Recent content by mind_philip

One of you must have the edge

Nice work if you can get it.

What did you end up doing for a living?

Just ordered the reprinted Carrington deck from Fulgur - got the pre-order email earlier this week. Also Strange Attractor claim the Spare deck will ship in late Feb, so will probably pre-order that too.

Was gonna get one for my 40th but didn't like the leather version when I sat in it and the fabric one looks a bit wrong. Still, the original is very pretty to look at. Got a cat instead, so that's that for nice furniture.

Not got any of the Fulgur Tarot decks (isn't someone bringing out an edition of Spare's deck soon?) but I did get their Parsons/Cameron "Songs for the Witch Woman" before it went out of print/trebled in price.

I just tried this. +1 and +2 are pretty easy, +3 is immediately almost impossible. There's a 20 day challenge app that seems pretty good, so will try and stick with it.

Right, that's hauntology sorted. Think hyperstition is next?

Recently started taking 200mg of L Theanine with a strong coffee when I either need to concentrate or have some of my anxious edges knocked off. Lasts a couple of hours and the effect is small but noticeable. Takes away most of the jitters leaving a slightly cool, slightly woolly feeling in the...

But could there be a musical "lost future" without the prior existence of a "futuristic music"? Not disputing that there are a lot of possible inflections, but the cultural throughline mostly seems to be "the future seemed a lot brighter when I brought my first synth".

I'd put Patti LuPone's Rose in Gypsy alongside Solti's Parsifal as one of my favorite musical readings.

Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz. Mostly autobiography I think. She seems to have had a lot of fun, lucky thing. "Luck is like beauty or diamond earrings: people who have it cannot simply stay home."

I was being glib, but not insincere. But by "sad" I suppose I really mean... not optimistic. It doesn't seem coincidental that it was a largely electronic form (unless there's some hauntological jangle pop I'm unaware of). All the sounds of thrusting, forward-looking 80s electronica, recast as...

Now that some time has passed, was hauntology in music really just sad electronica?

DFW stikes me as more of a voicey writer than a stylist, though he was capable of writing a great sentence when he wanted to. But in a lot of his fiction, syntactic elegance would be counterproductive to the themes he was writing about.