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
I love the Provoke Camera, but it sometimes adds an outline around objects.
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.
The mask that reveals.
Imagine the concoctions made with these ingredients.
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
Rainy day, dream away.
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
Finished reading: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson 📚 I have been reading Neal Stephenson for decades, and there’s a reason for that. I picked up The Big U at a bookstore when I moved to Boston in 1986. I recognized the city and the characters he was writing about. Zodiac, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon captured my imagination and impacted how I saw the world.
I’ve read every book he’s written, and I look forward to each new book by Stephenson, but I admit it took me a while to get into a groove reading Termination Shock. Stephenson always delivers an imaginative, information-dense story, but something with this book failed to land with me. I was entertained and engrossed, but less so than in previous books by Stephenson. And that’s okay. Not every book by him has to blow me away. I’ll still read his next book. Termination Shock is still much better than most science fiction I read.
Rabbit family ready to celebrate Easter.
Wet stroll.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Souvenirs by Pale Blue Eyes and Spell 31 by Ibeyi.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Dark. Rainy. Night.
