At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ Looks like The Agency has been renewed, so there will be a second season — so maybe we’ll see a release of Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch’s score to the first season?
▰ The wind is intense. Fortunately some of it sounds worse than it is, exacerbated by planes flying by, but the power of 50-mph gusts is something to behold. The occasional beep on my phone alerts me to my concern about another tornado warning. Really don’t want to go through that again anytime soon.
▰ Current vibe
▰ Been thinking about what are probably the four most important concert venues of my life, and how only one of them is still around
- Knitting Factory (Houston Street, Manhattan), RIP
- Old Ironsides (Sacramento)
- Mermaid Lounge (New Orleans), RIP
- Luggage Store Gallery (Market St, San Francisco), RIP
▰ Just sitting here listening to the wind, the washer, the dryer, and Palestrina
▰ I feel like I’d read that the bridge* song had been tamed, but judging by today’s storm that clearly isn’t the case
*Golden Gate Bridge
▰ I don’t think I understood until now that Obsidian could have not just multiple tabs and multiple panes open, but also multiple windows. On a Mac, a two-finger click on a given tab allows you to “Move” or “Open” the tab “to a new window.” It’s fantastic, as is Obsidian in general.
▰ The link for the website exposure.band is going in and out, but the news is that on the heels of the awesome Beat tour currently underway, there’s another a Crimson-adjacent reenactment/cover band in the works, doing Robert Fripp’s solo Exposure album, with Terre Roche, Pat Mastelotto, and others. Expooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-sure!
▰ Have a great weekend, or best you can. Open a window and listen. Play one of your least favorite LPs, CDs, or tapes and decide if it’s worth keeping. Pick up a favorite book and read a section at random out loud.
▰ And I read a lot this week, but I only finished reading a few graphic novels, four of ’em: writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips’ Houses of the Unholy, writer James Tynion IV and illustrator Fernando Blanco’s w0rldtr33 (volume 1), writer Ryan North and illustrator Iban Coello’s Fantastic Four: Whatever Happened to the Fantastic Four? (the first volume of their collaboration), and writer-illustrator Quentin Zuttion’s All Princesses Die Before Dawn. Making my way, meanwhile, through the massive Cryptonomicon and Middlemarch, and a thriller I picked up.
