5 things worth sharing this weekend

what I've been reading/watching/listening

1. There aren’t narrative, story-telling podcasts anymore, only chat podcasts.

   1. That said, I’ve been getting into audiobooks more via my Spotify Premium subscription, those are essentially narrative podcasts

2. I’m okay that dining rooms are dying

   1. Families should eat together, but you can eat together at a table, it doesn’t have to be a completely separate room

3. The art of turning your parents into content

4. Rethinking the unbearable weight of author self-promotion (with Tyler the Creator)

5. How I journal now (from me)

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Notes on reading/watching/listening

Reading: “Where Are Your Boys Tonight?” by Chris Payne

• emo oral history!

• Saw this at the bookstore on Monday, got the ebook from the library, but then I liked it so much, I went ahead and purchased the print copy

• mostly centers on New Jersey and Long Island in the early 00s

• I’ve been flying through this because I’m fans of a lot of the bands and I remember some of them getting big

• An observation about art scenes in general:

  • They push each other with the craft

  • They refine each other

  • They show up for each other

  • Once you see someone you know take off, it gives you confidence to do the same

Reading: “Foster Dade Explores The Cosmos”

• Also saw this at the bookstore and impulse purchased it

• It’s a whodunnit boarding school novel, told backwards

• Nice experimental format with some good reviews

• Only $6.99 on Kindle? (aff)

Reading: “Blood In The Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks”

• now that the NBA is officially over, I still need my fix

• These books are good to get random backstories, like how the players almost got into a bunch of fights or stayed out too late gambling

Watching: “Presumed Innocent” on Apple TV+

• It’s a TV show remake of that old novel and Harrison Ford movie

• I don’t remember that movie, except that it had a crazy ending and I don’t remember what the ending was, so anyway it makes you stay alert, trying to figure out all the clues

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Keep going-

- Josh Spilker