May-June 2022

A list of books, audiobooks, podcasts, television, and more that I am consuming.
A list of achievements, articles, or plans in the shop to showcase my production.

This series also maps my consumer habits: my time on media can lead to more projects and purchases, as well as influences my thoughts.

Consuming

Reading :: Listening :: Watching

Producing

Wanting :: Getting :: Making

What I am Reading this Month:

Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm

The Book: on the taboo against knowing who you are, Allan Watts

Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers

Started: The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord

Started: “The Open Society and Its Enemies” Karl Popper

Article that had an impact:

“Uvalde’s Dads” and “Jocko Homo” by Christina Rees, “Texas when I die” #substack

“Communism, the Manifesto, and Hate” by China Mieville, Salvage

“The Vandal” on Salvador Dali (politics + art) May 2, 2022 • By Kasra Lang in the LARB

“8 Theses on Putin’s Facism for May 9” by Timothy Snyder #newsletter

“How to Get (Unfairly) Lucky in Life” Tim Denning on #medium

What I am listening to this month:

Audio Books:

Children of Dune, Frank Herbert

Harrow the Ninth, Tamyson Miur

Into the Storm, Larry Correia

Podcasts:

99% Invisible

492 Inheriting Froebles’s Gifts (gestalt toys and architects)

Acid Horizon

What do Deleuze and Guatari mean by nomadology?

Philosophy for our times

Asking the ultimate questions about reality. Robert Kuhn

Philosophy Bites

Cecile Fabre on the Ethics of Spying

Philosophize This!

165: The Creation of Meaning: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Other things

The Philosopher’s Zone

sex, death, and chili sauce

Making Sense w Sam Harris

#280 – THE FUTURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Conversation with Eric Schmidt
#281 – WESTERN CULTURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS A conversation with Douglas Murray

Reading McCarthy

ep 25, They Rode On: Stacey Peebles

Tim Ferris

TimFerris with Cal Newport
597 Morgan Fallon

the Daily

The Racist Theory Behind So Many Mass Shootings

The Knowledge Project

138 Luke Burgis, The power of mimetic desire
137 Justin Su’a

The Libertarian (Richard Epstein)

Can Gun Control Prevent Mass Shootings

The Art of Manliness

Podcast #779: The World of the Transcendentalists and the Rise of Modern Individualism
Podcast #760: Cormac McCarthy, The Road, and Carrying the Fire
Podcast #759: To Drink or Not to Drink
Podcast #524: An Old School Boxing Trainer on What It Means to Be a Man

Theory & Philosophy

286 Michel Foucault’s Friendship as a Way of Life
Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution
Dr. Nicole Charles “Suspicion”

Music:

Orville Peck
Harry Styles
Black Keys (Dropout Boogie)
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Lord Huron

What I am watching this month:

See #appletv (recommended)
Outer Range #amazon
The Gentleman #movie #netflix (Guy Ritchie)
Slow Horses #appletv
Russian Doll #netflix (couldn’t finish it)
Tomorrow #korean #netflix
Cake #hulu
code-switch #movie in flight
the French Dispatch #movie in flight (Wes Anderson)
Dr. Strange in the multiverse of madness #movie #theater
The Kingsman #movie in-flight
Fantastic Beasts: three secrets of Dumbledore #movie #theater #harrypotter

Youtube:

Consuming:

What I want:

iVAC blast gates and snap together Duct work

Centrotec chuck system for Festool

A driveway bi-folding gate

What I got:

Finally: Hammer A3-341 Jointer Planer 12″ Combo

This is maybe the most expensive tool I have ever purchased, costing more than my SawStop table saw with the router table extension. However, the Hammer A-3 is two machines in one, and with the price of Jet and Powermatic products jumping, the Hammer was $1,430 LESS than the Jet jointer/planer machine and (from the reviews) is a much better machine.

Also, some ‘astra-coated’ flush trim spiral bits from Katz-Moses tools for an upcoming project.