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saddleblasters
1 week ago
I wrote an essay about noise performances I saw last year and poems I wrote about them: https://saddleblasters.neocities.org/essays/noise_poetry
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daliwali
1 week ago
Chinese noise is crazy... i know about Merzbow, Masonna, Gerogerigegege, Les Rallizes Dénudés, ...but had not much clue about the Chinese noise scene.
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saddleblasters
6 days ago
I only really talked about the Shanghai scene in this essay. If you're curious about the Beijing scene, you can read Yan Jun's English language writing (though a lot of it is outdated): https://www.thewire.co.uk/about/contributors/yan-jun/yan-jun_which-hell-do-you-prefer_
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saddleblasters
3 weeks ago
Added a section for short pieces that don't fit what "records of a saddle" has come to represent.
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thanks for pointing out the delineation of xiang3 vs think. it's tempting to draw conclusions about what the two languages presume is primarily on your mind (desires vs beliefs). in general i think it's really fun to observe how the two different language (families) draw lines around concepts and group them into words -- thinking/speaking in mandarin changes how i think about things compared to english.
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sorbier
1 month ago
that said i think (haha, jue2de) that the average mandarin word performs more roles than the average english word, which renders mandarin more figurative/conceptual broadly. apologies for stating it so definitively though -- agree that it's totally my subjective impression.
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palmistshouse
2 months ago
A local venue that my friends would perform at frequently recently shut down and is set to be demolished. It's always so heartbreaking when those kinds of things happen :-((
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balckwell
2 months ago
In our apartment, "upstairs" is the top shelves of the kitchen cabinets that my wife can't reach.
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Sorry. You would have probably gotten an email sent to you from neocities from a post I made about your RSS not working. It does. Ignore it. I'm an idiot
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underwhite
2 months ago
you know you can disable email notices right? I did it for my site cuz it's unnerving
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readingproject
2 months ago
Thanks for that. I’ll look into it. I assume others get them because I do.
saddleblasters
2 months ago
I have email notifications turned on so I did see the messages, but it's fine! This is exactly the sort of mistake I can imagine myself making too haha. Glad to hear RSS actually does work. I'd used a validator to check it and had tested subscribing to it myself, but as always was a bit paranoid I might have done something wrong.
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I took suboptimalism up on his book trade offer: https://saddleblasters.com/trades/elementary_particles
Also, in hopes of doing this again with someone else, I made a page for future book trades: https://saddleblasters.com/trades/
i've been called out... https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/secret/wang.xml
My plan to strong arm you into writing something worked! I will have to add Wang Xiaobo to your Murakami vs. Houellebecq analysis at some point and make a three way venn diagram out of them, since he also exhibits many similarities and interesting differences...
Also you might have read it already, but Vonnegut's Bluebeard is another meditation on "what is art?" that specifically focuses on Pollock. I like to pair it with his earlier novel Deadeye Dick, narrated by the son of a failed painter.
haven't read either of those but i have read the one that came out right in between the two, galapagos...