memory of the future

Since I missed posting Monthly Listening November a second year in a row, here are some of my fave follows to get through December:

• Monterey Bay Aquarium Deep Sea December: Not only is the art and poetry cool, aquarium staff will respond to them with deep sea facts!
• Myeongho Seo: Photog often based out of Antartica, posts lots of videos of baby penguins and seal pups.
• isobo: Posts Hokkaido wildlife, which right now means tiny white birbs in snow.
• Best Bird Tournament: Yes Birdblr is really voting through every extant bird species with a photo on Wikipedia. Become strongly opinionated on birds you’ve never heard of before this week!

It’s readying-for-hibernation season.

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I got a new computer and a new fountain pen and life feels much better.

( Capitalism! )

I have two months to catch up on so this is pretty packed.

( Save me from summer weather )

Finally no. snow.

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“They were labeling us as the ‘real girls,’ like we were gonna be very, very authentic,” she said. “So they thought the name [Faky] showed self-awareness—like, we’ll call this fake, because we’re so real.” Never mind, she added, that the name was made up by the company.

— Anna Sawai, in W

No No Girls is last year’s idol competition show from BMSG headed by pop/rap star Chanmina. “No No” stands for girls who ‘had been told no all their lives’, or more simply: “No FAKE, No LAZE, No HATE”.

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These past two months have been much busier than I was expecting D: Nowadays I usually compose this post as the month goes on but this time I did it all in one go last week.

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Recently my mom wondered out loud why anyone would like No Party For Cao Dong as their music was so depressing.

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My obligatory VIFF film of the year is Love Lies (我談的那場戀愛), a comedy about an online romance scam victim and her scammer. It’s a cleverly constructed film, mixing police interviews, flashbacks, and daydream sequences seamlessly. The cinematography on the daydream sequences — translating the uncanniness of Google Streetview into a film with real actors — was particularly inspired.

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Finally have my Marshall Willen (cream) so it’s time for:

( lofi beats to siesta to )