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Brendan Landis, who records as Hey Exit, has found an opulent minimalism by taking some of the most spare music ever, Erik Satie’s classic “Gymnopedie 1,” and maximizing its presence through simultaneous repetition. What he’s done is taken multiple renditions of the piece (“Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1” is the reworking’s title) and layered them atop one another.

Sometimes we just have to leave the city and recharge for a bit. Thankfully this is our backyard. #iheartrvkontheroad #helloreykjavik #iceland #snaefellsnes

benefits of living off-grid

just putting it here for the future reference.

B. If this post gets more notes than the A post, or if neither get any notes, then I will continue as usual because it means that no one really cares or reads this anyway.

ok, A/B testing time.

A. If this post gets any notes – no more politics and whiny posts for a week (and then we’ll see).

I wonder how far along the scale of moral degeneration Zweig would judge America to be in its current state.

George Prochnik, “When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig” (via otherpress)

Let’s just remember that it took Hitler 30 days till Kristallnacht.

Given that a terrorist attack, probably right here in this city, is inevitable, what Trump has planned for the day after is all too predictable, and ACLU won’t save us then. And I am terrified of it – and yet we are all hurtling toward it, and I see no way out.

We all know how Zweig ended up.

Sufjan Stevens is playing at National Sawdust next week!

And yes, it’s at a time when I cannot make it.

A headhunter extolling the virtues of working at an algo trading fund. For more money.

#justsayno

Sense of creeping doom notwithstanding, Picabia’s retrospective at MoMA was excellent and more entertaining than I ever imagined it could be.

Are they going to write about our contemporary art in the same way 70 years from now?

If there still are museums and art critics in 70 years, that is.