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Link - Everything Is Going Too Fast
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Link: Everything Is Going Too Fast | Imani Perry
Type: Essay / Newsletter
Source: Unsettled Territory (Atlantic Subscriber Newsletter) ($)
“There are no easy ways to live now. But I do think we have to be deliberate about moments of quiet reflection in which we make decisions about what we will do, however modest, in response to so many social and political challenges. And by that I mean what we will do in a sustained fashion—both in terms of what we commit to knowing about by regularly reading and keeping abreast of those topics, and also in terms of what civic actions we will weave into our daily lives. I’m not one to rail against the internet or the television. But I am an advocate of regularly stepping away to concentrate one’s attention. It still feels inadequate, of course. But it is something.”
Link: Everything Is Going Too Fast | Imani Perry
Type: Essay / Newsletter
Source: Unsettled Territory (Atlantic Subscriber Newsletter) ($)
“There are no easy ways to live now. But I do think we have to be deliberate about moments of quiet reflection in which we make decisions about what we will do, however modest, in response to so many social and political challenges. And by that I mean what we will do in a sustained fashion—both in terms of what we commit to knowing about by regularly reading and keeping abreast of those topics, and also in terms of what civic actions we will weave into our daily lives. I’m not one to rail against the internet or the television. But I am an advocate of regularly stepping away to concentrate one’s attention. It still feels inadequate, of course. But it is something.”
This fits into a a constellation of blog posts/articles/newsletters I’m seeing, calling for what I would describe as intentionality and deliberateness in response to the endless onslaught of “news” and marketing and distractions. I might pull together some more structured thoughts and links on this, but for now I’m just sharing the quote to remember, and then gathering a couple of the links that I just came across-
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I have a secret. I hid it for years. / What News Designed for 21st Century Humans Might Look Like by Amanda Ripley
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No News Is Good News by Thomas J. Bevan
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both of the above found via The News Is a Drag) by Tracy Durnell
Standalone post link: Link - Everything Is Going Too Fast
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Listens Last Week (July 24, 2022)
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.24]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
A log of my music listens in the past week, by albums and playlists, not including completely random shuffles.
A log of my music listens in the past week, by albums and playlists, not including completely random shuffles.
Date | Album or Playlist | (Year of Release) | Artist or Curator
Sun.2022.07.17 | Beatopia | (2022) | beabadoobee
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: chores, puttering, whatever
Mon-Tue.2022.07.18-19 | The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Deluxe Edition) | (2022) | Valerie June
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving
Tue.2022.07.19 | Outer Peace | (2019) | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, whatever
Wed.2022.07.20 | Underneath the Pine | (2011) | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, working
Wed.2022.07.20 | Causers of This | (2010) | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Wed.2022.07.20 | The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Deluxe Edition) | (2022) | Valerie June
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Wed.2022.07.20 | Digital Meadow | (2021) | Dora Jar
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Wed.2022.07.20 | Comfortably In Pain | (2022) | Dora Jar
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Fri.2022.07.22 | Causers of This | (2010) | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, whatever
Fri.2022.07.22 | Underneath the Pine | (2011) | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, whatever
Fri.2022.07.22 | Comfortably In Pain | (2022) | Dora Jar
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: whatever
Fri.2022.07.22 | Digital Meadow | (2021) | Dora Jar
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: whatever
Sat.2022.07.23 | Hope For Sale | (2021) | Chiiild
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving
Sat.2022.07.23 | Fantasy Gateway | (2022) | Cuco
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, whatever
Sat.2022.07.23 | [Playlist] July 22 New Releases | (2022) | Diabolical Records SLC
Format/Source: Streaming - Tidal
Location/Context: driving, whatever
Notes: Diabolical Records is a record store in downtown SLC that has influenced my musical listening. One of the only reasons I ever go on Instagram is to see their posts about new things in stock and get music recommendations…but I’m a little ashamed to confess that I’ve never actually set foot in their store. (I did order one of their quarantine grab bags for delivery once during the early months of the COVID.) At any rate, I owe them business and money, but going downtown feels particularly epic, and I would either find $100s in records to buy, or just as likely glance around weirdly for like 60 seconds and feel self-conscious and awkward, and then walk out.
Sat.2022.07.23 | Space Ghost | (2022) | Attia Taylor
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, whatever
Standalone post link: Listens Last Week (July 24, 2022)
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Just Trees, Really
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.21]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Really, most of the time I just like sitting beneath trees, and it turns out my backyard is an extremely serviceable place for that, so no need to go anywhere else to write or work.
Really, most of the time I just like sitting beneath trees, and it turns out my backyard is an extremely serviceable place for that, so no need to go anywhere else to write or work.
