"But there was nothing about the little, low-rambling, more or less identical homes of Northumberland Estates to interest or to haunt, no chance of loot that would be any more than the ordinary, waking-world kind the cops hauled you in for taking; no small immunities, no possibilities for hidden life or otherworldly presence; no trees, secret routes, shortcuts, culverts, thickets that could be made hollow in the middle – everything in the place was right out in the open, everything could be seen at a glance; and behind it, under it, around the corners of its houses and down the safe, gentle curves of its streets, you came back, you kept coming back, to nothing; nothing but the cheerless earth."
Thomas Pynchon, "The Secret Integration"
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This is the strongest and saddest thing I’ve read in a long time.
This is a Toffifee (known as a Toffifay in the US, thanks Wikipedia). I usually can’t afford to buy (or maybe just justify buying) these. On Friday I had a milkshake that tasted like drinking one. Thank god I don’t live within walking distance of that place.
Listening Post, July 2014
In our second helping of some of the internal chatter that goes on at Dusted, David Kilgour, Reigning Sound and the Staple Singers get their jangle discussed.
We did another one of these! They’re fun to do.
Luluc — “Small Window”
Well, damn
(This sounds like something that would play at the folk festival I went to as a kid, and I mean that in the best possible way… the more reflective bits of Monkey Swallows the Universe with the calm of Tamas Wells and a bit of the stillness of early Low, maybe?)
(Sometimes it’s just nice to spend a Friday night in)
Meta: Snowpiercer
My [scattered] thoughts on Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer. This was originally just a defence of the film’s ending—which I’ve seen widely criticised—because I think it’s brilliant and necessary and worth defending. But… then there’s everything else.
[major spoilers, of course]
So Anaïs and our housemate and I watched Snowpiercer last night. We all liked it a lot; I haven’t watched a ton of movies this year, but this one is definitely my favourite so far. The analysis under the link is really good; as they say “This film is not remotely fucking around.”
