Why are we doing Deal or No Deal with Monty Carlo’s identity
you always know the rignt thing to say in the moment
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chupie
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Chupie!!!
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dream:
my younger brother had a job doing odd-ball things. he got hired to find two keys. him and i drove there.
on the way (and this is where there was no longer a car) we met our other brother in a night market that used mostly yen. i was given around 1700 yen by my other brother. i remember one of the stores’ name said something in english about ‘english currency is the best’ and assumed it was a scam cause it was in English and thus predominately trying to attract people who spoke english
i caught a brief glimpse of another night market that used rupees. i was excited cause it all meant that i could try good food.
then we get to a house? my younger brother explained to my older brother that he doesn’t really care about the job, since he makes enough already and doesn’t really have much to spend this money on. thus, i go outside to meet the askers, which apparently were my lebanese grandparents. i find one of the two keys, hug.
then the dream shifted. my mother had showed up, the house was now ours, and my mother was yelling at my younger brother (who looked out and yelled something out of one of the house’s windows) for not going outside to greet my mother’s parents.
i went inside to look for keys, and became fake atlas. dream ended around when i entered what was ‘my room’. my mother and my younger brother were still arguing. I remember getting up because i wanted to go to good food places. there are no good food places in the real world.
also i woke up in a bed i don’t know about in ireland and that spooked me for a quarter of a second
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its not the carnists it’s the canaryists. they’re too busy birdwatching.
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Events in the Wiretapper thread reminds us…
Once, as a joke, when only 5 had assembled to play BotC and then 1 among them had to go to bed:
We played a 2x4 game. 4 double-headed players, with a guarantee that the evil team (two in size) would be confined to the same pair. Sounds simple enough, if ill-advised in a few ways. There was no corpse-detecting role in play, bla bla bla, you can all imagine what people might do to try to make this saner…
And then one tiny gem of madness.
Someone decided that ourselves, ACE, should have each of our player chairs be “occupied” by a specific one of us. We went for myself in one, Ashley (
) in another. All information gained by a specific self should only be expressed by that self, and if someone directs a question towards a self that self needs to legitimately be the one answering.
…we ended up as Evil. We also then went on to win, somehow. But, as I’m sure you can guess,
we had an utterly awful headache by the end of it.
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must have
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Kyuu has found a new way to spend money
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I’ve been thinking about music as a piece of culture lately. To start with i’ve been learning about the technological evolution of music as it evolved from live performers to the sort of streaming that we have now and it feels somehow more severe than analogous stories about other mediums. Maybe I just care more about music, since it’s not as if the individual variations between each performance or atmosphere that are often valued in music are gone in the transition from theater to film. Though upon thinking about it that is really more of an adaptation across form. People don’t tend to distinguish as much between music as the object produced in performance and music as the digital files. For the most part is engaged with through listening and that should be relatively independent of where you are listening to it in.
And yet simultaneously the experience of music does feel uniquely shaped by the various forms in which you experience it, both in the sense that you get very opinionated people on what technology they like to use to listen to music but also it pervades into many people’s daily life in a way other media doesn’t. “Oh I was watching a movie while on a walk” “I was contemplating a painting while falling asleep” “I was reading a book while studying”. All of these sound rather odd, and I don’t think it’s just because hearing is typically not as necessary for these other activities. The analogues here are like the podcast and the audiodrama both of which are generally less ubiquitous as background noise, though podcasts have their place. Without fully exploring this idea I do think it connects to the way in which people tend to engage with music most commonly, which is by listening to a series of (familiar) individual songs in random order. Ok it’s not really random since the algorithms are optimizing for how long you’ll keep listening (and while I’m not entirely sure of the selection process on radios I don’t think it’s really curated for the sake of creating some overarching connection besides maybe a narrative about what songs are in a certain genre). But it feels odd. I’m not sure if I’d go so far as to say that it’s actually similar to setting a collection of various chapters of books on shuffle but I am somewhat drawn to the notion.
The argument that then seems to most easily follow here is that this form of listening doesn’t encourage interaction with the songs as individual works but rather as noise to be there. I do often think about this sort of logic in terms of my own music-listening habits. But I also think it has serious faults, I don’t think the unit of an album is necessarily more complete than a song, they are released with the understanding that the album will be considered as its work as well as the individual songs. Nor do I necessarily think that listening to an album in full is necessarily better, it generally comes with the tradeoff of less consistent guaranteed simple pleasure in favor of something bigger to consider, which is a tradeoff that a lot of people would consider good to take.
I do also think it’s interesting how like wide music-listening culture is. With film you have genres but you also generally have like ‘popular movies’ and ‘indie films’, maybe a middle category if you want to, which does kind of speak to the unpopularity of movies as a medium but music theoretically has a lower barrier to entry so you get a lot broader artists and thus it’s more likely for people to have never even heard of the songs another person is listening to even just for two relatively typical people. Yet the idea of listening to music in general is still very universal. Though to really quickly tie this back to the sort of beginning thing before I go to class it also does kind of feel like it loses the communal aspect (and related lack of ability to produce world-class music so quickly that encourages people to produce/reproduce it themselves) of music performance, or even music-listening pre-headphones but also I wasn’t really there for that maybe it sucked.
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yeah music’s cool
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I got my basic black one. Now I’ll get a basic white one, then two cool design ones
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do they build these mechanisms for strongman comp. training!
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“oh you just have to slam the door to close it. oh the microwave button just takes a firm tap.”
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favourite things so far
- really really cool weather
- big breakfast later
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favorite thing - starving cat