Category: Music
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Record of the Year, 2023
2023 was the year where I felt like we didn’t live in a post-pandemic society, but a post-apocalyptic one. It’s just an apocalypse more like The Leftovers than Station Eleven or The Last of Us. The bad part of this mild apocalypse is that it didn’t really fix anything, it just made everything slightly worse.…
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Weekly Reflections #9
In which we return from a break. A few notes from our 3-year delayed honeymoon in New Zealand: Speaking of which, I finished 4 books on the trip/in the last day or so. I think my favorite was Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (now a show on Amazon Prime). It’s a…
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Weekly Reflections #7
I had a nightmare this week that I became a lawyer again. On a related note, I got a sleep aid from my doctor (pretty lightweight antihistamine that also controls anxiety) for the first time in my life. It’s great. When I need to take it (once or twice a month, usually), I fall asleep…
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Weekly Reflections #6
Reading: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; Holacracy by Brian J. Robertson; Buddhism, Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen Watching: Still watching The Last of Us and Poker Face as they come out. The big headline is that our good friend Andrew Helms helped produce Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence,…
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Friday Wrap-up
I don’t know if it’s because it’s already been an awesome year for music, or because I’m consciously seeking it out, but I’m starting to enjoy the release of new music like I used to. Today I’m excited to hear Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa (listening to it as I type these words), and Big…
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What I’m Looking Forward to This Week
Listening to the new Animal Collective record (I think my favorite song so far is Strung With Everything), new Spoon record Friday Super Bowl Sunday! Seeing Zach & Daniel Wednesday I’m reading a really lovely book right now called Under the Whispering Door and it’s kind of like a warm hug right before I go…
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Friday Wrap-up
A friend sent me this email: Subject: reflection for travis “3 weeks off and student loan forgiveness[1] has you feeling pretty pretty pretty good.” Why yes, Jim, it does…kind of. There’s other good stuff too! We didn’t lose power last weekend, and I just received my executive coaching certification from the International Coaching Federation. And yet,…
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Favorite Music 2021 Listening Guide
Blah blah blah something about 2021. Here’s the playlist: my favorite songs of 2021. As always, the songs are in some relative order, meaning I like the first twenty more than I like the last twenty, but they aren’t ranked with extreme precision. Enjoy. And send me what you got! My uncle sent me three…
The Minimum Blues 