SPECIAL DOUBLE EDITION: Topics: Home life, pool times, friends visiting, health, shoulders, fingers, blood pressure, the new house, greenhouse, structural engineer, HVAC, flooring, gate repair, electrician, speakers, learning about flooring and compressors and nailers, Jane, kindergarten, reading, tantrums, points, work, twitter unfollowing and tweet deletions, trying to get my book back from crain’s, gardening, squirrels, gardening haul, Plex additions, Henry and June, Masters of Tweak, Tunnelvision, Tim Hacker, Swans, Blackpink, Jen Guidi, Anohni and the JOhnsons, Taylor Swift, Spiritualized, Mountain Goats, Lana Del Rey, Agriculture, J Spaceman and Kid Millions, SIx Organs of Admittance, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Sonic Youth, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mercury Rev, Funeral Party, Yo La Tengo, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, HTRK, Tindersticks, Bongeater, Ramona Lisa, The New Pornographers, Lush, Auburn Lull, Mountain Goats, Sarah Shannon, Hayden, Sonic Youth, Jesus and Mary Chain, Strokes, Georgia Hubley/Little Black Egg, Horze, Bardo Pond, A Certain Ratio, Mark Peters, Bully, Angel Olsen, PJ Ha4rvey, bdrmm, Baxter Dury, Daniel Blumberg, The Reds Pinks and Purples, Ozmotic and Fennesz, Cathedral Bells, Jeromes Dream, Field Music, Transponder, Lloyd Cole, Soft Kill, Sparks, Decisive Pink, James, Water From Your Eyes, James Ellis Ford, Ingrid andress, Downward, leila Moss, Shannon Lay, Brimheim, Pearl and the Oysters, Squid, Purple Disco Machine, Jay Jay Johansen, Transponder, Sopwith Camel, Sigur Ros, Blondshell, Day Wave, Pozi, E., M Ward, Les Hommes Sauvages, Blakmoth, Spirits of Leo, NoSo, Jeanne C Riley, Bahamas, The Burning Paris, On Fire, Alaska Reid, abriction, Film School, Julie Byrne, All hands Make Light, Charlie Martin, Hydroplane, Blur, Colter Wall, Blake Mills, YOU., Bria, The Clientele, Cindytalk, Tricky and Marta, Einsturzende Neubauten, Jenny Mae, Molly Sullivan, Mikaela Davis, Mello Code, Hella, Bas Jan, Zaumne, Oxbor, Guided By Voices, Current 93, Margaret Glaspy, Arnold Dreyblatt, Fiddlehead, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom and Adrian Sherwood, iANO, Carly Rae Jepsen, Achings, George Clanton, Exit Rituals, Sinead O’Connor. Bonnie Prince Billy, The Orb and David Gilmour, TENGGER, Dominique Lawarlrée, Folk Devils, The Cogs of Tyme, The Flying Pickets, Candy Claws, The Ravonettes, Bupkis, The Witcher, Junior Bake Off, Strange New Worlds, The Bear, What We Do in the Shadows, Foundation, Drops of God, Futurama, Shrinking, Good Omens, IOnly Murders in the Building, Twisted Metal, The Afterparty, Ahsoka, Guardians vol 3, John Wick 4, Asteroid City, Turn Every Page, Oppenheimer, Pretty Problems, The Flash, 65, They Cloned Tyrone, Jackie Chan Police Story, Wham!., Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour, Fast X., Three Thousand Years of Longing, The Little Mermaid, The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older, The Wager by David Grann, NC GC Manual, The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, The Great CEO Within by Mark Mochary, Rememberings by Sinead O’Connor, The Trump GA indictment, Anaïs Nin a Sea of Lies by Leonie Bischoff, Are your Dreams 1985 Sizes too Big by Graham Holliday

The thrilling return after a three month absence, with too many albums, movies, shows and books to cover, so mainly rambling about what's been going on these last three months including trips to Alaska, Wilmington, NYC (2), and Maryland (2)

