Apparently, this is my 700th post on this blog so I thought I’d celebrate by stealing an idea from Delilah S. Dawson and put together a guide for my books.
“All I am is shreds of doubt”
I almost saw The National live but the day of the gig I ended up in the Emergency Department trying to work out whether I was dying.
I Wrote Something
I wrote something. 2290 words. Unfortunately, it was 2290 words on the wrong thing.
Out Now – Shallow Waters Paperback Edition
Carlos pulled a chunky cellphone out of his pocket. He stared at the screen for a moment, a pensive look on his face.
“I can see you don’t approve”
I forget where I discovered Johnette Napolitano’s “Exquisite Corpses” album but I remember bouncing off it the first time I listened to it. I think it was because there’s a few spoken word, story tracks that are very distracting if I’m trying to work to music.
And then the randomization genie on Apple Music served me up this track. I found the album again and gave it another listen. Now I’m hooked.
More AI nonsense
I’m continuing to have fun asking Microsoft’s Bing search how many Ns there are in mayonnaise. This is the latest attempt… Every time I try this question Bing seems to … Read More
Music for Writing [Part II]
I’ve been using Apple Music to build up a writing playlist for a long time now and it currently stands at 2326 song or 4.5 days of music. That’s pretty good. Of course, I quite often jump to my favourite albums and I listen to them over and over a lot of the time. There have been a few cases recently where I started listening to the soundtrack for a film before I’d seen it and listened to it so much that it made the film seem very familiar.
“See it. Say it. Sort It.”
This was recorded on a phone in a noisy British train station so the quality is hit and miss but it’s well worth persevering through the public announcer at the beginning.