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Listens Last Week (July 3, 2022)
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.03]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
[Inaugural entry!]
A log of my full album or playlist music listens from the past week, with occasional notes and context. Does not include completely random shuffles, unless something worth commenting came up.
[Next week look for a “Links Last Week” log feature as well.]
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Music Updates
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.02]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
I’ve obsessively scrobbled most of my music listening to last.fm for about 14 years now, but I wanted to start a listening log that allows for more context and notes. So, here it is. Below you will find, beginning in July 2022, a weekly listening log, as well as links to any other specific posts about listening to music.
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On Reading Updates
[Originally Posted: 2022.07.02]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
I’ve explored a lot of alternatives, but I’m going to continue with posting bespoke reading updates here; I’m also going to try and get back to sharing updates on Goodreads again.
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Lunch Today
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.30]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
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Tried Taqueria Los Lee for lunch today.
I’ve procrastinated actually trying this place for a year or two, so I’m lucky it still is open - the good, easy fast food taco place by my work closed down a couple of weeks ago, so I was finally driven to find a new option. I had gorditas with rice and beans and it was all very solid. I’ll be back for a burrito or tacos or something.
I like their happy little website, too:
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This interview with Alok Vaid-Menon was by far the best thing I’ve read/listened to/otherwise taken in this week.
Listened casually while eating my lunch - I’m going to need to listen again more carefully and unpack this, and then explore their work.
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Life as fresh as this river
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
A man’s life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant…Most men have no inclination, no rapids, no cascades, but marshes, and alligators, and miasma instead.
– Henry David Thoreau, from “Monday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (location 283-284 of 882)
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Men do outrage to their proper natures as the tool of an institution
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Herein is the tragedy: that men doing outrage to their proper natures, even those called wise and good, lend themselves to perform the office of inferior and brutal ones. Hence come war and slavery in; and what else may not come in by this opening? But certainly there are modes by which a man may put bread into his mouth which will not prejudice him as a companion and neighbor.
– Henry David Thoreau, from “Monday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (location 283 of 882)
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Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead...
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
“I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead un-kind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors.”"
– Henry David Thoreau, from “Monday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (location 282 of 882)
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morning backyard through bedroom window
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.24]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
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sun in the elms after the rainstorm
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.23]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.21]
Evening sun breaking through the clouds to some of the upper bows of the Siberian Elms after the rainstorm.
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Now (June 23, 2022)
[Originally Posted: 2022.06.23]
[Last Updated: 2022.06.23]
Here are some of the things I’m working on and thinking about now…