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!

Links roundup:

• You can now buy piano sheet music for Gris! I kind of want the physical book, of course, but I would probably wreck the edges so fast if I used it with an actual piano. The arrangements are quite good.

• An essay about Dutch baroque typography, and how modern typography is unnecessarily gendered.

• Chaoyang Trap S2 E1 — this is a great newsletter about Chinese pop culture and internet life, and this specific issue covers how the Taiwanese indie scene is perceived in and operates on the mainland. Of course, it touches on cross-strait politics and the shared cultural nostalgia around Teresa Teng; but there’s also an entire section of how machismo gets associated with authenticity, rock music, and Beijing. It also comes with a playlist (Youtube / Spotify). [CW: the music videos by Chthonic and Obsess have violent imagery. Also there’s a bunch of smoking and alcohol in various videos and lyrics.]

• Last month someone in The Old Guard fandom was exposed for racefaking and claiming to be a cultural authority in order to bully POC.

( Back on my britcom bs )

( And being nostalgic for boybands I wasn’t even a fan of )