Notices by priryo@linernotes.club

Just downloaded a Spanish film so old that Luís Tosar has a full head of hair.

Another niche recommendation, but if it's your niche you really want to see Pere Portabella's General Report (on Spain's post-Franco transition period).
https://mubi.com/films/informe-general
It's not what you expect from a political documentary, it opens at Franco's tomb like a horror movie, then whisks you away to demonstrations in Barcelona and Madrid with a whirling, intense thriller soundtrack. (I think by Grup Instrumental Catala, who I can find very little about).

...there is then a lot of talking in smoke-filled rooms but across all social classes - the political parties, the workers' movements, Basques, Catalans. Nearly all the faultlines in today's #Spain are included, so it's fascinating to watch today.
You get to see Big Beasts of politics like Pujol and Gonzalez before they ascended to power (and started filling their pockets).
The big, glaring omission, of course, is women. 😠

@tagomago Haven't seen that one yet, but they do look like they would be opposites(ish). Pre-/post-Franco etc. I imagine General Report would be more direct.

@tagomago
Not heard if that, will look, cheers!

A bit of street art from Portugalete.

@tagomago
"...which soon leads to complications." :)

I know that people (rightly) mock the world of HiFi cables and the pseudoscientific bordering on fraudulent claims made for them. But this is maybe the best £20 I ever spent on music.
When I first used these, to connect a CD player with a midi system (all in one HiFi midi, not computer music midi, youngsters) and replace the skinny phono lead in the box, it was a revelation. More detail and clarity in the sound like I hadn't even known was there. That extravagance was akin to renewing the whole of my music collection to date. Everything sounded better.
Now feels like a kind of milestone. The CD player (same one) is seriously poorly, may need replaced. So I finally swapped the good cables onto the HiFi berry digital player and once again, the full range, new sounds in old records.
So yeah. Most cables are oversold nonsense. But this one is amazing.

@tagomago
Oh that's the one, thank you!
Shows how often I go into town, it's been going on for 2 days now....

So I'm settled here enough to book into an experimental music workshop at the Guggenheim, but not enough to know how to check whether the metro is back running after rumoured problems this morning. :/

I'm the one who sorted out a library card long before my residency card, after all. (And still no health card...)

This article (too long, skip to second half IMO) is grasping at something important- the gap between rhetoric and practical action on the (specifically libertarian) Left when it comes to the challenges of climate.
It's an issue I've known friends wrestle with for 15+ years, to no satisfaction, so this new magazine should be very valuable.

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Socialism with an Anarchist Squint

It’s time to take planning seriously.

Socialism with an Anarchist Squint https://strangematters.coop/libertarian-socialism-economic-planning-anarchist-supply-chains/ via @wallabagapp

I think I'm at the point now where critiques that don't mention climate change seem like denial to me.
I read this long compilation of views (in Spanish) of The Worst Person In The World (boy do journalists love to think about journalist-y characters) and I think only one mentions the protagonist's political apathy.
Which might be fine if not for the film setting up one of her rivals as a figure of ridicule for her environmentalism (and a similar point being the catalyst for the end of a relationship). And in a film set, funded and portraying lives unimaginable without wealth built on exporting fossil fuels.
Not so much the director, because he's made the choice to espouse lazy cynicism for cheap laughs, but nearly 10 articulate people thinking very deeply about male gaze, cinema and women, none of them think to problematise the character beyond a lens of "white women's problems?"
Keep looking inwards, don't look up (as it were...)

Frances Ha, Fleabag y 'La peor persona del mundo': el problema del cliché de la treintañera alocada | Feminismo | S Moda EL PAÍS
https://smoda.elpais.com/feminismo/frances-ha-fleabag-y-la-peor-persona-del-mundo-el-problema-del-cliche-de-la-treintanera-alocada/

The same way I felt compelled to read Camus' The Plague in February 2020, I feel a strong desire to read Nevil Shute's On The Beach now.

Sure that's fine.

Anyone out there reading / planning to read the IPCC climate change report from last week?
I feel the need to get a better grounding, a longer view than news-speed (non)coverage, but that comes with the risk of it falling aside as "important but not urgent" reading often does. Maybe knowing others are reading it too will help?

@tagomago
I found a climbing wall on one of my bike rides a couple of weeks ago, going to pack my shoes for next time.
But will had to time it so there's no school kids there, it's been too long :p

Ooooh it's taken years but finally In Our Time has a programme on Kropotkin. Interested to hear how this goes.
In Our Time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

@tagomago
I really hope I can avoid that, the back of the speaker is almost totally sealed in a wooden cabinet.
That said, I think there's been a Lego brick in one of the speakers for 7 years so it wouldn't hurt to look...

This doesn't look good does it? It sounds bad too.
Any ideas what to do with a #speaker cone that has this kind of inversion in the centre piece?

That Godspeed You! Black Emperor bootleg on archive.org that we were speculating about has just gone and got an official release on Bandcamp:
https://godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/album/all-lights-fucked-on-the-hairy-amp-drooling

Struggling to comprehend the scale of this. And what must it have sounded like?!
(Also of note, "the WMO cautioned that lightning is dangerous", as if you were wondering.)
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Almost 500-mile-long lightning bolt crossed three US states

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60221521