Closed Off
My son watched the Spike Jonze movie Her a few days ago and remarked to me about how prescient some of the ideas were. I was thinking about how accurately Jonze (who also wrote the screenplay) predicted some of the aspects of generative AI and the role that it could
Cultural Stasis
Perhaps the perfect film to exemplify a certain mid 80s aesthetic, Rocky IV contrasts with the flatness of contemporary culture.
Do Not Pass Me Just To Slow Down
I worry about the kind of witness I will present if I'm too obvious about my faith.
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One of the reasons I chose Qobuz as my streaming music service was the ability to download tracks in a DRM-free format. About a year into my subscription, I finally purchased my first album. Frankie Rose - Seventeen Seconds. Burned a CD and it sounds fantastic.
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I've been trying for years to get my oldest son to embrace blogging. He's an excellent writer and has unique perspectives. I bought him a Blot blog but he never used it. Now I find out he's publishing on Substack. I feel betrayed.
At The Apartment
Tennis released an at home live video with friends just as they embark on a tour to promote their final album.
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If I could internalize the words of Thoreau that, “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone,” then I probably wouldn’t have spent several days this week investigating cassette culture.
Oh HEY, Hello
Why I went back to the HEY email service.
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So sentiments expressing objective claims of morality or beauty are still, as in Lewis’s day, found to be offensive, but sentiments expressing identity are seen as sacred. Alan Noble, on C.S. Lewis and education
Bio Vinyl
I noticed that The Cure was advertising their heavily praised new album Songs From A Lost World in a bio vinyl format. I was curious about what that meant. Fortunately, I had my good buddy Claude to help answer the question. He responded with this: Bio vinyl refers to vinyl