Both of these were submitted by one of my good friends, going on 30 years now. He is a good friend, a true friend. I call him my cultural attaché, because he regularly turns me on to a lot of high-quality art. I wish there were more like him.

| tool : reflection

| ukonpower : decompress of empty

Speechless. I wonder what this page looks like with no text? Hey, I can do that.

| atlas sound : scraping past

| a guide to self transformation : the school of life

Every human institution is a mess of contradictions and conflicting methods and complex motives and no one knows this better than Italian Catholics and, I would argue, the Romans most intimately.

| chinese man : he said

| vatican fashion show : federico fellini (roma)

In the convoluted dance of epistles, this missive, like a Dublin fog, returns whence it came. Its purpose, akin to the elusive nuances of a Joyceian epiphany, eludes comprehension. -ChatGPT, because tired.

| lil louis - i called u

| soho : hippychick

She clearly isn't a regular smoker. They don't know each other very well, this is kinda their first date and they're just hanging out in a Roma-ntic city getting acquainted. I think it will go well.

| makossa + megablast : soy come soy

| olompali: a hippie odyssey official trailer

History has taught us, and we know enough now to head off periods of collective insanity, but it takes effort. It's all fun and games until it's not. And then, oops, it's really not.

| the human league : the things that dreams are made of (original dub edit)

| talk talk : my foolish friend

I was going to call this post "hipsters", but nothing makes sense now, so we can just enjoy the achy-breaky video and the slightly trippy Tosca tune.

| anna clementi + tosca : me and yoko ono

| radiohead : everything in its right place

My thoughts wander where they may and because of last night's post, I began thinking about Dada and its influence on the Post-War World, which led to . . . Boom: Dada.

| pyrolator : die haut der frau

| trio : da da da

I know I'm asking a lot this evening. Just flow with the noise until the resolution. It's worth the immersion. Zozo Volt would approve. Carry on. 

| cabaret voltaire : breathe deep

| every david lynch weather report from 2022 played at once