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This her progrockiest yet?

Surprised/disappointed that “ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER.. (MY HOUSE)” wasn’t included on this (not to mention the two other tracks that were just yanked from the single on streaming services) but I’m hopeful that that work is for her next full album, which this Pitchfork profile says will be “a collection of more conventional R&B songs.” Hard to imagine Gray doing anything “conventional,” but I guess “ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER” is one of her more straightforwardly organized compositions, and still pretty weird. Fingers crossed Saya Gray stays weird.

Standalone post link: Listening Log: QWERTY II

Didn’t realize I needed a new Vampire Weekend album, but it turns out I really did need it. And its the most Vampire Weekendish album they’ve ever made.

Weird how I felt almost giddy listening to this album the first few times. Like, people are allowed to make music like this? “Classical” is everything.

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Only God Was Above Us

Also didn’t realize I needed a countryish sometimes Beatlesish Beyonce album, but here we are.

Standalone post link: Listening Log: COWBOY CARTER

Started drafting out a whole narrative of my thoughts and mixed reactions to this album, but realized probably absolutely nobody needs my take on this and I have plenty of other things to write about and do, things that might benefit from having more written and explored about them.

Guess I might still write and share about this later if I find I can’t let my thoughts on it go away, though…

Standalone post link: Listening Log: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT THE ANTHOLOGY

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Diary / LP2 / The Colour and the Shape

This really syncs with my recent 90s midwest emo indie rock deep dive. In fact, I listened to this a couple of times, then listened to the first two Sunny Day Real Estate albums, started listening to Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape, but wanted to come back to this again over all of that. [2024-04-27]

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Final Summer

Listened to this album for the who knows how manynth time - still just love it, songs have been in my head all week and I’m not sure why.

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Frame & Canvas

There were a lot of things on this website and elsewhere in my life that I wanted to do or meant to do in 2024 and did not get done. And I’m making no promises to myself or anyone else for 2025, yet.

But I did read some good books in 2024, and I did manage to build and populate this 2024 reading log gallery.

It makes me happy when I scroll through it. After some updates yesterday and today I think it is almost 100% accurate, other than some picture books I didn’t bother to log, and, of course, all the random digital content I read.

I also record my books read and more especially my crazy want-to-read list on Goodreads, but I guess I don’t share reviews there or even ratings usually anymore. Will I start again? I don’t know.

Standalone post link: Note on My 2024 Reading Log

Decided to start posting again and push my updates to micro.blog and then to a bluesky account I set up. Thinking about pushing to Threads as well, but not pulling the trigger on that yet.

Now to see whether it works like I hope it will, wether I stick with it or get scared, whether I actually want anyone in the world to be aware of my weird little website.

Edit: spent too much time today playing around with this. I don’t know why some of the posts work and some look funky, and I’m not entirely sure why I’m doing this actually. I should just read stuff and email people or whatever?

Standalone post link: on posting updates again, and pushing to some social media sites

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