Nerd alert: So they make a new Fantastic 4 movie. And it tells the same origin story as the previous two* and countless comics issues. How original. * I haven't seen the new one, but the cheap and hilarious Roger Corman version was on Youtube for a while.

Pet peeve: I'm listening to a Wire Tapper from The Wire magazine ("Adventures in new music") and a track comes on that sounds like Azerbaijan's submission to the Eurovision Song Contest. Adventurous indeed. Bah.

The accordion has a long history in Finnish folk music. The word for accordion is 'hanuri'. 'Hanuri' is also a synonym for 'arse.'

Are there really people who do their Christmas shopping in November? Or is this early marketing assault just pure sadism?

Bruce Banner wears amazingly stretchy trousers: He never ends up naked when he turns into the Hulk.

Mo Yan or Yan Mo? How about westerners spell Asian names with a comma like in library databases: Mo, Yan. That way I'd know immediately which one is the family name and it'll be in the order that East Asians prefer. Currently, we put Chinese family names first but Japanese ones last: Hayao Miyazaki.

Summary of Lovecraft: "OMG, so ugly, I'm scared!!!"

That barbarian age of the 19th century, when countless men, women and children were sacrificed to the dread god named Industry.

An AI-generated song tops the country music charts. I assume it doesn't sound anything like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIq...

"With my hypnotic powers I had rendered myself invisible." The Shadow Just one person bothered to listen to this little parody of chamber music. Oh well. 21 years ago, my Track Suite record gained 17,000 listeners. My 'career' has reached an end point. soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...

I wish black metal was metal played by black people. You know, with a touch of funk and such.

"Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air." The only bit of Shakespeare I remember. For some reason my brain shuts down as soon as someone starts declaiming him. But this bit would go well with a grime beat.

Very classical. soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...

I read John Shirley back in the early 90s. A good one of the cyberpunk pack. Helsinki's bookshops deteriorated after that, so I never saw his books again.

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" I listen to The Shadow while drawing and numbering faces, so I usually don't go to the computer to skip ads... except this time: A certain toy company pushed a TWO HOUR ad at me. Yikes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAQ...

Finland should reverse winter and summer times. For us it's pointless to have one more hour of sunlight at night, the sun setting at midnight instead of 11 pm. Instead, it would be nice in winter to have a sunset at 4 pm instead of 3 pm. That's in southern Finland, of course.

Amazing webcomic. Almost infinite detail and yet they manage to publish almost two pages per week. That's nearly Japanese levels of productivity. killsixbilliondemons.com

471,000 faces. Next year, I'll reach half a million. Yes, I'm insane. Why do you ask? renekita.tumblr.com

Oh all right, let's have just a little bit of reverb. Designing a percussion sound on my new Korg Opsix. It's lovely. Generally, I'm opposed to reverb and delay. They turn everything into soup when you're playing fast.

I read about a 9 year old who says "That's so AI!" when he means that it's nonsense. When we play Scrabble, I tell my mom to skip the Google AI when she looks up words.

Science fiction always described AI as cold and clever, occasionally murderous, but always efficient. They never dreamed of it as hallucinating mad creatures that drive people crazy.

I'm a contradictory man. I don't even agree with myself. Nonsense. I have strong principles. Which I question regularly. I accept that Ukraine has a right to defend itself. But the war will only end when Russians turn pacifist. And topple Putin in a bloody revolution. Um, what?

People will quit Spotify when it's flooded with AI slop. Or maybe not. They already listen to pretty ghastly stuff made by professionals who filter out all offensive/creative noise. Or maybe not. I don't know what's happening in the charts. I haven't listened to Top40 crap since the 80s.

Musk's Grokipedia thing could have gone worse: He could have programmed Grok to rewrite Wikipedia a thousand edits per second. I hope I'm not giving him ideas...

Genetically engineered babies will happen at some point. There will be some nation that does not outlaw it and people will travel there to get blond and blue-eyed children. Or something. My kids would have chlorophyll skin, so they wouldn't starve as long as the sun shines.

