I haven’t listened to Jarre in years, and tripped over this on Arte. Balm for the electronic European soul.
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“Every Day Carry” is a lifestyle native to the 21st century. This hobby was directly named after “the everyday.” “Every Day Carry” concerns tools, toys and/or utensils which somebody, somehow, feels obliged to lug around on their own person. All the time. Every Day.
“Weird Everyday Carry” is a niche even more intriguing to me, because it combines my abiding interests in the oxymoronic, the everyday, and the weird. How weird is everyday weird? What are the limits to weirdness? How long has this weirdness been going on?
Sources are now telling Deadline that Netflix reportedly only wants to keep movies in theaters for 17 days after it buys Warner Bros, a move that would “steamroll the theatrical business.” Major circuits like AMC continue to insist the line must be held at roughly 45 days.
Ghana has decided to deal with the viral spread of prophetic content on social media by setting up an official reporting mechanism for sensitive predictions, a move triggered by the August 2025 helicopter crash that killed the country’s defence and environment ministers along with six others. After the accident, TikTok clips circulated showing pastors who claimed to have foreseen the disaster before it happened. Elvis Ankrah, the presidential envoy for inter-faith and ecumenical relations, now asks prophets to submit their predictions for review. Charismatic preacher-prophets have been a fixture of Ghanaian public life since Pentecostalism arrived in the 1980s, but social media has amplified their reach and made their claims increasingly outlandish. Police have threatened to arrest prophets who cannot prove their predictions eventually came true. Some two-thirds of Ghanaians favor giving divine intervention a role in politics. Ankrah recently declared that most prophecies submitted to him are “total bunk.”Comments closed
Fun night. The takeaway this time was the thing Lev alerted me to on my arrival – Pascal Marzan and his ten-string microtonal guitar, which produces the strangest sounds, one moment woody and percussive, the next shimmering and silvered.
I’ve seen the Mediaeval Baebes a few times in the past. Once in a converted barn with deep snow outside, once at a mediaeval banquet in high summer when they were about six feet away from me. This time, at a cathedral, with great acoustics but a lousy mix – the instruments were too up front and the vocals got blanketed more than once. But their rendition of Gaudete was magnificent, quite the best I’ve heard them do it. The current line-up includes a high soprano whose voice is just remarkable. I got gifted an old Miranda Sex Garden CD while there (thanks, Lee) which delighted me – I was around for Miranda Sex Garden, way back when, but only had a tape, as I recall.
Heard one track from this on the radio the other day (Deo) and had to have a copy. Shimmering and transcendent.
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Next year I will probably buy more music by different people, honest. But I love her work and collector’s mania has set in at this point, I imagine. It’s basically muscle memory to buy her new work on sight.
Comments closedA bit spendy for a digital album, but the third track is worth the price of admission all on its own. Those big grainy washes and slow movements that have that indefinable Philip Jeck like tone to my (tin) ear
Comments closedGoing to be breaking my physical-only rule a few times over the next few days, as there’s stuff I want to support and own that’s digital-only (or digital and tape, but I refuse to go back to the horrors of tapes).
Moletta’s NIGHT CAVES was magnificent, so this was an instant purchase for me. It’s a lovely, misty thing.
Comments closedNature has retracted a headline-grabbing climate-economics study after critics found flawed data that massively inflated its predicted global economic collapse. The New York Times reports: The decision came after a team of economists noticed problems with the data for one country, Uzbekistan, that significantly skewed the results. If Uzbekistan were excluded, they found, the damages would look similar to earlier research (PDF). Instead of a 62 percent decline in economic output by 2100 in a world where carbon emissions continue unabated, global output would be reduced by 23 percent. Of course, erasing more than 20 percent of the world’s economic activity would still be a devastating blow to human welfare. The paper’s detractors emphasize that climate change is a major threat, as recent meta analyses have found, and that more should be done to address it — but, they say, unusual results should be treated skeptically. “Most people for the last decade have thought that a 20 percent reduction in 2100 was an insanely large number,” said Solomon Hsiang, a professor of global environmental policy at Stanford University who co-wrote the critique published in August. “So the fact that this paper is coming out saying 60 percent is off the chart.”
A man stands before a sinking ship. The ship will go down, the audience will watch, the metric will spike. Another entry in an endless algorithmic archive.
This is the logic of ultra-viral content: stunts, baroque challenges, a leap into lava. Each dare is designed to spike the dopamine drip yet leave no trace. The true danger was never the volcano, but the possibility that it might be lost in the scroll.
Culture is flattened by engines that reward repeatable extremes. A looped performance of risk reprocessed as engagement. Death, illegality, impossibility. All reduced to formats.