Morteza's Junkyard 🍁

تازه دیدم دوتا کلمه توی Description چنلم جا گذاشته بودم و خبر نداشتم از این غلط‌های فاحش. ایشالا به حق علی جوری کشته بشم که بمیرم.

Mahasti gotta be one of the most exploited women ever why is she still forced to sing every song on earth through generative bullshit. Let the poor woman rest

Okay so instead of playing Return to Salem's Gate, I played Last Hour. Some mistakes are waiting for anyone brave enough to listen but overall I guess it's fine for a song which I hadn't played for months, maybe even a year.

It's fine I shall put my phone's stupid mic to use and see how it goes

I WILL post a cover (I don't like calling them "covers" technically because it's just me playing along to the original track but I don't know a better word) of Early Moods' "Return to Salem's Gate" tonight and I WILL try not to mess it up too much (I already know I'm gonna be playing horribly AND consistently off the beat)

Wasn't in the mood for much exploration this week in terms of music besides that Parquet Courts (which was recommended by a friend; I enjoyed it a lot, especially the post-punkier bits). I just went through the first 4 Riot albums and I gotta say, these guys sure knew how to switch up their style. First album is just in the vein of earlier Heavy Metal inspired by those proto-metal bands of the 70's; then they suddenly switched to a more Speed Metal sound in the early 1980's which I guess isn't surprising given how many bands were worshipping at the altar of Judas Priest's Stained Class during that period; seems like they began incorporating more of that "hard n' heavy" USPM sound later on in that decade and they definitely pulled it off, especially on Thundersteel.

تازه دیدم دوتا کلمه توی Description چنلم جا گذاشته بودم و خبر نداشتم از این غلط‌های فاحش. ایشالا به حق علی جوری کشته بشم که بمیرم.

I believe these two quotes showcase [some of] his ideas on the matter: The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the giveness of totality and thereby the identity of subject and object, and it suggests that man is in control of totality. But the desire of the essay is not to seek and filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal. Its weakness testifies to the non-identity that it has to express, as well as to that excess of intention over its object, and thereby it points to that utopia which is blocked out by the classification of the world into the eternal and the transitory. In the emphatic essay, thought gets rid of the traditional idea of truth. The essay must let the totality light up in one of its chosen or haphazard features but without asserting that the whole is present. It corrects the isolated and accidental aspects of its insights by allowing them to multiply, confirm, and restrict themselves -- whether in the essay's proper progress or in its mosaic-like relation to other essays...

I forgot to share something that I really loved about Adorno's Essay as Form which I mentioned a couple of nights ago. As you can probably guess from the title, he's gonna discuss many aspects of Essays and why they are relatively special/unique. What I really enjoyed was his perspective regarding the essay's non-identity; the essay not conforming to the idea of totality and continuity; that it must necessarily exist within a larger framework dictating what has come before, and what will follow.

Anyways, the introduction Engels wrote for this in 1888 (around I think 41 years after the speech was given initially), is incredibly insightful. Definitely recommend reading this to anyone interested because it's very short and straight-forward!

Here's a quote from the speech that Mr. Bowring was giving to hand-loom weavers who were deprived of any job security whatsoever: The improvements of machinery, ...by superseding manual labor more and more, infallibly bring with them in the transition much…

Here's a quote from the speech that Mr. Bowring was giving to hand-loom weavers who were deprived of any job security whatsoever: The improvements of machinery, ...by superseding manual labor more and more, infallibly bring with them in the transition much of temporary suffering.... The national good cannot be purchased but at the expense of some individual evil. No advance was ever made in manufactures but at some cost to those who are in the rear. Marx mocks him a couple of pages later: You thousands of workers who are perishing, do not despair! You can die with an easy conscience. Your class will not perish. It will always be numerous enough for the capitalist class to decimate it without fear of annihilating it. Besides, how could capital be usefully applied if it did not take care always to keep up its exploitable material, i.e., the workers, to exploit them over and over again?

I wish I could articulate just how good of a text this is. Well, technically it's not a "text" since it's a speech but whatever. I was reading it a few days ago out of curiosity, because that one paragraph of Marx saying that he preferred Free-Trade over Protectionism was something that I had come across quite a lot. It admittedly made me very curious. (And I guess my love for the way he has with words, his humor, played a part of course.) When I say this a great text, I don't mean that it predicts everything with 100% certainty because that was neither the point of the speech nor was it something that he himself seemed to be interested in. The beauty of the famous Free-Trade speech at Brussels, stems from the fact that he (along with many others) were aware that regardless of which path a nation takes, whether it is the path of Free-Trade, or Protectionism and imposing enormous tariffs on imported goods, it is the working-class everyday people who will pay for it. Regardless of the answer to that question, the class antagonisms will be clearer than before.

Here's the sequel to another song by Unsane that I covered a while ago. 🐬 (Playing along to the live version this time as well. I was pretty much losing control of the pick during the outro and it was on the verge of falling down but I decided to still just upload this version because it was kinda funny)

who up daxxing they riggs (sorry)

scream of the butterfly by acid bath