Janna (janna)

One of my fave ways to discover new music is through people's Bandcamp purchases and wishlists. Feels like crate digging through personal collections that sometimes come with notes, love letters, specific song recommendations Latest finds: — Pink/Blue by Medium Build with Ed Washington https://mediumbuild.bandcamp.com/track/pink-blue — Night of the Worm Moon (album) by Shana Cleveland https://shanacleveland.bandcamp.com/album/night-of-the-worm-moon

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No internet space has come close to rivalling the influence of early-mid 2010s Tumblr on me. It was partly the age I was at, partly the people there and how they thought about the world, which I didn't have in real life. It shaped my literary, musical, and artistic tastes by showing me what was out there and why it was good. It helped me document and articulate who I was and what I believed, allowing me to grow through those phases and evolve. And it was an early knowledge management system via creating personal hashtags on vibe, making it easier to "find the others". I was so lucky to stumble on and receive that w/out needing to know what I was looking for. Feels like that kind of online magic is increasingly rare. If I had to recreate it today, I'd: (1) seek out community on apps conducive to it (Warpcast, X, even Substack) (2) collect and curate in places like Pinterest and are.na (3) create and exist a hell of a lot more offline (4) talk about it online far more than I ever did

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In love with the recommended reading list from The Sims 1 and the implication that, rather than using them to escape real life and all of its problems, games and simulations can be a way to learn, practise, and get closer to a reality we want to live in. (The fact that the list includes Christopher Alexander is also perfection.) h/t David Rattigan from the other site

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thinking about Wim Wenders' film, Perfect Days (2023), and how it walks the delicate line between (1) extolling the virtues of presence and attending to one's life with care and love, which can turn the most mundane of routines into joy and become our salvation, and (2) portraying how the architecture of a perfect routine and an existence seemingly shorn of the past can also be an illusion used to suppress or escape from things too painful to address

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I love radios, and there's something so tactile, elegant, and retro-futuristic about this cube Sony TR-1825 transistor radio from the '70s Images from: https://blog.iso50.com/26131/26131/

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The bedroom pop guitar, the harshness of the beat, the repetition of the riffs, Antwon's voice rough and echoey over it — all sounds like leaning out of a car driving through a town you knew when you were a different person and thought life would be different; it's summer and you're wondering when everything fell apart There's an inevitability to the grief in Antwon's forceful delivery and the constancy of the guitar and the beat: "you seemed so sad, I felt the same / I knew you felt a way that I couldn't change", all delivered as facts. No illusory hopes, no wishing it away, no positive spin. Only an acknowledgement of the sadness and its gravity — a recognition poignant in itself because sometimes all we want is just to be heard, to be seen Feels dumb to say (because surely it's the point of music) but I love a track in which the instrumentation and production add a vital layer to the story being told that couldn't be expressed any other way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6P1do1__c

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Grateful to be alive — 1. Mary Oliver: “It is a serious thing to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world” 2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there is a whole life in that, in knowing the sun is there.”

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