"A few weeks ago, I read a blog post about Swiss psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz’s idea of ‘the provisional life.’ It’s this belief that the current life you’re living obviously isn’t the real one. I mean, how could it be? It’s so messed up. No, you believe you are owed a better life where all the problems have been solved, all the kinks ironed out. The present tense is only provisional. A stand-in for a perfect future that’s still very much on the way..."
The posting took place under the cover of night. Parisiens would wake up the following morning and see the issues at hand. — Philippe Vermès, co-founder of the Atelier Populaire
letterformarchive.org/news/atelier-populaire-posters-of-may-1968/
So I accidentally discovered all my old blogger blogs. They haven't been published in a long time, but the data was all there, so I downloaded it. I thought I had wholesale moved it to my current blog (although there were a few hops along the way), but I'm finding a lot of posts that aren't in the current archive. Most are junk, but some are interesting. It was all much more journal-like back then...
Oct 2001: "Things to do: find picture of house for realtor; put bikes together; pull weeds on one "flower" bed; spread mulch in the same; detail M's car; update hope against hope so blogger posts go right onto page; finish hate mail; practice songs for open mic tomorrow in west palm; burn cd's; clean desk; map out non-lin pert charts for writing due: for conference in Europe, for worshipleader magazine, for next-wave mag; non-lin pert for grad school apps; finish recording two tunes started..."
I was 26. It has been so long since I thought about PERT charts that I had to search up WTF I was referring to--I assumed it was a typo or shorthand for something.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_and_review_technique
📝 Thread with 4 posts
youtube.com/watch?v=STh7kAk9EAk
I don't normally head to the comments, but
"this is the youtube i remember"
"so dirty has to be played on compost bin"
"CompostCore"
"Bass Bin"
"No headphones, just blasting it for the whole neighborhood to enjoy. What a G"
"If we ever have another pandemic lockdown I’m moving next door to this guy."
"Someone was bound to do it. We wanted to be first. And this is exactly where we should be. Making everyone hornier and happier. That’s what we do at Hims. It makes us a little hornier and happier too."
"Eventually there will be no faculty at all in American universities, just deans, IT guys, and AI instruction in Canvas. This is called The Pursuit of Excellence."
"...you're probably not that bad at focusing. It's just that you've been psychologically waterboarded by notifications since approximately 2009."
Went to a different doctor yesterday about the Hip That Won't Heal, got some new bad news, different potential solutions. At first it felt like progress but this morning, waking up in pain for the 136th day in a row, thinking back to that visit yesterday, I'm more discouraged than ever.
New Boards of Canada? Yes, please!
