Will Craven

The new Stereolab is v good

YouTube video by Naked Eyes - Topic Always Something There to Remind Me (2018 Remaster)

The first 13 seconds is as good as music ever got:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEoI...

Lucy Corin, The Swank Hotel

Now reading:

Pictured here: an Oakland Ballers t-shirt bearing the words, "Built by Oakland," with a "B" consisting of the Ballers logo. This t-shirt was obtained by its wearer becoming a fan investor for $510. The Oakland arts works the same way: Co-creators make an investment with each play, another pass of the communal brush. What a lovely culture portrait.

Creative Leaders, #Oakland seeks your expertise! We artists, art advocates, and culture bearers manifesting on Ohlone Land need an innovative steward of the City of Oakland Cultural Affairs Division. Details linked here; deadline mid-September:
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Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, August 12 – August 17 Urban, squares (imperative)

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, August 12 – August 17: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

it cannot be overemphasized that many SF & CA Democratic politicians did everything they could to pour gasoline on this fire, including encouraging SCOTUS to criminalize unsheltered homelessness for the entire nation. as with Gaza & university crackdowns, they blazed Trump’s trail for him.

Hitting this up tonight!

10am sharp:

--Ayodele Nzinga;
--The 1981;
--Horsegirl (Chicago)
--Cindy;
--The Wind-Ups;
--El Pecado de Juana (San Jose)

plus more Hits of the Bay, on @bff.fm

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This is a good thread. (Doesn’t start here but this is a quotable part)

descriptive narration is one of the few formal features that differentiates the novel as an art form. our antinovel culture continues apace.

So many of his books are about hot young men dying hotly that After the Banquet is a total outlier for being about a shrewd older woman making moves.

I think his politics were downstream of the art, but: Mishima

It was so good to hear your poetry on Saturday, thank you Alina!

Rodrigo García (director) - Wikipedia

TIL Gabriel Garcia Marquez's son is married to Claudia Sheinbaum's sister

and he worked one of the cameras on Reality Bites

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TALK by Linda Rosenkrantz. NYRB Classics.

EMILY: Of course, it induces a false psychosis, that's what the drug (LSD) is all about. But the term psychotic means a flight from reality, and the reality is based upon what we all define it to be. If we took those limitations away, a psychotic would just be someone on another level.
#NYRBWomen25

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Local media's revival means feeling anew the anticipation to find out what "people are saying"

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, August 5 – August 11 eat some homegrown tomatoes

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, August 5 – August 11: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

New Wood Street Doc Tells Inside Story of Oakland’s Self-Organized Encampment Documentary filmmaker Caron Creighton and former Wood Street resident John Janosko talk about the documentary, the struggle, and what’s to come.

New Wood Street Doc Tells Inside Story of Oakland’s Self-Organized Encampment: bayareacurrent.com/new-wood-str...

Nationalize cameo

In all seriousness they need some Hollywood Nights

Oakland Cops Somehow Want $2 Million for Assault Rifles, Drones and Armored Vehicles The military ambitions of OPD can’t be stopped, not even by a budget crisis and lower crime rates.

Oakland's Police Department is seeking to:

1. More than double its stock of drones.

2. More than double its stock of armored vehicles.

3. Get about $425K worth of new assault rifles.

New from me in @bayareacurrent.bsky.social

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they're all doing crypto crimes and I've spent years practicing how to document crypto crimes, I'm built for this moment

My bob seger mix will lure young men away from the manosphere

I’m relatively new to pro tennis fandom and find the production values and conventions to be wild/odd in ten thousand ways

Impossible to take centrist neoliberal goo-goos seriously when 98% of the time, they also support giving the street gangs on payroll more money to do less work.

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

Our annual Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest opens AUGUST 15th! But do you know about Ronald Sukenick ?

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It's all third spaces, baby. Used to go bowling, used to cover Skynyrd in the garage, used to have a car club. Now we've got Theo Von on in the F-350 on the way home from your 11-hour workday.