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• Collection strut 2024

  ketan

  5 months ago
  Scared me until that last line.  
  
  I decided on a fixed amount of records in the collectron based on space in the home - it's around 1500.  I got rid of stuff at shows to … (more)get down to that (and a lot of chud went to the thirft store at one point).  I try to be much more discerning about what I buy, although still take chances on the cheap bins... just not as many at any one time/my instincts are better these days.  I also spend more time now listening through my collection to find things I don't really need so that I can bring new things in.  I feel like I'm in a good place with it all...
  
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• Old movies you've only seen recently...

  ketan

  6 months ago

  klezmer electro-thug beats said:

  I liked the Long Goodbye. Elliot Gould is great in it and the Altman conversational style works well with somewhat of a structure to it.

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  Actually I think the Altman conversational style works without much structure too.
  

  that was a gateway film for me as a teen. realized how movies could meander along (seemingly) aimlessly and still be fascinating.

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• Electionstrut 2024

  ketan

  6 months ago
  i thought about it mainly in terms of class.  the cost of living has made it really hard for working class people since the pandemic. something has got to give. harris was all about … (more)helping the middle class (bastions of the status quo they are when it comes to the economy).  poor people and many low wage workers are not turning out for that in 2024. they seemed more interested in wooing centre-right folks, so they didn't come out strong on sure wins for turnout (like, from leftists) like abortion rights or gaza ceasefire.
  
  meanwhile, trump's base all came out.  whatever else motivated those voters, he promised radical change (tarrifs) that will bring back manufacturing jobs, so i'm sure many ppl held their nose and voted for him.  at least it was something radical! and now americans get to experience that radical change, brought to you by the (new) Status Quo.  sure to be less fair than the previous one.
  
  i also think national elections (everywhere?) in this social media age are being, uh, globalized like everything else. everyone must be f'ing with everyone else's elections! so we're all just suckers to the game in new and exciting ways. stuff like this:
  https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1gouvit/youre_being_targeted_by_disinformation_networks/
  
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• 2024 RIP Thraed

  ketan

  6 months ago
  RIP Saafir … (more) (less)

  

• SoundCloud Mixes

  ketan

  6 months ago
  peace - i'm doing shitty paperwork this afternoon so this is currently making it for me.