I started adding star ratings to tracks in my library so I can auto populate a playlist only with songs getting 3 1/2 stars or more and download them to my phone.
The album that got the highest number of tracks on this playlist was Alligator by The National.
I guess you’re lucky enough to not have a job that relies on you being available should shit hit the fan.
My Apple Watch is way better than a traditional watch. One reason I like it is because it’s not an unneccessary distraction. Before I had one I’d get pings from my phone and have to dig it out to see what the text/email/etc was, now I just glance at my watch briefly and go back to what I was doing unless it’s an important message I really need to act on straight away.
People experience music differently. If I’m going to listen to music, I have to sit there and actively listen to it. If music is playing when I’m trying to work on something, I have to turn it off, it’s too distracting.
Someone already mentioned Yes by McAlmont and Butler. My second choice:
Song for the Dumped, Ben Folds Five.
Here’s two resources that really helped me get the arrs up and running:
I don’t know how unknown it is but nobody has mentioned it yet so https://www.wolframalpha.com/
Dream Song 29 by John Berryman
There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart
só heavy, if he had a hundred years
& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time
Henry could not make good.
Starts again always in Henry’s ears
the little cough somewhere, an odour, a chime.
And there is another thing he has in mind
like a grave Sienese face a thousand years
would fail to blur the still profiled reproach of. Ghastly,
with open eyes, he attends, blind.
All the bells say: too late. This is not for tears;
thinking.
But never did Henry, as he thought he did,
end anyone and hacks her body up
and hide the pieces, where they may be found.
He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody’s missing.
Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up.
Nobody is ever missing.
We keep appointing or voting for leaders who represent the absolutely worst of humanity. I’m not sure how to change that but it might be worth looking in to.
His characters just exist to move the plot forward, I never get the feeling that they have any agency or personality beyond existing so they can be in a Nolan movie.
Probably not a hot take but audio mixes are often dreadful. If I have to turn on subtitles to understand what someone is saying because they’ve been buried in the mix, someone fucked up and that person shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a mixing console again.
That will happen when you have writers who aren’t as smart as the characters they’re trying to write for and studios scared of putting out anything that audiences may not understand.
Loved the movie, I’m glad they got an official ending.
Since nobody has mentioned Deadwood, I’ll recommend it. Possibly the best written TV I’ve seen, great cast too.
I love that show!
Gets me every time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzdF77CoLE0
I got some news on you from a friend
you’re in Charlotte again
teaching Spanish at high school
he said you’re going by Joy
you cut your hair like a boy
& you don’t talk to your old friends
I found a picture from before the fight
we’re in natural light
& you’re sitting on my lap
like everything’s alright
I’ve walked around with you on my mind
the names we used at the time
you know I’ve changed myself since then
I’ve thought on things that we said
what if we’d had the kid
I guess he’d be 15
I found a picture from before the fight
we’re in natural light
& you’re sitting on my lap
like everything’s alright
The corporation.
David Attenborough, and I hope he’s around for as long as he wants to be.