I’m using this month’s Micro.Blog photo challenge to only shoot in black and white. I’m using Argentum Camera, but I might start using Provoke Camera.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Tonotopy by Elizabeth Cottern and This Is The Way by A Scanner Darkly.🎵
https://otherforms.bandcamp.com/album/tonotopy
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Patina by Tallies and Far by Infall.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Walking in the Dark by Julia Bullock and JID016 by Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Human Error/Human Delight by Savak and Bouquet Champêtre by Fleur.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Before the pandemic, I had tickets to see SWANS play in Los Angeles. I’ve been listening to them for decades and was pumped to see them. But then their concert was postponed, postponed again, and then canceled. I’m hoping things will improve enough that I can check SWANS off my concert bucket list. Think I’ll listen to some SWANS.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Island by Asunojokei ( thanks, @tomorohhidari@mas.to 😀) and Nacarile by iLe.🎵
I sometimes wonder what my grandkid imagines Little Old Mouse and Purple Monster look like. I’ve deliberately used only the descriptors he’s provided. When we began telling these stories, Purple Monster had 7 arms and 12 legs. Purple Monster has been pared down to 2 arms and legs. Purple Monster is a bull in a China shop: means well, but he’s big, clumsy, and doesn’t know his strength. Little Old Mouse is precisely that, an inscrutable mouse who walks on his legs and provides love and guidance.
When my grandkid and I started telling stories together, I began with Little Old Mouse, who was inspired by the sensei mouse in Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age. Purple Monster shortly came afterward and is entirely the creation of my grandkid. There’s a rotating cast of other characters, but Little Old Mouse and Purple Monster are the main characters. And my grandkid, of course. I take events from his day or week and incorporate them into the story. So today they made a giant snowman.
The day’s highlight was telling my grandkid another story of his adventures with Little Old Mouse and Purple Monster. It’s a story we’ve been telling together for the last couple of years. Today he, Little Old Mouse, and Purple Monster built a snowman that was big as a house!
Aside from coughing up phlegm on the screen of my eReader, I’m on the mend. And I read three books over the weekend. Granted, two of those books took two years to finish.
Finished reading: Echopraxia by Peter Watts 📚 I enjoyed Blind Sight more only due to the thrill of getting a sense of the form and flavor of the universe he was presenting. But this is still a great book, and the footnotes alone will provide me with reading material for the next couple of years.
Finished reading: The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs by Tristan Gooley 📚 This book will certainly enhance my walks. I look forward to implanting Gooley’s strategies, as well as sharing them with my grandson.
Day five of the cold. I’m feeling much better. Despite that, I canceled our #Mothership game because I’ve been too ill to prepare during the week. I intended to read and nap between bouts of coughing phlegm.
I’ve been sick for the last four days. This would be the perfect opportunity to finish books and watch movies. But I forgot I have to do those activities in the windows I’m awake.
Finished reading: Poems That Make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden 📚This book did not fail to deliver on its title. I read each poem aloud, and each time there was a lump in my throat, and tears streamed down my face as I sobbed.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Raven by Kelela and Amaryllis by Mary Halvorson.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
