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Date: May 8th, 2020.

Time of Writing: 11:18 PM.

Weather: It was gray and cloudy today with a warm breeze, threatening to rain throughout. Good walking weather I suppose.

Mental and Physical Health State: Mentaly I'm in many places, most of them good. Physically I'm stuck indoors and sometimes go on walks, and I'm snacking a lot.

Day Overview: Slept in as long as possible, because I was up late, then quickly had breakfast, played Animal Crossing, took a shower and went on a walk because I didn't want to miss my chance before it started raining. I wrote for a bit when I got back, I still have more to write. Edward dropped off Takis for me today, and I've been snacking on those. I had Pizza for dinner and now that I've remembered that fact I want more pizza, it seems. I've spent the evening listening to music. Oh, there was this one thing that happened, I helped my Dad cut his hair, he trusted me with the buzzer for the back of his head. Incredibly nerve wracking experience, but he likes how it looks well enough. I've never cut hair before so this was almost traumatizing I think. But yeah otherwise I've been chilling.

On My Mind: I have no idea how I'm going to ship my Film Studies textbook back to Amazon. Not a clue. I don't want to support Amazon right now given the current general strike, and that includes sending them this book back. So do I just keep it? What happens if I keep the book? Do they sue me? And if they just charge me, then what happens if I don't accept the charge? It's mystifying. I currently have the whole month to sort this one out. I don't know if I'll use all of that time to the best of its capacity.

Works Consumed:

• World as a Waiting Room by White Denim: Incredibly topical music about quarantine. Has a jammy stoner sound. Somewhat bad lyrics at times, but it's not as bad as the following album. This one is witty and stuff, but the music is kinda dull. Almost reminded me of Phish. Not my vibe for the most part but I appreciate the artistry at work here in an art rock sense. 7/10.
• Mutable Set by Blake Mills: Incredibly banal, boring aged art rock sentiment. Redeemed by a couple key tracks and doomed by one horribly pedantic track Money Is the One True God which really sucks ass I mean it's a really dreary listen and I wouldn't wish it on anybody. I'd avoid this one unless you were specifically interested in experimental songwriting in our current age, I guess, what the fuck, I'm absolutely beyond parody at this point I think. 6/10 roughly, fuck it.
• Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? by The Soft Pink Truth: What an absolute turd of an album title. It's such a shame too, given the rough abstract phantasmagoric texture work here. Vocal layering in the first half, insanely psychedelic bells in the second. Mind Blowing noise bursts. Wow! This is somewhat of a eureka in this genre at this stage. The first half drags the rating down a considerable bit, but the second is near perfect in all senses. 8/10.

Works In Progress:

• All activities begun today were by some stretch of the definition finished.

Works Produced: I wrote a few hundred words of stuff today. Maybe it was a thousand total. It was all really good.

Other Thoughts: Thank you for reading my blog! Quarantine continues tomorrow, same time and place. Rough time. Solid place. Wew.