Topics: Gardening, Jane, seeing friends, QNAP rebuilding, Quickbooks for the neighbors pool company, trigger point injections, learning Spanish, kindergarten, room painting, Daddy Jane dance party, work, A Private War, Marathon Man, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Cocaine Bear, seeing Yo La Tengo at Cat’s Cradle, Pulp, Pure Moods, Les Rallizes Denudes, Johnny Cash, Polygon Window, The The, Secret Stars, Medicine, Kacey Musgravews, Mogqwai, Boris, Nick and Warren, Sharon Van Etton, Mitski, The WAEVE, The Angelic Process, Lil Yachty, Laura Lee and the Jettes, Peel Dream Magazine, The Reds Pinks and Purples, Grace Ives, JW Francis, The Pierces, Allison Pierce, US Girls, Screaming Females, Laraaji, Tennis, Margo Price, Mary Elizabeth Remington, basement Apartment, Ruth, Complete Mountain Almanac, Storefront Church, Pan·American, Shame, Cola, Uncle Waffles, Nashville Ambient Ensemble, TTSSFU, Bad Pelicands, Steady Holiday, EKKSTYASY, Constant Smiles, Phil Selway, Parannoul, Animal Ghosts, Godcaster, Tarta Relena, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Flower Face, Ulrika Spacek, FIDLAR, Emiliana Torrini and the Colorist Orchestra, Miserable, Dreambook, Sirom, trauma ray, Cold Gawd, No Sun, Bedlocked, Warmth, Lana Del Rey Star Wars Bad Batch and the Mandalorian, The Last of Us, Letterkenny, Legend of Vox Machina, Star Trek Picard, Poker Face, Taskmaster, Wolf Pack, Great Pottery Throwdown, Marc Maron from Bleak to Dark, Puss in Boots The Last Wish, Cocaine Bear, People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Topics: Doing quickbooks for the neighbors, friends visit, Jane, allergies, picking schools, Going to NYC, drug and alcohol interactions my doctor didn’t tell me about whoops, wet january, work craziness, gardening, the house next door, car shopping, My Little Pony the Movie, Tar, Pina, Tampopo, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, The Whale, Women Talking, Judy, Kieslowski’s Three Colors, Where’d You Go Bernadette, James, Johnette Napolitano, Sylvan Esso, Hamered Hulls, Tindersticks, Aubern Lull, Yo La Tengo, young Fathers, Mogwai, Air, Medicine, Rex, Chisel, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Post-dreifing, JT IV, Drowse, sadness, Alex Winston, Smashing Pumpkins, O Children, Harsh Symmetry, pictoria Vark, SUUNS, Pearla, drdmm, UNI and The Urchins, Zero La Creche, Sweet Homé, Knifeplay, Animal Ghosts, Caroline Polacheck, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Runner, lilac Queen, Giles Corey, The Ting Tings, Celer, Bvdub & Netherworld, Mariee Sioux, Death Valley Girls, Algiers, Star Wars Bad Batch, The Last of Us, Letterkenny, Legend of Vox Machina, SNL, Poker Face, Task Master, State of the Union, the Super Bowl, Wolf Pack, GBBO The Pros, Wakanda Forever, Babylon, Jung-E, Somebody I Used to Know, People’s History of the United States

