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5000 word buyer's remorse

Keeping track of where my hours end up being flushed away has been a habit that has defined my 20s. It's helped keep track of my self-romanticizing when I've imagined myself as some kind of productivity Ubermensch, but it's also shown me when I've been pushing too hard, and has provided insanely useful insight into what is a "good" use of my time, whatever that means. It's never about trying to work to a specific end-goal in terms of hours spent on something, it's just to liv

10. Tennyson - aka Favourite songs - it's idea!, walk backwards Tennyson's production style has always been a bit of a limbic hijack for me. Something about how he uses instruments like kalimbas, earthy percussion sounds, and modified vocals is satisfying in its own right, and that's before you get to the songwriting itself. This album might not hit the highs of his 2019 EP Telescope , but it's still tremendously enjoyable. What sets Telescope apart is that there was still an

Young(ish) man yells at cloud.

I want to start this post with exactly the same sentiment as my previous year round-up post; 2024 was a good year. A great year even....

What do you owe the audience? Should they have a say in the thing you make? Should the audience as an entity be factored into the...

10. billy woods & Kenny Segel - Maps Favourite Songs - FaceTime, Agriculture, I'm super late to the Billy Woods party, but this album is...

2023 was a good year. Even before I take the existential look in the time-tracking mirror (I'm writing this blog as I discover the...

Young Man Yells at Cloud

Yet another album list, you know what it is. As per usual, totally unordered apart from album of the year. Cool? Cool. Let's talk about...

Local man shares overly-detailed breakdown of hours spent on things

2020 was, most certainly, a year. Tons happened, all while, simultaneously, absolutely nothing happened at all for lots of us. It was...

2020 was the year none of us expected, with a profound impact on how our time is spent. This is a breakdown of how my time was spent.

This was a blog post I meant to make during the Year of Everything, but I never really felt like I had the time to sit down and consider...

The last song of the Year of Everything comes out tomorrow, and now is the time to do a bit of reflection. But my plans for an actual...

At time of writing, there is only one song left to put out. Honestly, I never really thought this far ahead to the project actually...

Much to my weird mixture of sadness and relief, 2019 is coming to a close. It’s been exciting, eventful, and exhausting and I wouldn’t...

Given the decline in frequency of these blogs being written, it feels like mere minutes since I did the last quarterly review. That’s...

So I’ve just gotten home after the best part of 2 months’ worth of touring with a theatre production. We did a week in Sweden and then 5...