HAH Wk. 6: A Sabbath for the Land of Your Ears

In his sixth episode, der Dunkle talks about Bright Eyes' Letting Off the Happiness; a Sinners fan poster and the Astronomer by Vermeer; a week of history reading and finishing Black Empire; no podcasts or movies; Yellowjackets, Nobody Wants This, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the Four Seasons; Dragon Ball vol. 3; and Left Hand's Colorful Colorado, Buldak stir-fry ramen, and Sonic ice.

Chapters

• 0:00 Music
• 8:46 Visual Art
• 17:11 Literature
• 22:44 TV
• 30:29 Comics
• 33:26 Food & Drink

Transcript

Hey, folks, uh, welcome to week six of my podcast habdominal aesthetic. Heuristic, where, and we're talking about art, and Uh, yeah. All the things that I enjoy about it and all the things that I think there is to gain from it, um, I'm going to start now with Music and talk a little bit this week.

About. One of the bright eyes. First albums, letting off the happiness. Um, which is on my spring playlist. Um, there is

As a general sense that might bring playlist is,

Is mostly happy music, right? My, my sad music is on the winter playlist. Uh, one, I like sad music too much to confine, into one month, one section of the year.

Um, And particularly, I mean, bright eyes is a band that I probably have eight or nine albums of theirs. I see theirs. Connors and and, you know, whoever's with him, um, I have eight or nine albums that there's probably and I so I mixed it around and I think that Even though I think almost everything of brown eyes that I like is fundamentally sad music.

I feel they kind of stop listening, right around. Casadaga, when it came out in like 2007, Um, I was in high school in college. I actually saw them right after Casa Dogs, I'd come out at KU and I was I was both really excited to see them because I really, really love them but also just like a little supported because it, I I got to see them just as they started, really focusing on music that I found a little bit less compelling.

Um, I think Connor is at his best. The best version of him that I've seen is one, that is very Um, Very comfortable with his sadness as a as a theme for his music. Uh, I I I save, I've said many times to many people uh, in conversation. That I stopped liking.

Friday is when they started pretending to be happy. And I stopped liking death, Cowboy, and they were tended to be sad. When they started to try to pretend to be like, I don't know, edgy and sad. Whatever. But, Yeah. So Not to get too off on the bright eyes.

But I, this is one of their first two albums. They're it's technically, Came out the same year as collection of songs. Um, but look, like I have songs is also titled a collection of songs in 1885 and 1987. So it gives me the sense of that, they're both came out, 98, I think, Um, gives me a sense of that one's probably beat stuff that, you know.

Had existed beforehand. Like it was stuff that had been pulled together over the course of years and maybe this one was a little bit more. You know, that traditional thing of an album that comes together over a relatively short you know, six to Um, 18 month, period, probably and is written and recorded in the whole thing happens together in a relatively short space of time, which again I assume how it works from.

Um, my little knowledge of The music industry. But Um, this one feels certainly more. Cohesive than the first one. I love a collection of songs. I think it's probably one of his best. It really? It has a lot of great stuff. Letting off the happiness is great in part because it has a little bit of that.

It still has a lot of that scratchy. Um, In the basement, you know? Screaming into a microphone and and playing, you know, Playing his heart out, sort of On as little acoustic guitar, it has a lot of those same Vibes as a collection of songs, but you can also start to see where it's starting to get some of the more complex orchestration, which Um, Is clearly part of what I think, Connor really enjoys and what that whole, what the band as a whole really comes to me and especially after, um, For years and mirrors after.

You know, lift and digital ashlet. There's so much Um, Like it's clear that he really enjoys putting together, things that sound. Big and huge. Uh, So, there's a little bit of both in this um album. So, it still has some of those those raw more raw feelings. But it also has, you know, It also has the beginnings of the things that are going to make.

I think make, Bright A's more than just right, the sort of Slim poetry turned. Turn music sort of situation. I really, really have. A musical sense that comes out as well. Um, I mean Again, all of the bright eyes that I really love and enjoy is really sad music.

But another thing I really like about this album, is that it's sadness, it's sad music at like every Tempo and volume like it's not It's got the sort of Quiet. You know, single guitar, you know, strumming. You know. Oh, I'm so sad. This is really hard. It's got the, the sadness sort of tinge with anger.

