Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I want SO BADLY for a cuddlecore band, like Bunnygrunt or Go Sailor, to cover this song someday. Or maybe Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

Or maybe I'll have to make Peggy break down and buy that guitar she keeps daydreaming about, get a sample pad, and... um... find someone who can fucking sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6GHXCg7qSA

Speaking of Wham City folk, I'm surprised how much I've been getting into Ed Schrader. (You might know him from the soundtrack of the Adult Swim short "Unedited Footage of a Bear.") This is the screamiest, harshest music I've liked in a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt4QFnxsT0Q

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIlIKILfPX0 [cw: genial perv imagery]

Dan Deacon is so criminally underrated. He's always surprising me, too-- his music is usually so frantic, I did not expect the Philip Glassy/Steve Reichy tones in the middle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADHZcdc0Ik

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite I was already doing the "Journey pose" at Peggy, like, 10 minutes before I read this toot. I have gotta meet this cat, there's so much she can teach me! 😺​

@anthracite I have so much of it. :O I should show you Berberian Sound Studio once we're settled-- it's got a lot of gorgeous fake-retro graphic design, a big Saul Bass love letter essentially.

It's Streetview Hunt 2019! :D

This is the dorkiest thing, and I think it's what pretty much won me over to our Mumbai team. Every year, their leader has put out a 10-item scavenger hunt on Google Maps, and there's a good-natured, zero-consequence competition to find all ten items... for which we get PAID. :D

It's really quite charming. The level of enthusiasm they put into this every year is amazing. They photoshopped a festive flyer, picked a theme, and everything-- this year's is "Hollywood to Bollywood" and it's all film-themed.

Did I mention it pisses me off every single day that I can't hire my friends for this place? Trust me, if that ever changes, I'm gonna pack this place with you folks because I know some of you would absolutely kick ass at this job...

VITAL DISCLAIMER: I like the above _genres_. I don't guarantee that any individual _film_ is on the list is any good!

And for the record, I made this disclaimer almost entirely because of The Number 23, which is godawful. :)

Earlier today, I was watching a (surprisingly good) CineFix listicle about the narrator's favorite ridiculously specific film microgenres. So I threw one of my own while I was bored at work, figured I might as well share it.

I'm definitely keen on recommendations for further films that fit these subgenres, and I'm VERY keen to hear about your own favorite tiny, ultra-specific genres of media!

here comes dirk niblick of the math brigade

he'll look you right in the eye

he's always pleasant

never dismayed

seldom flustered

rarely afraid

he's a hero and what a guy

@starkatt @anthracite Awesome! Peg, does that work?

@starkatt @anthracite For how long? Our move date is the 23rd, and we're in no tremendous hurry!

The playback speed feature on Youtube is the best gift the Internet ever gave to ADD cases like me. Media geared to normal people's clockspeed feels just about right at around 1.5×...

I've also discovered that most of my music collection works surprisingly well at 2×, though the hard bebop is getting a little hazardous at that speed. :D

*ears perk out of the tall blue Martian steppe-grass, followed by a Cheshire-grinning saber-fanged stripeyface*

*stares at you awkwardly for a moment, a little surprised you spotted her, and sinks back into the grass*

*rustlerustlerustle*

#TheEpitome
#OfGoodLooksAndGrace
#AndQuietDignity

@hummingrain Ikr? It's such a pity we can't ship 'em to NOLA, but the cost-benefit ratio just ain't good enough. (I mean, I'm taking the *artist* with me, and paint is fairly cheap... ;) )

@anthracite Heh, you left that just as I was posting the pics myself!

Photo of aforementioned shelves. Note also cameo by my little buddy Measle in the lower right!

@Leucrotta Rik, Vyv, Mike, and Neil, right?

(I might have them confused with somebody else...)

My character has basically degenerated into Pam Poovey fanfic.

I can not bring myself to feel regret about this.

The rest of the experience is a bit disappointing, but I'm still glad to know this place can exist. It'll be formative for some goofy kid, the same way Steve Jackson's Illuminati University and the FurNet's Past and Future Inn were my first experience in "Rad! Adults can still play Let's Pretend and have imaginary friends!"

It's weird to think that I helped provide that for a few people, myself. (Even if most of the credit still belongs to @acetone_kitten...) It seems like a decade ago-- maybe because it was more like 15 years ago. JFC.

Hey, kids, do you have things you'd like to be on a horizontal surface but not on the floor?

Have you always wanted somebody else's character staring semi-benevolently down at you as you go about your daily routine?

Well, you're in luck! We have two bookshelves with ORIGINAL ART by (and of) @anthracite on the sides!

And they're probably free, if that's the way you really want to live your life, cheapskate. (I'm kidding, they're just free.)

Reply if interested. You'll have to pick them up from the University District, Seattle.