@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Talk Talk:
🎵 Life’s What You Make It
#TalkTalk
https://othervoices-eu.bandcamp.com/track/elsehow-life-s-what-you-make-it-talk-talk-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TdVAFwHmNmpkTo7VVzBfG
@zudn@theres.lifeAnybody else from the 19th Century out there?
#poetry #SmallPoems
@UP8@mastodon.social🔀 Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
#molbio
@bourgwick@heads.social
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 03 - Weapon
TRAVIS: Whose in particular?
FEN: Like most of our city, this room lives; a vegetable biologically adapted but living and growing - and all life, Travis, is linked. [Laces her fingers] That is the basis of the Rule of Life.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/158
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIs there some actual study on the "life expectancy" of magnetic media such as cassette tapes or floppy disks?
E.g. I have a pre-recorded compact cassette that is 50 years old and works just fine (and sounds great!), and floppy disks from the early 80s that read with no problems.
Yet when I search for this topic everyone always claims "10–20 years" is what to expect from magnetic media.
@zudn@theres.lifeHot and muggy already this early.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheLebrechtInterview
- Jonas Kaufmann
Norman Lebrecht talks to tenor Jonas Kaufmann about his life in music, from going against his father's wishes in his early career, to his love for languages.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002npry
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netC02 - Powerplay
BARR: They'll never willingly give up their way of life. That's why we try to catch them with our drug guns. And when we do they make an invaluable contribution to our society.
VILA: It's a shame, they just don't know what they're missing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/330
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThis deeply offends me because most people make me feel uncomfortable.
One thing I learned quite early in life is that this is not their fault. It was an extremely valuable lesson. My discomfort isn’t something other people need to resolve. As if they could… @…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Nation of Language:
🎵 In Another Life
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/in-another-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pEvh57vzBZ2qFF8v7Zo0r
@felwert@fedihum.orgA new PhD programme “migration, time and urban inequalities” run by seven European universities (including @…) has 15 fully funded PhD positions open: https://www.migrationtime.eu…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
This has been quite the roller-coaster year for my wife and I. If there was one thing that I would be thankful for it would be our much maligned #Healthcare system. Through early testing, in April 2025, both our daughters were diagnosed with a genetic defect that significantly increases risk of cancer. Breast cancer was found in our oldest daughter and her treatment included surgery, chemo, and radiation. The prognosis for a longer life is now excellent. The youngest is facing potential preventative surgery to reduce her risk. After diagnosis the medical response was immediate and both daughters have numerous stories about caring individuals that have provided treatment, counseling, and empathy.
One man had a huge impact on Canada’s status as an important centre for genetics research - Dr. Lou Siminovitch. Here is his story about how he helped establish 4 different research organizations in Toronto.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dr-lou-siminovitch-the-force-behind-early-genetics-research-in-canada-dies-at-age-100-1.5981522
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.iothe trick to a happy social media life is to block early and often
@zudn@theres.lifeAnybody ever hear anything from the young man who started #thereslife? Seems he was in Europe somewhere and headed to the US to study, or something like that. I signed up sometime in the early days and was glad to see @… take it up when he decided to let it go.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Talk Talk:
🎵 Life’s What You Make It
#TalkTalk
https://othervoices-eu.bandcamp.com/track/elsehow-life-s-what-you-make-it-talk-talk-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0P0Qbqyplr7DduF1jr7Quv
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Talk Talk:
🎵 Life’s What You Make It
#TalkTalk
https://othervoices-eu.bandcamp.com/track/elsehow-life-s-what-you-make-it-talk-talk-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0P0Qbqyplr7DduF1jr7Quv
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: [Returning.] Blake, I think I've found enough for everybody.
BLAKE: Oh good, at least the others will be all right.
ENSOR: Well, I'm ready, shall we get started?
BLAKE: Well, wait a minute. There is something else.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/290
@pre@boing.worldDay Five in the Improv Narrative house, and we're in the format I like most really. A few instructive games in the first half and a couple of longer narrative stories in the second half.
The island game was supposed to teach something about not deliberately getting obstructive.
A scene where your players are told they are on one island and must end up at some point all on the other one the other side of the stage.
Set a scene, make some characters, but nobody said it was supposed to be difficult to get from one island to the other.
