It’s All in How You Play the Algorithms

On today’s show we chat with TLR and Jack Squires about L.A. Zinefests PlayDate 2016 and their indie video game, Tonight You Die. Steve Howard interviews Mike Andersen and we hear a song from Mike’s peroemance on Asheville FM’s The Lost Cause. Emil Brown explains yo-yo culture. Alan Ranta prasies Prince Rama’s new album, XTREME NOW. Ryk McIntye reads us a poem about his experience with OKCupid. Brent plays us a Vaporwave mix.

L.A. Zine Fest‘s PlayDate 2016

Zines

Tonight You Die video game

Your Network is Your Net Worth video game

Mike Andersen live on The Lost Cause on Asheville FM

Mike Andersen “Every Day”

Daniel Johnston

Yo-yo culture

National Yo-Yo Museum

Redondo Beach Pier Yo-Yo Contest

Prince Rama’s new album, XTREME NOW

Glam rock

Now Age Manifesto

Prince Rama “Your Life in the End”

OkCupid

Tinder

PennySaver

Ryk McIntye’s “OkCupid is To Dating, as Salmon is To…”

I posted a new profile on OkCupid recently,
figuring it’s like playing cash lottery, but
more “It’s just so crazy it might work!”
as opposed to odds of lightning strikes.
“It’s all in how you play the algorithms”,

friends offer, the same way Math teachers
explain things to people who have allowed
themselves to be born as Poetry students:
ar-tic-u-late-ing “al-go-rih-thim” as if
it might better take root, the knowledge

sinking deeper into my hopeful imagination.
I expected personal questions, and receive
questions better suited to astronomers-
“Which is bigger- the Sun or the Earth?”
it asks, then asks me what is acceptable

for a possible match to answer, and to rate
that importance, using the three-finger metric:
“A Little”,”Somewhat” or “Very”. So, I answer,
“the Sun”, make it clear I’d want my match
to also answer “the Sun”, stress it is “Very”

in its importance, explaining “I need to know
that you come from the same Galaxy as me.
Long-distance relationships suck.” Satisfied
I am being as specific as possible, I go on.
OkCupid asks, “When it comes to pubic hair,

do you make a regular effort to maintaining
its appearance?” Well, I’ve stopped picking
out the grey ones… does that count? I have
no particular opinion on how or if a match
needs to answer that one, assume it’s the same

sort of thing as “What noises would she make?”–
things I’d find out if a match is found; the first
date gone so well, that she asks me to drop her
off, circle the block, and ask her out again, but
this time, she says, “Park the car… lose the keys…”

…and this fantasy is interrupted by the next
question, which asks me to describe my life
by what stage of Salmon I would describe me
as being at? The metaphors are not even subtle:
a.) Fry (youth), b.) Smolt (young adult), c.) Adult

fully developed) and d.) Spawner (has kids/dead).
My Life in Dating as sad coda to nature documentaries.
This is where my perfect match would say “e.) Sushi-
now shut down the computer. Let’s get to eating.“
I would mumble glad praise to algorithms, and join her.

Storium

Brent Morris’ Vaporwave Mix

3D Blast “Twenty15 父の年”

Visceral “MIND OVER MATTER (Feat. Replica Federation)”

Blank Banshee “Teen Pregnancy”

Köshrimp “Oddy SeicentoSessentaSeis Experience”

Bodyline “Sunset Shell”

ULTRADREAM “america (VHS)”

YOUTH FOUNTAIN “電気の銀行”

Joseph Aleo
Website: http://josephaleo.com/blog/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/josephaleo

Mike Andersen
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mike-Andersen-243537738991451/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/M_AndersenPiano

Emil Brown
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ebilflindas

Steven Howard
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mentalnotesAFM
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MentalNotesAFM

Steven Howard
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/MentalNotesAFM

Ryk McIntye
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RykMcI

Brent Morris
Website: http://closetgeekshow.ca
Twitter: https://twitter.com/closetgeekshow

Alan Ranta
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanranta

Jack Squires
Website: http://duendegames.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/duendegames

TLR
Website: http://taylorshechet.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_tlr_