2026 books 24/25: David Rees: Get Your War On and Get Your War On II ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2026 book 23. Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Blowing my luncheon head off with this brilliance.
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Annnnd it finished yesterday. Cool, cool.
If you are in Adelaide and can get a ticket, GO. I saw this more than a decade ago in Sydney (the same production, though I assume some cast has changed) and it was easily the best production I've ever seen, truly an incredible thing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
2026 book 23. Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
About to shake up the old Plex server by tagging and adding such bangers as
*checks notes*
about 500 vaporwave and dungeon synth albums.
Oh, I'm gettin' all hypnogogic goblin today .
help step bro I'm stuck in the wheel of samsara
(Set to Kylie's 'Better the Devil You Know', naturally.)
An all-new story. So *without* demonic possession? Maybe we get to find out about Karas' theological training. Can't wait for the dissertation montage.
I'm aiming to be the dumbest bitch in the pit.
New battle jacket patches arrive: Poe, two magpies. No sign of POTATO yet but it's coming.
Pretty awesome that old DEPARTMENT OF WAR RAAH! dude is all WE WILL BLAST THEM TO ATOMS but is also OH NOES AN UGLY PICTURE OF ME HOW WILL I EVER RECOVER?
A semisentient haircut, that man.
So I might have the option of playing creepy noise live and need some ELI5 info on doing this and not sucking. (I will likely use the Mac into a PA? Unless I freak out and decide to use a guitar and bullshit pedals for mind-shearing volume idiocy. Decisions.)
A reminder that this new Ripping Nails compilation is INCREDIBLE. rippingnailsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/compil...
Leopards, faces.
While it's undoubtedly fucked, scam businesses listing Iceland's Penis Museum as their address is Pynchonian perfection.
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
Discovered there's a journal called INJURY and that name goes hard as FUCK.
On Georges Méliès’s re-discovered 1897 sci-fi short, and the enduring anxiety of technological replacement:
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
this is the future liberals want
If sound art/musique concrète/strange humming is your jam, the Falt label's discography can be had for a ridiculously small amount of money. falt.bandcamp.com/music
And importantly, Ballard was *much hornier*.
I'm not even American and I remember the furore over military lily-gilding! www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
OK so just discovered that
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in Word will add in paragraphs of lorem ipsum. Here I was copying and pasting blah blah blah words words like a *schlub*.
Undoubtedly more than some businesses pay, too. theconversation.com/if-you-win-m...
(And I can't wait for the follow-up comment fighting to come. I'm backing Rachel.)
I enjoyed this detailed examination of why something is lame. rachelwritesrambles.substack.com/p/you-dont-k...
man, i don’t know matt at all irl but ive read his stuff for years and let me just say that he’s not someone you lay off he’s someone you get in a bidding war over
