{"id":344412,"date":"2025-12-14T23:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/ambient-music\/lore-1988-obsidian-disquiet\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:57:24","slug":"lore-1988-obsidian-disquiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=344412","title":{"rendered":"Lore, 1988, Obsidian \u2013 Disquiet"},"content":{"rendered":"


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At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I\u2019ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad \u2014 and I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I\u2019ll revisit my social media posts, I\u2019ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at\u00a0post.lurk.org\/@disquiet<\/a>), and I\u2019m also trying out\u00a0a few others<\/a>. And I generally take weekends off social media.<\/p>\n

Right now, though, I\u2019m on a more extended\u00a0social media (and adjacent)<\/a>\u00a0break, through the start of January 2026. Which raises the question: when I\u2019m on such a\u00a0hiatus<\/a>, what constitutes this site\u2019s Scratch Pad, since this Saturday habit is, by definition, a collation of stuff I posted to social media throughout the given previous week? Apparently it\u2019s random notes I make to myself that I would have posted online, plus bits I\u2019ve sent to friends via email and other means. Just because I\u2019ve stopped posting\u00a0doesn\u2019t mean my brain has stopped<\/a>\u00a0making posts. Anyhow, here\u2019s this past week\u2019s roundup:<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0Back early on when I was teaching a course on sound at a local art college, maybe 2013 or 2014, a student asked me, during discussion toward the end of a semester, what I though the normalized state of everyday being would become, given how fast things seemed, at the time, to be changing \u2014 and this is a decade-plus ago \u2014 and my response, in the moment, was \u201cflux.\u201d <\/p>\n

I though \u201cflux\u201d might become an everyday sensibility. We might be concerned about flux but we would also adjust to and even take pleasure in flux. Flux was sort of the opposite of the supposed \u201cend of history,\u201d or an aslant corollary. Flux was change as a manic constant. <\/p>\n

What I didn\u2019t foresee was \u201clore,\u201d which has clearly prevailed. Lore is the glue \u2014 whether fictional, or as a matter of heightened narrative-providing, dot-connecting facets of everyday life \u2014 that keeps things together. Lore\u2019s prevalence in particular in the consumption (and collective contribution to) popular fiction feels like an expression of a desire for such continuity outside of fiction: lore as an antidote to flux. Lore is the anti-flux.<\/p>\n

I still take pleasure in flux. To me, flux is riding the everyday, a bit like standing while on a public bus, or dodging fellow pedestrians while keeping up a good pace on a city sidewalk. I\u2019ve never had great balance physically, but I can handle the cultural and technological flux okay. Keeping track of lore is not as much of a strength for me, come to think of it. <\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I\u2019m always keeping an eye on the Obsidian roadmap<\/a>, Obsidian being my note-taking and writing cross-platform app of choice. Excited for a lot of what\u2019s ahead, especially multiplayer, mobile widgets, and Bases support for Publish.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0It\u2019s kind of funny to attend a concert in a church with a massive pipe organ, and the pipe organ just serves as a visual backdrop. No one plays it.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I had an iPod but the vibration of the pre-SSD ones weirded me out. I think I used mostly rando Sandisk-type ones until the Touch came out.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I have, based on recent evidence, found myself deeply in a phase of my life where I find concerts of songs that are all verse chorus verse, and during which there\u2019s no musical improvisation, to be fully claustrophobia-inducing.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0When I got out of college, in 1988, I lived, for a spell, walking distance from the old Knitting Factory, the one on Houston Street. This year, 2025, here in San Francisco, I managed to walk from my home to concerts featuring Marc Ribot (in Golden Gate Park) and Fred Frith (at the 4 Star), both of whom I saw at the Knitting Factory way back when. More of this in 2026, please.<\/p>\n

\u25b0\u00a0I didn\u2019t finish reading anything this week, but considering what I finished reading last week<\/a>, I think that\u2019s OK. I\u2019m very close on Jon Fosse\u2019s Morning and Evening<\/em> and Sarah Gailey\u2019s Spread Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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