- We Shouldn’t Have Let Ryan Adams Cover Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’
I loved the album. I wasn’t a fan of either artist then, but the album suited my mood in 2015/ 2016. Since then, Adams has faced a reckoning of sorts and I have stopped listening to the album. Given Taylor Swift’s success today, it seemed hilarious to read that it took Adams covering Swift for her to be taken seriously. I say “seemed” because it should not be that way. It is not funny. - Sometimes I read a random blog post off my RSS reader, and then install a new browser. It is 2024; who needs a new browser?
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Bring back cubicles!
Everything is relative. (I would ask for the return of a room with a window, fuck you very much.) -
Kokuyo Fine Writer
Something I picked up at the Haneda airport, and could not find anything on it, until I searched YouTube and found Japanese vloggers showing off their new loot (with this link in the video description). - I loved Stay True by Hua Hsu, and admired the writing, the photographs, the fact that he kept old letters/ faxes. Here’s a profile on the man.
- Reading Octavia E Butler led me down the path towards process theology. I am a bit late to the game because her books apparently hit bestseller lists in the thick of the pandemic. It is eerie, to me living presently in 2024, how a book written 30 years ago and set in 2024, predicted so many things so well. God is change.
- A notecard system as your commonplace book. I had a stack of index cards lying around (because I used to have a hipster PDA), ahem, and so I now have a commonplace book in the form of index cards.
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Lessons from the last Swiss finishing school
Such a good read. Seems like a rich-person’s version of a hobby, vs. me thinking about having drum lessons.