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    Autechre. NTS Residency. (_O_)

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    Haha there are so many arrangement choices that are the exact opposite of what I'd go with. Just drawing out certain sections that seem totally unnecesary to go beyond 3 minutes, and then adding like a minute of bliss at the end of it that I would centre an entire track around. So weird... it's part of what keeps the æxperience so compelling.

    Spot on observation. This has always been my only real quip with their typical compositional structure. The worst offenders are on their earlier albums: so many tracks wrap up the percussion but then let the melodic elements loop on for ages (viz. first track off ISS:SA).

     

    NTS is actually nice in a way because the drawn out bits are at least getting subtly tweaked or gradually morphed. But I hadn't explicitly noticed until you said this how many short chunks I'd love to hear further explored/developed (reminds me of the Lego Feet stuff in that way).

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    I'm reading the fathermucking Bible because I never read the whole thing. I'm at Judges.

    Judges is my favorite; it's like Bible superheroes. Essentially: the Jews are being naughty, God has some guy do some magic to set them straight, they behave for a while, but later start acting up again, so God… tries the same trick a dozen more times? Yeah okay, that's cool, God. You do you.

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    in General Banter

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    I mean, SF is often a narrative vehicle for cool or interesting ideas first, & a compelling story second—& hey, fair enough, not always a bad thing by any means. But, in Harsh Mistress, the ideas Heinlein seems most interested in kicking around are not the gravity/physics, the moontown tech, or anything like that, but instead his pet anarchist talking points (like, the anti-atomic family stuff gets an absurd amount of attention for having nothing whatsoever to do with the plot). It's not that he's wrongheaded, necessarily, but that's not what I'm looking for from the book (YMMV).

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    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by doorjamb

    I've been listening to an audiobook of Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and I'm just terribly bored by it. Near half through and I feel like eventually it might get somewhere interesting but so far it's felt like mostly set up, or worse, filler.

     

    Is it worth following through?

    I argued with my brother about this one just the other day. He loves it, but I say any book that manages to make moonmen chucking giant rocks at the earth just feel boring & preachy is doing something seriously wrong.

     

    I've been reading a ton of old school spooky stuff for October: Poe, Stevenson, Lovecraft, Machen, Bradbury (Something Wicked), Henry James… Found a JC Oates collection titled Nite-Side that doesn't totally suck.

     

    I hunted down The Greater Trumps based on somebody here's recommendation, but it's not my cuppa; too much "power of love will overcome all adversity", not enough grist behind the imagery for me. Felt a bit like A Wrinkle in Time, actually, or the sequel, I can't remember now.

     

    Also bought Book of the New Sun 1/2; hope it lives up to the hype.

    The Coffee Thread™

    in General Banter

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    french press for life, gentlemen. making cold brew concentrate in mine lately though as it's been hotter than blood outside

     

    when north americans say cream, do they mean full-cream (not skim / lite) milk? i've put actual cream in my coffee before and it's pretty nice, but i think most places here would treat you weird if you asked for it.

    as a general rule, if you ask for cream, you get half&half (which is half cream in UK, so light cream diluted with whole milk)

     

    Starbucks is home, mcdonalds is home. I can sit down, plug in, and have all my favorite beverages and sweets and savory treats.

    totally dude, even better if you find one in an recycled-air mini-mall so you can cop a couple t-shirts with logos on them later

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    in General Banter

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    "Dreamworld & Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East & West" by Susan Buck-Morss

     

    this is great; a history of communism & capitalism as both being sides of the same coin; industrial modernity. 

     

    free .pdf

     

    :beer:

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    in General Banter

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    Currently reading the fourth book (The Citadel of the Autarch) in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun saga. Apparently a classic science-fantasy novel which somehow had eluded me. Dying Earth type of setting, set millions of years in the future where forgotten tech is to the narrator like magic. It's good stuff and definitely has me considering another read through because it has layers and the narrator doesn't really seem reliable. Great use of archaic words to add some spice and strangeness to the language.

     

    I am also in the process of reading the 4kg omnibus of Jack Kirby's Fourth World comics that came out last year. 70s comics silliness <3

     

    Good stuff! Gene Wolfe is awesome, & those Kirby collections are solid gold.

    What are you consuming right now?

    in General Banter

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    Just had tamago kake gohan (freshly cooked rice mixed with egg and soy sauce) with natto on top for breakfast.

    Fav breakfast. Torn nori + boiled, chopped okra mixed with the nattō or a bit of mackerel + chili are welcome additions too.

     

     

    Coffee.

     

    natto & okra sounds like sticky heaven

     

    Big pot of oats, myself—or, per Myles, "great holy suffering indiarubber bowls of brown stirabout." Food o the gods, lads

    The Big Star Wars Thread *SPOILERS ABOUND*

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by doorjamb

    I made it all the way through thinking Snoke was being played by the old, bald ex-military guy from Breaking Bad. So, that was a point in the movie's favor, I guess.

     

    Also, I am baffled that Benicio Del Toro as paper-thin-stock-middlegrade-literature-thief-archetype was, in retrospect, totally fine by me. (Cannot agree with you guys about the ginger Nazi commander guy, though; he & his character are awful. Sure, he's the new Moff Tarkin—except, you know, not threatening, not driven by evil ideology or even sadistic cruelty, & totally incompetent at every turn. Almost as inexcusable as goofy, cartoon ghost-Yoda.)

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    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by doorjamb

    URGENT UPDATE --- BE ADVISED:

     

    The Hubbard sucks & has consequently been returned to the world, secreted beneath the eaves of an opportune bus shelter. The Alice book is most toothsome.

     

     

    Oh, & happy 2018, literate watmm-kin!

    Now Reading

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by doorjamb

    read a little of The Waves (Virginia Woolf) as well but the soliloquy style she uses in it isn't something i really enjoy

     

    Bummer. Maybe try Monday or Tuesday (or Haunted House), collections of shorter pieces where the style really does embody & reflect the content & themes of each. Unless she's just not for you, of course; that's fair enough.

     

    I was given a totally rad decipher of the Carollian Alice for Xmas, but I reckon I'll check out this L. Ron Hubbard paperback I found at a bus stop yesterday first as it looks like top notch stuff.

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