Record Reconstructor

  This week:  When the other shoe drops, bad bosses and good bosses, and a little post-rock taster as a treat. I get nervous when things go well for extended periods of time.  I have a hard time trusting the ongoing passage of days where I am not wrestling with some personal existential crisis, and the longer that goes without disruption the more nervous I get - Catherine and I will have been together for 18 years in two months time, and I still wonder if one day she'll just be gone, either through tragedy or some irreconcilable difference, and what I'd do if that ever happened.  In my lived experience, the other shoe always drops, good times never last, and the best thing you can do when they are with you is enjoy them to the fullest, and keep an eye on the horizon for the oncoming storm. It's been over a year now really since anything truly anxiety-inducing has happened inside my personal life*, and because I had our holiday to Australia firmly in my sights, I miss...

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...

  Dashboard!  Yes, I realised my post title numbering system was flawed, yes I went and retroactively fixed it, no it still probably doesn't make sense to anyone apart from me, I have made my peace with that. One week kind of down then;  certainly most of a week, and if I want to stay sane and run a Monday-Sunday week count, then this is the end of week 0/the start of week one.  As I said at the start, not every album or band I listened to is going to get a braindump blog post dedicated to them, some might just get a few words of explanation and we will move on.  I have a lengthier post in the chamber but I am saving that until next week. So, at the end of week zero, here's where the leaderboard stands:- I've listened to 24 albums in 5 days;  at this pace, Ian Wang will have been handily disposed of by August and I could really push myself and try and lap him and get to 2,000 as a flex.  I think we all know this rate isn't sustainable though.  Nic...