and if we've been too reverent, we must run from the precipice

[starlady]

I shanghaied my friend M into heading down (up?) to Kung Fu Necktie last night--we saw The War on Drugs open for High Places, whom I just discovered last week (I ♥ you, WPRB!). Both of them were pretty damn awesome, and the bar is nice too. As ever, I fail at describing music well, but both bands really are quite good. High Places works with a lot of found sounds and experimental audio techniques, and the singer (they're a duo) has a beautiful voice.

I also just received the new CDs by two of my favorite groups, One For The Team and Tarlton. Both are mostly from Minneapolis--OFTT play indie pop, Tarlton electronica. The fact that I am friends with members of both bands has surprisingly little to do with my liking their music as much as I do.

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(via cofax7) This will come in handy later, I'm sure: EvoPsych bingo. I hate evopsych so bad, I can't even tell you.

Also, Sarah Monette @ Storytellers Unplugged on the line between history and fiction in Tombstone, AZ.

…That's probably it for now. I do have a canned book review or three to post, too, and I'm working on an AO3 recs set.

Comments

[recessional]

The real tragedy of evpsych/evbio in general is that it's such a missed opportunity. Instead of actually looking at the general premises (all of them!*), it winds up stubbornly hewing to this weird ideology that's basically an excuse for the kyriarchical status quo.

And I am like, seriously, you guys, I will punch you. /mature


*note to evpsych: evolution happens on a micro as well as macro level, and we have had 10K years of evolution with some REALLY SERIOUS bottlenecks and zero-sum stresses since then. Please stop behaving as if our brains stalled out on the serengeti just after we lost most of our hair.

[rodo]

I vaguely remember reading an evopsych text that made sense (it might have been from a related field, though). Unsurprisingly, it wasn't about sex. It was about the biological advantage of storytelling.

[starlady]

You have summed up my thoughts more or less exactly.