Rene Kita
@renekita.bsky.social
Way too much art and music.
He/him/cis. LGBTQ+ and Black lives matter.
One million faces before I die:
http://renekita.tumblr.com
He/him/cis. LGBTQ+ and Black lives matter.
One million faces before I die:
http://renekita.tumblr.com
Motown: Music made by Black people for a 1960s white American audience. Avoid complex rhythms and raunchiness.
Yes, it's excellent anyway. Love songs for grown-ups.
There is an art to making tunes that you can sing along to halfway through hearing it for the first time.
Yes, it's excellent anyway. Love songs for grown-ups.
There is an art to making tunes that you can sing along to halfway through hearing it for the first time.
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Motown: Music made by Black people for a 1960s white American audience. Avoid complex rhythms and raunchiness.
Yes, it's excellent anyway. Love songs for grown-ups.
There is an art to making tunes that you can sing along to halfway through hearing it for the first time.
Yes, it's excellent anyway. Love songs for grown-ups.
There is an art to making tunes that you can sing along to halfway through hearing it for the first time.
A more urgent matter is that sound which tells me that a cat has found a bit of plastic in the kitchen and is munching on it.
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A more urgent matter is that sound which tells me that a cat has found a bit of plastic in the kitchen and is munching on it.
'Post-modern' is old hat, so now they speak of 'contemporary art.' What word will they use when that turns into a petrified style we've left behind? Is there a fashionable style or is it 'anything goes' these days?
Actually, I'm too lazy to follow the art world and only slightly interested.
Actually, I'm too lazy to follow the art world and only slightly interested.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
'Post-modern' is old hat, so now they speak of 'contemporary art.' What word will they use when that turns into a petrified style we've left behind? Is there a fashionable style or is it 'anything goes' these days?
Actually, I'm too lazy to follow the art world and only slightly interested.
Actually, I'm too lazy to follow the art world and only slightly interested.
I don't know why they've given this a 3/10 rating. I'd say it's at least a 5. But then I appreciate silliness: silly script, silly acting and silly robots.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORN5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORN5...
The Shape of Things to Come (1979) Is A Cheesy Star Wars Clone
YouTube video by Boomer Channel
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I don't know why they've given this a 3/10 rating. I'd say it's at least a 5. But then I appreciate silliness: silly script, silly acting and silly robots.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORN5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORN5...
Such disappointment: Fred Astaire's and Ginger Rogers' tap dancing was overdubbed, as their tapping was too quiet to be captured over the sound of the orchestra.
I wonder what implements the sound effects guy used for it.
I wonder what implements the sound effects guy used for it.
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Such disappointment: Fred Astaire's and Ginger Rogers' tap dancing was overdubbed, as their tapping was too quiet to be captured over the sound of the orchestra.
I wonder what implements the sound effects guy used for it.
I wonder what implements the sound effects guy used for it.
Nerd alert:
So they make a new Fantastic 4 movie. And it tells the same origin story as the previous two* and countless comics issues. How original.
* I haven't seen the new one, but the cheap and hilarious Roger Corman version was on Youtube for a while.
So they make a new Fantastic 4 movie. And it tells the same origin story as the previous two* and countless comics issues. How original.
* I haven't seen the new one, but the cheap and hilarious Roger Corman version was on Youtube for a while.
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Nerd alert:
So they make a new Fantastic 4 movie. And it tells the same origin story as the previous two* and countless comics issues. How original.
* I haven't seen the new one, but the cheap and hilarious Roger Corman version was on Youtube for a while.
So they make a new Fantastic 4 movie. And it tells the same origin story as the previous two* and countless comics issues. How original.
* I haven't seen the new one, but the cheap and hilarious Roger Corman version was on Youtube for a while.
Pet peeve: I'm listening to a Wire Tapper from The Wire magazine ("Adventures in new music") and a track comes on that sounds like Azerbaijan's submission to the Eurovision Song Contest. Adventurous indeed. Bah.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Pet peeve: I'm listening to a Wire Tapper from The Wire magazine ("Adventures in new music") and a track comes on that sounds like Azerbaijan's submission to the Eurovision Song Contest. Adventurous indeed. Bah.
The accordion has a long history in Finnish folk music.
The word for accordion is 'hanuri'.
'Hanuri' is also a synonym for 'arse.'
