🥁 The Heart of Low — New Yorker

The band’s music demands patience and attention, which it repays in beauty and transcendence, punctuated by occasional bursts of earworm jangle-pop or cathartic, pummelling storms of noise.

I only really got into Low with their last album—even still—I was devastated to hear of Parker’s passing. Optimistic for what comes next from Sparhawk.

👯‍♀️ Mary Wellesley: Gurle Talk — LRB

I’m trying out getting the LRB in print (I love their print format!) and really enjoyed this piece on language.

🤠 Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other by Orville Peck & Willie Nelson

Gold. Pure gold. Everything about this is top notch. Especially Willie Nelson. And there’s something about “frequently secretly” that feels nice.

🎸 Going Home by Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes

Haven’t been keeping up with links, but I had to make an exception. An amazing collective of guitarists and the video highlights each person’s name as they play so you can pick out their sound. Incredible. Probably Jeff Beck’s last recording too.

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🧑‍🔬 Welcome to Sequencer

Another exciting co-op media company, this one is “a digital science magazine and newsletter run by four journalists whose writing covers all corners of science, the lives affected by it, the people doing it, and the craft of writing about it.” I’m going to need to create a database to track all of these sites.

🐻 What the Keenan Allen trade means for the Bears offense and the No. 9 pick — Athletic

More Bears… I wonder how Allen feels now that he’s going to have a rookie QB.

🐻 Bears trade QB Justin Fields to Steelers — Sun Times

Old news at this point, but I had to capture for prosperity. Given they are drafting Williams, it’s probably the right move.

🎹 Musicboard — App Store

Letterboxd for music and it’s pretty smooth so far. Going to keep it around for a bit. I’m @humdrum, as always.

🙃 The Flipbook Experiment — The Pudding

Cool project from The Pudding, although Are.na already did it 😝.

🌐 Issue 03 — The HTML Review

Always one of the coolest things on the web. Stoked to dig into the new issue.

⛹️ The N.B.A.’s Rulebook Problem — New Yorker

I agree with a lot of this, but ultimately, it still comes down to the players. They should be docked a games worth of pay for every four calls they argue and are wrong about.

🏀 Zion Is Looking More Like Zion. And the Pelicans Are Looking More Like Contenders — Ringer

Some positive news in the world of basketball! I haven’t been watching much, but Zion being Zion means sometimes good things can happen.

😅 Amazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts — 404

Look at that, they’ve solved the worlds problems. Just close your eyes and it’ll be all better.

🔭 Space Camp and The X-Men-ification of Trans People — TPA

Stop treating us like mutants, especially if you can’t bring yourself to understand that the mutants in X-Men were the ones being persecuted.

This shit is so depressing to read about. The vitriol from some people over others merely existing is just so sad.

🍋 After Testy Interview With Elon Musk, Don Lemon Says His Deal With X Is Canceled NY Times

Lemon:

His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me.

I mean, yeah, we all knew that was the case. But good for Don in (likely) grabbing another paycheck while not having to do any work along with his CNN payout.

👮 Ari Aster’s Next Film at A24 ‘Eddington’ to Star Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, and Austin Butler — IndieWire

This is too good to hold for the newsletter! Beau is Afraid was my #1 movie last year and to have Joaquin back alongside Stone and Pascal in the next one is mind-blowing to me.

🛝 App Demo — Muddy

SharePoint + Slack + Arc = Muddy..? I don’t know. This app is definitely not for me, especially since I’m not looking for collaborative tools, but there’s some interesting stuff in there. The group surveillance aspect is pretty off-putting though.

📺 President Biden’s reaction to seeing MTG before the speech is all of us. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Chris D. Jackson on Twitter

Meant to drop this in with the other SotU posts yesterday…

😰 My Anxiety — New Yorker

My work suffers, of course. How could it not? I’m sadly not a perfectionist but, rather, an avoider and a regretter. There are periods when I will respond to e-mails at a reasonable pace, and then there’s the e-mail about a potentially lucrative project that I ignored for months. I haven’t even opened it; I don’t know what it says.

Boy, do I feel seen. Don’t even get me started on the “getting out of bed” section…