References VII

Where I offer my best links and music recommendations on the Summer Solstice, 2022.

I post these lists alongside my equinoctial and solstitial personal newsletter.

Links

• Chicken on a raft
• Timothee Chalamet replaced by Elmo in Dune
• “Here we go for today’s number…” (David Lynch’s Youtube channel is out of control)
• Has Nick Cave ever met Nic Cage?
• “Today I cooked the crows bacon in the morning and this afternoon it was returned RIGHT WHERE I LEFT THE BACON!!!!!”
• “Well, this culture of denigration for dollars means that, yes, you’ll attract the resources, but you do so by writing your population into the public consciousness as inferior, as ineffective, as pathological.”
• “Usually, accidental bad taste is what camp originally meant. But today people try too hard. And I think that never works. Because true camp is innocent, it doesn’t do things on purpose. It takes itself very seriously.”
• Meet Harry, a rare 70s psychedelic mic head (use headphones)
• The artwork of Helvetica Blanc
• An in-browser music machine
• Become a hacker
• Live streams for when you are bored (also, this one shows cherry blossoms in the spring)
• South Korean election graphics are next level (birdsite)
• If you like basketball: don’t sleep on ALL CAPS
• If you like tabletop RPGs, this might interest you

Music recommendations

• Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky, by Porridge Radio
• Songs Known Together, Alone, by Pile
• Famously Alive, by Guerilla Toss
• Ugly Season, by Perfume Genius (I talked to them one time at Al’s in Lexington)
• Neon Buddha, by Bolis Pupul
• Unspoken Words, by Max Cooper
• I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964–1971, by Norma Tanega
• Architecture of Friendship, by Santiago Latorre
• MOTOMAMI, by ROSALIA
• Blade, by Mart Avi
• Hypnos, by Ravyn Lenae (hipster moment: this is her debut album, but I’ve been listening to her since 2015)
• Somebody Else’s Song, by Water From Your Eyes
• Serotonin II, by yeule
• GOLD – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love, by Alabaster dePlume
• An [80s Japanese city pop playlist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHmDVYTaTw
• Songs no one has ever heard

(Know something I would like? Share with me!)