Yet barriers are deliberately thrown up, actually imaginary barriers since the whole thing is imaginary after all. Why should there be sharks or a quest for a boat or the sea deep and cold.
You can just wade across. You can just have a boat. You can just levitate yourself over with your hive mind psychic abilities.
Unsure about this.
There must be conflict and peril and challenges which are mastered in a story, you can't set up a hero's quest only to have the hero just happen to have a holy grail in the stationary cupboard. Already got one you see. Use it for storing pens.
Still. Finding the crowbar doesn't have to be a quest. There can just be one in the boot. Don't let things get bogged down in difficulty.
Watched a story about a lazy fellow falling into a life of crime and villainy because of his tardiness and fulfilling his teacher's prophecy that he would indeed end up as a criminal if he didn't buck up his ideas. Good repeated themes of characters making lists of his failures and nice stage-focus work when everyone was on stage at once.
Played a preacher organizing a wedding in a story about friends running a hotel.
Fun to have Reverend Priest finding sin everywhere again. Easy wipe-off sin in this case. We may have come to an end too early. Perhaps not enough obstructions put in the way. 😆
#improv #london #hooplaImpro
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Soft Cell:
🎵 Secret Life
#SoftCell
https://softcelllhn.bandcamp.com/track/secret-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/21gw72NVkda2IFSyPipqK7
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI was just looking up David Blunkett on Wikipedia, for reasons.
I knew he'd been blind from birth, but bloody hell this is quite some opening paragraph to the "Early life" section:
[Blunkett] grew up in an underprivileged family; in 1959 he endured a family tragedy when his father was gravely injured in an industrial accident: he fell into a vat of boiling water while at work as a foreman for the East Midlands Gas Board, dying a month later. This left the surviving family in poverty, especially since the board refused to pay compensation for two years because his father had worked past the retirement age, dying at the age of 67.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Built to Spill:
🎵 Life's a Dream
#BuilttoSpill
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zA50RkmhzbqPKz9xcnhqw
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
I finished my breakfast this morning only to discover that it's National Maple Syrup Day. A missed opportunity but at least I can share some important facts about Canada's sweet and sticky sauce.
- Indigenous People taught early Canadians how to harvest maple sap and boil it down into a sugary liquid.
- A maple tree can yield sap for up to 100 years, but the trees must be roughly 45 years old before it’s first tapped for syrup making.
- It takes roughly 40 gallons (150 litres) of tree sap to produce 1 gallon (3.8 litres) of syrup.
- Quebec produces 72% of the world’s maple syrup. In 2021, that equaled 133M lbs from Quebec.
- The big bottle of Costco Maple Syrup is from Quebec.
- Maple Syrup only has 1 ingredient. Sap.
- Maple Syrup has an indefinite shelf life but should be frozen if storing for more than 2 years.
And regarding the great Maple Syrup heist, this is still the best report on that famous crime.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MmmmSyrup #MapleSyrup
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/maple-syrup-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7fMx3GguT20T9cNrpZgrtVue4leiYZpZibZT_7S9WHWDfI0Ln
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Kate Molleson explores Prokofiev’s early life, where fairytales and family theatricals shaped a future storyteller.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n9qx
@pre@boing.worldApparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was concentrating mostly on the first bits: Playing out some scenes introducing characters, setting up their normal routine.
The nature of improv can be tricky here. Things spiral out of control quite fast. Things start happening immediately, without time to build that normal routine which you then break.
Take for instance the scene tonight at an airport. Lady rushes in: "Get me on a place as far away from here as possible, right now".
Its a great offer, but hardly a normal routine for a person. Can you really have a person whose daily routine is to fly to the furthest place they can get to immediately?
Perhaps a flashback to their normal routine then? Or perhaps make the staff the protagonist and their daily routine is to deal with crazy customers.
Character is key in the early scenes of a narrative really. Get the audience to identify with a protagonist. Who are these people, how do they know each other and what's their normal life like?
#improv #hooplaImpro #london
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory:
🎵 Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
#SharonVanEtten #TheAttachmentTheory
https://sharonvanetten.bandcamp.com/track/southern-life-what-it-must-be-like
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Grace Jones:
🎵 Devil in My Life
#GraceJones
https://open.spotify.com/track/66vfUT7b5byHHQPGWsToSx