And right as I was about to post this my laptop ran out of battery power, and now I have to decide whether to go inside or set up a huge extension cord or just keep sitting here and not use my laptop.
What I decided:
Standalone post link: Just Trees, Really
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20220718 Changelog
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
I’m playing around with reorganizing almost my entire site into topic- and theme-based files and folders on the back end.
With keeping my new “digital garden” off to the side of the rest of my content, I can’t decide where to put things. It feels redudant; so I’m making the whole site into the garden.
I’m playing around with reorganizing almost my entire site into topic- and theme-based files and folders on the back end.
With keeping my new “digital garden” off to the side of the rest of my content, I can’t decide where to put things. It feels redudant; so I’m making the whole site into the garden.
Keeping most of my content in a chronological organization just doesn’t make sense anymore for the direction I want to take this site. I’ve successfully set up “stream”/“recent updates” pages and an RSS feed that pull in all the new or newly-updated posts chronologically, regardless of where in the folder structure they are located.
I’ll gradually start gathering files together that go together topically/thematically or as series. Posts clearly about music will all go together. Changelogs will all go together. Reading updates all go together. Within the reading updates, notes about a specific book all go together. Things about my backyard all go together. Random surreal essay-poem-list things (I should have more of those) all go together. If something doesn’t have a clear focus or is all over the place, maybe it will stay in the chronological notes folders?
I’ll continue the taxonomy as-is but it will just be a secondary way to make more connections between things. The whole site will be a garden; displaying whether something is a “digital garden”-type entry or note will be a matter of unique templating/post-types. I’m going to have to play around with the templating a lot more now. Always be cataloging and meta-ing, I guess…
Standalone post link: 20220718 Changelog
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Give Me a Sentence...
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words a kind of blood must circulate forever.
– Henry David Thoreau, from “Monday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words a kind of blood must circulate forever.
– Henry David Thoreau, from “Monday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
Standalone post link: Give Me a Sentence...
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How to Build a Trail
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.17]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
In our backyard we have a little hill/bluff down to a creek, but no easy way to get down there. I’ve decided to build a simple rustic step trail down, and here is how I think I’m going to go about it.
In our backyard we have a little hill/bluff down to a creek, but no easy way to get down there. I’ve decided to build a simple rustic step trail down, and here is how I think I’m going to go about it.
Links / Videos
How to Build Rustic Garden Stairs ⚒ | Give It a Grow
How to Build Rustic Trails for Free | Give It a Grow
How To Build Wooden Steps To Prevent Erosion On Your Hill | How To Video Channel
…and a couple of picture ideas I saw on Pinterest1 and probably shouldn’t repost here, but will anyway as sketchy bespoke “re-pins” …
[ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2392606043808484/ ]
[ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/110901209566643332/ ]
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which reminds me that someday I want to build some kind of simple screencapture/image-saving bookmarking setup for this website, because I don’t want to mess with Pinterest anymore. ↩︎
Standalone post link: How to Build a Trail
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Listens Last Week (July 17, 2022)
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.17]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
(This is a log of my music listens in the past week, by albums and playlists, not including completely random shuffles.)
(This is a log of my music listens in the past week, by albums and playlists, not including completely random shuffles.)
Date | Album or Playlist | Artist or Curator
Sun.2022.07.10 | Warsaw Demos July 18, 1977 | Warsaw (l.k.a. Joy Division)
Format/Source: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE0CWIcB2mQ
Location/Context: while reading the 33⅓ volume Unknown Pleasures
Sun.2022.07.10 | RCA Demo Session | Joy Division
Format/Source: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYnyiL8-VI
Location/Context: while reading the 33⅓ volume Unknown Pleasures
Sun-Mon.2022.07.10-11 | [Playlist - various albums, eps, singles, non-album tracks, and live recordings] An Ideal for Living EP * Unknown Pleasures * Substance * Still * Closer | Joy Division
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: while reading the 33⅓ volume Unknown Pleasures, driving, working
Mon.2022.07.11 | Mahal | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Mon-Tue.2022.07.11-12 | [full artist albums, mixtape, and singles shuffle] Mahal * Outer Peace * Soul Trash * Boo Boo * Samantha * What For? * Anything in Return * Freaking Out * Underneath the Pine * Causers of This * June 2009 * | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working, driving
Tue.2022.07.12 | Comfortably in Pain and Digital Meadow EPs | Dora Jar
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Notes: First listen
Tue.2022.07.12 | TWOPOINTFIVE | Aminé
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Notes: First listen
Tue.2022.07.12 | Hajime EP | Yumi Nu
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving
Notes: first listen
Tue-Wed.2022.07.12-13 | Forest in the City | UMI
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, working
Notes: first listen
Wed.2022.07.13 | Comfortably in Pain and Digital Meadow EPs | Dora Jar
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Wed.2022.07.13 | Asha’s Awakening | Raveena
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Notes: first listen
Wed.2022.07.13 | Harry’s House | Harry Styles
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Notes: first listen
Wed.2022.07.13 | Mahal | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Wed.2022.07.13 | Once Twice Melody | Beach House
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: working
Wed-Thur.2022.07.13-14 | The Turning Wheel | Spellling
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, working
Thur.2022.07.14 | græ | Moses Sumney
Format/Source: Double Vinyl LPs
Location/Context: home stereo, cooking chili
Fri.2022.07.15 | Gemini Rights | Steve Lacy
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: driving, working
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Sat.2022.07.16 | Mahal | Toro y Moi
Format/Source: Streaming - Apple Music
Location/Context: website puttering, finalizing this very list
Standalone post link: Listens Last Week (July 17, 2022)
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Unknown Pleasures
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.12]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
I read this 33 and ⅓ entry on Unknown Pleasures and then re-listened to pretty much every track Joy Division ever recorded.
