Quotidian Chronicles Podcast

Content: This episode is recorded outside on the go, so the audio quality is not as high as I would like. I talk about living through home renovations. Referenced: Dead cat microphone windscreen

Content: In this episode, I go on riffing on the stuff I talked about in CEP-016, an then I share something I made when doing other things I normally do was off the table.Referenced: - Logic Pro - Ghostbusters - Derrida Writing & Difference

Contents: 1. Episode 016 is the start of Season 2. QTS is now QCP. 2. I'm out of sorts because my routines have been very thrown off. 3. The other day, I tried to read some DerridaReferenced: - The Philistines Jr. Tarquin's half-assed mission statement  (Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube) - Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida- Spray foam insulation 

A very cool thing happened to me earlier this week. I had taken my two older kids out to eat at this hotdog place they both love. As we walked back to the car, I pointed out the almost full moon to the kids. Then we got in the car and started to drive. As we did this, the moon remained visible, but I had to make a few turns to get us home. The moon remained visible the whole time but moved from one side of the car to the other. My middle kid, who is three, asked me, "Why is the moon following us?" I became excited when he asked this because one of my earliest memories is of leaving a restaurant with my family and watching the moon stay in the same spot in the sky as the car drove us home. And do you know what I asked? The same question my kid asked me, "Why is the moon following us?" I also remember my mom asking me why I asked that question and trying to explain to her that the car had driven what seemed like a long way to my little kid's brain, and the moon just kept up. Obviously, it was following us. When I asked my kid why he asked this question, he said a version of the same thing. How wild is that?! 

Content: I talk about The Weather Buying books and then reading them... or... as is more likely, not reading them. WWE Elimination Chamber[S][J][P] - Surplus Jouissance Projects. Referenced: WWEElimination Chamber 2024Peacock

INTRO: It has been too long since I last made a QTS. Here is episode 013. REFERENCED: Cyberpunk genreThese dino eggs from Lakeshroe LearningJoe FrankAnne Carson's Grief Lessons: four Plays by Euripides (Amazon)

Content: In her post titled _<Don't make simplicity complicated>_, Clare Devlin writes: Anything taken to the extreme can be complicated. And simplicity is no exception.Minimalism is, I think, about not being tormented by the insatiability of desire. However, the desire to become more minimal can become as distracting and life-complicating as the desire that a minimal life works to be an antidote to. Disclaimer: I’m not a minimalist, but I think minimalism is interesting, and reading about it often gives me things to think about, which I find interesting and valuable. I’m going to attempt to put what I believe is the difference between helpful minimalism and problematic minimalism in Lacanian terms: Helpful Minimalism — Is when people see the right mix of full/presence v. empty/absence as something that is always outside of what they have, as something that is _an object cause of desire_ (i.e., an object _a_). Arriving at a perfect minimal lifestyle is not the aim; it is the cause of an ongoing project of rendering one’s life full-and-empty-enough. Problematic Minimalism — Is when minimalism becomes a thing that a person needs to do or accomplish when being minimal becomes a frustrating and distracting demand from a master that can’t ever be entirely pleased. 

Contents: In this episode of QTS, I talk about getting a $233 ticket for touching my phone at a red light, my dislike of big things (government and business), and how a fine like this could affect people who are not in my position.  Referenced: The Unthanks (Spotify, Apple Music) True Detective season 4Cook Country Clerk of Court

In this episode, I talk about how the quotidian is an important formative force in our lives, although it is often not seen as very formative compared to the big events in our lives.  

Content: It's a real ramble fest / jog down memory lane.I consider walking when 36 degrees Fahrenheit / 3 degrees Celsius feels warm, DDials, the early internet, gathering as opposed to parties. The audio is not as clean as I normally make it (sorry for some of those mouth sounds). The reason for that is this was recorded "easy style" with my old grab-and-go Zoom H2, rather than a nice dynamic mic with a good screen on it. Referenced: - In the Field: The Art of Field Recording- DDials - Papp's Pizza 

Content: I am picking up on something that was mentioned last time: The artist/musician Chilly Gonzales. I talk about the concepts of "benevolent pressure," talk about professional wrestling and Godzilla movies, and consider the question of why people might make things. Referenced: Last episode Chilly Gonzales, in general Pondercast with Chilly Gonzales

Content: A silly remark about my kid being a hypoallergenic kid leads into a silly story about something a former roommate said regarding hypoallergenic dogs. This leads to a little bit of paranoia, a comparison of the Internet now to the Internet that existed from about 2000-2010. A discussion of a great album that relaxes and allows for great thinking as opposed to being relaxing in a sedating sort of way.Referenced: - My former roommate, who shall remain nameless. (You know who you are!)- Plastikman's Consumed (Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music) - Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales's wonderful Consumed (in Key) (Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music)

Content: I try to describe the ephemeral phenomena of retroactively recognizing that I just identified with a younger version of me more than the current version of "me." Referenced: - WWE (Formerly WWF) - The Ultimate Warrior beating the Honky Talk man  

Content: I talk about what is top of mind... the ways that I'd like my life to be... a sort of relaxed seriousness. Referenced: - Biran Eno- Adam Phillips - Jim Schmidt 

Content: This episode is me talking about reading a great book that captures how our quotidian lives can be astonishingly beautiful and the way real (mundane) human drama is more interesting than Hollywood blockbusters. Referenced: - My wife- My book collection - The Vulnerables, by Stigrid Nunez

Writing about things that he would like to have more of in 2024, Marc Wiedenbaum of Disquiet named “liminality.Transition time — bus rides, long lunches, and liminality in general have long since declined in my life, and I need to bring back that attenuated interstitial aspect of existence. Midday walks are an attempt — a step forward, as it were. As is not keeping email open all the time during daylight hours.Two things:In general, I think that having more time/space between things is a good idea. I say this is somebody who is not unfamiliar with being scheduled back-to-back several days in a row. When there is space in between things, I think I do much better work.The second thing has to do with psychoanalysis in particular, back in the “before times,” when screen, mediated therapy was this thing that only existed in the future, this kind of liminal “interstitial space” always existed before analysand would come to a session. Today, when all the person needs to do to get to their session is open their laptop, this transitional space is missing…

This episode is me talking about trying to make some intro sounds/music for the podcast and getting carried away.  Referenced: - Ghost Busters- The Flash Season 3, Episode 22- Hal Hartley - Trust - Surviving Desire- Henry Fool - Tár

Audio Log 13th January 2024. It's a cold, overcast day, and I'm feeling nostalgic...