Software Creations: *in the middle of development for Solstice* Okay so we need an intro theme to set the mood. Something folky, like medieval times. Think you can try your hand at that?
Tim Fucking Follin: Yeah I got ya, check this out.
Software Creations: *barely seconds in*Ohhh yes finally, something that isn’t an overwhelming banger. You done good, Mr. Follin.
Tim Fucking Follin:
*waits for it*
Software Creations: *ten seconds later*
Tim Follin was a chiptune virtuoso and absolutely deserves to be as famous for it as Liszt or Paganini. Like listen to this thing:
I realize it sounds like it is being played on a chorus of bandsaws, but that is because it is on one-bit sound hardware and is in fact being played on a single bandsaw.
WMDOLL factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, China. Source
arguments about what sex dolls mean for women can seem kind of removed and theoretical, but that third picture of decapitated female bodies hanging in plastic sacks makes the issues with it apparent and immediate.
“If afraid, cured leather & wood-smoke. If forgotten,
sassafras & hominy. If remembered,
bright blue hook. If bereft, lamb sizzling. If rupture, obsidian &
chickweed. If suture, sleep curled around a pine tree. If surge, puddle of milk. If shadow,
puddle of gasoline. If gender, shadow hurtling
overhead. If gender, dream in a language you don’t know. If gender, swim
parallel to shore. If morning, sunspots & black pepper. If mourning, black
spot on a lung. If harvest, blood
sport & blood work. If language, cracked
branches. If ghost, funeral suit worn
thin at the knees. If rainstorm, core of candle. If closeness, death wish & warm
dram. If addict, human. If addict, suture & nuzzle. If caught out, folly
and muzzle. If walk, decade of
tiny crosshatches. If ruby glass, pick out the stitches with your teeth.
If itch, reorganize the sky.
If itch, dropped stitch & chipped saucer. If blackout, cinnabar
& fallout shelter. If walk, keep walking.”
screaming into the void since '89 