Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Motomami+ by Rosaliá (thanks, @YannNovak) and Donuts by J Dilla. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Glad my experiment of one home screen with Drafts, Stacked & Siri Recommendation widgets is ending. I’d often look for an app, get confused why it wasn’t on my home screen, search for it, forget what I was looking for or forget what I wanted to accomplish once I did find the app.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers and Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://adriansherwood.bandcamp.com/album/adrian-sherwood-presents-dub-no-frontiers
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Slavestate by Godflesh and Profanation: Preparation For a Coming Darkness by Praxis. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Spirituals by Santigold and Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk by Son of Bazerk. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Finished reading: Night Market Noodles by Peter Lamborn Wilson 📚 Like most people, I know Wilson as Hakim Bey, the author of the much beloved T.A.Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zones). Nightnoodles isn’t the anarcho-mystical experience that T.A.Z. was, but it’s a pleasant romp through some of Wilson’s favorite themes and ideas.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to It’ll End in Tears by This Mortal Coil and A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
It tickles me that Xas Irkalla, the grimdark survival horror rpg I’ll be running in October, occupies a slot in Drafts on my home screen. 🎲
Voice-to-Drafts
I’ve added widgets to my phone’s home screen, but they’ve always felt they didn’t offer much and wasted real estate. But once I acknowledged how much I use Drafts, adding their widget was a no-brainer. I’ve got Drafts tweaked seamlessly to gather content I can later harvest. The only thing that remains a hurdle is using Siri to capture notes. The workaround of using the Reminders app to get notes into Drafts is acceptable, but it’s less than ideal.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Frigid Stars by Codeine and I See A Darkness by Bonnie “Prince” Billy. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://bonnieprincebilly.bandcamp.com/album/i-see-a-darkness
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Tableau by The Orielles and Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://theorielles.bandcamp.com/album/tableau
Finished reading: Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull 📚 I’ve been working on a webcomic for the last few months, and the research required for the project is more significant than I anticipated. It does mean, however, that I got to learn about the samurai women of Japan. The next book I read by Turnbull will be about the Mongolian Invasion of Japan.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Circulus Vitiosus by VTSS and Tomorrows Forgotten Relics self-titled album (thanks, James Curcio). 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Beowulf & Grendel is a low budget movie filmed in 2005. It is vastly superior to Beowulf, Zemeckis’s 2007 uncanny valley of a film.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to The Nashville Sound by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Dummy by Portishead. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
What I’ve gleaned from watching the first 30 minutes of Top Gun: Maverick is that my fellow Gen Xers are constantly told that they are relics and dinosaurs, doomed to obsolescence and irrelevance.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to The Sea Will Outlive Us All by Misha Panfilov and Hold the Girl by Rina Sawayama. 🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Tonight I walked downtown and updated my library card. Sadly, I don’t use the library as much as I did a decade ago. Before I left, I said hello to Stuntdouble. I need to catch up with that guy.
