some kind of record

art scavenger, moon enthuisiast, not here to polish the brass on the Titanic.

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[slothshark]

The Avalanches - Every Single Weekend (feat. Jamie xx)

too hot to dance or like operate my brain on this cursed (imagine there's an accent on the e so we're saying it curse-ed) Friday, so here's some Synthesizers that have a 1970s New York City Street Open Fire Hydrant sound and it even came with its own art and saved me a step! anyway this has a lightly disco/funk inflected sound (hence the 1970s) and some like...random crowd noise mixed in (hence the Street With Open Fire Hydrant) which I don't like, love as a sonic choice but it works pretty well here, it blends in with all the crisp, cheery synth voice selections. the main looping melody is really cute.

[slothshark]

[transcyberism]

there are four human activities and they are crafting, stories, math, and fucking around. whatever you're doing is at least one of those four.

[water-aesthetics]

[taurzza]

Inktober - day 4 - murky

[slothshark]

Illuminati Hotties - 777

the title of the album on which this appears is Nickel on the Fountain Floor (sadly there's no track on it by that title) and it came with this nice fountain collage! I love the big buff-and-grey earthtones density of the opening guitars, and then the way it contrasts with the whisper-gauzy vocal (with great effects and layering, especially on the chorus which sounds like a video simulation of what it would be like to fly at high speed through a cloud bank. part of that is also the guitars [which get less earthtoned after the intro] and the melody [music theory, can't explain]).

[slothshark]

noooothing to photograph today here's uh my Free Owl (no beak) that I picked up off the side of the road on Christmas Eve. It's been lurking around inside the house but I put it out in the yard where I can see it from the kitchen window, it keeps falling over since it's not weighted down

[kissmarkmakesmesmile]

[slothshark]

The High Curbs - GET BIT

who might bite you? wolves for WOLF WEDNESDAY, of course! (wolves from here.) this has a great chaotic/driving but kind of Warm sound with some very Music Theory melodies (the vocal on the verses[? sort of. this song has a weird structure, you can hear what I mean first at ~00:20] especially, it has such a fun sort of shoulder-shrug storytelling feeling!) and a whole big tangle of fun guitars and nicely mixed drums and this weird synth line doing descant that has an almost like...circus music feeling?? it's the most treble thing in the mix? also re: the mix, there's something interesting going on here with the shouted vocals where they're sort of backgrounded and fuzzed out like they're wrapped in a nice blanket. it occurs to me as I listen to this on loop (it's only a minute and twenty-one seconds long. you can loop it so many times.) that the image I really want here is like a wolf skateboarding wearing sunglasses and a backwards hat.

[slothshark]

usually I would send this information about fauna encountered on my trip to the grocery store with my mom via email, but she's here today so I left a note on paper instead. the black cat (twice) is a feral-ish cat who gets fed at a house up the street and hangs out on the step a lot. the Baltimore orioles are a really unusual sighting (Jason is a dumbass who lives across the street), so bright orange. there also happens to be a plush Baltimore oriole in the house so I put that next to the note, it's lurking ominously on the lefthand side of the photo.

[trmiki]

Sketchbook page 38 - Strawberries 🍓

[memorycycle]

yea ouroboros got itself into a knot. we dunno how thats possible without it letting go of its tail but now its getting more and more tangled and we have to keep untangling it forever now. yea were thinking of condemning a single person to the task

[reactionimagearchive]

[moribund-10-31]

[slothshark]

Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats - Rocket "88"*

thank you random blues show on the college radio station, this song is from 1951, is sometimes credited as the First Rock And Roll Record, and slaps so hard. perfect treble piano, an entire woodwinds section (feat. tenor saxophone solo by Raymond Hill), if you really tune your ears in to the bass guitar you can hear that there's a neat buzz on it which was (so the story goes) created by members of the band trying to hold some slightly broken components of the guitar amp in place by stuffing newspaper into it? I wish the guitar (and percussion! and the piano.) were clearer, but I guess they were either prioritizing the vocal and saxophone on purpose or that's just the wavelengths or whatever of sound the microphones picked up better. I finally watched Sinners the other day and one of my favourite moments was the mid-credits scene where Eternal Michael B. Jordan is like all the recordings [of music made in the 1930s] sound like shit.

*quotation marks around 88 are from the image of the record itself on the YouTube, and I find them extremely baffling but have reproduced them here so we can all be baffled about text formatting in 1951 together.

[transparentfossil]

1.5" Red Trinucleid Trilobite (Declivolithus) - Mecissi, Morocco