Record Reconstructor

  Dashboard! In this modern age it's never been easier to find supportive media related to whatever niche interest might be tickling your fancy.  Right now, with literally no effort, I could find countless video and audio and text sources with the click of a few buttons on my keyboard which could give me exhaustive guidance on the best wok to buy for my kitchen and why, which of the over one thousand NFL players I should be looking to pick up for my fantasy team, the best make and model of drumstick for the electronic kit I play.  I can watch guides, displays of incredible skill, I can listen to storytelling both intentional and improvised and somewhere in between.  We have democratised media access;  everyone's 15 seconds of fame is right now, all the time, just around the corner.   Why then is it so hard to find a good podcast about music? Now, good is a relative term and if you substitute 'good' for 'popular' you can find many popular music podcasts...

This week:  Accelerationist anxiety, a silly amount of albums from the mid 1990s.  It used to be for me that a deadline provided a very useful starting point for a simple calculation.  If the deadline for any given task is in, say 5 days time, and it's a task that should take me 4 hours to complete, I will schedule myself to begin that task in 4 days and 20 hours time, and until I reach that threshold I would act as if that task did not exist.  It's ironic, because I'm quite serious about punctuality when I make plans with people;  at some point in the past someone impressed on me the importance of being on time for things and now I get frustrated if I am late, and very  frustrated if other people are making me late for plans with other people because their view of timekeeping is (lets say politely) more flexible than mine, but my desire not to do work often overcame my need to be on time. Over the years, I've trained myself to see deadlines as more "the am...