So I love writing, and it hit me whilst trying to bed that a blog, on my own couple of centimeters of the internet, would probably be received without hostility.
No big thoughts raced me from the bed to the couch tonight, so, I guess I can tell you about a book and some music.
Once in a while I’m so taken with a book I choose to read it twice. (That’s usually because first read was digital, thus, lots of the second go around-always in physical form-is quite a surprise.) This is this year’s first re-read. I think I read it round about the time it initially came out.
I won’t try and sell you on it, besides whatever BookPeople has to say about it. I think they’re right. "Better to Have Gone," by Akash Kapur
Lately I’ve been really digging into Dolby Atmos for music (or Spatial Audio). It’s basically music that’s mixed to seem like it’s coming from as many as 7 different places. You can get an extremely complex home theater setup for that, or you can invest in some nice headphones for it. (I’ve done the latter.)
There’s a slowly-filling ocean out there of truly remarkable stuff; I’ve tried to push myself to listen to truly brand new stuff instead of just drooling at how amazing the stuff I know to an atomic level (i.e., all three original Jimi Hendrix Experience albums 🤯) sounds.
Here’s an Apple Music link to the one I stumbled across that’s got me most taken. It’s by a guy named Max Cross, and it truly is a remarkable experience. Even without the fancy ‘cans it’s pretty amazing music. Not that this is what attracted to to it, but he did it around particular emotional experiences his fans were wondering about.
Oh and since this is my professional site and all, I should prob include something professional. We’ve just started reading this in our book club. I guess you sort of get deep enough into your profession-I guess, one can hope to!-that they can say with deep sincerity describe a pretty dense, very obscure book as “thrilling,” but that’s where we land with this one. It’s rich, wise and wastes no words.
As so many things are, learning is best done in groups.
Okay thanks for rolling along.