#musical isotope series

[vocalsynthbdays]

happy birthday coko(cevio ai) !!!! [jan 25]

(cevio ai)

COKO is a japanese synth developed by kamitsubaki studio, and released in 2023. coko is voiced by virtual youtube singer KOKO, and illustrated by SWAV. coko released for voicepeak today, 25 jan 2024. she is a part of the Musical Isotope project

(voice peak)

[thinkanamelater]

Gorgeous voice AND cat ears? yes please

[fzkr-sndr049]

I had my lazy days again listening to LIQ’s usage of Yukari and Akari, so I think of Akari as a big-eater rebel would be fine, along with Kotonoha sisters lol YukaIA display their affection too much (I imagined them being scolded) ChiFlower gets awkward when RIME is around 0   0... I drew a scene RIMECOKO are secretly girlfriends and flower accidentally saw em--- welp, ‘nother day of lazy to post stuffs |||

[omnipotent-omnicube]

what is cevio's deal with having white-haired voicebanks

[red-dyed-sarumane]

ive had an ask in my inbox since like october about coko vocal synth & ive been meaning to draw her to answer it and yet every time i pick up my tablet pen an aru sekai chara comes out oh my god can i please just

[tomedonaki-hakujou]

Kamitsubaki City Under Construction: "Ensemble" and "Regenerate" (and "Regenerate Virtual Reality") are coming soon -- and will be in English!!! (AKA: my "PLEASE PLAY KAMICITY" shill post)

What is Kamitsubaki City and Virtual Witch Phenomenon?

A thread for newcomers to Kamitsubaki, in light of the 3 new games upcoming! This is the oversea's first look at Kamitsubaki's stories and creative worlds. (Slightly edited mirror of my thread on Twitter!!)

Kamitsubaki Studio is a Japanese creative music group. They're most known for their music group Virtual Witch Phenomenon -- comprising of their 5 main virtual singer talents: Kaf, Rim, Harusaruhi, Isekaijoucho, and Koko.

Kamitsubaki City Under Construction (henceforth referred to as simply KamiCity) is a series of games that tells the story of a mysterious city in the virtual world that constantly self-destructs and reforms. The members of VWP are characters in KamiCity, and have different names.

ALSO SUBSCRIBE TO VWP!!!! and the individual members too!! They all have such unique and stunning voices, and such beautiful songs too!!! They each have their own style that's drawn their own individual fanbases but they unite so beautifully and melodiously as VWP...

Kaf - Morisaki Kafu

Rim - Tanioki Rime

Harusaruhi - Asanushi Haru

Isekaijoucho - Yorukawa Sekai

Koko - Rinne Koko

The five girls were brought to KamiCity from the real world into the virtual world, as the mystical "witches" who could sing to save them from the apocalypse.

KamiCity as a game series started with KamiCity Emergence, a limited-run mobile game in 2021 in which players solved word puzzles known as "Q's." And then KamiCity Narrative released earlier this year (2023), a VN/TTRPG-style game. Both are Japanese exclusive, though.

KamiCity Ensemble, Regenerate, and Regenerate Virtual Reality are the three new games here.

KamiCity Ensemble is a rhythm game for mobile and Steam. The key visual focuses on the Isotope versions of VWP -- you may know the CeVIO Kafu as one of them.

The isotopes/CeVIOs (now SynthV and VOICEPEAK too) are Kafu, Sekai, Rime, Coko, and Haru. Before now, the Isotopes have had very few involvement or connection with KamiCity, with only Kafu appearing in the "Emergence" soundtrack (NOT the story.) What their connection is to the Witches and KamiCity in-lore is still unknown, which is super interesting!

KamiCity Regenerate is a visual novel for Steam and Switch, seeming to focus on the story of KamiCity in full detail.

In Emergence and Narrative, the story was only in bits and pieces. Regenerate (and Ensemble) is also a huge deal because they're in English too!

The VR version seems to be roughly the same, although having exclusive 3D visuals. It's also undetermined at this point what platform it will be on.

Kamitsubaki Studio has repeatedly blown me away by their music and intrigued me by their world of KamiCity (which is also featured in their music videos) so I'm so excited to see it in full!! PLAY KAMICITY PLEAAAASEEEE!!!!!!!!! and listen to their music/watch the music videos IT'S SO GOOD!!!!!

