2025 09 14
I’m trying to think of some fun, interesting elements to anchor elements around. (I like the specificity of the used book festival, traveling kotatsu, and so on in The Tatami Galaxy.) To that end, I’m going to list as many things as possible.
- Horn quartet
- busking
- Boston Common
- John Adams’ grave
- NEC - conservatory
- experimental classical music
- shoegaze
- used bookstore
- open-air bookstore
- Iran “thieves don’t read” old folk tale
- Zen
- mountain hermit
- staff, begging bowl
- rap/hip-hop
- professional football, baseball, basketball
- Olympics
- Greece
- Nesquick
- instant coffee
- prison
- prison versions of contraband items (e.g. lighters)
- showers
- dropping the soap
- Spongebob
- Gary the Snail
- lawyers
- Suits, the TV show
- savants
- college dropouts
- College Dropout, the Kanye album
- Dropout, the streaming service
- eccentric artists
- witchy, earthy girls with mandala quilts
- egomaniacs
- depressed drunks
- Earl Sweatshirt
- technical fast rappers vs. lyricists, etc.
- rap beef
- art as political subversion, e.g. Shostakovich et al., Ai Wei-Wei
- shoulder packs
- Japan
- thru-hiking
- sherpas
- palm reading
- shamans
- therapy
- antidepressants
- DMT, ecstasy, smoking weed
- supplements, AG1
- artificial intelligence
- red wine, white wine
- Georgian wine, putting wine in the ground to ferment
- fermentation
- kimchi
- Dungeons and Dragons
- role-playing games
- video games
- walking simulators
- virtual reality
- augmented reality
- phone
- tiktok
- dopamine addiction
- “dopamine fasting”
- regular fasting
- meditation
- jhanas
- enlightenment
- freedom
- love
- hatred
- scorn
- Shakespeare
- Hamlet
- kings and queens
- ambassador
- movie theatres
- rice cookers
- breakfast
- eggs
- lunch and dinner
- tortillas (Spain)
- tortillas (Mexico)
- language
- fluency
- interconnection
- communication
- conductor
- Ben Zander
- possibility
- child pornography
- the FBI
- the president
- Trump
- rump
- dump
- pump
- lemonade
- raspberry lemonade
- blue raspberry
- artificial flavors
- the matrix
- golden hour
- early morning blue
- torches (fire)
- torches (flashlight)
- campfire
- cooking
- baking