Jacob Holm-Lupo

Defended my MA thesis on Close to the Edge today, and got an A. Transitory yet welcome happiness ensued.

Jeg har samme håpet for Maaruds paprikapotetgull, som nå smaker som potetskruer.

Scarily clearsighted.

Throwing Ukraine AND all of Europe under the bus at the same time? MAGAmerica is gonna find out life is a lot harder without friends.

#buildtheresistance

Har du ikke hørt at nazikommunistene i AP vil innføre dødsstraff for ikke å være woke??? Så det på Steigan, eller var det Uten Filter? Du fåkke lov til å si mann eller dame heller!!!

Work&pleasure, pleasure&work

Once is enough

The fjord today

Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics The order also curbs prosecutions of Americans who improperly lobby for foreign nations. President Donald Trump says Republicans were unfairly targeted in the past.

«Tough on China»? More like «Opening the door wide for China»…

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I guess we're all too jaded about Republican hypocrisy now, but I still think it's worth imagining if Joe Biden had gotten Bill Gates to send a bunch of Microsoft nerds into government institutions to start hacking into government servers and payment systems. Would they have totally dug that?

YouTube video by YeOldeRock Genesis - Mama (Live at Wembley)

Happy birthday, Phil!

Innlandets Empiri.

The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes. The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global ...

This book comes out in February. An absolutely fascinating collection of academic writings on connections between literature and progressive rock and metal. I have a chapter on J.G. Ballard and the music of Trevor Horn/Yes.

Enjoying some late 80s Norwegian pagan folk-rock-punk from Ym:Stammen. I got this when it came out in 1987. A friend of mine painted the cover, and the singer was an acquaintance. The first time someone from "our" crowd had made something so professional. Mind you, I was 16, they were 20-somethings.

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Massive cuts to science and medicine in Trump budget

Read this. The dismantling of American health.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

If you, like me, appreciate dynamics in music, here's a tip: Youtube has recently introduced default dynamic range compression on their videos. It's called Stable Volume. Turn it off if you think music is already over-compressed.

YouTube video by WishboneAshAllSongs Wishbone Ash - Warrior

OK, I really need to try to transition away from Meta. Which means I need new friends. Can you shout out if you like democracy, equality and progressive rock?

All true. Lovecraft didn't have a persona at all, partly because of the time he existed in. And that was perhaps lucky for him. But unlike Gaiman, he never pretended to be good, he never championed any virtuous cause. He knew he was a wreck and a loser, and his writings reflect it.

Blue Note Sunday with Joe Henderson

I all verden! Men hvorfor?

Well, Greenland/Denmark is NATO, so that would be tricky. Also, Danes don’t suffer fools gladly, so Trump’s gonna meet a dead end there.

Just in time for sunset. 2:40pm.

Hey Dream Theater! You're so interested in craft and artistry. You charge a pretty penny to come hear the sound of a lifetime of practicing.

Yet you couldn't be bothered to pay your own few pennies to one of the myriad talented artists that would love to make a cover for you. Nah, let's AI it!

I guess I'll post a bit of what I do musically here as well. Recently released is the second album with my electronica/dash of jazz-funk project Donner, called The Van Gennep Gap.

And coming early December, is the long-awaited (?) remastered reissue of White Willow's 2004 album Storm Season.

Clothes of Sand - Demo White Willow · Ex Tenebris · Song · 1998

50 år siden Nick Drake døde idag. 25 år senere hørte jeg denne sangen hans covret av Askers store proghelter White Willow (@jacobholmlupo.bsky.social!) på Club 3. Vokalist Sylvia jobbet på den tiden på Café Polo på andre siden av torget og spilte mye Drake der. Musikken hans definerte mine tenår.

Det var tider. Første gangen jeg hørte Nick Drake var i ‘89 eller noe slikt, tror det var Audun Vinger som spant CDer bak baren. Livet var aldri det samme etterpå.