a not-so-chilly Friday dawn

Still writing posts for my future self, who rarely recalls what his previous self wrote or why.

For the past few years, I narrowed most of my internet activity to how it centered Twitter. I swapped it for an RSS feed because it was easier to use with a baby to care for, then a young child. Twitter remains far easier to steal glances at while i'm at work. Twitter had already tweaked its algorithms so badly that its usefulness for catching breaking news on subjects other than Trump or mass shootings is diminished. I've been keeping three notebooks next to computer to take notes on different subjects for a few months, but it feels less than efficient. 

Scrubbing Feedly of dead & boring RSS feeds. Several old bloggers have called for the return to blogging. I waste most of that effort on trying to get the old blog archives back up so I can search my old posts for opportunities for self-loathing. It's wasted effort obviously. I need to keep better track of my consumption of music and keep tabs on the anthropology & archaeology stories right now. Obvious, mainstream records & stories have been slipping through the cracks for years. 

The new Melody's Echo Chamber seems good enough.

Screenwriter Says Rogue One Was ‘Just A Mess’ Before Reshoots. It feels like Edwards was too in awe of making a Star Wars movie.

Still undecided on the new King Tuff material. He was stuck, lost his muse, & apparently got mired in depression, so it's cool to see him writing & recording again. It all owes to '70s material that I never much connected to. The same problem arose for me with Foxygen, although Hang is a step back towards my comfort zone. 

There's also a new Guided by Voices record & they're coming to One-Eyed Jack's too. Probably skipping that. It feels too safe. Listenable, but I crave novelty. ("See My Field" is more interesting song anyway.) 

It's the Yo La Tengo record, There's a Riot Going On that's more useful. It's harder to perceive the loss of youthful energy when the band has always been subdued.