"We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us." Old time programmers used the word 'pessimize' as the opposite of 'optimize.' I see that Tumblr has been Search Engine Pessimizing my main life project, One Million Faces Before I Die: renekita.tumblr.com

During the last two years, China has used more cement than the US during all of the 20th century. Cement manufacturing accounts for nearly 10% of global CO2 emissions. Non-emitting versions have been developed in recent years, but nobody uses them.

Every time I read about the Grateful Dead, I feel I should love them. Whenever I listen to them, the feeling passes instantly.

A global network of producers is pushing footwork into the fringes. Here are the names to know.

Short wave radio was a much better noise source back when the Soviet Union was operating disruption stations to kill western propaganda.

I stuck this squeaky toy nearly into my 18 year old cat's (Mömö) ear. No reaction. She's completely deaf. It doesn't seem to bother her, though. Last vet report: "Nothing wrong with her, €600, thank you." renekita.bandcamp.com/album/chicke...

I bought a new squeaky toy! Admire its sinuous, happy tones... ahem... renekita.bandcamp.com/album/chicke...

This last Vocal Fry episode has some very fun & surreal moments, including when Tiny Tim sings "I've Got A Pain in my Sawdust" to an enthusiastic crowd that isn't really there. Listen for yourself! wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Sluggy Freelance is a lovely webcomic... except that you probably need to read two decades of daily strips to understand what's going on... Took me a few months some years ago. www.sluggy.com

Ah, having listened to an abridged version of the Odyssey, I thought I was clever in thinking that everything Odysseus told were concoctions. But no: At one point, the goddess Athena praises him for being as great a liar as she.

I like this podcast. It's comprehensive: The epic of Gilgamesh comes only in episode three, because he starts out with the invention of cuneiform writing (for sales contracts and bookkeeping) and then Mesopotamian creation myths. literatureandhistory.com

So sad to hear the grapevine of death a few years back of High Rise’s Munehiro Narita, perhaps my favourite ever guitarist. Just been publicly announced. The wildest soloist you could imagine and an absolute beast on a riff. No rock music ever kicked more ass than this youtu.be/xDxqmLLgaeg?...

Unfazed = not bothered. So Finnish Fazer chocolate is 'botheration' chocolate.

I swear I didn't use a dictionary to come up with names for the tracks on this FM synth record. Free improvisation 8 times for each track to ensure proper chaos. renekita.bandcamp.com/album/franti...

és allò de chihuahua o muffin

Alice Guy was the first film director who presented stories instead of mere moving pictures. And here she even went feminist! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAc5...

I bought an FM synth. It sure sounds pretty... pretty messy. renekita.bandcamp.com/album/franti...

In older Japanese manga and anime, robots are usually heroes defending mankind. Western depictions of robots are mostly killers. Which may be why the Japanese don't fear humanoid robots. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOBo...

Next year, I'm going to release 52 albums. If possible to do well. I'm already 23 tracks into the first one, actually. I'll make more of them and then pick the best ones. It'll showcase how pretty the FM sounds of the Korg Opsix are... ahem, yeah right...

"I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in." I've been wondering where this earworm came from. It was in Big Lebowski. Lately, it's come back every time I see the word 'condition.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUT...

Dreamed I was doing a piano improv album and calling it "Felonious Pope."

For her first ten years, Mömö's purring was just an asthmatic wheezing. Then she learned to purr properly like this. A while later, she went deaf and her purr became inaudible. I'm glad I managed to record this before it was lost. soundcloud.com/rene-kita/pu...

Do you know who’s making some proper gorgeous music at the moment? A LARGE SHEET OF MUSCLE, that’s who. umbrog.bandcamp.com/album/contem...

Oh fine, I can't find my main project, One Million Faces Before I die, on Google. I guess they just don't like Tumblr blogs because there are so many. Even my Pinterest blog, on which I posted just once years ago, is on page three. Maybe I need to post this link more often: renekita.tumblr.com

Merry Xmas scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/river-...