[singinganimerobotsdotcom]

I'm in a potential minority here but I like actually how Kafu SV sounds in the latest demo. She kinda sounds like Kaf but also not really and has that artificial bent to it which is exactly what the appeal of the musical isotope series is to me

[neutrondivergent]

Hi!

neutrondivergent here. I joined Tumblr a couple of days ago, but I've been here longer without an account. Finally got around to making one! This is my first post, so I thought I'd introduce myself here.

So, hi there! Call me neutrondivergent. I'm also known as angelnature816 on Scratch (the name is something I came up with when I was a small child) and used to be called aspiewarrior on School of Dragons, back before it shut down. *cries*

Pronouns she/her (to be honest, online I don't care all that much about pronouns)

I put some info up in my About section, but I'm saying it here too anyway :)

Christian, Queer, neurodivergent

Asexual and Autistic

Fandoms include How To Train Your Dragon (book!verse and movie!verse, including the short films and TV series Riders/Defenders of Berk and Race To The Edge. Haven't watched The Nine Realms yet, and don't currently plan to, as I don't have a very good opinion of what of it I have seen.), The Wizards of Once, a little Harry Potter (haven't finished the series yet though, but I plan to), currently reading the Heroes of Olympus series (Percy Jackson) (looks like this will become a special interest), and that's all the fandoms I can think of off the top of my head. I intend to read/watch get into various series/fandoms.

I am also a theatre kid and love musicals.

I read a lot.

(sorry this is a bit of an infodump)

If you're wondering where the inspo for my username comes from, it's a science pun. (One word: isotopes. Three words: are isotopes neutrondivergent?)

I'm a bit of a nerd ngl

Very very interested in neurodiversity and queer Christianity

anyway, that's all for now. Have a lovely day if anyone's reading this :)

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 262

Adjective: Heavy

Noun: Echo

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Heavy: of great weight, or difficult to lift or move; used in questions about weight; (of a class of thing) above the average weight, or large of its kind; weighed down, or full of something; (of a person's head or eyes) feeling weighed down by weariness; of great density, or thick or substantial; not delicate or graceful, or coarse; (of food or a meal) hard to digest, or too filling; (of ground or soil) hard to travel over or work with because muddy or full of clay; (of a smell) very strong, or overpowering; (of the sky) full of dark clouds, or oppressive; (physics) of or containing atoms of an isotope of greater than the usual mass; of more than the usual size, amount, or force; using a lot of; doing something to excess; striking or falling with force; (of music, especially rock) having a strong bass component and a forceful rhythm; needing much physical effort; moving slowly or with difficulty; very important or serious; (of a literary work) hard to read or understand because overly serious or difficult; mentally oppressive, or hard to endure; feeling or expressing sadness; (informal) (of a situation) serious and hard to deal with; (informal) (of a person) strict or harsh

Echo: a sound or series of sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener; a close parallel or repetition of an idea, feeling, style, or event

[riflebrass]

I hate this because most of these are from later seasons. The artist thing was from season 10 right on the edge of when the show was actually good. The astronaut was from when the series was in it's prime. Homer had so many jobs from the good years.

He was a mascot for the Springfield Isotopes He was a car designer for his half brother's motor company He was a county music manager He was a snow plow driver He was a monorail conductor He was a pin monkey at the bowling alley He was a union representative He sang in a barber shop quartet He was a private cop He was a snakeoil salesman with some weird sex tonic He was a licensed Krusty impersonator He was Burns' personal assistant He was a sideshow freak getting shot in the stomach with a cannon He was a voice actor for Itchy & Scratchy He was a bootlegger He was a carny He was a cultist He was a night clerk at Kwik E Mart He was a submariner He was the sanitation commissioner He was a bodyguard for Mayor Quimby

[vocalsynthbdays]

happy bithday kafu(cevio ai) and no.7(neutrino) [jul 7] !!!!!!!!!!

kafu

no.7

KAFU is a japanese synth developed by KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO in collaboration with kafu's voice provider, a virtual singer called KAF. kafu was released in 2021, and sShe is part of the Musical Isotope Series. she was illustrated by PALOW. the name "kafu" comes from combining "kaf" and "you" (as in, you the user). her 3d model was created by Kawasaki. also kafu was announced to come to synthv earlier today

no.7 (aka seven) is a japanese synth released in 2021. shes voiced by Koiwai Kotori, and illustrated by Nekoyashiki Pushio. on 30 sep 2022 no.7 recieved a voicevox bank. she is 23 yo and 165cm tall.

