Hiking last weekend at Franklin Gulf
Recently had the pleasure of doing an interview for Foofaraw and their Consumption Gumption series. Check it out! foofaraw.press/jason-det…
The newest Crucial Tracks interview is up! Featuring Matt Dente, guitarist in the hardcore bands Despair and Longest War. Kicking off 2025 strong! www.crucialtracks.org/crucial-t…
I just posted the first Featured Crucial Releases from 2025! New records from Ethel Cain, Lambrini Girls, and zzzahara. www.crucialtracks.org/featured-…
Enjoy!
Listened to the new Ethel Cain this afternoon and have spent the rest of the day thinking about it. Not sure it’s entirely enjoyable as music (for the most part) but as art it’s pretty amazing. It’s parts haunting, anxiety inducing, and beauty. Like a black and white horror movie set to slowcore.
📺 Finished: Dark Matter (Apple TV+) - a pretty faithful adaptation of one of my favorite books. I held off watching it because I didn’t want to be disappointed. Fears unfounded!
I really want to publish more Crucial Tracks interviews in 2025. To help, I put together a framework that is a starting point for participants. If you love music and want to think about (and share) what music made you who you are today, head over and follow the instructions! We’d love to have you.
Did our annual New Years Day hike today. This year to Tifft Nature Preserve just south of Buffalo. You can see the old grain silos near downtown in the background.
Last.fm year-end reports are out! Here’s mine.
Year number 3 of my song-a-day playlist is in the books! Find 2024 here and the brand new 2025 version here. Apple Music only, sorry.
Locked in and published: my favorite 20 albums from 2024. www.crucialtracks.org/my-favori…
New hack to get page views has to be load your site up with so many scripts that the page repeatedly crashes on 50% load, so you have to keep refreshing the page. Every “major” site I visit seems to be this way now. The internet is so broken.
Finished reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚
Exporting GoodLinks Highlights to Craft
Monday, December 2, 2024
I’ve been exploring Craft more, now that I took advantage of their 50% off for life promotion. It’s been fun discovering all the new features since I last used it, as well as how I can integrate apps like Things and GoodLinks, which I have been using more often. My most recent discovery has been exporting highlights in GoodLinks to a new Craft document. I think I have a pretty good setup, so it’s time to share!
Taking the People Pledge
Monday, December 2, 2024
Adam Newbold, the purveyor of Neatnik/OMG.lol/Social.lol and many other sites, just launched The People Pledge: I pledge to recognize the dignity and worth of all people. I will not discriminate against or devalue anyone because of their age, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, social class, faith, neurotype, or physical appearance. I commit to treating others fairly and rejecting prejudice in all its forms. A pretty simple idea and one you’d think would be closer to the default in 2024, but apparently that isn’t the case for a significant portion of the United States, at least.
Cazenovia Lady Chiefs took home the 19u championship tonight at Buffalo RiverWorks, with a 4-0 shutout. Great team victory!
Pulled all of my favorite albums into one Apple Music playlist to facilitate the final listen for inclusion on the Crucial Tracks end-of-year list. Listen along!
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
We are pretty much a kakistoligarcracy now aren’t we? Billionaires get richer, while some of the worst humans alive get to run the federal government. And yeah I probably just made up that word. Fitting.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
Uhhh, looks like the NYT is continuing its streak of stellar coverage. I am sure there are many people and stacks of government subsidies that would like a word with “single-handedly.”
Gonna be a long 4 years.
Episode 2 of my new project on Crucial Tracks, where I listen to records from RollingStones Top 150 albums of all time that I’ve never heard before… this time #131 to 140. Bob Marley, Funkadelic, Adele, and Joni Mitchell…