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some suburbs waited 48 hours or more for power to be restored it was already a tough 24 hours for us even the traffic lights at major intersections near the freeway on ramp and off ramp weren t working the streetlights in these areas were also out and the roads were eerily quiet might be dramatising a bit but it did feel a bit like some kind of post apocalyptic world at least until we saw over the hill that the lights were all still working in now all of summer is still ahead of us i imagine i ll be spending a lot of time in the confines of an air conditioned room or at the very least lounging in the coolest least hot part of the house doing some activity that requires very little movement it might be safe to emerge after dark as long as you don t forget the insect repellent wind up bird chronicle 10 06 2025 pistachios 1 comment most if not all novels by haruki murakami seem to take a while to digest properly if anything that seems to be the author s goal in creating these really bizarre stories the wind up bird chronicle is certainly no exception to this but it was so masterfully crafted that you could almost believe that it was a true story i think he achieves this in a few ways first is the inclusion of seemingly mundane details of the protagonist s life there are scenes scattered throughout the novel in which toru okada is simply boiling pasta in a pot of water or making a simple sandwich or preparing a cup of coffee there are also a few mentions of going for a swim in the local pool doing the ironing and listening to the radio unremarkable things that you or i could do and wouldn t think to tell anyone let alone write down for posterity i have seen a few online reviews by random people that say these details are boring and why do we need to know about these tiny details of his life but i actually think these scenes add a certain charm to the novel continue reading rising 24 04 2025 pistachios 2 comments in between other books i ve spent the last eight or so months reading the red rising series it was originally a trilogy but then pierce brown added three more books and there s a seventh and final book in the works which is due to be released mid next year or something yes i know the wait sounds like it will be torturous but i ve waited so long still waiting for the final book in the name of the wind trilogy it couldn t possibly be worse although to be honest i ve forgotten most of what happened in that so i no longer really care if the last book is ever finished and released usually i write a blog post for every book i read but i haven t done that this time because i didn t feel compelled to write about each of them that s not to say i didn t enjoy them they were very captivating and interesting but i think i just wasn t sure how to write about them without including lots of spoilers but a friend i lent red rising to told me that she always reads the end of a book at the start and despite the spoilers she still really liked red rising something about knowing which characters to pay attention to which i suppose is not a bad reason to read the ending first well from here on in there will be spoilers so it s up to you if you want to read on continue reading symphony 24 01 2025 pistachios 3 comments ok so it s been about half a year with no blog post so maybe it s time for an update a lot of catching up to do but also not really what i actually want to write about is the symphony assignment i ve given myself at the tail end of december d read an article about more creative new year resolutions not creative in the sense that you pick up an arts crafts hobby but in the sense that they re not the typical eat healthier exercise more type of resolutions one of the examples was actually quitting your gym membership particularly if you don t go very often another was to stop weighing measuring yourself these were all suggestions from different people who implemented these with great success in the past another suggestion was to select a different symphony every week and listen to it over and over again in that week since some of the other suggestions weren t really of any relevance to me never joined a gym before don t measure myself frequently enough for that to be an issue this was the one that interested me the most anyway the point of this exercise is to discover things about symphonies that you might know but not really know the person who suggested it said that when they did it they noticed something new with each listen it was really painted as some marvellous process of discovery and appreciation for me with minimal music background by which i m referring to music theory and training i expected it to be a bit more difficult so i m allowing myself several weeks with each symphony i m also not expecting that i ll notice that much about each one but hoping to at least glean something from the experience and since i was quite excited to get started i didn t wait until january to begin but i also had to figure out how i was going to access all the symphonies i was going to listen to in the last several years i ve only listened to the radio abc classic and not used any streaming services or bought albums except maybe one from the script i couldn t possibly rely on the radio for this assignment and i was unsure about buying each album so that left streaming after a bit of research d found a site called presto that has an extensive range of classical music that you can stream and purchase you get a free one month trial so i thought i d give it a go the really good thing about using presto is that they really emphasise paying rights holders per second of listening so that your money actually goes to the creators of the music you re listening to and it s calculated fairly more info here so anyway the next thing to do was choose which symphony to listen to first i figured i should start with something i know i will enjoy because that would probably increase my chances of continuing this through 2025 and beyond in the end the decision was actually reasonably easy camille saint saëns symphony no 3 also known as the organ symphony i have no doubt this was the best choice from listening to the radio i was already quite familiar with the last movement but they never seem to play any other part of the symphony now after about four weeks of repeated listening although admittedly not very frequent listening maybe once or twice a day but not necessarily every day of different renditions by various orchestras i finally know the symphony in its entirety to me the organ symphony is joyously triumphant and triumphantly joyous in the accompanying booklet from one of the albums i listened to it was said that saint saëns believed this was his greatest work and he could not possibly compose a better symphony the booklet also pointed out that the symphony uses all parts of the orchestra quite extensively which is something i really enjoyed about listening to it it will be interesting to see how other symphonies compare in this regard turning 28 07 2024 pistachios 5 comments i think part of the reason why i ve been blogging a lot less than previous years is that the internet feels too crowded there is already so much content out there so i don t want to add anything unless there is something new and valuable in it conversely there is the notion of blogging as a very personal thing a medium for self expression in which there is little to no consideration of whether it reaches an audience the blog exists for the blogger because there is a need or desire to write one s thoughts and opinions then why not a private journal well in my opinion if a post reaches just one person who finds value in it then it s justified there s just no way of knowing if that will happen in the days after publishing or several years later my future self might be that person but with the ever growing stuff all over the internet and the belief that none of it is truly unique or that if it is original it will very soon be replicated by others anyway and proliferate across the web like a disease i feel like by withholding a post i m not necessarily depriving anyone of such thoughts ponderings ideas because they are likely to find it elsewhere so why am i back here today i don t really know maybe the compulsion to write and to blog is greater than this vague overwhelm at the immensity of existing content recently i also thought about this thing of used to i think i had told someone at work sometime ago that i don t run as much as i used to cycling is my main cardio now since i can cycle to work and that s a commute and workout done at the same time it s been like this for a couple of years at least i still run occasionally but not regularly because i don t feel that same compulsion to run probably because of all the cycling anyway it came up again for some reason and he sort of said it like oh you don t run as much as you used to for some reason i felt the need to be defensive about it i thought of something i read one time probably in a novel that the saddest words are used to because it implies something regrettably lost but it doesn t necessarily have to be a bad thing to say i used to do this but i don t do it anymore a lot of our identity is associated with what we do but our identity is changeable there s no real reason to hold onto an old identity that doesn t fit anymore there s no reason you have to continue with a hobby you started many years ago if you just don t feel like doing it anymore or if you ve discovered other hobbies so why am i really here why am i back on the blog today maybe to mark a turning point although this isn t really the actual point of turning it s been more like an arc let s see if it circles around midnight 18 06 2024 pistachios 1 comment well well well if it isn t my neglected blog i did mean to write something sometime ago i think but i guess that time passed and the words got lost somewhere but i just finished reading salman rushdie s midnight s children so that means it s time to blog again it seems unavoidable if a book is finished a blog post must emerge if nothing else this space will still have its scattering of book reviews but not really reviews more just a record of various thoughts on various books on the back cover of my copy of midnight s children there are a number of excerpts from real reviews in real publications one critic likens the magic of the novel to the wonders of one hundred years of solitude another praises the story as being a bombay version of the world according to garp being a big fan of both of these works it would have been hugely surprising and disappointing if i wasn t also captivated by midnight s children and it definitely didn t disappoint continue reading posts navigation older posts recent posts june 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 nov filing cabinet books exploring food drink intellectual 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