Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Slavestate by Godflesh and Profanation: Preparation For a Coming Darkness by Praxis. ๐ŸŽต

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. ๐ŸŽต

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg

Finished reading: Night Market Noodles by Peter Lamborn Wilson ๐Ÿ“š 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 Itโ€™ll End in Tears by This Mortal Coil and A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie. ๐ŸŽต

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg

It tickles me that Xas Irkalla, the grimdark survival horror rpg Iโ€™ll be running in October, occupies a slot in Drafts on my home screen. ๐ŸŽฒ

Voice-to-Drafts

Iโ€™ve added widgets to my phone’s home screen, but theyโ€™ve always felt they didnโ€™t offer much and wasted real estate. But once I acknowledged how much I use Drafts, adding their widget was a no-brainer. Iโ€™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 itโ€™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 โ€œPrinceโ€ Billy. ๐ŸŽต

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. ๐ŸŽต

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg

https://theorielles.bandcamp.com/album/tableau

Finished reading: Samurai Women 1184โ€“1877 by Stephen Turnbull ๐Ÿ“š Iโ€™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). ๐ŸŽต

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg

https://tfrband.bandcamp.com

Beowulf & Grendel is a low budget movie filmed in 2005. It is vastly superior to Beowulf, Zemeckisโ€™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. ๐ŸŽต

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg

What Iโ€™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. ๐ŸŽต

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Tonight I walked downtown and updated my library card. Sadly, I donโ€™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.

Dead tech.

Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to H by Aelk Minsur and Cottonwoodhill by Brainticket. ๐ŸŽต

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Killing time waiting for the bus.

Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to The Satanist by Behemoth and Hidden Waters: Strange And Sublime Sounds Of Rio de Janeiro. ๐ŸŽต

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https://soundsandcolours.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-waters-strange-and-sublime-sounds-of-rio-de-janeiro

Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Distance and Departure by All Structures Align and Pigments by Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn. ๐ŸŽต

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg