Sunday 11:12AM
Snow is coming down hard.
A lovely hygge feeling with slippers and coffee. Trying to avoid the thought of the midnight airport pickup I have to do later.
Jan 1 was a full day of reflection and a general sentiment of anti-work. Protected by a blacked-out calendar and aided by tea, fleece pajamas and emotionally resonant movies like Perfect Days in which I tried to map the main character's daily schedule:
5AM Wake and water plants
6AM Buy vending machine coffee, drive to job cleaning Tokyo's public toilets
12PM Lunch and photographs in the park
1PM Finish work
4PM Bike to onsen
5PM Sumo on TV in the onsen lounge
6PM Ramen-ya dinner
8PM Reading
Beautiful.
I may watch it every New Year's Day.
January 2nd began the push to finalize the DL;BR-o-sphere across the Internet. A satisfying feeling of things coming together. Even though this is a one-man operation, it finally feels like all hands are on deck.
How long has it been? Fifteen years in the making? Making what? The thing, waiting for it to reveal itself, I guess. Sometimes it only comes out after waiting for fifteen or so odd years, hiding behind distraction, misdirection and failed experiments.
To abuse the hoarder-house metaphor further, it feels like I’ve scraped the last of the calcified mayonnaise from the fridge door and can move on to bringing order to the final chaotic dark bedrooms.
Next week, there'll be new things to announce. Links to share, music to finish. I'm meeting with Brazil (the band) to talk about the long lost record. Working on a lathe vinyl project. Working on a glass etching project. Working on a back catalog reissue project. Starting up guitar lessons. The 11th marks the end of the Tied Hands tour (for me), and I owe Fixation Arc a couple of songs.
But ~
One thing at a time.
Focusing on what is now.
Next time is next time.
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Substack coming soon...
What I’m reading: WINNING IS FOR LOSERS (Limited press novella by Bill Drummond)
What I'm listening to: Marseilles (Ahmad Jamal)
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