This past week, I discovered that David Lynch published a short book about creativity in 2006 called Catching the Big Fish. It’s also kind of a memoir. Plus he talks about Transcendental Meditation.
Because I don’t have time to read anything, and I have commute time in the car, I wanted to find out if the book was on CD or could be “checked out” through a library-affiliated streaming service. Quickly, I discovered I could “check it out” for free via Overdrive and stream it through their Libby app. It’s only an hour and 45 minutes, so it was a breeze, and I must say it was quite enjoyable.
Listening to Catching the Big Fish opened up a lot of inadvertent ideas for me. The first was something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while: getting rid of web hosting.
After I started using Substack in the fall of 2022, I realized I like this service and moved my mailing list over to it from Mailchimp. Then I discovered all the other things Substack offers (podcasting, static pages, etc…)
Right now, I’m the process of moving the domains I manage back to a proper registrar, and then coordinating them to “redirect” elsewhere. In the case of markrushton.com - it’ll redirect the URL to a static page on this Substack with outbound links.
As far back as 1994, I’ve never really enjoyed building or managing web sites. Circumstances led to what I thought it would be a good time to jump off, but the final idea arrived while listening to David Lynch reading his book.
Last night, I did a 26 minute livestream of improvised electronic music on YouTube:
It’s three different pieces of mostly “beat-driven ambient electronica”. I think they turned out excellent, especially the final one which starts around 18:30.
All of this music will be edited and released with titles in the next couple of months.
That’s it for this week.