It is safe to say I have enjoyed reading Richard Powers’ The Overstory so far. I’m almost done. There’s a lot of listening in the book — some metaphysical, some naturalist, some as hampered by language or by health concerns, with a lot of variations and overlaps in between.
A funny thing about static web pages is they are just that: static. Without a dateline, they kind of hide on the site in plain sight. So here’s a reminder about some of them.
▰ There is an “about” page at disquiet.com/about.
▰ There is an FAQ at disquiet.com/faq.
▰ There is a list of places where I hang out online, mostly related to social media.
▰ There is a list of books I’ve written or contributed to, or that cover work I do, at disquiet.com/books.
▰ There is a list of all the interviews posted on the site to date.
▰ There is a list of all weekly Disquiet Junto projects to date — all 623 of them.
▰ The is an FAQ about the Disquiet Junto.
▰ There is a contact page, with a link to information about how to submit music for review consideration.
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.
▰ Waking up to the warmth of my laptop and the noise of street cleaners
▰ Oh, I see: the blues turnarounds I’ve been trying on guitar — not quite fruitlessly but not elegantly, either — are essentially the equivalent of the “flip turn” when swimming laps: yet another thing I was never very good at.
▰ I kinda wanna add to my list of rules for submitting music for review consideration that I won’t click on links in emails if they include tracking codes
YouTube Music tells me something I already know
A sizable percentage of the floorspace of the tiny office I rent
