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.
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.