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Back in the day Navalny used to make these sorts of videos:

I think that there's nowhere to go but backwards which is exactly what has been happening for quite a while already. Another possibility could be return to some sort of collective ritual in which music is an integral part. Religious people have that advantage in a way, because in their case the...

There is no technological paradigm to which music could attach itself - like it attached itself to piano and acoustic instruments, then, when it was getting really exhausted, it could attach itself to electricity and after that also got old it reinvigorated itself by attaching to computers. But...

Yeah, he shows up in that book quite a bit. But there was different episode where Mark Lanegan moves in with this crackhead lady who has chemical burns on her face and becomes her pimp, but the she disappears and is later found dead - chopped to bits by some local serial killer. And then he gets...

I read Mark Langean's Sing Backwards and Weep while ago which made me realise that the fuckedupness of the grunge people went well beyond ordinary rock'n'roll excess, it wasn't even rock'n'roll excess gone out of contol - like Elvis eating chocolate cake with mayo and shitting himself to death...

Grunge decays your body, true. You can see it very well in case of Lane Staley who started as a cock-rocker, but then, due to changes in popular taste and being from Seattle, switched to grunge:

I can speak Latvian (native), Deutsch (although getting rusty) and English. Russian I can understand for most of the time, but cannot really speak very well. So one thing I noticed on empirical level is that I always think of nouns in terms of gender even in if I'm using English which, of...

Mind itself is not what Moloch's interested in, it wants the bodies. That's why those materialistic explanations - no matter how kooky - are at least pointing in the right direction. I'm not qualified to untangle the mind-body relation, but that's not even important in this case. What is...

It's not wise to disagree with Professor Griff.

I may be mistaken, but are you essentially saying that technology in itself is neutral and the way it's put to work is governed by larger societal forces like hierarchical power relations, economic systems and so on?

What about all those weirdo TikTok chalenges where people eat poo and drink washing liquids or whatever just to get few likes? I mean, that's not something people naturally like to do (provided they're not Germans). Nothing to do with algorhithm? The laziness aspect is also somewhat dubious...

The worst thing is that even if you know how it all works and moves, you still cannot escape it. I remember seeing this Netflix documentary about evils of social networking sites (forgot the name) and they interviewed on of the former programmers for Facebook who explained how they based the...

Mandatory military service is actually a good thing, people only sneer at the idea because they haven't thought it through. Correlation and causality, of course, are not the same, but it's still interesting that all the Nordic countries (Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden) do have military...

Are we talking about MINOR CHORDS or songs written in MINOR KEY? That's a big difference. For exmaple, power chord, which is rock music's bread and butter, is neither minor nor major, because it only contains two notes. In such a case the minor or major quality of each particular power chord is...

Valid points. I haven't seen Miami Vice, but - sticking with David Lynch examples- I had a similar feeling when Inland Empire came out. It looked ugly as hell. Now, fast forward almost twenty years, it looks just fine, great even. But you have to travel backwards in time in a sense, because the...

I haven't worked it out yet, but I've been thinking that the compression issue may hold the key to some deeper insights. Each monad reflecting all the others and that. The word that comes to my mind is "suffocation" - all the sounds squished together like sardines in a can, no dynamic range, no...

Back in the day sound engineers spent most of their time trying to get rid of the tape hiss. That was actually the most time consuming part of the recording process; all the knob fiddling - also known as producing - was just an afterthought. And then - when digital came along - everyone was...