An addendum to my spec for a hypothetical new feed reader. Only reverse-chronologic lists as default. Optional algorithmic listing, and open -- so users can write their own algorithms, but only if it's entirely under the user's control. #
The Allman Brothers are great for workouts. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed is on the speaker now. I have my Apple Watch hooked up to my Peloton so I'm getting readouts on my heart rate. I'm starting to really enjoy the daily indoor rides. Pretty soon I'll be riding outdoors too. #
I've been working my way through The Beatles Anthology videos, which you can only buy on CD or VHS tape. This material should be streamed, just like the Get Back video was. The anthology incredibly long, includes interviews with all the Beatles. Goes through the whole history, in great detail, with concert performances that I had never seen, didn't even know existed. It's even more clear that the Beatles didn't "break up" as much as they stayed together for a long time. You get the sense of how exhausted they must've been of being a Beatle. This goes back to something I've learned myself in a career that included more than the normal amount of public presence. We all are just individual people, no matter how big the rep. It doesn't get much bigger than being a Beatle. But it doesn't really have integrity to be a Beatle, because a human can't be that big. The disconnext has to be resolved somehow. We're all the same size. Something has to give. #The Get Back recording session comes off as a catastrophe in Beatles Anthology. Harrison tells a great story of how it compared to a session he had just come back from with Bob Dylan and the Band in Woodstock. I think the Beatles got lost trying to do more than what they were best at -- which is hanging out in a studio for a couple of months and turning the music world upside down in a great way. McCartney at one point says we're just a small band, we do rock and roll and the blues. So why were they doing movies and having boutiques and planning big concerts where the fans were kept far away. I wish, as a fan, they had found a way to continue doing what they did so well, and branch out and do all the other stuff they wanted to do as individuals. If they had had a good manager, someone who loved them and who could manage an organization and keep it out of their way, the Beatles might have been able to do more. But I'm still satisfied that the amazing thing was that they lasted as long as they did. #
Drummer was down for a few hours this morning, I think the problem was related to the Daylight Saving Time change. The problem started exactly at the time of the switchover. Could be a coincidence. Probably isn't. I rebooted the server and it seems to be running normally. #
