May-June 2023

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.

What I am Reading this Month:

Flatline Constructs, Mark Fisher (still at it, very slowly)

A Spectre Haunting, China Mieville

Articles

New York Times

• Why Chick-fil-A Is Drawing Fire Over a ‘Culture of Belonging’
• What Belongs in Your Survival Kit, From 8 People Who Know Something About Disasters
• “Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer” Teju Cole

Irvine Welsh, “the betrayal of white working class Men” UnHerd

The Hyperpalatable Human: What Al-generated burger adverts tell us about male-to-male transsexuals [[MARY HARRINGTON]] #article

What I am listening to this month:

Audio Books:

The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

Khaos, Jeremy Robinson

Hellbent, Gregg Hurwitz

Podcasts:

Acid Horizon

• William S. Burroughs — “The Limits of Control” and Its Influence on Deleuze
• Data Is Dead Labor — Capitalism, Ideology, and AI
• Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal Session 2 [[Deleuze and Guattari]] [[1,000 platueas]]

The Knowledge Project (Shane Parish)

• 164 Ravi Gupta — the Realities of Success

No Stupid Questions

• Should We Replace Umpires With Robots?

Outsider Theory

• The Automation of Midwittery With Brian Chau

Philosophize This!

• Episode #179 … Why Is Consciousness Something Worth Talking About?

The Daily

• When the Culture Wars Came for NASA

The Rich Roll Podcast

• Decoding Transformation — Presence Is the Residence of Potential

The Tim Ferris Show

• 644 — Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind, How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, and How to Lose Anger by Studying Morality
• 669 — Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living

You Must Remember This

• Charlie Manson’s Hollywood

Music:

• Beach boys
• Pink Floyd
• Daft Punk
• Ween
• Julian Plenti
• Wolfmother

What I am streaming this month:

• I think you should leave #Netflix #comedy
• American Ultra #movie
• Saturday Night Fever #movie
• Inside Llewin Davis (Coehn Bros) #recommended
• Silicone Valley #HBO

Consuming:

What I want:

Just waiting for my Meticulous Espresso maker to come in

What I got:

• “High John, the Conqueror” #book
• two books on survival #survival
• Shure RK345 Windscreen for SM7, SM7A, and SM7B (Spare Part) #audio #podcast plosive reduction
• tiny tape measure (keychain)
• puck box for #espresso
• Fellow Clara French Press (20% off sale)
• Oral B io toothbrush ($78)

What I produced:

Podcasts:

Step 74: Symbolic Victory

Step 75: Holy to Holy S***

Life Stuff

I started a mural at the office in Birmingham. I went back to TX for my nephew’s graduation.

Belly Button Lint

I have also kept up with my daily posts to my naval gazing blog.
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