In My Mind

Love Ted Forbes, the way he speaks about art gets my creative juices flowing. Even though photogrophy isn't my primary creative language.

This is like someone wrote down my most common train of thought. And it was written when I was 10 lol.

Your humble podcaster-squirrel is back! Jacke considers the legacy of Charles M. Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown and Peanuts, and reflects on the difference between being "best known for" and "known for" an artistic endeavor. THEN Jacke continues the discussion of Bob Dylan and literature (is his music literature? is it not? does "poetic song verse" bridge this gap?) with Dylan's own words on the centrality of literature to his music, as delivered in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize.

What happened in the Sixties? How did singers of popular music transform from mere entertainers to the poetic bards of their generation? Were these songs literature? If so, what does that mean? And if not, what exactly are they? In this episode, Jacke talks to the authors of a new book, Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry about a new way of acknowledging, analyzing, and discussing the literary qualities of works by singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and those who came before and after.

Love her ppdcast too

An article on the Google Ngram Viewer, etymonline btw is one of my favourite online resources.

This channel ALTER posts horror short fipms and this is perhaps the best short film I've ever seen. 10/10 would recommend.

Bit of a long read but definitely worth reading.

The On The Media podcast is one of my favorites.

Now I didn't expect plastic shoes to be good footwear for football!

A great article for fellow cricket nerds.

Forgot to share this. Discovered it through the hard fork podcast I think

Discovered on lemmy

Paywalled, please use the 'bypass paywalls clean d' addon on firefox.

Genetic editing is a topic I was recently fascinated by. Jenifer Doudna is someone who explains it very well. Also a Nobel Prize winner.

If you understand the power of bollywood in India, hell south asia, this should help you realize just how terrible the state of democracy in india is atm.

Imo the best utilization of AI yet. I'll try to find and link the ezra klein podcast episode on the topoc as well.

This is 2 years old, it scares me how much worse it could be by now and what the future holds.

This is one of my favorite short stories ever. I love the feeling of this story even if isn't perfectly analyzable.

Colin Ward, Naom Chomsky and David Graeber are my 3 favorite 'modern' anarchist writers. You've probably heard of the other 2, give Colin Ward a go too!