The big moments,
with receipts.
Seven chapters, 1991 to now. None of it is from memory — every chapter pulls its artifacts straight out of the record: what played, what got watched, what got built, where the road went.
Memphis
Born in Memphis in 1991. The first thing I ever loved was a bright blue shovel, sealed under the worst ice storm the city had seen — the first obsession, and the reason a whole page of this site is just the color blue.
Nashville
The move I hated; the city I keep coming back to. Nashville is where the taste got built — and in August 2009 the record starts keeping itself: first scrobble, Bob Dylan on top, every play since on the books.
Harvard
Statistics by day, drinking by afternoon — a big guy from Nashville learning what the numbers say and what the nights don't. The locker says those four years belonged to The Tallest Man on Earth.
New York
Mixer — the creative network; seven good parties, one with French Montana. The travel record switches on here too: first logged stop, somehow, Shanghai.
Pawp
Co-founded pet care for the 100M+ pet-parent households — the longest era on this page, and still running. 2019 is the one year the music archive lost; the work has the receipts instead.
The episodes
Two manic episodes, fully covered in the book: Weird April in 2023, then the spider bite that opened ManiaX in November 2024. The color game, the show that was never being filmed. The story lives there, not here. One artifact stays: the top artist of 2024 in the locker is F M R L. That's me.
Now
Los Angeles now, after the Tennessee chapter — writing it all down. Black Holes in the Brain — in progress; the chonks multiplying; the record still running.
artifacts assembled at build from the locker · music 2009 → · travel 2014 → · films shown by release year (watched then or later — the locker doesn't remember dates) · a record, not a memory