Kali Malone (featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton), Does Spring Hide Its Joy, (3xLPs, 3xCDs), SOMA050, Ideologic Organ, 2023. Published by Mute Song. Made with the support of Kulturrådet, XKatedral, and MONOM. Kali Malone: Composition & Synthesis. Stephen O'Malley: Electric guitar. Lucy Railton: Cello
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Saturday night at La Zorba in Paris......
Finally, I was able to crawl out of the shed of Reille – without my backpack for once, what a relief – and walked down the street to the metro station on Saturday night before Daylight Saving Time on Sunday – you know longer days & shorter nights – to take a few trains up to Belleville to catch a proper experimental music event. And, this was definitely that type of event to catch!I had the…
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obviously i am furious about the massive censorship & book banning movement here in the us, but an undeniably fun side effect is that the cultural understanding of librarians is slowly shifting from “stuffy lady in a cardigan and eyeglasses who shushes people for a living” to “ENEMY OF THE STATE” & i have to say that i’m really enjoying it
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This is Bakugou's first real plus ultra moment; it's the first time he actually had to take significant risks in a fight. That isn't necessarily an issue. It's a welcome development actually.
The problem is that before this point the plot mainly pits Bakugou against other students or street villains where he won everything (except for sludge villain - where he lost offscreen and when he lost by technicality to Izuku and Ochako in the Battle Trials) and then the only time he is given a fight where he seriously struggles is against the strongest hero who has ever lived.
This gives the audience an extremely warped view of Bakugou's relative strength. It makes the gifted 15 year old with anger problems look like someone who can only be toppled by legends. This could have been fixed by a loss/draw even to a villain, senpai, or teacher, but it never happens. We all learn more from our failures than our successes. This reluctance to have Bakugou fail limits his growth and turns him into an annoying power fantasy character.
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there's a post going around with a reminder that marriage is a legal contract and that's why it's important - and i agree. i think it's really helpful to think of marriage as a legal contract rather than The Highest Declaration Of Love. what irks me is an addition to the post expressing worry about people getting into polyamorous and queerplatonic relationships instead of getting married and gaining the legal security of it. it's like... many people in QPRs or polyamorous relationships are married! for that exact reason! i don't think it's a good solution to narrow down what relationships people should center their lives around, and that it would be a lot better to expand who can get married, so that more people COULD get the kind of legal security that fit them best. like that's the whole point of legalizing same sex marriage!! anyway those are my two cents
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Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound - Ra at Dawn Part One {Rapture, at last}
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Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound - The Iron Soul Of Nothing (Ideologic Organ, 2011)
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there’s something so epic about hetero chinese period dramas and i think one part of it is that there is absolutely nowhere in the narrative i could exist.
lately i’ve been on a western media detox— i’ve cleaned english language music out of my playlists and have never been able to stomach western dramas anyway, so that part is easy— which might seem funny, because if i’m in singapore and i hate it and i won’t touch american music then what’s left? the answer is the false binarism of chinese period dramas, at least for me. the badly written ones are misogynistic and stupid and the better ones are less of those things, but regardless the world that emerges is clean-cut and easy to parse. there’s someone to root for and someone to hate. there’s a girl and a boy. there’s the comedy and the drama, the sheer thick drama, the music that signals to you precisely how to feel before the scene even starts going
try to jam a fifth culture transnational transgender they/them with 2 mental illness and 1 autoimmune disease into this world and it simply doesn’t work. and that’s kinda epic lolzers! it’s like watching high fantasy, or super hardcore sci-if. it both represents a simulacrum of the real world and is so far from the reality you know that you understand it as a hypothetical universe, one that disincludes you on principle. i exclude myself from the story and in doing so fangfei from moyuyunjian’s steely gaze becomes all the more important. i give so many shits and laugh and yell and spectate. but i am safe from the eyes of its inhabitants. if i entered the story it would break. so i sit outside of it, clapping by myself
in other news, we gave up on mysterious lotus casebook 16 episodes in. there are many character archetypes in these shows that i can no longer stand; the salacious sexy seductive supervillain lady is not necessarily one of them but the way they did miss ‘this man didn’t even Look at me when all men fall at my knees so i hated him’ ‘no one is allowed to steal buttchin from me’ jiao was way up there. surely a woman can have multiple personality traits and yet you would think from this drama that that is not at all true. and the strange harem that grew around li lianhua despite his absolute loser attitude— like i get it, he’s the gintoki of this show, that’s hot, but the way the women who were into him were written made me want to Eat Horse. it bothered me that di feisheng and lianhua’s homo as fuck dynamic was so intriguing and them + fang duobing was a winning trio but all the women in the show were written like complete fucking ass, and one of the big antagonists being a woman, the stakes throughout were not only lost to me but also Pissed Me Off. also, that case about the corpse flowers dragged on forever and all my pocky wilted
I Just Think, women deserve better in these damn stories. make them slutty as hell, sure, but make them other things too and i mean this in the most generous sense. slutty and proud. slutty and weird. slutty and oblivious. literally anything at all so they don’t come out cardboard flat from all angles. this is why i have a personal vendetta against the ditzy clueless female protagonist as well because if everything stems from the fact that she doesn’t know shit it’s like please someone Please tell her shit i’m on my hands and knees begging. give her more to chew on she’s dying of boredom over there
this is why i liked the so called antagonist of blossoms in adversity best (spoilers ahead). he was cruel as hell to huazhi and gu yanxi’s only parental figure. he was paranoid and selfish and lonely and craved a son’s love from the one person he couldn’t hold onto. in the end he is pushed further and further by huazhi, who won’t give in, to isolate yanxi from the people he loves and to lash out at those people as a way of punishing yanxi. and when he dies it’s because of his own distrust, his own negligent parenting, his absent cruelty from decades of insomnia and lack of faith in his people. but he cries for yanxi, and there’s something so human about that. to think of evil not as a first principle but rather an adjective for a verb that is set in motion by other events. to be honest, i haven’t seen such thoughtful writing in any chinese period drama before or after that and i strongly suspect i will never see such writing again in this genre but man, it was so fucking good (spoilers end).
in the meantime, i’ve dragged my mother to moyuyunjian/the double for the return casting of liu xiening and wang xingyue who are Eating so hard. they’ve got wang xingyue done up with the sluttiest makeup and liu xiening is breaking my heart with her pout and her Sassy Mean constitution and this is a revenge story, yes, but it’s a double revenge story. it’s a grief story. and fangfei is carrying more on her shoulders than lingbuyi imo, and doing so with much more grace too. her step mom’s a dick but she’s a smart, 5d chess playing dick who wears hot shades of green so i’m personally interested enough to keep watching (something lotus casebook DID NOT accomplish with their epic female antagonist…. mein gotte). and the princess too. unhinged as hell but god, so charismatic. and beautiful, with scary big eyes and the sweetest head tilt. fun fun fun! that’s fun character writing right there. the comedy might be too straightforward for my tastes but everything else is kind of hot and sexy And after the coming of age ceremony when jiangli appeared amidst the flowers i felt my throat close up even though we saw her for all of one (1) episode). i was like yes. they got me alright. i Care now
really that’s all that matters isn’t it. we want stories about people we care for. we want to give a shit. why else would we listen to the stories of other people. we are looking for us and the people we love in them
oh also moyuyunjian soundtrack goes hard as hell i love a little three step waltz. here’s a pic from the ‘gym’ for ur time. guten night
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