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oakfarmI was thinking, the reason I am here, and perhaps you are here, is basically because I got addicted to writing entries. Ordinary people didn’t get addicted to the net until twitter and facebook came? (I never had Myspace so I don't know about that site.) Are there any differences between us addicted to web 1.0 livejournal style, and the other?
Unrelated I get kind of excited when I listen to the song Carry my urn to Ukraine from the 1993 album The Gods of earth and heaven by Army of lovers. It’s weird, it’s not my kind of music and the lyrics are full of references to death. When the song mention easten European, trains and cremation, what is the odds those parts don’t refer to the Holocaust? Other parts of the song more or less clear refer to other things in history. (At least two of the group members have Jewish background, Polish Jewish respective French Algerain Jewish.) No, the thing I get excited about might be exorcism, Ukraine and that part of east Europe, the hinterland between Europe and Russia ends up being exotic. I’m well read enough to know that one nineteen century Austrian forigen minister said that everything beyond Vienna is “the orient”. So the confession is that I might like the song because of orientalism, not because of flirting with death. If that’s better.
More pop culture. Is Netflix trying to increase European integration by showing us e.g. sci-fi from our own continent, from countries like Germany and France? I have associated sci-fi with the Anglo-sphere. But thanks to netflix, I have seen the German series Biohackers and the French series Osmosis. Both about technology and biology. In Osmosis, we follow a young sibling couple who have developed a brain implant that will help you find the love of your life. Web 2.0 dating apps are of course stupid and designed to lower your self esteem, <sarcasm>brain implants is the way forward</sarcasm>. That kind of technology made me call Osmosis a French Black mirror. Biohackers are about German students who in the series are biohacking, e.g. develop highly luminescent cannabis plants, as easy as Hollywood hackers get into the Pentagon.
Unrelated I get kind of excited when I listen to the song Carry my urn to Ukraine from the 1993 album The Gods of earth and heaven by Army of lovers. It’s weird, it’s not my kind of music and the lyrics are full of references to death. When the song mention easten European, trains and cremation, what is the odds those parts don’t refer to the Holocaust? Other parts of the song more or less clear refer to other things in history. (At least two of the group members have Jewish background, Polish Jewish respective French Algerain Jewish.) No, the thing I get excited about might be exorcism, Ukraine and that part of east Europe, the hinterland between Europe and Russia ends up being exotic. I’m well read enough to know that one nineteen century Austrian forigen minister said that everything beyond Vienna is “the orient”. So the confession is that I might like the song because of orientalism, not because of flirting with death. If that’s better.
More pop culture. Is Netflix trying to increase European integration by showing us e.g. sci-fi from our own continent, from countries like Germany and France? I have associated sci-fi with the Anglo-sphere. But thanks to netflix, I have seen the German series Biohackers and the French series Osmosis. Both about technology and biology. In Osmosis, we follow a young sibling couple who have developed a brain implant that will help you find the love of your life. Web 2.0 dating apps are of course stupid and designed to lower your self esteem, <sarcasm>brain implants is the way forward</sarcasm>. That kind of technology made me call Osmosis a French Black mirror. Biohackers are about German students who in the series are biohacking, e.g. develop highly luminescent cannabis plants, as easy as Hollywood hackers get into the Pentagon.
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