I’m not sure how this band escaped my attention back in the early 80s. There were on the very early side of this particular sound, so maybe that’s why.
A stumble on, check them out if you are interested in French electropunk (song is in English).
A product, an image
Conception of the business
Identify yourself to be a perfect mistress
A model to follow
A video on the screen
You can bluff the world
when everyday is Halloween!
AUTHOR’S NOTE and EARLY CONCEPTS
Alice · 10:58
U came home late
and left early without saying goodbye
Where r u?
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I was not terribly enthused to begin my workday, so I jotted this down instead.
I hadn’t intended for it to end up being Halloween-themed. That was sheer accident.
Details of the challenge on the jump; otherwise, read it below and throw sharp objects at me when you are done for having wasted two minutes or less of your life when you could be doing something with those chair legs instead.
It’s not easy being an insomniac in the best of times.
These are not the best of times.
While everyone was looking the other direction — alien invasions, zombie apocalypse, the threat of AI annihilation — the vampires were quietly working in the shadows. Literally.
(more…)Just uploaded a few days ago.
If I haven’t said it enough before, I just wanted to point out that I can’t explain quite what it is about Jojo Orme (aka Heartworms), but I really-really like her vibe and music. It very much has the feel of the 80s music scene with a modern twist that I can’t quite put my finger on.
Of course, her rendition of Dominion (Sisters of Mercy) sealed the deal for me. While far from my favorite Sisters song, I quite enjoyed hearing her new take on it. But Chris turned me onto her sound before that, so I was already halfway there.
Warning: here be bugs.
1435 FORTY-SECOND YEAR, EIKYŌ SEVEN
WOOD’S YOUNGER BROTHER, THE HAREIkkyū spent some time down in Izumi [Sakai]. Whenever he went out in the city streets, he took along a wooden sword. As he walked, he rapped his fingers on its hilt.
The townspeople argued with him saying, ‘The virtue of a sword is killing. What use does a monk have for one?’
He replied, ‘You don’t know it yet, but these days the world is full of a false wisdom that is just like this wooden sword. As long as it is kept in the scabbard, it looks as good as a real blade, but if it is drawn out from the scabbard, it is seen to be only a sliver of wood. It cannot even kill people—much less make them live.’
— Sanford, Zen-Man Ikkyū, pp. 91–92.
Part of the reason I am not a serious practitioner of Zen is the number of props that someone being serious about Zen seems to require. Incense, robes, zafu and zabuton, chimes and gongs, and whatnot, along with a meditation space and a shrine (if you lean that way), blank walls to limit distraction…
(more…)Links to the earlier parts of this collaborative tale written with Jolene Rice can be found: Part I, Part II, Parts III & IV, Part V, Part VI, and Part VII
Someone finds a rat.
AUTHOR’S NOTE and EARLY CONCEPTS
[Note: The following email printed to PDF was discovered in a Drive folder on Alice’s phone named “Kyle”.]
Alice Donovan <Alice.Donovan.73@[withheld].com>
Fw: Re: Funeral (fwd)
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WhiteRabbit.73 <WhiteRabbit.73@[withheld].com>
Sun, May 21, 2006 at 9:42 PM
To: Alice.Donovan.73@[withheld].com
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From: DonovanA01@[withheld].edu
To: WhiteRabbit.73@[withheld].com
Subject: Re: Funeral (fwd)
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 16:12:07 -0500 (CDT)
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:49:31 -0600 (CST)
From: GrendelTC@[withheld].com
To: DonovanA01@[withheld].edu
Subject: Re: FuneralAl—
Sorry about the delay in responding (not about missing out on the funeral, though). Tommy was out of town on business and I didn’t want to bother his fiancee just to hear “You’ve got mail!”
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we laugh, fool & crow,
did we forget to forget?
— frost breath in the morn
For Ikkyū.