Please enjoy these things from the internet. The best one is a picture of a bridge. There is music at the bottom that I think you’ll like.
Millennium Dream is the name of a tumblr owned by an anonymous person who has been making art that looks like this for at least the last ten years or so. Here's a page of just the art; the tag is “angelfire”.
Millennium Dream is a person of taste. I followed their link to photographer Patrick Joust in issue 56; they are where I found Dizzy K’s Sweet Music for issue 51; I suspect them of being somehow responsible for the pictures of automobiles in issue 29.
I can’t link back to those posts. They were deleted almost immediately, like almost everything on that blog, including some of my favorites among their artworks. Why? They answered that question once, then deleted the answer.
Here is a letter from the editor announcing the second issue of the html review, a sort of online literary magazine. The first issue came out last spring. It’s to be clicked on. It’s all, to one extent or another, web-native art, unsuitable for emailing or printing.
"China night" is a series of photographs by Mark Horn of Amsterdam.
New music: On The Ground by Grace Ives. (Website or Spotify or YouTube). Synthy guitar pop, like a boppier Kate Bush. The video opens with 18 seconds of silence; roll with it. In fact, maybe just hit “fullscreen” while that’s going on.
New music: Still Turnin’ by Phyphr. (Bandcamp or Spotify or YouTube). This is the hip-hoppy opener to an electro-funk album, brought to you by a man armed with digital tools to emulate both a failing tape deck and a skipping turntable. It’s fun, playful stuff, temporarily picking up the distinctive sounds of a few genres, tasting them, and putting them back down again. Here’s an interview with the artist.
Old music: Joy by Apollo 100 featuring Tom Parker (1971). (Spotify or YouTube). This hit #6 in 1972, unusual for an instrumental track but understandable considering what a total charmer the song is. The back of the record shows great self-awareness, describing this as Apollo 100’s “most listenable” album and noting that it contains their “hit.”
This is a cover. That tune beginning at 0:23 is “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring” by Johann Bach of Leipzig, who receives sole writing credit. The guitar that comes in after 1:10 is almost certainly played by Vic Flick, the guitarist famous for laying down the riff from the James Bond theme.
Thanks for reading.
-Thomas