Stray Bullets, 7.26.2024
On the intersection of art and forensic audio analysis; it brings to mind Berberian Sound Studios [2012] only it’s not fiction this time. • Karen Blixen - Out of This World [2005], a documentary about the writer whose essays indeed seem to anchor a different world. Writing of mottoes of self in 1960, “very likely it will be difficult for the younger generation to realize to what extent we lived in a world of symbols.” Can you fathom the naïve innocence it would take to believe such a thing about us today? • Excavating O’Connor • A series of reviews of jangle pop band the dBs from our greatest living critic and engine of sonic possibilities of self • Pictograms of the 2024 Paris Olympics + a photograph of Gwyneth Paltrow’s face.
On the “blissfully unnecessary” atmospherics that give The Big Sleep [1946] such warmth. • Logorama [2012] comes around every few years. • The media of exorcism in the age of Tik-Tok. • John Hinkley, troubadour.
Death Valley, hotter than Foucault. • Generative architecture. • Xembala.