It's not like I said, he has sex. I'm gonna actually play a little bit of that here. Just to give you a sense of some of the variet.

Yes, I mean there you can see sort of them of the

Like the harsher. Morris stringent, but also like heavier drums and stuff. And the the sort of more distorted. Um, Vibes of something like CSX. I'm going to compare that to another one here. Let me

This is if winter ends. And it's the first track on the album and it's got this sort of Um, staticky.

You know sort of like playing the radio dial maybe a little bit um intro and then it goes into this. I'll play a little bit of the Uh, Intro there.

Uh, something you think that gives you a bit of a sense. Uh, the The album is also sort of for me a very sort of nostalgic late 90s. It's got like that track at the end where it's like 20 minutes long. And as a song and there's a long period of like, honestly not silence, it's like a weird whining noise.

Uh, which I think is almost intended to make you drop out. But for those who stick around and don't quit, um, Uh and who don't pull the disc out or tape or whatever, you know, they they get this extra song and it's just Uh, rework rehash of contrasting compare.

Um, one of the many songs on the album, but I think it does. I don't know. It just offers. A little bit of an extra.

A little bit of an extra, uh, for those who are willing to set it out and I, you know, I don't know. I, I love and I kind of, I would say I miss the period of Time when music. Belt. I don't know, I think something about just the time when I wasn't streaming everything, it wasn't.

I was just a little bit more mystery in the world. I don't know when it was all discs putting discs in Z player but that's just You know. Patented. Nostalgia. So I won't To spend too much time on that, but, um, I want to leave it there. I'm going to come back and talk about visual art here in a little bit.

Uh, thank you for listening.
All right, welcome back. So just focusing. Now on visual art, I talk about a couple of things. This week one, another one from Twitter. Um, this one is An image. I believe created. Um, But this artist, At rambutan's rombta and has On Twitter, I don't know a town about them.

I think I found this from somebody else's. Um, Somebody else had retweeted it, but I It is a piece of art that was connected to the film centers. So if you haven't seen that, Something that make a whole lot of sense. But It is. I think a really cool image and I think it connects to a lot of what I think it works in that movie.

At Central figure is future, boy. The, the main one, main characters, who Who is the musician, who sort of? His musical ability as drawing all the Supernatural stuff. And um, it's kind of him. Sort of standing in front of Doorway, which is sort of somehow like a surreal? The people behind it.

Don't seem to be Feel behind him. Don't really seem to be in like outside of the frame, they're only inside of the frame. So one of those sort of Doorways and imagine sort of a monsters Inc, situation. And then there's a flame all around it. Again, most of this part, isn't really strike someone if they haven't seen the film, but I think for me, There's a lot of people dancing around and Clearly, some people who have been turned into the Vampires, I guess, I think It's very clearly attached to the to the film.

It's got the war, the sort of logo of the Title there at the bottom, but I think it does really good job of Expressing sort of a feeling of the night and sort of that. That twin character tonight, the fear. But also the, the opportunity, the

The idea of the night representing sort of the end of work and the the beginning of sort of the any other things, you live for Leisure and play. And Excitement and you know sexuality whatever sort of aware of a level you're thinking of um but it's also got the fear and I mean the the fire and the this sort of malevolent presence but the way that they're interlocked and the way they're interconnected um Yeah, I think is really interesting part of the one of some of the themes in the movie and I think this image does really good job.

I also just think it's really well done.

Something about the nature of sort of the AI image. The growth of the use of AI produced images. Um, That. Makes one appreciate art more. So I think that, you know, If one believes that God does everything for a reason of everything comes into existence however sort of wicked disgraceful Um, comes into existence for for purpose.

I think there's something really cool in the way that I think it's made me more drawn to highlighting or maybe have made by real people aren't with. With a purpose of a thaw behind it, and with intention rather than art, that is, you know, Um, Made by. Whatever you want to call them robots.

That's my wife does, or, you know, Demons as some of my friends have categorized them, regardless of what's going on with the AI. There's something in human about. Them trying to create these works of art. And I I really like I really liked getting the opportunity to see people.

