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(week notes 002) +title: ask yourself is that going to bring you peace, though? (week notes 02) date: 2024-07-28 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/003.md b/content/week-notes/003.md index 2906130..1af00d8 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/003.md +++ b/content/week-notes/003.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: clean as paper before the poem (week notes 003) +title: clean as paper before the poem (week notes 03) date: 2024-08-04 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/004.md b/content/week-notes/004.md index 0dae23a..45ff781 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/004.md +++ b/content/week-notes/004.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: I love when you invoke my death (week notes 004) +title: I love when you invoke my death (week notes 04) date: 2024-08-11 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/005.md b/content/week-notes/005.md index 0595050..2092ed4 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/005.md +++ b/content/week-notes/005.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: the secrecy won't keep you free (week notes 005) +title: the secrecy won't keep you free (week notes 05) date: 2024-08-18 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/006.md b/content/week-notes/006.md index 87eb86a..0b86a51 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/006.md +++ b/content/week-notes/006.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: I want to sleep and dream alone (week notes 006) +title: I want to sleep and dream alone (week notes 06) date: 2024-08-26 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/007.md b/content/week-notes/007.md index 2816f53..1ceb758 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/007.md +++ b/content/week-notes/007.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: I guess I feel a bit lost without you (week notes 007) +title: I guess I feel a bit lost without you (week notes 07) date: 2024-09-01 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/008.md b/content/week-notes/008.md index 306cc2a..f62b64c 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/008.md +++ b/content/week-notes/008.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ --- -title: the birds remember how to come home (week notes 008) +title: the birds remember how to come home (week notes 08) date: 2024-09-08 -tags: [week-notes] +tags: + - week-notes draft: false --- diff --git a/content/week-notes/009.md b/content/week-notes/009.md index ee92f74..85bae33 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/009.md +++ b/content/week-notes/009.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ --- -title: 666 with a princess streak (week notes 009) +title: 666 with a princess streak (week notes 09) date: 2024-09-15 -tags: [week-notes] +tags: + - week-notes draft: false --- diff --git a/content/week-notes/010.md b/content/week-notes/010.md index 3888ada..d5f4be0 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/010.md +++ b/content/week-notes/010.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ --- -title: I know if I don't go now I won't make it out (week notes 010) +title: I know if I don't go now I won't make it out (week notes 10) date: 2024-09-22 -tags: [week-notes] +tags: + - week-notes draft: false --- diff --git a/content/week-notes/011.md b/content/week-notes/011.md index 3fdd4ec..7cde18b 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/011.md +++ b/content/week-notes/011.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- draft: false -title: but let's talk about you for a minute (week notes 011) +title: but let's talk about you for a minute (week notes 11) tags: - week-notes date: 2024-10-06 diff --git a/content/week-notes/012.md b/content/week-notes/012.md index 26bc07a..08d6400 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/012.md +++ b/content/week-notes/012.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- draft: false -title: what would it mean for us if i fell off this slide? 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(week notes 12) tags: - week-notes date: 2024-10-13 diff --git a/content/week-notes/013.md b/content/week-notes/013.md index a2e197c..6f4e69e 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/013.md +++ b/content/week-notes/013.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ --- draft: false -title: spend my days running in circles (week notes 013) -tags: [week-notes] +title: spend my days running in circles (week notes 13) +tags: + - week-notes date: 2024-10-20 --- diff --git a/content/week-notes/014.md b/content/week-notes/014.md index b996770..19012c0 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/014.md +++ b/content/week-notes/014.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ --- draft: false -title: it's second nature to love you (week notes 014) -tags: [week-notes] +title: it's second nature to love you (week notes 14) +tags: + - week-notes date: 2024-11-24 --- first week notes in a while so some of this might not be strictly "this week" diff --git a/content/week-notes/015.md b/content/week-notes/015.md index 1608ca7..38c80b3 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/015.md +++ b/content/week-notes/015.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- draft: false -title: my voice moved hades so he extinguished the fire (week notes 015) +title: my voice moved hades so he extinguished the fire (week notes 15) tags: - week-notes date: 2024-12-01 diff --git a/content/week-notes/016.md b/content/week-notes/016.md index 08fa2a4..8880e62 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/016.md +++ b/content/week-notes/016.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: to find part of you still works is like a tiny victory (week notes 016) +title: to find part of you still works is like a tiny victory (week notes 16) date: 2024-12-08 url: week-notes/016 tags: diff --git a/content/week-notes/017.md b/content/week-notes/017.md index 5c15090..d036c9f 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/017.md +++ b/content/week-notes/017.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: sleepyhead 'cause all the fucking foxes kept me awake last night (week notes 017) +title: sleepyhead 'cause all the fucking foxes kept me awake last night (week notes 17) date: 2024-12-15 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/019.md b/content/week-notes/019.md index c3a69c8..5b23281 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/019.md +++ b/content/week-notes/019.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: stop thinking a phone call or text is too complicated (week notes 019) +title: stop thinking a phone call or text is too complicated (week notes 19) date: 2025-01-04 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/020.md b/content/week-notes/020.md index 8353478..4648726 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/020.md +++ b/content/week-notes/020.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: hold on tight to this time, this place (week notes 020) +title: hold on tight to this time, this place (week notes 20) date: 2025-01-11 tags: - week-notes diff --git a/content/week-notes/022.md b/content/week-notes/022.md index 8eda3e6..c296d70 100644 --- a/content/week-notes/022.md +++ b/content/week-notes/022.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: I need love, can you get to me now? 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I continued on through Two Towers and began to feel fatigue — I think this is less of a controversial take, but Tolkien needed an editor to help him better discover the balance between legitimate world-building and shit for nerds that should be relegated to footnotes and appendices. At one point, in the middle of the “Helm’s Deep” chapter — arguably the major climax of Aragorn’s plot in Book Three — I fell asleep while reading and it was not late at night. I took a few years’ break from the series after that, as I become busier and busier in my day job my patience eroded for reading about another field or flower or bloodline for pages upon pages.

