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Johnny Blue Skies, Common & Pete Rock, and more of my favorite albums from Junely (June and July) 2024
“[Johnny Blue Skies album Passage Du Desir is], all at once, a stroke of outlaw country genius and a massive, psychedelic vacuum of singer-songwriter reckonings and pensive, concerto swells. I wouldn’t call Passage du Desir a comeback. No, this is a recalibration firing on all cylinders—its only imperfection being that it ends.” – Paste Man, so much…
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One month and “some change”
July 25th was our last day in Scotland. It’s been one month and some change (pun intended) since we packed up the last of our belongings and moved (back) to the US from Scotland almost exactly 5 years to the day that we originally moved there in 2019. I promised it would be our last…
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The three most difficult things
I’m posting this for me to remember later from the superb book Awareness by Anthony De Mello. “Someone once said, “The three most difficult things for human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.””
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Culantro
Have you ever heard of culantro (similar to but different from cilantro, aka sawtooth coriander)? I never had until today, but it’s a thing and sounds delicious.
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Hades is my game of the year
I barely have any game time at the moment, but when I do, I’m playing a game released way back in 2020 called Hades. It’s no secret to many how good this game is (it was game of the year everywhere basically), but for someone who is so slow nowadays to play new games, it’s…
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Mdou Moctar, BADBADNOTGOOD, and more of my favorite albums from May 2024
“Our hope is that the listener will use our renditions to research the originals and how amazing the world of [Earth Wind and Fire] actually is. We are true believers in the fact that, if everyone started their day with at least one EWF song, the world would indeed be a better place,” From Listen:…
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Moving day, part 1
The company we enlisted to help us move from the UK back to the States came last week to take our stuff on a boat. We are officially in moving mode now (and have been for some time). Chaos rules.
Writing and drawings by Nick.