Doing art. But then being celebrated, as people, who choose to do the work of putting, you know, Whatever medium it is. Putting the. Stylus. To the The medium and really like, To making their own choices and doing it in a way. That is embodied and real and has some some meaning to a depth.

That goes beyond. Goes beyond simply creating an image, right? It's just not the whole of what art is. Either way a very good image. I'm going to look also for this week at It's my last Vermeer and the artley. Uh, which is A pain called the astronomer from 1668.

Uh, looks like it's the Louvre now. It's not a com complicated image. It actually reminds one a lot of the milkmaid. I'm looking at going back to it. It doesn't actually, like, have that much in common, but there's an image that has, you know, a light source a window on the left and a figure sort of keen at work, not really aware of the gaze of the artist but really focused on his task in this case.

Staring at one of these. A sort of astronomical globe, sorry, astrological Globe. It's the one with the constellations on it and stuff. Um, I find this image, it's interesting how. Arcane this image feels right. He's Wearing these big flying robes and this sort of skull cap thing. It looks like it's unclear to me, it's possible.

It's supposed to be his hair, but it really looks like it's supposed to be some sort of cap. Uh, with his long hair coming down and staring at these instruments which One, a lot of modern people, a lot of people contemporary people would probably not. Recognizes an actual astronomic instrument.

Um, It doesn't feel scientific in the modern sense, but That sort of early modern. Um, Sensibility of what science looks like and sort of the The rush to understand things being. Down, you know how the desk at a writing station rather than at Sort of in a lab. Right.

He's not, he's an astronomer but he's not looking at the stars he's looking at Books. Which is such a As a foreign concept in the way that we think about this sort of thing, Um, but yeah, again I feel like Vermeer has got a sort of You sort of goes for a realistic approach but also there's that heightened imagery and there is extraordinary detail.

But also, you know, A willingness to relegate detail to the background. There's a painting actually in the background of this painting and it's It's clearly done in a way that's not intended to let us really. Appraise and even with details. Again, obviously, it's probably very small in relation to the painting itself.

But Um, Yeah, it it does. I I think I like Some of that Dutch realist sort of thing. I, I've liked Vermeer for that reason. Not more than Van Gogh, but certainly Has sort of a counter piece. Maybe the van, Gogh, I know the time periods. Were not terribly similar.

Then goes about 200 years later, but I really do. I didn't think something about. Premiere that I like but I am honestly pretty excited to get past him. I'll do a little bit of this is Michelangelo and Monet and some other people coming up afterwards. So um, Yeah, I think that's me for this week.

Uh it has not been an eventful week probably any level but uh, A visual art that continues on. Um, I will come back here with literature in just a little bit.
All right, welcome back. So um talking about literature um it has been a very oh it's a history heavy week. I've been making some progress in the shipping of the altars. Again by am and Duffy. And a little bit of the Reformation in history by Jaron McCulloch and I'm both of those are just, I mean, The stripping, the altars, I'm still mostly in the prefaces, he's talking a lot about Um, Sort of the differences between additions and the ways in which he sort of like, the sort of, he's offering a little bit of some counter critiques to Some of the main critiques, his one of the critiques people get on him about is, um, he doesn't talk about laherty enough, you don't know this, this is John Wickliffe and his, uh, sort of movement, pre-reformation movement.

Um, against the Catholic church and I think he makes a good argument that. Lottery actually wasn't as big as people think it was, although I really put me on mine, I really would like to do some. Side, reading and see if there's a space in the literature for me to do research on trying to uncover.

Evidence of Lawards. Um, And their reaction to Protestantism the reaction to Luther their reaction to. You know, swingly and Calvin and all those and sort of see where they wear those lullard families went Um, after the affirmation started and Earnest, I think there's an interesting, interesting Gap. There I'm interesting place to fill historically.

Um, Besides that a Reformation history is, is kind of getting into Um, digging into I'm in chapter one. It's very, very long. I think it's Um, well, over 45 minutes. Um, and It's focused mostly on sort of, trying to Define what it sees as the essence of Catholicism. Um, before the Reformation and doing it across Europe.

Is very similar to what Duffy does throughout his book. Um, but it's a, it's a little bit of a different emphasis. He, he identifies the, um, the mass and the sort of a unification of the papacy as like, the two things that held Europe together. Um, held the Western Europe together.

