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classic prince story in case you've not seen it. here it is in 4 parts. there's a documentary about the "We are the world" recording and ho wit was organized etc. i guess lionel ritchie did the whole thing?? i haven't watched it but apparently it's full of gems about all the heavy hitters involved. lot's of hilarious stuff and awesome stuff. they recorded it around the grammy's because everyone was there for that so they made it happen after the grammy's at like 3am or something.. i'll have to watch it eventually. sounds like a laugh.

cross posting this from the social media thread as there is some Ai relevance. a really good and a solid rant with receipts. bends towards what they're doing w/Ai and why etc. props to @iococoi for the link.

edit: obvious spoiler if you haven't seen any kind of Dune.

just like sex! this is a crazy read. fckn instagram is a beast.

saw him a couple times ages ago. both were good. he can put together a set for sure. once was early laptop days and his set kept crashing.. 1st time was when he toured w/MPC 3000 and a mixer.. that set was slamming. Royal Astronomy tour.

i feel sad for the boc sub forum as they have nothing new to talk about it. some cringe inside the beltway forum memery

just things and stuff. sooner or later all the bad things are going to line up and the rains won't come to save the day and well.. i don't want to think about a city of 22 million people running out of water. media usually makes these situations sound more shocking/dire than they are.. let's hope that's the case

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sbz0nbQQXU1wsbn2a.mp4

yeah.. maybe only people who have good taste should have access to the ai i kid.. but you made me lol.. Normies: "first they came for the autechre and i said nothing..." i still think it's shit that Ai is being focused on the arts instead of the boring jobs that people hate.. but i suspect it's all going to go bonkers everywhere.. Ai balls deep in every sector. teaching kids at home via some iPad Ai thing that has one biased view.. while another iPad Ai thing teaches other homeschooled kids a different set of biases. there's already some Ai based tools, machine learning tools for all kinds of sound sorting and sample sorting etc for producers.. and there's that thing you can buy that's a plug in that you run your half baked ideas through then apply a (insert producer) brain to and it comes out the other end sound like that person's laid hands on it. this whole line of thought makes me think about the happy accidents and imperfections/mistakes that people leave in their music. Ai looking backwards through the lens of musical history. .genre by genre is going to present us with some weird shit i think.. eventually. if someone smart does something with it that is.. i hope there's some pure geeks in the mix somewhere steering things away from pure commodification. "let's experiment" vs "let's monetize it". open source Ai. we'll see.

sound quality pretty good. really hoping we get soundboards of some of these. just so good. epic stuff from the autechre.

sounds like the rush in changeover from previous band included some fuck ups. i suspect there was some sample rate mismatch from the main clock that made it all twice speed. oops.

i don't think so. i wouldn't even know how to look. it's all water under the bridge now though. i only got a few complaints the first time i took my stuff off streaming services and zero complaints more recently when i took my stuff down.

i never got _any_ traction on streaming services. had stuff up since the beginning. so like 10 years or something.. made like $200. lol. and then took it all down. then tried again and got even less traction that the first time. bandcamp been decent though. it's not a service i've ever used other than netflix/youtube for video. never have i streamed a piece of music. shrug. some people do alright on streaming services though.. not many.. but some make a few dollars even with the shitty conditions and all the scams and shit. if i had ever made any real money from it i'd put my stuff on there and leave there but i don't see the purpose of it. a handful of listeners.. and spotify constantly mixing up my albums with artists or the same name etc.. and me having to tell them to fix it etc.. ugh. annoying. it is what it is.

super disturbing video in the spoiler of a guy getting carjacked. he fires point blank several times at the carjacker and misses then the carjacker backs up and gets a head of speed and runs the guy over. jfc wild west bonkers type shit. people are crazy. it's a sad video to watch but this is america. also.. jfc can't make this shit up. https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-awards-23-5-million-194112114.html Judge awards $23.5 million to undercover St. Louis officer beaten by colleagues during protest

someone certainly will do that. an andrew tate kind of douchebag

that's the thing.. people will spit out Ai garbage that is just like what they listen to today and think it's fire or something.. it will just make more of the shit that already exists and is common. in a few years we'll get an interview in future music with someone who makes an Ai album and they'll say how hard they worked because they wrote 10,000 prompts to get the album they wanted.

lols.. jfc. god help us.

can't decide which of these shows would be better. other than OPN this line up seems pretty terrible. it's like they filtered it through a social media algorithm

it's just long and has endnotes. it's not "hard" it just takes time and you have to use 2 book marks. one for the end notes and one for the main part of the book. i found it thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish. it's very readable and accessible imo. after he died i read it two more times and it was even better than the first time i read it. i read all his books again after he died. I love the book.. but i like all his books in varying degrees. i loved his style of writing and his voice.. the voice i created in my head while reading. he was a smart talented guy who could be really sad, really funny and acutely observational. one colleague referred to him as "a noticing machine". for better or worse. .he could take hyper self consciousness to absurd lengths. infinite jest is full to the brim of amazing characters in interesting situations. the structure of the book is a little complex. one scene is a conversation between 2 people that takes place in one night but is interspersed throughout the book the same way other subplots are that take much longer to develop. also, the end of one of those timelines/plots is placed at the beginning.. so, it's helpful to flip back to the beginning when you get to the end and read that chunk again. it's a nice bit of circularity. overall, he was a writer i really identified with. he did what good writers do. told stories about what it's like to be alive while entertaining. in the case of infinite jest he portrays american culture in a near future america. it's full of various plots and motivations from all kinds of people caught up in various webs. so, when someone says infinite jest is the literary equivalent of a third eye blind album because it's told in a "peppy way" and talks about "addiction" i kinda wanna barf then go into that person's life and try to figure out why they would say something so incredibly stupid and lazy. and then i stop and realize this is just some normie mainstream person with a youtube channel about books.. but there's a comment section full of people saying how he's said everything they thought and will recommend the video to anyone who wants to read infinite jest. i find this frustrating and i know it's just my own bullshit and "what is art" enters into the picture. .and i'm reminded of the time i was at monthly some friends and i did at the local Barcade "Ground Kontrol" and before my set ran into a guy who had the paperback of Infinite Jest with him. carrying it around. and so i brought it up because it's right there in his hand. and mentioned how sad it was he killed himself. and the guy didn't know this and hadn't read the book but was for some reason carrying it around. then i remember the female youtuber who was commenting on something about certain types of guys and how they "have that unread copy of Infinite Jest on their shelf" and ugh.. i want to rhow all of american culture into the toilet. so, yeah, there's a lot about his work that's in my brain. there's controversy, praise etc. but he's a writer i hold dear. "what's it like to be alive" and in particular an american. he captures that for me... in a way that listening to autechre makes me not feel like such an alien. so, if that youtuber would've said "he's the autechre of books" well lol.. obviously i'd be pleased and would've dumped a heap of praise in his comment section for being so astute and saying just what i thought.. which is what people did about fucking third eye blind. but this would've been so idiosyncratic that it wouldn't happen since that's some shit that's in my brain and probably no one else's as indeed it's all subjective personal stuff linked by my particular brain in some way i cannot explain. i mean. .third eye blind.. might as well say it's the literary equivalent of the theme to the show "Friends". RANT WALL OF TEXT.

Chipping away at these. It’s all so crazy. Complex series of events. Captured media makes a huge mess. edit: this all dovetails well with Adam Curtis’ “Trauma Zone”