Why isn't James Blake - Assume Form a Classic Trauma Album on par with Charli XCX - Sucker?

(yes, I'm back-ish. As always negotiating my relationship with having a public diary...)

Anyway go listen to this album. Oy, I can't find a direct-to-artist way to get hands on it, but here are some options:

https://www.discogs.com/master/1487671-James-Blake-Assume-Form

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/james-blake-assume-form/

what if I just embedded my journal page into my personal website, is that an easier way to combine them????
Deer Lord trying to find a simplistic but usable backend for blog type periodic updates to a static site is god awful.

Hey check this out: https://everynoise.com/ it's a sample of all the music genres they could find.

All!

loving the way my boss's "everyone thinks you're hostile to criticism" is actually a "I don't like it when you correct me openly as nicely as fucking possible when I keep being confidently factually wrong about Excel formulas"

I understand that it's nice to feel like an expert but PLEASE she can be an expert about other things, she is just reinforcing everyone else's Not Understanding how Excel works. This is what generations of lying on resumes has wrought.

Yep this is an anime review!

In this year of 2023 where for absolutely no reason, people are thinking about the baghavad gita and what it might have to say about the state of the planet....

I found Earth Maiden Arjuna. It's about a girl who is saved from near-death by Actual Krishna from Real Life, and becomes a reluctant magical girl. It preaches a variety of messages, some of which I found charming ("natural farming" - another good anime defense of this lifestyle found in Takahata's Only Yesterday) some of which I found problematique (some weird blamey crap about Juna's sister getting pregnant) and some of which I found quite surprising (a elaborate monster and psychic teen metaphor that boiled down to "Reducing Your Dependence On Foreign Commodities Is Militarily Dangerous When NATO Won't Let You")

Honestly worth it to just see what the director has to say. It initially came out in 2000-01.

I found the drama quite genuine - Juna becomes hypersensitive to the injustice embodied in the objects around her (her visions are often of human industrial dissociation and environmental poison and the disorienting scale of global commodity production rather than a sentimental animal-rights vegetarianism) and can no longer enjoy meals at the McDonalds' knockoff where her friends hang out. It depicts a genuine distressing alienation from "normal" culture for her, and spurs the kind of discussions about who she wants to be and the life she wants to live that feel realistic for actual teenagers.

Chris is there too, a infinitely loving, bedbound fellow-magical-kid, who is a blatant Jesus reference. He's kept alive used and held hostage by some international paramilitary jerks, which is the most interesting metaphor for Christianity and its tense relationship to western imperialism I could ever ask for. I'm gonna rewatch before I say more about Chris, because while I don't think I understand what the director is trying to say with all that yet, I really want to.

Anyway, go watch. Here's a review from when it came out. Here it is on Tubi (if you watch Tubi in a firefox browser, you can adblock it) Here it is on Tubi dubbed.

Fed my family with garden weeds almost exclusively, lads (borage and lambsquarters chopped and fried with a leeetle bit of egg and flour.)

I successfully cut out ads so completely from my life I was at a sports bar and saw a screen and was like "what is this interesting short film michael b jordan is in??" It was a credit card ad.

Ok whew got that all sorted out. Now thanks to email I have proper post scheduling and drafting.

Its a beautiful day out and I am trying not to work.

feeling good that i don't have accounts on any of the social media hubs that are currently on fire. Still looking to recover a circle of Online Friends

my record player tone arm problem and my favorite record's scratch seem to have spontaneously resolved themselves...!