I found out books on tape were a thing years ago when I moved to the country. Obtaining them free from the library altered the depressing drives from Hamilton to Toronto and back reminding me most of Canada lives in Southern Ontario. The ones I liked the most were usually read by actors instead of the author which made sense, actors brought to the table years of acting whereas authors bring years of something else, I didn’t find Michael Ondaatje as interesting reading his own as when Sean Penn did. Since rediscovering the audio book world during Covid walks, I am surprised that there are limits to digital borrowing. The library indicates there are only X amount of copies available of each title but how can this be? Now it’s digital, are they not inventing the idea of finite copies? In life there is much of that, people inventing something and later pretending it was not simply made of thin air, money for example. When you raise kids at some point you try explaining it, so you see all of us pretend that this is that, if you want that toy we have to give them this paper and then we have to do something in order to get that paper. Does that make sense, kid? When each person is in the throes of their own death, they probably see it more clearly because having no time makes for clarity or put another way, having no time makes it easy to forget about unnecessary shit. One of the interesting conversations surrounding downloading has been understanding the historical context of the album because at other times, it was all about a single song or a single and a B side. The album created a different model, I grew up with it and thought it was as unquestionable as giving the Starbucks gal seven samolias for that latté (whose actual costs are $1.50). A lot of my musical planning has been about organizing a series of songs for a release. Those plans consider things differently now or at least wonder what is it that made me believe it was real to think that way vs. just organizing one song at a time which was the earlier model. Of course the earliest model was playing music and money had no connection whatsoever to it.