Cryptowen

This is something I sometimes forget, when I get all obsessed with finding the truest self-expression, or repeatedly deleting my old stuff to make room for some hypothetical improvement. Then I step back & think, "wait, there's no such thing as false self-expression! It's true because I expressed it! And why do I care about other people giving me a pat on the back for a track well done? I like it, & I like the way it looks on the internet. That's justification enough" Now, like you said, it does make things a little more difficult for the listener. But honestly, I generally only run into the chaff when I go on hobbyist sites like EKT or Soundcloud, where some of it really tickles my pickle but most of it just...really doesn't, & I don't want to go & take a big dump on somebody's work if they're obvious happy with their own act of expression. Other than that, I feel like I'm in a constant goldrush of cool music. I can open any "now listening" thread or check any indie review site or browse youtube for 10 minutes & find exciting stuff I'd never heard of. My general rule of thumb is, if people who don't know the artist personally are talking about it, it might be worth checking out. ...and maybe that's why I sometimes get all finicky about my own stuff? Because strangers on the internet aren't going on about how swampthing my tracks are, & I start thinking "oh no i'm other people's chaff". But that's just the narcissistic part of me, the part that demands outside validation that really doesn't matter in the big scheme

the trees on mount royal are turning a swank-butt colour ah tellyuh hywat

Thanks guys. Y'know, truth be told tho, I spend way more time thinking about vapourwave as a philisophical concept than I do actually listening to the stuff. Probably cuz A. in the past there have been things that struck close to my own ideals, & I'd develop a neurosis towards them. As in, I'd go out of my way to avoid the stuff for fear of getting sucked into the aesthetic tropes of the thing & losing sight of what I really wanted to do B. I've gotten to the point where, unless you're one of the five or so people I still remember to follow online (sup shea), I probably won't get around to listening to your stuff unless you put out some sorta physical release. And vapourwave often prefers the "youtube channel, bandcamp page, random mp3s on a minimally designed .tk site linked in my sig cough cough" model of distribution I think I have 30 bucks on my paypal. QUICK NAME $30 WORTH OF GODTIER VAPOURWAVE AVAILABLE ON CD/CASSETTE/FLOPPY DISC

There's this particular place, where you become completely lost in the "right now" and it all just feels incredibly right, and the characteristics of this particular moment form the fabrics of your entire reality. You have entered the universe of the burnt freezer pizza crust in the 11PM, the universe of the throat vomit toilet bowl linoleum, the universe of the bumpy white wall paint And of course it's always there, like there's constantly the potential to get entirely lost in the eternity of right now - and maybe the idea that we ever aren't in that state is a clever ruse designed to make the game more interesting. But there is this sense, sometimes, that to attempt to describe this state is to step away from it. To reach for it is to reach away from it. Even to become aware of it is to watch it escape. Everything is a reflection of your ultimate truth & it's the only thing you can be & it's the only thing you can't see So this puts vapourwave in a percarious position for me, because the genre revolves (perhaps subconsciously?) around this notion of becoming absorbed in the moment - taking familiar bits of cultural run-off & focusing in on them like a microscope...closer, closer, attempting to bring out the microscopic atmospheres within atmospheres within atmospheres, taking something old and making it say something new just to show how it's all the same all the time But what happens when it becomes self-aware? I don't mean - "oh yeah, haha, we're gonna do weird stuff to 80s music" - that's real. That's an expression of my generation right now. I mean when it gets to "oh, vapourwave, yeah that's some deep art shit innit? all fractalizing the universe & shit"? What happens then? Maybe that's why culture keeps mutating - because the magic keeps escaping. Enlightenment slips through your fingers again & again, the thing that took you to that place stops working. You made it stop working. Because it's time to search for the next signpost

I've had kraft 100% all natural smooth peanut butter stuck on my throat for 8 hours and 10 minutes f u peanut butter bears

nah it's by some guy

Yeah I dropped off the new Swamp Thing because of the crossovers & for feeling too "comic booky". I prefer how they handled him back in the 80s - weird isolationist who lives in a swamp & goes off on solo adventures in hell/space/time/psychedelic plant realms. The only interactions with the broader DC universe took place in the main book & existed only to show what a boss Swamp Thing was I dropped off new Animal Man too, but as I recall it seemed to strike a better balance between "old mystical insanity" and "regular superhero for cash"

wait this is a thing highschool me is freaking out right now

Canada is nice but the "you could freeze to death if you spent a night outdoors 6 months of the year" thing puts a bit of a damper on many of the more bohemian lifestyle choices I've entertained.

