I am about to reunite with my gear!
and personal space!
so I dont have a playlist ready for this month yet so, GO LISTEN TO AU PAIRS.
Go listen to an album.
Go listen to something random,
something you think is good but havent actually made a personal opinion about yet
and then come back and tell me about it.
And as I pass thru this liminal period and land into my own space for the first time ever. I'll do the same and maybe it will become a playlist at the end of the month.
Love you and ttyl
Yo! I put together some of the songs I played with @dj_deathbeats for the @hamburger_eyes exhibit at @sfpubliclibrary this past week.
Links in bio!
In the late 2000s I moved to SF and Ray was one of the first people I met in the city. We were in line at a grocery store. Many photos, friends, hugs, zines, freaks and life changes later, look at us now, who would have thought?
After all these years, seeing Ray's work in this format has warmed my cold hard black heart and to be invited to help celebrate this achievement in a library (one of my favorite places) is such a life honor for me 💖💖🥹
If you are in SF, I hope you can make time to see this exhibition. There is a cellybrain section too!
Hauling all my goth, wave, industrial and dancey vinyls to a special engagement at the @sfpubliclibrary for @hamburger_eyes on Thursday!!!!🦇💗🦇
I am so excited. Please stop by and say hi. I have hugs for you.
If you have a cellybrain zine or book with my photos in it, I'll autograph it and seal it with a kiss in my black lipstick 😆 💋🖤
April's playlist comes complete with wibes and techno. I've been sick so my brain isn't working for writing interesting things about my post today. I was going for wibes : messy and techno : more messy lol.
Enjoy!
Highlights
+ I happened upon a cover of Eisbär
+ Remember Fatima Al Qadiri in 2012? Omg I was quietly obsessed with her, never told a soul til today
+ Techno, techno, and more techno.
A few weeks ago, I was looking out my window while working and I saw two lizards on the neighbor's roof. They were facing each other. One was doing pushups and the other was spotting. At one point their heads got close. I just imagine they were kissing, hence the title of this playlist. I hope they're gay.
Wake up opp, new @virtualcharms playlist just dropped!
I don't have a ton to say this time. Just trying to survive the grind and reality.
Playlist highlights:
We all might be sleeping on some Bats for Lashes, or idk maybe *you* haven't.
The Seasurfer track hella sounds like a Soft Moon angelic counter part with similar lyrical and vocal styles and I'm not even mad about it.
I put on some great random stuff I have come across in the past few weeks and some heavy rotation items as well. Are you sick of dark wave yet? 🦇🥴🦇 The answer is always: NEVER!
My playlists have been rolling thru an introspective mind space and maybe that's appropriate for the season but if the beginnings of my next batch of songs are any indication, I might be headed into techolandia as the sun stays longer with us each day 😎
The link in my bio provides the way to this lovely playlist as well as my previous playlists on @tidal . Enjoy!
I recently watched Fallen Angels by Wong Kar Wai, which is where I got the first track for this playlist, Speak My Language by Laurie Anderson.
I love how WKW uses music in his films. They are more than just a soundtrack. He applies the songs with what I think of as visual techniques but I digress...
For this months playlist, I've got some cold wave to start. Marie Davidson, eat your eat out.
I added a bunch of oldies but goodies from the darkwave pantheon including Male Tears and 2 from Madeline Goldstein.
This month I'll be briefly reuniting with San Francisco, DJing with @saiman.li.31@theknockoutsf for After Dark. Come shadow dance into the new lunar year with me.
🦇💓🦇
Lookout : Lunar New Year of the Horse shall arrive on February 16🐎 Please join us to celebrate this lunar New Year as well as my lunar birthday at the Knockout, SF on Thursday Feb 19 featuring Virtual Charms & Dyatron Industries dropping their fav vinyls. I shall open up w a few Asian gems b4 turning into darkness on the foggy dance floor 🐈⬛9pm-2am
Pancake vibes is probably the best way to describe the mood of my January playlist.
These songs were collected over the past few weeks capturing the winter cold and dread I have been walking thru as the world quickly becomes unrecognizable.
The first song is an ethereal DJ python track that I hope meets you in some strand of shared grief.
There's a dreamy melancholy track by Choir Boy, who did a benefit with a few other beloved artists, 404mediaco and @lafightsback_ earlier this month fundraising for @chirla_org . Check them all out!
I found an early Black Marble track that is a bit different than what they're known for and suprisingly soothing.
The vocals on the Roger Doyle track are so freaking cool and pretty.
I'm still on a DAF kick so I had to add another one of their tracks.
Wasting by Soft Moon is a treasure, a song of empowerment that I hella need rn.
Give it a listen!! Link in bio 🩶🩶🩶
I recently visited the 'Desperate, Scared but Social' exhibit at @ocmamuseum (again) and visited the @oogaboogastore popup (again) and grabbed a few more things to read.
I grabbed 'Notes on Evil' firstly because of the colors on the cover and secondly for the title. Never judge a book by its cover, but I always do.
The British author and generally creative person, Steven Warwick lays out a few provoking points. One being that labeling something as evil deflects attention from abuses of power.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about how 'cancel culture' and 'wokeness' have become performative and even puritanical at times in the hands of misinformed social media users. I'm not saying I defend abusers. I just wonder if there's a better way to hold harmful people accountable in that chaotic social space.
In a related discussion, this short 79 page book touches on the origin of 'identity politics' and how it morphed into a tool that causes more division than community building.
There's also a Drexiya and Kraftwerk compare/contrast, be still my heart 💓💓💓.
The opening essay touches on gargoyles as architectural elements that were meant to embody and at the same time protect from evil. I took this as an additional synchronicity as for a while now I have been searching for a gargoyle friend.
I'm definitely gonna grab another one from @floatingoperapress , maybe 'Against Morality' next.
As we continue thru the dead of winter, this month's playlist comes with too much William Maybelline. There isn't enough new stuff on this list but winter isn't really about being new. It's about finding comfort in darkness and patiently watching for the light to grow. You can find this playlist linked in my bio.
Highlights:
+ MVTANT's "As My Body Is Decomposing" reminds me of "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin.
+ Viagra Boy's more melancholic "Call Of The Wild" feels like medicine.
+ The Minneapolis Uranium Club and NOV3L offer some lovely post punk, very Gang of Four.
+ Soltera's "My Heart Is 4 Who?" nourishes my inner hard dance maniac. I want to blast all her albums and sweat my life away.
+ Dark Chisme belts some soulful dancers.
+ Closing out the list with some light from the Cure.
Hope you get some rest this holiday.
