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I finally gave this album a proper listen. The whole thing is pretty good, although I only added “Tell Me When Youâve Had Enoughâ and “Who Will You Followâ to my regular rotation. I love this bit from Evanescenceâs âHow Do I Heal?â âNo matter how we changeEchoes of us remainUntouched by timeIn my mindâ…
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For many years, Iâve been chasing potential, and Iâve learned the hard way that sometimes you just have to meet people where theyâre at. And unfortunately, Iâve never been particularly good at meeting people where theyâre at because I am so consistently ensconced in the concept of what they could be or what I perceive…
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This is why Iâm still here. Every single time I hear begged I break down sobbing. No song has ever touched me like this. Just like Katy Perryâs âPart of Meâ saved my life back in 2009 after I got thrown out of college, and âE.T.â covered by Audra in 2020 opened my eyes to…
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The documentarian nature of my writing of the past few years, an intentional practice I started in order to reorganize my entire process around the mundane facts of my second, perhaps third, chance at life, has begun to bear fruit. I still donât see the big picture but I was nudged yet again by the…
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âradicalized by the realization that in many Intellectual⢠circles itâs higher status to know a lot about a domain than it is to actually do something in that domainâ – charm https://www.x.com/charmcgi/status/2065952438734213396 Yup, thatâs the college mentality. Absolutely correct, charm. … There was a whole PDF I needed to steal for my archive: https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/centers/boisi/pdf/s091/Welcome_address_to_freshman_at_Boston_Conservatory.pdf ……
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AWESOME STORY! This is one of my favorite Pokemon episodes BTW. Kinda makes more sense to me why that is now. Sad ending for an amazing voice actress⌠passed away from an untreated stomach virus (we all know why that was untreatedâŚ) … Beautiful stuff from the wife. âSometimes the real purpose of returning home…
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Based interview⌠This Olivia girlâs music knowledge is incredible. I should learn more about her⌠Love these lines: âAll blind mice resign / you gotta hood shine analyze / seats alive vinyl thighsâ – âSweet â69,â Babes in Toyland âYou see the stars through eyes lit up with liesYou got your stories all twisted up…
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This is amazing: The Ultimate James Bond Medley – Every song from the 25 movies including No Time To Die! … I have a really interesting essay idea⌠about ideas and their execution, in this case, looking at the Star Wars prequels (which had a lot to say) vs the sequels (cash grabs that had…
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July 1st 2024 …[other than] reading the brain vomit of old geezers, what am I going to do with these notebooks going forward? For the most part, I want to use this space as an opportunity to save ideas from old essays that need to be scrapped and rewritten anyway. [Even if] I’m not motivated…
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June 2, 2024 On Kicking the Nostalgia Bug: Iâm much more interested at this point in understanding the history and the origins of things weâve come to cherish so dearly. Itâs not that I want to eliminate guilty pleasures, at least not entirely. After all we do only have one life to live, and if…
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âReligion is an Ever-Receding Pocket of Scientific Ignoranceâ | Neil deGrasse Tyson I gave up on faith. I prefer having high, high hopes for a living. A few notes from this video: âThe measure of whether you learn something is not whether it was obviously true to you upon first glance.â Neil Degrasse Tyson Eyewitness…
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April 2, 2024 I actually logged in to WordPress and found a couple of legit comments that somehow completely escaped my attention for several days⌠Thanks stupid Jetpack nonsense. One was from Jeff Cann who said: âIn my 11 years of blogging, Iâve alternately craved becoming one of those viral bloggers making a career (or…
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March 12, 2024 RJâs video on the brand new stable Gleam programming language got me thinking⌠I commented : âI wonder how many programming languages are born every day and how many actually reach the stable stage. Itâs dizzying how many even stable languages exist, but what I always wonder is what languages are best…
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This is from March 5, 2024, but deserved to be revisited today. RJ had an amazing video today about some of his favorite aphorisms. My Top Five – Personal Aphorisms (And Their Origins) by The Flourishing One of them is âWill X thank me for Y?â People tend to have many self-destructive habits and recognizing…
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Stuff I am viewing on a popular video sharing platform on the 11th June 2026. Exploring Hidden Gems At The Mall | Retail Archaeology by Retail Archeology. A positive video showing malls being repopulated by small businesses. I also learned he has a second channel. The Other Side of History by No More Fielders NMF…
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As familiar as I am with the concept of the Trumpet of the Swan I never actually read it before May 2023. The Library of Congress summary: Louis, a voiceless trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet. The book opens in…
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YouTube watchings for the tenth of June of the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Six… Madonna – “Confessions II – The Film” Somehow yesterday I missed the release of Madonnaâs short film âConfessions II.â Itâs very bizarre. Seriously, whatâs with the crotch lasers? I do like what she says about the dance…
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Concerning the viewing habits of one oddball Vermont citizen in the timespan that is regarded by the commonly adopted calendar as June the 9th, 2026. in defense of gathering by Anna Howard (Won’t let me embed. Fair enough, YouTube.) The âWild Geeseâ podcast just keeps getting better. Anna said something amazing. She has a theory of…