Playlist Postscript: May 2020
"life continues"
Welcome to Playlist Postscript. Every month I revisit an old playlist of mine and provide my present day thoughts on my past selections.
This month we return to May 2020 with a playlist subtitled “life continues”. The previous month had been a certified Bad Time, but in May I started to make peace with my circumstances. My job slowed down a little. My friends settled in a routine of weekly trivia nights over Zoom. My two podcasts, Lamniformes Radio and The Human Instrumentality Podcast, both hit their strides. I signed up for the Criterion Channel and resolved to watch good movies again. I started making serious progress on “Gravity’s Rainbow”. I had a blast watching “The Last Dance” and debating the episodes with my basketball buddies. I think this was around the time that I started doing yoga regularly too.
This playlist reflects that diversity of interests in its relative brevity compared to the last two monsters. Still, 19 songs over two hours is still quite a bit of music, so no need to worry about getting your money’s worth here. To help guide you I’ve marked the songs that hold up best with The Lamniformes Shark Emoji of Approval (🦈). Songs that will eventually feature in Drumming Upstream will bear The Drum Emoji of Destiny (🥁). And, since I listened to this playlist in the car with ~*My Fiancée*~, the songs that she enjoyed with be marked with The Cherry Blossom Emoji of Excellence (🌸)
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