Spent the night drinking beer, listening to the new 1975, and reading the legal motion in the Apple/FBI case. So a pretty good Thursday night.

It's out: https://itun.es/us/7x6E_

I love that people love the new The 1975 like I do. Tonight, on AP.net, in that thread, is why I know making *this* site was the right move and taking a chance is what I had to do.

I see the moon, the moon sees me -- that's enough.

Find myself throwing on The Neighborhood's 'Wiped Out!' more and more recently. https://itun.es/us/djLz9

The best piece of advice I got in the last few months: "Not everything that's worth saying is worth saying by oneself." I find myself often feeling like I need to to SPEAK when I should instead be highlighting the words of others.

I'd be really good being the filter / social media approver for artists and bands.

I don't understand where all these bots come on Twitter. I see an influx anytime I post now and it's all egg accounts.

The shit insurance companies get away with feels almost criminal at times.

We've passed 1,000 posts on the site before it's even launched. Not too shabby for a beta test.

Broncos. Super Bowl champs. I guess this year will be alright after all.

Sometimes I feel a strange current of hyper masculinity that rears its head when talking about The 1975. Some men being scared to admit to liking a pop-band isn't new, but also I get this feeling in my gut that some are scared of admitting to being turned on by a front man that fucks with gender norms, that looks that good and doesn't give a shit if you don't think it's cool. There's a bro mentality that sits below the surface of the vitriol, the wishes of death upon the band for having the sheer audacity to play music. If anyone thinks that's a value meal version of music, they don't fucking know music.

You can complain about Apple products or services all you want, but I'm sitting here at midnight and a notification shows up my iMac saying my aunt has shared a photo album with me of her and my mom's trip to South Korea to visit my cousin (and first cousin once removed). I click it, Photos.app opens, and I see hundreds of photos and videos from the otherside of the world. Half of them are live photos and it's the best moment I've had all weekend.

I'm enjoying this St. Lucia album. Maybe a little one-note by the end, but a fun listen. https://itun.es/us/z9wq_

Late last night I decided that I do think the new website should have a release date calendar of some kind. I think it's beneficial if updated and done in conjunction with a weekly post + forum thread for people to converse and congregate around. I want to see if I can do the whole thing without having to use a database on the backend but still be easy to update and get albums into and out of it. So, that's going to be my Saturday -- let's see what comes out.

I should be sleeping. I think I finished the last part of the content side of the website today. It's crazy with how many plugins the WordPress Community has -- how many of them suck. They're just badly written or don't quite do what they should. I just ended up doing what I usually do when I can't find something that works and wrote my own. I'm really happy with how this is coming along. It's familiar and clean, but I definitely went for a unique feel as well. (I didn't want everything to look like you'd seen it before.) Now to stock up on stock images (hey!) and watch some Jane the Virgin with a beer.

I somehow forgot Cartel released an acoustic album. I never listened to it and can't find it on Apple Music.

Beer and TV. In bed before 1am, feeling good about myself. Plus: got myself some new sheets after my fitted sheet literally split in two. #adulting

I count five trademark™ symbols on the front of my washing machine. Most on common terms like "Bright Whites" and "Steam" -- is this really necessary?

Why did no one tell me 'Jane the Virgin' was really good?

Tonight it's all about a Godfather re-watch. One hell of a movie, God damn.

Watching 'Batman: Bad Blood' tonight. And humming T. Swift with a couple of beers. Not a bad evening.

I'd pay extra money for a Vitale-less basketball feed.

"Your eyes were full of regret, and then you took a picture of your salad, and put it on the Internet."

In college I got known as the "computer guy," so in business classes whenever something with the technology would break, the professor would ask me to fix it. It was usually something super easy and simple to fix but I got in the habit of just doing it all from a command prompt because it looked so much more difficult and nerdy/hackery to do. Pretty sure that raised my grade in multiple classes by gleaning favor from the professor.