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Songs in my head:

  • NDA, billie
  • Women of the world, Jim O'Rourke
  • Ten Second News, Son Volt

I've always been a Check the website kind of person, when I want to find out details of an event. But I should give in and be more of a Just check Facebook kind of person.

I am in constant awe and curiosity and filled to the brim with wonder - just by this simple notion: "How do you live? Why are you doing that thing you're doing? Why did you do this thing when you usually do THAT thing (yes, I noticed that you usually do THAT thing, not because I'm weird, but because I am a noticer and I am curious and I care).

Songs in my head:

  • you should see me in a crown.
  • act of love, Neil Young
  • sex type thing, Stone Temple Pilots (this song doesn't hold up, in my head)

I wish that the iOS Music app (no, it's not the Apple Music app - it also plays my personally curated library of purchases and uploads) could sort albums by year. There are so many great 3rd party music apps that do this - but I just can't bring myself to pay another 15 to 50 dollars JUST for this feature.

On my reading list for the rest of 24 and into 25:

  • more Roth
  • Ferrante
  • McCarthy
  • Melville
  • The Knausgaard orb in the sky novels

I figured out how to make Apple Podcasts stations work for me: don't ever manually tend to them. Don't swipe anything to remove episodes, don't mark anything as played or unplayed. Let episodes enter and exit stations of their own accord.

This is the way forward.

Songs in my head:

  • Proud to Be an American (why oh why??)
  • Learning to Fly, Old Tom

testing 123. that bad file seeems to be cleared out. now to get the practice charts done.

The Medvedev/Sinner match couldn't be much more different than the matches from the last couple of nights.

You want to have your thoughts solely in your own spot, your own personal digital garden, if you will, but the lure of BEING SEEN, in the same old places, proves too much to overcome.

Songs in my head:

  • Grindstone, Uncle Tupelo
  • Everything Glorious, David Crowder
  • Bad Guy, Billie

Songs in my head today:

  • The Ruling Class, Loose Fur
  • Answers to Your Questions, Loose Fur
  • Psychedelic Orgasm, Kim Gordon

From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/nyregion/nyc-bus-subway-fare-evasion.html

Fare beaters might also feel emboldened, experts say, because heavy traffic and a lack of bus lanes means that bus service can be slow and unreliable. For some riders, it is simply not worth the price of admission. The pandemic also reinforced the perception that fares were optional, after the authority made bus rides free for a few months in 2020.

Once you give something out for free, there's no turning back.

Songs in my head today:

  • The Ruling Class, Loose Fur
  • Answers to Your Questions, Loose Fur
  • Psychedelic Orgasm, Kim Gordon

I truly like Apple's "Spacialize Stereo" feature - but I wish I could have it minus the added reverb.

What would be the problem with just staying here in my chair by the window and reading novels and po-ems for the rest of my days?

On Emily Dickinson: I learned this week that in 2016 an edition of her poems was published which, for the first time, took into account her own prioritization and arrangement of her po-ems. At some point Emily assembled some small batches into booklets, perhaps showing which of her poems she held most dear.

I find it baffling that I had never known this. I have never heard that she did any arranging or other work toward publishing her work. I always assumed that later editors sorted through all the scraps, tried to pin down dates, and published everything all together in the books which exist (Final Harvest, that other newer one), not making any attempt to delineate between a fragment and a complete work.

How can it have taken more than a century for anyone to try and put the Dickinson canon into a form that might bear Emily's stamp of approval?

POV: the coffee beans have turned, but you still have another pound of them to grind through.

Deciding for whom to vote for pres. is about figuring out who you think is the best manager - the one with the best relationships. It's like being able to perceive the hearts of your teenage kids's friends by knowing who they hang out with, who they get along with.

As I thumb through the glossy magazine produced by a local private school, two things stick out to me: generational wealth, and the continued propagation of WASP-y aspirational status seeking. Conventionality. Is that a word? Conventionalness - the condition of fitting into the standard mold.