And, you know, idea that Um, It's the You know, whether it's a babbling, activity of the church in Avignon or or anything in that process that starts to Demote people's feelings, also brought up, I think I'm probably going to get way too into this, not necessarily on the podcast but just in life in general.

Um, The hassites and the I forgot the term, he gave he gave for that utrick way. I think it's what we call him. They're ultraquists. They are people who were really obsessed with taking. Coming in. Both both forms. Both in the water. Sorry, both in the wine and the bread and I think there's something in there.

I'd also like to learn a little bit more about where the hustites went and the ways in which I feel like they're a little bit more along the lines of what, I personally find interesting than the, the ones that begin the Brethren. Although, again, I know the brother have connections as far as I understand to the origins of Wesleyanism.

So I don't lose a lot of interesting stuff there, uh, but again, it's probably more interesting for me than it is for, for most other people. Um, I finally finished black Empire, I would say, It finally ends when they, you know, really successfully Drive the Europeans and out of Africa.

And and really Successfully. Hold off that first. Big major invasion. Um, It's a story that honestly feels like I could go a lot, go a lot further. And that would be Um, They're really cool. To see someone try to engage with maybe even go further with it. Um, but yeah, it was a fascinating story and Skyler is Uh I certainly a figure that I wouldn't look at and say oh this is a good guy.

So if Um, I have a friend on Twitter, who's doing the Identifying people, he thinks they're good and bad and just identifying them Like, you know, Sartre is bad and Forget who he's gonna say was good this week, but I think like, I wouldn't identify Schuyler as good, but I still think reading him was extremely worthwhile, honestly.

One of the more interesting things I read and I thought I learned a lot from it. Despite actually not. Having agreed with almost anything. Uh, that he was doing. Yeah, I think those are the big ones. I made some good progress, reading the Bible, getting into that habit. On a regular basis that has been Last couple of weeks has been more regular than normal?

I think that's been good. I made good progress in the Psalms and Proverbs which again is part of one of the main things I'm reading. I may deal with that again more some other time. Um I'm Probably stop it at that. I think those are the main things for this week.

I will come back next week. I'm sure and talk about some of the other things that I'm I'm excited about. But yeah, thanks for listening and I will come back in just a minute.
All right, welcome back. The next bit of this is going to be probably about as boring as it gets because I haven't listened to a single podcast or a strangely enough as you may now watch the single movie all week. Um, the only thing I really have to talk about here is a few episodes of Television that I Mark down than I watched, I Uh, television's always been hard.

I wish that sometimes we starter box had TVs and option, even if it was like kind of kept separate, Um, because having a separate app for it, it's not worked great. If he's been using a one called tract t-r-a-k-t, I hate, I hate whether or not. I actually just like that about letterbox, too.

I kind of wish it was just They just let it be spelled normal but whatever they probably. Copyright that the way they wanted to who knows, regardless the only things I've got that I have noted down that I watched, um, this is kind of worrying with TV. I haven't I haven't been in the middle of a ton of things and this is all weird because now that I think about, I can't remember watching TV or Watching movies or anything this week, Call of Ben, a weird one for that.

Um, Uh but particularly I'm going to talk about a couple of shows that I'm kind of in the middle of One, I watched the third episode of sorry yellow jackets the other day. The first two episodes, each kind of had a huge Gap in between the first one just because I watched it some preview through Showtime, I thought it was pretty good.

The second episode I was like, okay, this is interesting. I don't know how I don't always love shows where they're trying to jump back and forth between two different time periods. So the present day and the sort of time of the crash are That's interesting to me and uh, you know, certainly big reveals and stuff in the first couple episodes the third episode kind of felt the same where I just kept feeling like

I mean, one, I all of the characters that have appeared in the future, right? We know that they're going to survive this. What I gather is a pretty harrowing experience in the woods. Um I don't know. I really want to like this show but I'll admit, I haven't been blown away, but yet, I really like some of the actors Christina Ricci's, been really fun.

I think some of the actors. Girl, who is in scream, the one of the new ones. She, she was really good. She's a caliber standout among the younger ones. I actually I'm a huge fan of Melanski. I know from a few things. The names of which I'm not going to remember right now.

