into another mouth, swallowing. Thinking about art i bought/stole this year.

Posted on by Oma Keeling

i was born at the start of the roman calendar, like, after everyone’s partied and recovered, day 3.

I’ve lived almost 27 rotations around big orb on little orb now, that’s fine, my position in life is fine always on the brink of poverty, in massive student debt, yet like everyone I’m expected to give my love and kisses to billion dollar companies for letting me see Link and Mario bump uglies. Tbf if they did that, sponsored 90 minute link + mario sex tape on national television and big screens, would that cause the collapse of capitalism? Probably not.

I read a bunch of books, with my ears, paying and stealing for the privilege, my money went to Amazon my theft took from them mostly. Other books i read by eye, from shops, not many though.

I bought a bunch of games through Microsoft XBOX (implicated in warcrimes) and steam and old PS2 games from resale shops, definitely more than i did via independent stuff on itch dot io. And for free? Mostly i played games by my friends.

Movies, i watched them, at the sinema, until they closed the cinema. And via other methods piracy online, and paying a subscription to some folks called Shudder. Bought 1 dvd.

Art, i saw, at galleries, payed for a couple exhibitions (they weren’t good), couple i saw for free.

Music, i listened via YouTube [Google (implicated in warcrimes)], and Bandcamp [Epic (implicated in warcrimes)]

Porn i watched mainly via piracy or tube sites, and did not pay any money for.

Streamers maybe i watched the most, a bunch and paid 2 subscriptions through Amazon. YouTube also was where i watched most of this.

My main spending artistically was probably on games, though i haven’t calculated.

Pretty much I don’t like pretending I’m a morally aligned person, as in, what i do via capitalism definitely doesn’t match my positions politically. I’m not Cecil B. Demented, though i feel i could be that way if i tried. I’m not gonna say either that, it’s the way it is under Capitalism, and there’s no other way like, i wish I’d made different choices. all evidence from all of the past hundreds of years proves easily that this is a violent mostrous evil which dehumanises and captures as much as it possibly can etc etc.

My spending is impulsive, hardly Intentional. I was in my overdraft for most of this year.

If i look at where i spend on art it’s platforms that make it easy for me to pay quickly and without hassle, where i don’t have to see Ads and where i am gonna engage easily, AND with massive choice. Supermarkets and fast food places. Via console and my phone, app and streaming… is where i end up. My laptop is not an easy choice.

Piracy and free stuff is a solution to that. It’s something that my stepdad had down to an easy art Netflix style back in like 2010, and i see my friends do it with similar ease, and similarly i was playing flash games all day no dollar spendt. Another one (dj khaled) is to Wake Up and Smell the Dick, and just buy with intent, stop being such a capitalist whore etc etc. Another one (dj khaled 2) is to like, idk, fucking stop caring or pretending to care and exise my thinking from my actions completely. Go full robo.

2024, what will happen then???

Here’s a list of things i liked, i prioritise books heavily, dunno why, just the way it is…

Games:

Movies:

  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, dir. Laura Poitras)
  • Cecil B. Demented (2000, dir. John Waters)
  • Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978, dir. Philip Kaufman)
  • The fuckin’ movies of Kōji Shiraishi! Including Safe Word (2022), Occult (2009), Noroi (2005), the Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi series (2012-)
  • Crimes of the Future (2022, dir. David Cronenberg)
  • The Wicker Man (1973, dir. Robin Hardy)

Books:

  • A Canticle For Leibowitz (1959, Walter M. Miller Jr.)
  • The Stars My Destination (1956, Alfred Bester)
  • The Lathe of Heaven (1971, Ursula K. Le Guin)
  • The Chrysalids (1955, John Wyndham)
  • Crash (1973, J. G. Ballard)
  • Titus Groan (1946, Mervyn Peake)
  • The Book of the New Sun 1-4 (1980-83, Gene Wolfe)
  • Parable of the Sower (1993, Octavia E. Butler)
  • Midnight Robber (2000, Nalo Hopkinson)
  • Destination: Void (1966, Frank Herbert)
  • The Divine Invasion (1981, Philip K. Dick)
  • Dhalgren (1975, Samuel R. Delany)
  • Dreamsnake (1978, Vonda N. Mcintyre)

Euphoron? Who’d wanna get robots high?! x

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