#iu bloomington

[victusinveritas]

[symphonic-appliances]

currently reading:

the book of delights: essays by ross gay, educated by tara westover, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin reread

summer tbr:

beach read by emily henry, none of this is true by lisa jewel (my sister’s recommendation 🫶), tress of the emerald sea by brandon sanderson

i really want to buy an e-reader but idk which one to gettt. i’m considering buying an ipad mini and using that as an e-reader but i think the screens are a little bit different and the battery life is longer on an e-reader so idkkk. i’m so torn between kindle, kobo, and boox.

current playlist:

stephanie says by the velvet underground, jeremy by pearl jam, room temperature by faye webster, a werewolf by attic abasement

[philosoaper]

bell tower on my way back from an evening lecture. modern smartphone camera sensors will never cease to impress me.

[adnascent]

[mrjesselynn]

Indiana University

[elijones94]

This morning started off with donuts for breakfast and a bike ride with Alyssa around Ben’s neighborhood and a neighborhood across the road. Next, she and I took a walk around the Indiana University campus.

[trombonecock]

Palestine flag sky banner flying over Bloomington just in time for IU graduation. I think this is a local company, since they sometimes tow ads for businesses.

[fairuzfan]

I have friends at Indiana University and they've been saying there are snipers on IU Bloomington campus. And theres a bunch of cops everywhere. This is wild.

[raincliffs]

Audrey and Matt, Married

[yamimichi]

When will all this gun violence end??

IU was my college. And Bloomington is a special place for me.

I can't imagine how scared the students and faculty were. And I'm so relieved that no one was hurt. Thank the gods for that!

[gamma-xi-delta]

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity placed on cease and desist for hazing - Indiana Daily Student

[itswalky]

Rachel told Joe that there were three Computer Science majors in her hall floor. We know about her and Amber, but who's the third?

We know Sarah is ambiguously pre law, Joyce is Elementary Education, Dina is some sort of paleontology, Billie and Dorothy are in journalism, Carla is in engineering, Mary is art, Ruth is an English major and Malaya didn't live there yet. As far as I can tell that leaves Other Rachel, Roz, Sierra, Grace, Agatha and Mandy. Is it one of them or some unseen character?

if we're pretending that there's an "engineering" degree at our fictional IU Bloomington that isn't really just a subsection under the computer science school umbrella that Carla is majoring in (whoops), then I'm pretty sure the third person is Other Rachel.

honestly, looking at the available majors, amber should really be getting a BS in Media Arts and Science, aka MAKING DA VIDYA GAMES, but her courseload at this point in her schooling would probably be pretty identical to a plain-ass computer science major anyway.

[neonphoenix]

PSA to Indiana people:

Primary elections are this Tuesday!

As I'm sure you're aware, the presidential ballot doesn't matter much, but the governor will be elected based on whoever wins the Republican primary this week.

Here's a quick summary of the Republican ballot:

Mike Braun is leading the current polls - the same senator who wants to outlaw interracial marriage.

Suzanne Crouch, the current lieutenant governor, follows next. She regrets Holcomb's covid-19 response (mandating masks) and wants to abolish state income taxes. This means that the state will be relying on property and sales tax to pay for everything.

Brad Chambers, candidate number three, wants cops, more cops, and more cops. He also wants to increase Holocaust education in schools! Hooray! Though this is mainly in response to the campus protests occurring across the state. (He really, really likes Whitten [the president of IU who decided to bring police onto campus in Bloomington] and fully supports and endorses her)

Eric Doden is running a standard Republican issue stance, pro-gun, pro-life, anti-trans, etc.

Curtis Hill, a former general attorney, had his law license suspended a few years ago shortly after facing allegations of sexual misconduct.

Jamie Reitenour is a stay at home, Christian, Conservative mother.

The last three candidates mostly exist to split the vote to ensure Braun can win - last I saw, he was polling at 44%, meaning only about a third of the state actually wants him in office, but because there is no real alternate candidate, he is likely to be elected.

You can find more information about all of these candidates on their websites and Ballotpedia.

I'd encourage everyone who can to vote Republican in the primary, and to pick either Crouch or Chambers if you don't want to see Braun as governor.