She was in a show with one of the Duke class brothers togetherness which I watched a little bit of I I like her in theory I demand I don't think I've watched a ton of things with her. Um, The. One who plays Sophie Neilis and Miss Brown's, not probably plays younger version of her has been really good.

Jasmines of William Brown. Who is the team? Taser, again, from the Scream movie, she spent a couple other cool things I've liked. Um, Yeah, I just all acknowledge that. I don't feel like I'm hooked. And that's three episodes in um part of that is probably just watching them so separate but um, Yeah, I'm I'm still kind of on the fence for that one.

I am not a huge fan. Of. Juliet Lewis's character. I just feel like she's Two different between the adult and the Teen versions and I just don't feel the connection to her character. That's another problem. When you have these teenagers and Adults being played by very different people at times.

It's just not clear. It's not like their identities, I'm not stuck on my head yet and so I don't know which one's which I kind of wish they would give us more of a It would work a little harder to make it feel like we know these characters. Um, So, you know, there's some good stuff, lots of lots of good stuff.

Um, the other shows, uh, not anything, crazy out there. You know what I've been watching. Nobody wants this. I'm kind of a huge. Oh gosh. I feel silly that I don't remember his name. Because I really do like him. Uh, the main guy in that show, I'm gonna find it before I get too.

Very too far Adam Brody. I love. I love Brody since the OC and I I really think he's very funny and got a lot, got a great, uh, A great vibe from him. I really love the kid effective a couple years ago. I, I also I really like Kristen Bell.

I've always liked her. I feel like It's like I liked her before. It was cool. Timothy Simons has been interesting seeing him do his thing. I love Miss Jonah and Veep. And I think he's got, um, some quality. There's a lot of other actors in here that I've seen down, I think everybody's pretty good.

And I think the main thing is that the show is really worked so far. Just, Allowing it to be both difficult and also just kind of romantic and and fun and silly. Yeah, I I've been happy with it. Some elements of Christine Bell character can be a little Annoying.

I think I felt the same way about Eleanor and the good place but I just I I'm rooting for her and I feel like that's something is consistent. When I see her and stuff. I'm rooting for her. Even when I'm like, I don't know if you're Should I be rooting for you?

Are you the person I should root for? Um, I did just start the 11th season, I believe of Curb Your Enthusiasm or raised the 12th. Either way, one of the new one knewish ones and The first episode was really weird and I didn't enjoy it, but it's fine. Um, he's still dating that woman that he uh, Can't break up with just make.

You shall die? I don't know. Um, I'll admit that show is kind of lost a little bit of its Edge for me, although I really love season 10, when I watched it the first time. And the last thing is the Four Seasons. My wife got me into this one.

I will watch anything with all Forte in it. Let me He's after. After last minute on Earth, I'll watch anything go for it. He doesn't need to prove himself to me. I also really love Coleman Domingo. Recently, especially Tina face, Steve It's a good cast, they've got a lot of people in there that I I like in most things, they're in.

Yeah, I'm excited to dig into it. I think it's Um, I love when Steve growl plays that sort of. Trying to be a little bit cynical character. He doesn't. He does it in a way that's like yeah, no we can see through that and Reminds me of Dana in real life.

Things like that. I just I don't know. I like Steve Carell, I always have, uh, even when I like the office, I've always liked him. Um, so that's all I've got for TV for this week. It's not a long one and uh, yeah, it's all I've got for movies podcast, too.

So, I'll be jumping out of this and coming back with the comic books here in a little bit. Thanks for listening.
Okay, welcome back. Um, so I'm going to be talking about Comics here, and I actually, Have. Misplace the books that I picked up this week and I have not read them nor honestly, even to this, Day some couple days after the week has been over. Can't find them and we'll see how that goes.

That's absolutely two men seven I think. Ultimate Wolverine 5, and absolute Green Lantern to, which is really too bad because honestly, I'm excited to get deeper into that book. It's one of the ones that I've been struggling to sort of. I always struggled the first issue to enjoy it.

So I'm hopeful that they're going to be better but yeah, I don't know where they are and I'm having read them. That's, uh, you know, that's, uh, the they're doing well, special in terms of, um, Being exactly who I am. But one thing I am going to be talking about in terms of Comics this week is I just started Dragon Ball.

