hi um hiii!!!

Anonymous Coward · 3mo

what about 5 manga as a door to your heart?

going with what my heart tells me...

Land of the Lustrous (Haruko Ichikawa)
Nickelodeon (Dowman Sayman)
Shimeji Simulation (Tsukumizu)
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (CLAMP)
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (Inio Asano)

amby · 3mo

Anonymous Coward · 3mo

fav grouper tracks

her song "Holding" from Ruins is my fav of hers—basically nonstop lyrical and musical gut punches but "i let my structure fail you" may be one of the most devastating turns of phrase i've ever heard. also think it speaks to her project in microcosm both in the ways her songwriting renders desire and in capturing a kind of fundamental absence and yearning in her treatment of the songwriting subject.

other favs in no particular order are Moon is Sharp, Vapor Trails, Vital, Lighthouse, Clearing, Headache, I Saw a Ray, Silent from Above, Breathing (absolutely brilliant closer on easily her most underrated album, also makes the most sense in the context that album), and both parts of After Its Own Death

amby · 3mo

Anonymous Coward · 3mo

what books would you give to someone as a door to your heart?

5 picks for fiction and non-fiction as ~pathways to my heart~ specifically

fiction:
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Italo Calvino - The Complete Cosmicomics
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red

non-fiction:
Antonin Artaud - The Theatre and Its Double
Susan Sontag - On Photography
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
John Cage - Silence: Lectures and Writings
Joan Copjec - Read My Desire (read earlier this year and has become an instant fav)

also extension of the above but should go without saying that Lacan has massively influenced my thought arguably more than any other writer, but it's hard to single out an individual text from him more so than considering his entire body of work as its own object

amby · 3mo

Anonymous Coward · 3mo

ideal brat remix NOW

easy, everything is romantic feat. sky ferreira

amby · 3mo

Anonymous Coward · 3mo

What kind of books do you like?

most of the physical books i own and most of what i read these days is theory and manga lol. i have been reading a lot of byung-chul han and joan copjec this year

amby · 3mo

Anonymous Coward · 4mo

WAIT YOUR NAME IS AMBY???

apologies to anyone who only knows me as candle emoji

amby · 4mo

Anonymous Coward · 4mo

but do you like newjeans

yea! they're fun they have some bangers and cool production. i like their fashion too

amby · 4mo

Anonymous Coward · 4mo

what is the most unexpected artists that you are really into

hmm, i dunno if there's anything super unexpected inasmuch as i don't really have guilty pleasures and i'm a pretty open book with the stuff i'm into. maybe some of the k-pop i like since i don't talk about it much?? i really like f(x), girls generation, and ladies code especially

amby · 4mo

Anonymous Coward · 4mo

hiii oomfie how did u get into stereolab

hi oomf!! i don't remember exactly how because it's been so long at this point, but i remember when i was getting into more 90s indie stuff in high school they were a name that always stood out to me among critical darlings from that period and i loved the designs of their album covers. first one i listened to by them was dots and loops and when i got to diagonals and heard them layer multiple drum/percussion loops and call-and-response vocal melodies in 5/4 and still develop it into an eloquent and legible pop tune i knew i was gonna be a fan for life lol. coolest band ever

amby · 4mo

Anonymous Coward · 4mo

ICE 2007. W or L?

girls love to have sex with each other, do drugs, and think about nothing but death

amby · 4mo

Anonymous Coward · 4mo

Do you have last fm???

i don't, i keep track of new releases i listen to in a notes app on my laptop but that's just for personal usage