cathitza

cathitza, 6 months ago to writing

OK, it's happening. I'm attempting #NaNoWriMo. Somehow, in the last week or so, I've managed to come up with an idea and a rough plot.

#PrayForMe #AmWriting #Writing #NationalNovelWritingMonth

cathitza, 6 months ago to vinyl

#vinyl

davidnjoku, 7 months ago to Introvert

It's horrible being an #introvert. You know how you find that one place where you feel comfortable cos everyone leaves you alone. But then one day someone you know comes in and chats with you for 10 minutes, and when they're leaving they say, "See you here tomorrow?"

And you're thinking, another place I'm never returning to.

cathitza, 7 months ago to ai

AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1201840678/ai-was-asked-to-create-images-of-black-african-docs-treating-white-kids-howd-it-

#AI #AIart #WhiteSaviour #RacialBias

cathitza, 7 months ago to jungle

Ok, time to liven shit up.

‘Jah Sunshine’ by X Project (aka Rebel MC)
https://youtu.be/Fz7KH59HyZI?si=Gg2UGHLXzxl9vgra

This tune makes me want to dance my tits off, but let’s face it, in reality, I’m going to eat some sourdough toast and update a spreadsheet. It definitely ain’t the ‘90s any more. sigh

#JukeboxFridayNight #RainOrShine #XProject #RebelMC #TenorFly #FrankiePaul #jungle #DnB #DrumAndBass #rave #90sMusic

DJDarren, 7 months ago to random

Now into my 4th day of being sugar-reduced, and right on schedule, my body is beginning to crave delicious, shitty food.

I really hate this bit.

cathitza, 8 months ago to random

#IFeelSeen

DJDarren, 8 months ago to random

Hey YouTube, you cunts. How many times will I have to switch off video previews? I DO NOT WANT VIDEOS AUTOPLAYING WHILE I BROWSE.

There are NO circumstances where I will ever want this this. None.

DJDarren, 9 months ago to random

This week's Get Up mix on Apple Music is heavy on the nu-metal, and I'm not feeling it this morning.

dancinyogi, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

How many cups of coffee do you drink per day?☕
#poll

Please boost for a wider demographic 😊

cathitza, 9 months ago to random

Offerings for today's #TuneTuesday prompt: #BangersAndFiller - your least favourite track on a favourite music album.

'Revolver' is the Beatles best album imo, but 'Yellow Submarine' is bloody awful. Skipped 100% of the time. Here it is for your listening horror: https://youtu.be/m2uTFF_3MaA

And my second nomination is the cringey 'Happy Phantom' from Tori Amos' otherwise awesome 'Little Earthquakes' album: https://youtu.be/4ZUkTtAsv4A Why, Tori? Why?

#TheBeatles #ToriAmos

cathitza, 9 months ago to Haiku

Not normally a big fan of haiku, tbh (or at least, contemporary English attempts at them), but this one hits home.

#haiku #poetry #MattAbbott #SineadOConnor #TruthTellers #OutspokenWomen

DJDarren, 9 months ago to random

For the first time in a while there, I just sat in the car when I reached my destination because there was a good song on the radio.

Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day

#NowPlaying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q&pp=ygURSWNlIGN1YmUgZ29vZCBkYXk=

cathitza, 9 months ago to random

Sorry for sharing from F***book, but what a bloody brilliant tribute.