[adnascent]

[edwordsmyth]

Columbia, Yale, NYU, USC, UC Berkeley, MIT, Emerson, Tufts, The New School, Vanderbilt, UNC - Chapel Hill, UMich, Swarthmore, UMD, Cal Poly Humboldt, UMN - Twin Cities, Harvard, GWU, CUNY, Emory, UPenn, OSU, Princeton, IU Bloomington, Cornell, Northwestern, WashU, Brown, UCLA, FSU, CCNY, FIT, MSU, Rochester, UD, UNC - Charlotte, Rice, Pitt…

[ghnosis]

songs that mean something @ IU Bloomington 2/29/24

notes from my talk at Black Metal is for Everyone. yes I know LI is not black metal. I also don't care! get off my dick :)

IF THE POISON WON’T TAKE YOU MY DOGS WILL 

Condensing everything I love about Kristin Hayter into 5 minutes. 

Quotes by Kristin Hayter herself come from 4 interviews – 1 following the release of All Bitches Die (2017), 2 following CALIGULA (2019) and a Reddit AMA after Sinner Get Ready (2020); Hayter refers to these works as a trilogy, and I’m thinking of all three while I talk about this song off CALIGULA. Hayter has since completed the Lingua Ignota project and now makes music under her given name. 

What’s important to me about Lingua Ignota/Kristen Hayter are her ideas of female ecstatic/religious speech/glossolalia (speaking in tongues) paired with what she has to say about “darkness,” trauma, and extreme music.  

Hayter describes the idea that “there is something intrinsically feminine about oracular or ecstatic experience.” My academic work has to do with ways that the marginalized interject themselves into unwelcome space, sometimes through invoking Satan or dark powers; I see female mystics in a similar vein, but on the side of lightness. 

Lingua Ignota means “unconstructed/unknown language,” an alphabet attributed to medieval mystic/composer/oracle Hildegaard von Bingen, one of Hayter’s influences. 

“Poison” is “meant to evoke the ambience of the Jonestown death tapes,” Hayter is directly quoting Jim Jones in the line “I am the best friend you’ll ever have” – this is something she does throughout her work. On Sinner Get Ready she quotes Jimmy Swaggart, a televangelical involved in some public sex scandals and defrocked. 

Aileen Wuornos was “one of the world-building motifs” of Hayter’s work. Although she is commonly referred to as one of the only female “serial killers,” Wuornos herself alleged that her actions were self-defense; the men she murdered had raped or attempted to rape her. Hayter's choice to sample Wuornos on her first album All Bitches Die was a reaction to male extreme metal musicians sampling [male] serial killers as a signpost for “evilness;” Hayter feels that this is overused in the genre to the point of banality. Further, these men are playacting in Hayter’s opinion; they aren’t actually familiar with human cruelty in a real sense. She is interested in “flipping the paradigm” of extreme music, to instead make heavy music for people “upon whom dark shit has actually been visited” - people who, like Wuornos, might have considered homicide as a survival mechanism.  

“Poison” opens with “Kyrie eleison,” literally, “Lord, have mercy.” One of the notable times this phrase appears in the Bible is in the story of the Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:21); she asks Jesus for mercy and he is so moved by her faith that he heals her possessed daughter. The mercy of Jesus/God for the faithful and specifically female divine retribution appears throughout Hayter’s work; I had a hard time choosing between this song and “I Who Bend the Tall Grasses,” which is a song in which Hayter herself demands God kill her abuser, hissing “I’m not asking.” 

Kyrie eleison is also often the first sung prayer of the traditional Latin Catholic Mass; Hayter referred to CALIGULA as “golden Catholic bullshit” - Sinner Get Ready is more Appalachian evangelical, experimenting with Christian/Catholic faith in its varied forms. 

“Abandon your body/make worthless your body” I’m really interested in the idea of rebellion through deliberate warning symbolism or deliberate ugliness – like Britney Spears shaving her head in 2007, what we as the traumatized can do to take power back or break rules, transcending your body as a definition of yourself, making your body “worthless” to those who might use it to hurt (or define) you. 

Hayter describes going “from situations where I was being totally controlled to total autonomy, and it seems crazy but thinking about stuff like — what colors do I like? What clothes can I wear? Has been pretty huge for me." - ideas of self-reclamation, making one’s body worthless to anyone but the person inhabiting it.