's fire code into a kind of targeting system. Simply by looking at the regulated placement of fire escapes on the sides of residential high-rises, Dakwsin could deduce which floors ad fewer apartments (fewer would mean larger, more expensive apartments, more likely to be filled with luxury goods)

... the idea of designing out crime is by no means unique to our era. In nineteenth-century Paris, for example, acting under instructions from Emperor Napoléon III, urban administrator Georges-Eugène Haussmann instituted an extraordinarily ambitious series of urban improvements. He ordered the demolition of entire neighborhoods, the erasure of while streets from the center of Paris, and the widespread replacement of them both with the broad, leafy, and beautiful boulevards Paris is known for today. This was not motivated by aesthetics, however, but was explicitly a police project, a deliberate - and quite successful - effort to redesign the city so that the streets would be too wide to barricade, the back alleys no longer winding or confusing enough for insurgents and revolutionaries to disappear or get away. The urban landscape of Paris became a police tool, its urban core reorganized so aggressively that popular uprisings would henceforth be spatially impossible.

John Milton - "Paradise Lost" (audiobook)

 An abridged audiobook with various actors.

transcriber (woman) - "your muse is nothing if not busy"
John Milton (Patrick Stewart) - "The call is urgent. Our world falls in upon itself. These words I take as gifts from her can shape to what we've lost. There is so much to explain."

Louis Theroux - "Gotta get theroux this"

 Listened to this. Was enjoyable. For sure must have missed bits because I used it during bouts of insomnia, but overall honestly enjoyable.