When is a comic not so much a comic and more a synesthesiastic pulp fever dream? This week, Jessika's taking us on a tour of one of the most avant garde comics ever: Steve Aylett's Hyperthick!
I posted a review of "Kienai" (the ending theme for the 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! anime) by Japanese music unit THE BINARY to AeschTunes:
A judge orders former New York City Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers for defamation. The women said they were subjected to harassment and racial abuse after Giuliani spread lies that framed them as participants in stealing the 2020 election for Joe Biden. Read more from the Associated Press.
Born Yallah Gudencia Mbidde in Kenya and raised in Uganda, MC Yallah has been involved in East Africa's rap scene since 1999. Alternating rhymes in Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili and English, her conscious, poetic and experimental style was slow to creep into Uganda's mainstream. Following a brief but necessary hiatus, she returned to...
The Afrofuturism movement within sci-fi may be equal to this moment, in part because it grows out of a history of displacement, atrocity, and instability....
Hurricane - Cannons - 2022 (www.youtube.com)
A woman who knows how to demand that you talk to the hand. I'm convinced she's a scanner....
Human - Apashe (ft. Wasiu) - 2023 (www.youtube.com)
Godspeed for the last time - my rear view’s like my past life. My demons' mad that I’m too fast, furious when I zoom past...
Same Old Energy (Part I) and Burn Your Village (Part II)- Rituals on the Banks of a Familiar River - Kiki Rockwell - 2023 - Witchfolk from New Zealand (www.youtube.com)
Mass hysteria and false accusation, our strange domination got no explanation...
Sikwebela - Yallah Beibe - MC Yallah & DebMaster - 2023 (www.youtube.com)
Born Yallah Gudencia Mbidde in Kenya and raised in Uganda, MC Yallah has been involved in East Africa's rap scene since 1999. Alternating rhymes in Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili and English, her conscious, poetic and experimental style was slow to creep into Uganda's mainstream. Following a brief but necessary hiatus, she returned to...
“A Veil Was Broken”: Afrofuturist Ytasha L. Womack on the Work of Science Fiction in the 2020s (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
The Afrofuturism movement within sci-fi may be equal to this moment, in part because it grows out of a history of displacement, atrocity, and instability....
LongMa - Legends - Nini Music - 2022 (Taiwanese Folk Metal) (www.youtube.com)
Some of the craziest slide action I've ever seen on a shamisen....
Fallen World - Riff Kitten w/ Kumiho (www.youtube.com)
Through the mist, out of the corner of your eye, it could be hope, but it's just passin' by. If the apple's really poison, Baby I could make a pie...