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<time datetime="2025-07-18T00:00:00+00:00">July 18, 2025</time>
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<h1>i'm falling down with shit caked on my shoes (week notes 25)</h1>
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<p>Joe and I visited some of his family with a lake house this week where my farmer’s tan became more and more pronounced. I also “worked” two days this week: I had committee meetings on Thursday and then a joint meeting to coordinate middle school/high school/college GSAs in my area.</p>
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<p>I finished reading <em>Return of the King</em> this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. I <a href="https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git">wrote up a big long post</a> with my history with the series and my thoughts.</p>
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<p>Originally, I planned to read <em>Perdido Street Station</em> by China Miéville next, but I wanted something breezy after the <em>RotK</em> gauntlet, so I picked up <em>Ghost Boys</em> by Jewell Parker Rhodes and burned through it in a day. It was amazing. I’m adjuncting at my local college in the fall — it’s a course for future English teachers about young adult literature. I’m considering offering students a choice of this or <em>All American Boys</em>. Both deal with a similar subject matter, but <em>Ghost Boys</em> is better suited for middle school. I’d love to teach the book to my middle schoolers, too, but I think that will be an uphill battle…<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>My next read is <em>Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist</em> 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!</p>
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<p>I’ve been rewatching <em>Downton Abbey</em>. 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.</p>
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<p>I’ve been listening to a lot of <strong>Rainbow Kitten Surprise</strong> 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 <em>RKS</em>, on a friend’s recommendation; I’ve since rounded out their discography. Here is my slipshod and unscientific personal ranking of their discography:</p>
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<li><em>RKS</em> - their best and most consistent; this is an <em>album</em>, an entire vibe, worth listening through in one sitting. Listen to “Cold Love” and “Wasted.”</li>
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<li><em>Seven + Mary</em> - a rough sketch of what they would eventually realize on <em>RKS,</em> but I like it — I think I have a lot of 2013 nostalgia. Listen to “First Class” and “American Hero.”</li>
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<li><em>How to: Friend, Love, Freefall</em> - 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)</li>
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<li><em>Love Hate Music Box</em> - 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.”</li>
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<p>I also, for some reason, thought about the band <strong>The Madrigals</strong> 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 <a href="https://dandelionradio.com/tracklists/2008-04/index.htm">cool as fuck old radio archive website that mentions them</a> (and has a radio show with one of their songs still archived!), and I <a href="http://thestreetlampdoesntcast.blogspot.com/2011/02/griff-says-land-ahoy-its-columbus.html">stumbled on a music blog from 2011</a> that mentioned some of the members’ later bands, which led to me downloading <a href="https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/horizon"><em>Horizon</em> by <strong>Trash Kit</strong></a>. I haven’t sat down to give it a good listen yet, but I will.</p>
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<p>I listened through to <a href="https://beingdead.bandcamp.com/album/eels"><em>EELS</em> by <strong>Being Dead</strong></a> 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.</p>
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