Web In Front reports that The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra have changed their name to Walking Sleep. I understand the challenges of being in a band called The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, but in a day when so many bands have the same words in their names (and "sleep" is one of those words), I thought FTO had a marvelously distinctive moniker.
Ya'll know I don't like Radiohead. In that link Tjinder Singh of Cornershop perfectly articulates the things I've been trying to say. When talking about Dark Side of the Moon: "Lyrically, it's banal and doesn't say anything beyond "greed is bad". Radiohead are the 21st-century Floyd, which says it all really."
That's it. Thom Yorke is always observing, always muttering wistfully. He never prescribes a cure, he never makes a call to action.
In my ears...
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists -The Brutalist Bricks. I'm going to do a full-on dedicated review, so you know that means I love it.
Nikki ran a two parter on the lack of women in "The Industry".
The stats are the stats. I can't dispute them. But anecdotally, I'd say the discrepancy is not universal.
In my four years of working "serious" entertainment jobs, every single one of my immediate superiors was either a woman or a gay man, and only a couple higher-ups were typical males. I've had every unfair advantage in the world, but I'll say that I've had a small glimpse of what it might be like to be a woman in the workplace; I was often sexually harassed and I never felt I had a professional role model that I could completely identify with. I get that completely, and it's helped me to really sympathize with the plight of professional women. (Though my last two bosses at ET were absolutely marvelous, wonderful role models and totally nurturing. Don't get me wrong, I don't think your role models need to be Just Like You, but it does make it that much easier.)
Crazy. In ten minutes I got three dudes jerking off, two instances of copulation, two DJ sets, and about fifty guys who looked about my age and demographic who appeared to be sad and or bored. Women were in groups four out of five times. I don't think Chat Roulette is a window into our world or our souls, but it certainly puts a new, meaningful visual to the same personality of the internet.
I'm a bit of a veteran at internet dating. I've had mixed results, overall. This study suggests that women are especially picky about height.
This is absolutely true in my experience.
Internet dating makes rigid standards easier. If you, for example, only want to date true brunettes then you are still likely to still be tempted by the bottle-blonde with the cool shoes at Spaceland if you're two beers into the night. But on the internet, you're never tempted to fudge Your Rules.
A man's height is for The Generalized Woman what a thin waistline is for The Generalized Man. In my six months of match.com, I can not tell you how many kickass-sounding girls I did not even message because their height requirement was a single inch higher than my own. And I know that if we'd been in a group conversation, we'd have hit it off.
Truly, all those links and vids should convince you that the ocean is a terrible place.
Roger Corman understands horror of horrors: Sharktopuss!
Okay, read this quote: "America has in fact transformed journalism from what it once was, the periodical expression of the thought of the time, the opportune record of the questions and answers of contemporary life, into an agency for collecting, condensing and assimilating the trivialities of the entire human existence, [...] the frantic haste with which we bolt everything we take, seconded by the eager wish of the journalist not to be a day behind his competitor, abolishes deliberation from judgment and sound digestion from our mental constitutions. We have no time to go below surfaces, and as a general thing no disposition."
It's all about the ills of our hyper-digital social media messaging culture, right? NOPE, it's about the telegraph. This is why I don't take nostalgic anti-digital positions seriously. Same as it ever was...
...and nanotechnology will change every product as you know it. The sanitation possibilities alone are mind-boggling.
For those keeping score with CGT'sCyberpunkification of Humanity game, more Augmented Reality ideas. AR + 3D is the future of interface -- with the real world.
Here's an AR-themed short film:
Using brain scans, doctors are communicating with human vegetables. Being in a state like that frightens me more than anything. I am no more relieved to learn that the people inside those bodies really do know what is going on. If it ever happens to me, unplug me.
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