It's not up there with Alice In Wonderland or MLK Jr but I guess at least it's my dream.
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It's not up there with Alice In Wonderland or MLK Jr but I guess at least it's my dream.
I know this band! TBH I don't consider them a classic of this style -- not up there with Doomsword or the mighty Cirith Ungol -- but they're perfectly fun.
I had a dream in which I shouted at someone 'I love reading but I hate talking to people.' I was so angry about this I woke myself up, and now I don't remember anything else about the dream.
Yes.
Chicken tikka masala is British food, chicken manchurian is Indian food, spaghetti and meatballs is American food. Food is the most delicious way in which cultures carry their influence into new territories.
Finally his mask is off. 😞
hello here are some things that i have loved drawing recently ✨
I'm pleased to announce Ruffles and I are chilling together.
I love those things but by and large feel they're better off without me tromping about amidst them.
Thanks, will listen!
Tbh more human beings should be like this.
I'm listening to If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian and... this is where you go if you love arch, melancholic lyrics and don't want to deal with the Morrisiness of Morrisey, isn't it?
Love Donne so much. Such a horn dog (but later fully religious).
An amoral agent, then.
Wayne’s World, Waiting For Godot, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Beavis And Butthead are all part of my favorite genre: two stupid guys that are occasionally very smart by accident.
Just wait until the free-range daughter enters the fray.
This simultaneously cruel and useless wall should stand forever as a monument to the absolute stupidity of this current strain of American fascism.
Borders are violence. Prisons don't fix anything. Everyone deserves food, shelter, medical care, and the best education possible.
I later joined it on stage!
Currently, people are opining on the potential death of either an amateur golfer or science fiction literature.
He's not that good!
Definitely. It's a fantastic bass and very versatile.
Yes, Marcus Miller 5 string
Yup!
My bass is on stage! I'm not!
music.youtube.com/watch?v=OrWG...
In the early days of my doom band Djinn And Miskatonic we couldn't find a guitarist who wanted to play slow and heavy, so we started as a vox+bass+drums trio. This is how we sounded: soundcloud.com/djinnandmisk...
This isn't doomscrolling, it's schadenfeed.
I had an opposite problem, of accepting that a parent I'd idolised had actually done a lot of damage to me (and my sibling), out of vanity and self-centredness. Unlearning being an external support to someone else's self image was not easy.
It looks so calm.
these are poems most likely written spur of the moment, specifically for Anvil Tongue, so i never really "sat" with them or did any editing, tho a line or two did resurfaced in later poems. here's the link: anviltonguebooks.blogspot.com/2021/09/sele...
The best books.
My thing is here, and free: revolverbook.co.uk It needs a re-edit and an update; it's quite scrappy by my present standards; but still worth dipping into, I think.
Listening to Revolver after a long time. One way of listening to this album is as a mostly amicable schism between Paul's baroque pop and John's dream-drone.
Perish forbid we should briefly dream of a good thing happening.
They should be ashamed and penitent. 'Saddened' is so insufficient.
The hunt is on!
It's a tremendously underrated album.
I agree so much. Bring back the days of fusty adult journalists completely out of touch with pop culture.
I always knew, once Kissinger died, Blair would find some way to be relevant once again in discussions of the most evil person alive.
What we sound like djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep
Bangalore folks! My band Djinn And Miskatonic is playing on Saturday at the Bira Taproom, along with a lot of other excellent bands in a variety of heavy genres. Please consider attending. www.skillboxes.com/events/vehem...
It's not encouraging, no.
Yes, Fleetwood Mac are always going to be important for this sort of thing.
Hah!
That secret funeral doom epic, Both Sides by Phil Collins has powerful divorce energy. What else?
Because people are already speculating about a pop star's notional divorce albums, what are the great divorce albums or songs out there? Not breakups, divorces. Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery is shot through with Anderson's unfolding divorce feels, although most explicit in Black Satin Dancer.
Well, that's alarming.
“Vajpayee helped Hindutva organisations transition from margins of democracy to its centre… brought them a respectability they had dreamt of since 1947” Historian Abhishek Choudhary tells Kavitha Iyer, dismantling liberal nostalgia of Vajpayee as a Nehruvian moderate article-14.com/post/-vajpay...
