Miriam drew it during Mass and Karate Jesus giving this kid the business ruined any chance of me thinking like an adult today. Hope you #giggle like me
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I bet you your wife makes good food too.
But does your wife’s cooking make you contemplate quitting your job and taking out a loan to start a restaurant centered around #cauliflower because the soup is so #? #foodporn #soup #garnishes #idontevenlikecauliflower #snowday
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Flying Lotus Echostage Concert Review
Our captain Flying Lotus has been watching a lot of movies.
He came out strong last night and gave the audience a powerful show with a mental echo which lasted for hours.
The Echostage venue was not densely packed, and it should have been. We were handed glasses when we came in.
The set featured material I hadn’t heard before. It started with Until The Quiet Comes to bring the audience into alignment. The he got down mixing and..perhaps quickly writing out…? some percussion parts on samples he had already cut.
My favorite part of the show came when he started getting down on the soundtrack samples. I was dressed as Agent Cooper at the show, so the Twin Peaks motifs by Angelo Badalamenti pinged my heart deeply. Then he did a masterful cut up of the Ghost In The Shell title track. Lastly, buried behind the bass was a cut from La Planète Sauvage… the very same cut Quasimoto used for “Come On Feet.” I also heard samples from the oldie-but-goodie Bob James’ “Nautilus.”
The visual experience was paced and choreographing between the sound and sight was intentional and entertaining, but has no trajectory, no telos, no uniting thread other than the medium. It also made me think back to my Winamp days and how many hours I spent listening to electronic music with milkdrop loaded up.
This is where Flying Lotus could deliver more, or learn and improve upon for his next tour: he should make it more liturgical. There are several ways a liturgical reorientation would magnify his art.
1.) Give us a narrative. You make movies now. You not the value of connecting A to Z. Let there be a clear beginning and end, two parts, rise and fall, a matrix of motifs. There are several reasons all musical greats take the challenge of writing music set to a Mass. One of the reasons is that the Mass has a good narrative arc.
2.) Go ad orientem. Face the same direction as us. You should see this 3d stuff. You’re handsome but not that handsome, your lava desk is not endearing. I’d much rather watch you work, put cameras over head to project what you are doing.
3.) Give us God. Kuso was gory. Do the opposite now. Go full-out mystical transcendent.
4.) Talk to Tim Hecker. I asked him to do a Mass too. I will take you all over the earthquake-ruined hills of Italy, you can walk among the ruins and work on a Mass setting while living with some monks. I’ll set it up.
You were cool, Flying Lotus. If you read this, reach out so we can have you over for dinner.
September 25, 2017
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Pandora:
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- Windows down, AC on full blast, summertime jams
- For slowing down
- For lyricism
- Makes kids fall asleep instantly in the car
- Kids music + SFW bands that won’t drive you nuts
- When it’s time to do cardio
- When it’s time to do High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
- When it’s time to dig for samples
- Indian Night Ragas for your best sleep ever
Quote of the Day
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
August 15, 2017
Is Go-Go Really in Decline? | The American Word
White people: have you ever heard of go-go? Quite possibly not. Even if you have heard the term somewhere, you most likely are not too familiar with its sound.
Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
Subterranean cartographers are bringing to light the dark, tangled truths buried under the streets.
Greg Milner manages to make sewer talk really…riveting. Refreshingly good journalism.
Didn’t read the combox (is there a combox? I quit those for Lent a few years ago and haven’t seen one since) but I invent combox arguments all the time, in my head. The big devil’s advocate in the combox would be defending the water/sewer rivalries (and other utilities) as strictly a matter of data security. Sure, a map with everything from wifi to poop chute would be cool. Sure, make it 3d. But imma bet you won’t spend a sufficient amount of your coding power on keeping that all-in-one digital tool out of people who could very easily wreak havoc on NYC if they could get their hands on it. By the same process that Alan Leidner found an electrical+flood fail point, a terrorist could use the tool to find an electrical+weak security fail point. Or something different. There’s a lot of ways it could go wrong, and the decades-old pride that utilities have in mapping their own world and sharing it with nobody (in fact, making that knowledge a profitable commodity and job-creator), might be the same pride which inadvertently foiled terrorist attacks on soft targets.
