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I do not like the the new autoplaying videos on discogs. I guess they're not new, they've been there a few weeks, but they're really irritating me now.

Need to upgrade my adblocker I guess.

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Did my monthly music shopping today. Picked up DJ Wally's old Genetic Flaw album, the new Drexell (AKA Plex) EP on Particle Music, some old Lectromagnetique on Bass Agenda, and an old Goth-Trad single on Deep Medi. A good haul I think.

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CW: Horror, film criticism, link to old 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.

mandiapple.com/snowblood/index

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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

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Good practice tonight, made me happy. Played some old Bitstream, old Meat Beat Manifesto, even older Scorn. Love playing Scorn.

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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.

the title card from Footprints On The moon; an image of the moon with the word "FOOTPRINTS" in yellow lettering over it.
Image taken from the movie Footprints On The Moon (1975). Alice Cespi (played by Florinda Bolkan) requesting a room at the hotel in Garma.

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Note to self, don't watch old Kiyoshi Kurosawa horror movies right before going to sleep.

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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

A hardcover copy of The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

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.