The word for accordion is 'hanuri'.
'Hanuri' is also a synonym for 'arse.'
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The accordion has a long history in Finnish folk music.
The word for accordion is 'hanuri'.
'Hanuri' is also a synonym for 'arse.'
The word for accordion is 'hanuri'.
'Hanuri' is also a synonym for 'arse.'
Are there really people who do their Christmas shopping in November? Or is this early marketing assault just pure sadism?
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Are there really people who do their Christmas shopping in November? Or is this early marketing assault just pure sadism?
Bruce Banner wears amazingly stretchy trousers: He never ends up naked when he turns into the Hulk.
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Bruce Banner wears amazingly stretchy trousers: He never ends up naked when he turns into the Hulk.
Mo Yan or Yan Mo?
How about westerners spell Asian names with a comma like in library databases: Mo, Yan. That way I'd know immediately which one is the family name and it'll be in the order that East Asians prefer.
Currently, we put Chinese family names first but Japanese ones last: Hayao Miyazaki.
How about westerners spell Asian names with a comma like in library databases: Mo, Yan. That way I'd know immediately which one is the family name and it'll be in the order that East Asians prefer.
Currently, we put Chinese family names first but Japanese ones last: Hayao Miyazaki.
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Mo Yan or Yan Mo?
How about westerners spell Asian names with a comma like in library databases: Mo, Yan. That way I'd know immediately which one is the family name and it'll be in the order that East Asians prefer.
Currently, we put Chinese family names first but Japanese ones last: Hayao Miyazaki.
How about westerners spell Asian names with a comma like in library databases: Mo, Yan. That way I'd know immediately which one is the family name and it'll be in the order that East Asians prefer.
Currently, we put Chinese family names first but Japanese ones last: Hayao Miyazaki.
Summary of Lovecraft:
"OMG, so ugly, I'm scared!!!"
"OMG, so ugly, I'm scared!!!"
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Summary of Lovecraft:
"OMG, so ugly, I'm scared!!!"
"OMG, so ugly, I'm scared!!!"
That barbarian age of the 19th century, when countless men, women and children were sacrificed to the dread god named Industry.
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
That barbarian age of the 19th century, when countless men, women and children were sacrificed to the dread god named Industry.
An AI-generated song tops the country music charts. I assume it doesn't sound anything like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIq...
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop (1973) | Music Video
YouTube video by Reelblack One
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
An AI-generated song tops the country music charts. I assume it doesn't sound anything like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIq...
"With my hypnotic powers I had rendered myself invisible." The Shadow
Just one person bothered to listen to this little parody of chamber music. Oh well.
21 years ago, my Track Suite record gained 17,000 listeners. My 'career' has reached an end point.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...
Just one person bothered to listen to this little parody of chamber music. Oh well.
21 years ago, my Track Suite record gained 17,000 listeners. My 'career' has reached an end point.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...
Geschnatter
A trio for flute, oboe and piano.
soundcloud.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"With my hypnotic powers I had rendered myself invisible." The Shadow
Just one person bothered to listen to this little parody of chamber music. Oh well.
21 years ago, my Track Suite record gained 17,000 listeners. My 'career' has reached an end point.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...
Just one person bothered to listen to this little parody of chamber music. Oh well.
21 years ago, my Track Suite record gained 17,000 listeners. My 'career' has reached an end point.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...
I wish black metal was metal played by black people. You know, with a touch of funk and such.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I wish black metal was metal played by black people. You know, with a touch of funk and such.
"Fair is foul and foul is fair,
hover through the fog and filthy air."
The only bit of Shakespeare I remember. For some reason my brain shuts down as soon as someone starts declaiming him.
But this bit would go well with a grime beat.
hover through the fog and filthy air."
The only bit of Shakespeare I remember. For some reason my brain shuts down as soon as someone starts declaiming him.
But this bit would go well with a grime beat.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Fair is foul and foul is fair,
hover through the fog and filthy air."
The only bit of Shakespeare I remember. For some reason my brain shuts down as soon as someone starts declaiming him.
But this bit would go well with a grime beat.
hover through the fog and filthy air."
The only bit of Shakespeare I remember. For some reason my brain shuts down as soon as someone starts declaiming him.
But this bit would go well with a grime beat.
Very classical.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...
