Luke Muehlhauser

Media diet for Q2 2018

July 1, 2018 by Luke 4 Comments

Books

  • Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Interesting, albeit obviously not convincing. Just me trying to get a sense for how international relations debates work.
  • Rosling, Factfulness. Decent for what it’s trying to be. Similar in spirit and content to Enlightenment Now, but narrower in scope and written for a wider audience.

These days I finish fewer books than I used to, and prefer to skip around more.

Music

Spotify playlist here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

  • Joe Fiedler: Like, Strange (2017)
  • Taal: Skymind (2003)
  • Circus Maximus: “Biosfear” (2005) 1
  • Sameer Gupta: A Circle Has No Beginning (2018)
  • Toby Fox: Undertale (2016)
  • Blanck Mass: “D7-D5” (2016)
  • Baaba: Baaba w Akwarium (2008)
  • Maestro Trytony: Enoptronia (1997)
  • Eskaton: 4 Visions (1981)
  • Danielle Dax: Pop-Eyes (1983)
  • Ex Orkest: Een rondje Holland (2001)
  • Uz Jsme Doma: Uprostred Slov (1990)
  • Godley & Creme: L (1978)
  • Visitors: Visitors (1974)
  • Nik Bartsch: Awase (2018)
  • Guapo: Five Suns (2004)
  • Kingdom Come: Journey (1973)
  • Samla Mammas Manna: Familjesprickor (1980), Kaka (1999)
  • Von Zamla: Zamlaranamma (1982), No Make Up! (1983)
  • Munju: Moon You (1978)
  • Magma: K.A. (2004), Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré (2009), Félicité Thösz (2012), Šlaǧ Tanƶ (2015)
  • Offering: Part 1/2 (1986), Part 3/4 (1990), A Fïïèh (1993)
  • Jean Claude Vannier: L’enfant Assassin Des Mouches (1972)
  • Serge Gainsbourg: “Cargo Culte” (1971)
  • Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay: LUMP (2018)
  • Jon Hassell: Listening to Pictures (2018)
  • Barney Wilen: Dear Prof. Leary (1968)
  • Caveman Hughscore: Caveman Hughscore (1995)
  • Brainstorm: Smile a While (1972)
  • Anna von Hausswolff: Dead Magic (2018)
  • Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth (2018)
  • Maneige: Les porches (1975)
  • John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once (2018, rec. 1963)
  • Gong: I See You (2014)
  • However: Sudden Dusk (1981)
  • Robert Wyatt: ’68 (2013)
  • Weidorje: Weidorje (1978)
  • Virgil Moorefield: Distractions On the Way To the King’s Party (1994)

Had completely forgotten about, now rediscovered and really liked:

  • Arthur Brown: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968)
  • Pearls Before Swine: Balaklava (1968)
  • Les Maledictus Sound: Les Maledictus Sound (1968)
  • David Axelrod: Songs of Innocence (1968)
  • Van Der Graaf Generator: H To He Who Am The Only One (1970)
  • Nektar: Journey To The Center Of The Eye (1972), A Tab in the Ocean (1972)
  • Jade Warrior: Last Autumn’s Dream (1972), Waves (1975), Kites (1976), Way of the Sun (1978)
  • Gentle Giant: Acquiring the Taste (1971), Three Friends (1972)
  • Samla Mammas Manna: Samla Mammas Manna (1971), Måltid (1973), Klossa Knapitatet (1974), Schlagerns Mystik (1978)
  • Banco del Mutuo Soccorso: Darwin! (1972)
  • Area: Arbeit Macht Frei (1973), Caution Radiation Area (1974), Crac! (1975)
  • Picchio dal Pozzo: Picchio dal Pozzo (1976)
  • Magma: Köhntarkösz (1974), Üdü Ẁüdü (1976), Attahk (1978)
  • Catherine Ribeiro: Paix (1972)
  • The Flock: The Flock (1969)
  • It’s a Beautiful Day: It’s a Beautiful Day (1969)
  • Gong: Camembert Electrique (1971)
  • Hugh Hopper: Hopper Tunity Box (1977)
  • Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North (1974)
  • Greaves / Blegvad: Kew. Rhone. (1977)
  • Slapp Happy: Acnalbasac Noom (1982, rec. 1973)
  • Peter Blegvad: The Naked Shakespeare (1983)
  • National Health: National Health (1978), Of Queues and Cures (1978)
  • La Düsseldorf: La Düsseldorf (1976)
  • Popol Vuh: Seligpreisung (1973), Einsjäger & Siebenjäger (1974), Letzte Tage, Letzte Nächte (1976), Sei still, wisse ich bin (1981)
  • Eberhard Schoener: Trance-Formation (1977)
  • Agitation Free: Malesch (1972)
  • Michael Hoenig: Departure from the Northern Wasteland (1978)
  • Between: Einstieg (1971), And the Waters Opened (1973), Dharana (1974)

Why so many re-discoveries this quarter? I’m listening through the history of rock music again and constructing this playlist along the way. Many great albums aren’t listed above because I hadn’t forgotten about them. 🙂

Movies/TV

Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

  • Christopher Guest: Mascots (2016)
  • Various: Atlanta, season 2 (2018) ★
  • Blue Planet II (2017) ★
  • Ramsay: You Were Never Really Here (2017) ★
  • Linklater: Last Flag Flying (2017)

Games

Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

  • Alto’s Odyssey

Old favorites

Discovered long ago…

  • Book: Understanding Comics by McCloud
  • Music: “Starless” by King Crimson
  • Movie/TV: Dogville by Lars von Trier
  • Game: Lemmings by DMA Design
Footnotes:
  1. Quite similar to Dream Theater’s classic “Dance of Eternity”![↩]

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Comments

  1. Sam says

    July 6, 2018 at 8:43 am

    Hey man don’t know if you check these comments, but I just saw some interview with scaruffi you held a while ago on posted on the now defuct listology, there’s a bad link to “my scaruffian history of videogames”. Any way someone would be able to see that videogame thing?

    Reply
    • Luke says

      July 6, 2018 at 8:58 am

      https://web.archive.org/web/20140715182916/http://listology.com/story/critical-history-videogames

      Reply
      • Sam says

        July 6, 2018 at 2:28 pm

        Thanks man, when I clicked the link on the Scaruffi page webarchive said it wasn’t saved? I love lists and I love scaruffi too (maybe a bit more ironically than you, but still very often unironically)

        Reply
  2. Sebastian ] says

    September 13, 2018 at 11:40 am

    Hey, this is totally unrelated to this post, but I have read a ton of your own blog – commonsenseatheism – and I read a particular post where you reviewed William Lane Craig’s debates. I noticed that the debate between him and Sean Carroll had not happened at that point, and I wondered if you ever saw it, and if so, what you thought of it. I couldn’t find you commenting on it anywhere.

    Reply

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