Topics: Colonoscopy wooo, CAT Scan, heart shit, work work work work work, NYC Wednesday, Bonfire, Neighbors and smores, Jane texting, Jane and learning, emotions, periodic table, Gardening, Kindle Scribe, Babylon, Bubba Ho Tep, Wakanda Forever, Freeway, Lily 4-ever, The Menu, Peral, X, Wings of Desire, Halber Mehsch, The White Room, Tetsuo The Iron Man, The Player, In the Mood for Love, Eternal Daughter, EO, Salvation!, The Farewell, Sholay, Titane, Putney Swope, Encanto, Bonnie and Cluyde, Spiritualized, Mojave 3, Victory at Sea, Mich Harvey, Samia, John Cale, Nation of Language, Liela Moss, PTERODAN, Au Suisse, Castlebeat, Revenge Body, Meule, Material Issue, Belle and Sebastian, Final, iggy Pop, Guided by Voices, Young Fathwers, Ladytron, Mary Cassidy, Danielle Ponder, atmos bloom, Blush Response & Warm, Perla, LA Timpa, Have a Nice Life, deathcrash, No Sun, H.C. McEntire, Laura Stevenson, Bara Gisladottir, Oren Ambarchi, The Dream Eatwers, Caterina Barbieri, The Soft Pink Truth, Sirom, Pan·American, Labaradford, Sam Prekop and John McEntire, Diamanda Galas, Breadwinner, His Dark Materials, Star Wars Bad Batch, The Witcher Blood Origin, The Last of Us, Legend of Vox Machina, Letterkenny, SNL, Poker Face, Task Master, RRR, All Quiet on the Western Front, EO, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Topics: New York trip, seeing my friends, COVID!, quarantine, New Year’s, late Christmas, more quarantine!, Jane, Gardening, Year-end tasks, GMHHAY book, FOxy Brown, Sting Bring on the Night, Serenity, Brother of Sleep, Un Coeur en Hiver, Cries and Whispers, Lord of the Rings, Chunking Express, Highlander, Low, Nick Cave, Babyland, Spell, Coil, Underground Lovers, Shellac, SoiSong, high Vis, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Bob Dylan, Anaïs Nin, Bebe and Louis Barron, Holy Fawn, Ya Ho Wa and the Source Family, Xymox, Einsturende Neubauten, Secret Stars, Stars of the lid, Skullcrusher, Wilco, Brightblack Morning light, Caroline Rose, Hedwig Mollestad and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Weyes Blood, Cerebrus Shoal, Birds in Row, Philip Glass Anthony Fiumara and Slagwek Dan haag, Spelling, Distohi-Q, 100 gecs, Jesu, The Nakedc and the Famous, The Cure, 94MillionMilesFromTheSun, 36 & zekè, Greg Dulli, Rachgika Nayar, Old Sea Brigade, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Edward Elgar et al, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Automatic, lee Tracy and Isaac Manning, Drugdealer, Devil's Cross Country, The Smile, Grilo, CASTLEBEAT, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, NoSo, Harry Flynt, Angel Dean and Sue Garnder, The True Faith, dodie, Enumclaw, Tombstones in their Eues, Doused, His Dark Materials, Bad Sisters, Willow, My Next Guest with Volodymyr Zelensky, Slow Horses, Star Wars Bad Batch, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Benedetta, We're All Going to the World's fair, Glass Onion, Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, The Banshees of Inisherin, Triangle of Sadness, The Fabelmens, Amsterdam, TÀR, Bullet Train, Decision to Leave, Aftersun, The Woman King, After Yang, Confess Fletch, Kimi, The Eternal Daughter, Cha Cha Real Smooth, White Noise, Bones and All, Meet Me In The Bathroom, Troll, Sr., Don't Worry Darling, Pale Blue Eye, Chip War by Chris Miller, Bunnyman by Will Sergeant, The White Wall by Emily Flitter, Parable of the Sower by octavia Butler, the Jan 6 Report

