Tag: Reflecting

  • Learning things from drumming

    Learning things from drumming

    I’m getting better at drumming. It’s hard to exactly place what this means or quantify it, it’s a sort of “I know it when I see it” thing. I feel better on the drums, my body moves better, and I have a better sense of how to shape those movements. This has provoked some interesting…

  • Album of the Year 2025

    You might be looking at this and saying “Brennan, it’s almost March, why are you posting an album of the year list 2025 now”. In response to that critique, I will simply echo the words of the Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai in 1972 who when asked about the French Revolution responded: “it’s too early to…

  • why play video games?

    why play video games?

    A socratic dialogue on wasting time Last year I was playing Cyberpunk 2077, and realized like 80 or 90 hours in that it wasn’t fun, and I didn’t really like it. Why did it take me so long to realize that? Was I having fun earlier in the game? I noticed that I was just…

  • Am I Having A Good Day?

    Am I Having A Good Day?

    Lately, I feel like I’ve been consumed with a single question, one that works its way into the different cracks and fissures in my life. That is, am I having a good day? This question seems to confront me constantly, and while it’s almost certainly a thorny externality of my prolonged unemployment, I still can’t…