one more thing

Let’s see if I can remember all of the things that have happened since the last time I made one of these update lists:

  • Was hit by a car while walking to work. (I’m doing ok! Bruises/torn ligament? Not too big a deal.)
  • Saw Peter Murphy.
  • Got a promotion / suddenly feel good about waking up and going into the office.
  • Spent Thanksgiving alone, which was kind of awesome. Grilled cheese and tomato soup! No travel/traffic!
  • Ran into an old friend from high school on a night I planned to wild out alone among strangers. Life is funny.
  • Started seeing that friend. Life is really funny.
  • One of my friends gave me a tv he was getting rid of and I ordered a Roku player — changing my life. (read: addicted to Miss Marple & Columbo)
  • Spent a weird week and a half, feverish and mostly sleeping. Woke up and decided it was time to look for my own place.
  • Promptly got sick again? Currently have the sorest throat because my room warps into a dry riverbed at night that I flop around in gasping for breath. Yes, like a fish. Picture one of those fancy egg shaped goldfish with the black ruffly fins. Spooky and sad.
  • Oh and check this out, I managed to reach Reader Zero in the same week I hit Inbox Zero at the office:

Reader Zero screencap.

And now a mix:

out damned spot from surpluscats on 8tracks.

  1. Performance, Tones On Tail, Everything, 1998
  2. But I’m Not, Cocteau Twins , Garlands
  3. Dancing, Bauhaus, 1979-1983 Vol 1, 1986
  4. Dive In Deep, Red Temple Spirits, If Tomorrow I Were Leaving For Lhasa, I Wouldn’t Stay A Minute More…, 1989
  5. The Dog-End of a Day Gone By, Love and Rockets, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, 1985
  6. I’ll Fall With Your Knife, Peter Murphy, Cascade, 1995
  7. Witness ( to a Scream), In The Nursery, Prelude 1983 – 1985, 1989
  8. Broken, The Creatures, U.S. Retrace, 2000
  9. Dead City, Patti Smith, Peace And Noise, 1997
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Mix: Sorry I missed your prom, man.

  1. Hold On Don’t Go, The Passions, Sanctuary, 1982
  2. Terror Couple Kill Colonel, Bauhaus, 1979-1983: Volume One, 1986
  3. This town ain’t enough for the, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Through The Looking Glass, 1987
  4. Collapsing New People, Fad Gadget, Gag, 1984
  5. Get The Balance Right, Depeche Mode, The Singles 81-85, 1999
  6. A Days Wait, Altered Images, Collected Images: Best Of Altered Images
  7. War Child, Blondie, Atomic
  8. Chercher le garçon (version gb), Taxi Girl, Quelqu’Un Comme Toi, 1989
  9. Lay All Your Love On Me, Information Society, Information Society, 1988
  10. Accept Yourself, The Smiths, Hatful Of Hollow, 1983
  11. All Through The Night, Cyndi Lauper, Time After Time – The Best Of Cyndi Lauper
  12. Secrets, The Cure, Seventeen Seconds, 1980
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I call upon the muses.

I wrote this last year when I was thinking about Ada Lovelace day, was looking for it again and realized I never posted it. Belatedly, please enjoy my rap stylings and wiki some inspirational ladies of STEM history.
xoxo,
Auntie Flow

(a love song)

I’ve never been one to express much more than doubt
But I got this new feeling and I need to work it out
It burns and aches and confuses
So I’m gonna call upon a different set of muses

Like Kovalevskaya I’ve got some conditions
for the existence of solutions to partial differential equations
With respect to all variables, and the seeming distinctness of your
physical phenomena
colorfully illustrated like Merian’s rejection of spontaneous
generation in Lepidoptera
it’d be easy to get all swept into poetical exuberance,
ascribing your finer attributes to divine beneficence
and pass like Diotima from appreciation of Beauty
to rapt spirituality

Would that like Aglaonike, I could calculate the time when we align
and make the moon disappear to blow your mind, an omen, a sign!
And like Tapputi, distill the essence of your select elements
to analyze the origin of my intents with ancient fantastic instruments,
then back to Earth like Tereshkova with stunning observations like Jump-Cannon
proving there’s more to chart than the many moons between now and then
when things were unknown but not unknowable, and I, too, just wanted
to be friends
What price a connection that through time and space transcends?

Would that like Lovelace I could write an algorithm, a system of instructions
to solving this mind-body dichotomy proposed by Elisabeth of Bohemia’s
deductions
that stumped Descartes, and goes on to list the order of operations needed
for two separate entities to interact unimpeded
Reason and feeling, my fear and your … ambivalence?
Apply some logic, check for false inference
Determine our positions in orbit, like Cunitz’s solution to Kepler’s problem
Diagram the intersection between best-of and more-than.

Here’s my hypothesis,
my educated guess
provisionally accepted,
based on the data collected
There’s a case to be made
shown in my visual aid
See Figure 1: Constructive Interferences
Mutual reinforcement produces
a single amplitude equaling the sum
of two individual waves becoming one
We’re better as a pair
I know what we’ve got is rare
But here’s my sentiment
Let’s do this experiment

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mix: you’re making my nerves hiss

  1. Branquias Bajo El Agua, Derribos Arias, Branquias Bajo El Agua 7″, 1982
  2. Newsreel, Fad Gadget, Fireside Favorites, 1980
  3. Countdown, Kas Product, Try Out, 1981
  4. Zu Jung, Zu Alt, X-Mal Deutschland, Incubus Sucubus 12″, 1982
  5. Swampland, The Birthday Party, Mutiny/The Bad Seed, 1989
  6. Situations, Middle Class, VA – Earcom #3 2×7″, 1979
  7. Inventory, Colin Newman, A-Z, 1980
  8. Simple Machines, Dancing Cigarettes, 1980-81: The Gulcher Recordings, 1980
  9. The Sky Is Blue Again, The Ex, Disturbing Domestic Peace, 1980
  10. Isn’t It Interesting How Neutron Bombs Work?, Diagram Brothers, Some Marvels of Modern Science, 1981
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Triolet

Caverock

Have you heard the earlier stuff?
Everything was better before
And nothing new will be good enough
Have you heard? The earlier stuff
harsh and deep and rough
By virtue of age just… more.
Have you heard the earlier stuff?
Everything was better before.

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