Topic Lords

159. It's Beautiful That We Once Existed

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Lords:

  • Kev
  • Cort
    • Cort's new album: https://postgoodism.bandcamp.com/album/tourism
    • The Frog Fractions vinyl: https://www.turtlepalstapes.com/product/frog-fractions-green
    • Monty Python's three-sided record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monty_Python_Matching_Tie_and_Handkerchief
    • Locked grooves: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/locked-grooves-endless-fun-literally/
    • The Most Wanted Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jId-qaEwuvI
    • The Most Unwanted Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08

      • Topics:

      • Before age ~4 you don't really make long-term memories, but you can develop long-term habits. How to best exploit this.
        • Spark : The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/B08RZD6D4Z
        • Extreme "kids in trench coat" trope scenarios
          • Necrophilic landscape http://2dcloud.com/the-necrophilic-landscape
          • Artist Morgan Vogel https://www.tcj.com/morgan-vogel-1986-2020/
          • Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined at the brain. They share thoughts, senses and control of their bodies.
          • "Autopsy" by Ross Sutherland
            • I can't find a text transcript online, just a few records of Ross performing the poem. Nor does Ross himself have a "home page" per se. Here's a link to his podcast, it's great: https://www.imaginaryadvice.com/
            • Neighbors overplaying the same playlist
              • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Woman_(soundtrack)
              • https://www.worstideaofalltime.com/
              • Is it unambiguously good that technology makes creative expression easier?

                • Microtopics:

                • Mic on, pants off.
                • The inherent meaningless of "limited editions" in a finite universe ultimately bound for a slow heat death.
                • Vinyl record Easter eggs.
                • A big ol' spiral cut into the vinyl.
                • Limited characteristics of a physical process.
                • Mental models of what it means to master an album.
                • Novelty vinyl colors.
                • Jim's burgeoning record collection.
                • The most glorious twenty minute act of art terrorism.
                • Losing access to your old memories because your brain changed formats.
                • How to erase medical debt by just not paying it.
                • Borrowing money from your toddler.
                • Spark: the revolution of exercise or some other subtitle.
                • Mollusks eating their own nervous systems.
                • Eating your own childhood to launch yourself into adulthood.
                • Upping the emotional stakes with large animals and near-death experiences.
                • Putting your girlfriend in mortal danger so that she's more likely to want to marry you.
                • Getting pigeonholed as a really good butt.
                • Getting surgically separated so you can disguise yourself as two kids in a trench coat.
                • The hemispheres of the brain as independent entities which happen to share a body.
                • Lumps of biology.
                • Every person's unique inability to speak to other people's interiority.
                • Walkie-talkie telepathy vs. "perfect mutual understanding" telepathy.
                • One mind with two faces.
                • Superhuman limb/vocal cord coordination.
                • Segue Week.
                • Burroughs cut-ups.
                • Vigorous grandparenting with a face of terror.
                • A modern-day television quiz show phoenix.
                • The impenetrable free-form rhymes of a heart attack in October.
                • The greets.
                • Tracker music instrument names as cut-up poetry generators.
                • Super Obituaries!
                • The potentially transformative effect of reading your own obituary.
                • The perverse incentives behind soliciting reviews of unfinished games.
                • The awesome power of knowing that your feedback will be considered.
                • The neighbor who only listens to Rod Stewart's Greatest Hits over and over again.
                • Listening to entire albums until you're so sick of them that you underflow and love them again.
                • The song you have to listen to to get to Roxette's It Must Have Been Love.
                • Bad podcast ideas.
                • Novelty t-shirts whose joke is only funny once, but you still wear it once a week
                • The shirt with the Fight Club and the cognitive science reference on it.
                • Shirts/tattoos as pop culture dog whistles.
                • Getting a tattoo of the Colossus' weak points so that you can meet the people who stab you there.
                • Naming your game's public alpha something innocent so it doesn't arouse suspicion when your friends see you playing it.
                • The hazards of wearing a shirt promoting a pop culture reference you know nothing about.
                • Wearing a shirt that makes people try to talk to you about a video game you've never played.
                • All the people you disappointed in high school.
                • NPCs in Thief Deadly Shadows talking about how hard it is to get a job making games.
                • A bright future where nobody can make a living making video games.
                • A bright future where AIs curate collections of AI-generated content.
                • A case for the 1991 film "Super Mario Brothers" as the pinnacle of entertainment.
                • Charles Martinet doing the Mario voice as he leaps to his death from a roof in "The Game."

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