What I'm currently…
Some notes on what I'm currently listening to, reading, and thinking about.
If you have any recommendations or comments, let me know!
June, 2022
Listening to
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Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes
I really like all of Eleanor Friedberger’s solo music, and this was the first single from her first solo album. It reminds me of Minneapolis / St. Paul, where I was living at the time it came out.
- The Flaming Lips - The Gash
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Tori Amos - Putting the Damage On
This song has only recently made it into my ranking of top-tier Tori Amos songs. Maybe it is the odd intro, but it hadn’t stood out to me until the past year (the same thing happened with “Hey Jupiter”—it wasn’t until I saw it played live that it became a favourite). There is also a great live version of this song.
The Flaming Lips played the last concert that I went to before the COVID-19 restrictions began.
It was a great concert, at the Sydney Opera House—one of the best sounding gigs that I’ve been to.
This song is off the great The Soft Bulletin album.
Reading
Thinking about
- Mistakes in research programming and strategies for their avoidance and tolerance.
- Where to start with gardening, now that I have a few areas of soil to tend to.
- Playing through Portal 2 again. I still think the first Portal is quite a bit better.
May, 2022
Listening to
Reading
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
- Kent Haruf - Plainsong
- A. Scott Berg - Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Thinking about
- How to present all the details of a statistical model in a manuscript without distracting or alienating readers.
- The best strategy for staying warm through the upcoming Bathurst winter (my first serious winter since Minneapolis, USA, in 2012–2013).
- The writing, scenes, and characters in Don DeLillo’s “Underworld”.