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Okay, quick post because I'm astonished I'm finding that a proper new Field Mice record came out in 2022 and I missed it. Specifically Overwintering by Lightning in a Twilight Hour. LiaTH is Wratten's latest rename after Northern Picture Library, Trembling Blue Stars, but the previous releases he di...

I saw Slowdive in Brooklyn last night. It's interesting — I always think I am "unsure what happiness is," but when I'm jumping up and down excited that I get to live in a world where I see Slowdive play live, it's clear I definitely know what happiness is. The show opener was quannnic who ...

i wonder if i should… i have plenty more 2s to inflict on the charts… I miss seeing those 2s on rym, mizuki ... I have a few things I've been paying attention to lately: I've been playing through How I Loved You by the Angels of Light. I like Swans, but I kind of prefer this low-key Neil Diamond st...

I've been off SSRIs for like, a month now. I took them partly to contain anxiety and roll it off; but I also found that they helped me keep focus on work and, apparently, contain my emotional volatility. I had a perpetual calm. I last went off of them in early 2023, for a few months; when something ...

Dreamt that there was a vampire/human hybrid found and they were just sorta living their life. Everyone seemingly had an opinion about them; there were supporters and detractors but they functioned like this nonstop papparazzi. I had a friend on the special ops who were focused on killing the thing ...

I dreamt last night that I signed up for some donation membership with rateyourmusic, and they had a "estimate how much you should donate" or whatever, and in the process I accidentally hit my credit card with a bill for $157,000. I looked at my credit card and panicked because they just l...

Following up on this playlist I made from the Japan thead I've started to just make playlists as part of memory integration. Most of the time I've made playlists as missives — way of communicating the uncommunicable to a friend. I care a lot about lyrics, sequencing, tone and all that ... it display...

Wow! Remember when I wrote about form factors ? That was in April. Amazing. The world keeps turning, and the gaiden chapters continue. Since that time I succumbed to my illness and continued to collect devices. The most recent one is the Analogue Pocket. I actually tried to cancel when I realised at...

When I come home from a long trip, the week following is something like mourning. Being home again and slipping into the old way felt tragic and weird. I desperately didn't want to, wanted my mission in life to never do the same thing again. The end of a trip like that is horrible for me. Traveling...

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole today. Paralogue user and friend @meri linked this record , ぱんださんようちえん , of which track 5 is doing its very best impression of the Alien 9 ED. It's kind of ... eclectic, though a few tracks I really liked, and I found that it's the product of a full doujin circle w...

Been flipping through a few more records passively. Marking them here because maybe you will want to listen to them! Musik for Insomniaks, vol. 1 by Mark Mothersbaugh — listened to it in the wee hours and found it intriguing and strange. Almost like Circa 2000 by Deporitaz , though I suppose both ar...

Some newer additions I quite like. Colour Yes by Matthew Halsall — I'm a little stuck on Bill Evans. Modal jazz, cool jazz, slower and atmospheric stuff. This particular record is quite moving, often slow. It's not bopping hard, but Halsall as a trumpeter is beautiful and there's a strangely high am...

I've been in Montreal again for a few days now. We landed September 30 at 17:00ish, after flying out at September 30 at 17:00ish, so that was a weird experience. On the last day in Tokyo I went up to Ikebukuro and walked through Shinjuku into Shibuya. I went to the closest cafe that seemed like they...

We're in Tokyo today and tomorrow, then we fly out Monday evening. So that could even be like a half day. I only really know Tokyo from, like, Atlas video games. So while we're in Ochanomizu right now, I'm like, "oh, right! Ochanomizu!" Shin-Megami-Tensei-V_Red-Mitama_Chiyoda_01 (1).png It...

This has relatively stabilised so I will share the playlist I made. It is called 関西の9月 (a night's sunflower). https://f005.backblazeb2.com/file/maru01/jp2024-2-1.png The core list is here , but you can also find a version on YouTube here . I tried making one on Spotify, but it was missing two or thr...