[mi-soni]

KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO：Musical Isotope Series ✨

Acryl Keychain

[fzkr-sndr049]

RIME is vulnerable to COKO’s unpredictability rkgk (delusion again!) the title is also... interesting...

[architectnews]

12 student projects from the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism

A tower designed for Ontario wildlife and a gold mine transformed into a soundscape feature in this school show from students at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism.

Other projects include an analysis of a hotel militarised in the Lebanese Civil War and a utopian world referencing the childhood memories formed in a Chinese-Canadian family.

Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism

School: Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Carleton University Courses: M.Arch thesis, graduate and undergraduate studios

School statement:

"Many of the projects represent work from the year-long Master of Architecture thesis, including the Canadian Indian Residential Schools as potential sites of decolonization, remedies for the post-pandemic city, and Cairo's Cosmic Realms and Earthly Realities.

"Other projects illustrate several of the Master of Architecture six-week option studios. This year, the studios explored themes of Threshold Landscapes, Black Flight and Architectural Authorship, led by Azrieli visiting critics Virginia Lee, Thandi Loewenson and Neil Spiller.

"Also represented is work from the first MArch studio year in the three-year programme, the fourth-year fall housing studio and the final studio in the undergraduate Bachelor of Architectural Studies Major."

The Rhythm Section by Chloe Cooke

"Through processes of archiving and annotating movement, this project develops new forms of notation attempting to communicate social and spatial histories related to dance, choreography, rhythm, and sonic production as a result of bodily movement.

"The project also explores drawing as percussive performance, combining different styles of rhythm that are inherently connected and work together to reveal lines of flight, in which dance serves as a threshold to connect displaced people. This is done by creating – or recreating – spaces, narratives, performances and rhythms that beat 'new worlds' into being."

Student: Chloe Cooke Studio: M.Arch Option Studio — Black Flight Tutor: Dr Thandi Loewenson Email: ckcooke240@gmail.com

De-Colonial Intersections of Conservation and Healing: The Indian Residential School System by Catherine McBain

"This thesis explores the spatial conditions related to the territorial and architectural practices of the Indian Residential Schools (IRS) in Canada. The project alludes to 'illustrative futures' where the conservation of landscapes, architecture and territories means designing encounters for healing and critical reflection.

"Proposed as a series of frictional embodied experiences, the encounters subvert the IRS memory, interrogating its socio-spatial hierarchies. The project explores three former residential schools, intentionally reconnecting spatial fragments, reclaiming territories and subverting existing architectures. The encounters suggest ontological connections with erased cultural landscapes while challenging current hegemonic conservation practices."

Student: Catherine McBain Course: Thesis Tutor: Dr Natalia Escobar Castrillón Email: catherinemcbain@cmail.carleton.ca

Birds: Agents of Change by Brandon Todd

"This project reverses the degradation of bird habitats in the industrial landscape of Hamilton Harbour, Ontario, transposing conditions found in adjacent ecologically productive sites to barren industrial areas along the harbour's edge.

"Among several interventions, a series of ethereal bird towers reach to the sky, incorporating lightweight components for bird feeding, nesting, bathing, and perching above with spaces for human observation below. The tower's height attracts avian wildlife to the site and encourages birds' natural capacities for distribution, pollination, and ecological exchange. The project was developed using a series of models constructed within water tanks, immersing the towers within their atmospheric domains."

Student: Brandon Todd Studio: Fourth-Year Studio — Tank Worlds: Hamilton Harbour Tutor: Dr Lisa Moffitt Email: brandon.todd@carleton.ca

The Holiday Inn Beirut: Intentional Apparatus, Unintentional Monument by Anthony Youssef

"Among the relics of the Lebanese Civil War is the Holiday Inn Beirut. During the civil war, the hotel was militarized. Its towering body offered fighters – from leftist and rightist militias – a stronghold from which to launch their munitions. Still standing, it has been called an unintentional monument.

"This series of drawings seek to negotiate between the Holiday Inn Beirut's identity as an apparatus of war and a monument. Here, it becomes an urban observatory, allowing visitors to witness the city's past, present and future. Various layers are superimposed upon one another to embody the complexities and contradictions inherent in the capital city of Beirut."