I know right? It's like, maybe he thought to himself early on "wouldn't it be cool if I took this minor character from the first book & slowly turned him into the main protagonist", but never actually develops him beyond "cool sword guy that girls love" (or, when he does explore his personality, it's to the point of making him literally an entirely different character) I'll probably get around to reading 5 & 6 eventually but I'm all duned out at the moment. Focusing on The History of Western Philosophy for now because it's been sitting on my shelf for ages along with all those other university textbooks I snatched from a trash pile.

CoD was enjoyable - it wasn't exactly breaking new ground, but it felt more substantial than DM. The abrupt tonal shift & sudden introduction of uncomfortable themes doesn't really kick in until the fourth book (and from what I've heard, that last aspect becomes even more prevalent in 5 & 6).

I bet Tom Waits is making mad bank off this show

I like Leto's character. My favourite parts were when it focused in on his worldview, like how exactly a 3,500 year old psychic, genderless worm monster who can remember back to the dawn of time might see reality. It started to lose me whenever Duncan Idaho came into the picture, with the text acting like he's some awesome cool dude (at one point he literally gives a woman an orgasm just from being so cool), but really he's just an unhinged homophobic maniac (in this incarnation, anyway. I liked smart Cyborg Duncan in Dune 2/3) Apparently Frank Herbert was originally gonna write it first person, from Leto's POV, which might of been neat. But apparently Frank Herbert also had a gay son who he disowned so i dunno maybe not

Reading the 4th dune book was like watching your cool hippie friend turn into a weird conservative nutjob, but so slowly & couched in so much stoner mysticism that you try to pretend like it isn't happening.

thanks man, i'll throw some of those on

that song about john wayne gacy is really good but it's literally the only thing i've heard by the guy suggestions for a starting point?

MUFUCKAS ALLS I DID WAS WATCH SOME ALAN WATTS VIDEOS DON'T PUT THIS ON ME

Found a french copy of Ubik on a bench. Haven't read the original but I figured it'd be good language practice. The cover is post old newage wave as frick

That parody of the johnny cash movie was really funny when i watched it at 2AM one time but that wasn't will feral that was dr. steve brule

http://heavensgate.com/ the official heaven's gate website seems kinda vapourwave to me

Making some buns right now that are approx 2/3rd mashed potato. Burger itself is gonna be medium ground beef (not sure how I'm cookin it, yet). For toppings...i dunno, kinda feel like experimenting with shredded carrot

grimes - visions i don't wanna channel those reviewers who were all like "wow a GIRL making computer music", like it's something that never happens (because that's not true, we got bjork yo). Buttttt maybe there is something to be said about a female producer finally achieving widespread attention for this particular breed of introverted bedroom synthphonics. Has that happened before? I feel iffy counting people like Imogen Heap or Fever Ray because they're like, celebrities, and grimes is just another dude putting out tracks who happens to make liberal use of her own voice

whhhhhattttttt this is tripping me out more than 80% of all alex grey paintings anyway here's something i did this morn

Oh yeah, for sure. They'd want to be making new melodic lines & rhythms out of the samples (or at least drenching them in fx), or else after 40 minutes all you'd have to be left to work with is a 0.5 second loop of DA-DO-DA

that sounds like a fun time (haven't watched the videos buy my imagination version of the concert is pretty groovy) VAPOURWAVE SHOW CONCEPT: opening act is a straightforward ambient synth set (or heck, a rock band if you dig crossover appeal) second act makes tracks entirely out of samples taken from the first set third act samples the second etc basically the whole show would be a musical version of that game where kids sit in a circle & send a message around entirely via whisper, and it always comes out totally mutated from the original