I revamped this site. I deleted the old ttbp blog and am just posting on the main page here. It seems easier and more portable.

For now, all posts will simply load. At some point I may limit how many posts actually show up on the home page. If that happens, I'm unsure if I'll make an archive for past posts or not. I kind of like the idea of whatever is here being a snapshot in time without an exhaustive public history.

I've fallen in the trap where I stopped listening to new music for a long time and just listen to what I listened to back in high school and college, with a few exceptions. To help break that and expand my horizons, I'm going to make it a point to bring music back into my life. I'm starting with the 500 greatest albums of all time, as judged by Rolling Stone. As far as the rankings go, I think the list has a lot of problems, but with 500 albums, it also can't be all bad as a whole and is sure to push me out of my comfort zone.

I think I need to listen to each album a few times. We tend to like what's familiar, so it could take a few listens to really "get" a certain artist or album. I want to give them a fair chance. I saw someone else talk about listening to this list, and they not only didn't listen to things more than once, but they allowed themselves some skips... and they skipped some absolute bangers.

I just finished up my first listen of What's Going On by Marvin Gaye to start things off. I went with Apple Music to find all this and am glad I did. When I looked at YouTube Music and Spotify they had new "deluxe" releases, where Apple Music still had the 1971 original. I assume this trend would have played out throughout the whole list, which would have driven me crazy on other services. I don't need 5 remixes of the single to sully a classic album I'm trying to listen to on repeat.

There seems to be a trend toward retro tech and more simple living. However, it seems as time goes on it becomes harder to keep this retro tech going. Support is dropped, intigrations removed, parts are no longer made, workflows are changed. At what point does it become more complex to try to live a simple life? When simple becomes complex and complex is the modern default, where do we go? What do we do?

I'm just realizing at nearly 5pm that today is Sunday and the weekend is almost over. I went to a baseball game yesterday and while that is typically something a person might do on the weekend, I feel like I lost a day of rest before the work week starts again.