today's ted lasso hot take is that i've decided jamie and simon aren't awkward or distant from each other at all. i think they both just fucking adore each other actually. like yeah i know what the more reasonable, logical, probably correct backstory and current relationship there is. i just don't care. i want jamie and simon baking together and infodumping about their special interests together and being dorks together. i do what i want
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@blixa4ev here’s the official, contradictory record on that whole matter, courtesy of Pas de beauté sans danger:
(English translations under the cut.)
Later in the book, Klaus Maeck and Fritz Brinckmann characterize Blixa and Mufti's relationship as a (troubled) marriage. Mufti rejects that characterization, but he also doesn't treat it as entirely invalid.
Of note: Blixa is either never asked his view of the matter or simply refuses to comment on it. In the chapter "Ende", he does say something that could be implying that the final version of "Stella Maris" was inspired by Mufti, but he also says he doesn't wish to speak on it too much.
Excerpt 1:
ALEXANDER HACKE: We were sleeping on Hein-Hoyer-Strasse, near Reeperbahn. I fell in love with Christiane F. without knowing who she was. I talked to her the whole night after a party. I had forgotten my keys and called her to tell her. I started writing her letters shortly after. At the same time, Blixa and Mufti fell in love not just artistically. In the beginning, it was a real love story. That's how Mufti joined the band and how the connection with Hamburg started. I was going to [text cuts off here].
Excerpt 2:
ANDREW UNRUH: There was never any kind of love affair between Blixa and FM. We're real guys - we're straight! I doubt there was anything between them. It was friendship. They enriched each other for sixteen years, but that doesn't make it a love story. And even if it is, what's the problem? Of course, we have to get to know and appreciate each other. One day FM came from Hamburg and Blixa said to me: "This guy from Abwärts, you should meet him too. From [text cuts off]".
Excerpt 3:
FM EINHEIT: I wouldn't use the term 'love story' to describe the relationship between Blixa and I. We were very attracted to each other through the music WE made together and the things we were both interested in. We were very attracted to each other through the music WE made together and the things we were both interested in. The music that the Neubauten created was always very much influenced by a continuous process of attraction/repulsion between the band members. The energy that came out of this friction was what Einstürzende Neubauten was all about. It wasn't just between Blixa and me: there was the same energy between all the other members of the band.
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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will
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Christmas as a cultural icon is starting to get really dystopian in a climate sense, december has historically been a time of year in which there would be snow in a significant portion of europe and north america, and the fact that its not even icy this time of year and all the christmas songs and decorations reference a time of year that will likely never exist in the same way again in my life time is so strange.
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i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue
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more good news from tiktok: they’ve started blocking celebrities.
they’re calling it block party 2024. just blocking and ignoring countless celebrities who havent said shit about palestine. influencers, actors, anyone who went to the met gala, whatever, they’re getting blocked. and people keep talking about how cathartic it is, how good it feels, how they never realized they could DO that. there was some kind of subconscious law against blocking famous people, but it’s broken, and people are LOVING it. and it’s WORKING. a social media/digital advertising coordinator was talking about how ad companies are PANICKING, because they can’t accurately target anymore. so many big influencers, including fucking LIZZO started talking about palestine the MOMENT their follower counts started going down. and the best part? no one is forgiving them. lizzo posted a tiktok asking people to donate to palestinian families, and all the comments just said you’re a multimillionaire. put your money where your mouth is. blocked.
i feel like i’m witnessing the downfall of celebrity culture, right here right now. people are waking up.
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Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?
Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".
My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.
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