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It just feels so good. So right. Thank you Jorn.

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"Wicked City" (1987) is maybe the most. In my opinion. Just 100% most. Everything could just be that. Please.

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The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

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Max Spielmann *

(Hölting near Innsbruck 1906-1984)

Boy with cat, signed: Max Spielmann, dated: 1953, tempera on brown paper

Dorotheum

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Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, September 1978

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"Brandish" for NEC PC-98. Nihon Falcom, 1991.

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nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

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Zappa (again)

Well, obviously, any idea about Zappa being some CIA plant (‘cause his dad was an engineer at some factory) is… well, a bit silly, really. And obviously you don’t have to like any specific music. Whatever. Still. Having no understanding of art is troublesome. Not liking it, ok. Not understanding its place, troublesome.

Its place changes, since the world does. Some things are revolutionary. Then become commonplace. Because both terms are about placements and thus changes. This painting is red doesn’t change. This painting is revolutionary does. Maybe it was. Maybe no more. Still, if it was, it probably helped other new fun things emerge. Zappa did that. And I would argue, his music still is pertinent. Not in the same way (it couldn't be), but still “avant-garde.” Still opening ways to think about music, representation, value, art. It might be fun or enjoyable, but it’s also uncomfortable, and weird. It doesn’t let you alone. Art can be like that. But most people, I think, want their music to just let them be. Audio-wallpaper. Zappa wont. If you have any interest/sensibility/knowledge, it chafes. Maybe you don’t like it, but you can’t not admit those are some amazing musicians playing, etc. And that music is not business-as-usual. It’s hard to place. It upsets how to place, even how to think about places.

So if revolutionary, avant-garde, traditional, etc., are about places, first you must be able to securely establish “places.” Zappa fucks with that. You have to think about it and decide for yourself. What works for you? But, also, know that that thing is just your specific confusion, your fetish, your class identity. It is already pre-created. Are you a robot? Do you follow programming? Crush all boxes.

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Granville Street, Vancouver, April 1, 1936

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Well, I was very much not being clear. Sorry about that.

I mostly meant he knew what he was doing musically. He wanted those musical ideas. That's pretty much what I meant. (that, and that it seems people have difficulties understanding it)

Just. Everything is getting stupidier? Dunno.

Watching people """react""" to Zappa.

They do not know nothing. They are lost. Even if they know something. Oh, this sounds like a series of ideas. Yeah, man. Yes. That is the fucking point. Zappa was fucking smart and fucking knew what he was doing in the context of a specific culture. You might not like what he did. But he was very clear about what he did.

So, fuck you.

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Just. Everything is getting stupidier? Dunno.

Watching people """react""" to Zappa.

They do not know nothing. They are lost. Even if they know something. Oh, this sounds like a series of ideas. Yeah, man. Yes. That is the fucking point. Zappa was fucking smart and fucking knew what he was doing in the context of a specific culture. You might not like what he did. But he was very clear about what he did.

So, fuck you.

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory dir. Mel Stuart | 1971

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WORK / LIFE BALANCE

or

Just life?