The democrats won't save you if you're drowning
They won't help you if you are in pain
They'll ask you for your vote
They'll tell you they are broke
Then send a lot of money to Ukraine
(And also Israel!)
Republicans will obviously kill you
But at least you know where they are at
They'll shoot you in the head
Make sure that you are dead
The Democrats will shoot you in the back
(And also in the balls!)
But this is the best democracy
We've ever had anywhere
(If you're a billionaire boys, if you're a billionaire)
From THE DEMOCRATS by Carsie Blanton.
Paying attention to American news, you wouldn't know this kind of brilliance was being produced by the culture. And there's more of it, a lot more.
I'm building a playlist on Spotify called RESIST! Recommendations welcome.
#radar #music
As expected, most recent newsletter has resulted in quite a few unsubscribes.
Sign up page lives here for anyone who appreciates unorthodox thinking :–)
#journal
Does anybody else see the Mubi logo and wish it looked a little more like this:
Putting final touches on the first of the mixed media pages in the current TSG and thoroughly enjoying how it's shaping up. Three new projects I must work into my October pipeline: Project Bigspread, Project Tile, and Project Shortrage.
October already which means the year will be done before I know it. Need to move faster on these TSG pages, want to be finished before year's end.
Inbox 22, RSS 232.
#journal
Watched the most bizarre take on War of the Worlds last night; a Polish film on Mubi called THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY. Not so much an adaptation as much as it is informed by War of the Worlds. And not just by the story itself, but by the story's lore, the fiasco surrounding Orson Welles' radio adaptation of piece in that THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY utilizes the premise of an alien invasion to create a film about media and propaganda. It's like a War of the Worlds iteration filtered through an Eastern European Philip K. Dick. Bizarre stuff.
#film #screening
“You get married, you go on loving a bit longer, you work. And you work so hard that it makes you forget love.”
From THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus.
#reads
What the flying fuck, America?
#journal #moony
“The reward center of the European Americans' brains lit up much more when they received money themselves compared to when they gave money to their family members. The reverse occurred in the brains of Latino participants: Their reward centers lit up more when they gave money to their family compared to when they received money.”
#radar
“For while he himself spoke from the depths of long days of brooding upon his personal distress, and the image he had tried to impart had been slowly shaped and proved by the fires of passion and regret, this meant nothing to the man to whom he was speaking, who pictured a conventional emotion, a grief that is traded on the marketplace, mass-produced.”
From Albert Camus' THE PLAGUE.
#mood #reads
