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weeknotes 32.8

i guess weeknotes have really helped show me how quickly a week passes, and my life.

vibe

drinking: maxim gold instant coffee (my favorite)

eating: tambo tambo

listening: nick has a playlist on, but currently visions by loving which is one of my favoriteeee songs.

doing: laundry, moving photos from SD card to computer

i'm glad my family came to visit. i'm already making plans to go up to washington several times next year because she will be alone with the two kids while my uncle is working in japan for 6 months. during thanksgiving my work provided us food, but everything was out. so i ate the 3 ribs i managed to snag. but i've been sick because children are germ factories. my sinuses are killing me.

it was my dads birthday on the 27th or 28th. depends on what day he decides to celebrate. then nicks birthday on the 29th. didn't really celebrate any of them. i just got nick a card (no gift oops)

but for nicks bday we went and saw primitive man primitive man

okay i also listened to the creative act by rick rubin. you could tell me a grifting megachurch pastor wrote this and i would believe you. what makes this hard to judge is that i do fundamentally agree with a lot of what he says. but basically nothing about his experience as a producer is brought up in this book. its like halfway through the book before he actually talks about music and the recording process. so up until that point it felt like when you go out to the mountain and some old guy peeps your camera and talks about photography to you and capturing the beauty of life and yada yada. like okay mystical mountain man, have a good one. i'm trying to contemplate my own existence and impermanence in life and youre harshing my vibe. i couldn't bring myself to care.

so he fails to build any credibility about his own art and yaps on about creating and there are some concepts brought up in the book but because it jumps around and in my opinion its somewhat ineffective. or not as impactful as it could be if related ideas were grouped together and expanded upon when the concept was already on your mind instead of thinking "oh kind of the same as this chapter". or maybe my brain is rotted and i couldn't pay attention and this is a me issue. like is the literary crisis is that dire and we need to be hit over the head with the same concept over and over again without any real depth. but every chapter could've been reduced to a paragraph for the same amount of impact. and i get that it was supposed to be a pick-up and put-down book and enjoyed in small chunks. but i do believe that was the wrong choice.

mostly because i cant even tell who this book is for. there is a letter by kurt vonnegut that he wrote to some high school students on becoming. that letter captures the essence of the book in 1/400th the page count. but there was one line in this book that i wish i remembered when/where (which is why i cant do audio books) basically saying that if you cannot commit yourself fully to art then maybe this isn't the right path for you. ???? so i was confused. and then he follows up with how theres nothing wrong with needing a job to support your art. so i'm just confused what the goal is, who is the targeted audience because there is no real actionable advice, just the prattling on of an old man. there is nothing in this book that needed to be written. it seems like an editor was not involved in this book at all. or the editor was involved in this book the way flavors are involved with la croix while the water is getting sparkled. and this is a reason why not everyone should be writers.

anyways, no more dunking on that book. my official rating is don't waste your money/5. which is actually a valid point on the 5 scale, as long as you dont question it.

i just got back from christmas tree shopping. we brought in the tree but everyone is too tired to decorate today and were going to do that tomorrow. xmas tree i love looking at flocked trees. maybe i should go to the snow this year.

things i like lately

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