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I did this with a bunch of lyrics at some point when writing my last record and it was actually super productive and also very fun. I would especially recommend it as an aid in learning or creating something, as a therapy pre-game activity, or of course proving a point/crafting a theory. Anything you wanna wrap your head around can be effectively tackled with a very cheap set of color coded push pins.
Jan 11, 2024
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or your walls, i got the crayola ultra-washable markers and I treat issues in my life like im a private investigator digging into my brain for evidence
Mar 14, 2024
obv rooting for the wild, giant mood board
but also I started a few years ago organizing the screenshots, fragments, quotes, shower thoughts in my notes app according to questions. I like it because I can see how things are connected and build off of them, and it's easy to go back through things in a way that doesn't feel totally random. it also points me in the direction of the questions that interest me most, which is helpful in creative contexts and general introspection.
Aug 12, 2024
For the rapid note-takers & analogue homies, this is my underrated “hack” for lazy writers who don’t have time to organize the layout of their notes but need to establish clear contexts for something being written (heading, bullet point, styling).
This is nothing new but it’s rarely brought up (sometimes I have to remind myself)
Mar 26, 2024
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Knowing I can simply waltz into a dry cleaner’s with alteration services near me and get some pants taken in at the waist emboldens me to make all sorts of questionable thrift purchases. But yet, it pays off every time. I think most people under 40 find it oddly intimidating to just go do this because they’re not sure how much it might cost? Or because it’s weirdly intimate to talk to a stranger about how you want your clothes fit on your body? But verily I tell you–it is usually costs less than $20-30, and anyone doing that job professionally has seen all sorts of weird vanity in action and absolutely doesn’t care.
Jan 11, 2024
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I had a particularly rough Thanksgiving Day this year and processed some of that stress by making a cranberry sauce with actual fresh cranberries, a thing that is incredibly easy to make and my fave holiday food by a significant margin. I was only making it for myself so I used slightly less than half of the sugar called for in whatever recipe I found online (I wanna say it was a variation on the NYT “red wine cranberry sauce” but I only used a tiny bit of wine and no cinnamon?) THEN at the end of the day I just put a bit of it on top of some pistachio ben and jerry’s I had leftover. It is so so good and I’ve made it twice again since then. I would also suggest fucking around with a bit of cardamom or maybe black sesame seeds?
Jan 11, 2024
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A therevox is a recently-invented musical instrument I was first introduced to by my friend Ross Collier. I needed something for a song that would function sort of like a pedal steel but was also definitely not a pedal steel. They’re apparently quite rare and seem hard to play but unparalleled in creating swoopy, floaty textures that sound unplaceable but yet not alien.
Jan 11, 2024