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It's weird seeing my feed blow up over how unexpected it is that Robert Eggers is planning a Shakespeare adaptation for his sixth film, considering his fourth film was *checks notes* Hamlet. (Yes, I know it's an adaptation of the Saxo Grammaticus which was the inspiration for Hamlet, but still!)

The thing about The Disintegration Loops I-IV I too often hear people get wrong is that it is not an album about 9/11. The project was completed the morning of then dedicated to the victims. There are symbolic parallels to be made, "things fall apart" and all, but they were not composed in response.

Meanwhile Basinski's work has left no mark on the geopolitical landscape, no existential crisis of perceived national reality, but the album hasn't killed anyone either. It's a contained and unassuming (if cavernous) work of softer alchemy -- a somber seashell resonance for Le Guin's carrier bag.

The thing about The Disintegration Loops I-IV I too often hear people get wrong is that it is not an album about 9/11. The project was completed the morning of then dedicated to the victims. There are symbolic parallels to be made, "things fall apart" and all, but they were not composed in response.

One doesn't listen to it so much in memory of what happened on that day as in contrast to it. Stockhausen infamously referred to the attacks as "a work of art" (later clarifying that he meant by Lucifer... eh). It was a nonconsensual and tangibly consequential "work" of widespread chaos, and death.

The thing about The Disintegration Loops I-IV I too often hear people get wrong is that it is not an album about 9/11. The project was completed the morning of then dedicated to the victims. There are symbolic parallels to be made, "things fall apart" and all, but they were not composed in response.

The trailer for Mike Flanagan's Carrie miniseries looks great and I fully plan to watch it and expect I'll like it. Dude's earned my faith. It's just really annoying that we've had two film adaptations (plus a sequel) and a TV movie already, and all of them have depicted Carrie as notably slender.

Still, reexamining this aspect of her bullying strikes me as the most logical reason to adapt the story again after the 1976 classic. (Well, other than the original ending where Carrie's revenge massacre was more tragic accident than De Palma's full on rampage.) Yet every version shies away from it!

The trailer for Mike Flanagan's Carrie miniseries looks great and I fully plan to watch it and expect I'll like it. Dude's earned my faith. It's just really annoying that we've had two film adaptations (plus a sequel) and a TV movie already, and all of them have depicted Carrie as notably slender.

A big part of the novel is that Carrie was bullied by athletes for her weight as much as her awkwardness and strict (abusive) religious homelife. Fat shaming may not be the central theme, but it's almost as tied to the symbolism of the pig's blood prank as her menstruation.

Probably the first hip-hop album I ever owned -- not counting trip-hop. Funny enough, I didn't realize it at the time but I'm pretty sure it was Asheru who gave me a Massive Attack poster when I was 13 and visited to the Music Resource Center.

I love the comment section to this, how sweetly people are connecting around the song's use in TS&D @ Camp Miasma... but also how utterly psychotic it all must read as to anyone unaware of the film. Somewhere out there, a poor Counting Crows fan must be freaking out. youtu.be/1D5PtyrewSs?...

Ordered tickets to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and the site asked to save to my calendar. Being very tired, I hit yes, saving it to the big family calendar. I guess I'll have to explain to my mom and sister that being busy late Friday with "Teenage Sex..." is not what it sounds like! 🤦🏻