Why can't I just choose a photo, process it, slap a video link in the box, grab one of the songs I've heard that day, write my sweet note and be done with it? Must everything be art?

| Beck : The Information

| Battles : Atlas

Timer on! Not really, but I AM racing a little faster than normal. Next, I'm going to try dictating to Siri for the text. I thought about leaving in Siri's mistakes, just to make it more open to synchronistic interventions.

| Beach Boys : Good Vibrations

| Casino Royale (1967) • The Look of Love • Dusty Springfield

I told myself at the beginning of this incarnation that I would “speed post”, but I F’d completely on that mission this evening. Like a second date, you know? I wanted to get it as right as I could. Here it is.

| Marvin Gaye : Trouble Man

| A Hero’s Journey: Jannik Sinner

Salve. Tonight we celebrate the first of the Blue Moons, which is also the first of the two Supermoons of this August. It is known as the Sturgeon Moon, Lynx Moon, Grain Moon, and Corn Moon, among other names. It is an auspicious and, I think, wonderful time to begin again.

| Kevin Yost : Pendulum

| Carl Jung : I don’t need to believe. I know.