katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Okay so the CW on that last post was extremely inaccurate.

It's clear EVERY DAY that the DJs at KEXP see their job as a genuine higher calling. They don't usually say so explicitly, but you can hear it in the way they talk about their programming. They take moments to contextualize the stuff they play, both musically and in terms of their own personal experiences. Days of special programming designed to highlight particular social topics are also a routine occurrence.

It's beautiful.

Seattle genuinely has one of the greatest radio stations in the country, KEXP.

The job site is a little bit out of the clear broadcast range or I'd have requested it Tuesday.

But like, KEXP has showed me just how much *more* a radio station can be, in terms of quality and diversity of programming and commitment to the ideals of music as a form of human connection.

So the last three days my coworker has had an 80s pop rock radio station on for eight hours.

The list of songs has seemed nearly identical each day.

Quick mental math indicates that they probably play 150 to *maybe* 200 songs, TOPS.

What is even the *point* of broadcasting the same 150 songs from four decades ago?

Randomly heard this song on KEXP earlier today and okay I definitely need to go listen to more Portishead. Mellow vocals + retro synth is love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBOaLjtR4mw

I miss that kind of darkness.

A friend of mine would get scary, non-gentle hallucinations. She didn't like the lights to be out for longer than a few seconds.

I used to be into caving. There's something transcendental about complete darkness. Not just the merely dark of an overcast, moonless night, but the truly black. Caves are the only place I've seen it. No visible-wavelength photons beyond those made by radioactive decay, maybe.

It's uncanny. Humans aren't built for it.

Most people begin to gently hallucinate after anywhere from a couple minutes to a half hour.

one line from House of Leaves in particular sticks with me, a quote from a (fictional) french caver:

“Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.”

House of Leaves. Opinions?

Mine: was incredible on the first read, in maybe 2009. A bit tiring on the second read, but still had some good moments. I expect that ther there's diminishing returns from that point but I don't care enough to find out.

Gosh Awoo is so much faster now. Thanks @vahnj !

I'm so glad I got round-dot stars and not penta-stars for this.

Still todo: hang fabric thing, hang (incoming) posters.

The Radio Tower is now full of stars.

(also apparently UV does weird things to phone camera)

Me about every three games:

"Fuck yeah, I have really good drops, time to go take on the world!"

<gets into a fight, is destroyed in zero point three seconds and maybe lands one hit>

"Mosqueda has earned my vote in the next election. I cannot say the same of you."

"As a city councilmember, you are the one of the prime political powers in Seattle. Capitulation only shows weakness. If giant corporations wanted to fight against solutions to homelessness, then that's a fight I expected you to take on wholeheatedly.

It's a joke to call this city democratic when corporate funding for paid signature gatherers is enough to cause an immediate policy reversal.

"Hi,
I'm a resident of District [redacted], and I am both shocked and dismayed by your decision to repeal the head tax. If you're not willing to stand up to big businesses using their money to spread fear and disinformation, then you don't have the courage necessary to hold office. This was never going to be easy.