Cassette tapes with a special pencil for each one.

And the real passwords in a spiral notebook called “Not Passwords”

I’ve been keeping The JuJu Orchestra’s album Bossa Nova is not a Crime on repeat for the commute because it matches every speed no matter how much or how little traffic. Plus it sounds like I’m planning a heist to knock over a casino. As for single songs, here a few from my Current Mindlist playlist:

• Apes of the State - “Plate Glass Apology”
• LP - “Lost on You”
• MEUTE - “You and Me”
• Bear Ghost - “Necromancin’ Dancin’”
• Leon Bridges - “River”
• Gogol Bordello - “Wonderlust King”
• Rainbow Kitten Surprise - “Devil Like Me” or “Painkillers”
• Billy Bragg & Wilco - “All You Fascists”
• Baker Boy - “Peacekeeper”
• The Avalanches - “Because I’m Me”
• Oscar Peterson - “Hymn to Freedom”
• Skanga - “Truly, Madly, Deeply”
• New York Dolls - “We’re All in Love”
• Shefu - “Chandler Bing”
• Fanfare Ciocarlia - “Moliendo Cafe”
• Sondre Lerche (probably) - “Is It Okay if I Call You Mine?”
• Wingnut Dishwashers Union - “Urine Speaks Louder than Words”
• Cheap Perfume - “It’s Okay to Punch Nazis”
• Scary Goldings - “Elegy for an Exit”
• Big Daddy Kane - “Ain’t No Half-Steppin”
• Saul Williams - “List of Demands”
• Abdullah Ibrahim - “Blue Bolero”

I don’t have any beliefs that define me as a person and don’t really have any deepest believes. I grew up in the south for almost 30 years, moved to the west coast for five, then over to the east coast for another 20. Politics, religion, philosophy, and morality are all a sliding scale depending on what and how much is around you. Things are what they are where you are. The farther you expand your circle, the more room you have for new viewpoints. People everywhere are amazing and kind, people everywhere are boring and shitty. You’ve gotta keep your mouth shut and your mind open until you get the lay of the land. Then you find your family and grow together.

Still, I’d rather be dogmatic than catmatic.

It means I’ve been hearing random fireworks for the past two weeks.