Topics: Thanksgiving, Christmas, The toilet pedal, garage reoganization, clock repair, Jane, work, gardening, overwintering peppers, Pauls Blu Rays: The Big TNT Show, The TAMI Shit, Chef, Far from the Madding Crowd, Nightmare before Christmas, Pearl Jam 20, Fantastic Mr Fox, All About Eve, What’s Up Doc, Inglorious Basterds, Leon the Professional, Kill Bill vols 1 and 2, The Searchers, Zodiac, Night of the Demon, Chimes at Midnight, Oceans 11 and 13, Moonstruck, The Killing, Moneyball, Elf, Killer’s Kiss, Casablanca, The Godfathert, Forrest Gump, Lettwers to Juiliet, The Philadelphia Story, To Be or Not To Be, Charley Varrick, Homicidal, The Innocents, urgh! A Music War, Police Story 1 and 2, 13 Ghosts, Other Blu Ray: Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue, Cloak and Daggwer, Lord of the Rings in 4k, Benedetta, Music: Spell, The New Atlantis, Hayden, Sonic Boom and Panda Bear, The Sundays, Saint Etienne, CIndytalk, Barry Lipman, Underground Love4rs, Bootblacks, Aghast, Sault, Brad Laner, Leah Callahan, First Aid Kit, PVA, Paul Natale, Warmth, Deru, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jay Jay Johansen, Black Dresses, Lycia, Mary Cassidy and Chris Standring, Golden Dawn Arkestra, Mike Plume Band, MorMor, Doug Hilsinger and Caroleen Beatty, Ruth, Colder, sua, Slowly, Tight Boys from Way Back When, Christine Perfect, Christine McVie, Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham, Converge & Chelsea Wolfe, Andor, Great British Bake Off, The Peripheral, The Crown, SNL, Wednesday, Rick and Morty, Black Adam, Fast Forward by Stephen Morris, Capitalism Realism by Mark Fisher

Topics: Politics, Elon and Twitter, SBF and FTX, missing shows, Jane, Jane’s birthday, Halloween, going to a party, Gardening, Seed organization, new workbench, work, Santa Sangre, Top Gun Maverick, The Big Chill, Seven, Electric Dreams, Porrige Radio, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Stereolab at Cat’s Cradle, Taylor Swift’s Midnights, Nitcher Ebb, Cocteau Twins, Tom Waits, Peter Murphy, Godflesh, Rainy Day, Dead Can Dance, Anaïs Nin, Louis and Bebe Barron and the mysterious bootlegging of Bells of Atlantis/House of Incest, Jon Brion and his cover of Waterloo Sunset that’s forever etched in my brain, the connection between Jon Brion and Anaïs Nin via the Corona Theater, Alaska Tapes, Kathryn Mohr, Stargazer Lillies, Carly Rae Jepsen, Suede, Tindersticks, Here it Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, Daniel Lanois, The Morelings, Orange Yellow Red, Visiting Diplomats, 93MillionMilesFromTheSun, Lucrecia Dalt, Nelson Angelo and Joyce Moreno, Alice Bowman, Fin Del Mundo, Ane Brun, Sting, Babehoven, Dear Nora, Plains, THUS LOVE, Sault, Love and Rockets, Beggars Archive reissues, Skullcrusher, Bonny Light Horseman, Lacing, Indigo Sparke, Dry Cleaning, Telescopes, Big Joanie, Maren Morris, dreamcastmoe, Will Sheff, Tylder Childers, envy, Mike Plume Band, Pearla, Resident Alien, House of the Dragon, Star Trek Lower Decks, Andor, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, Great British Bake Off, The End is Nye, The Peripheral, Doctor Who, Tales of the Jedi, The Crown, Sting Bring on the Night, Dracula Sucks, Sex World, Warewolf By Night, Cloak and Dagger, Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings and Rankin/Bass’s The Hobbit, Faith Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagen, The Return of the King Appendices revisit, Fast Forward by Stephen Morris

