Quake, Venues, Listening – Disquiet

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

▰ I can confirm that the 4.3 earthquake that occurred at 2:46am Monday morning, September 22, did significant damage … to my sleep.

▰ I wish more experimental music venues around the world had subscription services for folks who lived far away but liked what the places did, sort of like what Cafe Oto is up to in London. You pay something, it supports them, you get recordings, maybe live feeds, maybe a zine, or a newsletter, “merch,” etc. You’re in the loop, informed. “Patreon for clubs.” “Bandcamp for venues.”

Thanks to responses to the above comment, I learned about several venues, and also about something called venuecms.com, which is, per the name, a content management system for venues, and the person who told me about it said that this sort of subscription model is, in fact, the “next feature on the list.”

▰ On a positive note, if I’m getting targeted ads for Go boards featuring noticeably antiquated laptops, the Algorithm is telling me I’ve made some OK life decisions

▰ I acknowledge that when I opened this article in New Scientist, I wondered if I could listen to it.

▰ Oblique Strategies are generally right about what to do on a given day

▰ Another week during which I read a ton in a variety of books but did not complete one of them.