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Books
Wednesday November 4, 2026
Currently reading: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake 📚
What a delightfully somber, surreal mood piece. ~200 pages in, it feels like an uneasy dream.
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Books
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Saturday December 28, 2024Reading Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky 📚
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Horror
Friday November 22, 2024Watched my new favorite movie last night: Let the Right One In. What an eerily beautiful, strangely wholesome, coming-of-age horror story. 📽️
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Movies
Sunday October 13, 2024Watched: Clive Barker’s Nightbreed (1990). Kind of a mess, but very imaginative 📽️
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Music
Thursday August 8, 2024What? You’ve never heard an electric harp? Let's fix that with Dorothy Ashby’s funky, soulful, underappreciated album Afro-Harping (1968).
Just listen to the first few seconds of Ashby’s take on “The Look of Love” on YouTube. If you don’t instantly love it, you can tell me I’m wrong. 🎵
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Tuesday June 18, 2024
Wow, look at him go
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Music
Sunday June 16, 2024Japanese Funk and Soul That Will Brighten Up Your Day 🎵
My Analog Journal plays fantastic selections from enviable vinyl collections. The sound, video, and overall vibe on these videos makes for perfect summer listening.
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Sunday March 24, 2024
Playing: American Truck Simulator while listening to Beck’s Midnite Vultures. “Peaches and Cream” sure hits the spot while long-hauling imaginary freight from Seattle to Bakersfield. 🎵🎮
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Movies
Sunday February 18, 2024Watching Orlando (1993). 📽️
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Books
Wednesday February 7, 2024Reading: The Once and Future King. 📚
UPDATE November 4, 2026: I abandoned this book after suddenly encountering a horrific scene of animal abuse/murder at the beginning of book two. I just couldn’t stomach the thing after that.
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Horror
Wednesday February 7, 2024Watched: It Comes at Night (2017), an incredibly well-written movie. 📽️
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Sunday January 7, 2024
2024 is off to a promising start.
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Sunday December 3, 2023
Reading My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Only about 125 pages in, but Jones’s prose is fantastic. 📚
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Saturday December 2, 2023
Watching Rosemary’s Baby. 📽️
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Saturday December 2, 2023
Making a character in Shadowdark, which is a tabletop roleplaying game resembling what D&D used to be: a survival horror dungeon crawl. 🕯️
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Saturday November 25, 2023
Listening to Sofia Rei’s “De Tierra y Oro” 🎵
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Sunday November 19, 2023
Good morning! I’m listening to The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor.
It’s mystical, lyrical music for harp, vibraphone, and guitar performed by some legendary figures from NYC’s downtown experimental music scene.
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Friday November 17, 2023
You’ve gotta hear “La Araña” by punk legend Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds! www.youtube.com/watch 🎵
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Thursday November 16, 2023
Learning about how pelvic floor muscles play into singing. Wild. How’d I never notice that?
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Tuesday November 14, 2023
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Tuesday November 14, 2023
Listening to Patchouli Blue by Bohren & Der Club of Gore while reading My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. 🎵📚
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Wednesday November 8, 2023
“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift… but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
—The Country of the Pointed Firs by Maine legend Sarah Orne Jewett
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Tuesday November 7, 2023
Bub looks like a teddy bear who lost a button. 🐈
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Monday November 6, 2023
On to Gnostic Trio’s In Lambeth: Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake.
What a fun surprise to hear Ikue Mori’s distinct electronics work on track “The Minotaur” 🎵
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Monday November 6, 2023
Listening to In Search of the Miraculous, an album of mystical-sounding music by John Zorn’s Alhambra Trio joined by guests Kenny Wollesen on vibraphone, Carol Emanuel on harp, and Shanir Blumenkranz on electric bass. 🎵