2023

• “Decision to Leave,” a movie directed by Park Chan-wook
  • 026 📻 She is the air he breathes. “When we’re presented with the option to find meaning through play, meaning that solely comes from stability swiftly loses ground.”
• My recent crazy panic spiral of so-called marketing research, in this hyper-active era of social media and algorithms
  • 025 📻 Every-other-Thursday’s child has far to go. “No amount of information does any good, if not acted upon, and the best way to act upon anything is to form a steady, healthy, and supportive long-term relationship.”
• The folding of Coil
  • 024 📻 To live long and prosper. “Within a given life, longevity trumps almost everything else.”
• “Dark Covenant” by Peter Luther
  • 023 📻 We don’t know what we don’t know, but we can know we don’t know. “The belief that the acceptance of the existence of the unknowable contradicts reason and logic is one of the most unreasonable and illogical beliefs to cling to.”
• “Undoing Cycles” by Ithaka O. (yes, me 🌊)
  • 022 📻 You walk in the forest. “The terror of not knowing what is going to happen next is one of the most freeing feelings for some creators.”
• Listener questions and suggestions
  • 021 📻 What does Ithaka sound like in German and Korean? “A listener who shall remain anonymous asked me if I could record something in German and Korean, because this listener wondered what I sound like in those languages.”
• “Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User’s Guide” by Emil Pascarelli and Deborah Quilter
  • 020 📻 To fall in love with pain leads to no gain. “Pain might be an inevitable part of our lives. But even so, pain is, on its own, utterly meaningless beyond the fact that the word means pain.”

2022

• The recent developments in AI translation and narration
  • 019 📻 Let it be known that I do not object to the machine overlords. “To worry about the demise of human translation due to AI is to both underestimate and overestimate translations. And, perhaps, by extension, to worry about the demise of human narration due to AI is to both underestimate and overestimate narrations.”
• “Dopamine Nation” by Dr. Anna Lembke
  • 018 📻 Freeze-blue glaciers for your burning-hot wound. “To eliminate suffering altogether is to eliminate too fundamental an element from life. Besides, sometimes, suffering is the path to beauty.”
• My recent re-taking of the MBTI test
  • 017 📻 Hey sister! Hey mister! Am I your type? (Was? Will be?) “Personality tests cannot help but be accurate representations of the present, but they cannot predict the future.”
• “Why Were The Nazis So Stylish? // Secret History Revealed” by the Youtube channel “Real Men Real Style.”
  • 016 📻 Darling, destroy me, for you’re beautiful. “The possibility of destruction is the most seducing element of beauty.”
• My recent research into the world of eroticas
  • 015 📻 The most time-consuming kink ever. “Some kinks cannot be satisfied with a simple, honest erotica story.”
• “Superluminal” and “Dreamsnake,” both written by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • 014 📻 We need to talk about love at actually-not-first sight. “Love at first sight isn’t as first as it might appear at first sight.”
• “The Radleys” by Matt Haig
  • 013 📻 Criminals and sinners, but never everywhere to everyone. “There are always worse crimes than a given crime, and worse sins than a given sin, in one person’s eyes or another.”
• “The Iconist” by Jamie Mustard and a Youtube video about deadmau5 by Alex Berman
  • 012 📻 Let me feel your flesh, blood, and bones. “Practicing what you preach while preaching is totally possible, and to do that, you just gotta do some things yourself.”
• “Death Note” written by Ohba Tsugumi and illustrated by Obata Takeshi
  • 011 📻 Will you burn my evil books, please? “To have my books burned would be an honor.”
  • 010 📻 Begone, devil, for you don’t know my name and face. “There is a part of us that wants to believe that the knowledge of an opponent’s face and name holds power.”
• “Howl’s Moving Castle” by Studio Ghibli
  • 009 📻 I dream of a flying home. “A flying castle might be too much, but a flying house would be ideal.”
• “Destination Earth” produced by John Sutherland Studios
  • 007 ⌨️ By showing its true colors, a story unfolds. “Skin color, as well as all other colors, can be chosen for effective and efficient propaganda.”
  • 006 📻 The pursuit of the One Story is futile. “Every era and every place has its romanticized ideology.”
• My recent review of the costs I have accrued in the past three years for my writing and publishing business
  • 003 📻 I have an excellent example of a monopoly that must die. “Bowker’s existence is a disgrace to American capitalism and along with Bowker, all monopolies should die.”
• “The Mirror and the Palette” by Jennifer Higgie
  • 008 📻 You think you know her, but really, you don’t. “Anything can be a mirror.”
  • 005 📻 Between grotesque complexity and smooth oneness, we chew. “The more complicated an organism’s features, the more repulsive they get for other organisms.”
  • 004 📻 A smile harbors grotesqueries. “Too much power makes a person powerless.”
  • 002 📻 I shall draw from the body of legendary wheels. “To make something richly meaningful, don’t reinvent the wheel, just draw from the body of legendary wheels.”
  • 001 📻 I do it for love. The market decides. “There was no past in the history of humanity that can be glorified for the separation between art and the market.”