sense of doubt

Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Monday, January 16, 2017

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #559 - The Abstract - Musical Monday for 1701.16

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Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #559 - The Abstract - Musical Monday for 1701.16

Hi Mom,

Here we are again on a Monday (actually it's Tuesday because I am late but I doubt anyone cares other than me), and once again, I am presenting a bunch of music that you would not like.

Bandcamp is such a great service. Though I am not able to invest lately, I have purchased a great deal of music on Bandcamp. Anyone wanting to get me a birthday present could give me a bandcamp gift card, which I don't think they have, but still...people could buy music in my public wish list and send it to me as a gift. Same thing. I am "christophertower" on Bandcamp. Not that anyone is going to send me a birthday gift, Mom. You would, I know.

I was struck by this release by Aural Films because there's a premise description for a film that does not exist. I love this concept.

And so, I decided to make The Abstract my featured music today and to add a series of links to music on my Bandcamp wish list.

It's Musical Monday (on Tuesday). Enjoy the sounds that hide in the dark when you're sleeping, sounds that creep out and warble their tones to seep into your dreams.

THE ABSTRACT

by Muied Lumens

It’s 2098. Everybody has implants which allows them to stay permanently connected to the net directly through their consciousness. In the world of humans, everything seems to be happening simultaneously online and offline with no clear boundaries between the two realities. Separating what is real from what is virtual has lost much of its meaning.

Many types of neural interconnection engines exist, but one of them is completely unlike the others; first intended as a learning algorithm to interpret dreams, it has evolved into something entirely different. The Abstract is an autonomous AI program which interfaces with the dreaming brain, getting its information directly from the subconscious while at the same time uniting other dreamers and feeding its data back to them. From this network of dreaming people a new reality is emerging. Ruled by the subconscious, it is an irrational world in constant flux, fuelled by primal instincts and ancient archetypes.

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released January 2, 2017

Muied Lumens - Sounds and Production.

Aural Films is an online record label (netlabel) that releases high-quality soundtrack albums for movies that do not exist. We cover a wide range of music styles ranging from ambient to experimental to popular to soundtrack musics. Often on the same albums. You can find our complete catalog of releases online at AuralFilms.com

Aural Films Catalog No. AF0181

SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

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Monday, January 16, 2017

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #559 - The Abstract - Musical Monday for 1701.16

THE ABSTRACT

by Muied Lumens

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