The older a written language, the less phonetic, as sounds shift over the centuries. And Irish was written when Anglo-Saxons were still carving runes in Denmark.

"Get Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie. Start using it today! You'll have a tough time, Charlie, keeping all the girls away." That's what I get for listening to Sam Spade radio plays from the 1940s: A jingle for hair grease repeating in my head. And images of Cry-Baby shaking greasy hands. Great movie.

"Dad and mum are such morons!" The first teenage homo sapiens about their homo erectus parents.

Excellent analysis of the Voodoo religion in Haiti. No zombies, nothing that resembles the nasty picture Hollywood drew of Haiti at the time.

Merry Noise Mass! Have some discomfort to lighten the obligatory cheerfulness. renekita.bandcamp.com/album/merry-...

list 1. yolnoise.bandcamp.com 2. umbrog.bandcamp.com 3. a bunch of noisy computer synthesizer music nobody likes

#NowPlaying Griot Galaxy: Live on WUOM 1979 Recently unearthed extended live radio performance from Faruq Bey's cult Afro-futurist jazz group, performing here as a double sax, drums & double bass quartet. A wonderful find! griotgalaxy.bandcamp.com/album/live-o...

I don't know why journalists interview sports persons. They have never anything interesting to say. Okay, neither do sports journalists. Standard question: "How do you feel now?"

"Most of my friends are dead now. It doesn't seem right to laugh at them." Michael Moorcock

Just writing the manual for our 'pheq face' pedal...

A master classical pianist had his solo performance analysed: His tempo varied almost with every measure. These days, a producer would sweat over the recording to force all of it into one speed.

Oops, must keep numbering instead of lingering here. I only number drawings during daylight and sunset is at 3.20 PM. I have about 1,000 drawings to stamp, number and scan before New Year. One million faces before I die: renekita.tumblr.com

Bluesky's Discover feed is proof that they really don't spy on my liking habits. They push flea market paintings and exercise videos at me.

These tech bros are not unelected leaders. We put them in power by buying from Amazon, posting on Facebook, paying with PayPal etc. That makes them think they own us.

A century ago, Dadaists and fascists agreed on one thing: European civilisation was dying. Dadaists blamed WW1. The fascists blamed the Dadaists. Actually, Dadaists planted the seeds for nearly all modern and post-modern art and thus kept culture alive in a world gone mad.

When I see the words 'singer/songwriter,' I run away. They hurt my ears.

A lot of German post-punk was profoundly influenced by Dadaism. Der Plan, Palais Schaumburg, Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten.

R.I.P. Rosa von Praunheim, one of the greatest to ever do it

I have a good ear for rhythm, so the thing that annoys me about AI readers is that all the pauses are of equal length and often misplaced. That makes it monotonous.

A quantum doesn't know where it is nor where it's going until someone looks at it. Good thing humans came along to look at things or the universe would stay confused like that.

New & Notable: Seething, stomping death metal from these Norwegian titans, an album that’s beastly and full of fire.

One million faces before I die. I hope I live to 77, or I won't make it. Face number 474,939. Summer was lazy, but I'm catching up, so I will reach my annual target of 36,500 by New Year. Yes, it feels like an amazingly stupid project by now. renekita.tumblr.com

Am I stuck? I've released just 3 albums this year and one of them is just 6 minutes. This 'symphony' is 12 minutes, but writing all these notes in Musescore 4 was hard work. renekita.bandcamp.com/album/rustik...

Last week, I booted a guy off my Finnish Experimental Underground group for repeatedly posting his acoustic guitar strum strum "Jesus saves" video. Perhaps unfairly, as I've made a few acoustic guitar and voice records myself. archive.org/details/Rene...

blithering adjective: complete; utter (used to express annoyance or contempt). "a blithering idiot" blither verb: talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense. "I won't blither on too much about the job itself" 'Kita' is Finnish for 'mouth.' Rene 'Blithering' Kita