I moved out of my house for a several months in a span from November to May. Here’s why: Conway Whole House Remodel. Apparently we’re weird. We remodeled our house for us, not for some unknown next owner.
Currently reading: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien π
I had forgotten how much I loved the elves, and missed Gandalf.
I never don’t love a favorite song, but my relationship to it changes.
Sometimes a song lights fireworks. Sometimes I remember the fireworks the song lit, fondly.
It’s an interesting thing, going through my CDs, disc by disc. Encountering the infatuations I have had, both in terms of artists and genres.
What I listened to, at what point in my life, is linked deeply to memory.
More and more I am deeply impressed with the iPad and its effectiveness even as a primary work device. However, some seemingly βnormalβ activities like printing .eml attachments from the Outlook app throws a wrench into the machinery. Two apps needed.
I was very happy with the way that Numbers handled the playlist export from Music. It inferred a delimited file and presented the contents formatted in a very easily understood fashion. It was super easy to copy the two columns I wanted to share, and Nova helped me make markdown fast.
Gentle Ambient
Eternal Lover β Moonwater Karmic Light β Tetsu Inoue They Come in Peace β Tranquility Bass Plateau β Orb A Study of Six Guitars β Amorphous Androgynous Session 3: Wien in E β Tosca Anthropomorphic β Qubism No One in the World [Edit] β W.F.O. Fat Chair β Terra Thaemlitz edit:one β DJ Iri Creatures Made Of Light Glide Softly Across The Slowly Ever-rotating Homeworld In Gentle Undulations Of Warm Dub Through The Encircling Golden Ether Common To System 35 β Mysteries of Science #19 β Aphex Twin Tranquility Base β Omicron A Stream With Bright Fish β Brian Eno & Harold Budd Expanding β Young American Primitive
ι¬Όι (Demon Gate)
A mix CD gift from Caleb, circa 2019. Premonition β YukaKita Mura Phoenix β WolfMother Space Cruise β Ben Prunty Abyss Watchers β Yuka Kitamura Vignette: Panacea β Disasterpeace Vordt of the Boreal Valley β Motoi Sakuraba Mind’s Eye β WolfMother Excerpt from The Tribulation β Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney End of the Line β Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney Odyssey β Home Far Away β WolfMother Siege Dancers β Michael Salvatori, C.
Pretty Full of Good Intentionsβ¦ Kind ofβ¦
From a Maxell XLII 90 cassette given to me by my friend Chuck. Side A dated 6/20/94, Missing songs: Marion Diez, Half the Time. Side B dated 6/21/94 Get Enough β Ivy You Bite My Tongue β Unwound Our Caballero β Don Caballero Blade of Grass β Versus A Mouthful Of Exhaust β Man Or Astro-Man? Sweet Pea β Seam All Set to Go β Hard-Ons Suki β Unrest Rebound β Sebadoh Alison β Slowdive Bronx Cheer β Mercury Rev Bricks β Crain Solitary Set β Polvo
Not Quite Adult Oriented
A mix tape reconstruction: Selections by Chuck Horne. He didnβt make it for me, but itβs beautiful. What a gift! Main Sequence Diffusion / Photon / Lajolla β FΓΌxa A Stream With Bright Fish β Brian Eno & Harold Budd Untitled β Jason Falkner (untitled)4 β Bundy K. Brown, Doug Scharin, and James Warden Cry, Cry β Mazzy Star Untitled β Brian Eno Bible Silver Corner β Rodan Jacking the Ball β The Sea and Cake Gymnopedie No.