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I'm doing a little music shopping today. Picked up Adam Jay's "Inoperable Data" and Galcid's "Ambient Works" both on Detroit Underground.

The Adam Jay album is terrific new (nu-nu-nu-)electro, very bright sounding, futuristic stuff. Reminds me a bit of The Advent's electro output.

Galcid's Ambient Works is also good, three chill beatless pieces and one with fast clattering synth percussion. Has some nice sharp-edged sounds.

I just finished reading the 2015 short story collection "Cyberpunk: Malaysia". 14 near-future scifi stories by Malaysian authors.

I really enjoyed it! I appreciated the variety of stories in the book. It could've been 14 derivative angry-man-in-rainy-neon-city stories, but wasn't.

Zen Cho, the editor, has a webpage for the book: https://zencho.org/books/cyberpunk-malaysia/

Back from the arcade.

Megaphysics and I played well, we both had good sets. I spent a few hours hanging out with my friend DJ Popcorn, haven't done that in about a year. And (!) had dinner at The Roxy. Was a good night.

But now I can't sleep. I guess that's OK.

I'm headed to the arcade tonight to DJ with my friend Megaphysics. CEV & Megaphysics @ Ground Kontrol Arcade #pdx 9:00 PM until close, $7 cover, games are set to free play, 21 & over.

I'll be playing the usual selection of electro, techno, and downtempo from 11:30 PM on.

CW: Alcohol, Sobriety

I abstained from drinking alcohol for a year back in 2016, and am doing the same this year.

Both four years ago and now, after about two weeks I started craving sugar. From what I read online that's common. It's some kind of physical or psychological replacement effect. It's a weird feeling.

Feels like time for a late-night PB & J.

I saw William Gibson read from his new book "Agency" at Powells tonight. He's as nice and witty as ever.

I'm really glad I caught him this tour, I missed the last couple. I love hearing him swear.

T.Power / Bionic Chronic

From his 1996 album "Waveform".

I was mixing some drum & bass tonight, playing around, and came up against the weird time signature in this track. I count the first phrase as 6 and the second as 7; I guess that makes it 13 over 4? Something like that. #nowplaying

CW: MH, Winter

I'm having a slow, uninspired, unproductive month. I feel sluggish. Maybe it's the winter weather (and light level).

Trying my best to not beat myself up about it. Do a bunch of small things to keep myself moving. Wait it out.

I've been listening to the "Discord & Rhyme" album review podcast today. Their episode on Eno's "Here Come The Warm Jets" is great:

I bought a USB gamepad the other day, and then spent hours trying to get mednafen to see it.

It turns out that mednafen looks for linux evdev joysticks if it finds linux/joystick.h at compile time. I'm on FreeBSD, so I need it to use SDL2 for joystick support. A dependency of qt5-gui installs joystick.h, causing the problem.

The workaround was to edit src/drivers/Joystick.cpp around line 178 and force it to use SDL2. I should write a patch and submit it to the mednafen port maintainer.