I do this manually each Saturday, collating most of the tweets I made the past week at [twitter.com/disquiet](https://twitter.com/disquiet), which I think of as my public notebook. Some tweets pop up [in expanded form](https://disquiet.com/2022/03/16/jeffrey-melton-2013/) or [otherwise](https://disquiet.com/2022/03/18/marquee-dusk/) on Disquiet.com sooner. It’s personally informative to revisit the previous week of thinking out loud. This isn’t a full accounting. Often there are, for example, conversations on Twitter that don’t really make as much sense out of the context of Twitter itself.
▰ This was certainly a fun moment in my day. Michel Banabila emailed me in the morning saying he was asking people to help him name his track. He went with my proposal: “Waking Memory.” Here’s the track: [soundcloud.com/michel-banabila](https://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/wakingmemory).
▰ Favorite current sound: collective room tone of large virtual conference meeting that’s delayed starting. A half dozen or more people present, no one speaking, sounds of typing, someone sips a beverage, layers of spatial sound, drawer opening and closing, animal noise, footsteps.
▰ Unique circle of hell: when your current earworm is your wake-up alarm melody
▰ Afternoon ambience: Marcus Fischer’s heavenly, 11-minute track streaming in advance of the release of Robert Takahashi Crouch’s [remix/rework album](https://robertcrouch.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-variations), also featuring Lawrence English, France Jobin, Faith Coloccia, Byron Westbrook, Yann Novak, and Christina Giannone.
▰ Haven’t been in a theater for awhile, so I only just learned pretty soon after *Spider-Man: No Way Home* starts, it launches into Talking Heads’ “I Zimbra,” right up through (and making comic use of) the cold stop.
▰ I’m getting used to the Junto going our while I’m asleep. At some point automation will let me down, but for now it’s doing what it does. I can sleep soundly.
▰ In college, a hallway neighbor rushed into my room one day to tell me I was playing a Bach harpsichord CD too loud. Why? Not because it was penetrating the walls, but because it was louder than a harpsichord sounded. I got to hear a harpsichord yesterday, close up. It was loud.
It was just crazy loud. I was, of course, standing super close to it, directly where the soundboard resonates against the lid, so to my former hallmate’s point, neither the player nor the audience would hear it this loud.
I think my reply to my hallmate was along the lines of how microphones let you be inside the sound rather than have the sound come to you.
▰ I would describe how I’m trying to really get minor key scales by practicing modes of major scales but I don’t think I have the vocabulary to do so, and the first half of this sentence may not have been accurate. Nonetheless, guitar class remains a favorite half hour of my week.
▰ In this (at [lithub.com](https://lithub.com/rare-thoughts-on-writing-from-cormac-mccarthy-in-this-unlikely-interview/), via [warrenellis.ltd](https://warrenellis.ltd/mc/the-reader-in-mind-is-me/)), CM is Cormac McCarthy. CO and LW are high school students who emailed questions to Friend. Friend is someone LW is in touch with through a boyfriend. Friend is a friend of CM.
▰ Q: Marc, you seem to enjoy all the novels you read. How is that possible?
A: With rare exceptions, I simply stop reading the novels I don’t enjoy. (After completing Le Carré, it took a lot of false starts to locate Mick Herron. Same thing on the long trip to Becky Chambers.)
▰ Why did I wait this long to start reading Julian Barnes?
▰ I need a new, long poster for my small office space, something long to fill the wall above a heating vent. I look through my old posters, and of course find I need a new poster. Recommendations appreciated. Roughly 3′ to 4′ feet long, preferably 2′ (up to 3′) feet wide.
▰ You can have your iOS Shortcuts, and your Memoji, and your Interactive Memories — the great thing, for me, about iOS 15 is the newly introduced (as of 15.4) Universal Control, a serious variant on Sidecar, where your MacBook keyboard can control your iPad. It’s remarkable.
▰ “digital indigestion”
noun
When you start to receive repeating email advertisements from a restaurant shortly after dining there for the first time.
__________
late Middle English; early 21st-century
▰ Waiting for my copy of *Dilla Time*. Meanwhile, there’s Ethan Hein [on it](http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/dilla-time/): “we don’t have the analytical tools to study this music, and we need to develop them, because there is a whole world of microrhythm and groove out there that we have been neglecting.”
▰ Relieved that, according to today’s time-travel episode of *Picard*, there’s no radiation fallout evident in Earth’s atmosphere in the year 2024.
▰ I don’t think that rattle was the bus passing by. (Quake data: [ktvu.com](https://www.ktvu.com/news/3-9-magnitude-earthquake-in-south-bay).)