The Superstar Doesn't Interest Me
On Friday night, the full moon beamed like a proud erection at a summer camp in the 1990s.
On Saturday night, its hue cooled off a few shades yellow and therefore it was more enjoyable to look at.
The takeaway is that the superstar is not always all that interesting.
This week my new ebook has launched. You can pick up your copy here.
Last week I asked you “which pattern do you walk in when you go out?”. Here’s what you said:
My walks include both ritual and newness. I have a creek I like to walk near my house. Sometimes I power walk it. Sometimes I run it. Sometimes I do it counter clockwise. Sometimes I do it in the pouring rain. Sometimes I do it when it's snowing. It's all the same, but it's all different. For me life is only mundane if we allow it to be. - Hans
Zig zag. And then it is more of an amble than a walk - Mike
New walking route every time here. Avoid patterns as much as possible, even if just by walking on the other side of the same old street. - Nadya
Funny enough, I espoused the benefits of walking in a straight line in order to get a longer distance, but this week I found myself retreating to the loop around the block. My thinking is any pattern you pick is better than no pattern. If you can get a walk in after dinner you always feel a bit better.
Cawfee Tawk
Something that I’m wondering about lately is how do you make your afternoons not be a complete waste of time? I’m curious about this because I noticed that if the afternoon becomes a shitshow of procrastination, these bad behaviours spill into the evening until you become caked onto the couch like dog poop embedding itself into the snow, unremovable.
This Week I Learned
A cutting contest was a musical battle between various stride piano players from the 1920s to the 1940s, and to a lesser extent in improvisation contests on other jazz instruments during the swing era….
…Cutting contests are common events at Tap Dance festivals. Rap battles could also be considered a present-day form of the cutting contest.
I would be curious to find a video of this from the 40s, and while YouTube did not deliver on its promise to show me everything, I did find a clip from the TV movie Scott Joplin from 1977 which gives an idea of what the cutting contest would’ve looked like.
Village in the Sky by Elliott
This musical experiment plays with the sounds that you might expect in a virtual world from the early 2000s. Like New Age music with a contemporary twist.
Four Track Snack Pack
This one kicks off with a great afrobeat track by KOKOROKO who i’ve been enjoying lately. The last track, Galaxy, is from a recent compilation by Blue Note called Re:imagined which has younger UK talent reworking classic tracks from the label’s history.
Baby Ayoola - KOKOROKO
A Spire - Tape
Jimmy V - Mary Lattimore
Galaxy - Alfa Mist
Or listen on YouTube.
Well that’s a wrap - enjoy your Sunday and stuff a few bagels in if you get a chance. And buy my book 🤠.
💛 ➰,
Elliott