Volume three. So I've been enjoying it and we are now at the stage where They've had their Dragon Ball Adventure. The pig guy whose name. I've again forgotten, uh, made his ridiculous wish. Got the girls panties and is now now that you're just waiting for the Dragon Ball to come back.

And so Goku is is trying to Um, Is. Training of Master roshi, first time we were meeting. Well, the man I know is Krillin, but who I has been introduced as Kurin Um, sorry my Japanese is terrible but Yeah, that's been interesting. They're flying all over the world to try to find a hottie for Um, For Master roshi to, you know, make time with in a weird way that I Still don't I don't know what this is.

I mean, I guess it's just, you know, I don't know. I don't understand. Uh dirty old man Japanese sex culture. That's still just kind of a mystery to me but they found this girl who again I still know her name at this point but she's She transforms between her two like personalities, whenever she sneezes Um, I love the creativity and just like the weird.

Um, Building mythology maybe some of it's really is actually connected to Japanese mythology and ways. I don't understand but it's just very funny to me. Yeah, so that's all I have for Comics this week. I hope I find slash certainly hopefully buy the This next week's books and get to read them.

But, uh, who knows what's gonna happen with the ongoing Saga of my last comic books. I'll probably comment on that next week, if I Either when I find them or not. So, Yeah, thanks for listening. I'll come back here in a bit with Food and drink.
All right, welcome back. And I'm going to finishing up here with food and drink. It's again, I'm going to say not probably the most exciting possible week. I got a six pack. Beer called colorful, Colorado from left hand. I was I was happy with it. I thought it was A quality.

It's an IPA. It's probably not. Like, in the most The most out there, I thought. So, I don't know if this is part of it, it looks like maybe looking at the stuff on Untapped, it looks like maybe it is intentional. Some of the sort of Weedy bouquet of the whole thing.

Um, that's connected. Maybe to the The Colorado and the name. But yeah I I thought you know it's got some real Sweet Piney notes. Maybe I don't know. You know, I won't try to pretend to be the expert of description in terms of the taste but I really thought I was a quality beer and Uh, honestly, left hand has always been Uh, pretty high quality.

So um that's the main thing when it comes to be. The only other major thing for food and drink this week is talk about is, um, I went to Checkers to pick up. Some stuff and just did my Brief perozole through the Asian section, as Um, I'm really given to do in any given supermarket situation.

But I found this. I'm gonna be asked, it's a fancy Ramen that I got. The brand I believe is Bulldog. Bulldog Get an artificial. Korean black bean sauce Ramen. It's stir fried ramen. I don't think I'd ever done before so it's got Um, it's got the soupy component, right?

You cook it in the water. And like with others, you kind of have to be careful about how much water you have. You won't have only so much water left, remove some of the water and you put in some other stuff, some sauce and whatnot and use stir. Fry that part.

And so it comes out less like a soup less like that sort of Ramen. You know, you guys are Familiar with the sort of Morrowch on top ramen type thing but it's not really a soup like that with the noodles. It really is like a noodle dish and uh it's super spicy.

It's actually Maybe a bit too spicy for my old way around mouth, but I uh I got my niece to try it and I think she liked it which honestly means it must be pretty good. She's got pretty good taste when it comes to uh, Some of those things, certainly Robin.

That is the major stuff. One last note. Um, I,

My life sent me out to get ice and I have to say I really assumed for a long time that getting Sonic ice was just like would be prohibitively expensive. I mean, goodness knows, you know, Paying for ice is itself, one of those things. The sort of. Dad Gene and and men can sometimes.

Want to preclude. It's like I can make my own eyes. How dare you It's suggest that I would pay another person for it but um I got like a 10 pound bag of ice for a dollar 99 or something and it's just Midwestern but I mean honestly It's pretty good deal.

I mean, kills a lot of the other things and as we all know, Sonic Is actually better. So You know, put, you know, put that in your, in your feather and your cap and whatnot, And that's where I'm going to leave you guys for this week. Thank you for listening.

I hope that you enjoyed this and feedback. As always is appreciated. I think there's actually like Male thing you can do. I don't actually understand how it works, so maybe I will figure that out and talk to you guys about it next week. All right, thanks so much. Uh, thanks for listening.