The bassline is taken from a performance of the Sugar Hill house band (featuring bassist Doug Wimbish) covering ‘Cavern’, a single by New York City band Liquid Liquid.

Thankfully many of us already seen all the jokes via gifs incessantly posted in Reddit comments. No need to watch the show.

80’s Shuiten and Peeter’s graphic novels

Those seem to borrow Mœbius’ earlier style, which was defining for French and Belgian comics since the seventies. So it’s rather ironic of you to say that it’s S&P who were ‘ripped off’.

For 25 squares of size 1x1 you’d need a square of size 5x5. The square into which 17 1x1 squares fit is smaller than 5x5, so you can’t fit 25 squares into it.

Mamaleek: I typically listen to whole albums, but the latest favorite track is probably ‘Vileness Slim’. Least favorite is ‘Nothing But Loss’, the opening track from ‘Via Dolorosa’, which is brilliant for two minutes and then drags on and on. (Although there are also a handful of tracks to which I don’t listen at all, because the whole EP is mid.)

Caveat: I have no idea what the lyrics are in these songs.

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Wendy Carlos’ ‘Switched-On Bach’ turned synthesizers from a tool of avantgarde experimentalists into a mainstream instrument.

Captain Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replica’ remains probably the most widely cited avantgarde-rock album, perplexing listeners to this day. (Gotta say, I never had a problem with it, perhaps because I don’t know music theory.)

Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ is an obvious one, though ‘Trans-Europe Express’ and ‘The Man-Machine’ probably had more influence on synthpop and techno.

Lou Reed’s ‘Metal Machine Music’ was trashed on release by critics, and returned en masse by the buyers, but it presaged industrial and noise music, and possibly noise-rock.

Then again, though industrial music properly started with live performances, if you wanted to revisit its roots, you’d listen to Throbbing Gristle’s ‘The Second Annual Report’ or the more warmly received ‘D.o.A: The Third and Final Report’.

The ‘No New York’ compilation was exemplary of the ‘no wave’ experimental jazz-rock of the downtown NYC scene and gave the genre its name.

Liaisons Dangereuses’ self-titled album was the progenitor of ebm, e.g. with the track ‘Los niños del parque’.

This Mortal Coil’s ‘It’ll End in Tears’ “set the template” for dream pop, although the sound itself was already around in the work of Cocteau Twins and the ethereal wave movement.

The Winstons’ 1969 track ‘Amen, Brother’ didn’t start anything itself, but the ‘Amen break’ is one of the most sampled in history, beginning with the 80s breakbeat, and with jungle, drum-and-bass and breakcore having been predominantly built on this one sample.

Napalm Death’s ‘Scum’ is the origin of grindcore.

John Zorn’s ‘Naked City’ is a landmark in jazz-fusion: although the concept existed before, no one mixed jazz with other genres so aggressively outside of free-jazz. (Though arguably the band Massacre anticipated Zorn’s approach.)

The Prodigy’s ‘Experience’ is said to have birthed edm albums as a concept:

Moby credited ‘Experience’ with changing his perception about dance albums; previously he felt that “dance albums had always failed […] because they didn’t work over the full length of the record. Mostly they were singles collections which was exactly what I didn’t want to do,” and noted that ‘Experience’ “impressed me because they’d managed to create a full listening experience which encompassed various styles. This was the kind of vision I had for my debut album.”

The ‘Artificial Intelligence’ compilation on Warp started idm.

‘Wipeout’‘s electronic soundtrack, along with its acid visuals and nightclub-oriented promotion (by Designers Republic) was a big factor in targeting the first PlayStation to college-age people, instead of kids as it was with previous consoles. This shifted the console market from kids’ toys to entertainment for everyone.

Therion properly invented symphonic metal around ‘Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas’ / ‘Lepaca Kliffoth’ / ‘Theli’.

The ‘Hotline Miami’ soundtrack played a large role in the popularity of synthwave and the 2010s revival of associated genres like darkwave, coldwave, ebm, and to some extent post-punk.

If you’re into edm, you might want to check out Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for various branching points.

Here: http://reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/

Everyone needs to realize that all the age verification stuff is just a step towards the purpose, which is having any and all computer operation tied to the person — i.e. as Cory Doctorow has put it, the war on general computation.

Even just a keyboard with left and right halves angled toward the respective arms would help. Because with a typical keyboard, the arms come at it at an angle, and then the wrists are crooked to have the fingers on the straight key rows. An angled or split keyboard allows to keep the wrists straight.

Kinesis are king. But if you want a cheaper option, Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic or whatever it’s called is quite good, even though it’s not properly split. The halves are angled so that your wrists wouldn’t be crooked.

And when I inevitably break the key mechanism trying to clean inside, I unpack the old reliable MS Natural 4000 and clack away again.

I can also recommend Bingo Gazingo’s two albums in a vaguely similar spirit.

Take my share and then nibble at it for half an hour while the sibling looks at me, having eaten their portion in a minute.

I much prefer Marusha’s version of ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’.

Once in a while, particularly in hot summer evenings, I get an overwhelming hankering for anything acidic, preferably a drink. It’s probably related to sweating a lot and losing electrolytes. Annoyingly, since my fridge is stocked sparingly and I don’t typically consume fizzy drinks, I have to resort to munching on whatever is there: pickle juice if I’m lucky, or straight up diluting citric acid or vinegar if I’m not.

Regarding your situation: soy sauce is pretty much prescribed to you. Try also Worcestershire sauce, you’ll only need a few drops of it — goes well with leafy salads. But don’t go for cheap varieties, or it’ll be mostly vinegar: get Lea & Perrins, Henderson’s, maybe Heinz (but the latter seem to generally lean on vinegar lately).

Look also into relishes/sauces/stews/preserves made with sauteed vegetables, popular in South and Eastern Europe: e.g. lecho, ratatouille, ajvar, lyutenitsa, sataraš, peperonata, piperade. Particularly preserves made with variously prepared eggplant, like pindjur; or with roasted beans. If you’re lucky, something like this might be sold in supermarkets where you are. These dishes are typically quite savory.

Visual arts:

• ‘Happy Person Having a Pleasant Conversation in Public’ by Randy Ortiz

• Jackson Pollock’s ‘One: Number 31, 1950’

• works by Aidan Hughes aka ‘Brute!’, namely his album covers for KMFDM and in particular ‘Split’

Music:

• nearly everything by Mamaleek: try the albums ‘Diner Coffee’ and ‘Vida Blue’ (gotta note that I have no idea what the lyrics are, but what I deciphered of their other songs is somewhat abstract, so eh)

• Last Exit at Deutsches Jazzfestival, Frankfurt, 1986 (with my favorite musician: bassist and producer Bill Laswell)

• Nurse With Wound’s ‘Homotopy To Marie’

For performance, perhaps Meredith Monk’s ‘Turtle Dreams’, shot by Ping Chong. But I’m not an aficionado of the form.

Pretty cool. Might want to repost to [email protected], or perhaps better post the whole album in there.

The album actually has ‘cinema Italiano’ in the tags. Presumably meaning cinematic music for an imaginary film.

Search the web for ‘creative commons music’ — there are sites specializing in such content, but I haven’t used them myself.

Note that some variants of the Creative Commons licenses require attribution, and some prohibit modification of the works or commercial use.