Always forget to plug, but happy to announce
INFINITE LIBRARY POD #51: The Return of the King.
Joined by man of many hats, Nathan Schmidt to discuss the wrap up of the Lord of the Rings with plenty of riffs to go around. Link in the comments

Episode 44: The Part About the Crimes. Keep forgetting to plug this on here but I'm really happy with how this EP turned out. We talk about true crime and serial killer shows, violence against women in lit, and even get a little 👁️ pilled. Link below

Any of Vit Babencos Goodreads reviews

Two spiritually related albums

Catching up on some stuff I liked this year but haven't got a chance to relisten. This is cosmic classic drone by Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid.

Enjoyable to see Chabon finally nail his Great American novel after the "shipwrecked" Fountain City. The whole thing is chock full of bravura paragraphs. Also this is perhaps our most riff filled episode to date lol.

this is what i look like

when people ask me what the ideal conditions are for writing i usually say "under duress"

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when mccoy tyner plays the main theme vs when he starts playing those signature 4ths 4 minutes in

being at home prevents me from wheeling and dealing

another day in paradise

getting to the end of a dream of red mansions finally after starting it sometime in january I think. incredible book but the last 30 chapters which were written by a different person have this weird uncanny "last season of a show with a different writer" vibes its hard to describe

looking at maurice sendak's "adult" illustrations

got this on in the background while writing. wish ECM rocked out more? wish keith jarrett used more electronics? have i got the album for you

Sunday afternoon spin. The furthest "out" Buckley gets on the trilogy with Happy Sad and Blue Afternoon. the ease with which the band plays in a free and unresolved way always knocks me flat

how it feels to make your first bluesky post