I do this manually each Saturday, collating recent tweets I made at twitter.com/disquiet, which I think of as my public notebook. Some tweets pop up (in [expanded form](https://disquiet.com/2021/07/26/the-cables-of-marina-rosenfeld/) or otherwise) on Disquiet.com sooner. It’s personally informative to revisit the previous week of thinking out loud.
▰ Been re-watching *Downton Abbey* and thinking about the way it maps the adoption of technology as time passes (electric lights, cars, a blender, a radio), and was about to tweet a quote (“Mrs. Patmore is not what you’d call a futurist”), only to find when I searched Google that I had done so when it first aired. Later: “Why is it called a wireless when there are so many wires?” This is something said by Daisy when a radio is brought into the house for the first time, thanks to the king being due to make a broadcast announcement.
▰ Guitar class update: I haven’t been this into triads since I was addicted to Hong Kong crime movies.
▰ “Your gift is quite destructive but look at the music you can make.” (Been re-watching *Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*)
▰ I think there is an insect crawling slowly across my phone’s upturned face. It is the reflection a bird hovering outside the window.
▰ The term “Surrealism Tycoon” is certainly my kinda headline clickbait. And this is totally the raw material for a sequel to China Miéville’s *The Last Days of New Paris*: “Arturo Schwarz, Refugee Who Became a Surrealism Tycoon, Dies at 97,” via [nytimes.com](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/arts/arturo-schwarz-dead.html).
▰ Guessing this bypassed Discogs.com: “United States Sells Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album Forfeited by Convicted Hedge Fund Manager Martin Shkreli”
▰ My favorite pithy summary of the Disquiet Junto music community is Ethan Hein’s. He said in effect that I write record reviews of music that doesn’t exist yet and then internet strangers make it real. I’m not sure I could improve on that. The 500th weekly project begins July 29.
▰ “I blink with fatigue, and my eyelashes make an infinitesimal, inaudible sound against the felt whiteness of the pillows slope.” Been thinking about [@espejoacustico](https://twitter.com/espejoacustico)’s suggestion we finally get around to a proper Pessoa-themed Junto project. It is the Disquiet Junto, after all.
▰ I highly recommend the Take5 email from the Japan Times ([japantimes.co.jp](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/email-newsletters/)): a free (English) daily newsletter of five top stories, a glimpse into what’s happening. I wish more newspapers from countries where I don’t read the language did it. Maybe they do. Any recommendations?
▰ There are days when using the browser interface for the New York Times crossword is like pushing back on a ouija board against a particularly strident spirit.
▰ Cool. There’s a new entry, all about the Disquiet Junto, on the ever-growing Music Games Wiki: [musicgames.wikidot.com](http://musicgames.wikidot.com/wiki:disquiet-junto).
▰ Yes, but when do we get the 5-CD expanded box set of George Harrison’s *Electric Sound* album?
▰ Tinyletter has become a drag, which is part of why I haven’t published a This Week in Sound email in quite a while. I’m looking to switch to Buttondown or an alternative. Trying out some options. So far, Buttondown seems pretty cool.
▰ It was a week:
🗹 buncha work
🗹 longform writing
🗹 cheating on longform writing
🗹 Disquiet daily
🗹 Junto 500
🗹 guitar study
🗹 exercise
🗹 gallery review filed
☐ email catch-up
🗹 home office remedies (standing)
🗹 digital tool revisions (newsletter)
🗹 sign off til Monday