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    Autechre

    well thanks, but to my mind i described the track purely in terms of human emotions and experience. yeah, absolutely, it's intense, overloading, even nerve-wracking. but there's a fun, visceral exhilaration to it all that i only feel when i'm really tuned in to the "minutiae of sound". i guess...
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    Autechre

    i already regret writing this. the first and by far the most important thing to note about “acroyear 2” is that it’s named after a robot action figure from the 70s. which is fitting. it’s a fun track. (you won’t find the ghostly, lovestruck luminescence of "rae" here.) sure, it's aggressive...
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    Autechre

    i'll do this if the droid doesn't want to
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    Spotify wrapped

    second one i would've expected, never heard of these other guys though
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    Borges - Labyrinths (1641)

    emma zunz and the shape of the sword were the ones that felt the most like good yarns in a more conventional sense. the ones that made me suspect he was an actual person and not just a brain floating around in the Cosmic Library. having said that, the borgesian punchline of emma zunz also...
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    Spain

    I've been to Spain. I've been to South America. I've been to Kenya. I've been to China. I backpacked across Europe. I prefer tea to coffee. I've been to Greece. I love Greek food. I'm a foodie. I'm always on the look out for a great little place to get breakfast.
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    Authorship, Attribution

    for me there's an appeal to the idea that authorship could be a kind of pareidolia. a hallucinated face you see in the work. in way, maybe the western canon is built on this impulse, with homer's existence/authorship being called into question—at some point people thought wouldn't these two...
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    Retromania

    Musset in his Confession d’un enfant du siècle deplores the apartments just after 1830, "where one found, assembled and confused, the furniture of every age and every country. Our age has no form. We haven't given the imprint of our age to our houses or to our gardens or to anything . . . The...
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    Conor McGregor.

    lol wtf is this oaf rambling about at the beginning. what an off-putting note to start on.
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    Conor McGregor.

    Conor McGregor getting escorted to the underworld 😂
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    Faces of the 20th Century

    In the 50s-70s people used to eat stuff like this and one can only assume that after living on this sort of thing for a sustained period time, a person’s skin begins to change color and decay, creating the eerie half dead quality found in the portraits above. it’s just science.
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    Faces of the 20th Century

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    Faces of the 20th Century

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    Faces of the 20th Century

    this is all i have so far
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    Faces of the 20th Century

    what's this thread about? well, it's not meant to be a catalogue of faces styled in bygone fashion, nor of faces that have themselves gone "out of style" (as alan moore put it in watchmen), nor even of faces visibly affected by now-defunct living conditions (lead plates, constant secondhand...
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