Tron, NIN, Pacific – Disquiet


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.

▰ Interesting that Tron: Ares, the upcoming movie, has a score credited to Nine Inch Nails, not to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Is this just a name-recognition / branding / attitude thing, or is there more to it?

A friend on Mastodon helpfully directed me to an interview with Reznor, who explained: “It is as Nine Inch Nails, and I think it’s influenced the way we approach scoring. It’s going to be a little grittier, and it’s just different; it’s still the same two people, but we’re in a different mindset. We feel like we can play by different rules a bit, and the people working on the film were excited about that, so we thought we’d try it.”

▰ That thing where a couple days after you get off a plane you use your pen and realize a little too late that at some point it began to leak under pressure.

▰ Random low-level Gmail weirdness: why it is, when I search for “label:inbox label:unread” and tag some email (say, one of 100 new music PR messages) to a “label,” sometimes it goes there immediately, whereas most of the time I have to hit “apply”?

▰ 7 weeks from the 700th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project

▰ My hallucinogen of choice is realizing that I’ve been walking around with my reading glasses on

▰ End of day, end of week.

Whew, and what a week.

▰ I’m enjoying Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time more than I did his Shards of Earth, but as I may have learned the hard way, it’s also not a book to read if you have even low-level arachnophobia (which is to say, if you’re an even remotely rational human being).

▰ Over vacation I managed to read two novels and a graphic novel (Smith, Didion, Tommaso), and while I read a bunch this week (Tchaikovsky), I didn’t finish any novels, just one graphic novel, Kit Alexander’s Second Shift.

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