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  1. On 9/24/2020 at 10:28 AM, jaderpansen said:

    ショーン:“all end”は、『Exai』の“Bladelores”というトラックに似ている。そして、最後のセッションだ。“all end”は、『Exai』の“Bladelores”のアイディアのいくつかを展開したもので、NTSのためのスペシャル・ヴァージョンと言えるよ。だから“Bladlores”の終章、終りということだね。
    Sean:All End is similar to a track called Bladelores from Exai. And it was the end session. All End is an expansion of some ideas from a track on Exai. Bladelores. Kind of a special NTS version of that track. So the name is about, how it’s the end of Bladlores.

    ロブ:終りのすべて、全部。
    Rob:And it’s all of it.

    source: http://www.ele-king.net/interviews/006477/

    yer all dummies

    "all end" is a joke on how so many tracks tend to just fizzle out at the end, like nothing interesting is happening anymore and the synth line is just cycling & fading away while they finish the spliff or whatever (viz. ISS:SA). So all end is funny cuz it's literally all end. PS. it's also super underwhelming & among the worst NTS tracks, wotever m8 fight me

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  2. 6 hours ago, petsim said:

    I’m reading Ballard’s short stories at the moment.  Hit and miss for me but mostly hit. He has a gift for playing with jargon and when he gets the tone right it’s brilliant. 

    One of many reasons I admire Ballard is that he does straightforward SF stories & fragmentary antinarrative pieces equally artfully. Also the fact that just hearing/reading his name instantly fills my mind's eye with glassy sand dunes & skeletal skyscrapers—the man painted with a truly magic palette of imagery.

    Gonna borrow Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire (pretty sure that's the title) from my brother tomorrow; gave it to him a few years back but never actually read it myself.

  3. On 6/14/2019 at 11:08 PM, splbt said:

    ^ been thinking of re-reading blood meridian as i read it more as a recommendation than of my own will. good to hear it holds up. was kinda compulsive about reading at that time (and still am, i suppose) and didn't really let myself enjoy it

    broke my no-long-books spree and picked up the second volume of the man without qualities AND infinite jest at the same time. don't know if i am to laugh or cry

    Wahey, I picked up a cheapo Infinite Jest a couple days ago. Looking forward to another run through. I think it tops my list of most viscerally '90s books (that same weird parallel reality feeling I get from Ventolin-era Aphex, kinda).

    Did a bunch of Don Quixote this week but then I found my old copy of Giles Goat Boy & got distracted

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  4. On 5/25/2019 at 10:46 PM, estragon said:

    Just picked this up. I wish NYRB would put out more speculative/genre fiction because they do a really good job of it – the Aickman collection they put out last year was excellent.

    Maybe closer to Borgesian surrealism than speculative fiction than you want, but a couple authors they've republished that come to mind for whatever reason are Adolfo Bioy Casares & Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. As for SF, check out Christopher Priest's Inverted World; I love that book.

  5. NYRB put out a new edition of David Bunch's Moderan stuff from the '70s. For those unaware, it's kinda like PKD's more wacked-out, Exegesis stuff. Brutal cyborgification, plasti-coating the whole planet, etc. Who knows how the hell Bunch kept getting it published back in the day

  6. ELEKTRO MOSKVA (Dominik Spritzendorfer, 2013)

    Pseudodocumentary about early synthesizer development & culture in Russia. Excerpts of interviews with Leon Theremin, secondhand synth resalers, & circuit benders. Nothing hugely mindblowing, but some nifty factoids here & there amid lots of synth porn. Legit knob twiddlers will dig it, I bet.

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  7. Gave up on omelettes awhile back cuz it was too much work (beat eggy goop, babysit vigilantly, flip without dropping, wash like four dishes later for only one meal…) but now I've got a new modus operandi which I now shall share with you that we may all live better through chemistry (or something).

    Eggs à la doorjamb:

    1. Bring a splash of water in a lidded frying pan to a boil.

    2. Spread a bunch of leaf spinach in the pan & re-lid until wilted.

    3. Crack in yer eggs & top with any seasonings, fungi, veg, etc. you like.

    4. Cook to desired cookedness, adding water around the edges if necessary (after a couple goes you'll know how much you need from the start & you can just wander off or think deep masaokis thoughts while it cooks).

    5. Fold in half, tip onto a plate if you're feeling fancy, or onto a bagel/roll/tortilla if you're late for church, & scarf.

    One pan, no oil needed, no blender/extra fork, no awkward flipping, no heterogeneously burnt edge bits… I feel like a new man.

    Power to the people

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  8. I'd not grant him legitimate crazy status; more like highly self aware paranoiac with a vivid imagination & a keen feel for style. Much like Poe, he's mostly really good, & very much single-minded in terms of subject matter—but you can tell he's hamming it up quite deliberately. (And, fair enough—the man had bills to pay—but it's far from the genuine "outsider art" of a truly crazy writer just scribbling his/her hallucinations or whatever.)

  9. Zizek is great. I once asked him about something he wrote re the Lacanian doppelgänger; barely heard a word of his answer for being distracted by his constant caffeine vibrations & beard-smoothings/de-spittlings (but it was doubtless exceedingly illuminating).

     

    Peterson is a moron.

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    Back to front here, but I do so with a ritual handstand after each individual shite.

     

    Sweaty business and risky somewhat (handstand pre-wipe) but it's fun.

    I do my shites while handstanding. Particularly useful for maintaining shoulder mobility during the parkour off-season.

     

    Wipe direction is dictated by my horoscope

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    anyone here read any paul auster? I know next to nothing about the guy but 4 3 2 1 seems interesting

    Yes. I read the New York trilogy. Thought it very boring. As in "tries to hard to make 'literature' out of nothing" boring.
    I actually like 2/3 of the NYT, but Auster is definitely far from being a favorite of mine. Read one called Timbuktu a couple weeks ago as the jacket had me thinking it might make a good gift for a particular friend, but got nothing from it whatsoever.

     

    Shout out to cwmbrancity for the Taín recommendation, its got me back on an Irish/Gaelic/etc. kick

  12. Every time I see somebody with an Autobots t-shirt or Decepticons bumper sticker or whatever I get locked into this hyper intense observation/analysis of them to decide whether they get a thumbs up for having great taste in classic cartoons or a flip of the bird for having shit taste in live-action franchise reboot films.

     

    This is ruining my life plz help

  13. The Tain

    The Tain! The Penguin edition is the only one I've read. What's the other you mention, & would you recommend it?

     

    I gave up on Book of the New Sun shortly into #3. Nothin doin. Read a bunch of Yeats prose after that. Tldr: ghosts & spirits are maybe real, but faeries are ABSOLUTELY among us, hide ya kids, hide ya wife.

     

    Thought I knew what was up next, but now I wanna hunt down the Lem with the hallucinogenic bombs

  14. I prefer his older stuff too but his ISAM tours looked insane. Wish I would’ve gone to see one of them

    Yeah, in that way Tobin reminds me of Squarepusher: the radness of their live shows progressed in inverse relation to my enjoyment of their new material. (Meanwhile these days Ae just turns out all the lights, lets the laptops do the skritching, & yet still puts on as amazon a show as ever, so… ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯)

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