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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

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

(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

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

Queued this up after Night Palace because Night Palace made me think of it and it’s lowkey one of my favorite albums ever.

Also listed genre as: nature noise folk rock (but was tempted by ‘sci fi silence’)

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Florist

Neat.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Mighty Vertebrate

Genre: dreampop indie rock? I don’t know what, was expecting something dubsteppy James Blake-y and this was honestly better than I thought it would be

metablogging sidenote: I think I’m going to make the genre field show up in my posts…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: The Sunset Violent

Took so many notes and quotes from this today, which I always think I am going to do with books like this but rarely ever do. Learning to be more deliberate and thorough about my reading and writing, I hope.

Having a lot of thoughts from this book in regards to writing: why and what I should write, and the intersection of her framing of writing as a way of life or a spiritual practice with me feeling a push to get back into blogging here on this website or get involved with social media again. Her framing of writing as a life practice feels right to me, it is a religious practice I could join; so then the question becomes not whether to write but whether to share my writing, and where, when, and why. Hopefully I can sort it all out through writing soon, and I might share it here, depending on how it turns out?

The first key is that I need to be patient with myself and do it all on my own time, not get caught up in the need to generate “consistent content” or such nonsense. Not publish the first words that come over the keyboard onto the screen, though I am doing that right now.

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DATE : 2024-11-07

Started reading Body Work by Melissa Febos. Read the first essay, in defense of navel-gazing…great arguments for personal writing, that it is actually political writing, that it is belittled and suppressed for real reasons, speaking truth to power, bearing witness, etc.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Body Work

I will definitely get back to this one soon.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Something in the Woods Loves You