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    Music

    isn't poetry the sound of one hand clapping? yknow that idea that if you play babies mozart it calms them and it helps their cognitive development? it was assumed that mozart had some rare delicate harmelodic cadence that fired the synapses. I remember reading that someone did a mega study on...
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    Essential Directors

    Julio Medem 1991 - 2001 Vacas -> La Ardilla Roja -> Tierra -> Los Amantes del Ciclo Polar -> Lucia y El Sexo A good run
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    The Trevor Horn Sound

    The pitch bend on the chaching is created by toggling the guitar whammy/tremolo bar while the harmonics sustain. That's the metal thing sticking out underneath the strings here.
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    The Trevor Horn Sound

    chaching guitar harmonics through one of these
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    China Mieville -- Questions

    On a bit of a Mieville burn at the minute. I liked The City and The City and Kraken but King Rat is the best so far I reckon. Perdido Street Station next, probably. It does that thing where other writing becomes unappealing while you're in it.
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    Poetry

    Es muss sein
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    The Right to Be Cool

    it's particularly cool on Thorstein Veblen's early 20th century critique of capitalism, conspicuous consumption etc I remember reading somewhere that Jay Z never wears a pair of shoes twice.
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    The Right to Be Cool

    https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo3536614.html#:~:text=Cool%20Rules%20traces%20Cool's%20ancient,of%20the%201950s%20and%20'60s. good book
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    Hinkley Point

    Good book this.
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    Hinkley Point

    yep. my mate lives in Nether Stowey which is a tiny town in the glow of Hinkley Point... in terms of ambient lighting it's a bit like having a massive full moon every night and there are hardly any stars.
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    Hinkley Point

    A very ugly building, Dungeness B
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    Water

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    Water

    people who lug these massive things around like I TAKE MY HYDRATION FUCKING SERIOUSLY LIKE DON'T YOU EVEN LIKE HYDRATE AND STUFF?
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    Things that make you question our future

    Yes. Exactly. But it's the same with history education. Kids in the UK learn about WW1/2 in year 7, year 9, year 10/11 and again in year 12. Often, they what they learn in Year 9 subtly contradicts what they learned in Year 7, etc. The result is probably some kind of desensitisation to the...
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    Things that make you question our future

    I remember reading about a Breitbart 'simplification' project before Trump's election - the mission was to return societal organisation to the 19th century UK model, which was held up as some kind of 'peak'. Knowing stuff doesn't make people happy. Better for people to live in blissful ignorance...
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    what are you reading now?

    so good
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    Trump

    https://x.com/isaacfeldberg/status/1734812786109067419?s=20
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    Choon of the Day, redux

    absolute banger from cruel santino <3
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    Road Rap

    he looks so awkward when he does that little jumping-up-and-down-just-before-the-bass-comes-in thing that all the big guys do when they're on a festival stage - 1.25 in this video has been a little lol for me and my mate for years
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    The Feminine Perspective against the Manosphere

    Brett pulled his tank top up over his head and stared at himself in the full-length mirror. He pushed down his jeans, then his boxers, and imagined the moment when Jennifer saw him nude for the first time. His feet were average-sized, and there was hair on his toes that he should probably take...
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