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Things have been busy. I’ve got a big move coming up, and I’ve been reflecting on living here in Boone and Southern Appalachia and what will be similar and what will be different about living in the Upper Valley. Culturally, it’s going to be a huge shift, but it is still the Appalachian Mountains after all.

Midwife’s music has been with me a long time—all of Madeline’s work on The Flenser is awesome, and I spent the first part of lockdown in 2020 replaying “S.W.I.M.” over and over and over. This collab with Matt Jencik really stuck with me too.

N plus 1 | Casual Viewing — This was an excellent article about the state of Netflix and the streaming industry. Content (term used intentionally) is “designed to be played but not watched” despite huge budgets and A-list talent. It’s important to remember that our media environment is already full of content slop now, even before generative AI becomes widely used in these type of productions. I have to imagine that it’s already being used in script-writing but I guess it would be hard to tell.