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1 hour ago, Taupe Beats said:
Can't agree with this one and have to point to an anecdote. An ex (who I was with for many years), one of our first dates was watching The Cranes are Flying together. My thought process didn't go far enough and I thought it would be a good date film. She wound up bawling by the last scene.
Great call on Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Made me think of another recommendation here: any Karel Zeman film (Wes Anderson, Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton are all vocal and avid fans).
Yeah that was under my "emotionally heavy" list right?
Good call on those directors.back to more action/drama oriented stuff I love Top Gun and Hunt For Red October
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Was Amélie mentioned? I totally forgot about that.
The Little Prince is another good animated film. Any Henry Selick is great as well, kind of up there with Burton.
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1 hour ago, drillkicker said:
Picked up a blu-ray of this at the thrift shop for a dollar. I had never heard of it but I love 2001. Maybe I'll get around to watching that now.
It's a such a strange film because it's a great sci-fi film in it's own right but for many, if not most, a totally unneeded sequel and follow-up to 2001. The aesthetics of it is prime 80s era "cassette futurism" ~ hard sci-fi leaning but with a lot of stuff that was totally plausible futurism wise then but now very dated. Especially the Soviet-US angle.
https://wearethemutants.com/2019/08/01/cold-war-interrupted-the-promise-of-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/ -
I recommend everyone read his biography on wikipedia, while a bit eccentric and flashy persona wise he was dead bent on defending the 1st amendment and ironically for a smut peddler magnate he held a firm moral standard as a publisher few, if any, of his detractors could match. He served in both the army and navy, worked his way up in the industry about as honestly as you can, survived an assassination attempt, and dogged hypocritical right-wing politicians for his entire career. He also notably bought alleged nude photos of Private Jessica Lynch (infamous Iraq war POW) to ensure they were never seen or published. He could of easily succumbed before 78 from both physical and mental taxation. It sounds corny as hell but he was def an American legend of sorts.
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^ "Free to use my translations for personal and scientific purpose https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tenax-tenax.html" lol
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Any Wes Anderson, though among them I find Life Aquatic and Fantastic Mr Fox a bit more mellow and visually packed
Totoro and any of the G rated Miyazaki filmsPride & Prejudice (2005)
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Dune
Paris, Texas
2010: The Year We Make Contact (underrated and overlooked IMO)
Where The Wild Things AreAmerican Graffitti
Earth Girls Are Easy
Time BanditsRaising Arizona
Be Kind Rewind
Explorers
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Man With The Moving Camera
Heavier emotionally but visually packed:
Melancholia
Solaris (1972)
Ad Astra
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
AtonementThe Cranes Are Flying
/////I suppose my favorite movies of all time fit this too: Empire of The Sun and Right Stuff
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6 hours ago, manmower said:
Big props for playing Diana Est - Tenax in that mix.
I haven't listened to much 1991 beyond the self-titled, I should try and change that sometime.
Oh nice, that was my favorite track from the set.
So many great little production details, especially on the chorus.
I had no idea what the lyrics were until I found the below translation - she conveys them effectively in her singing
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3 hours ago, ignatius said:
he lives in portland now. he played a set at Modular8 back when we were open. we had a lot of shows there. was a nice set. unless it's a different guy
yep I'm shittin' negative
his last gig in ATX was opening up for Steve Hauschildt back in 2017 - can't believe it was 4 years ago
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On 2/8/2021 at 1:57 AM, dcom said:
A short documentary on Amulets (Randall Taylor) by Kilian Vidourek.
I used to go to Randall's shows in Austin, he and I often talked online when he was running his label Graveyard Orbit. He threw the "Austin Cassette Fest" back in 2014. I remember figuring out he was going under Amulets when it was still an open secret of sorts and while he was still figuring out how to do his first loops. Now he's something of an expert and savant at it. I have his entire discography (24, 25 releases?) save for one early tape and a 7" lathe cut he did a couple year ago. He's exactly this way IRL, I miss chatting with him in person.
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I don't have much to say that hasn't already been articulated by many other watmmers. I missed the news earlier this week. Not that long ago I approved a follow back from IG, god knows how long I sat on that. I read this entire thread in one go an hour or so ago, something that help quell the shock and sadness that hit me.
Salvatorin was, is, and will always be one of the most enigmatic individuals I've come across. Not in any negative or dark sense nor frustration but quite the opposite, I wondered often what on earth goes through his brain and creative thinking. Considering the breadth of personalities on watmm, that's saying a lot. Something I can say is part confession. Years ago after listening to a track of his - which is still one of smoothest eccojams I've ever behold - I completely fell into a wormhole of his youtube videos, tumblr gifs, other music, and other media he'd created and shared. I have explored other watmmer's music and social media but never in such a binge read. Those videos and songs and animations are still there. I hope the remain but I must confess a sudden urge to archive it.It's hard to succinctly describe his aesthetic and style but it was undeniably and overtly unique. He might very well be the most hip person I've encountered who had not one ounce of contrivable intent in his online persona. Something that nags me about death is the inevitable and perpetual moments you are reminded someone isn't there to talk to or engage with, especially little things that especially make up the interactions on a forum like watmm. That's what's going to hurt. That's why even those who knew of him or enjoyed his word and content from a more casual sense, myself included, are so struck by his passing. Thanks for what you did give while you were here Salvatorin. It was so much for so many. May your spirit in every sense, literal and figurative, live on.
