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There’s a lot of Internet Archive talk on here (shoutout MJ Lenderman) but i haven’t seen many people mention the Wayback Machine, which to me is far and away the sites coolest feature. You can just throw in any old URL and explore the early internet. Amazing web design and fantastic informational resource.
My favorite thing to do is look up the websites of old defunct bands. I’m linking to one of my favorites from Geoff Farina’s (Karate) band The Secret Stars, where he and his bandmate Jodi Buonanno chronicle their time spent renovating a 19th century Grange Hall into a recording studio/art space.
Jan 23, 2024
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Just an easy way to kill time. Sometimes I’ll find an old music video I wanna watch like idk let’s say A-Punk by vampire weekend and I’ll watch it on the way back machine YouTube instead of regular YouTube, for immersion. A lot of the times this doesn’t work fully cus it’ll say u need a flash player or something from 2008 BUT you can read comments from that time still. pretty sick. HeavensGate.com is probably a close third.
Dec 5, 2024
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i know it’s kind of a circular response but literally putting in any url is so fascinating . i forgot what youtube used to look like in the early 2000s and it was a delightfully fun little nostalgia tour:)
Mar 6, 2025
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Open access and the preservation of digital artifacts are causes I can get behind, so I’m going to give The Internet Archive some appreciation here. I spend quite a bit of time browsing their offerings, some of which have made their way into my art projects. You’ll have to take your own trip with it, but some of my personal highlights include: a complete archive of Mondo 2000 magazines, a collection of K-Mart background music from a former employee (recently denoised by another IA user), and the Noise-Arch collection which pulls together many gigs of underground tape cassettes from the 1980s-90s. Recently I started using a ChatGPT Chrome extension and put it to work reading entire PDFs, searching for keywords, summarizing etc. Pretty awesome library school / digital hoarder / subvertainment stuff, if you like that sort of thing.
Nov 22, 2023
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I saw them in Paris this summer and they were unbelievably good. They have a choir that basically acts as a live version of the echo/delay on their vocals which was an amazing touch. It was truly an entrancing performance in a way that I had never experienced before.
Feb 4, 2024
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Shoegaze has reached critical mass and it’s time for your band to pivot— I swear this is free money. Find someone who speaks french and buy a Moog and whats left of Pitchfork will give you a 8.6 BNM for your debut EP.
Jan 21, 2024
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Like once a week just give urself a little bit of an adrenaline shot. Makes you feel alive.
I just bet $2.50 on a 4 leg parlay. what can you even buy for $2.50 any more y’know. might as well throw it into the void for a chance at $30 and the feeling of pure ecstasy.
Jan 23, 2024