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<time datetime="2024-09-08T00:00:00&#43;00:00">September 8, 2024</time>
<h1>the birds remember how to come home (week notes 008)</h1>
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<li>School is officially back in session, so my free time is much more limited now. I&rsquo;m optimistic for the year, though!</li>
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<h1 id="reading">Reading</h1>
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<li><strong><em>Death Is Not an Option</em> by Suzanne Rivecca.</strong> Finished at last. I have not much new to say compared to last week. I felt a notable sense of relief to be done with it and free to move on.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/Write_as_you_wish:_a_call_to_bring_back_the_prose">Write as you wish: a call to bring back the prose</a> by Marisabel.</strong> I&rsquo;m not a good enough writer for this to be applicable, so call this aspirational reading.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://itskristin.bearblog.dev/back-at-it-social-media-free/">back at it &amp; social media free</a> by kristin.</strong> I&rsquo;ve pretty much dropped Twitter in the last few weeks — I really want to separate myself from toxic online spaces.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://gkeenan.co/avgb/please-please-please-please-please-please-share-your-big-dumb-beautiful-self-with-the-world/">Please please please please please please share your big dumb beautiful self with the world</a> by Keenan.</strong> <em>&ldquo;What does it look like to put yourself on a page, or in a photo, or a brushstroke, or a string plucked and reverberating harmoniously out into the room? When does the screaming inside become loud enough, so all-encompassing that you open up the door to let it pour out of you?&rdquo;</em></li>
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<h1 id="watching">Watching</h1>
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<li><strong><em>America&rsquo;s Next Top Model</em>, cycle three.</strong> <em>Top Model</em> is my comfort show right now. I love the first seven cycles best, but cycle three has a special place in my heart. It&rsquo;s one of the first cycles I ever saw and has one of the most entertaining casts. The modelling itself is pretty poor, but that&rsquo;s not really what <em>Top Model</em> was about.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ei6dNr3RkY&amp;list=PLipgnTt01UGXDW2B_eJMKSSi12Y7koJ9O&amp;pp=iAQB">Run Button&rsquo;s <em>Star Wars Outlaws</em> streams.</a></strong> I&rsquo;m really interested in <em>Outlaws</em> based on what I&rsquo;ve seen; Keith has been complaining about the stealth a lot in the streams, but I think a good amount of that has been player error.</li>
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<h1 id="playing">Playing</h1>
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<li><strong><em>Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.</em></strong> I&rsquo;ve tried to get Joe to play <em>KotOR</em> for years, but he was turned off by the combat. We listened to A More Civilized Age&rsquo;s coverage together, though (he&rsquo;s a big Friends at the Table fan), and it got him interested in <em>KotOR II</em> (despite my insisting for years that it is the finest piece of <em>Star Wars</em> media). We&rsquo;re playing through together — me with the controller but collectively making decisions. We&rsquo;re still on Peragus (gross), but I&rsquo;m enjoying revisiting it. This will be my first time playing it in at least ten years and my first time with the restored content mod.</li>
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<h1 id="listening">Listening</h1>
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<li><strong><em>Life&rsquo;s a Riot With Spy vs Spy</em>, Billy Bragg.</strong> I like &ldquo;A New England&rdquo; a whole lot; the rest was good but didn&rsquo;t grab me. There&rsquo;s a sparseness and intimacy that struck me when I first heard &ldquo;A New England,&rdquo; but the novelty had worn off for the other tracks.</li>
<li><strong><em>For Emma, Forever Ago</em>, Bon Iver.</strong> I listened to this all the way through one night and it unfortunately really spoke to me. I know I&rsquo;ve listened through it before, years ago, and I didn&rsquo;t care for anything except &ldquo;Skinny Love&rdquo;; this time around, every track hit.</li>
<li><strong>&ldquo;Bishop, CA&rdquo;</strong> and <strong>&ldquo;Wig Master,&rdquo; Xiu Xiu.</strong> I swore off Xiu Xiu back in 2013 or so after listening to them heavily during a deep depression; I&rsquo;m not cold turkey on them anymore, but they&rsquo;re not in my regular rotation either. I&rsquo;ve been thinking of these two, some of my favorites then.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></li>
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<p>in so far as any Xiu Xiu song is a &ldquo;favorite&rdquo; and not &ldquo;a desperate cry for help&rdquo;&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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