While nowadays I listen mostly to synthwave, chiptunes, and video game soundtracks, my playlists used to almost entirely consist of goth music. I picked Philadelphia for university without realizing that it was the headquarters for Dancing Ferret Discs, the record label for a lot of the bands I listened to--and probably named after the Dancing ( Read more... )

Yesterday I came across this article by Andrew Sullivan about the downsides of constant digital connection. A lot of it is the same stuff that keeps popping up in articles everywhere, about how no one pays attention to each other anymore, and maybe we should put our phones down and actually talk to those next to us, and oh no why are people texting ( Read more... )

I dreamed that my wife and I were in the Allied army during the invasion of Germany during World War II. It was a dream WWII, with pristine fields and a lot of people wearing civilian clothes everywhere, but in that dream way I knew where it was and what was going on ( Read more... )

I'm sure that comes as news to none of you ( Read more... )

So yesterday, softlykarou, chronicluscious, and I watched the X-Files, which I have never seen before.


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So obviously on my vacation to Oregon I couldn't listen to many podcasts, though I did occasionally listen while we were driving or at night while I was reading before bed. I listen to a lot of podcasts (134 on my phone at the moment), and I have them pretty well calibrated so that as I spend the vast majority of my waking hours listening to ( Read more... )