Random fashion thoughts - Page 4117

Synth and I decided to do a mini meet up and he is really cute in person(giggling) so I can assure you guys that he is ok. He's got really intense eyes

mikey you need to reassess your priorities.

yeah bruh you have a solid grip on my priorities judging from my posts on an internet fashun forum.

 

Breezy and fuuma pretty much got it.  A traditional 'band' will do a release like this: album announcement > (occasionally) demo/EP > album release.  You get the whole thing at once.  The electronic music scene is moving much too fast for that model to work right now; on an incredibly aggressive schedule you could maybe record enough tracks for an album in a year, which is enough time for the de rigueur subgenre of the moment to shift out from under you and half the album to sound out-of-date.  So most songs are either a free single, or packaged in an EP with 2-4 originals and some remixes by other artists.  When artists do a full-length album, which is rare, they pick the 2-4 'hits' from the album and release them in EPs months in advance, so by the time the full album drops you're already sick of the good stuff on it.  Also, music discovery is usually done through soundcloud/BBC radio/Sirius etc mixes by other artists, rather than handed down from Pitchfork et al, which means people are more often looking for individual tracks, rather than packages (albums).

 

I was just remarking that I hadn't listened to an album end-to-end in ages.

I listen exclusively to music from the post-war period.

Also, am I too late for Random Book Thoughts?

Here's some stuff that people should read:

The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7 by J.B. Peires
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass
The Quick & The Dead by Joy Williams
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
The Aesthetics of Resistance by Peter Weiss
Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (you should also watch the movie)
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Great Lover by Michael Cisco
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
The Boat by Nam Le

So, ever since I posted my imgur album on reddit's menswear section, it somehow managed to collect over 40,000 views. Crazy. That place might be a stultifying cesspit, but it gets mad volume.

you made a bunch of panicky posts because someone hasn't been posting on SF lately. i'm sure synth is ok.

It's 98F, and for some reason I started thinking about knitwear already. I'm thinking of trying Howlin' by Morrison this AW.

I know, right? What a fucking dick!

Yeah man, screw compassion. That shit's weak.

how is that compassion? i'd be compassionate if something happened to synth (god forbid), but.. nothing did. i just don't understand the logical progression from 'he hasn't posted on sf for a few days' = 'something horrible, horrible happened!'

it doesn't matter because we're all doomed anyway

I dunno man, it's just kind of easy and mean to call someone out for "caring too much," or something. And, unless I'm conveniently forgetting something, I don't remember reading any fever-pitch posts from mikey about the general welfare of another user. I just don't see how it's worth being snarky about.

Holy shit, are you me?

I'd be interested to know how you came across the bolded works; I've never met anyone IRL who've read these, especially the Roussel. (I did get into an argument w/ Blake Butler about Infinite Jest once, on his web site. That was cool. )

Great list. Going to seek out the ones I haven't read.