#Obfusc

[trevlad-sounds]

Sleep Space 8.2

20.01.2024

Andrea Castiglioni – Before Sailing – an Ecology of Mind – 00:00 Hollie Kenniff – Over Ocean Waves – 04:59 Frunk29 – Ustal – 08:16 The Hologram People – Deep into the Cosmic Ocean – 12:46 Wodwo – Gällnö – 14:45 Marie – Remaining (Kilometre Club Rework) – 18:29 Francis Morning – Pure – 26:03 Masayoshi Fujita – Tower of Cloud – 30:56 Belial Pelegrim – Turquoize – 35:32 Kilometre Club – to lull you asleep – 38:52 marine eyes – icy blossom – 45:27 Fan Club Orchestra – Long Stay IV – 47:37 Crystal Voyager, UFOm – Angel from Spiritually Advanced Civilization – 52:36 awakened souls – even – 59:26 deepspace – A Glitch has Appeared in the Business District – 01:02:41 Carlos Ferreira – In the Meantime – 01:09:14 Shane Mendonsa – UFO Plant – 01:15:49 Miguel Otero – End of summer by the pier – 01:25:58 Obfusc – Little Tokyo – 01:28:42 Hyldýpi – S T Y R K U R – 01:30:58 Please Close Your Eyes – Piano for Floating – 01:43:50 Ann Annie – Moons Apart (Clay St. Studios Sessions) – Live Ensemble – 01:50:30

[kitschke]

AOTD 6/29: Cities Of Cedar - Obfusc

today has been a long day i only got to listen thru once. but i will say that one listen was beautiful

[ursiday]

You're an angel, I'm a dog

[feminist-diary]

Why do the standards of human health differ for women? They know that having sex you don’t want every day to survive isn’t healthy. They know that cultures where women’s bodies are highly controlled aren’t healthy. They know that a woman changing her appearance through surgery doesn’t come from good mental health.

They know how degrading and painful all of this shit is. They know that this causes pain. If someone imagines a man being put into these positions, they would sense the inherent horror of it. It’s just that they think women deserve it, that this is woman’s position in society. It’s too normal, the suffering women are put through, for people to recognize its wrongness. But it’s also so normal that I ask, how can you not recognize it?

Why do you view women’s pain differently? Are women not human enough for our pain to matter? Why are you being intentionally obtuse, denying the truth you know deep down?

Patriarchy demands that you deny truth. Feminism reveals truth. Within feminism, there is nothing to hide.

[3-xenomorph-gfs]

speaking of how respect plays into tyler & kate's dynamic. i feel like what makes tyler such a good romantic lead is that, even when he's talking down to kate in the beginning, you never get the impression it's because she's a woman.

contrast tyler with scott. scott is constantly condescending to kate: second-guessing her every decision despite being miles behind her in field knowledge; undermining her professionally (negating her attempt to network with an investor); calling her javi's "girlfriend" as if javi's deference to kate is a lapse in judgment. he's not cartoonish about it, but his contempt for the situation is pretty obvious. he resents being made subordinate to a woman with no legitimate way to question it.

then you have tyler. we expect him to be a classic case of cowboy machismo, misogyny and all -- and it's true that he doesn't fully respect kate in the beginning, but it's because she's riding with stormpar. and even then, it's clear how badly he wants to respect her: initiating conversations with subtle cues to reveal her priorities ("our crew's not like your crew"); talking shop with her; straight-up asking if she knows how stormpar makes their money, and then still checking on her when they part ways in anger. he's not threatened by a female stormchaser -- he sees a kindred spirit in her, and his feelings move from fascination to real attraction when he sees they have their principles in common, too. it's insanely refreshing to see.

[e-vasong]

Interview With the Vampire (2022-) is one of the best adaptations of anything ever because it is clearly made with so much love for the original text but it also is very open about critiquing the books while also existing in perfect, constant conversation with it. every change made is a strong writing choice on its own, but it is also made 10x stronger when viewed not just as an alteration of the original but an evolution.

louis being black and a brothel owner rather than a plantation owner is a really fucking smart idea all by itself. but it also directly furthers the differences in worldview between louis and lestat from the books. daniel being older, smarter, keener - much more obsessed with the truth - is an excellent conceit on its own, but its even better when we know that this is round 2 of the interview. he's learned from the awful way the interview went in the books, and now hes here for the truth. devils minion being a dance that arguably stretches decades (even if there wasnt a chase arc in the 70s!) only heightens their game of cat and mouse. armand being an adult physically and also being a POC is fucking inspired, both for how it places him in contrast to louis, and also because it allows them to avoid casting a minor in a very sexual role while still keeping the same dynamic (i.e. the frequent infantilization/fetishization of POC, especially asians).

