// / 107189190397205474
Tags:
horror,
website.
Was listening to a film podcast and they brought up Snowblood Apple. I used to read that site over a decade ago, hadn't thought about it in a long time. Glad to see it's still online.
// / 107188753206412464
Tags:
music,
radio.
My friend Josh Walund is doing his yearly Halloween radio set on KBVR-FM in Corvallis right now:
or 88.7 FM if you're in the Corvallis, OR area.
// / 107188691462530347
Tags:
horror,
tabletop games.
Really good (and sad!) final episode of L.A. By Night. A satisfying sendoff and resolution to the series. And it seems there's a NY By Night coming next year to look forward to. #labynight
// / 107183144387866952
Tags:
meta,
movement through thought.
Kind of an unfocused set. It doesn't have a strong resolution. The tracks are all good though, and I don't get in the way of them too much I think, so that's OK.
// / 107183137458097226
Tags:
dj mix,
electro,
idm,
movement through thought.
MTT 244 / Pictures Of The Gill-man https://djcev.com/2021/10/mtt-244-pictures-of-the-gill-man/
Slow #electro , #idm , and ambient. Brooding and dark. This #djmix features tracks by Ben Milstein, Gamma Intel, Jauzas The Shining, ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ, Scorn, and more.
A grab bag of slow tracks, brooding and dark. This mix features five or six new-ish tracks from Brokntoys as well as a track from ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ's recent IMMI EP and another one from the new Alignment comp on Patterned Media. Good tracks, unfocused set.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
// / 107173109387872424
Good practice tonight, made me happy. Played some old Bitstream, old Meat Beat Manifesto, even older Scorn. Love playing Scorn.
// / 107166407110717551
Tags:
1970s,
horror,
movies,
screenshot.
watching Footprints On The Moon (1975). The copy/version that was uploaded to youtube. Looks like it was digitized from a Greek VHS tape. English audio, low-resolution blurry video.
I think there's a cleaned up bluray of this available but I forget who put it out.
// / 107161844665401829
Tags:
horror,
meta.
Note to self, don't watch old Kiyoshi Kurosawa horror movies right before going to sleep.
// / 107148619296033585
Tags:
horror,
tabletop games,
twitch,
video.
The second-to-last episode of the Vampire The Masquerade actual play series L.A. By Night is starting right now
Season 5 episode 8. One more to go after this.
// / 107143629890562175
Tags:
dj mix,
electro,
movement through thought,
techno.
MTT 243 / Connections Between https://djcev.com/2021/10/mtt-243-connections-between/
Spooky #electro and a tiny bit of #techno . This #djmix features tracks by Alex Nôrinh, Andrea Parker, Camino Acid, Dr. Lovelock, Shadowbunny, The Outsider, and four recent tunes on Brokntoys.
Kind of a normal set for me; I'm leaning on some familiar sounds this week.
Spooky electro again featuring a number of new tracks from Brokntoys and a bunch of old favorites (Alex Nôrinh, Dr. Lovelock, and Shadowbunny among them). 115-120, an easy tempo.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
// / 107142670414178148
Tags:
fantasy,
tabletop games,
twitch,
video.
The first episode of Critical Role's third campaign is starting in about 15 minutes:
I'll be watching while I write up mix notes. #criticalrole
// / 107120081600959222
Tags:
meta,
software,
website.
Doing some personal wiki cleanup today. Adding entries that escape elsewhere, removing old (in some cases sensitive) stuff.
I like vimwiki a lot, it's convenient and easy to use.
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley. 2019, Saga Press. Hardcover, 356 pages. ISBN 9-781481-447966.
Military science fiction of the anti-war "war is hell" variety. Dietz enlists with Tene-Silvia corporate infantry to fight human colonists on Mars after their family goes missing in an attack on São Paulo. The military transports people over long distances by breaking them down into light; Dietz's combat drops do not go as expected.
There are clear references to Starship Troopers (both the book and I think Verhoeven's movie) and Haldeman's Forever War here. I didn't mind that, the references and any borrowed structure helped to ground the book while other aspects went completely sideways.
Dietz and the reader experience the war out of order and have to puzzle out what's really going on. It's confusing, but purposefully so, and never for too long. It's a pretty gnarly book, gory and mean. I found it to be a propulsive, blunt, and pretty direct read. Liked it quite a bit. Particularly liked the ending. I look forward to reading it again to see how it works with prior knowledge of the plot.
// / 107118564489510007
Tags:
2010s,
collection,
electro,
music,
video,
youtube.
Morning sounds
Visonia et Dopplereffekt / Die Reisen
Surprised this is eight years old; time has flown by.
// / 107103844717066884
Tags:
dj mix,
electro,
movement through thought,
techno.
MTT 242 / Can't Know The Future https://djcev.com/2021/10/mtt-242-cant-know-the-future/
More dark #electro and syncopated #techno , this time a bit slower at a comfortable (and later aggressive) 130. This #djmix features tracks by Boris Divider, Dietrich Schoenemann, Mystic Letter K, Sync 24, Weith, and more.
Some weird ones in here, that's always fun for me.
More dark (ish) electro and techno, this time at a comfortable (and later aggressive) 130. Most of these are old tracks, with the exception of one from March of this year on Brokntoys.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
// / 107085931938989787
Tags:
2010s,
books,
collection,
hardcover,
review,
scifi.
I just finished reading Kameron Hurley's "The Light Brigade". Liked it a lot!
Military SF of the anti-war "war is hell" variety. Gets a bit gnarly, gory, and mean at times.
It's clearly riffing on Starship Troopers (both Heinlein's book and Verhoeven's movie) as well as Haldeman's Forever War. Which is fine by me, I found that aspect more familiar than distracting.
I liked the structure of the book and the ending quite a bit. Was a good time, a real page-turner.
// / 107064055328066879
Tags:
electro,
movement through thought.
MTT 241 / Lost Boundaries https://djcev.com/2021/10/mtt-241-lost-boundaries/
#electro for the first week of October. ~135, so on the quick end of the style, but not out of the ordinary. This set features music by Anthony Rother, Heuristic Audio, Sync 24 & Dexis, Trichome, a bunch of new Brokntoys, an old techno-breaks piece by Surgeon, and more.
Melancholy (perhaps even spooky) electro for this first week of October. This mix features four new tracks from Brokntoys and two tracks from the recent Alignment compilation on Patterned Media. Plus, you know, a bunch of old favorites.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
// / 107058147939643464
Time for an ear break.
Something I do when DJing or working with music is take the headphones off and/or get away from loud sounds every 15 or 30 minutes. Go listen to something quiet.
cpm.1 FastCaps[.df] at youtube.com. The latest (and sadly probably final) Quake 3 Defrag compilation video from power_of_heavy_metal. 15 minutes of fastcaps performed with cpm movement and fastcap 1 rules (so no weapons, teleports, or jumppads).
Content warning for flashing lights and first-person gameplay that might cause motion sickness. Same for all Quake videos.
power_of_heavy_metal has great taste in music and the selections for this video are no exception. I particularly like the second track, Io by Concealed Identity from their Nightingale Floor EP on Repertoire.
Linking this today because I found it recently and it's rad. I'll probably link the other power_of_heavy_metal compilation videos when I get around to rewatching them.