Student: Anthony Youssef Studio: M.Arch Option Studio - Architectural Authorship Tutor: Azrieli visiting critic Neil Spiller Email: anthonyyoussef0@gmail.com

Orchestrated Soundscapes by Rudo Mpisaunga

"This project explores a fictional future in which the Mponeng Gold Mine in Johannesburg is transformed into an eerie soundscape. Eternally conducted by the wind, water, and heat, this musical ensemble disrupts the humdrum of daily life by giving voice to the land.

"When wind speeds are low, the pit and shaft become a celebratory space. The hollow amphitheatre floors become drums when people gather, such as during the toyi-toyi or when dancing to amapiano. When wind speeds are high, the wind turbines funnel air into reservoirs beneath the amphitheatre channelling it through the shafts and tunnels sounding the pipes."

Student: Rudo Mpisaunga Studio: M.Arch Option Studio - Deep Dust/The Killing Dark Tutor: Dr Ozayr Saloojee Email: rudompisaunga@cmail.carleton.ca

The Globe in a Granule of Cryoconite by Sean Broadhurst

"In response to a prompt to read place from afar, this project aggregates research into a story of cryoconite in the glacial crusts of Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut. In its bacteria-bound mineral cocoons that entrain airborne particulates, cryoconite authors stories of planetary relations. The embedded time and spatial scales of cryoconite subvert cartographic convention.

"The globe is distorted, and the section refuses scale; isometric space is warped by isotopes of plutonium or neon that signal colonial violence or possible cosmic origins. Drawing the immense micrometres of a single granule requires registers tuned to disparate moments and places at the thresholds of human perception."

Student: Sean Broadhurst Studio: M.Arch Option Studio - Cartographies of Refusal Tutor: Azrieli visiting critic Elise Hunchuck Email: seanbroadhurst@cmail.carleton.ca

Āyat al-Qāhirah: Cairo’s Cosmic Realms and Earthly Realities by Rehab Salama

"Āyat al-Qāhirah explores Cairo's sacred architecture as a mediator where the human, the landscape, and the cosmos collide and merge. The project analyzes how architecture and architectural representation can become a bridge between the earthly and the cosmic.

"The thesis proposes a conceptual network of thresholds between the sacred and every day. These serve as registers for the visible and the invisible. They connect the seen and unseen, the sensible and unintelligible, the physical and metaphysical, the quotidian and divine. The work aims to manifest the hidden orders imposed on the material world through motions of the cosmos and earth."

Student: Rehab Salama Course: Thesis Tutor: Dr Ozayr Saloojee and associate professor Johan Voordouw Email: rehabsalama@cmail.carleton.ca

Carleton Square Redevelopment - River Meadow Heights Ottawa, Ontario by Cameron Maiolo and Mark Meneguzzi

"Working with Minto Development Group, we wanted to explore increasing density, integrating nature within the built environment and creating a well-rounded pedestrian-focused urban node. Redeveloping for the future, we strove to emphasise the 15-minute community.

"Our master plan focal point consists of a high-density residential core followed by a mid-density mixed-use residential and commercial district. Adjacent is a low-density housing of mixed typologies. We formed a connection to the park by implementing green fingers that act as stormwater retention systems and promote the vibrant growth of local flora and fauna while also providing green barriers between buildings."

Student: Cameron Maiolo and Mark Meneguzzi Studio: Fourth-Year Housing Studio Tutor: Associate professor Benjamin Gianni Email: cameron.maiolo@gmail.com and markmeneguzzi@gmail.com

Post-Pandemia at the poissonerie shanahan: an account of sick cities and their remedies by Shannon Clark

"An epidemic is not simply biological but rather a spatial phenomenon that mutates sociopolitical constructions. The fears associated with the metaphors of disease have landscaped the city as though we are looking at "the section of a fibrous tumour," to quote architect and writer Frank Lloyd Wright in When Democracy Builds.

"The setting is the fictional Poissonerie Shanahan in Montreal’s Jean-Talon Market as envisioned by writer Nicholas Dickner’s Nikolski. Fiction is used as a tool to understand the intersections of architecture, urbanism, and public health. The story of four sick cities is then told to exercise our empathetic intelligence in the face of a global crisis that has rapidly spatialized blame."