Bela Lugosi is so adorable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsgH...

My throat singing is beginning to sound Mongolian. Which was not my aim. I don't want to 'steal' from anyone. Oh well, it's not far from there into unknown territory.

Fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4r...

Americans get upset when the government spies on Americans. Meanwhile, the express purpose of the NSA is to spy on everyone else on this planet. And when we have colonies on the Moon, they will listen in there, as well.

It doesn't matter how bad Trump's dementia gets. As long as he can sign his name, the Heritage Foundation will do his thinking for him.

"Liam Neeson doesn't just phone in his performance from the nearest pub. He sends it on a postcard with insufficient postage." The Guardian Weekly's review of Phantom Menace (1999).

Octopuses stop eating and die before their offspring are born. So every generation of them has to learn everything from scratch. No transmission of knowledge, no collective science or culture. That's the one thing that prevents them from taking over.

Normal horses can't gallop for minutes at a time. When you know that, you will suddenly see all those jump cuts in movie gallop scenes with new eyes.

Damn. I still want a Korg Opsix. I thought I was already over GAS, having all the gear I need. But the glassy aggression of an FM synth makes me drool. Mind, my Roland System-8 has FM oscillators and I've done an album with them. So what is wrong with me? renekita.bandcamp.com/album/fraugh...

Youtube pushes ads from Kärkkäinen at me. Time for a reminder: The owner of that company is a Nazi. He publishes far right magazines. Of course, many corporate leaders have far right sympathies, but they are usually not as open about it.

Racing at Daytona is insane. They hurtle around the track at 200 mph (320 km/h) with barely a metre between them. Drive safely? Leave a safe gap and another car slides into it. Horrible crashes, but somehow nobody gets injured. F1 is so boring compared to this. www.youtube.com/live/x6mKP2N...

Low on energy and motivation, so I've been watching NASCAR race videos... and now Robot Wars. Brain refuses to process anything profound. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1d...

Velkajarru: Finland's right wing government have legislated a 'debt brake' that would bind future governments, too. It's intended to prevent raising the national debt... They have raised this debt massively to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Tax the rich. Cutting from the poor hasn't worked.

I don't understand Las Vegas. Why would anyone go on purpose there to get robbed? The odds are thoroughly stacked against them.

Look, advertisers, I don't need Grammarly to write posts on Bluesky or Facebook. I look just as silly when I use correct grammar or enuncible phallusible mess agents that incorrectify ever thingamajig I'm bloviating aboutaspittle.

Fot Halloween this year we'll be sneaking around adding an extra screw to the pile whenever you take anything apart, so that when you put it back together you're left with a sense of existential doubt and have to disassemble it again looking for where its meant to go.

AI investments and chip sales are in the hands of a few companies. If they crash, will it it hurt the rest of us?

I have a name for a record that includes its concept, so now I can start working on it: Kallopeli. 'Kellopeli' is Finnish for 'clockwork' and 'kallo' is 'skull.' So it'll be wonky clockwork music a bit like this one: archive.org/details/Meis...

I have one truly dedicated fan called 'seeker.' Every now and then they spend the day listening to my Soundcloud. Nice. It's where I put one-off tracks that don't bloom into full albums, usually because I can't recreate them ten times. soundcloud.com/rene-kita

The goal of every guitarist is to become so good that the listener enjoys their solos more than they do.

I was bored, so I needed music that changes every second. And, as that wasn't enough, I gave each ear a separate track. Listen through headphones. soundcloud.com/rene-kita/re...

Oh good, I have an idea for a record that will entertain exactly one person: myself. Currently so bored* with music that changes only gradually. So I'll cut up anything I find on my hard disk into one second bits and arrange them randomly.

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." Bokonon in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle Bokononism should be a major religion. The world might not be better then, but it would be more amusing.

I open LMMS, pick presets/samples at random, can't find a good groove. No problem, I'll just make 100 tracks and pick the best. Well, the 'best' is definitely not among my first seven tracks. Oh well, onward. They are still earworms. Bloop bleep bleep bloop bloop...