final song of Episode 6 of the 6th season of The Handmaid’s Tale. Very appropriate for the moment. At about the 4:20 mark there is a significant intrapolation from a very old song. I think it is by the Beach Boys but I can’t remember the name. 

the Weeknd, I’m Love With a Starboy intrapolates a hook from this song from the 80s. 

This is an example of sort-up upbeat songs containing vulnerable element that is super melancholic and reminds of some sort of disillusionment, or coming out of the wrong dream or something tragic like that… I can’t pin it. 

honestly, the soundtrack of Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 slays so far. It is a major improvement from previous years. It would be helpful to have an official playlist on Spotify.

i think I heard it in the Handmaid’s Tale Season 6. I can’t wait for the rest of the season. 

I wish this room were emptier

I only caught up yesterday with the new Handmaid’s Tale new season, and binge-watched the first 5 episodes. I really like the softened down version of Gilead and the diplomatic zone between Canada and it. It comes to show that even the most totalitarian regime can’t survive for too long without elements of progress, or rather perceived progress.

The deception necessary for the existence of any world order is not viable without making people believe that things are on the way to become better, all while reinforcing the same patterns of oppression. 

The great reset you thought was coming from the pandemic and an irrelevant international economy forum is currently being embraced by the same people who fought it tooth and nail. The precedents for lawlessness, political lawfare (a.k.a. frivolous lawsuits against political opponents) and judicial uselessness have been firmly set over the past 5 years. 

The people who complain now were entirely in favor of totalitarian mandates for years, including thousands of executive orders with zero judicial oversight due to covid. Now unlimited executive power has been fully normalized and the people who used to complain are totally on board with executive orders canceling due process. It means that the judicial branch will likely disappear from the map in North America, a bit like the federal parliament disappeared from Canada since last year and everyone thinks it’s perfectly fine to live without parliament. Maybe we never needed the legislative and the judiciary branch ever.  Who knows, let’s find out .

I’m pretty certain that she says “new earth” rather than “new world”, but maybe it’s just how my ear interprets autotune. This is a super beautiful routine when you get into it, but very sweaty, too. Editing will be for another day. Many more routines to unpack before I can sit down. 

At first I wasn’t sure what I was looking at. I opened the window, and it took me by surprise. Had I known the sky would be so clear, and that the moon would be positioned exactly there, I would be better prepared, but it was totally hazy at sunset, a nice hazy blanket right where the moon is right now.  Now you can even see stars, not all the stars, but many… so it is in the moment. I tried to put a few unedited clips with ambient Montreal sound, mainly a peaceful city hum, police sirens and my own breath and exclamations, but this platform is not accepting media in raw video for security reasons. 

At first it looked like something burned-orange and spherical is on or in front of the moon, or as if there were cloud-like spirals showing up and disappearing, maybe it was haze residue, but it was too repetitive to be that, and THEN the eclipse recess process began. There were moments the moon looked like a plate with another circle inside. it is now by its end at 4:51 am. This is why I couldn’t sleep at all. I will have to make a progression video from the combined footage. When the “overshadow” is almost gone the moon is extremely bright and impossible to film or photograph just as easily. When I take a photo I get all the colors of the rainbow but no definition. 

The footage however cannot remotely represent the breathtaking beauty of the situation.

I’ve never seen anything like this. What a nice surprise! Thank you, Universe!

Update: I caught some sleep and it is all over the news. Visible in clear skies all over North America. Blood-moon eclipse it is called, because it is the only time you can see a lunar eclipse, usually it is invisible. It means I literally caught the eclipse exactly when it was full at 4am and started receding for roughly an hour. The “spiral-like formations” were the intense light from the moon bleeding through. It appeared multi-layered and if it wasn’t so huge to the naked eye, you’d think you’re looking at a hybrid between Mars and Jupiter, but I wouldn’t say it was “red”. It was between orange and red and various shades in between.

you know… DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

I’m starting to get a feel of how to make these videos in 16:9. There is a lot of woman in that routine btw.. I inserted two mirrored takes on each side of the frame (one reversed) then reduced opacity. So far, it is the lowest effort edit on my side. 

I prefer the intrapolated result to the original. Two takes, one in high heels. I’m throwing rough edits until I decide. For now, it is an appropriate song to start the day. It’s not you, it’s me sort of vibe.