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     A second new Mitski song has been released. It's called "I'll Change For You".      This one is a little more straightforward than the last one, which was more metaphorical (and I wrote about it here ). Since the release of that first song we got more information about the new album, including its title and cover art. It's called "Nothing Is About To Happen To Me," and the album art depicts a cat that has absolutely nothing about to happen to it.     When I first saw it, it kind of reminded me of this one comic by tumblr user catcrumb:     So, some of the lyrics from I'll Change For You called to my mind some lyrics from Mitski's Nobody. Here, we have the lines "Bars, such magic places.  You can be with other people without having anyone at all." It's like that meme of Al Pacino in Godfather 2.     And Nobody had the lines "My God, I'm so lonely, so I open the window to hear sounds of people" and "I don't...

Spatial Concept ‘Waiting,’ Lucio Fontana (1960)       So I was looking at artwork from Lucio Fontana, as one does, when I came across this series of paintings called  La Fine di Dio (The End of God.) Lucio Fontana's whole deal is that he pierces holes into the canvases that he works on. "My greatest discovery is the hole," he says. That is a direct quote, I'm being serious. Some of his works consist almost only of pierced canvases. There's the quintessential "Waiting" which is a canvas that has been slashed one time, with a black fabric behind it, giving it the appearance of being a void.     He has some higher concept works too, La Fine di Dio being one of them. The canvases are more uniquely shaped, being sort of egg-like instead of rectangles. The colors are bold, and the size and arrangement of the pierced holes seem more deliberate, as if to create a pattern. They were made in 1964.      Now, my more serious interpretation of the work...

    It's not uncommon for small-time vendors and food stands and stuff to have branding that is cobbled together from random sources. So you'll have a carwash or a pizzeria that has a photoshopped Mario as its mascot. I find this phenomenon to be charming, I think we end up with off-brand versions of characters that look bad in a really funny way.      Some while ago I stumbled upon this ice cream shop that had a sign with the seven dwarves on it. It was the Disney version of the dwarves, based on the 1937 designs for them. But there was something else about them. They looked like 3D models, and something about the colors and the lighting looked very familiar. After looking at them for a few seconds, I clocked them as being renders from Kingdom Hearts, Birth by Sleep to be specific. Recreated from memory      That was a couple years ago, in the summer of 2023. Last summer, in 2025, I was walking past another ice cream vendor when I looked at their...

     For each of the past three days I happened to watch a movie that had the house of a mouse in it.  This happened out of complete coincidence, it wasn't intentional at all. I, and lots of others, have this idyllic idea of a mouse house where the mice sleep in tin cans or match boxes, and they slice a strawberry as if it were a piece of ham, but I couldn't have pointed out any specific examples. That was, until 3 days ago.     The first of these houses was in Disney's Robin Hood. They have an old, patched up shoe that has been fashioned into a bed for two. They have a big (or rather, regular sized) candle next to their bed. Several small knick knacks are laid about in their house, like a thread spool, a thimble, and a wine cork. I think the house was inside a church, so maybe the cork is from communion wine? And they have a carpet made of straw, that has been patched up with a blue fabric. And some tiny coat hangers.     The second house was in ...

      In general I feel like there is just such cohesion between everyone's outfits. It's all very earthy tonesy, with everyone wearing these nice browns and greens and beiges.     There's some blue too (she's not gonna dye her hair just for this video) and the collar of her sweater is also blue which matches nicely. Dodie herself is wearing this floral dress and what seems to be a corset. In her vlog " the secret to my wardrobe" she explains that she likes to get dresses from vintage shops and vintage fairs and pairing them with a corset. So, this one is most likely also a vintage dress.     The drummer is wearing this nice dark green overshirt. The three backing vocalists have these deep browns and are matching very well. The bassist looks super cool and has this cream shirt and dark green pants and socks. One of the violinists has this nice beige knit sweater that just looks so cozy. Orla Gartland is wearing this brown top and cream colored pants wi...

      I saw One of Those Days When Hemme Dies almost exactly a year ago. I knew nothing about it going in, except for the fact that it has an absolutely baller poster. This is how I decide what films to see sometimes.     I have a lot of thoughts about the film. It's a very non-standard film, it does not follow a conventional story structure. There is a lot about it that holds symbolic meaning, that I had my interpretations on while watching. It's a film that lets moments breathe a lot, making it very atmospheric. It's also visually stunning. I liked it a lot, it was one of the best films I saw in 2025.     So, the protagonist is a man named Eyüp. Eyüp as a given name is the Islamic counterpart to Job in the Bible. As a religious figure, Job is a man known for his patience through hardships and having to endure a lot. This is fitting, because Eyüp's patience is tested a LOT in this film. All of the difficulties in his life are revealed slowly and ...