oh can’t you see me standing here
i got my back against the water machine
(i ain’t the worst that you seen oh cantcha see what i me-ean)

Why yes, it did used to be the record machine, but life evolves.

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Conceptually, for some time now, I’ve chunked my bodily and conscious life up four ways.

Concrete
1) real life (at the house, on the road) (and: most of ‘the daily ritual’ lives here)
2) money (generating it, allocating it; the point is getting ‘bills’ to ‘zero’)

Abstract
3) digital life (computing tools/toys and yeah I sure could use a new main box)
4) art (‘my work’, writing of course, ‘film’, making sounds and …) (loops back to #2 for ‘creative monetization’)

But there was always something missing and were always things that fell through the cracks, and sometimes they were the very most important things. Thus I today i propose

the 5)th element, or the quint-essence.

More on that in the, um, morning.