frozen octopus

I just got my music list filtering so music from this decade is popping up for me. I have date filters setup in the MusicBox app for each decade now.

The goal is to listen to at least one album from this decade more.  If I listen to an album from the past, there is an easy list to pull from.

Sidenote...I have no problem with current music per se. The way I find stuff to listen tends to surface stuff from before more than now.

Started back into writing 750 words a day when I wake up. The tasks I do after writing are noticably different. Better commenting, less on my mind, and hands are warmed up.

BUT I have used a writing prompt two days in a row and I've fallen into the same pattern both days.

1. A large chunk of junk that sounds like I am writing ad copy that doesn't sound like me.
2. A section of me complaining that I used a writing prompt.
3. A section of gibberish free writing that makes no sense.
4. Then out of  the gibberish some idea I like crawls out of the slime and I start getting stoked to keep writing.

I need to make a writing prompt that tells me to stop using a writing prompt and just write some noise.

A rough one yesterday. Found out right before our show our recording got cancelled because our friend who is engineering severely injured his back and can't travel. Which means he can't do the show we set up for him. Scrambling to find another band to fill the spot.

Then a fight broke out at our show. Couldn't enjoy the other bands dealing with the situation.

Just gotta bounce back.

Looking back on the week, the overarching theme seemed to be balancing discipline with joy and prioritization. There was a lot of focus on tweaking of the flows. Songs for 1000s of cats, to-do app/gtd, and even wiki for work all got smoothed out.

There was an undercurrent of appreciating control and structure to achieve goals.

Music

Listened to so many amazing albums this last week. There were a few that had some whoa-ments.

At the Five Spot Vol. 1 
Eric Dolphy feat. Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis & Ed Blackwell 

Dissonance rules. This album has dissonance wonderfully blended with sweetness and sadness. I love live jazz album that make you feel like you are in a tiny club.

In the Land of Grey and Pink 
Caravan

Columbia Singles 
Susan Christie

These two albums came out decades before their times. From what I read about both is that people completely didn't get it when they were released. It's like two indie albums hatched way before the rest of the eggs.

One of my nods to an album that is genius is to switch from Music to Podcasts.