May 22, 2020

📡 – 05.22.2020

A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently.

Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about. Feel free to discuss in the comments below. 

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• Peripeteia, Rafael Anton Irissari (released today!)

• The Day After You Die, Tom Hall

• Live at Empty Bottle / Chicago, Fennesz

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• The Insecurity Machine – Astra Taylor, Logic

• America’s most illegal record has been obliterated – Cameron Kirby, Which Car

• Stewed Awakening – Navneet Alang, Eater

• Welcome to the End of the ‘Human Climate Niche’ –  David Wallace-Wells, NYMag

• Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models – Will Douglas Heaven, Technology Review 

• The appeal of the TikTok everyhouse – Emma Alpern, Curbed

• No Holds Barred, A Look at Piotr Szyhalski's Daily COVID-19 Reports – Paul Schmelzer, Walker RECOMMENDED

• “Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread – Marshall Allen, ProPublica
  
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• These disinformation researchers saw the coronavirus 'infodemic' coming – Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News

• Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California. – Joe Sexton and Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica

• Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive – Promise Li and Esther K, The Nation

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Molly has decided that she would like to see all the movies she hasn't but "should have". We've made a list. It's written out on blank printer paper and stuck on our fridge, next to the menu of items we have available to eat (or make; it cuts down on time staring blankly into the fridge). 

Molly's list has a high occurrence of films staring Al Pacino, and Robert Deniro. Appropriately, then, we began this endeavor by watching HEAT. Tonight is Scarface. We've also watched 12 Angry Men and Collateral (the Tom Cruise flick which I said doesn't really belong on "should have watched" lists, but... we soldiered through it). The list is actually – now that I go give it a closer look – mostly action films.

Otherwise, I'm also working my way through the Kurosawa films on Criterion, most of which I haven't seen since college. I recently re-watched Rashomon. I had totally forgotten how stripped down that film is, and how there is barely any environment noise / foley work at all. Kurosawa had apparently said that he preferred silent films and wanted, with Rashomon, to make something as simple as possible. 

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I'm still on Treachery in Beatdown City, and – when not that – working my way slowly through Mother 3. Nothing too pressing on my list after that. I should probably clear out / get through some of the games in my Steam Library, huh? I still haven't played Control, Horizon Zero Dawn, and a few others. Though man, after DOOM, IDK how much more shooting I am really interested in doing.

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• Fun City Ep 17 came out last week, and it's a real good one. Ep 18 out next Friday, also A++++ fun times. This is a really fun run of three or four eps.
  

• I missed my monthly music release for April and have been trying to play catch up in May, hoping to release two things this month. I have two in the works but they're going slowly. Looking like 1 will definitely get released in the next week, and hopefully then two in June. I can definitely feel myself being precious; I just need to release these things.
  

• I wrote a piece for ???? I don't know. Text? Maybe a video? About the role of labor unions pre- and post-pandemic. Still trying to figure out what to do with it. I have another piece on Food Gore mostly done. Also not sure where that will end up. I'm going to have to find something to do with these words sooner-or-later-but-pref-sooner.
  

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Hope everyone is safe, healthy, indoors and has a great weekend <3