Student: Shannon Clark Course: Thesis Tutor: Dr Ozayr Saloojee Email: shannon.clark@carleton.ca

Through Thick and Thin // Story Space on Rannoch Moor by Camille Ringrose

"This thesis proposes a compilation of fictional narratives that reflect on Rannoch Moor as ground, unstable terrain, burial, and wetness. It offers alternative ways of knowing through literature, folklore, and storytelling as a multiverse method of world-building.

"The thesis asks: can we use stories to design with precision? Not as an act of probing for answers, newness, or novelty, but as a form of watching and waiting? Storytelling suggests a movement to look not to the past or the future, but to the deepness of the conditions surrounding us, weaving together a more complex tapestry towards recovery and resilience."

Student: Camille Ringrose Course: Thesis  Tutor: Dr Ozayr Saloojee Email: camilleeringrose@gmail.com

Diasporic Dreamland: A Memory Box by Enid Huang

"This project focuses on reflecting on one's heritage and childhood memories. It is influenced by Enid Huang's Chinese heritage as a second-generation Canadian – diaspora. Diasporic Dreamland is developed through the foundation of siheyuan – traditional Chinese courtyards made of four sides.

"It correlates with four traditional Chinese tales and long-term memories that influenced Huang's childhood upbringing. Using various media, Huang created four drawings as a reflection that blends both cultural elements and childhood memories, to imagine a utopian world that connects her closer to her heritage."

Student: Enid Huang Studio: Fourth-Year Studio — Drawing Candy and Digital Sweetness Tutor: Associate professor Johan Voordouw Email: enidhuang@me.com

The Bitumen Biome by Odessa Boehm

"Like a Trojan horse, the Bitumen Biome surprises the unwitting visitors of the Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton, Alberta. Instead of visiting an arid or tropical biome, visitors are met with the wild landscape of their backyards, the Athabasca Oil Sands.

"The Bitumen Biome unearths an inaccessible landscape and translates oils origins, systems, and the scale of environmental degradation for its visitors. Through a sensory experience of tailing ponds, chemical diffusers, and bird scare contractions, the Bitumen Biome gives visitors a glimpse into the oil ecosystem and allows them to experience its often intangible effects."

Student: Odessa Boehm Studio: Fourth-Year Studio — Grounding Stories: Translating the Architectural Field, from Survey to Display Tutor: Instructor Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon Email: odessaboehm@gmail.com

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[red-dyed-sarumane]

promo hour???

hiii i'm akire (pronounced like a key ray) or forfy (from forklift) whichever name u want to use for me is fine. they/them only please & thank u

i'm majorly into vocaloid/vocaloid synths in general & basically everything else i like involves that in some capacity. HIIRAGI MAGNETITE FANS PLEASE INTERACT. i've devoted 4 years of my life to untangling their aru sekai/a certain world series of songs & i'm not stopping any time soon. but i love all their songs & would love friends that do too. have some of my fan art to prove im so normal about their works

i also love the musical isotopes all of them but rime is my special girl & i'll hype her up until im dead. coincidentally rim is also my favorite from vwp.

i frequent the daily rankings & new uploads under rime & aoki lapis' character tags (& some times others) on nnd & like to make song rec posts with what i find & like!

i dont have a dni or carrd for u to worry about but know i have a very low tolerance for infighting & drama. keep that away.

vocaloid/vocal synths lovers & appreciators please interact

[pjstafford]

Random Thoughts

Hello, world, friend and family

I have been doing weekly blogs. Not sure anybody reads them or anybody cares. This will be my last one of this series. I have tried to be as soul searching, in depth, the good, the bad and the ugly with these blogs as I could be in the midst of a time when we are all experiencing the same thing in slightly different ways.

Today I have nothing earth shaking to say. I only have the random thoughts which pass through my brain.

Saturday New Mexico opens up with a lot of restrictions. My world will change little as I can work mostly from home and, if you can, you should. When I go into the office or out for supplies, I will go, do and come back home. Despite no change for me in the foreseeable future, there is a sense of relief and a sense of lightness. We survived for now. No one I love have been deeply affected yet. Those caveats at the end of sentences! I started this blog series with a list of all the emotions I was experiencing. I end the same but with slightly different emotions. Grateful, relief, hesitant, determined. I am the same as I have ever been. I have changed in so many fundamental ways.

