I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. Some end up on Disquiet.com earlier, sometimes in expanded form. These days I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. I take weekends and evenings off social media.
▰ Kinda wish sleeping laptops snored
▰ Adrian Belew was great as David Byrne for the Remain in Light tribute. I imagine he’ll be at least as good as Adrian Belew.
▰ My guitar teacher, stating what should be patently obvious to me: “So, we can agree this chord is more dissonant.”
Me: “Er, not if you listen to the music I do, apparently.”
▰ Step 1: I use Chrome.
Step 2: For privacy I’ll use Safari. A few things run better in Chrome.
Step 3: Safari’s slow. I try Brave, but it’s not great with sound. I’ll use Safari and Chrome, too.
Step 4: I try Firefox, but I’m too busy to tweak all its privacy stuff. Now I have four browsers going.
▰ I spent the morning scanning documents related to comics I edited in the 1990s, which led to me using an ancient device called a staple remover. For lunch I wanted some lentil soup, and the pull-top broke, so I had to use a can opener. I swear the day won’t end before I am required to fax something.
▰ Just listening to an old Steve Roden album in the car while it rains
I guess you are talking about the King Crimson almost-reunion? It looks interesting, but I can’t be excited if if just produces a live album of old songs. I would like to see that set of people do interesting new things, too.
Early 80s KC were my favorite, I guess because I tracked them in high school as it was happening. Like a bunch of other similar prog survivors, none of it lasted with me past the mid-80s even if much of it was very good for a short while…but I think KC broke up at the right time and were doing the coolest things – at least that time. I have not revisited them since that break up and after Belew’s first albums.