Topics: Friends visiting, meeting neighbors, truck rides, Hurricane Ian, tree falling, Trip to NYC, Jane, Gardening so much gardening, Work, Stereolab, The Last Movie, Bad News Bears, Star Trek I-VI, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cannonball Run, Avengers, Heat, Harry Potter and JK Rowling’s latest awful comments, Andy Warhol’s Dracula, Real Genius, True Romance, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Peanuts Holiday Collection in 4k and whether you can tell it’s in 4k, The Northman, Lost Boys, Mike Figgis’ Miss Julie and that guy who plays James Delos and Durin Sr in Rings of Power, Until the End of the World 5-hour version, Henry and June, River’s Edge, Blow Up, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Long Day’s Journey into the Nihgt, Oblivion, Half-Cocked, Ian Svevonius and his weird resurgence in David J’s Instagram this week, Dumbo, Serenity, Scandal the movie with John Hurt not the TV show(s), The Image, Sting Bring on the Night, Damage, River’s Edge, A History of Violence, Thor Love and Thunder, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Bilitis, Les Mille et Une Perversions de Felicia, Maid in Sweden, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak, The Perils of Gwendoline and the Land of the Yik Yak as a racist influence on the MCU and Kamar-Taj, The Story of O2, the sequel, which doesn’t even have Udo Kier in it, then a long thing about Udo Kier, Dead Can Dance, Laika, Springsteen, Lou Reed, Archers of Loaf, Karate, Codeine, This is now a Jeff Lipton fan podcast, Ethel Cain, SG Goodman, Alyeska/Alaska Reid, Iceage, The Beths, Beth Orton, Maya Hawke, Built to Spill, Rina Sawayam, No Age, Worshipper, Automatic, Lambchop, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bjork, Pixies, Melvins, High Vis, Flaming Lips, 36, Titus Andronicus, Flaming Lips, Desmond Doo, Wilco, presents for sally, Kraus, Resplender, Freezepop, Fujiya & Mijagi, Gilla Band, Makaya McCraven, True Faith, Magic Shoppe, Sam Prekop, Gloria de Oliviera and Dean Hurley, Alvvays, Use Knife, The Stargazer Lillies, Plastic Mermaids, ALASKALASKA, The Brat, Brian Eno, Bill Callahan, Michael Mayer, Trio and Trio II by Emmylou Harris Linda Rondstat and Dolly Parton, Resident Alien, She-Hulk, House of the Dragon, Junior Bake Off, Rings of Power, Andow, Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, Great British Bake Off, Rick and Morty, The End is Nye, Blonde, Total Recall, Nineteen Reservoirs by Lucy Sante, Identity Economics by George A Akerlof and Rachel Kranton and Narrative Economics by Robert Shiller

TOPICS: Day 928, Ford F150 Lightning, Spiritualized and Nick’s Visit, New Order and Pet Shop Boys, trip to Columbia, visiting Mia, Jason, David, Keith, Liisa, Boosters, Vaccines, Doctors, Jane, gardening, Plex HD up-rezzing, Gewgaly and Thou, Thouh and Mizmor, Thou, Underground Lovers, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Bright Eyes, Interpol, The Cure, Gloria Record, Half Cocked Soundtrack, HTRK, Afghan Whigs, George Fitzgerals, Looming, Rotary Connection, Minnie Ripperton, Have a Nice Life, Genghis Tron, Holy Fawn, Christopher Willits, Jockstrap, Gladie, PONY, Oliver Sim, Gloria De Oliveira & Dean Hurley, Jefferson Starship, Amesoeurs, Belladeste, Forgiveness, 40 Watt Sun, What We Do in the Shadows, Resident Alien, She-Hulk, Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War, Star Trek Lower Depths, House of the Dragon, Junior Bake Off, Rings of Power, Andor, Nope, Heat, Thor Love and Thunder, Cannonball Run, In the Realm of the Senses, Rick Perlstein’s history of conservatism books

