#Obfusc

[trevlad-sounds]

Sleep Fog

March 13 2022

1 Dividenthal & Aumgn - Arterial Hyper Sleep

2 Bubble - Triangaroo

3 Martin Glass - Welcome to the Four Seasons

4 Giants Of Discovery - The Power We Give To Stones To Hold Human Time

5 Elin Piel - Fält

6 A Veil Of Water - Frailty

7 WMD - Winter

8 Amon Tobin - Full Panther

9 gooch , gooch wills - everyone i love is asleep

10 Pablo Color - La Calle Roja Chee Shimizu Remix

11 Drakkar Nowhere - In the Eye of Time

12 PILOTPRIEST - Hopeless Romantic

13Monochrome Echo - Constellation

14 Yumi Iwaki - Sleepy Fog

15 Scott Campbell - Sun Glitter / River Glass

16 Leyland Kirby - Wdtftcs - Thirty-Three

17 Tambour - Waves

18 Marconi Union - Weightless

19 Mosaik - Among Plants

20 Boards of Canada - Collapse

21 Tomas Dvorak - The Glasshouse with Butterfly

22 Obfusc - Sounds From Shattered Seashells

23 Pulse Emitter - Ice Grotto

24 r beny - crushing

25 Linkwood - Outside In

26 Yamaneko - Yaeyama Islands (Setting Sun)

27 Hiroshi Ebina - Upas

28 Albrecht La'Brooy - Sean's Lullaby

29 Harold Budd/Brian Eno - A Stream With Bright Fish

30 Asfandyar Khan - Renew

[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

[ramlionbam]

wikipedia begging us to donate money when the page for jeremy jordan (lovely broadway performer) looks like this when it comes to his judaism is

say the words "He is Jewish".

[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.

[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.

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

One of Marisha's great strengths as a performer is that she's completely unafraid to let her characters be wrong. She keeps to their characters and if that brings them into conflict with the party? She leans into it, whether or not their actions are morally correct. That's why her performance at the end of c3e95 was so good. She played Laudna completely in character and sympathetically while still allowing her to be unambiguously in the wrong

[rikkivoid]

a pawn twice over

[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

[silverbridge-harbor]

"live, laugh, love" cursive wall art but instead it says "confuse, inveigle, obfuscate"

[cincidious]

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

[itmightrain]

Always thinking about how much gideon's pov impacts the reader's ability to know what's going on in gideon the ninth. like there's literally parts where another character starts explaining crucial worldbuilding/plot details and we the reader don't get to hear what they say bc gideon starts zoning out

[elfcow]

Thank you, Murph, for rephrasing all the D20 behind the scenes interview questions in your answers, so that we can all know what everyone is being asked aksjfjhf

[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)