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You know who I feel sorry for?
Nerine Skinner.
Her fledgling career… gone. At a stroke. Without so much as a by your leave
If you don’t like 🎶🎵 Yes … Don’t bother.
If you like Yes… But hate Topographic Oceans … Don’t bother.
You have been warned … a 30 minute video laying out the plan for ‘Starting The Steal’ in the U.S.A.
Meanwhile, spotted in my local ‘minimart’ today … elections coming up in Auckland, New Zealand.
Imagine this happening in the United States.
I know … you can’t can you?
🎶🎼🎵 New (to me) from New Zealand … Tablefox
🎶🎼🎵 Love me some Tears For Fears … just a few favourites from a recent session … songs ‘old’ and ‘new’. Enjoy!
56 Seconds for all you ‘Portlandians’ (specifically), but really anyone … I just love his YouTube channel. Has anyone been?
Slavoj Žižek Is A Complicated Dude
Earlier this week a friend introduced me to Slavoj Žižek - and specifically, he referenced The Perverts Guide To Cinema. I started watching and suddenly realized that it was over 2 1/2 hours long. I saved to ‘watch later’! Seriously - watch the first 5 to 10 minutes - you can’t just stop and never return … BUT … life does have a limited duration!
I commented on this to my friend … he responded …
I had no idea it was that long! There is not enough alcohol in New Zealand to get you (let alone two of you) through 2.5 hours. This six-minute piece is more than enough to convey Zizek’s characteristic mannerisms (mental and physical). And he neatly endorses the critique of “the fetishism of action” by reversing Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach: “In the 20th-century we tried to change the world too quickly, it’s time to go back to interpreting it.” Big Think
I haven’t watched it yet … still trying to understand my friend’s reply 😂
Running … Up That Hill
I recently had a good email exchange with Nick Milo (LYT) after a newsletter he wrote that depended a lot on Running Up That Hill.
As a private exchange, I am not going to reveal the conversation, but rather make the observation that Kate Bush’s Running Up The Hill not only gained renewed momentum in the UK/US Music charts …. It also seems to have pushed Kate back into the limelight.
Kate will turn 64 years old later this month … it is never too late.
Beyond that, clearly, something else is going on. Detailed below are just three of many more links that I have read recently. Articles by writers I read regularly that each in their own way have latched on to the phenomena.
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William Gallagher - always a good read gave us; Seeking out strange new worlds, and liking them..
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Rick Beato - with a 10 a minute breakdown of the original song.
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The Brisbane choir - always worth a watch have their take on the song.
Trust, Autonomy, Identity, Privacy and Agency.
It’s 30 seconds long and nails it.
🎶 It’s a cover of Alan Parson’s Eye In The Sky.
… a very good cover - and with just two people performing.
You will only be disappointed if you don’t like the original to begin with.
Try and watch without at least smiling, probably chuckling and maybe even joining along!
Lore - What Is It Good For?
Apparently - absolutely everything, (with apologies to Edwin Star). That said, a really GREAT series of articles by Venkatesh Rao on ‘Lore’ The Index To The Series
This is Part 7 of 7 : 🔗 Towards Management Metamodernism , from which I quote;
Just as Wallace noted, in 1993, that literary writing was increasingly substituting TV-watching for observation of life (which, as he pointed out, was understandable, since life itself was about sitting on a couch watching television), by 2007 or so, on the threshold of the global financial crisis, “external reality” to leaders meant the output of the literary-industrial complex.
💬 Venkatesh Rao - Ribbon Farm
(My bold reminding me of the UK series Gogglebox - an entire show where we the viewers watched other viewers watch television!)
Ezra Klein talking to Dan Olson.
🔗 The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I’ve Heard.
🔗 Bonus Video from Dan that I haven’t (yet) watched - but now in the queue after listening to the podcast.
.. and then 🔗 there’s this, which is a piece in Time where a crypto expert responds.
Interesting watch
🔗 Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why? - YouTube
The real and unadulterated truth? This might be it - I just don’t know.
But if it is … well I wouldn’t be surprised.
Andrew Yang … Pay The F$#^*ing Artist
Wasn’t he the dude espousing UBI in the Dem run ups?
I guess we are going to need it if people like him maintain this story that we need to work for free to raise our exposure … payment be damned.
The artist should pay attention to Harlan Ellison
Werner Erhard on Happiness .. and I know it’s wrong - but as I read it - 🎶 🎵Ken Dodd kept surfacing in my mind.
Buying some bread rolls - or at least buying some bread rolls if the real world behaved like the internet.