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23 minutes ago, markedone said:
this mix is fantastic. reminds me of the boc societas tape in reminding me how deep the wells of music go for the true explorers.
also he has always had unreleased tunes on that tumblr page, but i dont recognize (or remember) these ones. someone should download and compile..I've downloaded them in the past and did it again yesterday. There's still some early versions of No More Dreams I have saved somewhere too.
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He did a mix on Sand Circles' internet radio show and it's excellent. No fucking clue what any of the tracks are, all seems to be 80s era new beat and synthwave stuff.
11 unreleased tracks on his tumblr too
https://hightechhighlife.tumblr.com/-
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2 hours ago, J3FF3R00 said:
Not to be a naysayer/downer but those yards only look the way they do because people pump an absurd amount of irrigated water on them. LA hardly gets rain. If you ever drive through Beverly Hills or other ritzy neighborhoods, the streets have streams of yard runoff that sometimes stretch for several blocks. It's pretty shocking how much water just gets wasted when its been in a perma-drought for years.
Yeah I visited LA in 2013 and you can tell a drought was happening in all of the non-upper class neighborhoods. Fines are a drop in the bucket for the wealthy and major financial incentive for anyone living paycheck to paycheck.
Parts of California are some of the most tapped out in the world. There are pockets of the San Joaquin Valley that have literally dropped a few stories in ground elevation. The amount of water diverted to agriculture is incredible.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/location-maximum-land-subsidence-us-levels-1925-and-1977
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/ca-water-ls
Example in Mexico City (albeit that's another can of worms, the city was literally built upon a lake/marsh basin)West Texas has had it's examples from drilling and fracking and mid-century oversights in the form of sinkholes and and ruined springs.
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The story of Prometheus is tragic. It was the oldest non-clonal tree known and ironically confirmed when it was cut down.
The current record holder living - and hopefully to become the longest living known - is called Methuselah and is 4,852 years old. It's exact location is secret and protected by the USFS.
I work in surveying and I had to review a lot of railroad surveys in Far West Texas over a year ago. Some of them were recorded by Jacob Kuechler who along with being a land surveyor was an early pioneer of dendrochronology. It was cool to review copies of his original notes. He was a German Texan and notably one who had to flee the state to Mexico during the Civil War. He along with other non-Anglo immigrants refused to be conscripted into Confederate militias. Many of his peers were killed or captured and executed.-
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I've been fascinated by aspens ever since my wife pointed them out the first time I visited the Lincoln forest in NM. They grow as connected colonies and the largest is in Utah. It is estimated to be 80,000 years old, 100+ acres in overall footprint and the heaviest single organism on earth.
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23 hours ago, kichiguy said:
Banyan trees here in Goa are my fav. Home to king cobras, saddhus and perma-fried hippies alike. Too bad they are being felled left right and centre to make way for apartment blocks.
I remember seeing those on Okinawa, about the only trees I ever enjoyed climbing on. You could easily hang out in them as a kid.
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8 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said:
Fucking crazy they died by slipping at such a young age. Fuck that.
Happened to DJ Medhi - roof collapse and Jerry Fuchs (touring drummer with a lot of DFA Records bands) - who fell down an loft elevator shaft. Both 34. DJ Rashad died at 34 as well from drug OD.
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Still a few copies remaining.
Also at:
Past Inside the Present-
bit.ly/39SxZ7o
Juno Records (UK)-
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Ordered, cool to see Jake Muir put out something on cassette
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On 1/27/2021 at 12:48 AM, cyanobacteria said:
i find it hard to separate childhood nostalgia from legitimate memories of eras. i know that the child's brain interprets data differently. you can experience this on psychedelics where you can see the world as if you're remembering a good memory from days long gone. no two peoples memories of the era are the same. i remember reading once that as you age your brain forgets negative memories and remembers positive ones more, so the far past seems sweeter.
I moved around a lot so my childhood memories are (or least were) a lot more divided up and organized because we would be a different country every 2-3 years. Some memories and nostalgia is fairly constant - like toys and video games I played with, shows and movies I watched - but others are very, very different because my home, neighborhood, peers and teachers, etc. were completely different. My grandparent's houses were very much a "home base" and familiar for that reason. One of the few constants. The idea of growing up with the same people and in the same house for an entire childhood is strange to me, not as a concept but more like I can't quite imagine it.
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