Topics: Day 907, Emma in Atlanta, Road trip planning, Holiday in chatham with Jane, gardening, Justice League, Florida Project, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, The Exorcist, Wild in the Streets, Bad News Bears, Margaret’s Museum, Non, Railway Children, Minor Victories, Big Hat, Coil, Mono, Lucius, Mountain Goats, Laika, Breathless, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, Norma Jean, Connie Converse, The Oh Sees, 40 Watt Sun, Danger Mouse, Stella Luna, Pia Fraus, The Telescopes, Cassandra Jenkins, Guerilla Toss, Stephen Mallinder, Death Bells, Cass McCombs, Charlotte Adigery & Boris Pupul, Justin Broderick, JK Flesh, Gnod, Jesu, Final, Tech Level 2, ALASKALASKA, Hot Chip, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Muse, SRSQ, The Chats, Royksopp, Russian Circles, Westworld, Only Murders in the Building, Resident Alien, What We Do In the Shadows, She-Hulk, Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War, House of the Dragon, Star Trek Lower Depths, The End is Nye, Junior Bake Off, Rings of Power, Mehyô, Rogue One, Spin Me Round, Inside the Mind of a Cat, Top Gun Maverick, Before the Storm, Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge and Reaganland by Rick Perlstein

Topics: Day 888, Eye doctor, Pool timez, fairy party, marinara, chili powder, Jane, gardening, LFO, The Beach Bum, Sun Kil Moon, Kellis, Bauhaus, Eurythmics 1984 soundtrack, Lloyd Cole, Cocteau Twins Box One, Olivia Newton John, Rogue One Soundtrack. Bad Brains, Julien Baker, Santigold, Screaming Trees, Gia Margaret, Hor, Oxbow, lil Ugly Mane, Artificial Brain, Cave In, Gastr Del Sol, Chat Pile, Florist, Of Montreal, Beyonce, Wet, DC Gore, Seedsmen to the World, Sabrina Claudio, Working Men’s Club, Jane Inc., Brijean, Manchester Orchestra, Mail Grab, Orville New Horizons, Westworld, The Bear, Only Murders in the Building, Light and Magic, What We Do in the Shadows, Sandman, Jurassic World Dominion, Top Gun, Prey, Corporate Rock Sucks the Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland, The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein, Nixonland by Rick Perslstein

Topics; Day 866, New York Trip, Jenna, Jenna’s Book Party, Eva, Derek Dorothy Karen and Felix, Tom Rose Jussi Mea and Jesse, the drive, the interstate system, Jane, diet, nicotine, work, gardening, squirrel battles, cucumber harvests, donating to the food bank, planting more stuff, Cronos (1993), Lush, Bright Eyes, Suicide (the band), Johann Johannsson & Yair Elazer Glotman, Mountain Goats, Skullcrusher, James, Guided by Voices, Topographies, M!R!M, Interpol. Mogwai, Alan Parsons and Andy, Philip Glass, Wola Jesus Jim Thirwell and the Movos Quartet, Chat Pile, SST Records, Minutemen, Stains, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, Saint Vitus, Dicks, Black Flag, Würm, Ms Marville, Orville New Horizons, Jan 6 Committee, Westworld, The Bear, Only Murders in the Building, Nick Cave This Much I Know To Be True, Lightyear, Party Monster, The Truman Show, Recorder the Marion Stokes Project, Rough Draft by Katy Tur, Corporate Rock Still Sucks the Rise and Fall of SST Records bu Jim Ruland

Topics: Day 853, July 4th, Pool party, heat, rain, neighbors, New York trip planned, diet, no nicotine, Jane, Jane sick, Jane vaccination, gardening, work, The Wide Sargasso Sea, Recorder the Marion Stokes Project, Limelight, Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, The Northman, Everything Everywhere All At Once, True Romance, The Virgin Suicides, Spiderman Into the Spiderverse, 4K UHD Blu Rays having the extras mastered in 4k, Bright Eves, Orba, Hercules and Love Affair, Calexico, Elis Regina, WhoMadeWho, Roliça, Këkht Aräkh, Part Time, Joan Shelley, No-No Bpy, Blut Aus Nord, White Ward, Regrettes, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Regina Spektor, Medicine, Timbuk 3, Erich Bachmann and Jon Raunhouse, Carly Paradis, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Vic Chesnutt, Zola Jesus, Tempers, Embryo, Sleaford Mods, Metric, Die Haut, Wedding Present, Cranes, Hot Chip, Soccer Mommy, Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Ms Marvel, Stranger Things, The Boys, God’s Favorite Idiot, Umbrella Academy, Step Brothers, Crimes of The Future, Freedom’s Laboratory by Audra J Wolfe, The Club King by Peter Gatien, Rough Draft by Katy Tur

