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.
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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.
I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to take the
typography for my website and blog, since I can probably do
better than Helvetica. I still want to make sure my site pages
are small and that load times are fast, but I think I can still
keep those and do something a little more unique. I think I’ll
leave the body text as Helvetica, but I want a stronger font for
the page titles. Maybe something grotesk? Or
blackletter,
even?
Some of my typography bookmarks:
R and I went on a walk around the neighborhood before the
rain came. We saw lots of red-winged blackbirds, robins, downy
woodpeckers. Lots of autumn olive with their pretty silvery
leaves which are made slightly less pretty knowing they’re so
invasive. The Allegheny blackberries are all different shades of
red to black. The cool wind coming from the storm was nice after
a hot day.
I haven’t been listening to as much music recently, but I’ve
been really enjoying the new Moving Mountains album Pruning
of the Lower Limbs, and Raspberry Moon, the new
album out from Hotline TNT. Wet Leg has an album coming out,
moisturizer, that’s definitely going to need a
listen.
What I’ve been reading:
I didn’t use twitter much before it became X, but I’ve
enjoyed using bluesky and the atproto ecosystem at large.
There’s a ton of cool projects in the works:
Hello! Welcome to blog post zero. I decided to do away with
the linkblog that used to be on my site in favor of something a
bit more robust. This month, as I figure out the content and
format of the blog, I’ll go back through the links I had shared
here and make them into proper posts. In general, I’ll try to
save longer content for posts like these, and share shorter
updates on my bluesky
account.
Thanks for reading!