wondrous wandering and pretentious ignorance

According to Gutenberg, War and Peace is 7th grade reading level. Am cooked.

tis a pity...

this song from shart is really good

Thanks to @enkdipper for making me aware of this incredible individual.

the interviewer badgers one of the early black metal guys on why they weren't more violent if they were actually satanists whose job was to be EVIL, which is honestly a pretty reasonable line of questioning

Dali's Retrospective Bust of a Woman looks like a french version of Lulu! Something a bit horrifying about it.

It sounds a bit like a more atmospheric and somehow angrier version of The Missing Brazilians. Fun use of delay/reverb and a really cool genre fusion—the only thing I've heard quite like it is Jah Wobble and Holger Czukay's How Much Are They. They're such cool songs that I once made a playlist around them, and specifically the groovy nocturnal vibe they have going

One of the most affecting essays I've ever read—Kate Wagner has this frank and humble quality about her writing that makes you empathize rather than sympathize.

Another Bogdanov scammer, but this guy apparently did it to the king of Tonga???

Credit: Current Affairs

Stereolab, of course, bring a completely different flavor to their music. In any case, Delay 1968 wasn't even released when Stereolab released their first few (or any of) their albums, but it's an interesting coincidence.

I miss the '60s