# leaf 0000

By [outstandy.eth](https://paragraph.com/@outstandy-eth) · 2022-12-19

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_An intermittent catalog of everything_

Deep in a post-ultramarathon malaise. It’s too cold for the road bike and too soon to start running again (cue my knees crackling in agreement), but I’ll plan some trails for the spring.

Listening
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I listened to Unearth’s 201f1 _Darkness in the Light_ roughly sixteen thousand times during training—I am burned _out_ on deathcore and breakdowns.

This past (slow, sleepy) week I’ve been leaning deep into “sit and listen”-type albums: dolorous, wailing black metal and drone; lots of layered samples and instruments in long compositions. “Zwang,” off Tardigrada’s _Vom Bruch bis zur Freiheit_ in particular has a subtle melodic arc that reveals more and more with repeated listens.

[https://open.spotify.com/track/6sQAyCjKZyHSQMcyhgAIgD?si=4ca32e87772a48ff](https://open.spotify.com/track/6sQAyCjKZyHSQMcyhgAIgD?si=4ca32e87772a48ff)

“Cosmic” feels like a goofy adjective to apply to music, but every track on Arushi Jain’s _Under the Lilac Sky_ has a feeling of vast distance & scale. Organ-esque thrumming ebbs and flows like a tide, underpinning twinkling analog synths, while vocal samples cast light and warmth across the deep, wide canvas she’s created.

[https://open.spotify.com/track/5ASpGDcT6NMR5fxFFghgQy?si=c86608d259294ddc](https://open.spotify.com/track/5ASpGDcT6NMR5fxFFghgQy?si=c86608d259294ddc)

…and a little sultry house via Loure to round things out.

[https://open.spotify.com/track/4FIch2blnkhlCfnfSzrfxQ?si=e707c2826e9a4a59](https://open.spotify.com/track/4FIch2blnkhlCfnfSzrfxQ?si=e707c2826e9a4a59)

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Watching
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No thoughts, just vibes

[![]({{DOMAIN}}/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPY1dkn7wI)

[Cassie Kozyrkov](https://www.youtube.com/@datascientific) has made AI/ML and all the associated data science intelligible to my brain—more than I could have hoped.

[![]({{DOMAIN}}/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Q_L0wdPNg)

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Reading
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[https://regenerating.substack.com/p/value-of-trash](https://regenerating.substack.com/p/value-of-trash)

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*Originally published on [outstandy.eth](https://paragraph.com/@outstandy-eth/leaf-0000)*