wow this album just karate-chopped the seam between my cerebra

what a voice!

David Mitchell, Ghostwritten, p 155:

“One of the things that my years of wandering have taught me is, the more impotent the country, the more dangerous its customs officials.”

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Helena Deland — Lylz

I linked to another song by Helena Deland a couple weeks ago; the album is out now! It's red tail lights in the mist, but no hurry to meet them... if you know what I mean!!!!! I really like it. Other first-listen highlights are "Comfort, Edge" and "Dog." Also, see if you can guess which song title made me double-take when it appeared in my little heads-up-display music player!!!!

had this in my head. please enjoy the vibes, even if home only exists in your mind

I’m 34 years and one month old. I’ve “owned” two cars in my life; a 1993 Accord that my parents bought for I think somewhere south of $1000 in 2004; and my grandmother’s 2003 Grand Marquis, which she sold me for a symbolic dollar when THAT car was nearly a decade old, when she was too far into dementia to be able to drive it anymore, and my Accord was pulling pretty hard to the right constantly.

I stopped driving that car a little over a year ago, because a (late by about a month) routine oil change revealed that there was almost no oil in the car. Maybe a leak? I'd need to get it inspected, and a leak in the oil lines can be pricey, they said. I didn't have a spare $100 let alone $1000, so I parked it in the driveway and decided to wait until I had enough money to deal with it. Well, I never did! So since then I've gotten around on foot, by occasional Lyft, buses to and from Atlanta (before covid), rides from friends (also before covid), and by borrowing my partner's car periodically. It's been a huge pain in the ass, and only possible because I happened to live within reasonable walking distance of a few key places.

At no point in my adult life have I ever thought seriously about being able to buy a vehicle. I've just never had reliable money available.

Anyway, I saw an ad for a truck, and suddenly wondered how many car commercials I've seen despite never being in the market for one. I regard all cars with indifference; they are something I have basically no opinion about, because they are beyond contemplation. And yet I have seen the ads; people do buy cars. New ones, even! Somehow.

... No point to this. Just thinking.

But if you want to be deeply angry about wealth inequality, you can listen to an episode of a watch-enthusiast podcast (I don't want to go into why I did this) where they refer to a watch as "surprisingly affordable" because it's available "for less than ten thousand dollars." I bought a $30 Timex maybe seven years ago for work, five apartments ago (which have also never had anything to do with desire, but only affordability and happenstance), and I don't know where it is now.

ani difranco rules

I'm on some 2004 shit tonight

ben folds five — regrets

every time the drums crash in on the pink floyd coda to this song, I have to close my head and nod along for a few beats

I'm not feeling depressed tonight but you bet your ass I've been depressed to this song about 700 times since the year 2000!!!!!

ben folds five — don't change your plans

what a spooky album, but lovely in its disembodied shudders, oohs, and horns

"in fact, I never understand these things I feel"

another album I like more each time I come back to it.

"nothing feels good; it's not right!"

it feels really good to be coordinating multiple people's work, including several parallel feature branches of my own, and having it work!!! (knock on version-controlled wood)

(this repo has 2,353 commits so far, jfc)

fork app has the best visualizer, built-in conflict resolution / diff view, and workflow of any gui I've used! get it if you need one!