Currently reading: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

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 “normal” 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.

1. Eternal Lover — Moonwater
2. Karmic Light — Tetsu Inoue
3. They Come in Peace — Tranquility Bass
4. Plateau — Orb
5. A Study of Six Guitars — Amorphous Androgynous
6. Session 3: Wien in E — Tosca
7. Anthropomorphic — Qubism
8. No One in the World [Edit] — W.F.O.
9. Fat Chair — Terra Thaemlitz
10. edit:one — DJ Iri
11. 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 — Mysteries of Science
12. #19 — Aphex Twin
13. Tranquility Base — Omicron
14. A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd
15. Expanding — Young American Primitive

A mix CD gift from Caleb, circa 2019.

1. Premonition — YukaKita Mura
2. Phoenix — WolfMother
3. Space Cruise — Ben Prunty
4. Abyss Watchers — Yuka Kitamura
5. Vignette: Panacea — Disasterpeace
6. Vordt of the Boreal Valley — Motoi Sakuraba
7. Mind’s Eye — WolfMother
8. Excerpt from The Tribulation — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
9. End of the Line — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
10. Odyssey — Home
11. Far Away — WolfMother
12. Siege Dancers — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
13. Excerpt from The Union — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
14. God? — Alec Holowka
15. Aldritch, Devourer of Gods — Motoi Sakuraba
16. Guardians Lost — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney
17. Where Eagles Have Been — WolfMother
18. The Alien — Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow
19. Soul of Cinder — Yuka Kitamura
20. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) — Eurythmics

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

1. Get Enough — Ivy
2. You Bite My Tongue — Unwound
3. Our Caballero — Don Caballero
4. Blade of Grass — Versus
5. A Mouthful Of Exhaust — Man Or Astro-Man?
6. Sweet Pea — Seam
7. All Set to Go — Hard-Ons
8. Suki — Unrest
9. Rebound — Sebadoh
10. Alison — Slowdive
11. Bronx Cheer — Mercury Rev
12. Bricks — Crain
13. Solitary Set — Polvo

A mix tape reconstruction: Selections by Chuck Horne. He didn’t make it for me, but it’s beautiful. What a gift!

1. Main Sequence Diffusion / Photon / Lajolla — Füxa
2. A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd
3. Untitled — Jason Falkner
4. (untitled)4 — Bundy K. Brown, Doug Scharin, and James Warden
5. Cry, Cry — Mazzy Star
6. Untitled — Brian Eno
7. Bible Silver Corner — Rodan
8. Jacking the Ball — The Sea and Cake
9. Gymnopedie No.1 — Pascal Rogé
10. On Fire — Sebadoh
11. Cello — Slowdive
12. Untitled (Check and Double Check) — Stereolab
13. Barely Real — Codeine
14. I Love You — John Coltrane
15. Survival — Yes
16. Come Home — Placebo
17. Song In 3 — Galaxie 500
18. Crystal Shade — Flying Saucer Attack
19. Delta Rain Dream — Jon Hassel and Brian Eno
20. You’re Beautiful — Mojave 3
21. No Name #3 — Elliott Smith
22. Tin Cans & Twine — Tortoise
23. Rhine & Courtesan — Rachel’s
24. Touched — My Bloody Valentine

I missed the record store. I made a mix for my friends but mostly to show I was still edgy and cool. I never sent it. This track list was made for a 100-minute cassette tape. Label On Side A said “Disclaimer: Not for Customers”. Label on Side B said “Hello from Minnesota!”

1. Psychoactive Drugs (Uncut Mix) — Emergency Broadcast Network
2. Just Say No to Drug Hysteria [Excerpt] / Dead Souls — William S. Burroughs
3. Words of Advice for Young People [Pete Arden Mix] — William S. Burroughs
4. Hey Man, Nice Shot — Filter
5. More Human Than Human — White Zombie
6. Anthem — Brian G./DJ Spinn
7. Voodoo-U — Lords of Acid
8. The Hustle — Soul City Orchestra/Van McCoy
9. Horror Head — Curve
10. Zombie — The Cranberries
11. Halcyon + On + On — Orbital
12. Sanctuary — Madonna
13. Bedtime Story — Madonna
14. A Dream Away — The Cars
15. Sudden Organ — Yo La Tengo
16. Souvlaki Space Station — Slowdive
17. People Get Real — Saint Etienne
18. Krazy — Seal
19. Feeling So Real — Moby
20. bang — Frankie Goes to Hollywood