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.
Reading :: Listening :: Watching
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:
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 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.
What I produced:
Podcasts:
DIY Stuff
Mudded the loft walls, painted them, installed the polycarbonate windows, installed shelves in the loft.


Other Life Events
Went to Los Angeles with John Frost
Went to the LACMA, Broad, MOCA, MOCA Geffen, and Hauser & Wirth
Concert: The Rural Alberta Advantage
Contracted COVID (This is my first time to have it, so I lasted since March 2020: 26 months)
Finally got the septic permit
Had two Garage Sales, moved all my crap out of storage, giving a trailer to my neighbor who is moving to South Dakota















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