The last two months are divided up into two different time periods. The first month I had this almost paralyzing fear...not so much for me but for mankind. I thought this could be the apolcalypse. It has not been to date. The silliest of some of my thoughts make me shake my head. I still have toilet paper. I’m ok with higher prices for meat...become more plant based, friends, move on. I was so often annoyed that first month with the time wasting. So many zoom meetings designed to “check” in and, guess what, I have real work to do. I’m not sure if people became more used to working from home or I became better at putting in boundaries at what I would do, but wasting work time not working has never been my strength. I am a person who likes to be helpful. The second month seems more productive. There is worth in my work. I’ve developed a pattern where my work day hours may be longer but less compact. I can work two hours, take an hour, work two more, repeat. The ebb and flow of work becomes mostly my own except for meetings I must attend which seem more relevant now. When the subject matter I’m dealing with is depressing I take more self care moments and then am more productive because of it. Those large projects I thought were vital sit unfinished. The projects I’ve done instead seem more relevant in the moment.

I gained weight I wish I hadn’t. Drank too much for a week or two and then realized I wasn’t enjoying it. It wasn’t helping me to sleep or relaxed so I went back to my pre crisis drinking ways. I was brave enough to dye my hair and I like it. I hate the thought that the more life gets back to normal the more I will have to wear shoes. It’s worth it, but it will be an adjustment. I haven’t binged watch nearly as much as I could have over the last two months. I found myself having difficulty concentrating. When I stream I am drawn to children movies about talking animals. I am hoping that won’t last. I have done no creative writing except a couple of poems. I’m hoping that will change. I have not been able to sleep well. I am often fatigue. I hope that changes as well.

I want to keep my zoom time meetings with distant friends! Those have been great. Can we actually spend three hours talking about X-Files? Yes, yes we can. But we manage to talk about many other things as well. I hope Drive in theaters make a come back! I’m sad about concerts going away but I kind of hope couch tours will be embraced by far more bands. Dylan is doing original music again and Duchovny has a new novel coming out. Art continues; perhaps is made better.

I marvel at human resiliency. We all have to wear masks, so let’s start cottage industries and make them a fashion statement. What do I really want to do that I know will be delayed? Get a pedicure, hug someone tightly, go to an Isotopes game. What will I do soon that will feel normal and glorious? In June when restaurants are reopen I will spend an hour with a cup of coffee in the presence of company I enjoy.

I am the same from this time. I did not lose my quirkiness, my oddness, my stubbornness. I did not become a clean freak despite my disinfectant frenzy moments. Those will pass in time. I am still an introvert who enjoy my solitude. Even now.

I am different. While I have always struggle with a sense of balance I am more determined than ever to keep that balance going forward. That lesson I blogged about a few weeks back of keeping the structure of a weekend still lives within me. I am fine with giving up a weekend day and gaining a week day, but the need to decompress and hear myself think is stronger within me now. I think I can live in the moment better. I think I can be grateful for the air I breathe more.

Larger picture focus?

People are so worry about kids having education. Can surviving a pandemic offer no life education for these kids? Must all education be in a classroom or online?The kids will be alright. Let them breathe, learn, grow. And give them an old fashion book to read and some open space to run. Watch them be a better generation that we can ever believe.

Isn’t it amazing how clean the air is right now? Seriously, can we consider how we commute. Eat less meat, my friends.

Can we be kinder to our workforce? I fear we will take advantage of those desperate for jobs, but consider how many of our essential workers are low wage employees. Can we allow a parent with a sick kid to work from home without taking PTO? Can we become more humane? Unfortunately I see no evidence that this is our future despite the lessons of today.

I hate racism. I hate it. Because I hate racism I hate Trump more than ever. I hate the way he says China. I hate him with every fiber of my being. I have never hated a human soul more.

And I have so many Dylan lyrics in my head right now. There is one for every emotion and thought. Same with David Duchovny Gifs by the way. There is no single thought or emotion you cannot find or create a Duchovny GIF for, if you are so inclined...I digress. I do that a lot these days. Back to Dylan

This man is a genius and an enigma. After 8 years with no original music, in the middle of the pandemic, he drops a 17 minute song about the assassination of President Kennedy. Isn’t that bizarre? But he has given us three original songs now and a new album next month. Whoever is doing his social media now deserves a hug. He is communicating and expressing himself to fans. I don’t feel worthy.

These words from from thirty years ago keep rolling through my head

I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man

Like every sparrow falling

Like every grain of sand

Those words are always true. They are not more true now than they have ever been. It is only that we can understand their truth more fully now.

Keep on keepin on, my friends.