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#Playlist #Mix #DJ Mix

It turns out that there is an alternative to spending one’s day digitally skimming and streaming across multiple platforms and multiple subjects

#globe and mail #Ian Brown #karl ove knausgaard #My Struggle

During his brief lifetime, James "J Dilla" Yancey produced thousands of tracks. The dozens of untitled beats on Dillatronic are like sketchbooks from a widely recognized master of the art form. Yet in total, they bear traces of his superior instincts.

from the album Shape Shift

brb, entering hyperspace overdrive

#Zombi #Shape Shift #prog rock

OP017 VA WORK http://smarturl.it/work-otherpeople rel. date: Sept. 29th 2014 pre-released on www.other-people.net

How one player’s grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men’s tennis.

“Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, as you watch the young Swiss play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you’re O.K. ...Anyway, that’s one example of a Federer Moment, and that was merely on TV — and the truth is that TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as video porn is to the felt reality of human love.”

#David Foster Wallace #roger federer #tennis #sports writing #new york times

“High Maintenance” and “My Mad Fat Diary.”

"[High Maintenance is] part of a movement in modern television which violates simple divisions between comedy and drama, spearheaded by auteurist series like 'Louie,' 'Girls,' and the late, lamented 'Enlightened.'...Though its scripts are witty, 'High Maintenance' is often at its best when it’s at its quietest: jumping from image to image with nothing but music playing, sniffing around corners like a nosy neighbor."

#High Maintenance #The New Yorker #television review #420friendly

David Foster Wallace's seminal essay on scripted TV, written before the reality TV explosion, helps us see why

It may seem counterintuitive that our empathy for the “people” on scripted TV is matched by the schadenfreude we feel toward the people on reality TV, or seem to support the argument that such programming makes us mean. But it is Foster Wallace’s perceived danger of scripted television that makes us feel that the object of observation is not complicit, and therefore owed leniency and restraint.

#David Foster Wallace