We'll get it right in the next life.
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tracker7Violet Days and The Midnight played at Headliners last night, and I'm a little bit pissed at myself for not going. As some kind of compensation, I'm listening to their stuff on YouTube, letting Google's algorithms do their thing. They're an interesting pairing. Violet Days is a Swedish pop band that sounds a whole heck of a lot like some of the better stuff from my teens, with a little bit more cynicism and self-awareness. The Midnight is a duo riding the synthwave ... wave, and they're pretty darn good.
Synthwave has been my go-to writing music lately, along with youarelistening.to. Cyberpunk vibes, nostalgia for a future that never was. The Imaginary Network Expanded art subreddits are complementing the audio with some fantastic and evocative visual pieces - ImaginaryCyberpunk and ImaginaryCityscapes are just full of good stuff. Sometimes, there's a track or a piece that just hits me the right way and it feels like I'm coming home.
It's been a weekend for going back to old headspaces. Last night's Somewhere in Time was an episode from the mid-90s about Cydonia and the "Face on Mars" and all that, and Jesus that took me back. In those heady early days of the World Wide Web and my access to it via UK's NeXT machines, I was seriously on board with the groundless crazy of photographs "clearly showing" the ruins of a city near that pile of rock on the Red Planet - a couple of pyramids, a kilometers-long wall, and other features that had to have been built by some intelligence. Goofy stuff, and compared to some of the horrible nonsense filling up the 'Net in these recent days, pretty harmless.
I have to wonder, though, if things like Infowars and antivax and all that awfulness can trace a lineage back to those early conspiracy and secret knowledge sites. Conspiracy theories have always been around, and there's never been anything like the Internet to give them traction and an audience.
Synthwave has been my go-to writing music lately, along with youarelistening.to. Cyberpunk vibes, nostalgia for a future that never was. The Imaginary Network Expanded art subreddits are complementing the audio with some fantastic and evocative visual pieces - ImaginaryCyberpunk and ImaginaryCityscapes are just full of good stuff. Sometimes, there's a track or a piece that just hits me the right way and it feels like I'm coming home.
It's been a weekend for going back to old headspaces. Last night's Somewhere in Time was an episode from the mid-90s about Cydonia and the "Face on Mars" and all that, and Jesus that took me back. In those heady early days of the World Wide Web and my access to it via UK's NeXT machines, I was seriously on board with the groundless crazy of photographs "clearly showing" the ruins of a city near that pile of rock on the Red Planet - a couple of pyramids, a kilometers-long wall, and other features that had to have been built by some intelligence. Goofy stuff, and compared to some of the horrible nonsense filling up the 'Net in these recent days, pretty harmless.
I have to wonder, though, if things like Infowars and antivax and all that awfulness can trace a lineage back to those early conspiracy and secret knowledge sites. Conspiracy theories have always been around, and there's never been anything like the Internet to give them traction and an audience.