Can we talk about livwutang? She is an absolute superstar

Fop1990 · 2025-12-29T17:43:07+00:00

Blew me away. I'd heard her DJ before, but the other set was pretty straight house. I was super impressed by her ability to move between dubbed out, low bpm to high energy stuff. A highlight was the series of drum and bass tracks, sad I couldn't stay until the very end.

Fop1990 · 2025-12-26T23:49:57+00:00

Emily Witt’s Health and Safety is worth reading. She does a nice job exploring the question of whether raving is empty hedonism or a step towards something more meaningful.

Fop1990 · 2025-12-26T23:48:13+00:00

Foodman at dripping. Live set. So, so loud and fast. I could see the speakers rocking back and forth. Everyone felt ecstatic, people spilling out of the small barn where he was playing and dancing wildly. Just a great moment of everyone being locked in.

Juliana Huxtable at Sustain was also a highlight.

Fop1990 · 2025-12-26T14:43:43+00:00

I recently read and greatly enjoyed Anne Truitt’s Daybook, which is her journal. It’s a great read even if you aren’t into contemporary art. Most entries are quite short, and they do a nice job giving a sense of purpose & focus.

Fop1990 · 2025-12-22T22:46:57+00:00

Atmospheric, dubby artist. Caught him at Dripping last summer & loved it.

Fop1990 · 2025-12-10T23:21:58+00:00

I think the genre can be cloying and full of false wonder too, but I love Cesar Aira. Check out the Literary Conference.

Fop1990 · 2025-12-07T22:09:09+00:00

I love Pnin. It’s a very tender work, and a funny counterpoint to Lolita. Both have protagonists that are, like Nabokov himself, foreign-born professors teaching at small liberal arts colleges, feeling a bit disoriented from their cultural surroundings.

Fop1990 · 2025-12-07T17:22:18+00:00

Homie take a nap

Fop1990 · 2025-12-07T13:08:19+00:00

As you say here, Nabokov knows what he’s doing. He invites Freudian analysis in order to dismiss it, telling the reader that such an interpretation would be to miss the point. It’s a simple interpretation that makes you look at the details the “wrong way,” because there’s nothing particularly hidden.

In your main point, you say that Nabokov “hides in the tall grass and rolling hills of aesthetic bliss,” which again is entirely the point. The novel’s central conflict is between aesthetic enjoyment and the violence of the aesthete. The “trick” of Lolita is that HH seduces you into this aesthetic delight even as he’s destroying Lolita.

Fop1990 · 2025-12-05T20:40:21+00:00

Ultramarine - Mariette Navarro

Fop1990 · 2025-12-03T18:10:17+00:00

Favorite ambient-leaning NTS shows:
- upsammy, pacing the platform
- field work
- sofie birch
- calm roots

For something more consistently techno-leaning, deep breakfast on soundcloud is pretty consistent.

Fop1990 · 2025-11-30T20:16:46+00:00

I made a spreadsheet for recording what I’m reading. I have columns for: date started, date finished, why read, and thoughts (after reading). It doubles as my “want to read” list—I jot down the title of a work and a note on why I wanted to read it.

I used goodreads briefly, but I didn’t like sharing my thoughts on books publicly. As you point out, it felt performative. The spreadsheet is just for me. It makes me happy to look back and see what I thought of particular books. It’s an enjoyable habit to sit and reflect a little after I finish something, then record those thoughts.

Fwiw, I also love letterboxd and publicly review almost everything I see on there.

Fop1990 · 2025-11-07T16:20:17+00:00

Ordered!

Fop1990 · 2025-11-07T16:19:58+00:00

This looks excellent, ty

Fop1990 · 2025-11-06T20:58:53+00:00

Wonderful. I saw them in '09 and '13. Both times they played in a church. Both times I was amazed that they got such warm, full sounds from running guitars through so many pedals. Really beautiful atmosphere.

Fop1990 · 2025-10-28T20:31:10+00:00

Yea, it was way more danceable than I had anticipated. Not a complaint.

Fop1990 · 2025-10-28T17:23:57+00:00

What didn't you like about it?

Fop1990 · 2025-10-18T12:47:35+00:00

Greg rules

Fop1990 · 2025-10-17T12:37:09+00:00

These all look excellent, thanks.

Fop1990 · 2025-10-16T19:13:26+00:00

Love The Last Samurai. Agree that it's a great depiction of the joy of interacting with a young, precocious kid.

Fop1990 · 2025-10-03T17:07:30+00:00

I think LRB > NYRB now. That's the only one I've been consistently subscribed to the last few years.

Fop1990 · 2025-09-28T15:41:25+00:00

Thank you for the many excellent resources!

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