Scratch Pad: Bosch, Buddha Machine

I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I take weekends off social media. 

▰ Received an album press release via email in Welsh; now waiting for my eyes and brain to reset

▰ There’s a moment in an episode of Bosch: Legacy when a real estate agent describes a house as having a “Spanish tinge” and Bosch doesn’t proceed to make a Jelly Roll Morton comment. This seemed especially out of character.

▰ Naturally, after my recent realization that I need to try to think less while practicing guitar, I returned to finger-picking

▰ I can be a tad self-conscious about words I’m concerned I use too often, so I was a little surprised to recognize that “accrual” hasn’t been in the title or the description of any of the 618 Disquiet Junto projects to date. That changed with the 619th project.

▰ Oh, cool — nice to be name-checked by Wired and Michael Calore regarding the return of the Buddha Machine.

▰ I don’t, myself, listen to Rob Lowe’s podcast, but a friend does, and apparently in the episode with Duran Duran’s John Taylor, Lowe talks about the lyrics to “St. Elmo’s Fire,” and Taylor brings up that there’s “another” song by that title, and that it has probably Robert Fripp’s best guitar solo