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The natural cards revolve ever changing Seeded elsewhere planted in the garden fair grow trees, grow trees Tongues of the sheer wind Setting your foot where the sand is untrodden The ocean that only begins This one's for you @WashYourHands.

Mar 29 2021 @WebEschatology.. you're suspended

Roy Orbison, right? Maybe some Dylan, Buddy Holly, Dion?

A world, in the world-building sense, being ~a game environment with a graphics card. A set of problems and conflicts; a set of special powers or tools (affordances) and enemies (obstacles); a unique physics; a set of character types; a unique look etc. Like entering a new ecosystem. I think...

Luka is deeply depressed... He needs this forum's help. I'm gonna give him some driving tour videos of my hometown. This one's especially cheery: What can you contribute?

Post only songs that are truly EPIC, where you listen to it and you go, woah epic. Big loud synths and rolling cataclysmic drums and echoey vocal lines, like singing out over a canyon.

I have the Stoppard play in mind, but feel free to branch out into pastoralism more broadly. I read the whole thing today, couldn't put it down, I rarely finish books so quickly. Clever and sad. Romanticism and classicism. Nostalgia, entropy, decay. The inaccessibility of history.

Look, no question, the opening few tracks are bangers, there's solid Joni Mitchell type lyricism on the title track, and Venice Girl culture desperately wanted for representation. But does the album hold out over its duration? Is she really one of America's great contemporary songwriters? And is...

We've talked about the front stage and performance, the way we make ourselves legible or illegible strategically (to resist taxation regimes, to get a foul call in football). We've talked about masks. Let's talk about the backstage. What goes on behind the masks. What happens to you when you're...

Caption: "It's experimental art, Ma!" Last time: Fronts. Insofar as we create performances for each other, and interpret one another's performances, we are constantly caught in a practice of reading and writing. With a text-based communication medium, like Dissensus, this reading and writing...

Since Stan is promising to show us his rosy cheeks soon, I think it's time to talk about the front, the face. The front stage of social life, the space where so much of dramatic action occurs. The public persona, the mask. And of course any other meanings/resonances of the front. The front...

Thinking about how ideology is primarily a vector for communicating mood. A great vehicle of emotional transmission. The message in tone of voice, not literal semantics. The true diagnosis the gravity or levity which delivers it.

Clearly some Kate Bush stuff happening in this music vid. One of 2020's better music essays—on crushing, Catholicism, the role of fantasy. https://artificialdevotional.substack.com/p/on-caroline-polachek-carly-rae-jepsen Pairs well with Alexandra Molotkow's "An Erotics of Hypochondria"...

Sandy Denny thread.

A shithole. A fascist backwater I just tried going on a couple cannabis websites and they 404'd I tried using Archive.org to use the WayBack machine and it's flagged as "adult content" I need to enter identification information I tried pirating and needed a VPN to even access the website My...

1. Salvador Dali 2. Pablo Picasso 3. Peter Weir

If you haven't read this incredible story yet, I'll give you a few minutes then we can talk https://archive.is/eNeeu And an optional link to "The Kindest"

have you ever had a gal or guy that you were fond of and cared deeply about I am looking for advice thanks

Work's bringing me out to Lisbon for a few weeks, end of October, start of November. So I figure, maybe I'll catch a cheap flight across the channel, get some Anglo sightseeing in while I'm crossed the pond. Take full advantage of the 15hr flight. Perhaps have a pint with the lads. Do people...