laze.net - Occasional Weeknote #4

Weeknote #4, it’ll leave you asking for more.

I’m break things out a bit into a couple more categories that make sense.

Media Notes

I finished reading John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis. It’s a great read and will infuriate you even more about the inequities in global health care. I started reading Natsume Sōseki’s Kusamakura. I loved Sanshiro and The Gate and so far I’m really enjoying the gentle poetic nature of this one as well.
Music recs
- Some music (videos) that really drew me in (gotta give props to the YouTube algorithm for these discoveries): Igorrr’s “Blastbeat Falafel,” “Very Noise,” “ADHD,” (AI-generated, but it feels appropriate, somehow?), and “My Chicken’s Symphony.” Really intriguing blends of drum-n-bass, classical, death metal, and occasionally, a chicken playing a toy piano.
- Bill McClintock mashed up Stryper, AC/DC, KISS, and many others in this fantastic video.
- Public Enemy released a new album on Bandcamp today titled Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 and it is a lot of fun. “Messy Hens” is vintage Flav over heavy Bomb Squad-sounding beats, Chuck talks about PE being in their mid-60s (!!!) on “Ageism” and “Sexagenarian,” and, in general, the album hits way harder than it you might expect for a pair of guys that have been at this since the mid-80s.

Following my own #ArchiveTheUnimportant directive, I added a scan of the WMWC FCC license that was valid from 1987-1992 (see also on wmwc.org).
I did a quick Micro.blog Question Challenge.

I renewed my daughter’s domain through 2034 today. She’ll be nearly 30 then.
Like much of the country, we had five days of stupid hot weather this week. Is it autumn yet?