Topics: Day 839, Chatham heat Waves, Covid Peaking, Jan 6 Committe, Supreme Court BS, It’s been hard, NYC Trip planning, flying sucks, AK trip planning, Jane, Gardening, Victoria and Abdul, Another Round, The Batman, Lego Movie Second Part, Meanwhile, Walter Hus, Bee Gees, Tears for Fears and Garbage live in Charlotte, Bright Eyes, Blanck Mass, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, neu Wax Trax, Jane’s Addiction, Flaming Lips, Sun’s Signature, James, Vox Low, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Calla, Ride, Freezepop, Wilco, Weird Nightmare, Julee Cruise, Shearwater, Andrew Bird, Trementina, Deafcult, Florist, Bartees Strange, Yaya Bey, Perfume Genius, Hercules and Love Affair, Neneh Cherry, 700 Bliss, Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, Magma, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Stars, Muna, Kids in the Hall, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, The Orville, Ms Marvel, Stranger Things, The Boys, Moonfall, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, How The World Really Works by Vaclav Smil, My Body by Emily Ratajkowski, Freedom’s Laboratory by Audra J Wolfe

Topics: Day 825, Trip to Salem and Boston, The Drive, The Wedding, The grave, Portland, Salem, Somerville, Airbnbs, playgrounds, the birthday party, the Mike Gill memorial, friends, the drive home, the garden, gardening, Jane, car shopping catching up on sleep, No Man’s Sky challenge, writing, Hal Hartley’s Flirt, Amateur and Leitmotif, The Lego Movie The Second Part, The Batman, Flaming Lips, Shout it out Loud music, Florence and the Machine, Bark Psychosis, Peter Murphy, Riki, Angel Olsen, Porridge Radio, The Sundays, Helium, Mercury Rev, Damn Personals, The Mountain Goats, Mogwai, Spice, Bright Eyes, Jesus and Mary Chain, Rosalia, Rachels, Strand of Oaks, Justice, the Magnetic Fields, Alabaster DePlume, Kendrick Lamar, Kevin Morby, Suzanne Vega, Eddice Cachon, Joan Armtrading, Aoife O’Donovan, Adam Ant, Turnstile, Shirley Collins, Craig Finn, mxmtoon, movietone, Just Mustard, Bruce Hornsby, Aaron and the Lord, Harry Styles, !!!, Lykke Li, Young Prisms, Deserta, Kids in the Hall, Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Trek Strange New Worlds and TOS, The Orville New Horizons, Halo, Ms Marvel, Jan 6 Committee Hearing, Fantastic Beasts Secrets of Dumbledore, The Northman, Morbius, Lost City, Saint Etienne I’ve Been Trying to Tell You Movie, Everything EVerywherer All At Once, Exit Stage Left by Nick Duerden, How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

Topics: Day 795, RIP Mike Gill, turning fifty, trip planning, haircut, voting, Wegovy, Jane, work, gardening, Discogs Sales; Third Eye Blind, Sound from hands, Kindred Spirits, Spiritualized, Kylie, Ultra Vivid Scene, Plex: Alita Battle Angel, Albums: Fontaines DC, Maren Morris, Coil, Sharon Van Etten, Wolfgang Press, Metrick, Johnny Cash, Arcade Fire, Sheila Divine, Seefeel, Thalia Zydek Band, Damn Personals, La Monte Yong, Cannons, Dan Reader, Rumors, molly Nillsson, Tombstones in their Eyes, Astrud GIlberto, Brijean, Wayfarer, Starcrawler, Plastic Mermaids, Tomberlin, The Arcade Fire, Billy Bragg, Petwer Perrett, Wendy James, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Yard Act, Alabaster DePlume, Outer Range, Russian Doll, Old Enough, The Pentaverate, Saturday Night Live, Moon Knight, Halo, Star Trek Picard, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Star Trek The Original Series, Dinosaurs the Final Day, Jupiter Ascending, Star Trek the Motion Picture, The Bond King by Mary Childs, Origin by Jennifer Raff, Exit Stage Left by Nick Duerden

