Living Conditions

old woman yells at cloud: cataloging a YA novel that describes one of its characters as an "alchemologist" - stop trying to sound smart, it's alchemist

Iowa Rushes, Advances Librarian Criminalization Bill Introduced last week, Iowa's librarian criminalization bill has already made it to the House floor.

Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor.

What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.

bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...

not "I have to invent my future"

Mark Fisher's appeal of "We have to invent the future" is as urgent as ever.

explaining psychedelia to the sheet music cataloging librarian

funny that the camera operator gets so close and focuses on individuals (probably due to space limitations) but as a viewer I'm more interested in how the musicians interact with one another, the eye contact and physicality of being in a room together making this music

The punkers met up at a park every Wednesday and Saturday, then when they were banned from the park they were invited into Luteran Open Work evenings, which were spaces that were--for a time--exempt from state surveillance and fostered oppositional movements.

"Don't die in the waiting room of the future." - Ostpunk graffito

Stasi archives of photographs documenting punk culture when being a punker really meant something, nowadays we have punkologists (to quote Kim Gordon) and consumers

reading Burning Down the Haus about punk in East Germany, such a history is possible because of the bureaucratic apparatatus' love of documentation, the history of any kind of resistance in the 21st century will vanish because it is recorded on servers that will eventually fail

oleo-saccharum is also really fun if you're making something that you wanna give deep lemon flavor to

and easy, @clamsocks.bsky.social knows how to do that sh

the noise to new age pipeline

nah

annoyed that i've told yt to not show me ai music channels but it still does, there are so many albums made by humans existing in social historical material contexts that informed their musical tendencies that i would rather listen to than someone's genrefied slush with bad comic book art

Genre isn't real, but musical tendencies are and those are more interesting to track. Aspiring to genre is a way to put the musical cart before the horse and wouldn't you rather go for a gallop?

Grimes wrote one good song and she stole the music video concept from Naomi Elizabeth and I forget what its called and I haven't listened to it in years and I honestly don't care about her but this is my contribution to the discourse.

Has anyone made this joke? Wow, we really fell for that African prince scam big time.

damn homie you draw good

on a downer folk tip

Unmasking A Legend: Zweistein Revealed Unmasking A Legend: Zweistein Revealed written by: Doug Brotherton Krautrock is a music genre ripe with underground acts such as Amon Duul, ...

One of the missing link Women of Krautrock albums for sure.

"along with her younger sister Diane, Suzanne Doucet recorded the entire triple-LP over a four month period in various locations including Prague and Munich"

YouTube video by kokoras liratos Zweistein – Trip • Flip Οut • Meditation (1970, Germany) Full 3 x Album

A curious trippers delight.

Mental acid Folk - sYke Downer - YouTube

Not much to say today, enjoying this downer folk playlist.

the 💯 💯 💯 💯 blows

YouTube video by Agitation Free - Topic Looping IV

zone

People are talking about what is going on in the world more cogently and humorously than I can. Learning about krautrock for me is about music, but its also about studying a project rooted in the desire for a new collective identity that isn't tied to the violence of nationalistic hegemony.

Curious to say the least.

GIRLS - the female source of Krautrock at ORWO-Haus / Saturday, 26.01.2019 GIRLS are the reincarnation of a forgotten all female proto-Krautrock showband from Upper Bavaria / Southern Germany (1967-72).…

"Due to the death of [drummer Anny de Martin] GIRLS dissolved in 1972. The recordings disappeared into the family archives...Besides her diary, numerous photos, articles, posters and other ephemera, I also inherited original equipment, compositions and [music]. I decided to re-establish GIRLS"