Today is the 150th episode of Soundwave, a podcast that focuses on ambient/classical/experimental/instrumental music. The show was my way of dealing with the stress and isolation of the pandemic. Here we are three years later. I’m celebrating with a retrospective mix of the Excursions in Ambience compilation series. http://josephaleo.com/blog/soundwave-150-excursions-in-ambience-retrospective/
Finished reading: The Spectacle of the Void by David Peak 📚 A few months back, a few of my friends and I hashed over what themes, ideas, and tropes we wanted to explore in our Mothership game, one of which was cosmic horror. During this time, I’ve been reading, thinking, and meditating on cosmic horror, which led to this slim book. I can’t help but want to apply Peak’s horror reality to our game as a way to explore the world-without-us narratively.
“To exist is to collapse the internal into the external, to come face to face with horror.”
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Raised by Hailey Whitters and Away Message by Ari Lennox.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to It Should Have Been by Love, Burns and Transmission by Shimura.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://shimura.bandcamp.com/album/transmission
I’m excited to see Renfield. I’ve been fascinated with the character since Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Renfield elicits the same mix of sympathy and repulsion as Gollum. As Let The Right One and games like Vampire: The Masquerade show, there’s so much taffy to pull, so why not go to the source? Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s set in the 21st century. Close enough.
Finished reading: Starry Speculative Corpse by Eugene Thacker 📚 The true horror of this book is that I may have to re-read Ray Brassier’s Nihil Unbound.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to The Third Wave by The Boys with Per (thanks @zioibi) and
BABYLON - The Original Score Download by Dennis Bovell.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://dennisbovell.bandcamp.com/album/dennis-bovells-babylon-the-original-score-download
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Portaling by Bendu (thanks @hardyoyo@code4lib.social) and Las Ruinas by Rico Nasty.🎵
https://bendu.bandcamp.com/album/portaling
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Today’s an exciting day for our Mothership game. The players encountered Dr. Meryem Mahdavi, her two children, Adam and Hawa, and Abdullah, the android, the survey team survivors. Questions will be answered. Tensions are high. Time is running out. The alien artifact beneath planet Yatima awaits.
Heading out to enjoy a walk in the sun after weeks of rainy weather. I’ll be taking photos with the Provoke Camera app and pondering the strong anthropic principle.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to The Humble Warrior by Wayne Escoffery and Kaibou Zika by 99Letters.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
My brain says, “Vantablack tattoo.” I think to myself, “That sounds cool.” That would make for some good flavor text in a story. Something cyberpunk, maybe. But what if it already exists? So I Google it, and I read a blog post about the darkest ink available. It’s called World Famous Blackout Blackout, and you can order it on Amazon. That’s pretty cyberpunk.
In the last two years, I’ve read more physical books than I have in the previous decade. I would have preferred to have those books in a digital format, but there was no way around it; some books I wanted to read were only available in print. While I enjoy the experience of reading physical books, OCRing highlighted text for notes is tedious.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Ghost Song by Cécile McLorin Salvant and A Stray Ending by Surface 10.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to No Plans To Stick the Landing by Boat and Aperture by Braulio Lam.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
