Finding my way back to a drumming practice, letting myself have fun again (even though I'm working through the brain/hand coordination warhorses of Chester's THE NEW BREED and Stone's STICK CONTROL – if I'm going to do relearn this beloved instrument, I'm doing it with the best foundational texts out there). Wish the iPad'd been around when I was gigging and in music school: would’ve saved me more than a few embarrassing page-turn crashes.
Bandcamp death rattle(?)
Sad to witness Bandcamp's slow unraveling: they had – have, until they go dark, I suppose – something so good, so special – and now, well, I don't know. Something… less. I've become reticent to post new EarBliss here because I've a growing fear I'm going to be left with pages of broken players. Whole situation seems like a golden opportunity for... something / someone – though I'm not sure who: Etsy's the first one that springs to mind, but there has to be a better option. Patreon? Really shouldn't be this hard.
Excellent article summing up the whole thing and reasons for skepticism about Songtradr, via Pitchfork:
seven years ago today my blood sugar was 877 and i was ten minutes from dead
But now it's doing fine – unless NuHerbie and I have marital issues – and, barring freak turns of nature and/or anvils falling on my head, so am I.
Short recap: lost 40 pounds -> always thirsty, always pissing -> angular face, couldn't move, fire breath -> ER, guess what youve got T1D, ICU for two days, ice chips (motherfucking ice chips), regular hospital for two days -> homecoming, handling 2016 election and Leonard Cohen's death sober, four months of retraining myself to run again (yoga FTW: I'd be lost without my 13 years of it) back in the swing of things -> move forward, one foot at a time, into the years ahead that were nearly gone in ten minutes.
Regular posting marking this personal holiday duly posted and marked. I still hate motherfucking ice chips.
"'I don’t subscribe to the idea that the cover should illustrate the book.’"
Beautiful and intriguing design principles here (via Print Mag):
Time for another social break, rendering this space and MacroParentheticals my only connections to the world. No specific reason – neither a principled stand for or against something or other nor a mental health break – just feels like the right time. Addition of principle nine seems semi-prescient.