This year, however, as part of my resolution to read more, I was at my local bookshop and spotted a copy of Return of the King.12 I added it to my bag, started the book in probably May of this year, and finally finished it this week.13

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I will plant my flag and say that I think Return of the King the finest in the series; Tolkien beautifully weaves the interlaced narrative together here, which has enough tension and intersection to bear me through his purple prose about nature and unflagging world building with only minor grumbling. What especially struck me, however, was Frodo and Sam’s harrowing journey across Mordor — it was here that Tolkien’s penchant for detail clicked for me, as the reader is treated to an arduous accounting of every drop of water, every crumb of bread that Sam rations (and goes without) across the ashy wastelands of Mordor. By comparison, the destruction of the Ring seems to pas with relatively little fanfare. The movies portray it (and all) with bombastic melodrama (affectionate), from Sam’s protestation that he will carry Frodo the rest of the way up the mountain to his rescue of Frodo as he dangles bloodily from a cliff above the fires of Mount Doom. The book instead centers Sam’s limited view of the events: he enters the cavern well after Frodo and sees only Frodo slip on the Ring — none of his hesitation to destroy it. The affair unfolds briskly from there, or perhaps it seems so when juxtaposed with the otherwise overwrought nature of Tolkien’s prose to that point. Indeed, the destruction of the Ring is communicated to the reader in just a few short sentences after Gollum bites off Frodo’s finger:

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I will plant my flag and say that I think Return of the King the finest in the series; Tolkien beautifully weaves the interlaced narrative together here, which has enough tension and intersection to bear me through his purple prose about nature and unflagging world building with only minor grumbling. What especially struck me, however, was Frodo and Sam’s harrowing journey across Mordor — it was here that Tolkien’s penchant for detail clicked for me, as the reader is treated to an arduous accounting of every drop of water, every crumb of bread that Sam rations (and goes without) across the ashy wastelands of Mordor. By comparison, the destruction of the Ring seems to pass with relatively little fanfare. The movies portray it (and all) with bombastic melodrama (affectionate), from Sam’s protestation that he will carry Frodo the rest of the way up the mountain to his rescue of Frodo as he dangles bloodily from a cliff above the fires of Mount Doom. The book instead centers Sam’s limited view of the events: he enters the cavern well after Frodo and sees only Frodo slip on the Ring — none of his hesitation to destroy it. The affair unfolds briskly from there, or perhaps it seems so when juxtaposed with the otherwise overwrought nature of Tolkien’s prose to that point. Indeed, the destruction of the Ring is communicated to the reader in just a few short sentences after Gollum bites off Frodo’s finger:

‘Precious, precious, precious!’ Gollum cried. ‘My Precious! O my Precious!’ And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. Out of the depths came his last wail Precious, and he was gone.

