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A page that updates periodically about what I'm up to and into right now. You are viewing the version of this page from March 11, 2025. When it's gone, it's gone.

Making

I've been working on stuff. Got a couple of projects locked in. It kind of stinks that instead of wrapping a ton of client work and then relaxing I have to just switch back to the much-worse work of self-promotion because I need several more tons of client work to come through before, let's say, about April 15th.

I finished a new piece last week on stream. I like working on stream because I can figure out in real-time if something works, and I can think through my process more clearly when I feel obligated to explain it out loud. I am pretty happy with this one but I realized about an hour after posting that I forgot to give the eyeball a highlight which makes it look really flat. Genuinely thinking about posting it again fixed.

Doing

Lauren was out of town with family all of last week, so I obviously spent a lot of time doing nothing. Then a couple days in I got tired of being stoned and watching Mythbusters so started looking for stuff to do.

Been spending money I shouldn't be and putting together a home server (the spending's all done for now). It's just a secondhand Dell mini-PC with a big old external hard drive stuck to it. Pretty cheap as far as these kind of setups go, and most importantly Lauren can now watch Bob's Burgers on the couch more seamlessly than ever. It also gave me something to work on so I didn't just sit still and go insane last week.

Wednesday night I went down to Bottlerocket to enter a MarioKart tournament they were hosting with a live band. It was like seven bucks to buy in and I expected to get totally washed right away, but I ended up almost clearing the second round despite showing up a little late and having two beers way too fast as soon as I got there. I think I placed 6th or 7th out of 32 nerds, which honestly is way better than anyone could have expected. Also the band was great and it was a fun time.

Friday I went over to my buddy's studio to just kind of hang out and work in parallel and ended up hanging until late at night, which was also really nice. I got home feeling primed to make some stuff but I left my mouse over there so I had to try and work on the trackpad (bad!) until they brought it back to me. Still, it's crazy what talking about your creative process can do for it. I've even been screwing around with music again, so who knows if something worth sharing is gonna come out of that.

Thinking

I've been having pretty much only one thought lately, which is "oh fuck I'm broke I need to make money dude I'm broke," and that's not really interesting to talk about. So I won't.

Reading

I finally got started on Death's End, the third book of The Three-Body Problem. The first two slammed but the end of The Dark Forest felt like it would have worked fine as the end of the series, so I put this one off for a while. I was wrong! It's really great and somehow keeps jacking up the stakes at every beat.

I'm finding the Three-Body books really engaging where Edge was kind of tough to keep a grip on. It's still got my bookmark in it and I'm sure I will get back to it later, because I have been thinking about its substance removed from its style.

Listening

I've been listening a lot to this Toro y Moi beat tape from 2015 that I never knew existed (because I am uncool) and my friend posted the Mediafire link to it. Aside from that I've been listening to a ton of library stuff, especially FM-era 90s library—Richard Myhill, Geoff Bastow, the later Keith Mansfield stuff. This rocks. I gotta make another Library Of Bangers mix soon.