Single by Portland, OR based Trust Anchor. Remix by vyger

A Darksynth Mix But It Gets Increasingly More Cursed

YouTube Playlist by Astral Throb

HEAD SPLITTER - Acid Experience
Matt Mason - Dumpshock
HEAD SPLITTER - Petrochem
Daniel Deluxe - Infiltrator
Dav Dralleon - Wizards Ov Azathoth feat. Void Stare
Necromancer - Wrath
CHAOS VECTOR - VANGUARD
Vêtu de Noir - Ancient Gods
HUBRID - LOST PLANET
Kick Puncher - Showdown
CHAOS VECTOR - SENTINEL
Astral Throb - Wired

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For the past thirty years, Alan Licht has been a performer, programmer, and chronicler of New York’s art and music scenes. His dry wit, deep erudition, and unique perspective—informed by decades of experience as a touring and recording guitarist in the worlds of experimental music and underground rock—have distinguished him as the go-to writer for profiles of adventurous artists across genres. A precocious scholar and improvisor, by the time he graduated from Vassar College in 1990 Licht had already authored important articles on minimalist composers La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, and Charlemagne Palestine, and recorded with luminaries such as Rashied Ali and Thurston Moore. In 1999 he became a regular contributor to the British experimental music magazine the Wire while continuing to publish in a wide array of periodicals, ranging from the artworld glossies to underground fanzines. Common Tones gathers a selection of never-before-published interviews, many conducted during the writing of Licht’s groundbreaking profiles, alongside extended versions of his celebrated conversations with artists, previously untranscribed public and private exchanges, and new dialogues held on the occasion of this collection. Even Lou Reed, a notoriously difficult interviewee, was impressed.

Interviews by Alan Licht with Vito Acconci, ANOHNI, Cory Arcangel, Matthew Barney, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, the Dream Syndicate’s Karl Precoda, Richard Foreman, Henry Flynt, Milford Graves, Adris Hoyos, Ken Jacobs, Jutta Koether, Christian Marclay, Phill Niblock, Alessandra Novaga, Tony Oursler, Lou Reed, Kelly Reichardt, The Sea and Cake, Suicide, Michael Snow, Greg Tate, Tom Verlaine, Rudy Wurlitzer, and Yo La Tengo’s Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan. Introduction by Jay Sanders.

Scrolling through looking at desk setup photos is one of my guilty pleasures. As much as I like the idea of having a cozy desk setup I find myself doing most of my computing these days away from home. When I am at home all I want to do is lay in bed and watch YouTube.

Her post here is not a full tour of her setup, but I wanted to note she has Chill Pulse setup on one of her screens.

Every so often a movie comes along and I sit down and find a way to watch it. This was the case for Perfect Days (trailer). For a variety of reasons I have a hard time sitting down and picking out a movie to watch. Likewise I don’t enjoy writing movie reviews, it reminds me too much of writing book reports in school. But I found this movie not by stumbling upon it randomly but recommended to me by a blog post on TYWKIWDBI.

Released in 2023, it was directed by Wim Wenders and stars Kôji Yakusho, who plays Hirayama who cleans toilets in Japan. Not much happens in the film, we see him wake up and go to work and listen to tape cassettes. He lives alone. We see a few encounters outside of his otherwise ordinary life but the movie is about someone who is, well, rather normal. Being set in Japan, we get to see what living in Japan is like. This might seem again boring, but also fascinating. Not every movie we watch need be so exciting.