I am sure there is scholarship here on Tolkien’s choice in portraying the events — it certainly serves his other narrative themes to portray the actual destruction of the Ring as relatively minor compared to the journey to get there. Still, it’s almost comedic in how quickly and ridiculously it unfolds: not with some grand act of courage — that part is already passed — but with the folly of Gollum.

diff --git a/public/week-notes/025/index.html b/public/week-notes/025/index.html index 6ea7d20..b0ee16d 100644 --- a/public/week-notes/025/index.html +++ b/public/week-notes/025/index.html @@ -64,8 +64,11 @@ Reading I finished reading Return of the King this week, completing a long-stand

My next read is Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly. I’m about 100 pages in and really enjoying it — I’m not usually one for non-fiction, but I also am a noted Spotify hater (and have been for a long time), so this felt like a good way to dip my toe in. Highly recommend!

Watching

I’ve been rewatching Downton Abbey. I’m in season two right now; I’m debating whether to finish the series (I never watched past season five, I think) or if I’ll stop when they kill off some major characters in season three. I am glad to confirm that I was always right: Mary is the main character and the best character. I am noticing more and more the ridiculous plotlines, however — I maintained for years that seasons one and two were actually good and after that it descended into soap opera melodrama, but I am older and wiser now. I think I’d still recommend the first season, but stop there.

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Joe and I have been burning through a lot of Survivor seasons to prepare for 50. Mostly, they’re rewatches for me, which I don’t mind. We haven’t been going in any particular order.

Playing

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I’m big into Fields of Mistria lately. The developers just put out another update — I’m really impressed with how the game is coming along. I love Stardew Valley and have sunk hundreds of hours into it, but lately, I don’t know how I could go back — Mistria has so many convenience and quality of life features that make Stardew feel old and clunky by comparison.

Listening

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I’ve been spending a lot of time at my computer, which means I’ve been listening to a lot of music!

I’ve been listening to a lot of Rainbow Kitten Surprise lately as a lead up to seeing them in concert. I really enjoy them — when I last mentioned them, I think I’d only listened to RKS, on a friend’s recommendation; I’ve since rounded out their discography. Here is my slipshod and unscientific personal ranking of their discography:

  1. RKS - their best and most consistent; this is an album, an entire vibe, worth listening through in one sitting. Listen to “Cold Love” and “Wasted.”
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  2. How to: Friend, Love, Freefall - Great moments and some real stand out tracks, but it gets too same-y for me in places. Listen to “Moody Orange” (maybe my favorite song by them) and “Fever Pitch” (add in “Possum Queen” if you want a weird one that will stick in your head)
  3. Love Hate Music Box - I’ve had a lot of ups and downs with this one: I think it has too many songs and the good ones maybe didn’t get to bake long enough. But the more I sit with it and take the songs as they are, the more I like it. Listen to “Lucky” and “Sickset.”
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I also, for some reason, thought about the band The Madrigals for the first time in a long time, which I’m sure I discovered on MySpace or last.fm or some other defunct platform. There’s very little remaining about them online, but I have a few MP3s of theirs that I probably downloaded from one of the aforementioned sites. There’s a cool as fuck old radio archive website that mentions them (and has a radio show with one of their songs still archived!), and I stumbled on a music blog from 2011 that mentioned some of the members’ later bands, which led to me downloading Horizon by Trash Kit. I haven’t sat down to give it a good listen yet, but I will.

I listened through to EELS by Being Dead as well, which is a real rad vibe all throughout. “Love Machine” might be my favorite song I’ve heard this year; “Van Goes” also has big “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” vibes.

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I also, for some reason, thought about the band The Madrigals for the first time in a long time, which I’m sure I discovered on MySpace or last.fm or some other defunct platform. There’s very little remaining about them online, but I have a few MP3s of theirs that I probably downloaded from one of the aforementioned sites. There’s a cool as fuck old radio archive website that mentions them (and has a radio show with one of their songs still archived!), and I stumbled on a music blog from 2011 that mentioned some of the members’ later bands, which led to me downloading Horizon by Trash Kit. I gave it a listen through — there are some great, skittery guitars in here, and the vocals remind me a lot of Ponytail. It gets a little too jam band for me in places, and the songs are quite same-y. I really like “Happy Sad,” though.

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Plexamp recommended Random Spirit Lover and then Dragonslayer by* Sunset Rubdown as a similar album after I finished listening through to Horizon. I’ve had both in my library for ages — I think I downloaded Sunset Rubdown’s entire discography at some point because I like a few of their songs. I didn’t particularly like either as whole albums, but I have loved (and continue to love) “You Go on Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II).”