There is also something solipsistic about the "laptop performance" concert. Which we also all can relate to.

It is the feat of harnessing a runaway laptop that is the engaging element of a live "laptop music" setting.

Will it be tamed or will it break or go its own way.

Morning pages: People don't understand the quantity of what I do because it is how someone else wants it. Someone else prefers it to be such and such a way.

I can't take the level of destruction happening in Gaza today. There have been 12,000 people killed. Indescribable horror and loss. Just so bad.

nowplaying XO by Elliott Smith.

This record is growing on me. Used to very much prefer the more stripped down acoustic records - but this one might be the sweet spot of what constitutes a True Sound - Quintessential.

Checking out Scavengers Reign

watching

Donating plasma is like practice for the medical intervention part of dying. Preparing to be stuck in a spot at the mercy of people in white coats. The build up and the fear and the release at the end when you get to arise and return home.

TIL that a business student in the 7os invented "calimari." As a business opportunity, of course, but also as a response to overfishing. There were still a lot of squids out there.