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Savannah, GA 20230622.2021
#tbt The Moose Hunter (1994)
Bullwinkle on set of the Vietnam War epic The Moose Hunter, after wrapping the tense Russian Roulette scene.
Hardcore TV (HBO), 1994
Current Goes the Currency
Digital currencies are formed of energy. Every eCoin is, in essence, nothing more (or less) than captured electricity. Inasmuch as the energy required to “mint” an electric dollar is trapped, never to be re-released into the world as actual power, the value of it is measured against what its captive energy otherwise could have powered.…
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20230614.0548 Moon Football
The Moon and Jupiter setting over Delray Beach, FL.
14 June 2023
05:48a
Lol the moon was Aries’ football.
Free Thoughts: Freedom of Aloofness, Part I
…Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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Winners Don’t Win, pt. 3: The Dharma Racquets
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)
In December 2020, Cat & I decamped to Lowell, Massachusetts for almost 9 months as she costume designed the return of the Showtime series Dexter.
Our temporary home, give-or-take 4 hours north of New York City, was a charming, modern 1-bedroom 5th Floor apartment in a 75-unit rental complex called the Thorndike Exchange.…
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Free Thoughts: On AI and Plain Ol’ I
AI doesn’t know from dumb luck or smart devices. It has no reference point on which to center its intelligence or judge its progress. It doesn’t know from vacations or personal life / work life balance. It doesn’t exist in a linear universe.
In time, it will assume we live in its universe, flipping the script.…
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A Week in Spins, vol. 3
Down in Florida now for a couple, maybe a few weeks, to visit my parents and retrieve our car to drive back to NYC. We expected to be on the road back already, because Cat’s latest job on Amazon’s The Peripheral has enough scripts locked to shoot a few episodes, despite the WGA strike.…
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Winners Don’t Win, pt. 2
All episodes here:
https://westy.substack.com/t/tennis
Intention is always more important than outcome.
– Winston Ramsay –
Net Speed
The internet from the start offered a grand social paradox. Everything’s apart together, but also together apart. And everyone’s alone together, but also together alone.
Fwiw, pandemic lockdowns aligned our interactions in the physical world to how we interact with each other on the internet. Everyone alone together, and together alone.…
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A Week in Spins, vol. 2
Rainy NYC Saturday weekly post that skipped a week. This set’s theme: Feeling 6 decades time in 6 days, in the good way.
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People Under The Stairs “O.S.T.” (2002) was Thes One and Double K’s 3rd release, & one of my fav 2000s spins in any style. Over a master class in sampling, a surgical economy of rhyme here creates negative space that also flows.…
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Spotify Playlist #104
For ~10 years going, I launch a playlist the 1st week of a month (sometimes bi-monthly, originally seasonally) to collect tracks that inspire me. It’s not always “where my head is at,” so much as “where my ears are at” and “what’s commanded my attention.” As always, however, we cast a wide wide net.…
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Free Thoughts 2023g
The evolution of reading and attention span leaves me terrified to write paragraphs longer than 2.75 sentences. Some paragraphs, however, require multi-sentence packages to deliver complete thoughts. That said, the copious negative space now around paragraphs opens up
It’s not the notion of what constitutes a short sentence that has changed, but rather, what constitutes a complete thought.…
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Winners Don’t Win – 1. Time, Space, and Tennis
I promise this isn’t about to become a tennis blog, though I’d have no objection. This is the first in what will be a 10 or 12-part series on the game’s deep impact on me, and its confluence with playing music. After all, racquets and guitars are both strung and played.…
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A Week in Spins
Vol 1
Inaugural edition. Vinyl only is the only rule. No theme, other than, “Luna & I needed to listen to this this week.”
LMK what Luna should listen to next. My record collection’s wider than it is deep. If I don’t have the artist, I’ll match the style…
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Woke up slightly crunchy this morning after a friend’s “4-hour-dinner at Barbuto” birthday party.…
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Thoughts Aloud 2023f
The most important thing you can do with your art is to deflect, not reflect, reality.
Is there a switch we can flip, that doesn’t involve a mushroom cloud, that would make everything go back to normal?
And by that I mean, a switch that would just shut everybody the fuck up and create a world of empathic listening?…
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Thoughts Aloud 2023e
Someone somewhere is working on a faucet that stops while people are brushing their teeth, and then re-starts only when it’s time to rinse. This faucet will be voice-control only, with no lever(s), and you will have to train it to recognize your saying, “Water, please,” with a mouth full of toothpaste.…
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the infinite dark
First new track in a while spilled out today, on the heels of my first couple weeks flying solo here in NYC (Cat’s away in Melbourne on Apple’s “Metropolis” for at least a year). A couple days ago, Luna underwent some demanding diagnostics that uncovered she has epilepsy. I’m still processing news and new routines.…
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tuesday prompts
“the programmer of our universe’s Simulation, pointillism oil painting”
“A person who believes everything is an illusion”
“Boston Dynamics robot breast feeding a baby boy”
“Why are you here?”
