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1. the high school fan in me was pretty disappointed w/ the “becoming led zeppelin" thing that just came out. I bailed.

   the second half is full of neat ‘68, '69, and ‘70 film of the band live, but not with the definitely available and in some cases highly regarded audio of those shows. Instead, studio or bbc session releases for completely different songs, and not even particularly good songs were used.

   "Living Loving Maid”, to pick one they used, sucks, and was never in their actual live sets.

   at least a band famously hostile to tapers (or passive to Peter Grant) and infamously noted for onion-on-belt songwriting credit lag didn’t profit off of tapers I guess? weird decisions.

   also, it is full of stock footage cultural contextualization, which, as a device, ugh, the worst dreck of romanticism imo.

2. half way through nabokov’s “pale fire” and istg every aside story in the commentary about stuff in zembla reads like a wes anderson scene

3. 'Let ‘Em In’ by Wings ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re61B8sKQWk) has been in the rotation lately on mellotron ( https://www.lemellotron.com/) which I listen to on a JBL clip on the bike all the time.

   'Let 'Em In' - PaulMcCartney.com Track of the Weekhttp://www.PaulMcCartney.comThis week's track of the week is 'Let 'Em In', taken from the 1976 Wings album 'Wings At The Speed Of Sound'.What are your though...YouTubeHome - Vidéo Showsglobal music radiolemellotron.com

   I didn’t grow up hearing much Wings so it’s just a delightful little pop thing w/ a good pedaling bass line to cycle to for me and not a Wings song I’ve heard a million times (some of those are great too of course) every time it comes on.

4. watching a waymo creep in a crosswalk on howard parallel to me like a human would, even with probably-misplaced confidence that it is doing to so to

   1. get a right on red, but for my walk

   2. not be blocked by peds crossing when the light changes

   3. drive more like a human so that the human drives behind it don’t lose their god damned minds that the person in front isn’t off the line on the green

   4. because it is probably ultimately more efficient overall for the system

   5. training

   and I’m like, sure, makes sense, whatever, but this was a chance to reject all of that nonsense and use a computer driver to force-daylight both crosswalks and get rid of right on red and we didn’t do it.

   damn.

5. I am a few classes into Hubert Dreyfus’s 2007 ”Man, God, and Society in Western Literature” Berkeley lectures ( https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619).

   Philosophy 6 - Spring 2007 : Hubert Dreyfus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveMan, God, and Society in Western Literature - Spring 2007. Philosophical issues as expressed in poetry, drama, and the novel. This course will compare and...Internet Archive

   The Internet Archive’s advanced search can return RSS which podcast apps understand, but it seems like it it’s for subscribing to new collections, not for turning collections into podcasts.

   So I think this is the best I can do? https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=identifier%33Aucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619fl%5B%5D=identifier&sort%5B%5D=&sort%5B%5D=&sort%5B%5D=&rows=50&page=1&callback=callback&save=yes&output=rss

   Internet Archivearchive.org

   So, I upgraded my pocketcasts subscription to a tier that supports hosting arbitrary files, downloaded all of the mp3s from the archive, uploaded them to pocketcasts on the web, found them on my phone (profile, files, sort by name) and off I go.

   A little tedious and so-close but not there with just advanced search.

   Alas.