Electric Lights Are Too Expensive—Why Not Brighten The Moon?

Electric Lights Are Too Expensive—Why Not Brighten The Moon?

Think of all the power it takes to light up empty parking lots at night. Think of how annoying it can be when the sun goes down, yet you didn’t finish all your work for the day. Think of how great it would be if we could just extend daytime, reduce the cost of lighting up all those empty streets and garages, and keep our cities as excessively illuminated as they already are today. We should just brighten the moon.

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Swans: Lunacy [Video]

Lunacy is the lead song off Swans’ new 2-hour Goliath of an album, The Seer, which dropped a few days ago. The whole album is a staggeringly complex—I want to say “thick”—piece of work, and Lunacy provides a nice introduction. More »