December Daily: commuting

[resonant]

mific asks, "Sounds like you commute to and fro still. How do you pass the time traveling? Music? Audiobooks? Something else? Any reccs? :)"

Yes, I'm driving that hour nearly every weekend. I haven't really found any way to fill the time except for music. These days I'm getting most of my music from Freegal, which is a service I get through my library: I can download five free songs a week out of an incredibly eccentric collection (probably based on label ownership). So here's a really random collection of stuff I'm liking -- stupid stuff from when I was young, old reliable artists who happen to be available on Freegal, new discoveries.

Superfly, Curtis Mayfield.

I Didn't Know I Loved You Till I Saw You Rock and Roll, Gary Glitter

FM Radio, Dar Williams

The Naked Highwayman, Freeport Convention

Like or Like Like, Miniature Tigers

Dig U Better Dead, Prince (I wasn't really familiar with his stuff after his big '80s popularity, but I am concluding that he was criminally underrated)

One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor, 2018 remake, Paul Simon





1 -- goss, "VENOM! Why do you think it's been such an instant hit with Fandom, and what are some of your favourite fanworks so far?" and nestra, "Any Venom recs?"
2 -- anitac588, "How do you relate to different fandoms? Do you revisit them? Sometimes I find it difficult to go back to reading stories in 'old' fandoms after discovering new OTP."
3 -- marginaliana, "what is your favorite physical non-living thing? Not a person or a pet, but it could be something you own or a piece of art, etc."
4 -- cesperanza, "I'll ask an HP question, actually, because I wasn't really ever in it and I'm interested in the reactions of people who were. It seems to me from the outside so spectacularly meh now; like, it was the fictional equiv of Lost (which I also didn't watch) where it was fascinating as a piece of serialized fiction but where the execution simply couldn't live up to the collective imagination. Am I wrong?"
5 -- teigh_corvus, "Your thoughts on James Joyce and Ulysses."
6 -- kass, "If the you of 10 years ago could see you now, what would surprise her most?"
7 -- jjhunter, "What do you carry with you?"
8 -- mific, "Sounds like you commute to and fro still. How do you pass the time traveling? Music? Audiobooks? Something else? Any reccs? :)"
9 -- torch, "favorite advent songs!"
10 -- princessofgeeks, "How did you go about changing fandoms? Was it, historically, something you did or something that just happened? Did friends lure you? Did you find new shows to watch?"
11 -- reginagiraffe, "(It's MrGiraffe's birthday so...) Have you ever written a birthday themed story? If not, what couple would have the best/funnest/easiest birthday story to write and why?"
12 -- laurenthemself, "What are your thoughts on Thor: Ragnarok? I know ya boy Steve wasn't in it but did you have any shippy feelings?"
13 -- allheadybooks, "13. What's your least favorite thing about splitting your time between two houses? (My wife and I are also in a commuter marriage at the moment, and I get so frustrated every weekend when I have to go grocery shopping AGAIN because I thought I had eggs but that was at the other apartment!"
14 -- schneefink, "how about your field of study/work/specialization/hobby and how a book/movie/series/canon got it terribly/hilariously wrong?"
15 -- china_shop, "What hooks you into a fanfic? Is it banter, characterisation, tropes, or...? Is it different from what hooks you into original fic?"
16 -- muccamukk, "Describe a long fic you always wanted to write, but never have and likely never will."
17 -- ride_4ever, "rec two due South fanworks: a favorite that you created and a favorite that someone else created. (Anything! Triggers and squicks not a concern for me.)"
18 -- kass, "What have you read recently that you've enjoyed?
19 -- jjhunter, "What are five words you like or find especially meaningful + 1 word you despise? Why?"
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22 -- mekare, What would Ben Fraser do in 2018?
23 -- marina, "What was the last book you read that wasn't fanfic and that you intensely loved, and why."
24 -- wychwood, "Something about SGA! What's the one fic you're sorry you never wrote? What was your favourite episode? Do you still love John/Rodney? How gay WAS John Sheppard? Where in Atlantis would you live if you could pick any room you liked? Pick one or a topic of your choice."
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27 --destina, "how has your relationship to fandom changed over the years? By which I mean not just participation in it, but your level of tolerance/interest for the cyclical things about it, the way old arguments never really stop or die, etc, but also the ways fandom changes and new ways of doing fandom evolve. (And old ways evolve out, and terms evolve, etc.)"
28 -- kass, "What do you like best about where you live?"
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30 -- china_shop, "Your favourite book you read this year."
31 -- wolfshark, "what is your favorite story to reread of your own stuff? what was your favorite story to write?"

Comments

[lunabee34]

Thanks for the music links. Some of this is new to me.

[resonant]

I'm glad! If there's something in particular you're looking for, I'm always happy to share.

[lunabee34]

You're so sweet!

[mific]

Yeah, spotify’s the equivalent for me, but I’m resisting paying for an account so I can’t play anything on mobile. It’s all audiobooks and podfic instead, when I commute. Also, Prince!
Seen this? Prince from about 3.30 min. https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

[resonant]

I saw that! It made me sad, though, because the other guys won't really interact with him musically -- you can sort of see that he's looking for somebody to play with him, but whether it's good old-fashioned racism, or wanting to play the song exactly the same way as a tribute, or just not wanting to get creative for whatever reason, they all go on going through the motions as if he weren't doing anything interesting at all.