frozen octopus

Looking back at last weeks music I listened to, these were the one that I could hear in my head when I read through the list:

• Strange Translucent World
• Sonny Rollins Newk’s Time
• Alternative TV The Image Has Cracked/The ATV Collection
• Mary Hopkin Post Card

At first I thought that an artist being “recall” level is too low of a criteria to make a list about. You’d think it would be something like “check out cool drum part” level or something.

Actually an album that I hear once and can survive in my head for almost a week is very impressive.

What are you listening to? Where's the list?

The ¥100 store by our place has a party section. There are really small air pumps that people buy for filling balloons. They make perfect keyboard dust cleaners. Sure beats compressed air cans.

I have a free morning, some espresso, and the energy to start mapping out the 1000s of cats podcast. Very fun going through old folders of our stuff. We did a video podcast a long time ago before Youtube got huge. This podcast is going to be audio this time around.

So Far

• I keep typing "podcats" instead of podcast on accident.
• Mind mapping ideas is absolute fun. Am I into outlining?
• Lots of little things to decide.

Ten years ago macbooks were perfect for winter because they heated up. Summer was kinda rough. Tokyo apartments have no central heat.

Now this laptop is like resting my hands on an icey piece of metal in winter. Summer is nice.

Me vs. resisting the urge to search for writing prompts again today. It is so tempting to go to them. Searching online for "writing prompts" is the surest way to get so far away from actually getting any free writing done.

Took a moment to think about what I would do if I had to free write on drums. I'd start with a simple beat, loop it, and let it naturally morph into something.

So I tried that with the free writing and it worked so well. Took a simple phrase with a blank in it, repeated it, and filled in the blank. I looped...

"Let my mind _________"

I got 750 words of free writing done the quickest I have ever done it. It felt more like free writing too.

Sidenote

I venture to guess people have been doing this exercise forever. Getting to it myself is part of the mental training though.