Interesting that Los Angeles based band Flat Worms have never gotten their own post. I remember wearing out Red Hot Sand several years ago and loving that members were in the Ty Segall Band, Thee Oh Sees, and Dream Boys. Listening to Flat Worms always made me think a little of Love As Laughter.
This morning I listened to St. Vincent's by Deaf Wish, which made me go back to Red Hot Sand (Volar Records). Then a quick search on Bandcamp revealed that the the band will be releasing "Witness Marks" on Drag City in late September 2023. They also have a live album on Frontier Records.
Another thing I feel like I say a lot: zine is a sort of meaningless term, interchangeable with chapbook and booklet and probably other words that all refer to the same basic format. I think for a lot of folks “zine” implies photocopied and chapbook means “really nice paper” and I am usually dismissive of these sorts of taxonomies. However! I have a bunch of publications (both real and, courtesy of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society, fake), dedicated to short monographs on different historical subjects or artifacts. These are formal looking, are printed on fancy paperstock and just feel, well, academic in their presentation. They’re still essentially zines, but also somewhat different. Tyler Vance’s Void (2021) feels of a kind with those.
Void: Records from the Frontier 001 is a world building exercise consisting of six of Vance’s gorgeously strange, fossil-like paintings accompanied by brief vignettes. Taken together, the reader/viewer should begin to cobble together some facts — there is a Void, people go in, sometimes they don’t come out, sometimes they come out carrying things with them. I don’t want to pollute your potential experience with my notions, so I will mostly leave it at that, but I find it and its sequel volumes wonderfully meditative and evocative. (OK, a little more: Stalker, Annihilation and Gibson’s short story “Hinterlands” are all touchstone for my reactions to Void).
I think it is well known that I like these sorts of no-system world-building projects (A Thousand Thousand Islands, Rainy City, Lodestar to Karamouska), but I like that this goes one step farther and, aside of the artist’s statement at the front, it feels like an in-universe artifact, a catalog for some strange museum exhibit, an auction book, a secret black market log. Volume two has similar vibes and oh man, volume three, A Young Person’s Introduction to Erratics, takes things in a fantastic new direction (that is pretty clearly signposted by the title). It will pull you even further into this strange underground.
Grab all three from his store. You won’t be sorry!
Still blows my mind the disparity between the Eng and the JP localization of Sonic Frontiers
So in the og English Tails expresses that he needs to part ways from Sonic so he can grow into a hero on his own, right? That he can't grow by being with him?
But like. The director of the game, who worked with Ian Flynn, worked on the JP localization and it's like. You're telling me that when they localized that scene for the Japanese audience
That it was about Tails learning that there are things only he can do? That instead of concluding that he needs to part ways from Sonic and become a hero, he just comes to realizes the ways in which he and Sonic fill each other's gaps? He learns that he already is on equal footing with Sonic. The two of them are just heroes who save people in different ways?
Tomoya Ohtani - Sonic Frontiers: The Music Of Starfall Islands | Data Discs | 2023 | Clear with Green Splatter + Clear with Orange Splatter + Clear with Red Splatter + Clear with Blue Splatter
I just realised there's an expression in French that goes “en avoir ras la casquette” which means being fed up with something “up to your cap.”
HOW FITTING.
That vein is about to pop out of that magnificent neck at stfu Tom's bullshit.
Like a serious fuck up, aka gifs you can hear, aka Frankie, the underrated king of sass.
Come home, Frankie baby. I'll run you a bath. I'll lick your wounds.
I've said it once and I'll keep saying it until my dying day, I adore this man when he's had it. Because then I can imagine him coming home to you and ruthlessly fuck his anger into you, deep thrusts delivered at a punishing pace, barely pulling out before he pushes right back into your tight heat, calloused hands spanning the expanse of your skin keeping you in place, your body pinned down underneath his own, his face buried in the crook of your neck as he pants you're so soft, baby, so good for me.
update to whatever is going on in my tomodachi life game : blaze and surge broke up #LOVELOSES . but everything is ok now because i gave surge a cheeseburger (it is her favorite food)
She's an AI who becomes more human over the course of the game. Plus she develops a father daughter relationship with Eggman that's really cute.
She's an AI created by Dr. Eggman, she has excellent control over Cyber Space, and gained command of the robots & guardians of Starfall Islands
Meltryllis propaganda:
She is a fierce and powerful force to be reckoned with when you find yourself against her. If she is allies with you, she can still be somewhat sadistic and a tsundere, but she will do everything in her power to help you.