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Happy birthday!
It is left as a problem for the student to calculate the age. Hint: the distance from the earth to the moon is 384,400km
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Was trying to remember why I had mentally bookmarked him and it was because last summer Colombian tabloids spread a rumor he was having an affair with Linda Yepes, a transgender newscaster. Not only did he refuse to deny it but decried transphobia as akin to Nazism
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For decades I thought I was having a false memory or mandala effect because I swear I used to have a vinyl of Switched on Bach by “Walter” Carlos. Turns out I did and am not crazy. Wish I still had that it might be worth some $$.
Also I recommend Cindytalk as a trans pioneer in experimental music!
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OMG, I got to see her in 1995 or 96… she was fucking incredibly live. It was in a small hole in the wall club next to Varsity… One of the best shows I ever saw… I miss that club.
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She’s amazing… still making music, but I don’t know that she’s touring much anymore.
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The vinyl records I have of Wendy Carlos are:
- Switched-On Bach (1968)
- The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969)
- Walter Carlos’s Clockwork Orange (1972; reissued in 1998 as A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos’s Complete Original Score)
- Switched-On Bach II (1973)
- By Request (1975)
I think I bought Switched-On Bach back around 1969.
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Just a little trivia:
When I originally went overseas, I had health insurance which theoretically covered me anywhere outside the US. Before traveling I did some research as to where would be the best place to go in SE Asia if I had an important but non-emergency problem and Thailand seemed to be the best option as far as quality of care and ease of access.
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Hi y’all. I’ve been busy with a move the last little bit. We’ve moved from a pretty rough part of town to a newer, quieter subdivision near where I work, which is lovely. My mental health is improving significantly with the new environment, especially since it’s safe to walk around the neighbourhood after dark.
I’ve written a bit of a thing about discovering that trans people exist as a young egg, but I’m not sure what the best way to post it is. It’s currently sitting in a document on my Google drive, though with the way US tech is going, I think I might need a better solution for future writing. I want to publish it somewhere, but I need to figure out what the options are that aren’t supporting bigoted companies. My need to not support organizations that don’t support my existence while still doing or buying what I need to buy is pretty tiring.
Anyway, back to the writing. I hope to have it up somewhere soon and of course I’ll share the link, but it sure would be nice to get to the reason I created this topic in the first place… everything since Nov 5th has kind of derailed me on a fundamental level.
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