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Pushing up new listening, playing, and reading logs with several entries, though still not exhaustive, and with old clutter still not cleaned up. More changes, details, documentation pending.

Standalone post link: joshuawxyz changelog 20240512

notes - Reading out loud to William at bedtime some nights

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Apparently I love Canadian video games?

I’m hooked after starting this on a whim one day while browsing Apple Arcade for the first time on my laptop. I’d wanted to play something on the Switch but not enough to kick my kids off the Switch.

Standalone post link: Playing Log: Sneaky Sasquatch

It was on the April Poetry Month display at the Holladay Library and I’d heard of it and decided to grab it. Took me a while to open it up (obviously, since it’s not April anymore) but I’m very glad I did.

Standalone post link: Reading Log: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

I’m hooked after starting this on a whim one day while browsing Apple Arcade for the first time on my laptop. I’d wanted to play something on the Switch but not enough to kick my kids off the Switch.

Standalone post link: Playing Log: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

This really syncs with my recent 90s midwest emo indie rock deep dive. In fact, I listened to this a couple of times, then listened to the first two Sunny Day Real Estate albums, started listening to Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape, but wanted to come back to this again over all of that. [2024-04-27]

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Final Summer

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Diary / LP2 / The Colour and the Shape

Started drafting out a whole narrative of my thoughts and mixed reactions to this album, but realized probably absolutely nobody needs my take on this and I have plenty of other things to write about and do, things that might benefit from having more written and explored about them.

Guess I might still write and share about this later if I find I can’t let my thoughts on it go away, though…

Standalone post link: Listening Log: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT THE ANTHOLOGY

Also didn’t realize I needed a countryish sometimes Beatlesish Beyonce album, but here we are.

Standalone post link: Listening Log: COWBOY CARTER

Didn’t realize I needed a new Vampire Weekend album, but it turns out I really did need it. And its the most Vampire Weekendish album they’ve ever made.

Weird how I felt almost giddy listening to this album the first few times. Like, people are allowed to make music like this? “Classical” is everything.

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Only God Was Above Us