J Simpson

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J Simpson is a prolific academic writer, journalist, creative and critic, specializing in "dark," experimental, and avant-garde art, idealistically believing that good art makes the world a better place.

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And it breaks and it breaks and it breaks.

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the last few years for me has been real eye-opening, in that i've realized just how thoroughly the early net optimism was a marketing ploy to expand the web's reach, make us dependent so they could charge rent. the positives EXISTED, but they were not inherent and they've largely been abandoned

DLing John Cale promos, waiting for Six Organs of Admittance to start.

Songs or albums that remind you of Gemini? 🎧 #MusicSky #Astrology

🎧 Album of the Day 59 Christian Death - Catastrophe Ballet i reviewed Christian Death's magnificent second album in honor of World Goth Day. open.substack.com/pub/hauntolo... #MusicSky #albumoftheday #Bestofthe80s #WorldGothDay

Christian Death - Catastrophe Ballet (1984) album reviewopen.substack.com Happy World Goth Day to all who celebrate! In honor of this blessed day, here's a review of Christian Death's essential second album, Catastrophe Ballet.

🎧 Album of the Day 58 John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow 95/100 Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the 80s "rain on the scarecrow blood on the plow." Getting a real Midwestern Gothic feel from this one. Rusted & abandoned open.spotify.com/album/1BYEhf... #MusicSky #albumoftheday #bestofthe80s

Scarecrowopen.spotify.com John Mellencamp · Album · 1985 · 13 songs.

🎧 Album of the Day 57 Alban Berg Quartet - Schubert String Quartets No. 14 & 13 Best of the 80s 290/1000 Death and the Maiden Lush, romantic, emotive, Alban Berg Quartet capture the timeless aching beauty of Schubert. open.spotify.com/album/2IAsZa... #musicsky #albumoftheday #bestofthe80s

Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 14 "Death and the Maiden" & 13 "Rosamunde"open.spotify.com Franz Schubert · Album · 1985 · 8 songs.

🎧 Album of the Day 56 Emil Gilels - Beethoven Piano Sonatas: Pathetique, Moonlight Pathetique is truly eviscerating. Even slower, statelier, and more haunting than usual. Makes funeral doom sound cheerful. open.spotify.com/album/3b2x2h... #musicsky #albumoftheday #bestofthe80s

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos.8 "Pathétique", 13 & 14 "Moonlight"open.spotify.com Ludwig van Beethoven · Album · 1981 · 10 songs.

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My new PostPostmodernism project is live, first as a newsletter but soon to be a website, with a review & some personal thoughts and feelings on 1991's Fried Green Tomatoes in honor of Mother's Day! Any helping spreading the word is hugely appreciated! open.substack.com/pub/postpost... #FilmSky 📽️

Movie Review #1: Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)open.substack.com Tuwanda! Kicking off the Postpostmodernism project with some personal reflections on Jon Avnet's Fried Green Tomatoes, a celebration of women's empowerment and the deep, abiding power of friendship.

🎧 Album of the Day 55 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Best of the '80s 13/1000 Tom Waits moves beyond his sadsack barfly bohemianism into his art rock, concept-driven final form. Marc Ribot's guitar is a thing of jagged beauty. open.spotify.com/album/51CvLH... #MusicSky #AlbumOfTheDay #BestOfThe80s

Rain Dogs (2023 Remaster)open.spotify.com Tom Waits · Album · 1985 · 19 songs.

🎧 Album of the Day 54 The Hiliard Ensemble - Perotin Best of the '80s 992/1000 Gorgeous early music from of 12th-Century French composer Perotin. You can practically smell the sandalwood, hear the voices echoing. open.spotify.com/album/5kZW1e... #MusicSky #albumoftheday #Bestofthe80s

Perotinopen.spotify.com The Hilliard Ensemble · Album · 1989 · 9 songs.

14 Albums To Check Out This Week hauntologynow.substack.com/p/14-albums-... #musicsky

14 Albums To Check Out This Week, 5.10hauntologynow.substack.com From two excellent hip-hop joints to a cloudy dub techno reissue to the dreamy I Saw the TV Glow soundtrack and the long-awaited new one from Derek Piotr, here are 14 of this week's best albums.

Working hard to get over my prejudice of people who use the word 'bro.'

