Sometimes these folks get to be a little much, but it is true that Poolsuite FM is an inspiration for what we’re doing with Good Enough. I think each week or two I’ll try to share other inspirations. These may be things found in the past or things just discovered that same day.
It’s marching band season.
Some good spam asking for blog links:
I stumbled upon your article here micro.bjhess.com/page/3/. Insightful topic!
🎵 Hard (2022) by Tove Styrke
Pop that brings you back. Gated drums on the intro track make you think Phil Collins is involved. “Start Walking” and “Show Me Love” also slap. h/t @zioibi
Taking a break as the oldest wraps up her college orientation.
Friday. Jack White. 🎵
🍿 Wrath of Man (2021)
It was pretty good…Guy Ritchie without the Guy Ritchie. Not sure why rogerebert.com gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, but it was good!
Victor Wooten is amazing and this is amazing. I should have taken about five pages of notes on this interview.
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Did they fix the Apple Music app? #wwdc
Woke up today to doevery.day having an order of magnitude more sign ups than it has had before. Cool! I’m curious what person-with-an-audience talked about it.
Listening to vinyl again for the first time in a while. Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 is good for workin’. 🎵
Let the summer of margaritas commence.
Finished reading: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 📚
I just had a nighttime video call with a friend. Typically with evening hangs, especially virtual, I have a terrible time getting to sleep before midnight or 1 A.M. Let’s see if I can break that streak tonight.
I surprised myself and wrote one oblique sort of thing about how I’m feeling in this America we happen to live in at the moment: Anti-Leadership.
We just wrapped up A Good Enough Newsletter and it will go out this afternoon. This time there will be a contest with a fabulous prize. Woo!
🎶 There’s a new release of Max Richter’s take on Vivaldi. (I talked about this previously.)
I took the jump. /cc @odd & @SimonWoods
Is there a Twitter client that allows you to cut Twitter’s feature set to the following?
If not, is there a Twitter client that allows you to cut Twitter’s feature set to the following?
Holding court at the bedroom window.
Walked around the graduation party setup this morning. Then went back into my quarantine. This is even harder than I thought it was going to be. (My Covid test was positive this morning, though even with a negative I probably still needed to stay in quarantine by rule.)
Now I’ve been banned from lobste.rs for the reason that I’m supposedly a duplicate user of someone else trying to post articles linking to their blog. It’s pretty clearly untrue, but moderation didn’t take 30 seconds to confirm my identity via my profile and comment history. Oof.
I feel like I’m approaching one of those moments where I have to strip everything away, make it all simple, and add back things intentionally. Internet usage, screen time, food choices, activity choices, etc.
I watched The Phantom Thread tonight in my quarantine room. Now I need a film studies class to explain it to me. 🍿
🔗 These remixes by The Reflex are amazing.
🔗 Some lovely light reading while sitting in bed with COVID: About Those Kill-Switched Ukranian Tractors by Cory Doctrow.