drake is the millennial david bowie
1. wearing loop silicon ear plugs underneath my bose noise-cancelling headphones (the double-wrapped condom of noise blocking, both in the most obvious joke sense and also in the sense that i don't think combining them actually makes them better at blocking noise). temporarily replacing smoking/vaping with edibles which is much better than sobriety but kind of weird at scale it feels like instead of agile-ly steering a little motor boat with a puff puff puttering engine you're at the wheel of a big ship with the knowledge that the 1.5 degree (/ 30 mg) rotation you're making now won't fully manifest for hours and will surely be affected by other environmental variables in the intervening period. the strange but (thankfully) not painful sensation of feeling things swell and shift in my sinus cavity in the place where the root of the tooth had been.
2. novelty candy impulse buy of mini reese's cups with reese's puffs inside them (a miniature mutation of the original concept embedded within another miniature representation of the original). i will always love postmodernism but jury is out on these particular candies because when i went to test one last night (for science) it was hot enough inside the house to undermine the structural integrity of the candy which, because textural contrast feels like the defining formal characteristic of this variant, makes me feel it's not fair to assess them yet and have put them in the fridge to re-solidify. also cookie dough twix. also i had an extra large slice of the raspberry ricotta cake deborah made which is as good as ever and she says it's also a very low effort cake to make. we got miso a new dental bone and she isn't being a total asshole about it (yet).
2. novelty candy impulse buy of mini reese's cups with reese's puffs inside them (a miniature mutation of the original concept embedded within another miniature representation of the original). i will always love postmodernism but jury is out on these particular candies because when i went to test one last night (for science) it was hot enough inside the house to undermine the structural integrity of the candy which, because textural contrast feels like the defining formal characteristic of this variant, makes me feel it's not fair to assess them yet and have put them in the fridge to re-solidify. also cookie dough twix. also i had an extra large slice of the raspberry ricotta cake deborah made which is as good as ever and she says it's also a very low effort cake to make. we got miso a new dental bone and she isn't being a total asshole about it (yet).
3. the song "star guitar" by the chemical brothers, which we were listening to in bed yesterday and which i first heard in college and have loved for a long time but had no idea until i just looked it up this very moment that it's called "star guitar" because it's built around a sample from david bowie's "starman" (also putting a pin in a take i keep meaning to return to which is that drake is the millennial david bowie). other great wikipedia i learned: "fatboy slim revealed in 2012 that he had been asked to remix the song upon its release, but turned down the offer owing to his opinion that the song could not be improved". it is such a beautiful composition, sheets of gossamer pad texture like sun rays through skylights, cycled arpeggiating of a single note, filter sweeps overlapping other filter sweeps overlapping other filter sweeps like ocean waves colliding and combining in the shallows at the beach, the chanted invocation "you should what feel what i feel, you should take what i take" which in my cult would be a core principle.
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