Uhhh I kind of just wanted to alert you to these things:
1. Makers, by Cory Doctorow. I haven't finished it, so Idk if it ends satisfactorily or what but damn am I digging it. It's about GETTING EXCITED AND MAKING THINGS! and set in the sort of '20 minutes into the future' world I enjoy. It's got flaws, but the overall mood is so positive and cheerful and LET'S GO MAKE STUFF! that I am totally willing to forgive them. It's like an Etsy-generation cyberpunk novel, with the doom/gloom replaced with slapstick and lighthearted satire. DIYpunk, that's a thing now.
WARNING: there's some graphic sex scenes, which I did not know about until I read them on the El and died of awkward. (There's an Orson Welles interview where he's like, you can make a masterpiece of pornography, but not a pornographic masterpiece - you're either jerking off and missing the art, or you're paying attention to the art and the sex seems gratuitous and out of place. You can't be in both mindsets at once. Ymmv, but I tend to agree.)
MILD ALERT: although there's an excellent lady main character, her pagetime seems to be petering out, so if you're not willing to read another 'dudes do stuff' book your enjoyment will end around the halfway mark. Unless things change! Like I said, haven't finished yet.
2. THIS SONG. Apparently it's on a GTA soundtrack but I don't GTA, I just remembered !!! were a thing.
EDIT: shit! Completely forgot! I met Sigourney Weaver! That may be misspelled. The cast/crew of her new show (...Political Animals, I think it's called?) came to the restaurant July 4th. She's very tall, and seems like a reasonable human being, which is rare for fine dining customers in general, let alone Famous Actor Fine Dining Customers. We exchanged brief functional words (while I was weeded, so with limited awkward basking on my part).
In retrospect, I should have ganked one of the themed napkins they brought with. I was too busy lol'ing over the coals to Newcastle aspect, sadly.
1. Makers, by Cory Doctorow. I haven't finished it, so Idk if it ends satisfactorily or what but damn am I digging it. It's about GETTING EXCITED AND MAKING THINGS! and set in the sort of '20 minutes into the future' world I enjoy. It's got flaws, but the overall mood is so positive and cheerful and LET'S GO MAKE STUFF! that I am totally willing to forgive them. It's like an Etsy-generation cyberpunk novel, with the doom/gloom replaced with slapstick and lighthearted satire. DIYpunk, that's a thing now.
WARNING: there's some graphic sex scenes, which I did not know about until I read them on the El and died of awkward. (There's an Orson Welles interview where he's like, you can make a masterpiece of pornography, but not a pornographic masterpiece - you're either jerking off and missing the art, or you're paying attention to the art and the sex seems gratuitous and out of place. You can't be in both mindsets at once. Ymmv, but I tend to agree.)
MILD ALERT: although there's an excellent lady main character, her pagetime seems to be petering out, so if you're not willing to read another 'dudes do stuff' book your enjoyment will end around the halfway mark. Unless things change! Like I said, haven't finished yet.
2. THIS SONG. Apparently it's on a GTA soundtrack but I don't GTA, I just remembered !!! were a thing.
EDIT: shit! Completely forgot! I met Sigourney Weaver! That may be misspelled. The cast/crew of her new show (...Political Animals, I think it's called?) came to the restaurant July 4th. She's very tall, and seems like a reasonable human being, which is rare for fine dining customers in general, let alone Famous Actor Fine Dining Customers. We exchanged brief functional words (while I was weeded, so with limited awkward basking on my part).
In retrospect, I should have ganked one of the themed napkins they brought with. I was too busy lol'ing over the coals to Newcastle aspect, sadly.
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Mar. 10th, 2012 10:55 amHEY GUYS. My music collection is really old. Please rec me some new stuff!
I am partic. interested in the following:
electronic dance crap (I am the sort of fan who buys a Fabric mix once a year, for example)
intricately produced rap (ex: Dalek, DOOM, GZA)
hardcore? (last purchased: the Sinaloa/Ampere split. Anciiieeeennnt.)
things that sound like the Black Heart Procession
thank you in advance for yr assistance.
I am partic. interested in the following:
electronic dance crap (I am the sort of fan who buys a Fabric mix once a year, for example)
intricately produced rap (ex: Dalek, DOOM, GZA)
hardcore? (last purchased: the Sinaloa/Ampere split. Anciiieeeennnt.)
things that sound like the Black Heart Procession
thank you in advance for yr assistance.
And I will be near
Mar. 3rd, 2012 01:36 amSONG OF THE NOW
Ken Boothe - Can't You See
I don't care if you even like rocksteady or reggae, just listen to this. Thom Yorke would give his left testicle to write a song with this stellar a melody and level of feeling. I can't stop playing it, my heart breaks every time, and the beat, and that intro, and and aaannnd.
For context: this came out the same year as the White Album. Not tryna start That Debate, just, uh, the 60s had other things going on in it, okay.
Ken Boothe - Can't You See
I don't care if you even like rocksteady or reggae, just listen to this. Thom Yorke would give his left testicle to write a song with this stellar a melody and level of feeling. I can't stop playing it, my heart breaks every time, and the beat, and that intro, and and aaannnd.
For context: this came out the same year as the White Album. Not tryna start That Debate, just, uh, the 60s had other things going on in it, okay.
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