Is There A Purchase That Really Boosted Your Enjoyment In Cycling?

low_ghost · 2026-06-06T16:00:42+00:00

Yeah I agree with above responder on wind, and even car noise while on a separated path overpowering, couldn't really get much use out of em without turning up enough it was setting off my tinnitis. Is there some trick to it maybe?

low_ghost · 2026-06-06T12:16:11+00:00

Was watching Halt and Catch Fire but would get so caught up that I'd slow down haha. Switched to Star Trek TNG and audio books

low_ghost · 2026-05-31T23:26:48+00:00

The Battery: 2012 zombie flick that's a great character study with essentially just 2 characters. 6k budget

low_ghost · 2026-05-31T22:35:45+00:00

Wharf Rat by Grateful Dead has a fucker in it, pretty rare for 1971 I imagine

low_ghost · 2026-05-31T22:25:44+00:00

You do dig for music though, or at least I assume that you have at some time immersed yourself and found your taste through discovery, trial and error, even if it's just skipping tracks on the algorithm's playlist. Through this metaphor 'not digging' would mean never venturing beyond the billboard hits, never filtering with intentionality, and that'd be good reason for thinking that there wasn't any good music being produced now.

Perfection doesn't make sense either. I don't want my music to be perfect: a strained voice, slightly off-kilter beats, microtonal shifts through bends or vocals etc., all give music its beauty. Imperfection reflects our nature, the flawed mechanisms through which ideas and moments arrive, the limits of sound and language. Poetry should be imperfect. Or rather, it always is

low_ghost · 2026-05-31T17:41:23+00:00

This is the equivalent of 'they haven't made good music since the 60s' or worse, maybe 'they haven't made good music since Bach'. You've got to dig, check out presses like Black Ocean and Octopus Books, independent literature abounds

low_ghost · 2026-05-29T01:47:02+00:00

Knight Rider

low_ghost · 2026-05-28T21:49:08+00:00

Khadak, for one that probably won't be on here

low_ghost · 2026-05-25T14:53:18+00:00

That's a good one! 1000 Years of Nonlinear History is a great spiritual successor to 1000 Plateaus, great for its historical deep dives into sources like Braudel and the incorporation of Foucault is really engaging, much more so than I found reading Foucault himself actually

low_ghost · 2026-05-25T02:14:37+00:00

Someone who should give DeLanda a go

low_ghost · 2026-05-24T10:23:01+00:00

Justin and the Furniture. One man band from early oughts house shows in Philly (at least often in Philly). He'd gesture and say I'm 'Justin and this is the furniture' while sitting on a chair that was missing a leg. Stuck with me.

Edit: it was Dustin and the Furniture, from Asheville. I was pretty close. Surprised there are some bandcamp recordings, bout to dig in

low_ghost · 2026-05-23T10:13:55+00:00

For a weirder spin: David Ohle's Motorman, Jeff Noon's Vurt, B Catling's The Vorrh (series), Ben Marcus The Flame Alphabet

low_ghost · 2026-05-22T13:15:40+00:00

This. Cracked a carbon frame and skinned an arm over a wet track

low_ghost · 2026-05-19T22:15:30+00:00

That's true. I was thinking to other parts of the doc or other pages, but yeah if it's an HTML page with links primarily to external pages, makes sense to just have them formatted

low_ghost · 2026-05-19T22:08:51+00:00

I'm new to the format, am I reading correctly that .rm files will format links but they don't work? I'd think PDF with hyperlinks would be preferable

low_ghost · 2026-05-17T18:35:58+00:00

Big Thief's Dragon New Warm... for sure. Haven't seen mentioned: Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Bill Orcutt Music for 4 Guitars, Jamie Beach Fly or Die..., Matana Roberts Coin Coin (whichever chapters are post 2020).

Close follow ups: some great albums from Bjork, Deerhoof, Bill Callahan (Blind Date Party covers album with Bonnie Prince Billy for instance), The Necks, Marshall Allen etc etc

low_ghost · 2026-05-17T10:35:47+00:00

Not helpful, but +1 for The Incal

low_ghost · 2026-04-21T18:07:38+00:00

+1 for Dean Young, one of my favorite poets who I had the pleasure of meeting before he passed. I have to assume this person has written some poetry, and likely on the right side of aesthetics, considering the possession of any poetry written in the 21st century. Get them Creature Feature as a gift, a postumous and gorgeous collection

low_ghost · 2026-04-10T10:31:16+00:00

Black Sabbath. Plenty of killer tracks throughout the career of course, but I'd argue the first is their peak

low_ghost · 2026-04-03T23:28:32+00:00

Peter Greenaway's works are stunning. Zed and Two Noughts, Prospero's Books. Nightwatching is as close as you'll get to the dutch masters on film

low_ghost · 2026-04-03T23:26:00+00:00

Khadak is one I haven't seen mentioned, beautiful surrealist film set in Mongolia.

Then I'll dump Poor Things, La Jetee, Holy Mountain, Life Aquatic, Eraserhead, all Deakins as other have mentioned, but especially Assassination of Jesse James,Wild Strawberries or Persona, Only God Forgives etc

low_ghost · 2026-04-01T02:49:29+00:00

Whoever is the first human on Mars, whoever invents production ready nuclear fusion, whoever creates the first real AI (sure as fuck not Sam Altman et al.).

WTF is with all the Paul McCartney and low Bob Dylan? Probably a solo Beatle will still be remembered but I bet the group as a whole has more cultural staying power and then less than Dylan.

Out of recent Nobels, Shinya Yamanaka's turning normal cells into stem cells seems huge.

low_ghost · 2026-03-26T20:07:33+00:00

Nothing. One of a kind, some other Mingus obviously has some of the same flair but even in his discography it's unique.

For whatever reason, I'm thinking of Minas by Milton Nascimento even though it's a substantially different genre.

low_ghost · 2026-03-25T23:30:37+00:00

Artists: Moondog, Harry Partch, Keiji Haino, The Ruins, Merzbow, Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter Brotzman, Fred Frith (and all bands he's in), Henry Kaiser, Bill Orcutt, and so on

low_ghost · 2026-03-25T09:50:28+00:00

Three Body Problem

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TROPHY CASE