a stream

This wasn’t quite what I was hoping for after the first track I heard, but it is nice.

I need to stop this “hoping” and “expectations” nonsense and just accept what is offered for what it is. If something doesn’t meet my imagined hopes and expectations, maybe what that means is that I should get off my butt and create the thing I’m imagining…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Rose Main Reading Room

Very nice. One from last year I never spent much time with, but a track came up on shuffle and I immediately wanted to hear the whole album.

Vibe is almost like getting another Radiohead album (think A Moon Shaped Pool) but without Thom’s intensity and occasional caterwaul. Not that there’s anything wrong wIth Thom, its just, to get caught in one of these beautiful instrumentals, almost expecting that voice to jump in at any moment, followed by the absence of it, and Rani’s voice instead, is a kind of relief and a blessing, you know? Like the plans you were anxious about were just cancelled, and now you can just read a book or play a video game or listen to this music or whatever and not have to deal with going out.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Ghosts

At first, it made me miss Craft Spells. (Whatever happened to Craft Spells btw?) Then I wanted to be listening to BLACKSTARKIDS, or the new Toro album, or I’m not sure what else.

But by the halfway point I had finally accepted this for what it was and not what I expected or wanted it to be, and I realized it was pretty nice.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: EKKSTACY

Toro y Moi’s music is just endlessly listenable to me, almost no matter what does, though it often takes me a minute to come around to whatever his latest flavor is. This album is no exception.

I love how he seems so chill but takes on ambitious challenges and manages things that it seems like shouldn’t work for him: successfully trying on various genres, the maturing of his vocals, and in this album’s case a fair amount of rapping and some successful pop moves, among other things.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Hole Erth

I hear you went down down down down down down down down I hear you went down

I was pretty obsessed with All My Heroes Are Cornballs a few years ago. I don’t know why I haven’t paid much attention to the stuff he’s done since then, but now I’m definitely paying attention.

I feel an exhaustive JPEGMAFIA / Devon Hendryx discography listening project is coming soon…

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(went searching for the source of the sample and youtube caught me)

I hear you went down

jpegmafia’s 100th problem - “don’t rely on other men” song analysis

How JPEGMAFIA Breaks EVERY Beatmaking Rule

I remember watching some random youtube where he hung out with James Blake and just shared some of his productions at the time (AMHAC era)

Standalone post link: Listening Log: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

(I didn’t complete my re-read of this book, I guess.)

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DATE : 2024-09-07

Reading Soil again because I want to move forward with rewilding my yard, but a little more intentionally as Dungy describes in this book, instead of my lazy ways. This book is the only thing I’ve encountered so far that describes something close to what I want to try to do going forward.

Also, I just really like this book and wanted to practice notemaking and writing my thoughts and responses to it this time around.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Soil

Now

• rewilding my front yard
• working at the same job I have had for fourteen years
• reading a bunch of wild shit
• walking around my neighborhood without my dog, sometimes for miles and miles

Next

• develop a consistent writing/making practice
• sort out the listening log on this site
• sort out everything else on this site
• be social on the web again
• go on some wilderness adventures in the fall

This reflects my ‘now’ page update of September 2, 2024. Please visit that main now page to see my dynamic log galleries, as well as an archive of prior and newer ‘now’ updates.

Credit for the ‘now’ page concept goes to Derek Sivers. I tend to get aspirational when I update it, so I’ve decided to embrace that by calling it ‘now and next.’

Standalone post link: Now and Next (September 1, 2024)

All fours is a hell of a book. Hilarious, ridiculous, not infrequently gross and also not infrequently profound. Feels like it was probably a lot fun and freedom to write this way, but with a huge amount of thought and work under the surface.

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The Yale Review | Miranda July on Emotional Honestly, Art-Making, and…

Standalone post link: Reading Log: All Fours

Forgot what a smart follow up this is; it builds so well on the first book while exploring so many more ideas.

And the meeting with the maker loomed so large in our minds; we misremembered that that happened at the end of the first book, and so were waiting forever for it, but also didn’t want Roz to get caught. Couldn’t remember how it all came together.

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2024-08-03: Started Reading

Read aloud with my son at bedtimes some nights; a re-read for both of us. We previously finished our re-read of The Wild Robot and intend to read the full trilogy. Also feel a bad hipster’s need to clarify that we started these reads without knowing about the upcoming film release; wouldn’t want to be misconstrued as following a trend. I was a Wild Robot fan before it was cool.

2024-08-11 : 29%

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Wild Robot Escapes

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Death's Country