The fact that some people are mad about its adaptation style boggles my mind, because I honestly think this set a new fucking standard for what adaptations should be. I'm insane about it. If they aren't changing the game like IWTV 2022 who even cares anymore.

[puppyudderly-dreamy]

the way people on here use "trans inclusive radical feminist" reads as such a nonsense term that borders on "these new woke trannies have gone too far" and then you realize that it's used to label transfeminist trans women as harassment targets just like accusations of incest or pedophilia are and it's clear that how it reads is pretty accurate to what it means to the people using it that way

[krillgarden]

take care of it, homura.

[cogentranting]

The thing that almost never gets brought up in "banned books" conversations but that I think is essential to address, is the distinction between "students shouldn't be allowed to read this" and "students shouldn't be required to read this".

There is a wide gulf between removing a book from a curriculum list and removing a book from a library but I almost never hear that acknowledged.

[i-am-a-stupid-robot]

they are sending each other little notes on yahoo! pager

[corseque]

can't believe after 10 years we still don't know any concrete details about Solas. Who the hell is he anyway lmao

[trevlad-sounds]

Sleep Space 2.2

09.12.2024

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki – Canal and Timber Seen From the Bus 00:00:00 silentwave – Mirror A 00:07:53 Lee Anthony Norris, Porya Hatami – Druid Liquid 00:24:50 Obfusc – Tidal Sigh 00:32:58 Juta Takahashi – Pleochroism 2 00:34:55 Bryan Rohmer – Distant Wind (Close) 00:54:38 Masaya Kato, Valotihkuu – Anil 00:55:11 Francis Morning – Complete 00:58:48 Obfusc – Spaces Between 01:01:00 marine eyes – in the spaces 01:01:20 Omni Gardens – Plant Shop 01:03:45 One Far West – Ecliptic 01:04:39 E J R M – Oh, Why Not? 01:10:16 James Murray – Bittersweet 01:14:11 Time Rival – Groundfeel 01:20:40 E J R M – It Can Happen That Fast 01:25:28 Bryan Rohmer – A Delicate Mist In the Breeze 01:26:29 Skytree – Cosmic Prana 01:36:53 Scanner – Shuffleless 01:39:19 James Bernard – Lenity 01:41:54 zakè & Tyresta – The Worlds We Leave Behind 01:45:36

[menlove]

Andy: Just like most artists, really. I mean, there’s obviously no reason at all why you should answer any questions about what your songs are about, because the songs should be the statement, and obviously when you start talking about the particular meanings of something, without the music, without the context, it doesn’t sound right.

I certainly noticed with Brian Ferry’s songs that he expresses, reveals, far more of himself in songs than ever in a conversation, and he does it in a way that it’s always surprising – a quite extraordinary amount of revealing things. That’s particularly him. I know that that doesn’t apply to you.

Paul: But, you know, isn’t that what a lot of stuff, this “so called art” is about, isn’t it? You know that someone in a picture will be able to do something, express something you can’t do. Yeah, I think I find it easy, I mean, the same way a lot of people have stutters but don’t stutter when they sing a song. That always amazed me that, and I think it is the same way that you can have things said in a song. I mean, I would never have looked at John Lennon and kinda said, “I love you”, because it wasn’t about that, you know, it was nothing about that. But in a song, in the particular way they’re written today, I kinda easily say, “I love you”, almost as a throw-away, because it doesn’t seem embarrassing in that context. I can always deny that it was ever written about him. Burn the tapes, and delete the…

Paul McCartney, interviewed by Andy Mackay in 1982 about his album "Tug of War" (source)

(note: bold mine, but he did trail off there/was interrupted by Andy by another question. it's unclear which one from the transcript. but nothing has been cut off)

[cincidious]

A web of fear shall be your coat To clothe you in the night

[quietwingsinthesky]

the thing is, i don’t disagree that what and how you choose to write about things is a reflection of you, the writer, and cannot be divorced from your beliefs and biases. but to assume that anyone can perfectly pick out your beliefs from a piece of fiction you’ve written is an extremely weird and paranoid thing to claim, especially if you’re positing that the secret truth is that the writer is a dangerous person and they’re “revealing” that through fiction that upsets you, personally. at the end of the day, the artist is not the art, and no matter how upsetting, no matter how much you dislike it, no matter how much it disgusts you, you don’t know the person who made it and you can only guess how who they are shaped what they made.

like, really, is it more likely that the secret “belief” that’s being revealed when you’re reading something that is really upsetting to you is that the author is a secret Bad Person™️ who wants all of this fantasy to happen in real life, or that the author knows it’s a safe and normal thing to create upsetting works of fiction and so did that.

[3-xenomorph-gfs]

danny's big issue is that in any other circumstance he would have every right to smoke a cigarette down to the filter and then walk off into the woods never to be seen again but alas he is a high school freshman