WILT_2025-06

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 2 Feb 2025 to 8 Feb 2025.

1. Allegra – Hania Rani
2. Struggle – Hania Rani
3. Dreamy – Hania Rani
4. superloved – iuky
5. sexo virtual ❤ – Dinamarca, AKRIILA
6. favorita – Dinamarca, AMORE
7. casandra – Dinamarca, Irenegarry

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2025-06

Notes

This week was somewhat lacklustre in that there were quite a few work challenges, so I was not particularly in a frame of mind to fully enjoy what I was listening to, nor did I carve out any time for myself dedicated to active listening. 

Having said that, Hania Rani was recommended to me and while I was fairly certain that I had come across her music before, the records in this journal inform me otherwise. Still, Rani’s music was a welcome salve to some of the dull aches inflicted on me this week.

I also came across the music of iuky and Dinamarca, which came about because I started revisiting the music coming out of South America after I learned the musical term, “Calypso beat”, from my friend, Thomas. It was great to finally have a technical label for the style of music that had been an impact on me from the previous year.

Lastly, other anecdotes from this week include watching Generation Kill (2008), a 7-episode mini-series set during the beginning of the 2023 invasion of Iraq. I think what really drew me into the series was the utter banality of the non-combat scenarios, the motivations of an industrial military complex, and the radio chatter and voice procedures that task the watcher with piecing together information based on what’s being said. To me, it’s one of the more realistic portrayals of war or conflict, in that despite what grand designs propaganda will tell us, for boots on the ground, they all tend to be feeling one part of the elephant.

Another anecdote is that I’ve been nursing a strain on my major and minor pectoralis for the past two weeks. It is an odd sensation in that I have almost full range of motion until I don’t. It’s one of those muscle groups that act as a starting source for most movement, but because the effort is distributed to other muscle groups, the pectorals don’t feel the strain until they do.

Yeah, systems are kinda cool.