mark fishers "slow cancellation of the future" stuff is the sharpest diagnosis of where weve ended up as a culture. made better by the fact that its clearly a theory built outwards from being upset that jungle music fell off
I miss sonic youth. but the band’s dissolution is worth it for a fourth hand story I heard about a guy helping thurston moore move his record collection, all the whole muttering “I fucked up…I fucked up my whole life…never cheat…it’s not worth it…I’m so fucked…” etc.
a cool thing about the DARK series is that one of the characters says various paraphrases of "die Zeit ist ein unendlicher Kreis", "die Zukunft ist die Vergangenheit", "das Ende ist der Anfang" like 5000 times until you're like YEAH DUDE TIME'S AN ENDLESS CIRCLE I GOT IT THE FUTU
Watching "The Laughing Man" (1966), an East German documentary where GDR filmmakers posed as West German journalists and interviewed Major Siegfried Müller, unapologetic Nazi soldier turned US-siding mercenary in the Congo. The doc is just full of insane quotes like these.
With the WGA strike, I suspect the streaming platforms will only intensify their practice of directly releasing movies and TV shows pilfered from alternate universes.
#OtD 2 May 1919, a 50,000-strong general strike of all different trades began in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Though police reacted with violence, the workers won an eight-hour day and wage increases of between 20-30% https://t.co/4AuM9JUw3I
“You’re just a conspiracy theorist on Twitter there is no ongoing domestic operation Gladio”
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds: All the FBI agents I knew would refer to their links with Al Qaeda as “Gladio B”
Anyone notice how UFOs seem to appear whenever America is in need of an enemy? For example, the first surge in popularity was from 1947 to around 1960, coinciding with the rise of post-WW2 Cold War paranoia. The Soviet Union soon emerged as America's chief rival.