Nothing bad!
To be clear, this is a good thing. We're real.
What I've learned from social media is that if humans don't have access to expert make-up, lighting, and photography, we are all unseemly gargoyles.
For the past few weeks, a guitar riff from a song a band I was in in 1999 has been popping up in my head. It was composed by the drummer and one of the guitarists, and no one has a recording of it. A simple descending figure with some nice syncopation. Maybe someone else will compose it again.
UK based comrades I have a suggestion on countering those flags, put up your own one of the real St George.
Better than a stone head.
Scarab beetle for #InverteFest
They do admit it's a crime, a comedy, and a plot.
No easy out.
your gym teacher and your english teacher are getting married
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
I read the news today oh boy
This made me laugh out loud via @waxtraxrecords.bsky.social
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I cannot deny I wanted this.
A Complete Short Stories of Jeffrey Ford would be wonderful too.
A Complete Short Stories of Robert Aickman w/o the introductions to the last set of Faber reissues would be wonderful. Keep the Campbell intro at most. Minimalist cover design. Just one handy, neat-looking trade paperback like the Borges Complete Fictions Penguin did sometime in the 00s.
A human being who had these conversations with a vulnerable teen would have failed in their duty of care. It is a total nightmare that a program which can in no way be intrinsically capable of genuine ethical engagement is placed in a position where it serves as confidant and adviser to people.
I feel this.
This ought to be good!
Yes, and we don't need Gil Evans either.
Okay, maybe Big Fun isn't essential.
I'd love to make a case for the extended On The Corner box. More really is more with that particular lineup and run of sessions.
There has to be a representative album of the Gil Evans collaborations. I'd pick Porgy And Bess just because we get to hear Davis and Evans reinterpreting material that is already so familiar to their listeners. All the ten in your picture would make my list. Sorcerer, Nefertiti, or ESP? Arg.
Oh no. This might need an essential 20.
New Gnome! The gods are evil. youtu.be/G3fMX32PRrA?...
Hah! Yes. Sob...
Not an original observation: what we're living with now is a fools-based international order.
At this rate someone will be reprinting the Brentford trilogy any day now.
Greenwood and Sillitoe still being in print is a good bit of context. 👍🏾
This sort of thing sometimes fascinates me even more than the actual book in question. Thanks for the rabbit hole!
Got it. Thanks!
I can save you the effort. Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer. To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers. If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.
Was the source of the hype Vintage?
The nausea continues.
As if there aren't enough beings of flesh and blood whom we know are suffering...
Picasso and Gilot rescued an injured owl that became part of the household, inspiring many artworks. In her memoir, Gilot recalled the owl: "He smelled awful and ate nothing but mice". She enjoyed exchanges between artist & owl; it bit his fingers & he retaliated with 'biting' insults #OwlishMonday
We're on the home stretch now. Send us your best fiction, essays or experimental gems before our summer window closes!
I wish we did! I instead get a BBC sub via Prime Video that gets me a few things.
Nearly every diamond sold in the world is first cut and polished in the city of Surat, in western Gujarat state. The U.S. is the single-largest buyer of these precious stones, purchasing roughly $5 billion in the last fiscal year.
Considerable AI usage is indicated.
I miss Acorn so much - it doesn't seem available in India anymore.
How dare you threaten to upend my way of life with such claims.
He's breaking everything he can get his little hands to.
I promise he's safe now.
Dolly is aghast that Ruffles is still here. 'Surely this urchin is merely awaiting his transport to the penal colonies.'
Stories From The Radio - The Curse Of Nagana by Kuzhali Manickavel "From what I have read on the internet, it’s not very good. But that has never stopped us before fam!" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... #sciencefiction #fantasy #scifi #audiofiction
Why even read novels if not to impress Jane Austen?
I like some Thaikkudam but find a little goes a long way.
Walt ❤️
How do I explain to the world that despite being an Indian person who has knowingly enjoyed heavy metal music, I do not like the music of Bloodywood?