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2025.02.08
I read Hell Follwed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. 📚
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2025.02.02
On some lowkey Wallace Stevens shit this Sunday morning.
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On some lowkey Wallace Stevens shit this Sunday morning.
It’s a blustery, dark day, though. No sunny chair. No green-winged cockatoo around. Closest thing is the calls of migrant geese on the wind, and our dog’s occasional whimpers at the creaking trees and house noises, and/or at us for just sitting around.
Especially appropriate because I used to be a believing Mormon so coffee is a no-no for every morning, but perhaps an especial sacralege for Sunday morning when I’m supposed to be at church taking the sacrament and recommitting to do and not do a bunch of things such as not drink coffee. Death and resurrection, newness of life. Awake and arise.
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2025.02.01
I read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis again. 📚
Comfort bedtime reading with my son every other night or so. Past Log Updates DATE : 2025-01-01 Started reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with Will tonight.
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Comfort bedtime reading with my son every other night or so.
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DATE : 2025-01-01
Started reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with Will tonight. First two chapters, about 10%.
I kind of wanted us to try something new but this is good. A great read. Comfort read?
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Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
2025.02.01
I've been listening to God's Country by Chat Pile. 🎵
I’m purple man, too
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2025.02.01
I've been listening to Cool World by Chat Pile. 🎵
EVERYTHING THAT THE SKULL SAID WAS TRUE
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EVERYTHING THAT THE SKULL SAID WAS TRUE
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2025.02.01
I played and finished Sneaky Sasquatch. 🎮
The friendmaking challenge really threw me off and I stopped playing this for a long time, but I finally got back to it and pushed through to finish the main storyline. I kind of love this game.
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The friendmaking challenge really threw me off and I stopped playing this for a long time, but I finally got back to it and pushed through to finish the main storyline. I kind of love this game.
This game has been hillarious to me and I probably should write something more about it and my weird reaction to the friendmaking part. It is silly and fun but also has an occasional dark satirical and slightly cynical take on human society. Or maybe I’m bringing my own issues to the game. This is what I should probably explore. But not today.
Date: 2024-05-11
Apparently I love Canadian video games?
I’m hooked after starting this on a whim one day while browsing Apple Arcade for the first time on my laptop. I’d wanted to play something on the Switch but not enough to kick my kids off the Switch.
Standalone post link: Playing Log: Sneaky Sasquatch
2025.01.31
I listened to This Dungeon Earth / Remove Your Skin Please EPs by Chat Pile. 🎵
Send my body to Arby’s
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Send my body to Arby’s
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2025.01.29
I've been listening to Dust Inside a Dream by Stalled. 🎵
This was a “personalized” suggestion for me from the Apple Music algorithm and it was a good one. I hate that a little bit, but glad to learn of this band.
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This was a “personalized” suggestion for me from the Apple Music algorithm and it was a good one. I hate that a little bit, but glad to learn of this band.
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2025.01.29
I've been listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. 🎵
(I built a playlist to finally try the original 3LP Vinyl edition tracklisting: Dawn - Tea Time - Dusk - Twilight - Midnight - Starlight)
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(I built a playlist to finally try the original 3LP Vinyl edition tracklisting: Dawn - Tea Time - Dusk - Twilight - Midnight - Starlight)
It works, or at least it doesn’t make any less sense than the regular CD track order…and I didn’t have to spend $700 or whatever to try it. I think I could have bought this for $75 at some point but I didn’t have the money.
Here it is -
dawn
- mellon collie and the infinite sadness
- tonight, tonight
- thirthy-three
- in the arms of sleep
- take me down
tea time
- jellybelly
- bodies
- to forgive
- here is no why
- porcelina of the vast oceans
dusk
- bullet with butterfly wings
- thru the eyes of ruby
- muzzle
- galapogos
- tales of a scorched earth
twilight
- 1979
- beautiful
- cupid de locke
- by starlight
- we only come out at night
midnight
- where boys fear to tread
- zero
- an ode to no one
- love
- x.y.u.
starlight
- stumbleine
- lily (my one and only)
- tonite reprise ❋
- farewell and goodnight
- infinite sadness ❋
❋ vinyl only bonus tracks, sourced from The Aeroplane Flies High Deluxe Edition for purposes of my playlist.
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2025.01.25
I've been listening to Mapambazuko by Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta. 🎵
This is one of those albums that opens several avenues of musical exploration, some entirely new to me (Ale Hop) and some I know and love but need to catch up with (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Soukous.)
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This is one of those albums that opens several avenues of musical exploration, some entirely new to me (Ale Hop) and some I know and love but need to catch up with (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Soukous.)