Five songs I listened to a lot this June
June 27th, 2023The Great Order of the Universe
February 1st, 2023My game Touch Love is in the opening show of a new studio/exhibition space in New York. I was probably a bit demanding for small DIY space, but they’re kindly going to the effort of setting it up with two Wii nunchuck controllers instead of a keyboard :)
Also in the show is:
- Fess Plane, by Stranger.
- Southbank Portrait, by Ian MacLarty.
- Subway Adventure, by Increpare.
- to a jumbled slop of game assets i brought a certain… “order,” if you will. but now, alas, *koff koff*, etc, i will not …, by Marek Kapolka.
Meant to be a small thing. You have to RSVP on Eventbrite to get the address.
2022
January 16th, 2023I do rough drafts of these kinda posts every year, but this year I’m publishing one! Here’re some things I liked in 2022.
I was given a book for my birthday, which started me reading again after a long break. The one that’s really stuck with me is Border Districts, by Gerald Murnane. I saw a doco on him in 2019, and have been meaning to read one of his books ever since. I’m reading Tamarisk Row now.
None of the films I saw really-really-really stand out, but:—
The The Cleaning Company doco I saw on SBS about a trauma cleaning company and the life of it’s owner Sandra Pankhurst. Really heartbreaking in a life-affirming, encouraging way.
My favourite thing from MIFF was Demon Pond. The main actor, Tamasaburo Bando, has a background in Kabuki theatre and is mesmerising. There are also some really cool monster costumes in one part.
(I thought I’d seen August In The Water in 2022, but turns out it was right at the end of 2021.)
Seems like I didn’t listen to much i really liked, but I found a video for a great Nana Love song I hadn’t heard before called Dancing in the Rain, I think this was the year I listened to a bunch of Yasuha songs for the first time, and I keep getting this Doug Parkinson version of I’ll Be Around stuck in my head. Also finally went through the Talking Heads discography, but my faves are all obvious ones I’d heard before (Lady Don’t Mind, Girlfriend Is Better).
I mostly just played boring fancy game shit like Monster Hunter. One interesting one that stands out is Deity Driving. I like to be a car. I liked Domestic Dreams and Robots, too.
Five Small Pages From My Wiki
May 25th, 2022Actually, my favourite part of having a wiki is all the small pages that barely have anything on them, but slowly grow over time. So here’re some of those:
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September 15th, 2021I’ve started a new blog to collect together photos from J-pop videos.
🖙 jpoplandscapes.ryliejamesthomas.net
Here are some examples from posts I haven’t made yet:
African Disco, Funk, Etc. – XMas 2020
August 28th, 2021
Been meaning to share this for ages, but anyway, here’s a little compilation I made for Christmas pressies.
I wanted it to be more diverse, but turns out most of the stuff I like comes from Ghana and Nigeria.
SVGs for printing the cover are included. Tags might be fucked should be fixed. I’ve been moving from Foobar2000 to Quod Libet, so the music library’s a bit of a mess at the moment.
Track list:
- Only You, Steve Monite
- Enjoy Your Life, Oby Onyioha
- You’re My Solution, Eric Kol
- Living Everyday, Tee Mac
- Sweeper Soul, Super Mambo 69
- Talking About Music, Nana Love
- Groove I Like, Veno
- We Can Move, Free Youth
- Disco Dancer, Kiki Gyan
Cunt
June 23rd, 2021Been sitting on this song for a year and a half, but just finished the video.
Sorry if you didn’t make the list!
Girls on Film
April 5th, 2021Girls on Film, by Julie Buck and Karin Segal.
China Girls, Leader Ladies, test parts of films not meant to be seen by an audience.
(I prefer it without the audio) (also posted on Lost Discarded Abandoned)