Geschnatter
A trio for flute, oboe and piano.
soundcloud.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Very classical.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/ge...
I read John Shirley back in the early 90s. A good one of the cyberpunk pack. Helsinki's bookshops deteriorated after that, so I never saw his books again.
A horror-sf story by me, not terribly long, newly at The Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It's a reprint but from not so long ago and it seems so very topical. Freeeeeeeee!
Empty Bottles
by John Shirley They should have been expecting me. They’d received a letter, posted a month earlier. It contained a note from M...
freezineoffantasyandsciencefiction.blogspot.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I read John Shirley back in the early 90s. A good one of the cyberpunk pack. Helsinki's bookshops deteriorated after that, so I never saw his books again.
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
I listen to The Shadow while drawing and numbering faces, so I usually don't go to the computer to skip ads... except this time: A certain toy company pushed a TWO HOUR ad at me. Yikes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAQ...
I listen to The Shadow while drawing and numbering faces, so I usually don't go to the computer to skip ads... except this time: A certain toy company pushed a TWO HOUR ad at me. Yikes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAQ...
The Shadow (10 Hours Pt. 5) | Old Time Radio Show | the BEST NOIR DETECTIVE RADIO Drama of All Time
YouTube video by Ghost of Radio
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
I listen to The Shadow while drawing and numbering faces, so I usually don't go to the computer to skip ads... except this time: A certain toy company pushed a TWO HOUR ad at me. Yikes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAQ...
I listen to The Shadow while drawing and numbering faces, so I usually don't go to the computer to skip ads... except this time: A certain toy company pushed a TWO HOUR ad at me. Yikes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAQ...
Finland should reverse winter and summer times. For us it's pointless to have one more hour of sunlight at night, the sun setting at midnight instead of 11 pm.
Instead, it would be nice in winter to have a sunset at 4 pm instead of 3 pm.
That's in southern Finland, of course.
Instead, it would be nice in winter to have a sunset at 4 pm instead of 3 pm.
That's in southern Finland, of course.
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Finland should reverse winter and summer times. For us it's pointless to have one more hour of sunlight at night, the sun setting at midnight instead of 11 pm.
Instead, it would be nice in winter to have a sunset at 4 pm instead of 3 pm.
That's in southern Finland, of course.
Instead, it would be nice in winter to have a sunset at 4 pm instead of 3 pm.
That's in southern Finland, of course.
Amazing webcomic. Almost infinite detail and yet they manage to publish almost two pages per week. That's nearly Japanese levels of productivity.
killsixbilliondemons.com
killsixbilliondemons.com
Kill Six Billion Demons » BREAKER OF INFINITIES
killsixbilliondemons.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Amazing webcomic. Almost infinite detail and yet they manage to publish almost two pages per week. That's nearly Japanese levels of productivity.
killsixbilliondemons.com
killsixbilliondemons.com
471,000 faces. Next year, I'll reach half a million. Yes, I'm insane. Why do you ask?
renekita.tumblr.com
renekita.tumblr.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
471,000 faces. Next year, I'll reach half a million. Yes, I'm insane. Why do you ask?
renekita.tumblr.com
renekita.tumblr.com
Oh all right, let's have just a little bit of reverb.
Designing a percussion sound on my new Korg Opsix. It's lovely.
Generally, I'm opposed to reverb and delay. They turn everything into soup when you're playing fast.
Designing a percussion sound on my new Korg Opsix. It's lovely.
Generally, I'm opposed to reverb and delay. They turn everything into soup when you're playing fast.
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Oh all right, let's have just a little bit of reverb.
Designing a percussion sound on my new Korg Opsix. It's lovely.
Generally, I'm opposed to reverb and delay. They turn everything into soup when you're playing fast.
Designing a percussion sound on my new Korg Opsix. It's lovely.
Generally, I'm opposed to reverb and delay. They turn everything into soup when you're playing fast.
I read about a 9 year old who says "That's so AI!" when he means that it's nonsense.
When we play Scrabble, I tell my mom to skip the Google AI when she looks up words.
When we play Scrabble, I tell my mom to skip the Google AI when she looks up words.
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I read about a 9 year old who says "That's so AI!" when he means that it's nonsense.
When we play Scrabble, I tell my mom to skip the Google AI when she looks up words.
When we play Scrabble, I tell my mom to skip the Google AI when she looks up words.