Topics: Day 774, Magnetic Fields at Fletcher Opera Hall Raleigh, Emma’s Birthday, Quarantine times, Wegovy and diet, longest without nicotine in 26 years, Jane, writing, gardening, Apple Studio Display, Can you Ever Forgive Me? Friday Foster, Spliice, Mr. Nobody, HTRK, Haley Bonar, Ben’s discogs buy, Hafler Trio, Brian Eno, KMFDM/Thrill Kill Kult, Swans, Leonard Cohen, Einsturzende Neubauten, Rockets Cartogrphaer 7”, Britney, Coil, Bright Eyes, Wet Leg, Brightblack Morning Light, Marissa Nadler, KLF, Fuxa, Experimental Audio Research, Teardrop Explodes, Psychic TV, Lana Del Rey, Wolfgang Press, Fad Gadget, Tears for Fears, Spiritualized, Chistian Lee Hutson, Soul Glo, Rosalia, L’Impératrice, 3rd Secret, Kraus, Tom Caruana, Ofege, Atin Gün, David Ross Benson aka Rhythm Fiction, The Geraldine Fibbers, Ben Palmer/INSTALLER, Start Trek Picard, Halo, Saturday Night Live, Wellington Paranormal, The Morning Show, Moon Knight, Who Killed the KLF, THE BATMAN, Allow me to Retort by Elie Mystal, The Hours before Dusk by Jenna Matecki, Run Toward the Danger by Sarah polley, The Bond King by Mary Childs

Topics: Day 760, Jane allergies, doctor, blood draw and sickness, Kitty emergency, Magnetic Fields this weekend, Boston trip excitement, UNC in the final four, cherry blossoms! Diet, Gardening, Let them All Talk (2020), Coffy (1973), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Moonlighting, Mildred Pierce, Boymerang, Ian McCullouch, The Verve, Spacemonkeys v Gorillaz, Bangles, Modest Mouse, Tindersticks, Mogwai, Sinead O’Connor, Slingbaum, Reach the Rock soundtrack, Fuxa, Emma Ruth Rundle, Bill Nelson, Twin Tribes, Black Eels, Hercules & Love Affair, Paula Cole, Caroline, English Teacher, Mattiel, Star Trek Picard, SNL, Our Flag Means Death, Severance, Wellington Paranormal, Morning Show, Halo, Moon Knight, Bubble, Twilight, Olivia Rodrigo Driving Home 2 U, Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal

Topics: Day 746, visitors and Jane playdate, travel plans, BA2, Uncle Ed, Diet, Doctor’s Appointments, Powerwall Installation, Jane, potty training, “I can take care of myself,” Kitty drawings, work, GDC, Spotify migration progrsss, GMHHAY book, GMHHAY book 2, book royalties, Matrix Resurrections, Wolf Warrior 2, The Cure, Ladytron, The Sundays, Leonard Cohen, Goldfrap, Cherry Glazerr, Oneida, Jesus and Mary Chain, Miranda Sex Garden, Elegy, Liz Nikrenz, Variety Lights, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hana Vu, Bauhaus, Loop, Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek Picard, Rick and Morty, Satureday Night Live, Raised by Wolves, Resident Alien, Our Flag Means Death, Severance, Phoenix Rising, Upload, Spiderman No Way Home, Turning Red, Ali Wong Don Wong, Licorice Pizza, The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier