“Why is the coffee gone?” He thought to himself, as he realized he could not remember drinking all of it, nor previously finishing it.
A friend introduced me to the music of MADIS tonight. The Sea of Tranquility album sounds astonishingly like Jean-Michel Jarre.
Damn. Looks like Rings of Power is a series I’m going to have to watch
Best half-time since Prince.
#PepsiHalftime
LinkedIn is testing a new ‘no politics’ setting
Wishing more large services offered similar. At least some offer filtering.
That thing where I have remote starting for my car but do not remember to use it to my benefit
Wanted to watch the Olympics but got talking heads. Moving on.
Listening to a lot of Seasurfer lately. I discovered them a few years ago and was reacquainted with them again a few weeks ago. Most recent album has what would call more of a dark wave sound, more synth. Earlier albums I would call more shoegaze. But layers, distortion, reverb and harmonies all throughout
Can I say, as an IT person, I’m really tired of running updates. So little control over what is happening. No way to know before starting if this computer will take the update after some unknown interval of time, or not. All I can do is wait and pick up the pieces.
Used all the caffeines to power through a long work weekend. Today, I started my day early and my usual large amount is insufficient. My brain wants MOAR.
Seasurfer Dive In
Apple Music suggested this one to me this morning. It’s right up my alley. I know it as shoegaze, because I’m Gen X. I don’t know what the kids are calling it these days
The Junk email folder is as good a reminder as any of the newsletters I thought I wanted but am not devoting attention to. Lots of unsubscribing this morning.
Just listened to an album from 1991 that I had forgotten about, Culture Beat’s Horizon.
I got the cassette as a promo from a record store I worked at. Clearly it was in-store play, because it had one of the stickers we used. And it was something I liked enough to put my initial on, to claim once it was rotated out in favor of something newer.
That’s the main reason I looked it up to stream. Because back then, I had to wait for it. And I kept it after a lot of exposure to it.
It’s super much a statement of the time, with several tracks leaning heavily on other popular tracks and popular samples. One of the tracks was so much like Pump Up the Jam that a decent DJ could probably have faded between the two tracks very easily.
I did not buy the whole album digitally, but a few tracks stood out. Namely No Deeper Meaning, due to the sampling of Change by Tears for Fears, which still makes me squee.
The second half of the album, roughly Side 2, is much less caught in 1991, if still referential (if not reverential). The drums from Running Up that Hill in the outro was a nice touch.
That was a fun time machine ride.
We never wax steady, we wax and wane.
We never wax steady, we wax and wane.
Brought to you by Deftones covering Cocteau Twins' Wax and Wane
True Fact:
The place on earth with weather conditions most inhospitable to human life is whatever gas station you are at right now.
This is probably a controversial opinion, but I’m so sick and tired of every home improvement show mentioning Open Concept. If you want to live in a warehouse, buy a warehouse. Stop fucking up beautiful, structurally sound homes because you think you need to see everything.
I have been on both sides of this, at times:
10 Ways You’re Annoying the Hell Out of Your Neighbors Without Realizing It
Mr. Rogers was right. Look for the helpers. My God! They are everywhere if you want to see them.
Today, I learned the written word is my love language.
Reviewing the Bullet Journal methodology. Again. In the past I have been done capture reasonably well. Where I need great improvement is in review, analysis, and matching action with intent. This means better methods and strategies.
It is too easy for personal epiphanies to pass from awareness
Read Nicholas Bate’s Your 2022 Word.
My word for 2022 is Grow
It’s not a resolution, nor a command. But it encapsulates so much on my mind.
“And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap”
Also: Mischief managed!
Merry Christmas!
May you find gratitude May you find joy in each other
And let there be peace on Earth
That feeling when you got rid of keys that had been hanging about. Then, much later, you find what they may have been kept for. No harm, no foul. But I have a new challenge.