The best you could loop for 10 hours as a productivity tool. Playlist of 47 companies worth of hold music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1InrZfsJQlCS7l0xi2avI_iXjjxEnAD This (more…)
Eerie cosmic sounds meant for film… blossom in the real world as trees & sculptures of fear and terror: Exploring real world and film’s eerie sound instruments
This is a post about sculpture, art, the natural world, eerie sounds for movies, and when they come to the real world and actually sound horrifying for really real… THE SINGING RINGING (more…)
Japanese Jazz, *OR* people worry about “cultural appropriation”, but what if the melding of cultures makes a cosmic gumbo, a fusion of all the good in all of us??
The Japanese have always had the skillset of adopting other cultures’ strengths… tech, film & animation, scotch whiskey, baseball… and amplifying their qualities, repackaging them, and exporting (more…)
Why physical media might be future proof, but keep that wax cool.
Do We Still Need Physical Media? https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/07/28/do-we-still-need-physical-media/ . THIS IS SUPERB. That’s a philosophical blog that thinks about art. They’ve done amazing (more…)
Newsletter #0010 – Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself
Bonaparte wasn’t wrong… Reminds me of that “Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt”, but I fear it’s too late for me. BUT… we’re in the double digits! 990 (more…)
Newsletter #0008 – My brain: The Newsletter is too long. Also my brain: EFF YOUR FEELINGS SNOWFLAKE YOU READ IT ALL. (You never unpacked the baffled perculosis?)
NO TIME? Watch the army/navy seal type guy getting on the boat, the Dr. Phil clip, and the kid from Ikea ranting (under comedy). INITIAL MOMENTARY THOUGHT MIND THING Can we have a conversation (more…)
NEWSLETTER #0007 – You thought I was going to make a James Bond joke, didn’t you? YOU DON’T GET TO HATE IT UNLESS YOU LOVE IT
I think I need to point out that I am amazed execution vans are a thing (below), but to make capitalists salivate at the efficiency of a communist program is just a weird thing, friends. Imma start (more…)
I think the Doors were the first punk band. But this isn’t about that. It’s about January Jansen, my friend and Jim Morrison’s best friend. We stop by and say hello to Jonas Cash and Iggy Pop as well.
The Doors (1965) were the first punk band. That was my thought. My friend was Jim Morrison’s best friend, and made all his leather! NO I MEAN REALLY. We’ll get to all that, and I’ll defer (more…)
Newsletter #0006 – I am not good at newsletters and we’re not hiring editors
A.I. permeates this blog. The new Nirvana song is weird. It’s all weird. The vinyl stuff is pretty depressing. I want you to get into Marc Ribellet’s Sunday Brunch livestream DJ podcast weirdness. SO… (more…)
Newsletter #0005 – The big reveal will be when we are all figments of each other’s imaginations.
“We can make Sandwiches”, or “Snapshots of a moment of human existence that isn’t about Lindsey Graham”. OH MAN I gotta say I am enjoying the Gaetz stuff. “HOW DARE I SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTIONS!?” Some (more…)