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Possibly could be listening to this one obsessively, remains to be seen. Loved the unusual, diverse productions on some of these tracks, retro but fresh sounding: some seemingly lovers rock type stuff, some 80s electro Afropop-type stuff, etc. Feels almost like listening to some nuggets comp or some DJ on community radio with impeccable taste for old international grooves. Don’t know the story yet on if this is her own production work or if she collaborated with someone on this, but I guess I’ll look into it.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Pointy Heights

Listed genre as: nature noise folk rock

I’m trying to get organized and be more deliberate about doing the things I actually want to do, so among other things I put down “Start listening to music again” for Today in my Reminders app, and then I finally listened to this album while putting away laundry and stuff.

This is maybe going to be my favorite album of the year? I’m known to myself as impressionable when it comes to new music and art, but I think this is maybe the album I most need right now. I want to dig into the lyrics. I kind of want to buy the book.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Night Palace

Listed genre as: nature noise folk rock

I’m trying to get organized and be more deliberate about doing the things I actually want to do, so among other things I put down “Start listening to music again” for Today in my Reminders app, and then I finally listened to this album while putting away laundry and stuff.

This is maybe going to be my favorite album of the year? I’m known to myself as impressionable when it comes to new music and art, but I think this is maybe the album I most need right now. I want to dig into the lyrics. I kind of want to buy the book.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Night Palace

Queued this up after Night Palace because Night Palace made me think of it and it’s lowkey one of my favorite albums ever.

Also listed genre as: nature noise folk rock (but was tempted by ‘sci fi silence’)

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Florist

Neat.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Mighty Vertebrate

Genre: dreampop indie rock? I don’t know what, was expecting something dubsteppy James Blake-y and this was honestly better than I thought it would be

metablogging sidenote: I think I’m going to make the genre field show up in my posts…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: The Sunset Violent

Extremely depressing. Debilitating levels of chronic cringe. Possibly the most self-aware book ever. Life-affirming empathy machine. Absolutely hilarious. 5 out of 5, would read again. BOTY?

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This was perfect for reading in my car parked at the far end of the rec center parking lot like some total creep by the light of the empty pickleball courts while I waited for my daughter’s volleyball practice to finish.

DATE : 2024-12-02

I started reading Rejection last night and had weird dreams about it and woke up this morning feeling really fucked up and depressed like the people in the book. It really got into me I guess, it is easy to internalize feeling like a “loser” - absolutely going read the rest of it; so awful I can’t look away.

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“The Rejection Plot” by Tony Tulathimutte | The Paris Review

Author Tony Tulathimutte on adapting to distraction and uncertainty | The Creative Independent

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Rejection

Finished reading The Magician’s Nephew with Will tonight.

Not sure if I ever noted down that we started reading this. After we finished Moonbound it was Thanksgiving break and normal bedtime routines were abandoned for many days. When we got back to bedtime reading I had no great, burning suggestions, so he picked this because it felt comfortable and nostalgic but it had been awhile since we’d read it so it was a change.

We were maybe just going to read all the Narnia books from this omnibus edition but we might instead try first some new middle grade books I have borrowed on Sora, either Impossible Creatures or Lola.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Magician's Nephew

There were a lot of things on this website and elsewhere in my life that I wanted to do or meant to do in 2024 and did not get done. And I’m making no promises to myself or anyone else for 2025, yet.

But I did read some good books in 2024, and I did manage to build and populate this 2024 reading log gallery.

It makes me happy when I scroll through it. After some updates yesterday and today I think it is almost 100% accurate, other than some picture books I didn’t bother to log, and, of course, all the random digital content I read.

I also record my books read and more especially my crazy want-to-read list on Goodreads, but I guess I don’t share reviews there or even ratings usually anymore. Will I start again? I don’t know.

Standalone post link: Note on My 2024 Reading Log

Love this so much. Wrote a review and published it on Granite Media - Poetry Comics – Granite Media

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Poetry Comics