I finished reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell today. This book has a very unique nested structure, with six stories of completely different context, time and narrative style each unfolding to climax points in chronological order, then unraveling to completion in reverse order. In the afterward, the author compares the structure to a Russian nesting doll. The complexity of interrelations between narratives makes the head hurt, but also gives the novel some continuity amidst it’s fragmented structure.

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Rae & Christian - Sleepwalking cover

Rae & Christian — Blazing The Crop

Several layers deep in a YouTube music surf, I ended up at this video about the Mutek electronic music festival in Montreal, which I’d never heard of. I definitely have to get to that. In the video, Hans Thomann picks up this CD at a record store offering festival discounts and says it is “one of my personal trip-hop holy grails,” as a beautiful clip from “Vai Viver A Vida” plays in the background. I checked out the album on Spotify and got hit in the face with the opening track, “Blazing The Crop”.

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Hey, bagaag.com is back! I’ve just moved my fledgling site to WordPress. The old site was essentially just a test bed for a hobby programming project. It was a CMS written first in PHP and then in Python to manage a Hugo site hosted on IPFS. I got it working nicely and then promptly lost interest. As often happens with my hobby coding projects, the fun part was over. I decided if I want to actually focus on content, I should just use WordPress. It’s easy. I know it. Customization is fairly straightforward. And if I feel like geeking out, there really are no limits to what can be done.

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Lucy Dacus with Andy written on her shoe

My daughter is Lucy Dacus’s number one fan, and she loves the Toy Story movies. So when I saw this photo of Lucy on tour, I had to fix it for her.

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I took these during a crazy day trip to Manhattan with my daughter. We woke at 6am, drove 4 hours to get there, walked around for about 8 hours, then drove home.

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