> > > “In a thousand years, Gandahar will be destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved and what can’t be avoided will be.” > > > > The riddle at the heart of legendary French animator René Laloux’s strangest movie is as confusing as the film itself. By the end of Gandahar, you may not understand either, but you’ll have experienced one of the most ambitious and beautiful time-travel stories ever told. > >

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This video reminds me of some of my first extradimensional interludes, and my early experiments with the spore drive.

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> > > Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence. Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent. I'm flat broke but I don't care, I strut right by with my tail in the air > Stray cat strut, I'm a ladies cat > I'm a feline Casanova, hey man, that's that > Get a shoe thrown at me from a mean old man > Get my dinner from a garbage can > Meow > Yeah, don't cross my path > I don't bother chasing mice around > I slink down the alley, looking for a fight > Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night > Singin' the blues while the lady cats cry > "Wild stray cat, you're a real gone guy > I wish I could be as carefree and wild > But I got cat class and I got cat style" > I don't bother chasing mice around > I slink down the alley, looking for a fight > Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night > Singin' the blues while the lady cats cry > "Wild stray cat, you're a real gone guy > I wish I could be as carefree and wild > But I got cat class and I got cat style" > >

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I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"

> > > Real Genius is a 1985 American science fiction comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft, and PJ Torokvei. Starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret. The film, set on the campus of Pacific Tech, a science and engineering university similar to Caltech, follows Chris Knight (Kilmer), a genius in his senior year, who is paired with a new student on campus, Mitch Taylor (Jarret), to work on a chemical laser. > >

> > > "Look at it this way. Considering the type of people you are and the environment you're in, you have to admit the strong possibility this may be the only chance you ever have in your entire lives... to have sex." > > > > * Chris Knight > >

> > > Boy, was Spielberg ever wrong. Close Encounters my ass. > > > > * John Critchon > >

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> > > All we are is dust in the wind, dude. > Όπως η άμμος της κλεψύδρας, έτσι είναι και οι μέρες της ζωής μας! > >

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As such, be excellent to one another, and, of course, party on dudes!

Some of the craziest slide action I've ever seen on a shamisen.

> > > Nini grew up in Taichung, Taiwan and has played and studied Chinese Traditional Folk instruments for over 20 years. She has toured Europe, the USA, Canada, China, Japan, and all of her home island playing in orchestral as well as rock settings. Nini is now on a journey to create her own unique sounds with the use of her traditional instruments and share them with the world. > >

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Don't panic, and bring a towel.

For seasoned galactic travelers, if you're looking for the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which includes:

• Hitchhiker's Guide
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• Life, the Universe, and Everything
• So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
• Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
• Mostly Harmless

... this wormhole should get you there.

Also, upon conferring with both Space and Ice Pirates, I've been persuaded to also provide their contribution here in honor of the late, great Douglas Adams.

Now could you guys please untie my cats and get them off the plank?

> > > 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 > Cause you're my sweet darlin' > Sigh, Sigh > > > > If the sky may split > And sea may open wide > We can hide > If the mountain peaks > Return to paper thin > We can grin > For the end of time > Is just a game to us > It's treasonous > You and i will be just fine > In what they call > A fallen world > > > > Forgive me you know > That i can't tell a lie > Said the creature in my dream > Whеn i asked it if i'd die > Next to my lovеr > In a stoop of whiskey rye > Bubbling and giggling > High, High, High > You might also like > Intergalactic > Riff Kitten > ​​the grudge > Olivia Rodrigo > ​lacy > Olivia Rodrigo > If the sky may split > And sea may open wide > We can hide > If the mountain peaks > Return to paper thin > We can grin > For the end of time > Is just a game to us > It's treasonous > You and i will be just fine > In what they call > A fallen world > >

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> > > The Way that can be articulately described is not the Unchanging Way. The name that can be said out loud is not the Unchanging Name. With your mouth unopened, and things left undefined, you stand at the beginning of the universe. Make definitions, and you are the measure of all creation. > >

> > > The Tao Te Ching (UK: /ˌtaʊ tiː ˈtʃɪŋ/,[1] US: /ˌdaʊ dɛ ˈdʒɪŋ/; simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經; pinyin: Dàodé Jīng [tâʊ tɤ̌ tɕíŋ] i) is a Chinese classic text and foundational work of Taoism written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi, though the text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written—or at least compiled—later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi. > > > > The Tao Te Ching, along with the Zhuangzi, is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism. It also strongly influenced other schools of Chinese philosophy and religion, including Legalism, Confucianism, and Chinese Buddhism, which was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts when it was originally introduced to China. Many artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and gardeners, have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has spread widely within the globe's artistic and academic spheres. It is one of the most translated texts in world literature. > >

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> > > Gotta get up > > > > Ups and downs > Never the same each day > Rolling with the plays > Never an easy way > > > > Highs and lows > Battles in my mind each day > Rolling with the plays > Never an easy way > > > > Gotta get up > Gotta get up > Got to, got to, got to, got to... > > > > Feel good > Feel good > Feel good > Feel good > > > > Tears of joy > Tears of pain > Keep moving forward > Just throw your fears away > > > > Times you'll win > Sometimes you'll lose > Keep moving forward > Don't throw your dreams away > > > > If it was easy... it's never easy > If it was easy the reward wouldn't be this good > > > > Gotta get up > Gotta get up > Got to, got to, got to, got to > > > > Feel good > Feel good > Feel good > Feel good > > > > Gotta get up > Gotta get up > Gotta get up > Gotta get up > Got to, got to, got to, got to > > > > Feel good > Feel good > Feel good > Feel good > > > > If it was easy... it's never easy > If it was easy the reward wouldn't be this good > >

> > > Why are you such a derelict? Such a piece of human junk? The answer's simple. You're a scanner, which you don't realize. And that has been the source of all your agony. But I will show you now that it can be a source of great power. > >

CW: Exploding head. David Cronenberg. Genetic manipulation. Homeless escalator acrobatics. Involuntary suicide. Thinly veiled Thalidomide allegory. Did I say exploding head? Exploding head.

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> > > "The feeling is definitely there. It's a new morning in America... fresh, vital. The old cynicism is gone. We have faith in our leaders. We're optimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to accept. We don't need pessimism. There are no limits." > >

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> > > "Outside the limit of our sight, feeding off us, perched on top of us, from birth to death, are our owners! Our owners! They have us. They control us! They are our masters! Wake up! They're all about you! All around you!" > >

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One of the best everyman's survival guide to dealing with alien infiltration. The Electroids love to use these kind of tactics.

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> > > They Live is a 1988 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by John Carpenter, based on the 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson. Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster, the film follows an unnamed drifter who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to consume, breed, and conform to the status quo via subliminal messages in mass media. > >

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I was unaware of these unknown unknowns. I should have known better. Thanks to @JonnyFallout for the smooth groove. Here's some background on this cat:

> > > Jonny Fallout is an electronic artist / producer of synthwave, retrowave and synthpop with cyberpunk flavor. When he's not abusing the upper limits of his machine's RAM, he's obsessively sampling cool noises, constructing new sounds, or remixing tracks. > >

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Review of Unknown Unknowns from his Bandcamp site:

> > > The Boston-based retrowave wizard known as Jonny Fallout marks his debut on Triplicate Records with the stunningly sleek 'Unknown Unknowns', which finds him defiantly enveloping the dark landscape of the present with a gorgeous retro-futurist shimmer, with extremely appealing and danceable results. > > > > 'Delete War' as an opener is a fine statement of intent, both in the energy of the composition and the badass anti-war title (which admittedly could be a small scale endurance contest over who can hold down 'backspace' the longest). We're treated to pretty flourishes set against a reliable Tangerine Dream-esque arpeggio sequence kicked into a mechanistic overdrive. Perfectly compressed percussion (spoiler: the LP has a lot of that) compliments the melody beautifully. > > > > The following number, which has the honour of carrying the album title's name muses on the maximum point of power in a person's life, i.e. the present, with the repeated refrain: 'There is no past, there is no future, only now'. You can see (or hear, rather) how the concept of the record might've formed around this initial spark of brilliance. > > > > 'Perpetual Drift' will sound familiar to those who enjoyed last year's Time Lapse compilation, this time we're treated to an extended and gnarlier affair. Well, 'gnarlier' but not without the familiar Falloutian slickness. Every sound on this song and the album as a whole feels so stunningly tight and deliberate, it's a lesson in editing, sequencing, production and composition all in one. > > > > 'Saints in the Code' adopts a more traditional synthwave methodology with its sweetly sequenced.. well.. synths, complimented nicely with tasteful licks of electric guitar and pretty key stabs. 'Cybernaut' on the other hand, remixed from the 2021 Triplicate compilation 'Protozoa' is a wonderful mid-paced melody-focused banger whose meditative arpeggios threaten to meander into melancholy but never quite cross that line, though the depressingly titled 'Oceans of Plastic' comes closer yet. Perhaps the most experimental piece on the record, wherein disembodies and a steady 4-4 occasionally gives way to junglist breaks, all wrapped under a warm envelopment of synth-pads. > > > > The lengthiest tune on Unknown Unknowns 'Hidden Language' features a propulsive beat and a nicely arranged extensive array of whooshes, pads, beeps... everything but the kitchen sink. An exercise in maximalist synthwave composition, colourful and fresh, a strong contender for the high-point of the record that truly dispels the myth of the second-side lag, though 'Interpreter of Dreams' seems hell-bent on raising the musical bar to further dazzling heights. An aural show-reel for Jonny Fallouts skills, borrowing components of the heights that preceded it, while reinventing the sound in the process. There's something the squeaky synth-bends do your brain that's hard to articulate in words. You'll just have to listen and do my job for me. > > > > 'Alternate Timeline', another reworked piece, this time from the 'Music for Dotted Lines' Trip FM compilation, and works wonders as a closer, both offering a somewhat more chilled final excursion than its eight brothers that came before, and dispelling the notion that a last track needs to truly wind-down, as the second half thumps off and takes to the skies. > > > > You're not likely to hear many records so sweetly arranged and tightly put-together this year (though admittedly it's early yet). A truly inspired collection of heights and bangers from a proven expert in his field. > >

> > > It's a fine day, people open windows. they leave their houses, just for a short while. > >

Just something to sing to the Sunday sunrise, to toss a bit of sparkle Monday's way.

