A continuously updated list of music I’ve seen recommended or encountered and want to try out:
- Kaleo – A/B (via Nick Broughall)
- Paramore – This is Why (via Nick Broughall)
- Avalon Emerson – & the Charm (via Philip Sherburne)
- Lau Nau – 5 x 4 (via Philip Sherburne)
- Voices from the Lake – Voices from the Lake (via Philip Sherburne)
- Courtesy – Violence of the Moodboard (via Philip Sherburne)
- New Jackson – Sanyo Shinkansen (via Philip Sherburne)
- Madzen – Llanuras (via Less than 1000 Followers)
- Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (via Pete Brown)
- Eric Clapton+ Jeff Beck – Moon River
- The Greatest Remaining Hits – The Cotton Modules (Robin Sloan)
- GOAT – Under No Nation
- Talisman by Slowspin
- Anna Tivel – The Good Fight
- Nanna – How to Start a Garden
- Freya Ridings
- Mates of State
- Horizon by Noble Oak (via Robert Rackley)
- Limits of Desire by Small Black (via Robert Rackley)
- Everything is Alive by slowdive (via Robert Rackley)
- Forever Before Love by The Mary Onettes (via Robert Rackley)
- Strange Pleasures by Still Corners (via Robert Rackley)
- Fountain Baby by Amaarae (via Danah Boyd)
- Pourquoi by Stella (via Danah Boyd)
- Here Is Everything by The Big Moon (via Greg Moore)
- Tear It Down by My Brightest Diamond (via Greg Moore)
- Lana del Rey – A & W
- Rina Sawayama – This Hell
- Portugal. The Man – Champ
- Ancient River – Green Guitars
- Source Tags and Codes by …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- Sleep Token – Aqua Regia
- There Must Be More Than Blood from Making a Door Less Open by Car Seat Headrest
- Whistle in the Wind (End of Everything) from Side A by Twin Peaks
- All the Same by MisterWives
- King of Sweden by Future Islands
Playlists, mixes, and roundups I’ve encountered:
- Daniël van der Winden
- Oh messy life
- Mario Villalobos
- Chill Synthwave by lofi girl
- Jazz from Craig Mod’s jazz kissa tour
- Shady Pines Radio — Pet Door Show (Thursdays 2-4 Pacific)
- Steeper Near the Roses
- Feel Good (Numero Group)
- Fediverse Mixtape #2 (via Alex Sirac)
- Pablo’s Albums on Repeat
- Said the Gramophone – Best songs of 2023
- The Fox Is Black’s Top Tracks of 2023, A Mixtape
- Adam Wood’s “The List 2022“
- Weird Dark Synths (spotify playlist)
- 2023 retrospective by Deepak Gulati
- Giles Turnbull albums of 2023
- anh’s album page
- Jarrett Fuller’s Favorite Albums of 2023
- mixtape garden
- Signalnoise: Synthwave
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Doesn’t look like it, but we’re chipping away at the weeds!
Stuff I did:
4.25 hours of consulting
2.5 hours of business development planning
My husband got assaulted standing up to a belligerent guy accosting the gas station clerk on Friday night — he’s ok but pepper spray takes a lot of cleaning up 😔 He couldn’t see to drive home so the police gave him a lift, hopefully our car hasn’t been towed 🤞
Headed up to the mountains for a picnic day on Thursday 🥪🌲
Kickoff meeting with an accountability group for a 12-week year plan and developed the plan
Borrowed a pressure washer from a neighbor on Buy Nothing, but it didn’t work 😔
Weeded twice for 45 minutes total
Walked twice with friends
Went to Homebrew Website Club
Figured out a trip plan for a family wedding and booked a motel
Realized I had our emergency fund cash sitting in a savings account getting 0.6% interest when I have a money market account getting 2.5% 🤦♀️ so I shifted it over
Updated my backlog with tasks floating in my head and scratch paper notes floating on my desk
Dinners:
Braised potatoes from The Korean Vegan cookbook and rice
Two pea pasta
Broccoli red pepper quiche (with premade crust)
Bean bowl (aka a can of chili beans, avocado, sour cream and tortilla chips 😉)
Cheap pizza with mushrooms + can of olives + can of pineapple
Thai 😍 from the really good place 😋 Found a $50 gift card from before the pandemic! 💪
Sweet potato Moroccan stew + couscous from Pretty Simple Cooking
Reading:
Spread from Affinities
Read The Korean Vegan cookbook, The Lost Art of Handwriting, That Alien Feeling, and Affinities
Started reading Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau
DNF’d Magician by K.L. Noone, Married by Scandal by Tessonja Odette, and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (it would appear I already agree with the premise)
Added 2 books to my TBR (total=744)
Words I looked up:
Affray
Bog-standard
Prosody
Tautology
Website Changes:
Added an old painting tinted pink/red 🌺 as a homepage background
Added and populated a new Big Question: how can we transform capitalism to better support people and the planet?
Added a page to keep track of Music to Try and Podcasts to Listen to (this was previously a post but it was annoying to get to and update)
Added a Site Index
Replied to 100 things you can do on your personal website by an author (jamesg.blog)
James has a fun collection of ideas of things to do on one’s website, some of which I have done and some of which I have not. Here are a few more things I have on my website that weren’t on the list: Yearly listening pages to supplement last.fm’s tracking Recreated playlists A page listing…