I love surfing the web. On a long holiday weekend, a perfect way to slosh around and almost-but-not-quite totally waste a few hours. Over the last couple weeks, I’ve seen more and more posts referencing nostalgia for the Old Web™. If you’re over 30 years old, you have a better sense of it. Before the big social platforms, when all the sites were personal or academic, or even the corporate ones that were moderately inept (like the rest of us) and/or experimental. Such a great feeling then, when you caught a good wave. Slipping into the flow and hopping from site to site, finding all the warp portals between the good spaces where you see the best of our collective weirdness. Captured that again for a little while today.
Books
War and Peace. Almost halfway! Some of these people are super messy.
Running
Trying to find a rhythm again.
Around the Web
Why holidays are on Mondays!
“Here’s an idea: Appoint yourself the weekly columnist of whatever your subject is.” And the self-appointed artist residency.
“The meta-skill is this: learning to spot what becomes possible when a constraint disappears.”
The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time.
A game(?) that rewards patience.
Where do parents find the time?. Basically, less sleep and less screen time.
Parents and affordability in New York City.
Music
Choir of New College, Oxford dir. Robert Quinney, Like as the Hart: Music for The Templar’s Garden. What a great, great album, all choral interpretations of Psalm 42. Came across it when looking for recordings of Palestrina’s “Sicut cervus“, itself beautifully done. The real show-stopper for me is Buxtehude’s. “Quemadmodum desiederat cervus“, BuxWV92. I keep coming back over and over.
Ninajirachi, I Love My Computer.
A couple from Yosi Horikawa, good electronic stuff often with nature sounds, city sounds, field recordings. On Spaces, I like “Crossing“. And on Impulse. “Soil” is the winner.
El Jazaah, El Jazaah.
Sabri Brothers, Ya Habib.
Movies
The X-Files. The “will they or won’t they” is so agonizing and fun.
Runaway Jury. Legal thriller is an under-rated genre. Seems like we’re just not making them as much?
TV
The X-Files, s5e19 “Folie a Deux” and s5e20 “The End“. Weird season, on to number six.
Dark, s1e6.
Mark Larson 