#SineadOconnor #AmandaPalmer

Until the philosophy which hold one race Superior and another Inferior Is finally And permanently Discredited And abandoned Everywhere is war. Twelve days later she took the stage at Madison Square Garden for a Bob Dylan tribute festival and you could barely hear her sing over the boos and jeers from the crowd. She scrapped her planned Dylan song and screamed out “War” again, as the crowd tried to overpower her. That feeling. Many women have been there. I have been there too, shaking, as it feels like the whole world is trying to shout and drown you out, and put you in your place. Wondering if I am the crazy one. Wondering if this many people are right. Or wrong. Or even real. She was right about the church. She was very fucking right. She was right about so many things. Now that she is dead, I know she’ll be lauded and applauded. But back then? That night? How do you imagine she felt that night, crawling into bed, having been abused by a crowd of thousands? How would you feel? What would that do to you? Would you care if the world turned around, forty years later, and said: “Sorry about that, you were actually very brave?” This is a woman who boycotted the Grammys saying she did not want “to be part of a world that measures artistic ability by material success.” This is a woman who refused to play US national anthem before certain concerts. That went down reallll well, too.
She was hated, she was scorned, she was cancelled for being honest over and over again. That SNL move was the beginning of the end of a career in many ways. She never recovered. Too much, they said. Go away. She used her voice. She kept on speaking. She was loud. Being a loud woman is not fucking convenient, for anyone. Ever. Not around here. She was strikingly beautiful. She shaved her head and gave the middle finger to the beauty standard. She wore combat boots and jeans. She opened her mouth to the max, literally. She did not mumble; she roared. She inspired me into taking power; she inspired so many of my friends. She showed us all another way. There’s this way, too. Go this way, she seemed to be screaming, GO. Dismissed as crazy. She struggled, and she struggled, and she struggled. She was punished, she was mocked, she was ridiculed. She retreated and came back time and time again, her roar ragged, her frustration jagged and visible. Painful. You could see it, feel it. We mourned it, me and my friends. Sinéad? Misunderstood? Which chicken, which egg? What the world did to Sinéad was death by a thousand cuts. The world lauded her, worshipped her, bought her, sold her, forgave her, claimed her, disavowed her. Over and over in cycles. How could anyone survive that? Like a piece of metal getting bent over and over and over again. It breaks.
She began as a fragile person. A fragile artist. Which is why her songs were so beautiful and powerful to begin with. A raw heart. A mother. Not an idea, not a theoretical. A person. The world loved the taste of her. The world didn’t know how to digest her. The world spit her out. She never apologized for ripping up that picture of the pope. When asked later, she said “I’m not sorry I did it. It was brilliant”. It was. She was. Never forget this woman. Let her memory guide us. Let them scream at you, but do not stop singing. Never apologize just to make them happy, to make them go away, to “get along”, to make them accept you. No, no, no. Me say War. Sinéad….rest in world-changing ripped paper phoenix-pieces from the stage, rising and burning into the white night stars. Find peace at last. I hope you forgive us what we could not give you.

cordillera, 10 months ago to Synthwave

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cathitza, 10 months ago to drumandbass

Ooh, just remembered another one. Another chilled effort from a drum 'n' bass producer: 'Love is not a Game' by J. Majik featuring Kathy Brown. Remember making this a tune of the month back in my journo days.

https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=g6FcqRO233s

#FridayNightJukebox #GamesWePlay #DrumNBass #DrumAndBass #JMajik #KathyBrown

cathitza, 10 months ago to random

And keeping with the theme of mellow efforts from drum 'n' bass producers (although a few years earlier) here's the stunning 'Mind Games' from DJ Crystl. I can never listen to this just once.

And turns out that all these years later, he's offering the wav version on Bandcamp for a limited time:

https://djcrystl.bandcamp.com/track/mindgames

#JukeboxFridayNight #GamesWePlay #DrumNBass #DJCrystl #90sMusic #90s

DJDarren, 10 months ago to random

Was listening to my one allowed daily news bulletin earlier, and the ‘worthless degrees’ nonsense came up.

Sunak was quoted as saying “But, at the same time, making sure that young people have a range of fantastic alternative opportunities, whether that be apprentices or higher technical qualifications, for example.”

And that’s actually valid. We do need to get kids into more manual fields of work.

But there’s little actual incentive to do so.

DJDarren, 10 months ago to random

There's a quote that's often attributed to Nick Cave that says;

"I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

And I want to know if he actually said it, and when.

The closest I can get to it is Dorian Lynskey quoting it in his Guardian review of Stadium Arcadium, writing that Cave said it "two years ago"*, but there's no link to him actually saying it.

*https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/may/05/popandrock.shopping2

Fitnessfoundry, 10 months ago to ukteachers

Thoughts👇🏾

#education #careers #success #life

AlexTheAutisticArtist, 10 months ago to random

At some point later this summer I'm going to have really large amounts of tomatoes. I must start planning what I'm going to do with them all. Also plums. Lots of plums. The jury is out on the cucumbers though.

devxvda, 11 months ago to random

Depression is a fixation on the past. The past is immutable, it can never change, only your memories of it can change.

Anxiety is a fixation on the future. The future is nebulous, it hasn't happened yet, with infinite possible diverging paths.

Once you grok this, and realize that the present is where flow¹ exists, the more fulfilled you will be.
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¹ Sometimes called "the zone". This state can only ever happen when you are living in the present.