moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
big rec on Sogo Ishii's Angel Dust in this zone
best Alvvays song not made by Alvvays
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQz...
a few tracks on the new James Blake cross over into the Junebug zone (high praise)
attn @horrornonna.com
an 1865 landscape painting by Lars Hertervig entitled Skogtjern (Forest Lake) - we see a marshland in a bronzed brown, with a menacing fog rising up into strangely shaped clouds
a 1942 painting by Leonora Carrington entitled Green Tea - an unusual bank of clouds hovers over an expanse of green, with fields hedged in. In the foreground are statuesque figures and miniature horses.
cloud control
@andrew-ray.bsky.social Hi Andrew, I stumbled onto your blog via Kagi's new Small Web feature and am greatly enjoying it. If you haven't read this already, I think you might get some mileage out of Adrian Duncan's relatively recent novel The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
I cannot stop thinking about Marathon: aftermath.site/marathon-bungi...
![Takumi Yoneyama (米山拓巳) - Relaxation Music For Your Computer Life (1997) [Full Album]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:geeutabawkcznuvdcbxpc6ug/bafkreigub4gxgjg5ucbrudla5x2zn3cgnppg5ub4ku33edljk4ene5p4iu)
the alt text is wrong - this is the album cover for Takumi Yoneyama's Relaxation Music For Your Computer Life (1997): www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOh5...
Fine's 'sonic diary' for NTS from Jan is ideal cooking music: one of the best solo Spice Girls tracks, Janet Jackson doing Moments in Love ("Anything"), and her own intimate demo sandwiched between t.A.T.u. and Jojo - www.nts.live/shows/fine/e...
A collection of screens - including older TV monitors and contemporary LCD screens - show clips from sci-fi films. They are arranged almost in a pyramid form.
My cyberpunk video collage RESET is now on display in Singapore at ArtScience Museum as part of the exhibition Another World is Possible, which runs until 22 Feb.
It was single channel at ACMI in 2024, but for this exhibition it's been fractured and placed onto a heap of screens, which is fitting.
Nemesis (Albert Pyun) - incredibly silly scenes but cool sets
Otherwise almost anything in here (though I wager you've seen almost all) - boxd.it/AKodU
@jacobgeller.com have you read Lisa Tuttle's novella My Death? I finished playing Returnal this week and watched your video - this book is very much within the wheelhouse of that game thematically
Short story picks:
Mrs Fox + Evie, Sarah Hall
Her Table Spread, Elizabeth Bowen
The Clancy Kid, Colin Barrett
And Who Will Pay Charon?, Mary Costello
The Red Haired Miss Daintreys, Rosamond Lehmann
Dance Card, Roberto Bolaño
The Well, Mariana Enriquez
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Gass
This year I finished 87 books from 78 authors, with no real doorstopper in the mix.
The only repeat authors were Georges Simenon (3), Ali Smith, Patricia Highsmith, and Solvej Balle (all 2). Maybe 2026 will be the year of deep diving.
A stack of books on a table, with a small plant behind them. The books are: Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan, The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth by Adrian Duncan, The Railway Station Man by Jennifer Johnston, The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor, Fraud by Anita Brookner, Summer by Ali Smith, In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano, Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories and On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle
The ten best books I read this year.
i think if you use genai for anything, even writing an email, you're both a moron and a huge baby, and i dont want to play your video game as a result. its not that hard!
absolutely loved reading A Shock last year, and wishing more of his work was in print/accessible here in Australia (have subsequently read Hawthorn & Child, eagerly anticipating his latest with Fitzcarraldo)
earlier this year my therapist politely asked me to stop using 'interesting', 'helpful' and 'useful' as responses to things. they're so conveniently vague, though...
to be fair right now I am watching in the pub with earphones in, which feels illegal
ABC listen finally sorted out the radio delay as of last week - listed as ABC Sport Rapid in the app - currently have 7 muted and Grandstand synced, so I had no idea that was the song for that ad until now
a topster grid of the my favourite albums of the year so far
here's where I'm at ytd
oh cheers, that's so nice to hear
I had to capture the intro to GP mode because it's just. this is how you fucking DO it
A poem by Stevie Smith entitled Poet!
Stevie Smith
I recently copped some HD 600s at half price and the most notable 'oh god these are great' moment so far has been listening to the latest Stereolab double a-side
This one's Charisma, right?