Right-o. I was just in England for two weeks. I went to see the Mute Short Circuit event — which, duh, was one of the highlights of my life — and see old friends and travel around and just soak in cask ale. All of the above was accomplished and felt wonderful. As you may […]
Author Archives: Micah
3170 miles / W through 34° 14′, S through 4° 32′ / 43 hours
I’m on my third day as a San Francisco resident. I thought about writing a thing before leaving, in the generic-life-update-for-a-blog category, but I figure the only people who look at this thing (well, who might look at it if it ever had anything new) are people who already knew I was moving to SF, […]
Paean for my peepz
Previously on our program, I discussed a close friend, lost five years ago. When I was writing that post, I had my friends in general on my mind. Living where I do, I haven’t got a social life outside of work. OK, yes, I pop into the city once, perhaps twice a month and see […]
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Vergangenheitsbewältigung might be my favorite German word. Lots of jokes about the German language having a (normally long) word for everything, and, well, it’s true more often than not. “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” means “a struggle to come to terms with the past.” I’m thinking about it today because it’s the five year anniversary of the death of […]
Wisdom from last night’s dream
I was in a theatre watching a movie that was a bit of a mash-up of Inception and Fitzcarraldo (in my dream, it was cool, but looking at it now…yeesh). At one point, one of the characters (a young actress currently popular whom I sorta respect, not remembering who now) tells someone “Don’t swim in […]
Song of the day “I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me through the fear”
Peter Gabriel “San Jacinto”
The power of a word
As soon as I said “interim”, the pieces fell into place. I swear, I nearly heard the clicking. I’ve said it before, and it never felt more true: nothing about me is ever true until I actually say it.
Fripp/Sylvian, Dougans/Cobain, Ball/Norris
Very rarely do I drop a music sharing post where I upload something by one artist. When I do, it’s pretty worthwhile. This is the 1993 single for David Sylvian and Robert Fripp’s “Darshan”, a track off The First Day, their album from the same year. As you can see, it’s an attractive cover, thanks […]
Coming to (new mix)
I hadn’t done a mix in a long while, and after that awful Red Wings loss Saturday, I needed to turn up some loud music and feel a little better. I ended up throwing a mix together that’s a little springly. Saturday was a warm, sunny spring day; Sunday was a cooler, rainy spring day. […]
Getting older isn’t as confusing as getting older
[disjointed entry alert: sort of writing this one on assignment, as it may be] People have accused me of living in the past. This is simply not true — I just don’t appreciate the present until it’s become the past. I think it started when I was around 15. I have (had?) very few memories of […]