5 Poems for Cinco de Mayo thespiai.wordpress.com/2023/05/05/5... #poetrysky

5 Poems for Cinco de Mayothespiai.wordpress.com Depictions of the battle showing Mexican cavalry overwhelming the French troops below the fort at Loreto. Scene recreated by Francisco P. Miranda. Oil on canvas, 1872.//credit: Francisco P. Miranda Ma...

Tfw you look up "poststructuralist album reviews" and find yr own writing. forestpunk.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/m... #noisemusic #musicsky

Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Hybrid Noisebloom (1997) album reviewforestpunk.wordpress.com 1997's Hybrid Noisebloom is a Long Dark Spin Cycle of the Soul, leaving you ecstatically exhausted, wrung out, and cleansed. Reviewing noise records is funny business. In a certain respect, it seems a...

i included @ureterocele.bsky.social's incredible Left Renal Agenesis in my roundup for this week's Bandcamp Friday. hauntologynow.substack.com/p/10-albums-... 🎧 #musicsky #BandcampFriday #NewMusicFriday

10 Albums To Check Out This Bandcamp Friday, May 3 Editionhauntologynow.substack.com From the artful bass music of Damos Room to the ghostly psych folk of Avi C. Engel to the sublime beats of Portland's Production Unit Xero, here are 10 albums to check out this Bandcamp Friday!

What're people planning on picking up for tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday? Working on putting together a newsletter. #musicsky JazzSky #bandcampfriday

🎧 Album of the Day 53 Alexis Weissenberg - Debussy: Piano Works Music As Time Machine flashback to sitting next to my Mom in my childhood bedroom, moss-green carpet cratered with crayon wax, high- and low-c marked with pink stars. open.spotify.com/album/0rugKG... MusicSky #albumoftheday

Debussy: Clair de Lune; Piano Worksopen.spotify.com Claude Debussy · Album · 1986 · 17 songs.

🎧 Album of the Day 52 Bridget St. John - Ask Me No Questions Mellowness as an act of resistance. "Wake up tired, go back to sleep There's no hurry, can't keep me from... ...Living my life, loving my life It's easy" This feels like such a radical sentiment in 2024. Gotta be rich to go back to bed

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Happy #WalpurgisNight!

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Wilburn Burchette - Introversion 📡📻🔒Sheffield Live! 93.2FM masterwilburnburchette.bandcamp.com/album/opens-... #NightTrainNowPlaying

Opens the Seven Gates of Transcendental Consciousness, by Master Wilburn Burchettemasterwilburnburchette.bandcamp.com 7 track album

🎧 Album of the Day 51 Lester Young - Just Coolin' Some lovely laidback jazz for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Some nice selections of elegant Big Band as well as some examples of Young's romantic proto Cool Jazz. moochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com/album/just-c... JazzSky #musicsky #albumoftheday

Just Coolin', by Lester Youngmoochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com 228 track album

🎧 Album of the Day 50 Sulk Rooms - Visions (expanded edition) Dreamy, but also vaguely lonesome, somewhere between the painkilling sound sculptures of Stars of the Lid and Tor Lundvall’s abduction myths. Mesmerizing. thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/viewer... #musicsky #albumoftheday

Viewers (Expanded), by Sulk Roomsthomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com 8 track album

Dream pop. Shoegaze. BBQ. Horror movies. And now to a psych festival! #musicsky

🎧 Album of the Day 49 St. Vincent - Masseduction Listening to a bunch of Annie Clark’s older albums while working on my review of All Born Screaming, which is out today. I like this a lot more than i did in 2017, but I’m still not 100% i buy the sleazy, sexed-up Schlick. #albumoftheday #musicsky

I understand these movies are silly as hell, but dang, the action in the fast and furious movies is unbelievably crisp.

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Huh. Neon is really killing it this year...Cuckoo, Immaculate, Longlegs...damn

🎧 Album of the Day 48 Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter Best of the 80s 1000/1000 Feel like this is the fulcrum between The Walker Brothers and Walker's dense, neoclassical art rock at the end of his life, but with a weird, coked-out 80s production. #albumoftheday #musicsky #bestofthe80s

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Another track from our upcoming sampler is up for preview! Sweet Dodim Waltz by @solilians.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/solili...

Solilians - Sweet Dodim Waltz, by Various Artistsiheartnoise.bandcamp.com from the album 2024 Sampler