"It's all so chaotic and loosely organized as to feel like it might fly off the rails at any moment, but impossibly, it hasn't (thanks in large part to the efforts of a small group of core members)...It's all jokes and troubleshooting and moments of real human earnestness shared between folks who don't even know each others actual names for the most part."
Music nerds: a friend made a Oblique Strategies-like that takes your influences/tastes as input and generates cards based on them.
Went down a Sufjan -> Half-handed Cloud -> Danielson rabbit hole and just discovered
soundsfamilyre.bandcamp.com/album/wow-to-the-deadness
not sure why I was on the Sufjan to begin with, I have to emerge from the rabbit hole
More rabbit-hole internet crate-digging
planetclaire.bandcamp.com/album/st-vincent-planet-claire-session-2007-12-12
oh heck yeah old websites staying alive -- those tracks, downloadable
I've started my morning with St Vincent's newer "Broken Man", which I consider a legit great song, then her entire debut LP (which includes two of the tracks from her actual debut indie EP, just not the Jackson Browne cover). You can hear more of the jazz influence of her aunt and uncle. The lyrics are remarkably mature for someone in their early 20s.
Alert: based on this old, broken, incomplete post, I may not have taken the photo. I can't remember or tell, as whatever photo this post linked to is gone, as is the Flickr user (I even tried the Wayback Machine)
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I sat down in front of the TV with my bowl and started watching Louis Theroux's new doc (thanks Netflix algo). I was only vaguely aware of the "manosphere" (despite the above subtoot) and I've only watched ~25% so far but I'm horrified. More b/c of the age and geographic reach of the subjects' fans/followers. I couldn't keep watching but will continue to bite off chunks. My main thought is my wife needs to watch this and we have to talk about it as it relates to our sons.
"Your phone is not a slot machine.
"It's a to-do list that writes itself...
"What if the exhaustion everybody feels isn't a moral failure but the completely rational response to being made responsible for an ecosystem of objects that never stop asking?"
"Nobody architected this. It accreted — one device, one app, one free trial at a time — into a system no competent engineer would have designed on purpose."
