Articles, games, music, podcasts from April, 2022.

Articles

• Singal and the Noise
• The Stream of Time
  • Maps showing human history as rivers
• Ostentatio Genitalium
  • Jesus goes hard
• Influence Anxiety
• They Know How Journalism Works! They're Just Against It!
• The Political Economy of Reaction

Games

• I finally returned to Divinity Original Sin 2 and just might finish it this time around.
• Returnal is different from a lot of what I usually play, but really hits the spot with its whole roguelite uncanny tentacle monsters thing.

Music

• Gel - Violent Closure
• Kurt Vile - (watch my moves)
  • Something about this guy I cannot quite get into.
• LURK - Around the Sun
  • This recording sounds really cool, a lot of depth to it. The music itself is a catchy take on post-hardcore, maybe a bit mathy, "Top Secret" is a John Reis chorus meets Drug Church. I can't quite place the vocalist, but he has a nice rasp, very familiar, and the whole thing together reminds me maybe a bit of the Snowing guy John Galm's other band, Slow Warm Death.
• Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
• Silverbacks - Archive Material
  • Bit of the Drones' sense of humor, Lou Reed, last song is Screaming Females. Would not have minded if the whole thing was like that song.
• Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
• Superchunk - Wild Loneliness
• Thank - Thoughtless Cruelty
  • I don't know how I feel about quoting dril in a song and not sure this is one I'd just put on, but it succeeds at what it's shooting for (the Fall, mclusky, maybe some the pAper chAse).
• Viagra Boys - Ain't No Thief
  • What a great video for a song off the upcoming album. Sebastian Murphy has the most amazing tense, twitchy body language. His movement is always just a bit off. Whether it's a conscious tribute to stimulants, I don't know, but I figure they're involved somehow. The song rules, too, of course.

Podcasts

• Know Your Enemy - Red Diaper Baby
  • A conversation about the horrible David Horowitz's autobiography. I like hearing about people who've had dramatic shifts in their world view.
• Know Your Enemy - The Right Kind of Worker (w/ Gabe Winant)
  • Marxist analysis of The State of Things. One of my favorite things is when someone gives words to something I've felt but couldn't put into words (uneducated). I learned so much from this.