Claude thinking: “Weighing alien authenticity against decision fatigue.”
Claude’s thought processes are the best.
It’s a fun little game the US health system plays every few months where the machinery behind one or another of my prescriptions (doctors, pharmacies, etc.) conspires to make sure I spend a couple of days checking that, yes, yes I really do need all of my meds.
It’s weird figuring out the balance between how much I’m making music…
—for myself as a listener
—for myself as a creator
—as a creator for other listeners
It’s mostly the first. But it does bleed over into the others in some ways, and they can kind of fight with each other.
That feeling when there was someone in your life who you talked to every day about everything, and so for ages after they’re gone, you just keep thinking of things you want to say to them…
Except, like, for a whole community.
And so you find other places to say those words. And then eventually you find other words to think and say. And you keep moving, keep creating, keep rebuilding.
But it’s a long, slow process with a lot of lonely words rattling around inside for a long while in there.
Picture a giant dog staring at you and then sing to her in your head: Hannah supposes her nose’s span is grand and plans erroneously to land her owner under hypnosis as only her nose can.
Me as a writer: I must pick each word carefully to best represent what I want to communicate so that readers will understand me and what I intend
Me as a music creator: this part of the lyrics annoys me, but it’s in a similar way to how the Beach Boys sometimes annoy me, so eh
I’m disappointed that I won’t be getting a new Star Trek every week after this week… but I do like this thing where I get a new episode of a Bill Lawrence sitcom three times a week. That definitely works for me.
Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) is very much in conversation with Ghostbusters 2. Also, it was clearly very intentional with its messaging. And almost an actual stand-alone movie! Which is so rare these days.
Anyway, it had a light, goofy tone that was very charming.
“Twins confuse and frighten me.”
Oh my heart. It’s been Easter eggs all the way down lately.
Wow, Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) was adorable, and it made use of the correct end to the Terminator franchise.
Once you get the code right for one robot friend, well, there you go. You’ve got infinite robot friends!
I’ve been watching Heartland while writing in the evenings. I refer to it as “my horse show.” And I’ve just learned that my twelve-year-old assumed I was referring to Mr. Ed.
Mr. Ed talked so that BoJack could Horseman.