◎ Arbitrage | 2 Things

It has been some time since the last time one of these got posted/sent out, but I have found two things I want to share.

|1| READING (blog)—The Red Hand Files is an epistolary blog of the musician/artist Nick Cave. The posts are Cave's response to letters that people send to him. I discovered this recently when I started reading the book Faith, Hope, and Carnage, a transcript of a conversation Cave had with Séan O'Hagen.

The stuff I read here is beautiful and often moving.

|2| LISTENING (list) – As the year 2024 comes to an end, lots of people make different kinds of "best of" lists. As of today, the best list I've seen is the list of the best albums of 2024 written up by Marc Weidenbaum over at disquiet.com.

As someone who really enjoys music that is not mainstream (ambient, noise, audio essays, etc.) this list is excellent! I found so many new albums that are literally music to my ears.

That is it for this one.

-N