I read this 33 and ⅓ entry on Unknown Pleasures and then re-listened to pretty much every track Joy Division ever recorded.
I’ll say that this book was better and more detailed than just reading Wikipedia. It seemed to have good research, had its moments of good writing, and didn’t romanticize the end of Curtis' life as much as a lot of what I found when I scrolled through this copyright-infringing fan blog. And that’s okay.
The night that I scrolled through that blog turned out to be the eve of the anniversary of Ian Curtis’ death. It was eerie. Or maybe I was the one romanticizing things.
I think that would have been around the time I also ordered this weird t-shirt, which I now have in my possession but have not yet worn.
He that hath an ear, let him hear
Standalone post link: Unknown Pleasures
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Poem Link - The Treasure
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.10]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Link: “The Treasure” | Robinson Jeffers
Type: Poem
Source: Poem-a-Day (poets.org)
Short-lived as grass the stars quicken in the nebula and dry in their summer, they spiral / Blind up space, scattered black seeds of a future; nothing lives long…
Link: “The Treasure” | Robinson Jeffers
Type: Poem
Source: Poem-a-Day (poets.org)
Short-lived as grass the stars quicken in the nebula and dry in their summer, they spiral / Blind up space, scattered black seeds of a future; nothing lives long…
- Very Whitman-ish. Another poet to read more from someday…
Standalone post link: Poem Link - The Treasure
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Links Last Week Not Happening Sort Of
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.10]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
The first “links last week” still isn’t really happening today - I didn’t keep up with it other than the first day of the week, which happened to be the 4th of July.
I guess I could still post the links I did note at the first of the week, because a couple of them are really good, though a bit dependent on the “Independence Day” context. Find them after the jump.
The first “links last week” still isn’t really happening today - I didn’t keep up with it other than the first day of the week, which happened to be the 4th of July.
I guess I could still post the links I did note at the first of the week, because a couple of them are really good, though a bit dependent on the “Independence Day” context. Find them after the jump.
Article or Link Title | Author or Creator
Miscellanea - Wonderful Random Internet Things
HOW 2 SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE AND OTHERTHINGS even if you accidentally set everything on fire | Katie Alice Greer and maybe some other people.
Link: https://h2sta.tumblr.com
Notes: An old comic/collage/zine tumblr that I found and scrolled through and laughed at a lot. Found while clicking around on https://www.katiealicegreer.com trying to make some sense of her new album Barbarism, which I’ve listened to twice now and will probably be listening to more times, though I’m not sure whether I actually enjoy it or not yet.
Poetry
“Dependence Day” | John Daniel
Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/37902/dependence-day
Source: Poetry Foundation Poem of the Day Newsletter
Notes: I then of course had to read the other John Daniel poems from the November 1990 issue of Poetry.
Food / Travel
“The Challenges that Keep Asian Chefs from Cooking How They Want” | Esther Tseng
Link: https://www.bonappetit.com/story/asian-chefs-challenges-expectations
Source: Bon Appétit
Note: I get this random daily email/newsletter from Condé Nast (I don’t remember signing up for it) that has links to a bunch of articles from their different magazines. There is almost always at least one I read, and then I start clicking around in the magazine’s website after. Thus, this and the next link.
“Oakland Is America’s New Queer Food Capital. Here’s Where to Eat” | Ray Levy Uyeda.
Link: https://www.bonappetit.com/story/where-to-eat-oakland-queer-food-businesses
Source: Bon Appétit
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