Sergio

darkwave, 2024

https://linktr.ee/YamaUba

track link: https://yamauba.bandcamp.com/track/disappear

https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

I don't even use Pixelfed, but its growth is kind of interesting to me:

• its recent rise
  
• its subsequent plateau
  
• its (expected) ebbing
  

The ebb lasted a lot longer than I was rooting for. But now it seems to have caught a recent uptick. Still slight in terms of its maximum peak, but respectable: 47K Monthly Active Users. (about the same as the total number of MAUs on Lemmy!)

Furthermore, it's also reflected in the half-year Active Users, meaning it's not just people who signed in a couple months ago who are now checking back in -- looks like brand-new active participants.

Any idea what caused this? Another "migrate" campaign? Did Instagram do something stupid again? Or is it just a data glitch?

This was mentioned 2 months ago but I spaced out on it last month so maybe if I post about it I'll remember. iirc the stream happens on Friday, it's re-broadcast on Sunday, then it's archived so you can stream "on demand."

• Friday Jun 6 at 9pm Eastern: https://www.ynotradio.net/
• archived: https://www.ynotradio.net/rodney.php
• who tf is that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Anonymous

(still haven't learned how to cross-post from Mastodon...)

darkwave, 2024

heard on https://www.twitch.tv/djdeadparrot

song link: https://casketcassette.bandcamp.com/track/spine-feat-carrellee

cold wave / EBM, 2023

heard on https://www.twitch.tv/djmishimonstar

track link: https://ultrasunn.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-not-about-you

darkwave, 2018

heard on https://www.twitch.tv/djdeadparrot

track link: https://selofan.bandcamp.com/track/give-me-a-reason

looks like they're on tour:

• Jun 20 Junkyard Tbilisi, Georgia
• Jun 26 Dalaborgsparken Vänersborg, Sweden
• Oct 24 C3 Rooftop Guadalajara, Mexico
• Oct 25 Foro Indie Rocks Mexico City, Mexico
• Oct 26 Black Box Tijuana, Mexico
• Nov 29 Event Center Bochum Bochum, Germany

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) - is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• don't know how well things stream from archive, but:
• archive (Japanese AND English dub with English subtitles for Japanese speakers): https://archive.org/details/Godzilla-Final-Wars-Japanese-English-Hybrid
• archive (Japanese dub, English subtitles): https://archive.org/details/Godzilla-Toho-Classics/28.+Godzilla+Final+Wars+(2004).mp4
• archive (English dub): https://archive.org/details/godzilla-final-wars-2004-english-dub-1080-p
• tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/100039783/godzilla-final-wars (looks like you need to enable DRM in your browser, so uBlock Origin adblocker might not work!)
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/godzilla-final-wars

when a mysterious race of aliens known as the Xiliens arrive on Earth, the Earth Defense Force (EDF) find themselves locked in battle with various monsters attacking cities around the world, leading them to revive the only chance to save their planet: Godzilla.
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of 12 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.8/10.[15]

Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique called the film "utterly fantastic" and "a rush of explosive excitement."[16] Jim Agnew of Film Threat gave the film four and a half stars out of five, saying "the good news for kaiju fans is that Godzilla: Final Wars is a kick-ass giant monster flick."[17] Drew McWeeny of Ain't It Cool News remarked, "Godzilla: Final Wars earns a special place in my heart. It's fun. Pure lunatic fun, every frame."[18] Sean Axmaker of Static Multimedia said, "Directed by a true fan of the old school, it's lusciously, knowingly, lovingly cheesy."[19] Craig Blamer of the Chico News & Review called the film "a giddy and fast-paced celebration of the big guy."[20]

Conversely, David Nusair of Reel Film gave the film one and a half stars out of five, saying that "the battles are admittedly quite entertaining" but felt that director Ryuhei Kitamura "is absolutely the wrong choice for the material."[21] David Cornelius of eFilmCritic gave the film two stars out of five, calling it "the dullest, weakest Godzilla movie I've seen in a long, long time."[22] Ty Burr of the Boston Globe gave the film one and a half stars out of five, saying it focused too much on action and not enough on story, and calling it "35 minutes longer than is necessary."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla:_Final_Wars

https://www.deviantart.com/editor-gothink/about

The artist mentions a "gothink" web site but looks like he let that domain expire. I think this cartoon is from the early 2010s, late 2000s.

http://www.evocrim.co.uk/

Industrial ambient / electronic / experimental, 2010

https://www.dasharush.org/

track link: https://dasharush.bandcamp.com/track/ground-floor

Siouxsie has influenced other bands ranging from contemporaries Joy Division,[105] U2,[106] and the Cure,[107] to later acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain,[108] Jane's Addiction[109] and TV on the Radio.[110] Joy Division co-founder Peter Hook said that The Scream inspired them for the "really unusual way of playing" of the guitarist and the drummer and cited the Banshees as "one of our big influences".[105] U2 frontman Bono named her as an influence in the band's 2006 autobiography U2 by U2. He was inspired by her way of singing.[106] "I still think that I sing like Siouxsie from The Banshees on the first two U2 albums".[111] With his band, he selected "Christine" for a compilation made for Mojo's readers.[112] U2 guitarist the Edge also was the presenter of an award given to Siouxsie at a Mojo ceremony in 2005.[113] The Cure's Robert Smith related what the Join Hands tour brought him musically: "When we supported The Banshees in 1979, we suddenly became aware of how limited our palette was. I felt constrained, so when the opportunity arose to play with them I jumped at it and juggled the two bands for a while. It taught me a lot – they had fantastic rhythm sections and this made me think, 'Why can't I have this?'."[114] For Smith's record The Head on the Door in 1985, he stated: "It reminds me of the Kaleidoscope album, the idea of having lots of different sounding things, different colours".[115] Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction once made a parallel between his band and the Banshees: "There are so many similar threads: melody, use of sound, attitude, sex appeal. I always saw Jane's Addiction as the masculine Siouxsie and the Banshees".[109] Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio hailed the poppiest Siouxsie songs, citing their arrangements: "I've always tried to make a song that begins like "Kiss Them for Me". I think songs like "I Was a Lover" or "Wash the Day Away" came from that element of surprise mode where all of a sudden this giant drum comes in and you're like, what the fuck?! That record was the first one where I was like, okay, even my friends're going to fall for this. I feel like that transition into that record was a relief for me. Really beautiful music was always considered too weird by the normal kids and that was the first example where I thought, we've got them, they're hooked! I watched people dance to that song, people who had never heard of any of the music that I listened to, they heard that music in a club and went crazy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_Sioux

This came up during a discussion on "unnecessary" quotation marks.

Tina the Troubled Teen is "fourteen, listens to Switchblade Symphony, cuts Geography class, and smokes cloves when no adults are around.”

Character created by Lore Sjöberg (who is active on Bluesky!) and Lori Matsumoto (not active online?).

• First of all, a lot of the videos that have been linked to during the tournament will probably be removed sometime in a week or two. Don't know why they do this but they do. So take one last look, while you can!
• According to The Mainichi, the JSA's Yokozuna Deliberation Council unanimously recommended that Onosato be declared a Yokozuna. That is expected to be ratified on Wednesday.
• Here's a nice video story from NHK about internal refugees (kids) in Ukraine who are training in sumo
• finally, after the March tournament I posted some movie/show suggestions, some amateur sumo links, and some sumo-related exercises that you might want to check out.

Image: Onosato with the May tournament cup.

Awright! See you next tournament!