Left: Fort Mason at night during my long run. Middle: Daniel Cesear - Jesus Christ this was transcendent. Right: Labrinth at Portola.

Trip to NYC featuring FKJ at the Mirage.

My father, his 疙瘩汤, and my dumplings.

Private Album

Little Sketches

While waiting for a friend on a street corner in the Mission, I noticed someone in a laudrymat who was trying to get change from a machine set in the wall. The machine kept rejecting her bill and she kept pushing the bill back in, mechanically pushing the bill with two hands in the same motion over and over again. It’s funny how in interacting with a machine, you are reduced in a way to its mechanicalism. “When you gaze long into the void, the void gazes also into you.”

I’ve been using, as a bookmark, a cheap business card from the Putnum Ram dealer in Burlingame. I have no idea where I got this business card - I don’t think I’ve actually ever been inside a Ram in my life and I haven’t been in Burlingame either in over ten years. It recently traveled with me to India where, at some point, I lost it. Somewhere in Chettinad there’s probably an Indian man now who is using it as a coaster or something wondering where it came from.

Listening

• Dummy - Portishead
• hugo - Loyle Carner
• The Fisher Set at OSL 2023
• Jayda G at the Boiler Room
• I Want an Earth - Yu Su
• Happy Music - SuperShy (Tom Mische)
• Black Focus - Yussef Kamaal
• Radio Active - Bodysync, Ryan Hemsworth, Giraffage
• We Need Each Other - Leo’s Sunshipp
• When Will We Land - Barry Can’t Swim
• DRAMA - DRAMA
• All American Girls - Sister Sledge
• Fake Soul Music (Vol.1) - Dizkar
• Messy - Olivia Dean

Watched

• In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-wai
• Still Life - Jia Zhangke
  Features the music of Lin Giong, a Tawiwanese composer and DJ. While watching this, I wondered whether “Still Life” referred to still life like the artwork or if it was a description of the life depicted. Maybe both? There was a particularly beautiful scene where Shen Hong is discussing divorce wtih her absent husband, set against the industrial backdrop of the Three Gorges Dam

To Watch

• An Elephant Sitting Still - Hu Bo
• The World - Jia Zhangke
• Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Read

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
• Carceral Capitalism - Jackie Wang
  Incredibly well written.
• No 8. - Wendell Berry
• What I Didn’t Know Before - Ada Limón
• There’s Nothing More - Wendy Videlock
• Shelter - Kevin Tyler Norman

To Read

• Erewhon - Samuel Butler
  Referenced in some interesting reading.
• What is it Like to be a Bat - Thomas Nagal
  And critique, Is There Anything it is Like to be a Bat by Hacker.
• The Concept of Anxiety - Kierkegaard
• Seamus Heaney
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig