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Listed genre as: nature noise folk rock

I’m trying to get organized and be more deliberate about doing the things I actually want to do, so among other things I put down “Start listening to music again” for Today in my Reminders app, and then I finally listened to this album while putting away laundry and stuff.

This is maybe going to be my favorite album of the year? I’m known to myself as impressionable when it comes to new music and art, but I think this is maybe the album I most need right now. I want to dig into the lyrics. I kind of want to buy the book.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Night Palace

Listed genre as: nature noise folk rock

I’m trying to get organized and be more deliberate about doing the things I actually want to do, so among other things I put down “Start listening to music again” for Today in my Reminders app, and then I finally listened to this album while putting away laundry and stuff.

This is maybe going to be my favorite album of the year? I’m known to myself as impressionable when it comes to new music and art, but I think this is maybe the album I most need right now. I want to dig into the lyrics. I kind of want to buy the book.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Night Palace

I’ve forgotten and failed everything meta I meant to do. I’m afraid to look at this website, I’m afraid to look at my notes, I’m afraid to look at the stacks of books on and around my desk, I’m afraid to look back at all my open tabs.

Just keep stacking it on, I guess? Open more tabs. Continue to live my life occasionally and a little bit, with no commentary or performance.

Except this, I guess.

Standalone post link: Open More Tabs

(Not sure when we actualBelated reading log update on 2024-12-31.)

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DATE : 2024-09-18

“We’re just following orders!”

Those last words hung in the air for a while.

“You are just following orders, said Roz at last. “In a way, you humans are more robotic than I am.”

Wow, this actually goes pretty hard for a kids book. Then on the next page she spirals, learning the destructive mining is all for building robots like her. And then it’s like the orca yacht attacks but at oceanic industrial scale.

Can humans and animals and robots all get along and save the oceans? We’ll have to see…

DATE : 2024-08-29

Reading with my son, finishing out the trilogy.

Actually, I have no idea if it is a trilogy or if it is going to keep going even after this one.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Wild Robot Protects

Robin Sloan’s mini-site around Moonbound is so great.

Welcome to the Dragon Moon

This afternoon, after I finished reading Moonbound, I read pretty much everything that is posted there so far (looks like there is more to come.)

I’m excited to see where he goes with this series next, and his virtual book tour broke my heart a little bit when he talked about his book not becoming a bestseller despite his hustle, because I recognized that though I have a parasocial connection with this author, following his newsletter for years and feeling like I know him, I didn’t even come through with a pre-order on this book for him. Some kind of parasocial imaginary friend I am.

I’m relieved he seems to be proceeding with this series, despite our collective neglect. I hope his publisher feels the same way, and I hope he’s right that it will be a slowly percolating success.

I intend to re-read it with my son if he’ll let me, as soon as we’re finished with The Wild Robot Protects.

P.S. My son for his own “challenge” read for school is starting in on that very massive Earthsea omnibus which Sloan shows in a post about Le Guin on the site.

Standalone post link: Moonbound MIni-Site, and the Failures of Even My Parasocial Connections

I made two syrups this afternoon - chocolate and lavender

(I guess technically they are chocolate-vanilla and lavender-vanilla syrups)

Went by these recipes (two-recipe split view, since I did them at the same time in two different sauce pans)

• Easy Homemade Chocolate Syrup Recipe
• Lavender Syrup Recipe | Gimme Some Oven (but I added a tablespoon of vanilla)

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What happens next?

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DATE : 2024-09-11

This book is at least as fun to think about when I can’t be reading it as it is to actually read it.

I guess what I’m saying is the world and the ideas and pretty much everything is very appealing, but I’m not desperate to rip through it to find out what happens. Vibes.

DATE : 2024-09-07

Put this aside for a little while but now I’m back to reading it actively.

DATE : 2024-08-21

Looking at Robin Sloan’s latest newsletter today inspired me to finally start reading his book over any and all other possible choices…such as reading any number of other books I’ve started or meant to start soon, re-watching Dune and Dune, Part 2 because for some reason I can’t get them out of my head, playing any number of video games, or continuing to putter around in my email, the News app, etc.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Moonbound

Possibly could be listening to this one obsessively, remains to be seen. Loved the unusual, diverse productions on some of these tracks, retro but fresh sounding: some seemingly lovers rock type stuff, some 80s electro Afropop-type stuff, etc. Feels almost like listening to some nuggets comp or some DJ on community radio with impeccable taste for old international grooves. Don’t know the story yet on if this is her own production work or if she collaborated with someone on this, but I guess I’ll look into it.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Pointy Heights

Listened to this twice and I zoned out for the last few tracks both times. I don’t think I’m going to be replaying this as obsessively as I did PAINLESS.¹ But maybe, if for no other reason than to figure out what I actually think about this album or if I can come to like it as much as her old stuff. Or if I add it to a playlist of her whole discography and start shuffling…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: My Method Actor

For murky reasons I don’t understand, “Last Nite” has been in my head for days and nights now. The other morning, with the song in my head yet again, before walking out the door I scanned my shelves and pulled this actual decades-old-CD in its jewel case and took it to my car and slid it into my car’s actual CD player, and I’ve been listening to it on loop whenever I am driving ever since.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Is This It