> > > The Yoshida Brothers (吉田兄弟, Yoshida Kyōdai) are Japanese shamisenist musicians who have released several albums on the Domo Records label. > > > > The two brothers are performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 1999 in Japan as a duo playing the shamisen. Their first album sold over 100,000 copies and made them minor celebrities in Japan, a fact that surprised the Yoshida Brothers themselves.They have since attracted an international audience. > > > > Their music has been a fusion of the rapid and percussive Tsugaru-jamisen style along with Western and other regional musical influences. In addition to performing songs that are only on the shamisen, they also use instruments such as drums and synthesizers. > >

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> > > Astronomers have found a new way to detect one of the oldest features of our universe. > > > > These Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, or BAO, are subtle wrinkles that flowed through cosmic matter during the first 380,000 years of the universe's existence. Today, they are popular subjects in space science because they're one of the very few hints of the Big Bang that can still be traced — and importantly, astronomers can use the presence of BAOs to measure cosmic distances as well as the rate at which the universe is expanding. > > > > While astronomers have historically focused on galaxy clusters to observe these cosmically imprinted waves, a new study aims to sniff out some overlooked waves by looking at galaxy shapes and orientations rather than just clusters as a whole. These features, the study researchers write, can offer a "promising cosmological probe" yet have been ignored so far. > > > > To fill this gap, the team looked at oddities in the orientations of about one million galaxies by studying how stretched those galaxies are. In turn, that revealed the number of nearby galaxies which exert a gravitational pull. Then, researchers zoomed in on galaxies that were not as intensely stretched, which stood out as oddballs in the database. > > > > "It is in those points, where galaxies do not point where they should, where statistics tell us that the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are located, since these waves also act as points of gravity attraction," Antonio Cuesta, an astrophysicist at the University of Córdoba in Spain and one of the authors of the new study, said in a statement. > > > > As the new way of detecting BAO is quite independent, it helps researchers in measuring the locations of galaxies in the universe and their distances more accurately, according to the study. Ultimately, this knowledge could be used to better map the universe, scientists say. > > > > The novel method also reveals more information about the universe's expansion — which is a puzzle in itself because it is accelerating at a rate the scientists can't quite explain. According to the team, the mechanism could also help calculate the amount of the elusive dark matter and dark energy that lies in our universe — the latter of which is actually suspected to be causing space's accelerating expansion somehow. > > > > The new study is not the first effort to detect BAO in the universe. That milestone belongs to two independent teams who spotted the signal in 2005 while analyzing data of nearby galaxies. At the time, the size of BAO signals in the universe was found to be about 150 million parsecs. > > > > One of the goals of the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, which launched early July to hunt for dark matter and dark energy, is to measure at least some of these signals across the universe. > > > > Hovering about a million miles (1.6 million km) above Earth, the telescope recently sent home its first starry images. > > > > The paper was published last month in the journal Nature Astronomy. > > > > Related: No, the Big Bang theory is not 'broken.' Here's how we know. > >

> > > Up on the hill, people never stare. They just don't care. > Chinese music under banyan trees, here at the dude ranch above the sea > Aja > When all my dime dancin' is through > I run to you > Up on the hill > They've got time to burn > There's no return > Double helix in the sky tonight > Throw out the hardware > Let's do it right > Aja > When all my dime dancin' is through > I run to you > Up on the hill > They think I'm okay > Or so they say > Chinese music always sets me free > Angular banjoes > Sound good to me > Aja > When all my dime dancin' is through > I run to you > >

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> > > Switch off the mind and let the heart decide > Who you were meant to be > Windpower > Flick to remote and let the body glide > There is no enemy > Windpower > Etch out a future of your own design > Well tailored to your needs > Yeah, > Windpower > Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive > Of a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a > Windpower > There is no enemy > Windpower > Switch off the mind and let the heart decide > We're a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a > Ooh ooh... > Shatter the lens and grind it into sand > Windpower > One measured exposure > Yeah > Scatter the seed and furrow in our land > The future is roses! Roses! > Windpower > Switch off the mind and let the heart decide > There is no enemy! > Yeah, > Windpower > Lift up the hearts of this your only tribe > We're a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a > Yeah! > We're a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a > Yeah! > Ooh ooh... > Windpower > >

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One of my favorite tracks for cruising the clouds of Venus. It's got that smooth swing without losing any of that bebop pop. 90 out of 91 cats dig it, and the one that doesn't is undead.

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