I'm going to be honest, I'm drawing blanks. Disclaimer: this newsletter starts off unfocused but it goes out with a big bang. Bare with me. I have no idea what I want to say. I've spent the last 30 minutes poking at a draft
I'm done with Attack & Flux. No it's not clickbait... okay maybe it kind of is. Attack & Flux is changing, or dying, or resetting, or some strange combination of all three (it will most certainly be getting renamed). I've had a hard time
In a rush? Stream this newsletter instead. Listen on Spotify I wrote my first poem. I've seen a stranger in my peripheries, with cloak of black and a faceless gape, In moments struck by human comfort, I find him burning my senses to wake O' shade of
Hey there, it's been a while. I've been a busy boy. I deactivated my social media, shaved my head, and fled to Paris after a long and trying year filled with change, grief, joy, chaos, you name it. If that all sounds like the warning signs
Summer is ending... In a rush? Stream this newsletter instead. Listen on Spotify What seemed like a distant shore but a moment ago is now nearly past the bow, moving starboard towards the stern. For the first time in so long, Summer actually means something to me. Likely because it
I'm half mindless again and feeling chopped at the knees. I'm using my phone too much recently and it leaves me wondering - what am I trying so desperately not to look at? What hidden affliction threatens to pull me into an unsightly black morass, what
Want the best experience? Stream this newsletter instead. Play the episode That thing happened again, that thing where I get really excited about an initiative or activity only to rapidly fall out of a relationship with it shortly thereafter. I guess it's not so bad considering here I
How to rationalize fate, free-will, and accidents in a perfect world? Want to stream it? Play the episode Want to read it? I've been thinking a lot about synchronicities, the concept of free will, the tangle of fate and all related existential quandaries since arriving back to New
Here's something to tide you over. Good news: A new edition is written and ready to go! Bad news: I forgot to share the podcast version of A Black Swan Arrives (last week's edition) with you all. I don't find it polite to hit
Did I just launch a newsletter radio show? Going to keep this super brief. Attack & Flux now has a podcast/radio show counterpart live on Spotify. Why? • Let's face it. I'm a wordy bastard and some of these articles can demand more attention than we&
Does our affinity for distraction hint at our evolutionary destiny? Lots of people seem to be on edge this week after Apple announced the Vision Pro, an augmented reality headset that is now being being hailed as the harbinger of Spatial Computing. I found this a curious response to what
It's the little things. It's stopping outside the West 4th street subway station with your morning coffee to watch a pick-up basketball game through the black chain link fence. I'm not even a basketball guy but there's something special about 12 different
I remember the moment in Los Angeles when change arrived like a wave on the shore. I was standing on the corner of Mansfield and 8th St in LA's little-known Brookside neighborhood. This was a corner I had stood on hundreds of times before. It was the corner
I felt it today - sadness. So reads the first sentence from an early morning typewriting session dated: Monday, January 30th, 2023 - 6:28 AM. That was just a few weeks before we would disembark to New York City to apartment hunt. Since arriving here in New York I&
👋 Long time no see! Whelp, I'm back, 3 months and 3600 miles later. It's been 3 months without an Attack & Flux edition. Since then, I have written somewhat sparingly, in sporadic bursts, only really sitting down to write when I needed a tourniquet. I also
🕑In A Rush? Personal update: Thoughts on cancel culture invoked paralysis Song To Study: A Beatnik Banger Album To Live In: Contemporary Bossa Nova Hey, hi, hello 👋 Last week I sent out Winter Winds, immediately I noticed a new sensation in my body after hitting publish. That sensation was perhaps
🕑In A Rush? Personal update: Living somewhere cold seems wise? Song To Study: The GOAT of live performances Album To Live In: A Nocturnal Wonderland LA is nice. The weather is nice. The people are nice. This is the overwhelmingly popular consensus on living in Los Angeles, California. Everyone is
🕑In A Rush? Personal update: Notes from a rainy sunrise Song To Study: Cosmic Country Album To Live In: Dark Neo-Soul Hey, hi, hello 👋 Welcome to a special rainy day edition of Attack & Flux! In the last week I've seen more rain in LA than I'
What hurts more? A mistake or a regret? That's obviously a loaded question and it may make sense to break down my personal interpretations of each before working our way to a potential answer here. I see it like this: A regret is a version of a mistake,
Hey, hi, hello 👋 Short edition coming in hot! Alright friends, indulge me. So currently, the weekly format exists as such: • Occasionally lengthy philosophical meandering • A Song To Study • An Album to Live In Pretty simple I'd say, but I'd like to add one more update to
Hey, hi, hello 👋 Fun fact: as I'm writing this, I actually have no clue what song or album I'm going to recommend you, but I will bet you money by the time you make it down there, 👇, I will have figured it out. On the other
Happy Holidaaaaaays! {Andy Williams voice} If you celebrate, I hope you're coming out of a restorative and satiating Thanksgiving. If you're Canadian, I hope you're just vibing. If you're European, I hope you're enjoying the World Cup like none other,
Hey there 👋 Long time no chat, I've been a busy boy! I've been gallivanting around NYC for the past two weeks remembering what it was like to be a youth in those streets (I say ironically as I'm still only 27). What started as
🌞 Wakey wakey! This week has felt like a month and a half, what gives? Random thought: can anyone who knows me in person tell me whether I type like I speak? It's bothering me that I have no perspective into this. I don't know if I&
👋 Happy day I caught myself doing a funny thing this morning when I sat down to write. I tried to pull a personal update out of thin air for you guys. I thought: "I must write something intellectually juicy, I must leave them with an insight! I must make
Hello again 👋 If you read that title and immediately heard Zac Efron and his basketball team clap, congrats, we have the same twisted brain. Going to start-off by saying thank you for opening another thread! And to those of you who reached out after finding resonance with the music and
Hey there 🏄 If you're seeing this it means that nearly 2 years ago you trusted me with your private email under the pretense that a music based newsletter would soon find it's way into your inbox, either that or you're a wonderful new friend
Hey, hi, hello 👋 . My name is Christian Archer, I'm a 27 year old living in Los Angeles, California by way of Brooklyn, New York. Currently I work in tech as a Product Designer but fun fact, I would've never ended up in tech if I hadn&