a stream

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Finished reading early this morning. Another great one from this author. Review to come?

I had to scroll back through my added albums to last year to find this again because I couldn’t remember this artist or album name. I only remembered the crunchy fuzzy 90s-altrock/shoegazish vibe and that Toro y Moi produced it and that it came out last year and that it had a dog and barfy slimy green and magenta letters on the cover.